Geoscientist👨🏾🔬| #BlackInGeoscience| Co-founder of the preprint server EarthArXiv | Trustee of Cowrie Scholarship Foundation | Tries very hard |🏃🏾♂️🚴🏾♂️ |🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️| Ex-academic 🥸
Remember… A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Your failed experiment or inconclusive data is not the end, it could be the beginning of something groundbreaking.
Why not document and share it?
https://seismica.library.mcgill.ca/author-guidelines/#publication-types
#peerreviewed #openaccess #diamondopenaccess #seismology #earthquakescience
The road to fascism is lined with moderates and people on the internet telling you to stop overreacting.
The evacuation zone the Israeli military designated yesterday is home to hundreds of thousands of children.
About half the population of #Gaza is children.
If you think children should be punished for the vile acts of Hamas, you’ve lost your humanity.
Atrocities do not justify atrocities.
Seismica will be at the #OASPA2023conference this upcoming week sharing our developments, evolution, and innovations, uniting with our colleagues in our shared goal to enable research around the world to be openly accessible.
See the full program:
https://oaspa.org/2023-conference-program/
#openscience #diamondopenaccess #peerreview #OpenAccess #scientificjournal #seismology #earthquakescience
. @LizzieGadd mentions @seis_matters, a former Keynote speaker at @alpsp conference as one of those who has left academia in the current spate of negative impact of scholarly publishing on researchers.
Episode 2 of They've Made Us has just landed, and this week Robin Ince and I interview author and forensic anthropologist Professor Dame Sue Black and the sociologist, bioethicist and leading disability campaigner Professor Sir Tom Shakespeare about the people who influenced their lives.
if your name is Robert, and you ask me and others to please call you Bob, but then I ignore you and insist on calling you Robert anyway, I'm not being correct or telling the truth, I'm just being a dick.
Now, substitute "my preferred name" for "my preferred pronoun" - refusing to refer to somebody by the identifiers they prefer is no different than refusing to call them by the name they go by, and it's a dick move in either case. It's not a political statement, or a theological one: it's just common courtesy to call people what they prefer to be called, whether that's their proper name or their pronoun.
More to the point, if you insisted on calling me by a name other than the one I had introduced myself with, after you'd been corrected, I would think you were being an asshole on purpose - and I'd be right.
@lithospheric @Stressrelated true, but it’s still waaaay better than Twitter, at least at the moment.
@seis_matters I’ve also been sad to have lost this (quote from Nature article):
“One of the benefits of Twitter was how it created a sense of community for scientists, particularly for those from under-represented groups. It gave a voice to female researchers about issues such as harassment and unequal pay, and served as an organizing point for scientists of colour to speak out against inequity.”
@Stressrelated 👋🏾 I’m mostly on Bluesky tbh! 🤗
@sellathechemist @Elisa I 100% agree with all of this 🙁
@sellathechemist @seis_matters I completely agree. What is shocking to me is how highly educated *adults* are slaves of the same addiction that we blame teenagers of... "likes"
The cesspool Twitter is now, paying criminals to post content, allowing/encouraging hate speach, delaying connections to legitimate news sources and banning journalists for being 'hostile' to the company, is beyond the pale.
Why people cannot quit and rebuild the community (they claim they'd miss) here is beyond me 😔
@seis_matters The reason for leaving the site formerly known for ornithophilia is that there is a moral question. However useful, can you really sleep at night using a platform that has deliberately taken apart its checks and balances and has defended reinstationg users who post child abuse videos, among other things? To use the argument that "it gives us reach" or "we lose following" (as my employer has) is utterly pusillanimous.
@seis_matters One striking thing, for me, is how the idea of "losing followers" seems to be such a strong argument for people. We've become obsessed with this kind of silly numerical indicator. Speaking from my own experience, vanity plays a big part in our inability to let go of a platform. What I find peculiar is that I have spoken to human rights activists and journalists who say that their experience is worse, their feeds near useless, yet they cling on because of "reach"…
“One of the benefits of Twitter was how it created a sense of community for scientists, particularly for those from under-represented groups.”
“Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty…”
Using dark fibers and traffic noise, Czarny et al. analyze signal-to-noise ratios and source distribution of Rayleigh waves, characterizing the factors influencing surface wave propagation in an urban area.
Read more:
https://seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view/247
#Seismology #EarthquakeScience #DiamondOpenAccess #Earthquake #OpenAccess #OpenScience #Seismicnoise #rayleighwaves
Summary: Car bloat is terrible – for road safety, for the planet, for equity, and for road maintenance.
But bigger cars are often more profitable, so automakers like making them.
The only way out: Government action. Examples:
🔹 Tax vehicles by weight.
🔹 Test vehicles for pedestrian and cyclist safety (still doesn’t happen in the US).
🔹 Require a CDL for the most gigantic vehicles.
Left alone, this problem will only worsen. Governments must step up.
https://slate.com/business/2023/01/electric-cars-hummer-ev-tax-fees-weight-joe-biden.html
Absolutely fab day out with @helenczerski and @davidho, exploring gravel-biking heaven in the Derbyshire Dales 🚴🏻♀️🚴🏼♂️🚴🏿♂️
Route info here: https://www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0027/58518/PDNP-White-Peak-Trails-Map.pdf
It's not fashionable to talk about consuming less as a climate solution because our economy is based on selling us crap that no one needs.
