Ronx Ronquillo

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🚲 Flying past 5,000 vehicles 🚗🚙🚛 stuck in traffic between Rizal and NCR – four times weekly! ✈️✈️
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Sharing the reply of Ayala Land:

1. Guards will be re-oriented;
2. Assurance that the Makati Street Meet welcomes bikes;
3. Recognizes that their bike parking is limited

It’s really all bikenomics! 😉

#MakeItSaferMakati #MakeItSaferMovement

This is not just about the bike lanes in Ayala but its impact on the already deteriorating bike lanes across Metro Manila. Let’s protect the lives of all road users.

Join us! #AngSharrowNiAyala #MakeItSaferMakati #CommutersNaman

Downloading Wikipedia so you can read it offline will take up 97 GB.

Banana for scale:

teacher: what does “agnostic” mean?

me: I don’t know

teacher: correct! how about “ambivalent”?

me: *shrug*

teacher: yes! how about “nihilistic”?

me: what difference does any of this make?

teacher: amazing

I also found this comprehensive list of fees from the Bangko Sentral website:

https://www.bsp.gov.ph/PaymentAndSettlement/Fees.pdf

As in all years, a lot has happened in 2022 and this video from Vox does a pretty good job of summarizing the past 12 months.

https://youtu.be/PLDFgKzWy3o

(One thing missing for me as a Filipino is that my fellow citizens elected the son of a dictator to the presidency, but I guess coming after Duterte, it was more of the same and therefore not really noteworthy? 🤷)

2022, in 7 minutes

YouTube

More biking, walking, and other physical activity is linked to types of gut microbiome related to better health and immune function.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36288361

#NICHDImpact #Health #Exercise #PhysicalFitness #Biking #Walking #Immunity #Microbiome #GutHealth

Assessing the relationship between physical activity and the gut microbiome in a large, population-based sample of Wisconsin adults - PubMed

The gut microbiome is an important factor in human health and disease. While preliminary studies have found some evidence that physical activity is associated with gut microbiome richness, diversity, and composition, this relationship is not fully understood and has not been previously characterized …

PubMed

Interesting piece in the #Nature journal about the #birdsite and its importance in #science.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04506-6

As a very recent arrival on #Mastodon and in the #Fediverse, I'm seeing far more engagement here than on Twitter, despite having far fewer followers here.

Being here feels like the earlier days on Twitter, where posts are generously shared and where there is a genuine sense of building and supporting a community

I hope this continues and that the wider #Science and #Environment communities and also #universities jump on board.

For a now slightly dated view (in Nature) of the merits of Mastodon for scientists, see also this:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03668-7

#ScienceCommunication

Twitter changed science — what happens now it’s in turmoil?

The microblogging platform has transformed research communication, but its future is in doubt.

The Mozilla Philippines Community (MozillaPH) is now in Mastodon!
@mozillaph
This is not a chart depicting Moore’s Law.

This chart is the CRAYOLA COROLLARY showing that the number of Crayola crayon colors doubles approximately every 18 years.