Mastodawn

Kirk Smith Nov 8, 2023

Energy Vault is the WeWork of energy storage

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/long-duration-energy-storage/why-energy-vault-went-from-disrupting-batteries-to-selling-them

#EnergyStorage
#Batteries

Why Energy Vault went from disrupting batteries to selling them

The buzzy startup raised a record $110M back in 2019 to transform grid storage with novel long-duration tech, but now it's embracing industry favorite lithium-ion.

Canary Media

Kirk Smith Nov 7, 2023

New bike trend just dropped, spotted in Toulouse

#fedibikes
#BikeTooter

Kirk Smith Oct 30, 2023

Pretty much

Kirk Smith Oct 27, 2023

anne Oct 27, 2023

Looking for digital version of 'How Parties Win: Shaping the Irish Political Arena' by Sean D. McGraw (2015). It seems like it's on Jstor but can't access it. @icanhazpdf Could you help me with this? Thanks in advance 🤓
#icanhazpdf

Kirk Smith Oct 26, 2023

A useful browser extension to automatically check if any scientific paper linked to in any webpage has been disputed, critiqued, or commented on by their peers: https://pubpeer.com/static/extensions

I installed it for my academic work but when I read general-audience articles outside my field on say, a new drug or cancer agent, I often get a notification that a paper in the article has comments on PubPeer, which can give a nice insight into how controversial the development is/isn't

@PubPeer

PubPeer - Search publications and join the conversation.

PubPeer enables scientists to search for their publications or their peers publications and provide feedback and/or start a conversation anonymously.

Kirk Smith Oct 24, 2023

Incredibly satisfying John Oliver episode on McKinsey. I didn't know of their involvement with the opioid crisis, how terrible. He didn't even mention the pending corruption charges in South Africa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiOUojVd6xQ

McKinsey: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses the oldest and largest management consulting firm: McKinsey & Company.Connect with Last Week Tonight online... Subscribe to the Last We...

YouTube

Kirk Smith Oct 18, 2023

Could someone please help me find a PDF of this article? Thanks in advance! https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c09426

@icanhazpdf
#icanhazpdf

Kirk Smith Oct 12, 2023

Tom Woodroof Oct 11, 2023

#introduction

Co-founder of Mutual Credit Services (https://mutualcredit.services/), based in DoES Liverpool. Former nuclear physicist. Focused on building bottom-up economic resilience to the omnicrisis.

#Climate #Networks #ComplexityScience #Debt #CommunityWealthBuilding
#CircularEconomy #Decentralisation #CreditCommons #CollaborativeFinance #Rewilding

Mutual Credit Services

Because our work is multifaceted, we've attempted to provide a few ways in:Money nerd? Start with 'Economic Tooling'. New economy activist? 'Social Tooling'.Social entrepreneur? 'Network Platforms'. Interested in systems change? 'Emergent Outcomes'. We hope you find a thread to follow. If

Kirk Smith Oct 8, 2023

Doing some lit review and found a relevant Nature paper in which authors explicitly claimed no conflicts of interest. Yet I found they had applied for and been granted a patent on the same technology two years prior. Is this a big deal and if so does it merit a comment on #PubPeer or something similar?

#AcademicMisconduct #academia

Kirk Smith Sep 28, 2023