Gustavo Ogasawara @gojonnes@qoto.org

Please boost as I'm still looking to find my community here.

#Introduction I'm a disabled non-traditional Masters student with BA in Art, but doing the Masters in plant science. I tend to do qualitative (old school natural sciences & pomology) and interdisciplinary work. Because it's unavoidable as a disabled student - I'm also a disability rights activist and public speaker on disability issues in addition to carob, street trees, and horticulture. @academicchatter #DisabledAndSTEM

¿Cuál es la especie de árbol más antigua del mundo?
https://www.muyinteresante.es/naturaleza/61038.html

algum/a anjo/a já fez o estilo ABNT 2023 no formato .CSL ?

Goodbye to my dear longtime friend, Paul Reubens. I am crushed. The world has lost one of the funniest human beings who ever lived. Paul, I hope wherever you are, you have reunited with John and Phil and are laughing your asses off - together again. I love you so much Paul. I will miss you and all the wonderful times we spent together more than you’ll ever know. 💔RIP

This may be my all time favorite meme. Bury me in it.

I CAN'T be the first person to have thought of this …?

This is the real question: When so much at work has changed, why can't we shake presenteeism?

“The pandemic changed nearly everything about work. Why are we still stuck with performative long hours?”

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20230718-post-pandemic-presenteeism-overwork-culture

"I was trying to get across the idea that the art is in the people who come to see it. That you’re important, not the objects. I’m not saying ‘Come and look at these beautiful things on pedestals.’ I’m saying 'whatever is important is in your head. It’s your reactions that count.'" -- Yoko Ono

TIL: Chuck norris’s first name is actually carlos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15bt2ow/til_chuck_norriss_first_name_is_actually_carlos/

"The era of global warming has ended. The era of global boiling has arrived.

The air is unbreathable, the heat is unbearable, and the level of fossil fuel profits and climate inaction is unacceptable.

Humanity has unleashed destruction. This must not inspire despair, but action."

— United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres

Late to the party but here I am now on mastodon! Follow me if you are interested in uk academia, higher education, developing educational analog games, dignity at work, critical management studies, business ethics, or just general nerdery about sci-fi, fashion or fantasy.
#games #ethics #academia #introduction

For those who might not know, following a week after the Russia-Ukraine wheat embargo, there are even bigger and ominous signs hinting at global food insecurity and the catastrophic agricultural crises coming our way.

India last week banned export on all non-basmati rice varieties.

I repeat: EXPORT BAN ON ALL non-basmati RICE varieties.

[Aside, export of basmati variety will continue, the demand for which is relatively small in India when compared to the nearly 15 major varieties of rice (it's home to at least a 1000 varieties) consumed by very large populations everyday(these are the ones which are now banned). Basmati is a "festive" and only occasionally consumed variety in India. It is largely exported to the richer nations, many of whom think it is the only variety of rice from India.]

Why is India banning rice now?
Answer: global warming.

What’s happening in the India (and South Asia at large) should both terrify you and wake you up

Here’s more (facts? trivia? bothersome news? how the world actually works?).

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#GlobalWarming #PoliticalEconomy #ClimateChange #FoodSecurity #RiceBan #India #SouthAsia #SubContinent #Agriculture #Food #AgriculturalCrises #Inequality #EcologicalCrises

"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation."