@ethanwhite@hachyderm.io2025-09-15 13:13:50
"This convening is not an isolated event. It’s the first step in scaling a movement that reimagines how values-driven open science organisations can grow together, share resources, and strengthen the ecosystem we collectively serve. By working together, we can ensure that the future of open science is not only innovative, but also equitable, sustainable, and resilient."
https://www.carpentries.org/blog/2025/09/convening-to-reclaim-and-sustain-open-science-communities/
Great to see this forward looking collaborative work being done by @… @… @… @… and OLS
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-14 22:01:05
Fascinating:
A feature in the Financial Times reveals some very rich people have started selling up and living in motorhomes.
Obviously, they’re ultra-luxurious motorhomes. The owner of a private equity firm interviewed has a 30-tonne behemoth with air conditioning and high-speed internet, a kitchen, dining room, two bathrooms, a “spacious master bedroom” and “a range of modern hi-tech appliances”. which cost
“around $2.7m” (£2m)
I read something else about ultra-high…
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-15 08:53:21
Beyond the Silence: How Men Navigate Infertility Through Digital Communities and Data Sharing
Tawfiq Ammari, Zarah Khondoker, Yihan Wang, Nikki Roda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10003
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-09-11 20:33:34
And when I'm talking about understanding the drives to violence, I did write about something similar recently.
https://write.as/hexmhell/algorithmic-violence
The drives behind this and the shooting last week are pretty radically different, but there's some overlap. People like Kirk are part a huge political machine slowly crushing people all over the world. There's a hopeless rage that would naturally drive even the most calm person to the edge of violence. You can't look at the world honestly and be OK. We want to do something. We want to react. But everything we do is silenced or must rmain silent. So it's easy to understand why someone might choose violence. Very different situation, but everyone is subject to the same national and international influences.
I don't promote violence, not because I disagree with it but because I think it's expensive. It takes time to plan, especially for those trying to get away. Guns are not cheap, nor are bullets, nor is the range time you need to get somewhat good under pressure. It's not cheap for the person doing it, and it's not cheap for the community that has to clean up. The community will face police repression (which, if we're honest, was gonna come anyway). The community will have to post bail, will lose a person for a while, will need to support the family, will go to hearings, will write reports, will do interviews.
Sun Tzu said that deploying one soldier to the front takes 7 in the field. Logistics are a huge invisible cost. Some of that time and energy could be reused. It's never bad to be armed and able to defend if needed. But a lot of that energy and time would be better spent planning a community pantry, a tool library, organizing a union, etc. We are living in a disaster, and we need to invest in thriving through the next crumble.
Kirk is replacable. They're almost all replacable, because they don't really care about human life. We do, so none of us are. It's not really a worth while trade, IMHO.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2025-11-06 19:07:33
Strong progenitor age bias in supernova #cosmology – I. Robust and ubiquitous evidence from a larger sample of host galaxies in a broader redshift range / II. Alignment with DESI BAO and signs of a non-accelerating universe: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/538/4/3340/8098234 / https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/544/1/975/8281988 -> Universe's expansion 'is now slowing, not speeding up': https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/universes-expansion-now-slowing-not-speeding (this has been claimed by the group since at least 2023 - http://vietnam.in2p3.fr/2023/windows/transparencies/02_tuesday/Astro_5/01_Son.pdf - and is rejected by the SN cosmology community as https://bsky.app/profile/astromarc.bsky.social/post/3m4xmikwfds26 explains).
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social2025-10-02 00:30:00
@StephenRees@mas.to2025-09-12 16:18:19
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-09-12 00:36:33
NFL holds moment of silence for Charlie Kirk before Commanders-Packers game https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6621151/2025/09/11/nfl-charlie-kirk-moment-of-silence-packers-commanders/
@jochenlingelba1@h-net.social2025-10-06 07:59:31
It is slowly getting published:
Proofs for my special issue on Camp Memories (all texts are already published online first)
A first view on the TOC !!
https://journals.sagepub.com/home/mss
@…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-09 06:11:30
Bari Weiss
– a staunch Zionist and a fierce opponent of supposed wokeness and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives
– famously left the New York Times opinion section,
claiming she had been bullied by her colleagues for her beliefs.
She started a Substack newsletter and eventually founded the wildly successful website Free Press.
Her rise has been meteoric. She “has ascended the mountain of journalism on a slingshot”, Jessica Testa of the New York T…