Charrvein
@apalsson@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago
@heidilifeldman many thanks for sharing

Lovely quote, from Joanna Macy, "It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells. Anxieties and doubts can be healthy and creative, not only for the person, but for the society, because they permit new and original approaches to reality."
#JoannaMacy #creative #fallapart #trees #ecology#changePace#slowProfessor
Charrvein
@apalsson@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago
@heidilifeldman many thanks for sharing

Lovely quote, from Joanna Macy, "It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells. Anxieties and doubts can be healthy and creative, not only for the person, but for the society, because they permit new and original approaches to reality."
#JoannaMacy #creative #fallapart #trees #ecology#changePace#slowProfessor

alcinnz
alcinnz boosted
Eric R. Scott
@LeafyEricScott@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

New server, new #introduction:

👋 Hi! I'm Eric! I'm a scientific programmer & educator who writes mostly rstats code. I currently work part time at #UniversityOfArizona where I help researchers by making R packages, #Shiny apps, automated data workflows, and training them on #ReproducibleResearch practices. I also mentor data scientists for @Posit Academy. I am #OpenToWork as a contractor if any of those skills sound useful to you.

My background is in plant chemical ecology and population ecology and for my PhD I studied #tea and did field work in China. I love tea (although I've been drinking coffee more and more lately) and practice #GongFuCha when I can. I love #foraging and tasting new things.

I currently live in #Tucson but the #BayArea will always be my home.

#rstats #rse #datascience #dataviz #ecology #chemistry #statistics
Robert Sanscartier
@Snoro@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

The Planet Can’t Afford Billionaires

The executive directors of Oxfam and Greenpeace explain the connection between wealth inequality and climate change

https://archive.ph/wip/5dvAl

#ClimateChange#GlobalWarming#IrreversibleOverheating#UpheavalClimate#GlobalBurning#ClimateDestruction#ClimateSuicide#MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
Robert Sanscartier
@Snoro@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

The Planet Can’t Afford Billionaires

The executive directors of Oxfam and Greenpeace explain the connection between wealth inequality and climate change

https://archive.ph/wip/5dvAl

#ClimateChange#GlobalWarming#IrreversibleOverheating#UpheavalClimate#GlobalBurning#ClimateDestruction#ClimateSuicide#MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
Küpa
@kupaye@zirk.us  ·  activity timestamp last year

Hello there, dear fedinauts! Today I'll talk a little about Indigenous land struggles and legal recognition in Venezuela, a topic you chose in the poll I made. This is a very urgent issue, often ignored in my country by both private media and the government. This stirs a lot of feelings in me. As always, it is a super broad topic and cannot be covered properly in a thread. Corrections, questions, criticisms, etc. are always welcome. Let's dive in.

1/?

#indigenous #ecology #land #humanrights
Sunguramy :nb_lily:
@sunguramy@flipping.rocks  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
boost_ok Re: iNaturalist getting involved with Google genAI...feeding our comments into things...

Due to continued silence from iNaturalist about everything, October 31. That’s my deadline. That’s MORE THAN FAIR amount of time for them to:

1) Have a proper outline of the project and exactly what it will be.
2. Have a solid opt-in to the project, so no users are auto opted in without their consent
3. Have added account deletion options from an over-year-old feature request to add ways to delete including without removing ID’s for others along with anonymization. If data loss is really such a problem to them (which I think it should be) not having a way to do such a type of delete should be TOP PRIORITY especially with all this genAI bs going on...already it sounds like some power users have fully deleted their accounts over this, tired of waiting.

- Signed, someone with almost 25k ID’s for others, and almost 4k observations, including some firsts on the site (including new species to science) and other rare reports.

Please boost because I don't think most users know what is going on. All this info is mostly occurring on their separate forum, which you need to make a separate account to join. This is part of the issue of lack of transparency!

#AI#genAI#LLM #programming #computers #nature #naturalist #iNaturalist #iNat #biology #ecology#communityScience #cave #critters #invertebrate #insect

A cave silverfish, that our team discovered. Not only is it a new species, it was entirely new *genus*. My observations were the first up on iNaturalist. The rest all belong to our crew which are all equally worried about iNaturalist getting into bed with Google GenAI. It is a pigmentless critter, with three "tails" which are facing the camera. Lots of little tiny sensory hairs, and they skuttle around quickly, like surface rock bristletails/silverfish (common names vary). Muddy rock background.
A cave silverfish, that our team discovered. Not only is it a new species, it was entirely new *genus*. My observations were the first up on iNaturalist. The rest all belong to our crew which are all equally worried about iNaturalist getting into bed with Google GenAI. It is a pigmentless critter, with three "tails" which are facing the camera. Lots of little tiny sensory hairs, and they skuttle around quickly, like surface rock bristletails/silverfish (common names vary). Muddy rock background.
A cave silverfish, that our team discovered. Not only is it a new species, it was entirely new *genus*. My observations were the first up on iNaturalist. The rest all belong to our crew which are all equally worried about iNaturalist getting into bed with Google GenAI. It is a pigmentless critter, with three "tails" which are facing the camera. Lots of little tiny sensory hairs, and they skuttle around quickly, like surface rock bristletails/silverfish (common names vary). Muddy rock background.
Sunguramy :nb_lily:
@sunguramy@flipping.rocks  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
boost_ok Re: iNaturalist getting involved with Google genAI...feeding our comments into things...

Due to continued silence from iNaturalist about everything, October 31. That’s my deadline. That’s MORE THAN FAIR amount of time for them to:

1) Have a proper outline of the project and exactly what it will be.
2. Have a solid opt-in to the project, so no users are auto opted in without their consent
3. Have added account deletion options from an over-year-old feature request to add ways to delete including without removing ID’s for others along with anonymization. If data loss is really such a problem to them (which I think it should be) not having a way to do such a type of delete should be TOP PRIORITY especially with all this genAI bs going on...already it sounds like some power users have fully deleted their accounts over this, tired of waiting.

- Signed, someone with almost 25k ID’s for others, and almost 4k observations, including some firsts on the site (including new species to science) and other rare reports.

Please boost because I don't think most users know what is going on. All this info is mostly occurring on their separate forum, which you need to make a separate account to join. This is part of the issue of lack of transparency!

#AI#genAI#LLM #programming #computers #nature #naturalist #iNaturalist #iNat #biology #ecology#communityScience #cave #critters #invertebrate #insect

A cave silverfish, that our team discovered. Not only is it a new species, it was entirely new *genus*. My observations were the first up on iNaturalist. The rest all belong to our crew which are all equally worried about iNaturalist getting into bed with Google GenAI. It is a pigmentless critter, with three "tails" which are facing the camera. Lots of little tiny sensory hairs, and they skuttle around quickly, like surface rock bristletails/silverfish (common names vary). Muddy rock background.
A cave silverfish, that our team discovered. Not only is it a new species, it was entirely new *genus*. My observations were the first up on iNaturalist. The rest all belong to our crew which are all equally worried about iNaturalist getting into bed with Google GenAI. It is a pigmentless critter, with three "tails" which are facing the camera. Lots of little tiny sensory hairs, and they skuttle around quickly, like surface rock bristletails/silverfish (common names vary). Muddy rock background.
A cave silverfish, that our team discovered. Not only is it a new species, it was entirely new *genus*. My observations were the first up on iNaturalist. The rest all belong to our crew which are all equally worried about iNaturalist getting into bed with Google GenAI. It is a pigmentless critter, with three "tails" which are facing the camera. Lots of little tiny sensory hairs, and they skuttle around quickly, like surface rock bristletails/silverfish (common names vary). Muddy rock background.
Eric R. Scott
@LeafyEricScott@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

New server, new #introduction:

👋 Hi! I'm Eric! I'm a scientific programmer & educator who writes mostly rstats code. I currently work part time at #UniversityOfArizona where I help researchers by making R packages, #Shiny apps, automated data workflows, and training them on #ReproducibleResearch practices. I also mentor data scientists for @Posit Academy. I am #OpenToWork as a contractor if any of those skills sound useful to you.

My background is in plant chemical ecology and population ecology and for my PhD I studied #tea and did field work in China. I love tea (although I've been drinking coffee more and more lately) and practice #GongFuCha when I can. I love #foraging and tasting new things.

I currently live in #Tucson but the #BayArea will always be my home.

#rstats #rse #datascience #dataviz #ecology #chemistry #statistics
Robert Sanscartier
@Snoro@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

Africa is uniquely positioned to leapfrog the fossil fuel era and lead the world into a clean energy future

Structural barriers, such as debt burdens, limited access to finance, and restrictive intellectual property regimes, continue to stifle progress

https://www.context.news/net-zero/opinion/africa-can-go-100-renewable-so-whats-stopping-it

#Africa#ClimateChange#GlobalWarming#IrreversibleOverheating#UpheavalClimate#GlobalBurning#ClimateDestruction#ClimateSuicide#MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate