Monica Gonzalez-Marquez

@aeryn_thrace
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Metascience, Pedagogy to make sense of scientific documentation, #ScienceReading, Exhaustive and apt documentation to create a true #OpenScience. Imagining the future of the Scientific Record. 
She/Ella. DMs about my work are welcome. If I don't know you, anything else will get you blocked.
Solar panels are as close to being “sustainable” as is reasonably practicable: the frames are made from aluminium (which is made with electricity), the rest is glass, silicon and copper, all of which are potentially produceable without fossil fuels.

Who would ever have thought that waving a flag of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the capital of Europe would come to be seen as an act of resistance against the fascism of the United States of America?

#US #fascism #NATO #Europe #Brussels

@realtegan the Black Panthers provided free school meals. That was effective. And that was why the government criminalized them. @mekkaokereke

@mekkaokereke

Some of NYC's poorest people WORK in the wealthiest neighborhoods. And although there is income segregation in NYC it's never absolute. There are poor people in every single neighborhood.

But also the best way to ensure a public service is high quality is to make it so everyone uses it. Things just "for the poor" tend to slowly become terrible.

For my German-reading folks: I wrote a bit about the intentional destruction of the Argentine industry by the government for @amerika21:

Der geplante Untergang der argentinischen Industrie

https://amerika21.de/2026/04/284354/untergang-industrie-argentinien

Der geplante Untergang der argentinischen Industrie

Seit Mileis Amtsantritt 2023. Fertigung fällt um 7,9 Prozent laut UN. Sektorenübergreifend schlossen 22.000 Unternehmen. Bevölkerung zu arm zur Teilhabe an Wirtschaft

amerika21

Reminder for those who may not be aware that those "fancy/custom text" things using special unicode characters that bypass ASCII fonts to make your name look cool or fancy or whatever ruin accessibility, like hard.

They break screen readers hard, since most, if not all, don't know how to handle them properly and end up pronouncing something like "Special character S" or whatever. They're also significantly harder to read than a user's chosen font, or the default fonts on any reasonable operating system or website, especially for neurodivergent and in particular dyslexic people.

Please stop using them, and maybe nudge your friends to stop using them.

Boosts appreciated for awareness

#Accessibility #FancyFonts #Neurodivergent #Boostswelcome

#Scientists, has your #science #research been cut off under the current #Trump administration? The New York Times wants to hear your story for its series called “Lost Science.” Here’s a gift link to the series, where you’ll see links to each article in the series: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/climate/trump-climate-science-funding.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YFA.k2tZ.M8cKlGytq_JO&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.

For a new series, Times journalists are speaking with scientists whose research has ended as a result of policy changes by the Trump administration.

The New York Times
Trump regime wants $1.5 trillion per year for its department of war. That's $1,500 billion, i.e. $11,000 per household.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crr1q4kjvn2o
Trump seeks massive $1.5tn for defence alongside cuts in domestic spending

The US president's new budget would cut non-defence spending by 10%, partly by slashing domestic programmes.