There are now no less than 56 curated lists of academics on Mastodon, in various subject areas, on this GitHub, as well as links to groups, preprint and bibliography bots, and servers/communities. Check it out, tell others about it, and bookmark it for future reference! https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon

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#Skyroot Aerospace will become the first Indian #privatespace company to launch its own designed and built sounding rocket from India's spaceport of Sriharikota. Weather willing the launch should be at 11:30 am on November 18, 2022.

Live webcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/C0QP6Au7N_o

A complex system has many points of failure.

It is much harder to build something than to destroy it.

Life is fragile, as is society.

We should not take them for granted.

What's a book you have purchased multiple times, just so that you can gift it?

(by the power of association, I thought of this while reading an unrelated message from @Calamur )

This week, the world’s human #population is expected to reach 8B. About 109B people have lived and died. Each grain of sand represents 10M.

Spectacular #data visualization of human life on Earth by Max Roser #science #SharedPlanet

We tell children to own up to their mistakes. But our societies continue to idolize those who think they can never be wrong or make mistakes.

This disconnect is a problem.