A list of Musk’s antisemitic tweets from May 2018 to yesterday.

https://forward.com/news/550035/elon-musk-disturbing-comments-jews/

I'm BAAACK! After months of enforced radio silence. God it was hard, yet strangely liberating.

I bought the fabled Mid-life Crisis Car, and now I'm wondering if it's possible to die of blue LED toxicity.

Things millionaires buy.

Virologist Dr. Ian M. MacKay is now on Mastodon! Here is his new profile: @mackayim2022
Among many other things, he's the guy who created this Swiss Cheese COVID-19 defence graphic:

It’s starting to really get to me in the UK how many people are furiously angry about the prospect of more solar on fields when *many actual farmers* are enthusing about how great mixed-use fields can be. (Solar can shade animals and plants. In many cases, it can also be combined with rainfall capture. It’s about making better use of some land, not replacing one thing with another.)

🚨BIG SCIENCE NEWS 🚨

And our results (along with our international colleagues) have dropped!

Our team (and others) have started to see the strongest evidence as yet of the stochastic gravitational wave background - ripples in space-time cause by ALL the supermassive black holes in the history of the Universe colliding!

We use pulsars to study these riplles and we needed almost 20 years of data to even get the first hints! It's the long game!

I'm a co-author on the Aussie papers (as part of my work) but I also wrote about it here in my latest feature article on #SpaceAustralia

This is why I have been going on about pulsars for a few weeks now - this was coming!

Check it out here: https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/australian-scientists-help-uncover-cosmic-gravitational-rumblings

📸 Shanika Galaudage

#Astrodon #Astrophysics #RadioAstronomy #GravitationalWaves #Science #Pulsars

Shattering the myth of men as hunters and women as gatherers

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-shattering-myth-men-hunters-women.html

"They found that women hunt in 79% of the analyzed societies, regardless of their status as mothers. More than 70% of female hunting appears to be intentional—as opposed to opportunistic killing of animals encountered while performing other activities, and intentional hunting by women appears to target game of all sizes, most often large game."

#Archaeology

SUBSTACK
New by me

Understanding the significance of today's Court of Appeal decision on the Rwanda removals policy

Opponents of the Rwanda removals policy have cause to celebrate, but not too much

https://emptycity.substack.com/p/understanding-the-significance-todays

Effective Altruism has had a bad run lately thanks to the criminal activities of one prominent leader and the bizarre fixation of others on the AI apocalypse. But the idea is still sound.
EA Australia lets you make direct donations to highly effective charities. This year I'm giving to support a Basic Income program in Kenya https://effectivealtruism.org.au/partner-charities/

Policy writer? Come help UNSW create our new Information Governance Policy suite that combines cyber & infosec, data & info governance, privacy, and recordkeeping into one plain-English easy-to-use suite of policy and procedures.

#data #infosec #cyber #privacy #help #writer #policy

https://external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/517150/senior-policy-officer-x-2

@keithwilson My dearest friend, who shall remain nameless for obvious reasons, lost the final generation of drosophila that would complete his PhD, when the genetics building aircon broke down on a -6C night.
He pretended it never happened, and wrote it up accordingly. TBPH, I can't find it in my heart to blame him.

Hi #ScienceMastodon. We, @Dev_journal are a community journal covering all areas of #devbio. Development is led by Editor-in-Chief James Briscoe & published by the not-for-profit @Co_Biologists.

We will toot about #research papers, #reviews, #interviews, charitable activities, and news from @the_node.

We’ve moved over to our own instance @biologists.social, & hope that you’ll join us there for friendly chats between biologists!

https://biologists.social/about

Try out this One Weird Trick: if you’re asked a work question you’re not sure of the answer to, just say that all dental should be covered by Medicare and bulk billed, because nobody can argue with that

Quick reminder for Aussie workers - pay secrecy is now illegal in Australia. Deadline was 6th of June 2023. Get your employment contracts amended.

For Aussie tech workers -
Also, there are minimum wage rate changes for professional employees under the award, and on 16th of September 2023, you have to be earning 25% more than the minimum wage for your employer to be able to refuse penalty rates.
#union
Https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/awards/variations/2022/pr760322.pdf

YourUnion is https://www.professionalsaustralia.org.au
They do contract reviews for members

Please boost ​:boost_requested:​

As part of a wave of layoffs, I got laid off from my backend development job last month as the company's financials I was working with have been steadily decreasing. I applied for another job shortly after, and after a month of interviews and an honestly great response from their team, at the last minute, they told me that they were focusing their hiring efforts away from the US and towards Singapore. With Calckey donations, I don't have enough money to pay for rent or groceries. So I'm asking to #GetFediHired, I'm the lead developer on the Calckey project, and I'm a fullstack, multi-language developer. I have 3+ years of enterprise experience, and I work great on teams as well as solo. Resume and references available upon request.

Soylent Blue is made of Smurfs!

#WhistleBlowOnAFictionalCharacter
#HashtagGames

Cryptocurrency was literally criminals saying "You should put your money in the Criminal Bank, we pay great interest" and then coming back later and saying "Oh no, criminals have robbed the Criminal Bank, how could this have happened?"

After some comments on here about the rusted ons, I had a crack at writing something about the whole idea of party loyalty and how it is changing in Australia.

"Both the major parties have moved relentlessly to the right, and it is probably true to say that Menzies couldn’t win Liberal pre-selection these days, and that candidate Whitlam wouldn’t interest Labor.

"In which case, what exactly are the rusted ons rusted onto?"

https://tdunlop.substack.com/p/rusted-ons-never-sleep

@lauren Totally agree on A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Delightful movie.