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Are we addicted to the internet—or just the stuff on it?
Dr. Mark Griffiths unpacks behavioral addiction in the digital age. Not the network, but the nudges.
🎧 https://youtu.be/hJ62AERmZjM

#BehavioralAddiction #DigitalHealth #InternetCulture #TheInternetIsCrack #MastodonTech #FediScience

> [C]ommunity boundary #blocklists [have] incited conflict on the #Fediverse, with many users left cut off from their communities …. Using … #GroundedTheory, we interviewed 9 Fediverse users, including a mix of community boundary blocklist curators, server staff, and regular users, to determine key tensions between community moderation and mutual aid practices

2 May 2025, #openaccess: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3710919
Erika Melder, Ada Lerner, Michael Ann DeVito

#FediScience #FediResearch #moderation

How about we try to enforce some kind of ‘Polarization Tax’?

Concept was mentioned during keynote on ‘AI and democracy’ by Lawrence Lessig (@lessig) and Moshe Vardi ( @vardi) at this event:

https://dighum.wien/programme/

#DigitalHumanism
#digihum
#AaronSwartz
#Fediscience

Dear #fediscience crowd: do you know any journal in the field of biodiversity conservation science that does not charge the authors / institutions for publication? (Diamond open access or green open access)?

Any ideas welcome!

Proud to have been a part of writting this review on the impact of climate change on the Alps.

My dearest mountains, the Alps, are already experiencing our influence.

Any effort we do today will pay back big for the coming times. Any effort we do today equates snow in our mountains for the generations to come.

https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/geoscience/articles/10.5802/crgeos.288/

#climatechange #climateaction #alpes #alps #changementclimatique #Fediscience

Hello, here's my fediverse re- #introduction since I moved to #fediscience

I'm a computational biologist/bioinformatician, professor at UCLouvain in Brussels. I work with various types of omics data, with a special interest in #MassSpectrometry and #proteomics. I (co-)develop and maintain several #rstats and #Bioconductor packages. In addition to R, I use #emacs and #orgmode quite a bit.

Thanks for reading!

🆕 Essay: “Leaving the Nest Late—Why Evolution Never Trained Us for Planet‑Scale Survival.”

We’re primates trying to run an 8‑billion‑node civilisation while juggling nukes, CRISPR, AGI & a heating planet.

We sketch a realist, actionable agenda:
• De‑alert nuclear arsenals
• Universal DNA‑screening
• Frontier‑AI regs
• Tax the outrage feed
…and more.

Read & boost if it resonates 👉

https://open.substack.com/pub/10billion/p/leaving-the-nest-late-why-evolution?r=2063al&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#ExistentialRisk #FediScience #ClimateCrisis #AIsafety

I Like Electric Cars. 700-Mile Range EVs and Wireless Charging Would Make Me Love Them.

[S]olid-state batteries have can get 600 to 700 miles per single charge, instead of the current 250 to 400 or so. That is farther than most traditional cars can go on a single tank of gasoline.

@WSJ @amyjaffeenergy

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/cars/ev-technology-innovation-4e25c1d5?st=586FCs&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

#EV #Automotive #Fediscience #Cars #Sustainability

Dreamy rainbow sketch of a futuristic looking electric vehicle. [James Gilleard]

Here is a list with all our Vimeo recordings for last term (Jan-Mar 2025)
Enjoy!

Perspectives on human origins: language, body art, hunting, architecture

Jan 14 Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis 'When Eve Laughed'
https://vimeo.com/1047955270

Jan 21 Camilla Power 'Neanderthals, Homo sapiens and the ‘Human Revolution’'
https://vimeo.com/1050011589

Jan 28 Annemieke Milks
'Hunting lessons: how forager kids learn(ed) to hunt'
https://vimeo.com/1053040279?share=copy

Feb 4 Paulina Michnowska 'Notes from the forest – storytelling with the Penan of Borneo'
https://vimeo.com/1055179553

Feb 11 Sasha Farnsworth 'Architecture meets anthropology: Womb temple – Lunar rebirth'
https://vimeo.com/1057043706?share=copy#t=0

Feb 18 Chris Knight 'How we got stuck: the hunter Monmaneki and his wives teach Graeber and Wengrow a lesson'
https://vimeo.com/1061208125?utm_source=email&utm_medium=vimeo-email&utm_campaign=44349

Feb 25 Erica Lagalisse and Chris Knight in conversation 'On anarchist anthropology'
https://vimeo.com/1063172694?share=copy

Mar 4 Christine Binnie
'Neonaturist body painting: a red RAG to patriarchy'
https://vimeo.com/1074465398

Mar 11 Chris Knight 'On Women and Jaguars: why perspectivism got it so wrong'
https://vimeo.com/1073597720

Mar 18 Kit Opie 'Primate mating systems and the evolution of language'
https://vimeo.com/1075096840

Mar 25 Ivan Tacey 'Serpentine cosmopolitics: a cross-cultural analysis of the Rainbow Serpent'
https://vimeo.com/1075098313

#humanevolution #language #art #bodypaint #architecture #lunarchy #anarchism #consensus #anthropology #archaeology #fediscience #polyphony #storytelling #RainbowSerpent

We’ve just released our Annual Report 2024: “Sustainable Engineering for Lasting Change.” 💧📚🌍

Explore how EWB-SWE and our partners have worked across borders and sectors to create lasting impact — from clean water and sanitation to access to higher education.

📖 Flip through the full report here:

https://online.fliphtml5.com/mollm/kpru/#p=1

#SustainableEngineering #Impact #EWB #EngineeringForGood #FediScience #GlobalGoals

Question for people who study #neutrinos :

Do you have a preferred funny nickname for neutrinos? If not, here are some ideas:

- Neuts (newts)
- Rinos (ree-noes)
- Trinos (tree-noes)
- Nuterinos (like Ned Flanders would say)
- Neu-nues (new news)
- Neu-nos (new noes)
- Tri-tris (tree trees)

I would make a poll, but their are too many choices.

#FediScience #astronomy #physics #astrophysics

Tech moves fast—but understanding it shouldn’t be so hard.

Professor Alberto Segre joins us to unpack AI, internet history, and quantum computing in clear, accessible terms.

🎧 Full episode here: https://youtu.be/RqSkKahvlPA
#theinternetiscrack #podcast #FediScience #TechPodcast #DigitalLiteracy #AI #QuantumComputing

Ever feel like tech is evolving faster than we can understand it?

In our latest podcast, Professor Alberto Segre (Chair of @uiowa’s CS Department) joins us to unpack AI, the internet’s origins, and quantum computing—in plain, thoughtful language.

No jargon. Just clarity.

🎧 Listen or watch: https://youtu.be/RqSkKahvlPA
#AI #QuantumComputing #InternetHistory #DigitalLiteracy #TechPodcast #FediScience #STEM #OpenEducation

Join us on Zoom for a
Research Symposium on Theorising Care: Political Economy, Vulnerability, Rights, and Responsibilities

Wednesday 2nd April 2025, from 2:00pm until 5:00pm. (Dublin Time)

At University of Galway and on Zoom:
https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/92920434911

Talks by Professors Diane Elson, Kathleen Lynch and Martha Fineman & time for discussion
All are welcome, just turn up!
DM me for more information

@academicchatter
#fediScience #care #PoliticalEconomy #Politics #politicalTheory #SocialTheory

@lassessostehen Natürlich ist es der falsche Grund. Aber an das Thema müssen wir ran. Welche Strukturen brauchen wir in Academia, um so wenig wie möglich zu fliegen?
Denn leider werden wir in den nächsten 20 Jahren keine klimaneutrale Lösung dafür haben. Was ja viele noch hoffen.
Am 30. April haben wir bei #S4F Osnabrück atmosfair zu Gast in unserer Vortagsreihe. Klimaneutrales Fliegen: Realität oder Illusion?
Ich poste das dann auch nochmal als Ankündigung.
#fediScience

FREE community #fediscience, please BOOST!

TONIGHT
Everybody welcome, just turn up!
LIVE @UCLAnthropology and on ZOOM

🌘Tues Mar 25, 6:30pm🌑 (London UTC)
Ivan Tacey on
'Serpentine Cosmopolitics: Cross-cultural analysis of the Rainbow Serpent'

From Amazonia to Australia, rainbow snakes coil at the heart of the cosmologies of Indigenous peoples, embodying forces of creation, destruction, and renewal. Known variously as nagas, dragons, or rainbow serpents, these chthonic entities are intimately entangled with water, blood, women, and untamed power. Among Batek hunter-gatherers of Malaysia, as well as other Southeast Asian Indigenous communities, the violation of taboos—especially those linked to blood—is believed to incite the wrath of these beings who are said to unleash catastrophic floods capable of annihilating entire settlements.

Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Malaysia, Ivan Tacey examines the roles of rainbow serpents in Batek creation myths, rituals, and cosmological landscapes, comparing these traditions with similar narratives and practices from Amazonia and Australia. Offering a cosmopolitical analysis, Ivan critiques the limitations of New Animist approaches, proposing instead that the global prevalence of rainbow snakes in Indigenous cosmologies reflects a 'time-resistant syntax of myth and ritual,' as theorized in Knight, Power, and Watts’ model of human origins.

Lecturer at the University of Plymouth, Ivan will be speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor of UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW. Come in good time by 6:30pm before doors close please. You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

#RainbowSnake #cosmopolitics #NewAnimism #Batek #Malaysia #taboo #blood #thunder

A Batek Naga/Rainbown Snake glittering with yellow and green scales and horned, with a long red tongue emerging from an open mouth

FREE community #fediscience, please BOOST!
TONIGHT
Everybody welcome, just turn up!
LIVE @UCLAnthropology and on ZOOM

🌖Tues Mar 18, 6:30pm (London UTC)🌗
Kit Opie on
'Primate mating systems and the evolution of language'

Cheap signals, such as language, can only emerge from an alliance where trust has already been built. The coalition that enabled the evolution of language in modern humans was built to deal with the problem of some males trying to get the benefits of mating without the costs of provisioning.

In this talk Kit Opie draws on research on mating systems across primates to investigate the details of the problem that early modern human females faced and suggest that a coalition was their only way to solve it. The coalition that females built had a ratchet effect of supporting the males who cooperated, while undermining the males who cheated.

Kit Opie is Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Bristol.His research interests are in the evolution of social systems in humans and other primates.

Kit will be speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor of UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW. Come in good time by 6:30pm before doors close please. You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak