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Thanks to various starter packs (& huge thanks to the people who set them up) I now have more followers after a few months here than I managed in 10 years on the ‘other site’.🙂

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The Helix Nebula captured by NASA'S Hubble space telescope

The Helix Nebula captured by NASA'S Hubble space telescope

Thank you @chqm8.bsky.social for bringing me across the finish line!! Remember next Tuesday is giving Tuesday

A family of fuzzy white splitgill mushrooms grow on the underside of an upturned stick above a forest floor covered in dried leaves

Here are some nice mushrooms

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I'm another X refugee - looking forward to posting here about coral reefs, nature, conservation and climate change - without Elon's bots, trolls and lunatics.

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I’ve decided to leave Scientific American after an exciting 4.5 years as editor in chief. I’m going to take some time to think about what comes next (and go birdwatching), but for now I’d like to share a very small sample of the work I’ve been so proud to support (thread)

When Big Things happen on such a large scale, it’s easy to forget sometimes that these Big Things are also happening to the little things in the world.

Sometimes you're reading a book and they remind you of profound things they've shared. Shout-out to Matt Dinniman; this was a timely callback.

people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙

Blacksky is open source. I’ve literally given the code away. You could take it and run your own version today.
I’ve heard of at least one person that took the code and made it work for their purposes.

People even use the logo I made.

You could say its not Black owned because it’s not even owned.

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Thank you for creating this list! It's an impressive and vital list.

In the Malheur National Forest in Michigan there is a single fungus that stretches nearly four square miles underground with a combined weight of around 35000 tons and an estimated lifespan of around 8500 years. It's the oldest of five humongous funguses within the forest, each genetically distinct.

Scientists discover world’s largest coral—so big it can be seen from space Exclusive photos reveal a sprawling, 300-year-old coral near Solomon Islands, recently discovered by the National Geographic Society’s Pristine Seas expedition team.

Move over, blue whale. This 300+ year old 34m coral is now the largest animal* known. Hopefully its depth, as described, can keep it going 🦑🧪

*colony of animals

Everyone remembers GamerGate, too few people remember “#YourSlipIsShowing,” the campaign led by Black women to call out pre-alt-right trolls masquerading as marginalized people and stirring up hoax campaigns to make SJWs look bad, which led directly into GG. slate.com/technology/2...

A review and provocation: On polarization and platforms Daniel Kreiss https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2533-195X dkreiss@email.unc.edu and Shannon C McGregor https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3275-0397View all authors and affiliations Volume 26, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231161880 Abstract Platforms: places for polarization or power struggles? Polarization and struggles for equality and justice Platforms and polarization in new normative and conceptual focus Conclusion Funding ORCID iDs References Biographies PDF / ePub More Abstract Scholars increasingly point to polarization as a central threat to democracy—and identify technology platforms as key contributors to polarization. In contrast, we argue that polarization can only be seen as a central threat to democracy if inequality is ignored. The central theoretical claim of this piece is that political identities map more or less onto social groups, and groups are, in turn, located in social structures. As such, scholars must analyze groups as they are embedded in relations of power to meaningfully evaluate the democratic consequences of polarization. Groups struggling for equality, such as the Black Lives Matter movement, often cause polarization because they threaten the extant power and status of dominant groups. To develop a shared theoretical lens around polarization and its relationship with inequality, we take up the case of research on the role of platforms in polarization, showing how scholarship routinely lacks analysis of inequality.

I'm also going to share this paper by Daniel Kriess and Shannon McGregor: "In contrast, we argue that polarization can only be seen as a central threat to democracy if inequality is ignored." I think "helping people get their material needs met" is important...

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"Digital blackface does not describe intent, but an act — the act of inhabiting a black persona. Employing digital technology to co-opt a perceived cache or black cool, too, involves playacting blackness in a minstrel-like tradition."

I graduate with my degree in Audio Engineering in 4 weeks 🥰🥰🥰 #blacksky

from a brief stop in ithaca last month

Hi Everyone!