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hydropsyche

@hydropsyche@ecoevo.social

urban stream ecologist, carbon geek, beaver fan, trying to make working in science suck less for everyone |she/her| my opinions are mine, not the state of Georgia's|

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augieray, to random
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I continue to opt out of all conferences, including my own employer's, to avoid a higher-risk environment for . But, I feel guilty doing so. I feel as if I'm not supporting our business like others. Yet today, with our big annual conference five days away, I spoke with two people who will be at the conference who today are just 'getting the flu,' and I'm reminded of why I made the decision not to attend.

hydropsyche,
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@augieray I hear you. I'm about to head to the Society for Freshwater Science meeting next week with a lot of trepidation. My first large in person conference since March 2020. I will do everything I can to keep me safe, but I know no one else will be doing anything.

ShaulaEvans, to edutooters
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I know a horrifyingly vast number of people in education circles who are all-in, gung-ho about AI.

How do you teach environmental studies while you are supporting catastrophic waste of water & active global warming?

How do you teach kids that plagiarism is wrong when you are promoting plagiarism?

How do you teach kids that consent is important when you are promoting the wholesale non-consensual unpaid theft of original creators works?

@edutooters

hydropsyche,
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@Oggie @ShaulaEvans @edutooters
Wow, that article is highly credulous and extremely lacking in details about the charges against the student.

"Students could upload materials to a private server not accessible to other users, then use AI to generate study materials."

Translation--students could upload a paper written for a class, and AI would paraphrase it so that other students could turn it in as their own.

hydropsyche, to random
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"Since the early 1970s, muskrat populations appeared to have fallen by at least one-half in 34 US states. In a handful of states, the collapse was near-total, coming in between 90 and 99 percent."
https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-magnificent-lives-and-quiet-loss-of-muskrats/

hydropsyche, to mastodon
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Has anybody who uses Mastodon from the webpage figured out a way to make the scrollbar visible? Literally the only thing that worked was to change my OSX accessibility settings to high contrast, which overrides the appearance settings on other websites and in other applications that I actually like. I understand that many people read the web with touchscreens and thus don't use scrollbars, but is that a reason to make them light grey on light grey for everyone? Really?

hydropsyche,
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@joelanman Yes, I always have that on. The problem is that Mastodon's scrollbar is there, it's just light grey on light grey so it's not visible.

hydropsyche,
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@joelanman Thanks! It looks like Stylish and things like it do exist for Firefox, but I'm really hoping Mastodon just fixes their style themselves. Just no reason for this.

CelloMomOnCars, (edited ) to solar
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" prices have significantly decreased, leading participation to increase. This has disrupted rate equity between solar-owning customers and non-solar-owning customers.

The proposed alternative would have all grid-provided energy billed at retail rates and all excess solar energy credited at [a lower rate].

The billing would only apply to future customers, but would not affect customers who already own them."

https://www.alligator.org/article/2024/04/gru-authority-board-adopts-changes-to-billing-for-solar-owning-customers

Edit: please read whole thread before you get mad

hydropsyche,
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@CelloMomOnCars This is the deal Georgia Power already has for the bulk of its solar customers. Only a few thousand people who got in early get paid retail price for the electricity they put back in the grid. All the rest of us get pennies for the electricity we produce. And now Georgia Power has gotten permission from their supposed regulators to build more natural gas plants instead of incentivizing more rooftop solar. There has to be a better way. https://www.wabe.org/growing-demand-for-electricity-clashes-with-clean-energy-efforts/

hydropsyche,
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@CelloMomOnCars Okay, but my power is carbon neutral and their new natural gas turbines won't be. As you said farther down, consumer solar ought to be paid at a higher rate than fossil fuels, and they sure as hell shouldn't be building new fossil fuel plants in the 21st century.

kcarruthers, to random
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Texas of course: A prominent hospital in Houston has halted its liver & kidney transplant programs after officials said one of its doctors secretly manipulated records to make some of his patients ineligible to receive new livers.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/12/texas-hospital-liver-kidney-transplants

hydropsyche,
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@kcarruthers Interested to know the demographics of the patients he deemed unworthy of receiving transplants

hydropsyche, to random
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I missed this when it came out, but it's really good. I now disclose my immunocompromised status to people all the time, when asking them to wear a mask, and many of my students have in response disclosed their own health conditions to me. Many of those students have auto-immune conditions, and I generally share mine with them when they disclose to me because I want them to feel less alone in the world and know that they can be an ecologist with a disability.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02695-0

Toastie, to california
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Good news, everyone! The Yurok Tribe will now co-manage 125 acres of Redwood forest, a gateway to the state/national park, along with the National Park Service.

The tribal nation signed a memorandum of understanding Tuesday with Redwood national and state parks and the non-profit Save the Redwoods League.

#Indigenous #California #Conservation

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/20/yurok-tribe-land-gold-rush-redwoods-national-park-service

hydropsyche,
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@Toastie In a similar vein, there is a plan to convert Ocmulgee Mounds National Historic Park in Georgia into full-on Ocmulgee National Park with co-management with the Muscogee people now of Oklahoma, whose land it used to be.

https://www.ocmulgeepark.org/

HeavenlyPossum, to random

The funniest thing about Donald Trump is that he is so routinely honest in public—“I will be a dictator,” “there will be violence if I lose”—and yet the majority of people are so concerned about decorum, so terrified of appearing to overreact, that the American political system just plods along as if he hadn’t said what he said.

hydropsyche,
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@HeavenlyPossum The people don't want to be seen as overreacting or looking foolish thing also applies to COVID. So many people aren't masking or taking precautions now because no one around them is masking or taking precautions and it would be embarrassing to do so.

ChristosArgyrop, to random
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I asked #ChatGpt4 if one can trust #UMAP clusters when experimental validation is not possible (that would be the Nature paper #AllofUsResearch under discussion). My non-nuanced answer based on its nuanced answer is NO

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hydropsyche,
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@ChristosArgyrop I'm begging you not to use ChatGPT as a search engine. That is not a "nuanced answer". It is a bunch of word soup based on word soup already on the internet.

compost, to climate
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I asked several AI services how to compost, but I was not impressed with the answers. Composting is both simple and complicated, with not one recipe or method that works for everyone. AI is not a sustainable solution and contributes to . Not using AI can be seen as an act of resistance.

One of my concerns with AI is that it often provides incomplete answers, despite the race to develop the latest and greatest AI technology. If you want to learn how to compost, it's best to turn to books and your local library, YouTube channels, or websites for guidance.

This is why we created this account - to help those who are interested in composting, especially since there has been a surge in interest due to the pandemic and mandatory composting laws in some areas.

hydropsyche,
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@compost Thanks for this. LLMs are not search engines and should not be a resource people are reaching to for information. The more we can spread that word and encourage people to look for quality resources for information, the better.

hydropsyche, to random
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As a Duke Ecology PhD alum, I know all these people, including the Dean. I had them as professors, and I TAed for them. With an $11 billion endowment, Duke is just ooozing cash out of its pores. This is so unnecessary.
https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2024/02/duke-university-plants-biodiversity-herbarium-climate-commitment-kathleen-pryer

hydropsyche, to random
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!!!!!!
We are going solar with #GeorgiaBRIGHT, Georgia's not-for-profit solar leasing program.

A photo of my house, a red brick ranch with blue shutters and brand new solar panels on part of the roof. Also, our Japanese cherry tree is blooming with lots of pretty pink flowers

luckytran, to random
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The bare minimum we should have learned from a devastating pandemic that has killed and disabled millions is that we should stay home when we are sick. Yet, governments beholden to corporate interests are determined to make sure we don't even do that.

hydropsyche,
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@TerpieCat @luckytran It at least allows people the possibility of saying "I can't come to work. The CDC says I have to quarantine 5 days." Now, we won't even have that.

hydropsyche, to random
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Georgia is being run by such ignorant, short-sighted people. If this mine drains the Okefenokee, that's it. Attempts at restoration will never make it the same as it currently is. Why risk a one of a kind treasure for a material for paint that can be mined all over the planet in less sensitive areas?

https://www.wabe.org/georgia-issues-draft-permits-for-controversial-mine-near-okefenokee/

hydropsyche, to random
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Closeup on an old mill dam at the top of a waterfall in Blue Heron Nature Preserve, Atlanta, GA, USA. Great biofilms and hydropsychid caddis fly nets. #WaterfallWednesday

Brad, to random

Anyway, (regarding this and the last three posts) just trying to make a point that something might indeed be damaging our immune systems. JUST LIKE ALL THE PEER REVIEWED STUDIES suggested would happen with repeat Covid infections 🤷‍♂️

hydropsyche,
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@Brad The inevitable outcome of "you do you" public health policy? People who won't mask won't use a condom either?

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Good news a from NC. Republicans passed a law that required a postcard be sent to the address of any person who took advantage of same-day registration, if the card was undeliverable by the post office the vote would be thrown out.
(The voter would not even be notified this happened.)

Like many voter suppression laws, it almost sounds sensible: if you don't think about it much.

On closer inspection, it is designed to target poor, minority and/or young voters. 1/

https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/politics/north-carolina-politics/judge-blocks-same-day-registration-law-north-carolina-elections/275-bd051b3c-f34c-488a-a22e-c9931a643f1b

hydropsyche,
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@futurebird The only actual case of voter fraud with criminal convictions in recent decades involved the NC GOP stealing people's absentee ballot votes.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/four-people-plead-guilty-north-carolina-ballot-probe-2016-2018-electio-rcna49534

NatureMC, to conservative
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It was the first time in my life that I saw this animal. When I was young, it was extinct in our landscapes. We were probably both equally astonished. He or she had an incredibly friendly appearance. And was so beautiful.
https://www.cronenburg.net/encounters/
Thanks @canyakker for helping with the tracks!

#conservation #reconnectingWithNature #EarthMarvels #biodiversity #beaver #Alsace #rareSpecies #kinship #animals #encounter #hiking #walking #naturelovers #tracks #naturePhotography #blog #castor

hydropsyche,
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@NatureMC @canyakker I feel the same about Castor canadensis! When I was a kid, they were extremely rare throughout the US, but now they're just about everywhere there's enough water for them to swim in. And I study their effects as part of my job. And I still am so excited every time I see evidence of one! It doesn't get old!

DrPsyBuffy, to random
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I’m not sure I’ve ever recovered from the moment it hit me, truly hit me, how much America hates women

hydropsyche,
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@DrPsyBuffy The great Melissa McEwan talked about this in one of the best things ever written on the internet about misogyny and human relationships
http://www.shakesville.com/2009/08/terrible-bargain-we-have-regretfully.html

DrTCombs, to random
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10 miles into the 600-mile drive to visit my sister for Christmas, my car's transmission* went belly up. Fortunately we had a plan B and were still able to celebrate the holidays with family, but the spectre of having to pay for a new transmission loomed. Having to buy a whole new car would have been terrifying indeed.

Cars are prohibitively expensive. It's stupid how much we've forced ourselves to depend on them.

https://www.newsweek.com/americans-can-no-longer-afford-their-cars-1859929

hydropsyche,
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@DrTCombs @CathyTuttle Assuming you lived in town, Davidson is actually a pretty okay place to be a bike commuter. If you were coming from Mooresville or Huntersville, I am so sorry.

hydropsyche,
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@DrTCombs @CathyTuttle Also this is just an amazing story!

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