Peter Bokulich

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Freelance philosopher (mostly physics, reduction, denialism), full-time family man, and sometime carpenter. He/him/Dr./Peter

Hey any journalists on here plz turn your public post indexing on, because most of you haven't and thats why people looking for public information cant find you.

Go to settings > public profile > privacy and reach, select "include public posts in search results"

Not all the fedi wants to be a public space, and thats fine, but some parts should be right now.

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In case folks aren't aware, the Internet Archive now has a scholar version with a huge collection of academic work available.

https://scholar.archive.org/

#academicchatter #academicmastodon #academic #education #open

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@kjhealy, I’ve held Thomas Hunt Morgan’s 1933 Nobel Medal. I’ve heard the more recent ones aren’t as substantial.
EDIT: Wednesday. Oops.
FYI this is tomorrow, prepare to get freaked out for a sec: https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20230803/fema-and-fcc-plan-nationwide-emergency-alert-test-oct-4-2023

I shared this privately before, but I just got the okay to share it in public. The Bluegrass Archive is online with a website and everything. This is a MASSIVE trove of legal live #bluegrass recordings from earliest days right up to now, which you can download and listen to for free. It is one of the greatest achievements of the fan-driven #music archiving community I've ever seen. I contributed a small number of filesets out of the thousands here. #music

https://bluegrassarchive.com/

Here we go again: popular YouTube physicist Sabine Hossenfelder is extremely wrong about something! This time, she argues in favor of capitalism, saying that without it, we wouldn't have scientific progress. The Nobel prize winner she cites begs to disagree. https://skepchick.org/2023/09/sabine-is-wrong-again-capitalism-wouldve-killed-penicillin/
Sabine is Wrong Again: Capitalism Would’ve Killed Penicillin

A few weeks ago, several of you let me know that there had been yet another great disturbance in the online science communication force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out “what the fuck a…

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How did the Underground Railroad get its name? Author Scott Shane found the answer buried in the archives of the Boston Public Library. Shane details it all in his new book about abolitionist and writer Thomas Smallwood. I spoke on @gbhnews "Greater Boston" with Shane and with historian and artist L'Merchie Fraizer about the origins of the Underground Railroad and Boston's role in this chapter of history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbPP5A-D0RQ&t=7s
How did the Underground Railroad get its name?

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GRAMMY Salute to Music Legends™: Earth, Wind & Fire Medley

Earth, Wind & Fire perform ”Fantasy” and ”September”

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