> [C]ommunity boundary #blocklists [have] incited conflict on the #Fediverse, with many users left cut off from their communities …. Using … #GroundedTheory, we interviewed 9 Fediverse users, including a mix of community boundary blocklist curators, server staff, and regular users, to determine key tensions between community moderation and mutual aid practices

2 May 2025, #openaccess: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3710919
Erika Melder, Ada Lerner, Michael Ann DeVito

Dear #fediscience crowd: do you know any journal in the field of biodiversity conservation science that does not charge the authors / institutions for publication? (Diamond open access or green open access)?

Any ideas welcome!

Hello, here's my fediverse re- #introduction since I moved to #fediscience

I'm a computational biologist/bioinformatician, professor at UCLouvain in Brussels. I work with various types of omics data, with a special interest in #MassSpectrometry and #proteomics. I (co-)develop and maintain several #rstats and #Bioconductor packages. In addition to R, I use #emacs and #orgmode quite a bit.

Thanks for reading!

I Like Electric Cars. 700-Mile Range EVs and Wireless Charging Would Make Me Love Them.

[S]olid-state batteries have can get 600 to 700 miles per single charge, instead of the current 250 to 400 or so. That is farther than most traditional cars can go on a single tank of gasoline.

@WSJ @amyjaffeenergy

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/cars/ev-technology-innovation-4e25c1d5?st=586FCs&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Question for people who study #neutrinos :

Do you have a preferred funny nickname for neutrinos? If not, here are some ideas:

- Neuts (newts)
- Rinos (ree-noes)
- Trinos (tree-noes)
- Nuterinos (like Ned Flanders would say)
- Neu-nues (new news)
- Neu-nos (new noes)
- Tri-tris (tree trees)

I would make a poll, but their are too many choices.

Join us on Zoom for a
Research Symposium on Theorising Care: Political Economy, Vulnerability, Rights, and Responsibilities

Wednesday 2nd April 2025, from 2:00pm until 5:00pm. (Dublin Time)

At University of Galway and on Zoom:
https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/92920434911

Talks by Professors Diane Elson, Kathleen Lynch and Martha Fineman & time for discussion
All are welcome, just turn up!
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@academicchatter
#fediScience #care #PoliticalEconomy #Politics #politicalTheory #SocialTheory

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Tues Mar 25, 6:30pm (London UTC)
Ivan Tacey on
'Serpentine Cosmopolitics: Cross-cultural analysis of the Rainbow Serpent'

From Amazonia to Australia, rainbow snakes coil at the heart of the cosmologies of Indigenous peoples, embodying forces of creation, destruction, and renewal. Known variously as nagas, dragons, or rainbow serpents, these chthonic entities are intimately entangled with water, blood, women, and untamed power. Among Batek hunter-gatherers of Malaysia, as well as other Southeast Asian Indigenous communities, the violation of taboos—especially those linked to blood—is believed to incite the wrath of these beings who are said to unleash catastrophic floods capable of annihilating entire settlements.

Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Malaysia, Ivan Tacey examines the roles of rainbow serpents in Batek creation myths, rituals, and cosmological landscapes, comparing these traditions with similar narratives and practices from Amazonia and Australia. Offering a cosmopolitical analysis, Ivan critiques the limitations of New Animist approaches, proposing instead that the global prevalence of rainbow snakes in Indigenous cosmologies reflects a 'time-resistant syntax of myth and ritual,' as theorized in Knight, Power, and Watts’ model of human origins.

Lecturer at the University of Plymouth, Ivan will be speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor of UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW. Come in good time by 6:30pm before doors close please. You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

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Tues Mar 18, 6:30pm (London UTC)
Kit Opie on
'Primate mating systems and the evolution of language'

Cheap signals, such as language, can only emerge from an alliance where trust has already been built. The coalition that enabled the evolution of language in modern humans was built to deal with the problem of some males trying to get the benefits of mating without the costs of provisioning.

In this talk Kit Opie draws on research on mating systems across primates to investigate the details of the problem that early modern human females faced and suggest that a coalition was their only way to solve it. The coalition that females built had a ratchet effect of supporting the males who cooperated, while undermining the males who cheated.

Kit Opie is Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Bristol.His research interests are in the evolution of social systems in humans and other primates.

Kit will be speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor of UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW. Come in good time by 6:30pm before doors close please. You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

Hi #fediscience!

Last month for the doctoral thesis here.

What advice do you have for the final phase of a #phd?

Für euch getestet:

selbst wenn man mit einem Tretroller auf einem Flughafen-Rollfeld so schnell wie möglich über die Startbahn fährt, hebt man nicht ab. D:

Weitere Untersuchungen sind erforderlich.

A leading #French #university , #Université #Aix #Marseille ,is inviting #scientists in the #USA who fear their #research might be censored by #Trump ’s administration to do their #work in #France. The program is called ‘safe place for science,’ and will provide 15 million #Euros in funding for some 15 researchers over a 3-year period. It targets, but is not limited to, #climate and #environment, #health, and #human and #socialsciences.

#Fediscience

https://www.404media.co/french-university-to-fund-american-scientists-who-fear-trump-censorship/

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Tues Mar 11, 6:30pm (London UTC)
Chris Knight on
'On women and jaguars: why perspectivism got it so wrong'

Across Amazonia, myths hold that in early times it was the jaguars, parrots, tapirs and other animals who first invented bows and arrows, cooking fire, ceremonial buildings, religious ceremonies and other complex cultural accomplishments. Then humans stole these things from the animals, elevating themselves above all other creatures – but at the cost of losing their former ability to engage in easy conversation with the animal world. This mythic view of our origins is the reverse of the Darwinian narrative which our own culture holds up as science.

In this talk, #ChrisKnight will introduce a recent trend in social anthropology – known as ‘perspectivism’ – and discuss whether such radically different ways of perceiving our origins and place in nature can be made to converge.

Chris will be speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor of UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW. Come in good time by 6:30pm before doors close please. You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

#neuhier
Wir sind die Forschungsgruppe Human Computer Interaction also Mensch Computer Interaktion! An der TU Wien, als Teil des Instituts für Informatik, forschen wir daran wie Technologien unser Leben und unsere Umwelt besser, gerechter und nachhaltiger machen können. Ausserdem gestalten wir einen wichtigen Teil der Lehre, der unsere Verantwortung als Techniker*innen reflektiert. In unserem Physical Design Lab basteln und bauen wir mit Studierenden an der Zukunft.

Unsere Forschung ist großteils in englischer Sprache, wir versuchen hier aber im Sinne der Wissenschaftskommunikation hauptsächlich deutschsprachigen zu posten.

Also, hallo, wir freuen uns auf spannende Gespräche

Die Agentur @kingconsult hat einen wunderbaren Vergleich der Kurznachrichtendienste erstellt (Idee: @frebelt). Sehr hilfreich für #FediScience und Behörden:

Über Mastodon:

Worauf ist der Dienst optimiert? unabhängige, selbstbestimmte öffentliche Kommunikation

Vertrauenswürdigkeit der Betreibenden?
je nach Instanz bis sehr hoch

Abhängigkeit von Dritten?
niedrig

Vereinbarkeit mit demokratischen Werten? sehr hoch

Komplette Übersicht: https://social-media-matrix.king-consult.de/

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THIS EVENING!!
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RAG International Women’s Week special lecture
Tues March 4, 6:30pm (London UTC)
Christine Binnie
'Neonaturist body painting: A red RAG to patriarchy'

Christine will talk about the evolution of her art practice including #bodypainting, #performance #art, #anthropology, experimental #archaeology, #menstrual blood, red #ochre, #protest and pottery.
In 1986 Christine discovered the Radical Anthropology Group. Although she didn’t know it, she was was already part of a female cosmetic coalition, The Neo Naturists, body painted performance artists. This is the illustrated story of her journey, via different disciplines, including the classes, and how they influenced her art and life.

Christine will be LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor of UCL Anthropology Dept. Come in good time by 6:30pm before doors close please. You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

Tomorrow? Trip to Dresden. Towards a course, I give about reproducible computing with #Snakemake on #HPC clusters.

I will take a few #FediScience flyers with me. Just in case someone is interested in #OpenScience communication, here on #Mastodon.

Sammlung #Schweiz|er Hochschulen und Forschender, die im Fedi vertreten sind.

Die Accounts findet ihr in den Antworten auf diesen Beitrag. In der ersten solche, die seit Anfang 2025 mindestens einmal was veröffentlicht haben. In der zweiten solche, die derzeit inaktiv sind.

Ergänzungen sind sehr willkommen. Bitte direkt als Antwort an diesen ersten Beitrag, sonst werden alle zugespammt.

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Tues Feb 25, 6:30pm (London UTC)
Erica Lagalisse
'On Anarchist Anthropology' in conversation with our own activist and radical anthropologist Chris Knight.

Erica is author of 'Occult Features of Anarchism' (PM Press, 2019). And many many popular anthropology zines!

Erica will be LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor of UCL Anthropology Dept. Come in good time by 6:30pm before doors close please. You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak