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Dr. John Barentine FRAS @JohnBarentine@astrodon.social · 2 weeks ago

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This proposal essentially ends U.S. leadership and dominance in space research and space-based astronomy.

"NASA’s science budget could be cut nearly in half under an early version of President Donald Trump’s budget proposal to Congress, a move that would terminate billions of dollars’ worth of ongoing and future missions."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/04/11/nasa-science-budget-cuts-trump/

#UnitedStates #NASA #Research #Space

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · last year

• 📆 2018, #ISS became the first facility to produce #BECs ⚛️ in #space 🌌
• In #space, so-called cool flames 🔥 can burn for minutes
• #ISS water 💦 purification system deployed across #India 🇮🇳, #Mexico 🇲🇽, #Pakistan🇵🇰
• #StemCells regenerative medicine ⚕️ could repair/replace failing organs and cells
• Higher quality protein crystals
• #Microbes 🦠 can extract metals from #regolith
• Tissue/organ-on-a-chip effects faster in #microgravity
• #3Dprinting
• Organ growth
https://interestingengineering.com/lists/13-science-breakthroughs-experiments-iss

#NASA

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · last year

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“The case for sending humans into #space gets weaker and weaker every year as #robots 🤖 get cleverer and more sophisticated,. They can do the #science ⚗️ 🔬 and assemble large structures in space and are much, much cheaper 💵 📉 to operate in space. We don’t need humans 👨‍🔬 to do #research in space.” https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/oct/29/international-space-station-25-years

#SpaceRobot #HumanSpaceflight

Stan Carey @stancarey@mastodon.ie · 3 months ago

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The BBC asked minority groups what they thought of the BBC:

"Participants...viewed journalism as a form of oppression that had the same impact on their lives as the police. Journalism in general, and the BBC in particular, they said, felt like an arm of the state."

https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/the-bbc-asked-marginalized-groups-how-it-could-do-better-they-didnt-hold-back/

#journalism #BBC #news #research #MainstreamMedia

🌈Lucy🏳️‍⚧️ | Revoluciana @revoluciana@chaosfem.tw · 3 months ago

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🚨 URGENT REQUEST - PLEASE BOOST 🚨

I'm looking for names and/or connections of any academics, independent researchers, or prominent figures *anywhere*, but *especially* in #Canada who have at least *some* connection to *any* fields related to:

- #Genocide (in general)
- #Trans Genocide
- #Geopolitics as they relate to trans people

I've been asked to lead a significant and urgent project related to the present crisis, and I've dropped all other tasks to support this. I wish I could provide more details publicly, but these details will have to follow.

- Feel free to either post or DM me names/info or to connect

#academia #research #transgender #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia

Dwight Williams (💉 x9) + 😷 @DEWLine@mastodon.social · 4 months ago

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I don't think that 42 Ursae Majoris is a good candidate for the Persephone system. It looks like a potential neighbour when you view the galaxy from above/below, sure...

@jswhitten @galaxy_map, @nyrath opinions?

#Discussion
#StarTrek
#StarCharts
#StellarCartography
#astronomy
#galacticcartography
#mapmaking
#research
#debate

Excerpt from work in progress for the Edge of Midnight, a starmap segment focused on the regions surrounding 42 Ursae Majoris.

TayFoNay🍿 @tayfonay@beige.party · 2 years ago

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Based on my experiences in academic medicine, this is painfully true

#academia #research

Comic depicting a male scientist in a white lab coat looking at a woman behind a computer at a large desk says: IT'S ALL VERY WELL “MAKING DISCOVERIES, - “SAVING LIVES" AND “IMPROVING THE WORLD," ROGER. BUT YOUR RESEARCH IS MAKING BARELY ANY IMPACT ON SOCIAL MEDIA.

Weizenbaum-Institut @Weizenbaum_Institut@social.bund.de · 4 months ago

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Digital labor platforms in Africa offer both opportunities & challenges, with marginalized workers facing dispossession despite tech advancements. In this study, Adio-Adet Tichafara Dinika ( @unibremen, @DAIR) calls for policy reforms to protect worker autonomy & ensure equitable participation in economic shifts.

➡️ https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/5.1.3

#Digital #WorkerRights #GigEconomy #PlatformEconomy #Africa #socialscience #research #wjds @WZB_Berlin@towardsfairwork @milamiceli @tuberlin @FOKUSpublic

WEIZENBAUM JOURNAL OF THE DIGITAL SOCIETY VOL. 05 ISSUE 1. Adio-Adet Tichafara Dinika: Trapped in the Matrix Algorithmic Control and Worker Dispossession in the African Platform Economy

Aktionsb. neue Soziale Medien @neuSoM@bewegung.social · 5 months ago

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European Universities started …
.. leaving X

#Universities in #Amsterdam, #Vienna, #Berlin, #Karlsruhe, #Aachen and other cities in Europe have left microblogging service X during the last week(s).

They justify this step with the systematic lack of moderation on the platform, which has resulted in a flood of hate speech, disinformation and cyberbullying.

Some of them have already started to run channels on Mastodon: @univienna, @tuberlin, @KIT_Karlsruhe, @UniOldenburg @unibremen, @freieuniversitaet, @UniUlm , @HTW_Berlin, @uni_paderborn.

X is not a suitable medium for communication in #research and #education. Help get the other #universities to follow suit and sign the petition
👉 https://openpetition.de/Unis4Mastodon
#unis4mastodon 🌻 👩‍🎓 #eXit

nigini @nigini@hci.social · 5 months ago

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Does anyone have pointers about good practices around the #ethical use of #fediverse "public" #data for #research and services creation? I am especially interested in server-level aggregate data (i.e., not-author-linkable; e.g. used tags, boosts, etc.), as I understand that one should contact the author to use identifiable data. @iftas @socialcg @Mastodon @dmitri @fediforum @kissane @eloquence @andresmh

Omayma @OmaymaS@dair-community.social · 5 months ago

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Anyone has recommendations for opportunities in "Digital Humanities" for data scientists/machine learning researchers & practitioners?

#research #job #machinelearning #datascience