#Scientific papers are written to mask the human in the process, by design. This Perspective by John Tregoning invites us to consider the structure of the paper, and the need to celebrate the human in an age when #AI threatens to overwhelm us.

https://plos.io/4xn4OlZ

"What is your favourite part of your job?" the reporter asked.

"That's a tough one," said the book. "For me, I would say being re-read."

"Because it shows you were loved?"

"No, you can feel that at a first read. It's that I can show more than the first time round."

"It's more intimate?"

"Yes."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Friends on toot.community, your server is shutting down in two months. If you need help or advice, let me know. I’m happy to help anyone who needs it.

Their admin said only 90 accounts out of about 1,500 (active) have migrated. It would be super sad to see folks disappear.

More from the admin:

https://toot.community/@support/116999041733337412

Info on how to move:

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving

#Mastodon #TootCommunity #MastoHelp #MastodonHelp #Community

For anyone still looking for a new home base as toot.community is unfortunately wrapping up, wandering.shop is a cozy sort of spot from which you can explore the wider fediverse, or within which you can hang out with our various friendly characters.

We are nominally "invite only" but the way to get an invite is to ask someone already here, and don't be a bot or a butthead, basically.

We federate widely and moderate transparently.

cc; @support

Light spilling down the carved out rocks of a desert canyon. This was one of the most photogenic places I’ve visited, while I only had a couple of hours, I could’ve happily spent days checking it out.

#LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #landscape #nature #photography #LPW

This is my second favorite octopus story (that they can use coconuts as armor)

https://spacedaily.com/k-an-octopus-was-filmed-carrying-two-halves-of-a-coconut-shell-across-the-seafloor-to-reassemble-them-later-as-a-portable-suit-of-armour-one-of-the-only-clear-cases-of-a-wild-invertebrate-using-tools/

My favorite one is that some octopus lead groups of fish in hunting together, and punch the fish that act up

https://www.sciencealert.com/octopuses-team-up-with-fish-to-hunt-and-will-punch-them-if-they-act-up

#Marine #Science #Octopus

#MonochromeMonday

Baby Vancouver Island marmot exploring its surroundings probably for the first time. They are born in the burrow and spend their first weeks underground. This little one came out of the burrow while mum was out collecting grass to refresh the bedding. (Photos from my archives)

#photography #marmots #VancouverIsland #BritishColumbia #VancouverIslandWildlife #TimelineCleanser

@brianb
If you have any floppy disks that's always a fun demo with the kids to tear them apart and show that they actually are floppy :-)

@randahl Gotta have an Other

RE: https://martianbase.net/@mackuba/117153030593289948

Amazing to see this file format make it to the web after Chrome devs initially shot it down. JPEG XL aka JXL offers smaller file sizes / higher image quality vs JPEG and other formats, plus it supports HDR photos, lossless compression options, and more. Info here: https://jpegxl.info/

minutes 1 to 15, repeatedly: "Wow, nice Isabel Fall reference. I wonder if he knows he's making it."
minute 15 and a half: "... question answered."

(Also minutes 1 to 15 and ongoing: "Wow, possibly even nice-er Nick Zerhakker of Project Skin Horse reference. I wonder if he knows he's---")

@idzie better to have it and not use it!

@corvus @hewer_of_code @pluralistic

It is not Geoffrey Baratheon's but I'd sign to see that one without blinking. Poetry.

"... as he tumbles from his golden toilet, forehead and coronary arteries bulging from the strain of trying to pass a half-digested Big Mac with only a viscous paste of rectal mucus and Diet Coke to lubricate that final, unyielding bolus.

@davidgerard @mxchara

Does masochism run in your family, or did you choose it as a hobby?