Trained in #microbiology because I am curious about the ubiquity and diversity of microbial life, but fled academia to labour towards a decentralized, compassionate and creative system of #DIYBio.
To this end I'm organizing with Biotech Without Borders.
Avatar: Person smiling wearing a lab coat
Header: B&W landscape littered piles of round objects (S.aureus on skin!)
https://biotechwithoutborders.org
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8082-2316
I made some collage posters for the sequence of #summer NLNL #dance sessions we have going on in #HellsKitchen from 7-8PM on the last Wednesday of the month. Next one is in a week! Come out and dance in safe phone-free and no-talking environment. Also there is a cafe that opened in the same building run by a worker #coop !
Boost appreciated 🔃
Meet some Translate Science folks! (online, July 22, 23, 24)
Scholarships available through June 20th!
@lynnebowker @OliverCzulo and @JMMaok will be presenting Introduction to Translation for Nontranslators: Encounter the World of Translation at FSCI2025.
https://force11.org/fsci-2025/
This course is for anyone interested in multilingual open science who isn't a professional translator.
We hope to see you there! If your financial circumstances mean you need a scholarship to attend, don't hesitate to apply. A generous number are available and FORCE11's goal is for them to broaden participation in the event.
#OpenScience #translation #scholarlyPublishing #ScholarlyComm
Sounds like a valuable event teaching some #digital #security lessons. Happening in couple days (June 20th) put on by the local #queens #Mutual_Aid group. #nyc #swma
Pollinator Week is a great time to share this print, which expresses the central theme of my work about the Future of Pollination for Manufactured Ecosystems. Our food sources & ecosystems around us are dependent on pollinators (mostly bees & other insects, some birds & mammals) but insects populations have lost huge numbers and many species altogether.🧵
#PollinatorWeek #nativeBees #entomology #ecology #sciart #insects #butterflies #beetles #moths #printmaking #linocut #ManufacturedEcosystems
We're thrilled to announce our new project:
https://docs.coop/
Building on the great work of Suite Numerique (https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/home/), we are offering an opportunity to be part of a new collaborative Docs platform as a service, that provides an ethical alternative to Google Docs, Office 365, Notion etc.
Docs is the result of a joint effort lead by the French 🥖 (DINUM) and German 🥨 (ZenDiS) governments which represents a paradigm shift in the way open source software is funded.
It's taking me a moment to really think about this fediverse presence I'm trying to build for NLNL... today I'm remembering to post here letting y'all know our next dance session is tomorrow night May 28th at 7PM. Registration required but $15 donation optional. We want folks to have a safe space in the city to shake their bodies for #exercise, #MentalHeath or any other reason they might have.
Boosts appreciated!
@dimitriosmegalos I walked it on the weekend. It was cool to see the sights from the south side of the bridge. And this morning it was so much nicer to bike over the north side as the bikes aren't crammed onto half the path.
Umm, are these bears shitting in my coffee??
«The vast majority [of CHI attendees] seemed fully captured by the capitalist LLM hype machine, trying to build their academic reputations around validating LLM applications that might promise jobs and continued funding […] HCI has always been a bit dominated by corporate pop culture, but this extreme, at this moment, has never felt more tragic and heartless.»
Oof! /HT @natematias for the link
https://medium.com/bits-and-behavior/chi-2025-frayed-edges-4c38ea98069d
people of the fediverse! i am currently looking for a new job and/or freelance gigs. i'm currently living in new haven, CT, but i'm also in NYC often.
things i do:
- build websites and web apps
- make videos and graphics
- IT/computermancy
- teaching
feel free to get in touch here or email me at paloma@palomakop.tv
my website is https://palomakop.tv
please boost 🔁✨
#UN Gives the Encrypted Open-Source Office Suite #CryptPad a Try
https://fossforce.com/2025/04/un-drops-google-for-cryptpad-an-encrypted-open-source-office-suite/
My friend Keira made this beautiful promo video for my watery sound installation!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OEk19ZuRdA
You can see & hear it in Brooklyn, NY today or just two more Saturdays until May 3 at https://www.biobatartspace.com/
If anybody is in #Tokyo and would like to hear about some of my work in #scicomm and #community #biology that is to say: expanding the BioArtBot palette with place-based #microbes; please drop by the BioClub on Monday evening https://bioclub.tokyo/en/events/bioartbot
I'm hindsight I should have suggested that if the layover was gonna be long I could train to the city i would fly out of.
I'm going on a trip to Japan with my siblings!
@danny do you have a resource for this dude?
@naturepoker hey are you thinking about talking at HOPE this year at all? I also sent an email to @ATinyGreenCell but I think think that you would also be a good person to talk about your work and how it relates to Binomica's idea of small thoughtful science. Maybe we could do a panel if you know others who have a project that fits your criteria
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I liked Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman and Babel by RF Kuang. I don't know if they count as modern countercultural novels though. What I like in my Sci-Fi is interesting ways in which technology is woven into the crises of society and the way in which folks in those worlds construct and pursue their just causes. I just recently read The Sheep Look Up which may have been a countercultural work from the past.
