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I wonder if the research done by community should be available to be parsed by an AI.
Maybe it would be better just open for humans.
What will change for academic institutions as the climate crisis is increasingly not some far-off future, but happening now? And are we preparing our students for these uncomfortable conversations?
Well, generally the best cooling shelters for cattle (and sheep, and just about any living being for that matter) are trees ;) This is why agroforestry is one of the fields that I think we should be investigating- or one of the reasons, there are a lot of good reasons to stimulate agroforestry in terms of sustainability. It is gaining attention in the EU (though still very niche by comparison to intensive livestock farming).
I wrote an article for Unsustainable Magazine that is based around my dissertation research findings about what it means to wish for systems overhaul. The consequences of that desire are what I consider now in this article. It gets a bit personal; I am embedded within my own specific context and my observations come out of that situation.
@arielkroon Great article! One of the biggest secular apocalyptic movements of modern times is the transhumanists/TESCREALS and yes, I've seen much glee at punishment and unironic advocacy of genocide in those communities. Apocalypse for thee, utopia for me! Eco-doomerists and some degrowthers (not all) have shades of apocalyptic desire as well.
All of which just means we need more solarpunk stories for people to reorient their desires towards things worth fighting for.
students at College Unbound are AMAZING! Check out this #PressRelease about how they led the way in developing our #GenAI institutional policy! So cool to get to play a part in this!
So I just learnt that J Physiol requires figures to be made with Biorender (https://www.biorender.com/), a VC backed subscription SaaS extend and extinguish of scientists drawing pictures!
Is this a thing now!? Complete privatisation of the publication workflow!?
Am I the only one enraged by this!? Pictures? We could have just made our own shared repository of useful graphics. Our own open source software. Uggghhh!
Bizarre, yes, but as I said in the original thread, it seems well designed to trick researchers into thinking that it’s a standard that they may as well just use like MS Word.
A relatively tech illiterate lab leader will often just tell their students to use it in the same way they do everything else to please the journals. Because as far as they know illustration already works like documents and MS Word.
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I find all the bad PowerPoint illustrations in biology charming, but I personally take great pride in my illustrations in my work (probably wont be doing biology for the forseeable future) and it makes me sad when people dont, whether that be because they are pressed for time or bc they dont see communicating ideas visually as part of the task of science.
I have tried to introduce diagramming markup like mermaid or graphviz/dot ti my lab to limited success, they are just used to PowerPoint I guess. My cracked copy of illustrator 2019 is basically always open. Turning figure design into some drag and drop biorender task (in addition to the platform capture element as u say) is sad to me bc it feels like the final flattening of illustration as a proud tradition in biology.
Research-based tips for professors and administrators:
> Set norms and expectations about the conversation, not just rules
> Allow students to tell their stories, when they first heard about the issue and how it affected them
> Encourage curiosity by posing non-threatening questions
> Find out the root of the disagreement
> Find cooperative projects for students to act on
> Offer students a safe space after debates to talk and feel reassured https://theconversation.com/6-ways-to-foster-political-discourse-on-college-campuses-230365 @academicchatter
In a fieldnote shared by Teresa Cremer on S-AND.org you can meet Salim Ali Mohamed of the Malindi Beach Management Unit in Kenya. To him, sand indexes a healthy ocean. Poetically, Salim considers the ecological work of sand as cleansing respirations. What do receding shorelines, an unwanted effect of urban development, say about ownership, access, and practices of more-than-human care?
Read the full fieldnote here: https://s-and.org/blog/sand-the-ocean-breather
#Journals | Security and Safety "Secure and efficient Covert Communication for blockchain-integrated SAGINs"
Weijia Li, Yuan Zhang, Xinyu He and Yaqing Song
Migrations #conference starts today! See the attachment for a list of free public events - I'll be moderating the film keynote on Friday. Come on out and sit in the a/c - escape the heat dome AND learn ;)