Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

Did you know? Half of all U.S. states, 25 to be exact, carry Indigenous names. Today we will be taking a look at the 25 states and the meanings of their names. They will be listed in alphabetical order under this post.
#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter @BlackMastodon
#BlackFediverse #BlackFedi
#BlackAcademics #BIPoc #diversity #DiversityEquityInclusion #dei #mastodon #racism #antiracist #asian #indigenous #IndigenousMastodon #mena #history #native #Hispanic #NativeMastodon

Thanks to all who came to our Meet the Editors session at #SICB2023 yesterday. It’s been great to chat to so many of you. We’ll be here until Friday for any further questions.
#JEB100

I love the Repair Shop on #bbc #TV, giving life to something that 99.99% of people would dismiss as "rubbish". If you've never seen it, it's available on the BBC iPlayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/b08l581p

We have a desk ready for you: 🇪🇺 applications for a 5-month paid EU traineeship are now open!

What do you need to apply?
🎓 a university degree of at least 3 years of study.
💬 a C level of English, French or German.
🗣️ good knowledge of a second EU official language.
🙅 no prior work experience in excess of 6 weeks in any EU institution.

Deadline: 31 January.

Apply here: https://traineeships.ec.europa.eu

#EUTraineeship #EUCareers #JobOpportunity #JobAlert #JobSearch

"Free" is a good price: Get 'Cybersecurity -- Attack and Defense Strategies, Third Edition' FREE for a limited time https://betanews.com/2023/01/05/get-cybersecurity-attack-and-defense-strategies-free/

New Linux users shouldn't fret about this. I've been using Linux since 2002 and I've had to do this exactly never. This is mainly for people who for one reason or another are running Linux without a graphical interface: 2 Methods to Connect WiFi Using Terminal in Arch Linux and Other Distros https://www.debugpoint.com/connect-wifi-terminal-linux/

The dwarf planet Eris was discovered by astronomers Mike Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David Rabinowitz #OTD in 2005. It appeared in data that had been collected much earlier, on October 21st, 2003.

There it is, the tiny moving dot on the left of the gif.

More: https://web.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/planetlila/
Image: @Mikebrown

Don't miss today's Metacurity for the latest infosec developments you need to know. Lead items via @satariano @tassilo_hummel @breeallegretti @ax @pixiekate13 @ahaywa @billtoulas @EduardKovacs
mattburgess@infosec.exchange @wirelesswench @aj_vicens
https://metacurity.substack.com/p/european-regulators-strike-blows

#Squirrel of the Day for January 5, 2023 and his leaf #Squirrels #NaturePhotography

📢Publish Your Work in ACM Games: Research and Practice (GAMES)! The new journal is now open for #submissions. Learn more here👉: https://bit.ly/3ijIFEl

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Please boost for wider, more federated sample!

(PS: sorry for imperfect partitioning of the world in only 4 zones...)

Intriguing stuff on quite fundamental #chemistry: Phosphates form spectroscopically dark state assemblies in common aqueous solutions PR: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/975547 paper in PNAS is on open access: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2206765120

Messier 45: The Daughters of Atlas and Pleione https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230105.html #APOD

Auschwitz II-Birkenau. The main guard tower - The Gate of Death. The rails were built in spring of 1944 as part of the preparation to deportation of Hungarian Jews and construction of selection platform inside the camp.

(📷 http://instagram.com/jyrkisaikko)

#Birkenau #Auschwitz #BlackAndWhite #photography #gate #history #site #historical #rails #architecture #evil #Remember #memorial #museum #NeverForget

Ever wondered what #taphonomic and #diagenetic interactions occurred post-burial in the #Cretaceous red beds of China?

With colleagues we have just published this: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2022.105533

The paper deals with a lot of chemistry, but my interest is two fold: 1) in our explanation of why small refractory #fossil plant material was not utilized by the microbial community during its initial burial; 2) in bring together complimentary techniques.

Free access (50 day): https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1gMyC4t1lM9zEl

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Those who declined to accept an honour (e.g an OBE, MBE, Damehood, Knighthood):

Michael Rosen (poet)
Danny Boyle (director)
Michael Faraday (scientist)
J.B Priestly (playwright)
Amartya Sen (economist)
Stephen Hawking (physicist)
Ken Loach (director)
C.S Lewis (writer)
Virginia Woolf (writer)
Alan Rickman (actor)
Jon Snow (journalist)
L.S Lowry (artist)
Dorothy Hodgkin (scientist)
Howard Gayle (footballer)
Benjamin Zephaniah (poet)
David Bowie (musician)

The more I learn about AI tools for writing, generating images, etc… The more I think they should all be put on pause while regulation is put in place to decide who owns what and how you can decide to not have your stuff used to train an algorithm, or what you’re entitled to if it is indeed used.

Datasets used should be fully open and accessible and it should be possible to say you don’t want your creations to be included, and have them « unlearned » as well, if that’s even technically feasible