Side project started during #globalgamejam2023 is a new MU* called the Arboretum. Definitely could've pitched it better - the few of those that know MU*space were vet developers with far more robust plans. #mud #mush #electronicliterature
OfficiousBrick
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Digital humanist and media tinkerer. English & Humanities Prof at UW-Green Bay working in AR/VR, universal design, and OER development.
Tuomas TammistoI just added my name to the list of researchers and academics, who refuse to #publish, #review or do editorial work for #Elsevier's journals.
Elsevier extracts rent from publicly funded #research by making society pay for it twice through article-processing-charges and subscription.
It also draws unreasonable profits from labor that academics do for free.
Since the pandemic, I've run around town in a Santa Clause getup during the #christmas season. Harder than usual with the deep snow but a solid workout #snowrunning
Initial interest guage: is there anyone in the American upper Midwest that would be interested in collaborating on a regional Mastodon server?
#midwest #newserver #instance #newinstance #usa #america #wisconsin #minnesota #michigan #illinois #iowa
CarveHerName#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, PhD student Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars.
Not included in the 1974 Nobel prize for the discovery, Bell received a £3m prize for her work in 2018. She's using it to set up a foundation to improve diversity in STEM.
Sheril KirshenbaumIf you ever had a vaccine, injection or surgery, you’re indebted to the ancient & wondrous horseshoe crab.
Its blue blood contains Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL) which clumps at contact with bacterial toxins. Animals are caught for their blood to test sterility of medical equipment & injections.
Unfortunately the harvest is unsustainable & populations are in decline. An effective synthetic substitute has been around for 2 decades & we just need the biomedical industry to switch. #SharedPlanet
The Volatile MermaidSorry I put aviator sunglasses on the baby Jesus in your nativity scene and started singing highway to the manger zone.
God 
When I get to 100,000 followers on Mastodon I will officially bring Mastodons back from extinction.
Boost and favorite this post to help make this happen ASAP.
Jason HickelMusk didn't buy Twitter to make money from it. He bought Twitter to control public narratives and push political discourse further to the right, which he knows is crucial to defending his class interests. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/22/elon-musk-twitter-business-politics-right