manisha

manisha, 26 days ago to til

#TIL that elephants purr!

"Stand near an elephant herd, and you may feel a strange vibration in your chest. That’s not your heart beating in terror because you’re, well, standing next to an elephant herd. Or at least that’s not all it is. It’s also a sign that the elephants are talking to one another. Elephants are famous for their trumpeting, of course, but they also produce rumbles pitched so low that humans can’t hear them, only feel them as a sort of physical buzzing. Exactly how elephants do this has been a mystery — and while solving that mystery is not of first-order importance in understanding and preserving this largest of land animals, it would add new insight into how a whole range of species vocalize."

The Mystery of the Purring Elephant

manisha, 1 year ago to science

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoUGiS1LeKU

Tristopher: what exactly is the academic dream?

Elsevier: spending your entire youth creating knowledge, then paying a billion dollar corporation to take it from you in exchange for career capital you can then use to buy meaningless promotions from other exploited individuals

Tristopher: that's the dream?!

Elsevier: well I didn't say it was a good dream

#AcademicPublishing #academia #science #DrGlaucomflecken @academicchatter

manisha, 7 months ago to ai

Heck yeah!! This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/23/1082189/data-poisoning-artists-fight-generative-ai/

#Nightshade #Glaze #AI #GenerativeAI #Punk

manisha, 4 months ago to random

so it begins

Starting in February, Arizona State University will have full access to ChatGPT Enterprise and plans to use it for coursework, tutoring, research and more.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/18/openai-announces-first-partnership-with-a-university.html

manisha, 6 months ago to random

It's been one year since the launch of neuromatch.social 🥳​ Happy anniversary to this wonderful community! ❤️​

#neuromatchstodon

manisha, 3 months ago to india

Today is National Science Day in India. I learnt form a woman scientist colleague of mine who was invited to speak at an event celebrating this day that she was very unceremoniously cut-off at the 6 min mark of her 10 min speech by the master of ceremonies, while a male scientist who spoke before her was allowed to speak for the full duration AND was asked questions by the MC! So disrespectful! 😡​

#WomenInSTEM #NationalScienceDay #India

manisha, 9 months ago to random

Came across this today: https://festival.antiuniversity.org/pages/information

The Antiuniversity is an ongoing programme of self organised radical learning and mutual education events. It is a collaborative experiment to challenge academic and class hierarchy - in, outside and against existing institutional structures.

#antiuniversity

manisha, 8 months ago to climate

"but of course, in every just revolution there are losers. And if there's one thing history has taught us it's that losing a just revolution doesn't mean that you go away, dig a hole, climb inside, pull the dirt in on top of yourself. You hang around nursing your grievances and that has what has come to the world of The Lost Cause"

I had thoroughly enjoyed #RedTeamBlues and just backed @pluralistic's new novel of #climate and hope on kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-lost-cause-a-novel-of-climate-and-hope. Thank you Cory for providing the option of a DRM-free audio book!

manisha, 7 months ago to Plants

Our bamboo plants are growing tall and we finally have guavas! :catnod:​

#plants #gardening #guava #bamboo @plants @gardening

A chonky green guava hanging from a branch that is dropping due to the fruit's weight. There's a green grow bag in the background.
2 small green baby guavas hanging from a branch which has several leaves. The plant is not too tall and the branch is very close to the soil in the grow bag which is orange-green in color.

manisha, 5 months ago to Neuroscience

There's been an explosion of papers doing cell-type specific research in rodent neuroscience lately. Any human neuroscience researchers here who could tell us whether and how much all these studies are relevant for human brain circuits?

#neuroscience #NeuroBuzz

manisha, 5 months ago to random

Either I am time traveling or there seems to be a date bug in publications??

On https://openalex.org when I sorted the publications by year, first I thought that maybe there's a bug that's showing publications from 2025 somehow... but then when I go to the links, some of them have a publication date in the future?! 🤔​ what's going on? @OpenAlex am I missing something super obvious?

Here's an e.g.

Published February 22, 2025
https://zenodo.org/records/6222260

manisha, 1 year ago to random

just learnt that the fact that I end my sentences with a period means I am old* and that zoomers think I am being passive aggressive when I do that :melting_face:​

*when did 30s become old? I thought 30s were the new 20s.. no? that was only me? ok!

manisha, 2 months ago to sustainability

The Sustainability Ambassadors Global Exchange (SAGE) Program is back!

We are thrilled to announce the SAGE PhD Fellows program! This 3-year program is intended to nurture future impact leaders in solution-based sustainability research projects co-created with communities and consortia members.

To learn about the application process & program details, see this: SAGE PhD Fellowship Program 2024

Please help us spread the word. Boosts appreciated! 🙂​

#PhD #sustainability #research #India #Denmark #Ecosystem #EcosystemServices #EcosystemValuation #OneHealth #Ecology #environment #climate #CircularEconomy #RuralLivelihoods #SAGE

manisha, 2 months ago to climate

We at the Climatematch Impact Scholars Program are so excited to organize the seminars this week (26-27 March) to showcase the research carried out by the Impact Scholars 🎉​

This research is a continuation of the projects they carried out during the Computational Tools for Climate Science course in 2023. The seminars will be chaired by climate scientists from CMIP and LEAP and are open to the public ✨​ Please register here and join us in cheering on these aspiring climate researchers! 🥳​

Video credits: @ceydabtekin

@academicchatter

#ClimateScience #climate #science #AcademicChatter #climatematch

A brief video highlighting the projects carried out by teams from 25 countries on 6 continents as part of the Climatematch Impact Scholars Program and the various public seminar sessions happening on the 26-27th of March. These sessions will be chaired by climate scientists from CMIP and LEAP.

manisha, 1 month ago to academia

Funding research, fighting divestment

"Details about oil majors contributing hundreds of millions of dollars to top universities to build relationships that could help the industry avoid taking climate action were inside thousands of pages of documents unveiled Tuesday by Democrats on the House Oversight and Accountability and the Senate Budget committees.

Of the files released Tuesday, many show the extraordinary lengths energy giants have gone to in order to maintain public support for the oil industry — a major employer that’s also one of the nation’s top corporate climate polluters.

Companies have acknowledged, then flat-out ignored, stark warnings about the fate of the planet in relation to their activities."

Big Oil document dump spotlights industry influence in academia

@academicchatter

#academia #climate #AcademicChatter

manisha, 2 months ago to random

The study offers valuable insights that may serve as a reference for the eventual achievement of artificial photosynthesis in mammals.

Toward Photosynthetic Mammalian Cells through Artificial Endosymbiosis

👀​

h/t https://mastodon.social/@schymans/112137972830630961

manisha, 4 months ago to random

reading this and there are sirens going off in my head

"Menlo Park, CA and Charlottesville, VA - Meta is partnering with the Center for Open Science (COS) on a pilot program to share certain privacy-preserving social media data with a select group of academic researchers to study topics related to well-being. Social media companies, like Meta, have an opportunity to contribute to the public’s scientific understanding of how different factors may or may not impact well-being and inform productive conversations about how to help people thrive.

https://www.cos.io/about/news/meta-partners-with-cos-to-share-data-to-study-well-being-topics

too many red flags to ignore
😬​😬​😬​😬​

eliezyer, 9 days ago to random

I'm going to be honest and say that writing papers isn't my favorite activity, I'd rather be doing another experiment or analyzing data. Does anyone want to share their thoughts on how you make this activity more enjoyable? I'd appreciate it :brain_loading:

manisha, 9 days ago to random

Am sleepy but also want to know the election results!

https://results.eci.gov.in/PcResultGenJune2024/index.htm

manisha, 1 month ago to india

In India, when you go to vote they mark a line on your left index finger's nail and cuticle with an "indelible" blue/dark purple ink to prevent voter fraud. This stain doesn't come off for a few weeks. What I didn't know is that there are several other countries that have also adopted this election ink and in some countries they stain the index finger tip completely!

It's 11 am here rn and already the temp has gone up to 38 deg C. I'm so glad that we left early in the morning today to go vote for the Lok Sabha elections. At 8 am it was cool cloudy weather and we didn't have to stand in the queue too long 🙂​

#India #elections

manisha, 9 days ago to random

In other news from India, after a week of ~45°C temp, which felt more like ~50°C due to the humidity, we finally had some light showers today!