szescstopni @szescstopni@qoto.org

I would like to ask for your help.

As part of my dissertation project, I'm aiming to collect a large research sample to help construct a validated measure on Teacher Attitudes towards Multilingual Learners.

If you are a teacher (primary, secondary, tertiary education), and you teach multilingual students, could I please ask for 10 minutes of your time?

The survey is available here:

https://uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6tZfFXjn5SD2PtA

Please boost—thank you so much!

@edutooters @academicchatter

"Baikal-Zen": Felsen, die auf das Eis des Baikalsees gefallen sind, werden durch das Sonnenlicht erhitzt und senden Infrarotstrahlen aus, die das Eis darunter schmelzen. Sobald die Sonne weg ist, wird das Eis wieder fest und bildet eine kleine Stütze für den Felsen darüber.
Mehr über das Naturphänomen: https://www.europeanscientist.com/de/wissenschaft/natur-phaenomen-forscher-lueften-das-geheimnis-der-zen-steine/

Please, no joking about the billionaires.

In the US moral panics tend to be linked to a sincere belief in Satan and/or demons. Some Christian practices lean into the existence of The Devil(tm) very heavily.

This is, frankly, terrifying. If you believe that there are evil beings working non-stop to corrupt your family you will look for those forces. Anything "different" or superficially gothic could be a threat.

Why don't they ever decide The Devil is payday lenders, insurance companies, war profiteers and IDK FDA deregulators? 3/3

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While we were figuring out the approach we could take to present their research, we realized there is a parallel between astrocytes and dementia caregivers, and between neurons and patients themselves.

Both astrocytes and caregivers (especially family members) are diligent, quiet, relentless workers that are not directly affected by the disease but eventually too succumb to it, losing their energy, identity, role, and relationships.

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Now, if you’re like me and you barely understand half of the words in the previous message but you’re still rooting for the scientists and genuinely want to understand more, we made a website that explains the subject in a more accessible manner.

This year I finished one of the most fascinating projects I ever worked on.

Together with a team of researchers from the molecular neurodegeneration department at Amsterdam UMC we came up with a visual and interactive way to present their latest paper on tau protein aggregation and its effect on astrocytes.

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#neuroscience #dementia #alzheimers #science #scicomm #design #UI #gamedev #ScienceMastodon #visualStorytelling #astrocytes

Jeżeli myślicie, że brak właściwych butów i 30–50 cm śniegu mnie powstrzymają od kolejnej wizycie w Bardzie…

#Bardo #wędrówki #góry #śnieg

Migawka ze spaceru sprzed pół godziny, wersja zimowa ulepszona, bo mocniej ośnieżona

#IdąPsięta #dogsofmastodon

If you use an Insulet Omnipod 5 to manage your insulin dose, there is a _terrible_ bug in the Android client where it drops the decimal point in a calculation, which can result in dose 100x what's intended.

https://vxtwitter.com/morganherlocker/status/1730455721815527429

Press release: https://www.omnipod.com/fsn-11-2023

Only 0.27kW coming out of my solar panels, for some reason.

(No, it isn't worth adding something to melt it off, or risking my neck on the roof. This is a very rare combination of sticky snow followed by sunshine, and it will melt off).

#SilentSunday

After 15 years of #photography with #sony A100 and A290, I finally decided to switch to a #mirrorless #A6000 . I've got its kit lens (16-50mm F3.5-5.6) and my old Sony 50mm F1.4 with an adapter - which means no autofocus.

Do you have any budget autofocus #lenses recommendations for this system?

I've heard good things about Sigma 30mm 1.4 as prime. Anything else I could be looking for, probably used?

In the meantime, I'm learning manual focus with the doggo below ;)

#cameras