#Funding is available to #municipalities , #Indigenous groups, conservation assns & #educational institutions w/funding used for projects focused on conservation, restoration, education & #scientific research. #FCAS encourages 1st time groups & orgs to apply.
'Concerns about the decline of X as a source of reliable information extends beyond the scientific and academic communities. During the apparent coup attempt in Russia in June, journalists noticed its relative uselessness at helping them find real-time, breaking information from the ground and sifting fact from fakery, due in part to Musk’s trashing of its account verification system.'
But in my view more important - not only for science, but in general - are #journalists, who analyze, evaluate, select, organize information and put them into context.
Even the #scientific#community itself is more based on people knowing where to find information than a good index/search function.
@wonderofscience Eye-Candy at its best! That‘s a super-nice example to demonstrate the power of physical #models, #simulation and combined #observations!
It‘s always shocking to realise, how many people lack even the faintest idea of the #scientific method…
Of course Dutton supports the anti vax crackpot Gerard Rennick. It's literally impossible for him when faced with a binary decision to choose the right option.
@Cloaker yeah, but not only won't there be any preview render of the link if there's an image in the toot, but it's also an important and vital part to follow #scientific standards and #LinkToSources whether one likes them or not.
After all, citing a press release isn't an endorsement but just transparency of sources...
Climate change is an immediate threat to the majority of the world's population.
We need a local, regional, state, national, and international "moon shot" type of concentration of effort using available resources while developing and advancing new science and technologies to counteract the damage humans have caused.
Without this type of all-out, universal cooperation, human civilization, and perhaps humanity itself, are in imminent danger of extinction.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once is the most sound #global#philosophy and #strategy to potentially mitigate, and possibly reverse, the extreme damage we've done to our #climate and #environment.
This is the massive hail flow generated by the violent thunderstorms in the #Milan
area this morning (July 21, 2023). These are the streets of Seregno: an authentic ice river
We hypothesized that autistic adults may be erroneously judged as deceptive or lacking credibility due to demonstrating unexpected and atypical behaviors. Thirty autistic and 29 neurotypical individuals participated in video-recorded interviews, and we measured their demonstration of gaze aversion, repetitive body movements,...
I moved instances, so allow me to #introduce myself again!
I am Claire Dupont, Research Professor of European governance of sustainability transformations at Ghent University, #Belgium. I analyse the politics, policy & democratic governance of climate and sustainability transformations.
I'm originally from #Ireland & have been living in Ghent since 2017.
I am chair of the #Scientific Committee of the European #Environment Agency, and a member of the Climate Policy Observatory of Luxembourg.
Space Nuts
I've already recommended this before, but I'm doing it again here because it remains my favourite. Run by host Andrew Dunkley (#radio host and #author) and Prof. Fred Watson (also author, and astronomer-at-large), #3space nuts dives into many space-related topics around the world and here in australia - ranging from supermassive black holes, to the latest crewed missions, to space telescope projects.
Unexplainable
Hosted by Noam Hassenfeld, Byrd Pinkerton and Brian Resnick (and many more), Unexplainable covers the may #scientific mysteries that riddle our universe. From havana syndrome, to predicting tornados, to resurrecting mammoths, identifying housebug species, this isn't your regular 'mystery' podcast. It dedicates itself to explaining (or 'unexplaining') such mysteries through interviews with the experts involved - and teaching you along the way. Unexplainable is run by the VOX media group.
99% invisible
99 percent invisible is hosted primarily by Roman Mars, with stories presented by the rest of the team - including Chris Berube, Jason De Leon, Emmet FitzGerald, and more. It focuses on topics related to #architecture, Urban planing and #Geograpy While that may sound boring, it strays from what you would consider such a scope would contain, and the stories that 99pi tells are truly fascinating - for example, island sheep adapting to a diet of seaweed, or how lotteries work, all the way to why captions are so terrible.
I believe that to build reliable communities it takes a rational, evidence based, logical approach. #scientific method.
I would make it mandatory that members give their credit card details. Then charge a sum every time they post bullshit, depending on how many views it gets.
Who would join that? Intellectually honest people
Slogan: It's censorship because lies do not deserves a voice
Business model: Monetise Bullshit
Who decides what is bullshit & how? Hmm great question!
As a scientist, it is so infuriating, that #scientific#journals that either take extraordinary submission fees or extraordinary publishing processing fees still can't just insert a video into the HTML version of the article. Not even a hyperlink. The text says "movie S1 of Supporting Information", so you scroll down to the bottom of the page, then open the "Supporting Information" page, then click on the link for "movie S1", that downloads the video file that you can play like in 1999.
Autistic Adults May Be Erroneously Perceived as Deceptive and Lacking Credibility - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (link.springer.com)
We hypothesized that autistic adults may be erroneously judged as deceptive or lacking credibility due to demonstrating unexpected and atypical behaviors. Thirty autistic and 29 neurotypical individuals participated in video-recorded interviews, and we measured their demonstration of gaze aversion, repetitive body movements,...