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@DrEvanGowan Agreed. Though knew exactly what they were doing… and intended/promoted that outcome. I say this also as someone who has published there and in — two journals that have lost credibility in my opinion, unfortunately, and I regret sending my science there (never have as a PI though). To be clear, that doesn’t mean that there isn’t good science being published there currently…

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This article starts off with “One clear benefit of the increasing number of Nature-titled journals is that there is a destination for many more excellent papers than used to be possible, with the ability to transfer a manuscript to another title if the author’s first choice doesn’t work out.” — at what price have you we bought into this “clear benefit” 🫠

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Around ~10-12 years ago, Nature tried to “disrupt” the publication market & flooded it with journals without providing resources to ensure long-term success nor thinking about the impact it would have… this has led to sustained mediocrity, dwindling integrity, & disingenuous “high impact” publications that they profit off of — another Great disservice to the already awful publication landscape that scientists face today. nature.com/articles/s41561-023

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Coming to Mastodon from Twitter feels like busting in the door loudly brandishing a half drunk bottle of tequila and finding everyone sitting in horrified silence holding cups of tea and academic papers

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New species of (Globigerinoides rublobatus) erected from sediments in the tropical Ocean — from the Journal of by Latas & colleagues: jm.copernicus.org/articles/42/

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Tucson Sentinel

17 years after being dropped from endangered list, tiny pygmy owl gains new protections tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Once at the center of fights over land use around Pima County, the rare, diminutive and publicly prominent cactus ferruginous pygmy owl will again be protected under federal law.
#Tucson #Arizona

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Dr Micha Campbell

This is a lovely article about Australian Ghost Bats - except it repeatedly implies that insect-eating bats aren't carnivorous? Ummm

#bats #GhostBat #CosmosMagazine

cosmosmagazine.com/australia/g

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Thanks to wintertime rains (and a little in Spring), seems like 2023 is a median year so far for in , in spite of the scorching (and dry!) June.

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Very grateful for touching down yesterday evening in , !

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Julian Oliver

The widely told hero story that Britain innovated the technique to make wrought iron from scrap, propelling it in the Industrial Revolution as a powerhouse, turns out to be false.

Named after the British entrepreneur that capitalised upon it, the 'Cort Process' to make wrought iron was in fact stolen from 76 black metallurgists near Iron Bay, Jamaica. Cort patented it in the 1780's, claimed to be inventor, & forcibly shut down the Jamaican foundry.

New research:
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

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Daniel Bellingradt :mastodon:

Just a printed image of thousands of flies, ants, spiders and butterflies fighting in a battle with tiny weapons. You see part of an allegory of the struggles of a Protestant spider and a Catholic fly in sixteenth-century England.

The author, John Heywood, published the book in 1556: 456 pages, 98 chapters.

The story: A fly named Buz gets caught in a spider web, and starts arguing with a spider about Catholics and Protestants. In the end this leads to a battle.

#bookhistory #histodons

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Alison Fisk

An ancient amber bear. Carved about 10,000 years ago, this magical find washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark. 📷 my own

Read more: en.natmus.dk/historical-knowle

#Archaeology

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Zack Labe

The extent of global sea ice is more than 1 million square kilometers below the previous record for the current date. This year is particularly a result of the anomalous Antarctic.

Larger seasonal cycle graphics updated at zacklabe.com/global-sea-ice-ex (satellite era from 1979-2023). Data from nsidc.org/data/seaice_index.

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Howard Lee

"This indicates unvarying latitudes, an observation distinct from plate tectonics" - evidence for stagnant lid in Early Earth before the onset of plate tectonics: nature.com/articles/s41586-023

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Woah - look at those westerlies being churned out, crossing the subcontinent!

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Cool new out by Chris Lowery and colleagues where they use to understand deposits associated with the in the : eartharxiv.org/repository/view

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Carl T. Bergstrom

Not surprising that today's New York Times article about the singularity launders bullshit for big tech with just enough skepticism for plausible deniability

More impressive: the article quotes 15 different people.

Sundar Pichai
Reid Hoffman
Bill Gates
Elon Musk
Sam Altman
Baldur Bjarnason
John von Neumann
Irving John Good
Hans Moravec
Ray Kurzweil
Rodney Brooks
Jerry Kaplan
Ryan Schaeffer
Eric Schmidt
Charlies Stross

Yes, every single one of them is a man.

nytimes.com/2023/06/11/technol

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Jolene Smith

I'm missing my old network on the birdsite for this kind of query. Any #archaeology and/or #digitalarchives folks out there with recommendations on curating Ground Penetrating Radar datasets (DZT, DZX)? Challenges: they are v big & proprietary, we don't even have the software to read them in native format. I'm not even sure whether we should accept or recommend curation elsewhere.

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Martin Rundkvist

@kau Who will record this cover version?! 😄

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Fer Castano

Lost world of complex life and the late rise of the eukaryotic crown

nature.com/articles/s41586-023

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