E. C. Chang 🏳️🌈 @knottedthreads@qoto.org
Industrial #chemist specializing in #dyes, #pigments, #polymers, and process development. I'm in the #epaper biz; if you have an #ereader device, chances are I've worked on the technology in the screen. Personal account; all views my own.
Outside of work, my hobbies include: #lacemaking, #crochet, #writing (#fiction), #reading (everything), #herbalism, #music (I'm a classical #percussionist), learning #languages, being a doting auntie, and learning to code.
Joined Nov 2022
@nwsboston My house faces Southeast, so a cloudy morning means less of a super bright punch in the face at 7 am. On the other hand, my plants probably appreciate the light. 🤷
@blackops @conradhackett A person in Alaska has 44 TIMES the representation in the electoral college as a person in California.
@msignorile @conradhackett Can, but probably shouldn't. It takes a lot of land equivalents to support a modern human. Shooting for the replacement rate with healthy immigration would likely be our best position.
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Half of all Americans live in the red counties, half live in the orange counties
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For #Caturday: a poignant photo by Paul Koudounaris of a beloved pet's tombstone. Despite popular belief, the cat's name was not Dewey. This was the surname of the cat's family. "'He was only a cat,' but he was human enough to be a great comfort in hours of loneliness and pain."
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The FBI is investigating at least five #attacks on electricity substations in the Pacific northwest similar to one that caused widespread power outages in North Carolina.
Representatives from #PugetSound Energy, the Cowlitz County Public Utility District and Bonneville Power Admin confirmed the attacks took place in November, although FBI declined to confirm the investigations and it's not clear whether any of the damage resulted in service disruptions
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@SamuelBepis @freemo @Darkayne FWIW, I've been on QOTO a month now and haven't seen any race science or bigotry. The few moderation decisions I've seen have been thoughtful and nuanced.
@freemo isn't always the best at clearly communicating his intentions, but from everything I've seen so far, his heart appears to be in the right place.
As a member of the LGBTQ community, I never felt anything less than welcomed on QOTO. And, if I had to describe the tone of my Local feed here, it's mostly STEM-related material, but of the few political-or-politics-adjacent posts I see, the vast majority seem to be left-leaning.
I don't know where this dramatic characterization of QOTO being a hive of right-wing disinfo and bigotry comes from, but it really doesn't seem to have any basis in reality.
@Lefty @georgetakei It ran on Broadway 2015-2016, and in Los Angeles in 2018.
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Today is Pearl Harbor Day in the U.S., a “day that will live in infamy” for the unprovoked attack by the Empire of Japan upon U.S. forces stationed in Hawaii. But it also marked a dark turning point for Japanese Americans, who overnight became the “enemy.” (1/4)
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Yes, Goblin Mode is word of the year per the OED, but Goblin Mean and Goblin Median are also worth paying attention to.
@vicgrinberg @juandesant @tootapp I think it's meant to be the followers on your instance. When I switch accounts, the pictures shown change in both number and identity.
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At 60 degrees north we don't get very many hours of daylight at this time of year but the light we do get can be incredible #Shetland #Scotland #horse #Shetlandpony
@jburton123 Here on Mastodon? I wasn't aware we had promoted content. I certainly haven't seen anything like this in any of my feeds.
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We have very quickly returned to recent highs in SARS-CoV-2 activity in the Boston area, based on MWRA wastewater data.
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A new review on machine learning for predictive chemistry has recently been published in Chemical Science.
This comprehensive work from Connor Coley, Thijs Stuyver and Zhengkai Tu covers reaction discovery, development and deployment. It is a pretty good read (at least what I've managed so far on breaks!).
((Also I am just a lowly chemist with a background in DFT and QM/MM, ML is often a mystery to me!))
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'It’s this kind of libertarianism—the you-do-you ethos of American culture that sees the “public” in public health as anathema, clinging to a medical model of private risk and private cures—that dropped us down to the 40s in global life expectancy rankings before the pandemic, and will land us below the 60s by 2040. “Give me liberty and give me death” is the reigning mantra of America today.'
@gregggonsalves
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/public-health-covid-pandemic/
Industrial #chemist specializing in #dyes, #pigments, #polymers, and process development. I'm in the #epaper biz; if you have an #ereader device, chances are I've worked on the technology in the screen. Personal account; all views my own.
Outside of work, my hobbies include: #lacemaking, #crochet, #writing (#fiction), #reading (everything), #herbalism, #music (I'm a classical #percussionist), learning #languages, being a doting auntie, and learning to code.
Joined Nov 2022
