GayManifold @gaymanifold@qoto.org

Sending solidarity to all UK university staff striking today ✊ #ucuRISING #UCU #UCUStrike

Big turnout in the centre of Oxford for #UCUStrike #UCURising

Solidarity from students for the #UCUstrike at University of Edinburgh #UCUrising

scribbly self-portrait from last month
#pwME #drawing

Billionaires funded 15% of the midterm elections. They represent 0.0002% of the population. That's a problem. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/billionaires-provided-15-percent-funding-midterms

Woohoo!

Our paper on using #Tiktok as a tool for #scicomm is finally out in the Journal of Geoscience Communication. It’s open access, which means that anyone can read it - you don’t need a subscription to the journal to access it. It also has a video abstract (below) so be sure to check it out!

Mad props to @its_sedimentary for all of her excellent work on this!

https://gc.copernicus.org/articles/5/363/2022/

If you're like me, then you were really happy to learn about Mastodon's enthusiastic support for image descriptions, and you were really eager to join in.

Then you went to actually write something and realized you have no idea how to present visual information in a way that is helpful/enjoyable to those who are #VisuallyImpaired or #Blind.

I found this guide really informative: https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-write-an-image-description-2f30d3bf5546

Of course, I'd also love to hear any additional tips y'all might have!

#Accessibility

For all those on #twittermigration - it's the right choice for democracy. The decentralized network of the #fediverse means #mastodon can not be controlled by any corporation. Also, if, for example, some rather "nasty" #instances formed - the most populated instances can disconnect from them. This means that the fediverse is more democratic.

Do you know what's in your software? The FSF is fighting every day for your right to control your computer. Start the conversation in your community and encourage your friends to join the FSF! https://www.fsf.org

I think we need to, culturally, seperate "professionalism" from "sanitized".

I work with a bunch of brilliant, competent, incredible people. And they are funny, and weird, and authentic. All the time.

But there's still a prevailing vision that "professionalism" is being "on". Is a mask you wear to show yourself as "adult". You hide the weird, you put on the suit, you shake hands, your jokes are designed for chuckles.

That's not professionalism to me. Professionalism is treating folks with respect and getting shit done. It's being honest and human.

De-brand yourself, be all of yourself, be your brilliant and weird and capable and ambitious self.

There's A LOT of discussion about content moderation right now and very little of it touches on the fact that we've all lived on the big social sites for the last decade-plus thanks to the massively exploitated labor of mostly-invisible moderation workers. The social web at scale wouldn't have happened without these laborers, who in addition to shit wages, have been exposed to literally every imaginable horror.

If we're remaking this world, let's do better on that front.

One of the most important strategic policy decisions any city hall makes is passing a municipal budget. Hundreds of policy decisions are embedded in a #budget. What’s overfunded, what’s underfunded, what’s not funded at all.
You can find more truth in a city’s budget that in any vision statement or council-approved goal statement. Too many cities have budgets and visions that are completely inconsistent, or at best, not consistent enough.
#cityhall #cities #urbanism #citymakingmath

This probably describes me better than any intro

The choices facing the world at #COP27.

The planet has already warmed by around 1.2°C.

Current policies set us on track for around 3°C of warming.

Only making radically different choices will give the world a chance of not exceeding the 1.5 or 2°C limits of the Paris Agreement

#datenschutz #sicherheit #privatsphäre #microsoft
Kennt jemand eine einfache, kurze, anschaulicher Erklärung/Video um seinen Mitmenschen klarzumachen, wieso es aus Datenschutzgründen wichtig ist keine MS-Software (Teams, Office365) in Schulen zu verwenden? Meine Argumete verhallen, ich werde als Idiot oder Störenfried abgestempelt und bekomme reglm. zu hören: "Was soll an MS so schlimm sein? Welches Interesse sollte MS schon an Schülerdaten haben?
Vielleicht erkläre ich auch zu schlecht.

Remember how #twitter doesn't show your replies in your tweet feed?

In #mastodon , you can differentiate between "Public" and "Unlisted". You can reply with the setting "Unlisted" if you don't want your replies to clutter your profile. E.g. courtesies like "you're welcome", or if the reply is only relevant in context of the thread.

To do that on the web client, click on the globe icon below the compose box, and choose "Unlist".

You can also change the default to "Unlist" or "Followers-only". To reach that setting: scroll down the right side bar, Preferences > Other > Posting defaults > Posting privacy.

#TwitterMigration #tips

Submitting a conference paper and there's 7 advisors and 5 student co-authors. The ratio feels crazy lol

#academia #coauthor