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#SolarpunkReporting #solarpunk

Do you know ArXiv, the open pre-print database of scientific articles?

Well, there's also https://info.africarxiv.org/ for African research:

AfricArxiv is a free, open source and community-led digital archive for African research. We provide a non-profit platform for African scietists to upload their working papers, pre-prints, accepted manuscripts (post-prints), and published papers. We also provide options to link data and code, and for article versioning.

The University of California system is walking away from Elsevier: https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-terminates-subscriptions-worlds-largest-scientific-publisher-push-open-access-publicly

The Loon doubts any other consortium in the US has a greater chance of pulling off this level of defiance. She wishes California well.

Coal ash is more radioactive than nuclear waste. By burning away all the pesky carbon and other impurities, coal power plants produce heaps of radiation.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/

Some great advice especially for those in Academia <3.

Periodic reminder that sci-hub.tw will unlock any scientific paper as long as you have a direct URL or DOI.

She's 0K now.

This is Icarus. The farthest away single star we've ever seen. It's a blue supergiant star, not a supernova or gamma ray burst or anything, just a star, seen from 9 𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 light years away.

We were only able to see it for a time because it was Gravitationally Lensed by passing directly behind another star and then magnified further by other galaxy clusters and dark matter. Spacetime acted like a telescope for this single star, magnifying about 2000 times.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/meet-icarus-most-distant-star-ever-detected-180968667/

Extinction Rebellion. Downtown Halifax

#climatechange #theliturgists @jess_spiars posted an article earlier that eventually led to me writing a thread about who "real scientists" are, how you can tell, and indirectly about scientific consensus and how the tiny # of "denier scientists" aren't a trustworthy group.

I saw this today, & it discusses the "reticence" of the scientific community, which reflects my own experience, & is why I get mad when ppl call scientists alarmist or extreme:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/16/opinion/sunday/fear-panic-climate-change-warming.html

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there needs to be more ethics and social science curriculum in STEM degrees

Was going through my pics and I don't remember taking this but. Here you go.