Wendy W @WendyW@qoto.org

One of my favorite #birds to see out in the wild - an Indian Paradise Flycatcher- this one seen a few weeks ago at Hunasinakere in Hassan Taluk, #Karnataka. They seem so ethereal & otherworldly upon first sight!
#aves #birding #birdphotography #flycatcher #FourThirds #Olympus #India

@eliistender10 here's their website if anyone wants further information: https://giveusashout.org/

For anyone in the UK, If you text ‘SHOUT’ to 85258 when you are in a dark place or suicidal, a trained crisis volunteer will text you back. This is great If you find talking on the phone challenging. It’s completely free 24/7.
Please RT you never know who might need this support

I used to say Twitter was only as good - or bad - as who you followed. Follow good/interesting/ funny people, and you're gold. That wasn't 100% true, because Twitter liked to guess what might "promote engagement" and put it in your feed - but it was mostly true.

Best thing about mastodon? No computer showing me what it guesses I might like. My feed is who I follow (and what they boost) - nothing more. That's honestly delightful. I can go look at what people I don't follow post - but I don't have to, and it's not forced in front of me.

I used to brace myself logging into Twitter - you had to wade thru the sewer to find the good bits. But my tiny following list on mastodon produces more good stuff than Twitter did - I can only imagine how nice it will be once the birdsite dies off and I track down more good people to follow.

I’m #thankful for all of the volunteers running all of the #Mastodon instances out there who are trying to build safe, positive, productive communities. Who willingly give of their own time in addition to their family, work, and other obligations. Who put people before profit. Who believe that when we build bridges and connect with one another, we can accomplish anything together.

#thanksgiving #Fediverse

Here's my new hobby which you #TwitterMigration folks might also want to try.

Watch your Local timeline for people just arriving or making their first post. (It's not stalking. Really.)

And then reply with something like, "Hello and welcome! 👋"

Sometimes that starts a conversation. Sometimes you wind up following each other.

Why do that? Maybe to be as kind as all the wonderful folks who welcomed us here?

So, go ahead. Pay it forward. Make a new friend. It's fun. And, you know, social.

Visualizing one year of earthquake activity with depth data.
https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2022/11/earthquakes-with-depth.html

A research team at USC has figured out a way to use genetically engineered fungi to convert polyethylene waste into pharmacologically useful metabolic products.

(This story is great because it features three of my favourite things: reduction of plastic waste, fungi, and drugs, LOL. 😁)

#recycling #plastic #environment #science #mycotechnology #fungi #research

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/972517

Unbelievable clouds in the Dolomites, Italy ☁️

I’m going to play my tennis with “robust pragmatism” in future. Tickets for my Wimbledon final will be available soon.

#City Council approves #Innovative #Urban #Village in East #NewYork | Urbanize New York

In East New York, the City Council has signed off on an #expansive #mixedUse #project that will bring thousands of #affordableHousing units to the #neighborhood, according to multiple published #reports.

https://nyc.urbanize.city/post/city-council-approves-innovative-urban-village-east-new-york

#introduction 👋 Hi all - I'm a psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist at UCL.

I mostly think about how to link brain and behaviour to subjective experience, and try to design experiments to understand the computations supporting the latter.

This often (but not always) comes under the umbrella of #metacognition research.

Lab website is here: http://metacoglab.org/

I also enjoy writing for a general audience and published a popular science book, Know Thyself, about the science of metacognition (http://metacoglab.org/book)

#introduction 🙋‍♀️
I'm a interdisciplinary #cognitive and #neuroscientist studying how human brain structure supports it’s functions. I am particularly curious about the interplay between nature and nurture upon brain structure and what this means for cognition. #scaffolds is a word I like a lot right now.

Well hello Mastodon! It looks like people are doing #introductions, so, I’m Professor of Cognitive Development at the University of Leeds. A particular interest is #workingmemory and how to support children with working memory difficulties in the classroom. #developmentalpsychology #cognitivepsychology #education

Looking forward to welcoming @jorgemlg to give this week's Consciousness Club on "The Varieties of Metacognition" - should be fun!

*Note later time* of 3pm-430pm GMT, Wed 30th Nov. For more info and how to join see http://metacoglab.org/consciousness-club - all welcome!

@WCHN_UCL @EP_UCL #moa

Apparently an ex GBNews editorial director is now going to be director of news @BBCNews - parody is becoming more difficult by the day.

#OnThisDay, 26 Nov 1867, Lily Maxwell voted in Chorlton Town Hall, Manchester, UK.

At the time only men who where ratepayers could vote. A widow running a shop, Maxwell’s name was put on the electoral roll by mistake.

She marched down to the town hall and voted, becoming the first recorded woman to vote in the UK.
#WomenInHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #Histodons @histodons

A reminder for anyone new to mastodon who might not be happy with some of the racist and bad actors out there on other servers... Just import the fediblock list to your personal blocks and you will be safe from the vast majority of bad actors.

"Solar PV rapidly becoming the cheapest option to generate electricity", I wrote in 2011*. Controversial then, happened now!
https://grist.org/solar-power/2011-10-11-solar-pv-rapidly-becoming-cheapest-option-generate-electricity/

*) when @drvolts was still drgrist on the birdsite :)