Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

Working on my comments for Interior's #ColoradoRiver Supplemental EIS - the "how do we save the Colorado" plan - I'm struck by how crushing the water cuts have to be if we have one or two more bad years.

Lake sunrise - shades of pink on a cold snowy lake. Only partially frozen, the open water reflects the skies.

Scarves below cold ears
Red noses above big smiles
Winter wonderland

#haiku #poetry #snow

The flowers are still pretty when you look carefully.

#Introduction Another rat swimming over from the sinking ship. I am retired #museum person who takes #photos on my walks, enjoying #nature even more now that it's not a 9-5 job.

Wow: 47% of all CO2 emissions from aviation ever were emitted after 2000 https://easa.europa.eu/eco/eaer

The guy who wants to put neurolinks in our heads worries about people knowing where he is.

I was reading interviews of Katalin Karikó, who made key discoveries that led to the development of lifesaving mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. Her dedication in the midst of adversity struck me.

-She pushed on despite not having job security, NIH R01 research funding, or recognition.
-A chance stop in Mainz led to her joining BioNTech.
-And her daughter is a two-time Olympic gold medalist!

More talk of dedicated scientists, less talk of narcissistic businessmen please.

(interviews in PNAS and JCI)

*Sheepish request* I'm new to Mastodon, but a lot of my former Twitter followers don't know I'm here yet. Someone suggested I could simply ask you fine people to boost me. Would you be so kind? (I promise to post a photo of my dog to say thanks). #WelcomeToMastodon

New and established users alike:

Alt text on images is important for accessibility as we have lots of blind and partially sighted users here. Please consider adding it to your images, or asking for help from other people to write descriptions:

https://mastodon.art/@Curator/109279035107793247

A lot of the fediverse won't boost posts without image descriptions, including me.

Just a friendly reminder!

#TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus #fediverse #FediTips

My mastadon link at my pinned tweet on Twitter is now warning anyone who clicks on it that the sight may be “unsafe.”
You know what actually feels unsafe right now? Musk on Twitter.

Rosalind Franklin’s research was crucial to discovering DNA’s double helix structure 🧬 but it was James Watson & Francis Crick who received the credit & Nobel Prize.

Unknown to Franklin, the pair saw her unpublished data & X-ray diffraction images, inspiring their famous model. They never acknowledged her contribution until after her death.

How many discoveries & innovations of #women do we attribute to the men who took credit for their ideas?

https://theconversation.com/sexism-pushed-rosalind-franklin-toward-the-scientific-sidelines-during-her-short-life-but-her-work-still-shines-on-her-100th-birthday-139249 #history #science

Ich habe allein seit gestern über 1000 Follower:innen auf #Mastodon dazugewonnen, auf #Twitter gut 200 verloren. Viele Menschen stimmen jetzt offenbar mit den Füßen oder besser per Mausklick über die Eskapaden von #Elonmusk ab.

I was thinking last night as a new wave of #TwitterRefugees came washing over the #fediverse about the many #climate and #political #refugees doing the same irl right now.
Will you take a moment with me today to think beyond computer screens, phone apps, etc to consider those who are actually undergoing #migration - fleeing unsafe conditions, giving up their homes and cultures in hopes of safety and a life worth living? #TwitterMigration is trending rn but human migrants need support too. 🙏 🤎

In June (2022) my team published research introducing a dataset of 100s of false, misleading, & unsubstantiated claims that sowed doubt in election 2020, and identified the most influential accounts in the spread of those claims. Folks on the right have called this a "watchlist" & blended it into some conspiracy theory about a "censorship cartel'. Nope. Just an analysis initiated by PhD students, using their freedom of speech to call out the lies that led to January 6: https://journalqd.org/article/view/3137

Fun fact: Ryan Mac, the NYT tech reporter who Elon suspended tonight is also the reporter who broke the news that Peter Thiel was secretly financing lawsuits (including Hulk Hogan's sex tape lawsuit) in order to destroy Gawker.

Why buy any digital NFT nonsense when you can actually see me live and on stage in London, from Jan-Apr next year?
For tickets: https://Allegiancemusical.com

Elon Musk's banning of journalists again shows that we need to update our understanding of his playbook. He's waging a form of right wing information warfare. The display of domination over journalistic enemies is the key thing here.

Free article on this idea for those without subscriptions:
https://wapo.st/3HBT74u

After sufficient lurking, here is my #introduction

I’m a #computational #cognitive #neuroscientist and asst. prof. at JHU Cog Sci studying social vision. Our lab uses a combination of human behavior, neuroimaging and computational modeling to understanding how humans can so effortlessly extract rich social information from the visual world around them.

Our recent work relies heavily on naturalistic neuroimaging and state of the art modeling (such as graph neural networks and disentangled representation learning). You can learn more/find papers on our website: isiklab.org