Kat @KatLH@scholar.social
Social researcher in new energy tech at Aus. National University. I'm working on an electric vehicle-to-grid trial where EV batteries provide services to the electricity grid. But personally I'm far more interested in [inclusive] low tech, frugality, care and conviviality.
I tend to share links to events and such broadly to do with sustainability.
If I don't follow back it might be because I already do on my alt account, and want to keep my feeds different.
Based in Narrm (Melbourne, Aus).
Joined Jul 2020
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#Introduction
#Introductions
I'm Kat, an Australian energy social science researcher at ANU.
I'm working on a vehicle-to-grid trial currently and in a couple of months will be switching to a renewable micro-grid project, looking at governance and operational models. I supervise a few honours students in engineering and computer science too.
My background is a mix of academia, policy, and industry, in renewable energy, EVs, sustainability, and architectural science.
This is my new project I'm working on
I really gotta put the ol' summer school proposal in
Kat
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@KatLH The King asked the Queen,
And the Queen asked the Engineer,
“Could we have a toaster for the Royal Slice of Bread?”
The Engineer, said “Not so fast,
You’ll have to be specific,
It depends on voltage, sugar content, hardness of the spread.”
I'm going to make some engineers read poetry
Ha ha ha
Rescuing the future from Silicon Valley (interview), AI
"They fed [DALL-E 2] the description, ‘Kermit the Frog, but in the Matrix’ and it can render a picture that looks like Kermit the Frog in the Matrix. On the one hand, it’s pretty cool. That’s a fun toy to play with. On the other hand, those large language models are fantastically energy expensive. We’re basically burning down our rainforest so that we can have a computer do our drawing for us."
https://techpolicy.press/rescuing-the-future-from-silicon-valley-a-conversation-with-dave-karpf/
woohoo my article is going into copyediting and typesetting (etc)
Kat
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warum nennt man es silicon valley und nicht digi tal?
Advice for reviewers, authors and editors in the journal article peer review process (OA)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629622001797
cool, the conversation accepted my pitch!
Kat
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Hey y'all. Want to help organize #SummerSchool ?
We need organizers! You'll help schedule times, make sure speakers have moderators, and tolerate my constant 'is it eSt or eDt?'
Please DM @SummerSchool
Kat
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upon receiving a letter addressed to Dr
Yay! Love it when my mum writes to me
Kat
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the idea occurs to me to write an autoethnography article about a thing (dull to many, but exactly what I'm reading about at the moment) I was a part of a couple years ago.
Can I just do that? If careful not to represent anyone else involved and make them extremely anonymised?
k. I have submitted my first pitch to The Conversation, let's see how that goes.
(I've co-authored one before but not led my own)
whee resubmitted my revised article about care and gender in new energy tech. shouldn't take too long to come out. I'm really happy with it.
ethics, studying First Nations issues
Friend (who is white) was approached by a student from a European uni doing research related to Indigenous communities in Aus.
Their ethics approval went through their European system, but how could a Euro uni conscientiously approve this type of thing? And little things like no local contact number etc.
Aus unis for all their faults take this stuff seriously. Anyway she's going to Ask Questions.
Social researcher in new energy tech at Aus. National University. I'm working on an electric vehicle-to-grid trial where EV batteries provide services to the electricity grid. But personally I'm far more interested in [inclusive] low tech, frugality, care and conviviality.
I tend to share links to events and such broadly to do with sustainability.
If I don't follow back it might be because I already do on my alt account, and want to keep my feeds different.
Based in Narrm (Melbourne, Aus).
Joined Jul 2020
