🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@qoto.org

Experiment of the morning: found a random (domestic) goose egg that started pipping because a stubborn turkey was sitting on it, stuck it in an incubator because a lone gosling won't do well in with the whole flock, realized I can't raise one lone gosling, took the broody turkey and set her up in a stall by herself, and slipped the hatching egg under her. I hope it turns out well, but there are many ways this could end sadly. Baby animals are so emotionally hard sometimes...

Happy birthday to trailblazing American computer scientist Frances Elizabeth Allen (1932 – 2020) who made foundational contributions to optimizing compilers, optimizing programs and parallel computing. She was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow, where she worked from 1957 to 2002 and as an emeritus fellow afterwards. She was the first woman to win the Turing Prize.

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#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histSTM #computing #MastoArt #mathematician #sciart #compsci

I’m exploring a new material in #blender3d #eevee , it’s lookin kinda cute! #sciart #scicomm #science

Making S'mores with a fresnel lens.

The star nearby the moon tonight is Spica, the brightest star in the constellation #Virgo

The disk of the Sun with the big #sunspot group AR (1)3354 rotating away from the center: https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/latest/latest_4096_HMII.jpg images from 21:23 UTC yesterday and 19:53 UTC today.

extracting this incredibly useful set of conversation tips out of tiktok and into text form where i have some hope of being able to find it again:

“4 ways to instantly be [kinder] in group [conversations]”
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8e2sfpy/

1. Be the “you were saying?” person: when someone gets interrupted, and the interruption ends, turning back to the person who was talking and saying “you were saying?”

School sent us a message about a bear in the area this morning. It was labeled as a two part message but the second half took a while to arrive.

Since it was so delayed, was half expecting the second message to say: "this is the bear. I control the school now!!"

Please, I'm begging you, if you're a researcher, archive your data, back up your files, have a data succession plan.

Chat to your library, chat to your colleagues. The best time is as you collect the data, the second best time is now.

I'm dealing with multiple different data nightmares now. People leave academia, people retire, people pass away with a plan to make a plan.

No judgement here, just sadness for all that hard work thrown into uncertainty.

John "More Than" Goodenough, who helped develop lithium ion batteries likely powering the device you're reading this with now, has died aged 100. He gave up almost all rights to his inventions and continued work on battery development until almost the end https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/26/23774166/john-b-goodenough-lithium-ion-battery-nobel-prize-died

Cereal killer.

Inspired by a Piper Thibodeau concept.

#art #artwork #illustration #illustrator #3d #b3d #blender3d #breakfast #shark #MastoArt #FediArt

OK, gardeners -- I need your advice. Two cantaloupe seeds sprouted from my compost heap, so I planted them in the garden bed with low expectations. One died, but the other is now blooming beautifully. I read somewhere that you're supposed to have more than one plant to encourage pollination. Is that true? What can I do to make it more likely that it'll fruit? I see occasional bees here, but not necessarily enough to rely on -- could I maybe try to hand-pollinate it, or should I leave it alone?