SaraGoeking @saragoeking@qoto.org

Wildfires 🔥 continue to ravage #Chile 🇨🇱

More than 350,000 hectares have been burnt in less than 10 days

⬇️The burn scars are visible in this animation created using #Copernicus #Sentinel3 🇪🇺🛰️ imagery acquired between 2 (before the crisis) and 11 February (yesterday)

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CopernicusEU/status/1624732102095667200

Good advice for anyone dealing with the #rejection of a #manuscript.
https://journals.stfm.org/primer/2022/rodriguez-2022-0066/

"Five lessons to be learned from rejected manuscripts…: (1) rejections teach journal scope, (2) rejections teach process, (3) rejection should lead to resubmission, (4) rejections reflect writing effort, and (5) rejections happen to papers, not authors."

What an ecologist learned observing COP15 https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2023/01/16/what-an-ecologist-learned-observing-cop15/

Today marks #MLKDay, a day to stand up for our shared humanity put an end to prejudice and foster inclusivity

We join our 🇺🇸 friends and followers in the celebrations

#Copernicus #Sentinel2 🇪🇺🛰️image of Memphis on 5 January
#IHaveADream

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CopernicusEU/status/1614972742557925376

I am once again *begging* journalists (and scientists) to stop using “500 year flood” and equivalent phrasing.

It is an extremely dangerous mischaracterization of probability and the assumptions in making that are completely wrong in a changing world.

#FireScarFriday
This Far Side comic never gets old.

#wildfire #FarSide #Satire @wildfirescience

10 Image #CaptionTips from a transcriptionist:

1. Any words are better than nothing.
2. You don't need to say it's "a picture of…" screen readers will already say it's an image.
3. Start with the framing or format (i.e. close up, landscape, meme, text).
4. Think about the reason you're posting the pic and describe that first, add background details if you have time.
5. Pretend you're talking to someone on the phone and want to tell them about this cool thing you're looking at.
6. Transcribe any and all text in the image, even if it's the only thing you do.
7. If you've described the image in your post, you don't need to copy and paste it again in the caption. But again, don't leave it blank, just put something like "as described."
8. You can add small subjective notes, but don't give too much interpretation of the image in your own opinion.
9. Caption jokes are fun, as long as they still describe the image objectively.
10. Use punctuation, and capitalize words properly. A lot of us have interacted with this tech when calling customer service or talking to Siri, so keep in mind that you're writing for a computer to read, and it needs all the help it can get.

We have a new one out! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/MFHTXCJDDCXVM2MGJCTN?target=10.1111/gcb.16564

50 years ago, the harbor of New York City was a sewer, filled with human trash and pollutants

But congress passed the Clean Water Act and it helped enormously, so …

… today wildlife has staged a remarkable comeback, and the water quality is high. They’ve seen humpback whales in the Hudson River one mile from Times Square, and there’s a thousand breeding pairs of heron

Smart ecological legislation works

“Friend” link to NYT story: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/30/opinion/new-york-harbor-clean-water-act.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuonUktbfqYhlSlUYAybSRdkhrxqAwv7C3_ktgWX9aSicUzxF1aEeB4WJ_QLSbLZufZ461CjdRMNENPVnYs1O-dJlHh4nTRi08NzDkY4ZIi4xpMW5VD1s1JuUA_Vk-2awKzTlduo6zbfg7lfYaDG9WaKJ03N1cAl1sNAyIwHRrH8Mx6zBFOdz3cAvnqtyQ8AnGkpTIXWCrPLqCB5hON6ZbBi66gY-WOhRWzq7jsfLovtbM10UUQSaOSs5tWUs69pcOscVPLL8LXMjf8n-gLYQCA94PcyvKmMBXv9Vu1OojbRc8kM&referringSource=articleShare

I have had so many conversations about Pando and shockingly none of them were about making it the world's largest Christmas tree.

https://xkcd.com/2715/

#ImageOfTheDay #CountDownTo2023

Today we bring you a #Copernicus #Sentinel2 🇪🇺🛰️ image of the Ötztal Valley, in Austria 🇦🇹

It is an alpine valley 🏔️ famous for its ancient glaciers where the mummy of "Ötzi the Iceman" was discovered in 1991

#EUSpace

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/defis_eu/status/1605984807627870210

Bewicks wren preparing to strike.

I asked #chatgpt to write me an essay, with citations, about a scientific topic I know very well (bat crawling behaviour). It wrote a bad essay that didn’t really say much, but cited two papers with which I wasn’t familiar, in very good journals. I was freaked out! How did I not know those papers?
Turns out, chatgpt just made them up. The papers don’t exist. That’s a handy thing to know.