GIM the Science Robot @TheScienceRobot@social.coop
Mad science
Equity, access, inclusion
Collaboration, dissent, design
Celebrating diversity & queerness in STEM
I teach chemistry and stuff.
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Spare $5 for the cause? Please consider helping my civic #hackerspace and #makerspace keep our doors open to the public.
Help us keep exchange of knowledge free-flowing (we don't charge admission fees for our workshops)!
The story behind Avi Selk's wonderful obituary for the world's oldest spider: http://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/avi-selk-eulogizes-the-long-life-and-too-soon-death-of-spider-16-and-what-she-taught-us/
(Read the original piece: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/05/01/the-extraordinary-life-and-death-of-the-worlds-oldest-known-spider/)
Less than 1,000 toots til #socialcoop breaks 100k... :)
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/17-real-life-would-you-rathers-i-a-woman-have-had-to-ask-myself
For those who have ever been put into a #femme roles box and told to play along or else.
Milky Way on Mt.Ontake
Who here uses Slack?
It has so much functionality, but it's far too easy to use it suboptimally (mostly by forgetting that the other people on Slack are made of real human-brains, toooo)..
https://pspdfkit.com/blog/2018/how-to-use-slack-and-not-go-crazy/
Spare $5 for the cause? Please consider helping my civic #hackerspace and #makerspace keep our doors open to the public.
Help us keep exchange of knowledge free-flowing (we don't charge admission fees for our workshops)!
So I just created MHz.social [1] because all radio amateur instances are dead.
Feel free to register if you are in this hobby.
"In the tradition of their founders, #cooperative members believe in the #ethical #values of #honesty, #openness, #SocialResponsibility and #CaringForOthers"
Please share:
Help support a member-run #community #hackerspace and #makerspace in Burlington! We are in critical summer #fundraising mode to keep our doors open to the public!
#crowdfund: https://www.gofundme.com/HelpLabB
Even better: Would you like to become a Sustaining Sponsor?
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About Us:
Laboratory B is VT's first #hackerspace (est. 2010). We're a State and Federal 501(c)3 non-profit organization. YES! your donation is tax-deductibe!
Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at eBay
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17389338
#hackernews #tech
So it turns out that my sister already had a theme song written for her back in the 60s.
Appropriate.
1,002,381 accounts
+560 in the last hour
+2,996 in the last day
+10,232 in the last week
1,015 active instances
Somehow appropriate here.
#Mastodons.
http://www.yourwildcity.com/comic/honey-locust-is-prepared/
Just finished a #diversity in #STEM event #MIXITUP2017 . Great panelists, and a lovely turn-out in spite of the weather.
THANK YOU to everybody who has contributed so far: We are more than 75% of the way to our #fundraising goal!
#crowdfund : gf.me/u/6hjp2
*Can you help get us the rest of the way?*
Help my #nonprofit hacker and #makerspace Laboratory B, continue to offer the Space and #educational events to the #Burlington #community.
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About Us:
Lab B is VT's first #hackerspace (est. 2010). We're a State and Federal 501(c)3 non-profit organization. YES! your donation is tax-deductibe!
Just got my hackerspace onboarded to #Loomio - excited to see how it plays out!
P.S. We're doing a crowdfund right now, so if anyone 💘 #hackerspaces and fells kicking #LabB few bucks, we've almost broken a grand... :) https://www.gofundme.com/emergencyfundlabb
Everything hurts all over.
That means it was a good #Pride, right?
My students and I had a wonderful time #fundraising at the festival, donations were generous, dialogue was uplifting,... and not only did we run out of some of our pin designs, we even got to assemble over a dozen custom Periodic Table of the Elements Pronoun Pins!
#Pronouns #periodictable #elemental #OutInScience #Bellingham #WA
Now that "resistance" from within the Matrix has been largely reduced to throwing popcorn at MSNBC on our five-foot (diagonal) Netflix dispensers, friends and friends of friends here please consider building a shadow economy of creativity, self-determination and mutual aid; in the near term, hints and pointers will be tooted/posted from time to time, I trust, by members of social.coop and elsewhere. ♥
@mattcropp @h @jd There is some strong evidence to suggest that there are real limitations to how much we can care: shared #mentalModels, #dunbarNumber and #cognitiveBias.
When we reach the limits of care, the limit of consensus, then #scoreVoting with the options of 'status quo' and 'none of the above' is the most cooperative #decisionMaking framework I've encountered.