Mastodawn

Incredibly specific job klaxon if you are:

🇬🇧 looking for a UK remote role
💻️ where you can use your programming and data skills
🛠️ and do some hardware hacking too
🐈‍⬛ also if you like cats, omg this is a weird cat tech job

https://careers.cats.org.uk/job/851046

(Cat Scientist - Emerging Welfare Technology at Cats Protection, £49k, apply by April 3)

#FediHire

Careers | Work with cats | Cats Protection

Are you looking for #YourPurrfectJob? Take a look at a career with Cats Protection.

Laura J. Wilkinson 4d ago

Compound Interest 4d ago

Spring is here in the northern hemisphere! Here's a graphic from the #PeriodicGraphic archives in C&EN looking at the pigments that give daffodils their golden glow: https://cen.acs.org/articles/93/i15/Periodic-Graphics-Chemistry-Daffodils.html

Laura J. Wilkinson 4d ago

📍 PinDrop Day #17
🟢 🟢 🟢 🎯 🟠
802 / 1000
https://playpindrop.app

PinDrop — Daily Geography Challenge

Drop a pin on 5 locations across the globe. New challenge every day. How well do you know the world?

PinDrop

Laura J. Wilkinson 6d ago

What is an email address?

https://proton.me/blog/what-is-email-address

What is an email address? A guide to your digital identity | Proton

What is an email address, really? Discover how it works, what makes one valid, and simple tips to keep yours private.

Proton

Laura J. Wilkinson Mar 16

Born Private: Reserve your child’s first email address with Proton

https://proton.me/blog/born-private

Born Private: Reserve your child’s first email address | Proton

Give your child a safer start online. Reserve a private, secure, no-ads address with Proton Mail that stays sealed until your child is ready.

Proton

Laura J. Wilkinson Mar 13

Why ISO 27000 is a foundation for security and compliance

https://proton.me/blog/iso-27000

ISO 27000 standards for security and compliance | Proton

Learn about ISO 27000: what they are, why they matter for security and compliance, and how to implement ISO-aligned credential controls.

Proton

Laura J. Wilkinson Mar 7

Akshay Mar 6

This short story, written in older and older English as it goes on, rightly went viral!

How far can you understand it?

https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english#_

#English #Language #Bookstodon #Linguistics

How far back in time can you understand English?

An experiment in language change

Dead Language Society

Laura J. Wilkinson Mar 7

Ciarán Ferrie Mar 7

The Norwegian Consumer Council has made a video about enshittification and it's brilliant.

The Ensh*ttificator on Vimeo
https://vimeo.com/1168468796

The Ensh*ttificator

Vimeo

Laura J. Wilkinson Mar 6

SPARC Mar 6

The use of impact factors in the evaluation of researchers has contributed to the distortion of scientific publishing practices and research practices, noted France's CNRS as it walked away from Web of Science, using $$$ saved to promote #OpenScience & #OpenData.

https://www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cnrs-breaking-free-web-science