Organic geochemist, well on the way to a life involving other interests. Born at 315 pm. Opinions, such as they are, my own.
#OrganicGeochemistry #BioGeoChemistry #GeoChemistry #EnvironmentalChemistry #chemistry #BiologicalMarker #biomarker #ChemicalFossil #genealogy #LocalHistory #ChurchCrawling #Dartmoor #Devon
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| Location | Plymouth, Devon, U.K. |
Behold, and harken! When I was a wee child, this was my Google.
Its firmware was not upgradable, it needed no charging and was always on.
Dewey, the lord of Decimals, had a system, and it _was_ good.
Encyclopedias were our more formally fact-checked Wikipedia. Microfilm and microfiche the optical technologies we used to access compressed information.
Turn the filmstrip when you hear the beep.
I never imagined it would be so hard to organize a seminar series for a department.
I even have an admin assistant helping me, it just seems like I'm continually a few months behind where we should be in getting faculty to invite speakers and scheduling student talks.
Blah.
If, like me, you watched the excellent W.E.B. Du Bois biopic which is out this month on PBS and you wondered about access
to The Crisis, the magazine he founded and edited for the NAACP, there’s a digital archive (1910-2020) available via ProQuest.
The NAACP today announced that The Crisis, the Association’s historic magazine and one of the most influential publications in Black history, is now available digitally to libraries worldwide through ProQuest, part of Clarivate. The widespread availability is part of the NAACP’s celebration of the 100th Black History Month and the Association’s 117th Founder's Day.
less than three weeks left before the Open Science Festival Limburg! #osflimburg https://www.openscience-maastricht.nl/events/open-science-festival-2026/
I am so much looking forward to two days of interdisciplenary research and #openscience discussions with people from Maastricht, Heerlen, but also from Aachen, Venlo, Utrecht, and Delft!
And particularly to see all the exciting open science they do!
Are you coming too? Register today (before we run out of space)!
Cannot join? Then follow @osflimburg and/or the #osflimburg hashtag!
Have a good weekend! Here's your Friday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 4th lowest on record (JAXA data)...
• about 340,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 830,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,270,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,720,000 km² below the 1980s mean
More graphics: https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/
I was delighted to be able to visit the #ErnestRutherford Museum at #McGillUniversity when I was recently in #Montreal. I spotted this gem in a display case. The docent recalled the story of Harriett Brooks. It rang a bell, and when I got home I cracked open Dava Sobel’s “The Elements of Marie Curie”. Sure enough, Brooks has a whole chapter devoted to her.
The “new gas from radium” is now called “radon” and it’s critical to the research I and many others do in the search for #DarkMatter.
The six pentagonal prisms made and assembled. However, I used a different prism that was stronger (and turned out to be easier to assemble). But still a mindbender to assemble 😅
#origami #photography #geometry #design #MathArt #papercraft #craft #FediArt #CreativeToots
Very interesting proposal:
"Between these worlds [academia and industry] lies a growing population of practitioners, independent scholars, citizen scientists, individuals working at the intersection of art and science, and retired researchers, who—despite losing formal institutional affiliation—retain deep domain expertise and a continued drive to develop new research ideas. "
Third spaces for science: reimagining research beyond academia and industry:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166223626000925?via%3Dihub
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