This Lego Star Trek Voyager intro is brilliant. The creativity is a joy to see. 🖖🏻 https://youtu.be/4Z42bpVkyEM

#StarTrek #StarTrekVoyager #Lego #StarTrekLego

Notice how every time there's a labor strike, you see countless articles with headlines like "UPS Strike Could Cost U.S. Economy Billions—Here’s How It Would Impact Consumers" and not by the accurate headline of "UPS's Executive's Greed Could Cost US Economy Billions".

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2023/07/17/ups-strike-could-cost-us-economy-billions-heres-how-it-would-impact-consumers/?sh=491459c63af6

What annoys me most about the phrase "This is the New Normal" is that it implies that we just have to accept it and there's nothing we can do about it.

Being sick all the time is Not Normal.

The oceans boiling and the forests burning down while the cities either flood or wither in droughts is Not Normal either.

A few assholes holding the vast majority of the wealth while the rest of us struggle to get by is definitely Not Normal.

And we should not accept any of it as Normal.
It is not.

#OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing #HigherEd #Science: "In Latin America, scientific outputs are considered a public good. Free-to-publish and free-to-read cooperative publishing is supported by non-commercial and publicly funded infrastructure. Ninety-five per cent of Latin American journals are diamond open access: community-driven and collaborative platforms with no article processing charges. Their example shows us that research is a more global and diverse enterprise than is typically acknowledged. By including diverse voices, they contribute substantially to the academic landscape and the accessibility and dissemination of research3. Unfortunately, these journals tend to be excluded by indexing systems, which causes science published outside of the Global North to not receive the attention that it deserves.

Academic institutions globally should support open access through not-for-profit, sustainable, collaborative, scholarly led publishing4. Social impact should be the driving force behind science, and research should be open and aligned with the UN’s sustainable development agenda5.

In addition, the research assessment system must evolve to recognize the intrinsic value of research rather than the prestige of the journal in which it is published6. Some initiatives, such as Plan S, are encouraging a shift in publishing practices. However, Plan S falls short in addressing the core issues of traditional scholarly publishing7 — namely, the unequal distribution of articles among a small number of commercial publishers with exorbitant profit margins8. The continued move towards article-processing-charge models could result in a worldwide pay-to-publish system, and make it challenging for researchers from developing nations to disseminate their research9.

Finally, communication practices for scientific disciplines may differ but we should all make a firm commitment to multilingualism in scholarly communications."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01637-2

I have never found a wine I actually like. I wonder if it's something physically wrong with my taste buds. All wine tastes like toxic chemicals to me. It never tastes like grape to me. Do people just pretend to like it because they just want to get drunk? I don't get it.

Does anybody else experience it like this? Or is there something diagnosably wrong here?

Humans usually regulate their internal body temperature by sweating, but above the wet-bulb temperature, we can no longer cool down this way, leading our body temperature to rise steadily. This essentially marks a limit to human adaptability to extreme heat – if we cannot escape the conditions, our body’s core can rise beyond the survivable range and organs can start failing. #ClimateCrisis

Why you need to worry about the ‘wet-bulb temperature’ | #ClimateScience
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jul/31/why-you-need-to-worry-about-the-wet-bulb-temperature