Matti Minkkinen @mmin@scholar.social

The behaviour of ball bearings as they self assemble under an electric field They seem alive, reaching for each other to form emergent structures!

Feeling bad for not noticing this before but if you need a list of #Fediverse servers to recommend to your #scientific friends that want to leave #Twitter, there a list on fediscience.org: https://fediscience.org/server-list.html

#science #academia

this is hands down one of my favorite photographs I’ve ever taken; was on my moon bullshit in my backyard with a zoom lens and a BAT flew through the damn frame

I am a sucker for vintage images of what once passed for cutting-edge culture and technology. As someone who lives in that world, these images serve as a *memento mori*, the skull on a poet's desk that signifies, "Someday, you will pass from this world, too."

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Danish language considered harmful

https://theconversation.com/danish-children-struggle-to-learn-their-vowel-filled-language-and-this-changes-how-adult-danes-interact-161143

Populism or pragmatism? Two ways of understanding political articulation* https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8675.12522

There is some fuss about the EU Sustainable Taxonomy. With Scientists4Future (@S4F), we organised this webinar in July:

https://youtu.be/d1UCgg8U7Lg

Daniel Poolen starts with a great introduction for beginners.

The discussion panel consists of 2 other experts, Mathilde Crêpy from ECOS and Andreas Hoepner, professor of operational risk, banking & finance.

NL: Een goede duiding op #Wattisduurzaam over de voorwaardelijke duurzaamheid van gas en nucleaire energie:

https://www.wattisduurzaam.nl/37129/energie-beleid/eu-taxonomy-kernenergie-en-aardgas-voorwaardelijk-duurzaam/

2013 - Music structure determines heart rate variability of singers - Frontiers in Psychology:

"Singing in unison of regular song structures causes singers’ hearts to simultaneously speed up and slow down... The study suggests that people who sing together tend to synchronize biologically in several respects."

I like to think on that when I play music!

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00334/full

"In the US, cable TV channels were found to be speeding reruns of shows like Seinfield up by small amounts to fit more ad breaks into a half hour slot."

- #ShantiMathias, 2021

https://thespinoff.co.nz/irl/16-12-2021/when-you-speed-up-content-you-gain-time-but-what-do-you-lose

#marketing #TV

Technologies of Hope & Fear looks at a curated selection of 100 technologies developed in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. This interactive research project allows you to explore the narratives of these pandemic products, the companies behind them https://techpandemic.theglassroom.org/

‘It parodies our inaction’: #DontLookUp, an allegory of the climate crisis, lauded by activists - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/30/it-parodies-our-inaction-dont-look-up-an-allegory-of-the-climate-crisis-lauded-by-activists rather telling how many film critics refuse to look up...

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https://joinfediverse.wiki

Right now I'm gathering feedback from people who are not deep into the Fediverse yet.
What you can do to help:
* #boost this post.
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* of course you can give me feedback yourself even if you're a Fediverse veteran.
* help edit the wiki. For now I wrote almost everything myself.

Happy holidays everybody. 🎉

#JoinFediverse #JoinTheFediverse #FediverseWiki

RIP E. O. Wilson, a giant in evolutionary biology and myrmecology, at 92. 🐜

LAT: https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2021-12-27/edward-o-wilson-biologist-ant-man-dead
NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/27/science/eo-wilson-dead.html

His 1990 book with Bert Hölldobler, "The Ants", is online for free at AntWiki: https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/The_Ants

"The Trailhead" is his 2010 fiction story about an ant colony: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/01/25/trailhead

#science #biology #evolution #news #RIP 🐘

You can find a perfect correlation if you just control for the residual.
https://xkcd.com/2560/