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‘I was just mesmerized.’ Researchers capture first northeast Pacific sighting of spooky squid

The underwater vehicle was coasting about six feet above the ocean floor, two miles deep, when a pinkish,…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #andrewdevogelaere #animal #datum #furrow #mesmerizingcreature #northeastpacificsighting #Pereira #researchvessel #researcher #sample #Science #seamount #Ship #spookysquid #video #whale
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/837531/

‘I was just mesmerized.’ Researchers capture first northeast Pacific sighting of spooky squid

The underwater vehicle was coasting about six feet above the ocean floor, two miles deep, when a pinkish,…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #andrewdevogelaere #animal #datum #furrow #mesmerizingcreature #northeastpacificsighting #Pereira #researchvessel #researcher #sample #Science #seamount #Ship #spookysquid #video #whale
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/837531/

We reach Rabaul after 4 days of navigation over the Bismarck Sea. I am now docked at the Kute shipping quay for how many days I don't know yet. The good thing is that there's a new company covering the last stretch of my journey, from Rabaul to Buka, Bougainville. I'll just have to wait for the time the ship is ready to depart. In the meantime, I watch at slave-like work of a group of men downloading copra from a cargo ship and uploading it on trucks delivering it on local markets. They tell me they get the equivalent of €2 for every ton of copra downloaded, to be divided among a team of 6. Slavery I said.

More to watch here: https://youtube.com/shorts/Srl5RPy6gE0?feature=share 95/

I slow travel mainly to reduce my carbon footprint (by 10 times according to available estimates: see https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint ) but also to experience travel as most people in this world do.

#RefuseTofly #EnvironmentalBreakdown #ClimateAction #globalwarming #climateBreakdown #travel #slowtravel #decarbonise #StrictlyPublicTransport #climateemergency #BismarckSea #PNG #ferrytravel #researcher #researcherlife #AFuoco

Day 75-78: Conditions are not exactly first class on the vessel taking me from Lae to Rabaul: There's no couchette and no shower room. However, people leave me some space to roll out my 2-inch mattress on the floor (I'm the only one onboard except for crew members enjoying this luxury), so I get some rest. All other passengers sleep crammed on the floor or on the seats. For washing we rely on the "bucket system" in small cabin rooms that get constantly flooded with (rather filthy) water. Surely I'm a white fly on board and everyone wants to speak with me. In spite of this and the breathtaking view of the sunset, I get on with my work...

I slow travel mainly to reduce my carbon footprint (by 10 times according to available estimates: see https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint ) but also to experience travel as most people in this world do.

#RefuseTofly #EnvironmentalBreakdown #ClimateAction #globalwarming #climateBreakdown #travel #slowtravel #decarbonise #StrictlyPublicTransport #climateemergency #BismarckSea #PNG #ferrytravel #researcher #researcherlife #AFuoco

Day 75-78: I don't think I'll ever see as much as beauty as in these breath-taking sunsets over the Bismarck Sea. They fall gently like leaves caressed by an autumn breeze.
https://youtube.com/shorts/qA-dFbqb4ic?feature=share

They are an utmost pleasure in my 4- day 1,100km ferry trip from Lae to Rabaul. Conditions are not exactly first class on the vessel: there's no couchette and no shower room. But people leave me some space to roll out my 2-inch mattress on the floor (I'm the only one onboard except for crew members enjoying this luxury), so I get some rest. All passengers sleep crammed on the floor or on the seats. For washing we rely on the "bucket system" in small cabin rooms that get constantly flooded with (rather filthy) water. Surely I'm a white fly on board and everyone wants to speak with me. In spite of this and the breathtaking view of the sunset, I get on with my work...

I slow travel mainly to reduce my carbon footprint (by 10 times according to available estimates: see https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint ) but also to experience travel as most people in this world do. 93/

#RefuseTofly #EnvironmentalBreakdown #ClimateAction #globalwarming #climateBreakdown #travel #slowtravel #decarbonise #StrictlyPublicTransport #climateemergency #BismarckSea #PNG #ferrytravel #researcher #researcherlife #AFuoco

Day 72: In Papua you can never be sure about schedules and timing until the ship has actually taken off. After an obligatory 3 hour delay, I am eventually about to embark for the previous to last stage of my journey: 4 days of navigation over a 1,100km route: Lae-Umboi-Gloucester-Kimbe-Rabaul. I still don't know how to manage the last stretch from Rabaul to Buka....

I can't believe that after 70 days of travel I am just about to complete the 28,000km dividing Italy from the Solomons without flying! It will count nothing in terms of overall greenhouse emissions, but for me, now, it's everytghing I can do to for this wonderful fragile planet. 91/

I slow travel mainly to reduce my carbon footprint (by 10 times according to available estimates) but also to experience travel as most people in this world do.

#refusetofly #travel #slowtravel #decarbonise #climateemergency #globalwarming #climateBreakdown #collapse #TippingPoint #papuaisland #PNG #Lae #MerobeProvince #researcher #researcherlife #AFuoco

https://youtube.com/shorts/wPmND_u8zn0?feature=share

There are no bus schedules, no tickets, and buses depart when they are full. I am getting to the main departing point in Madang when it's already late in the morning - but I really wanted to talk about locals about coastal erosion in the city. Fortunately, I still find a place for me on probably the last bus, and two seats are allocated to my bulky luggage. Off we go for the last stop in Papua island before hopefully embarking for the Bismarck archipelago.

It takes 6 hours to cover 212km on "Ramu Sugars" road. It was even slower 3 yrs ago with unpaved track
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I slow travel mainly to reduce my carbon footprint (by 10 times according to available estimates) but also to experience travel as most people in this world do.

#refusetofly #travel #slowtravel #decarbonise #climateemergency #globalwarming #climateBreakdown #collapse #TippingPoint #papuaisland #PNG #Madang #researcher #researcherlife #AFuoco

Day 65: After a smooth 9-hour boat ride over the Sepik river, we made it to Sisimagung, Northern Papua. This is the 65th day of my no-fly trip from Italy to the Solomon islands. The coastline is beautiful, what you could describe as paradise on earth. Coconut trees gently bend over sandy beaches and the sound of the waves quietly resound among villagers busy with their fishing nets or cooking earths. It is then all the more upsetting that this beauty is slowly but incessantly being destroyed by sea level rise. This is what Jeffery Bae, a local resident, tells me in the few hours I have here before getting on a truck to Madang. It seems impossible that a sea so quiet can become the agent of destruction, but this is precisely what happens, as Jeffery shows traditional houses made with sago and bamboo leaves having been dismantled by the latest storm surges.
"We will have to relocate", tells me Jeffrey with an empty, "but we don't know where, because right behind our village there's a swamp".
Once more, I hear the same story: no help from national, regional governments, and neither from international organisations.
How many million stories are similar to Jeffrey's, and I wouldn't hear were it not for my slow travel.

Check interview here:
https://youtu.be/hk4Vr9p5ZFc

#refusetofly #travel #slowtravel #decarbonise #climateemergency #globalwarming #climateBreakdown #collapse #TippingPoint #papuaisland #PNG #Wewak #Sepik #WestSepik #researcher #researcherlife #AFuoco

Parental mental health — not medication — drives autism correlation, study finds

A sweeping new review of prenatal antidepressant use underscores a finding that has surfaced repeatedly throughout the last…
#NewsBeep #News #Healthcare #ADHD #antidepressant #autismcorrelation #CA #Canada #child #childneurodevelopmentaldisorder #depression #Health #Medication #mother #paper #parentalmentalhealth #Pregnancy #prenatalantidepressantuse #researcher #risk #woman
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/709598/

I admit I don't have receipts, but I'm not a #journalist or a #researcher, so I'm allowed to speculate: This violence & threats shit is from the #farright , #extrêmedroite, trying to make room for far right candidates to win and take over rural towns in #France 🇫🇷

#Maires quit after threats and violence , but also because of the low allowance, the job being overwhelming etc

#France24English

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M7s4KLC6fo8

I am very proud of my newly bought solar power generator and I use it straightaway on my makeshift office space at the upper deck of the ship taking me to Jakarta. The sunset over the Java sea is, however, a big distraction for my overdue essay...
See video : https://youtube.com/shorts/X4CwMSqv_Wk

#RefuseToFly #Slowtravel #Decarbonise #ClimateAction #StrictlyPublicTransport #researcherlife #researcher #AFuoco #Singapore #Indonesia #Batam #Jakarta #FerryTravel #Pelni #JavaSea

It's a very short boat ride the one from Singapore to Batam, Indonesia. But it's really a springboard from the globalised, motorised, and carbonised part of the world to the Global South. I have already travelled about 14,000km to come here without taking airplanes and I truly savour the crossing of this physical but most importantly cultural boundary between North and South.

The taxi that takes me to the embarkment to Jakarta travels through bumpy roads, which turn into dirt road at the very access to the Pelni (the Indonesian national ferry company) departure point. I am torn between accepting the offer of porters to carry my luggage or carrying it myself. It's little money for me and a lot of money for them. I opt for carrying it myself, as I am short of Indonesian cash and I perceive porters' requests as bordering extortion. I travel 3rd class, because I want to stay as close as possible to the travelling conditions of most travellers. I get a bed in one of the many sleeping halls provided on the ship. A mattress is provided, although it's better not to think of the last time it has been washed. I must say sleeping is hard. People talk loudly throughout the night and kids cry loud. However, I am so tired that I sleep tight. As usual, I am woken up at 4am by the call to the Islamic morning prayer.

#RefuseToFly #Slowtravel #Decarbonise #ClimateAction #StrictlyPublicTransport #researcherlife #researcher #Singapore #Indonesia #Batam #FerryTravel #Pelni

Are you a publisher, author, student? Then check this out :
https://junikvarving.com/

#editor #researcher #reviewer

To all researchers who recently* moved from a #postdoc to a permanent position (still in academia)**: are you more happy now?

Comments are obviously welcome!

() recently = in the last 10 years
(*) permanent = e.g #lecturer doing at least some research, or #researcher, or even semi-permanent like #tenureTrack, let's call it PI
#AcademicChatter #Research #Academia

Wonderful.
Best wishes to #DrTrapitBansal

#TrapitBansal Former #Researcher #OpenAI
Joins #MetaSuperintelligenceLabs
IITKanpur : Maths and Stats
#UniversityofMassachusettsAmherst : PhD Computer Science
Specialising in meta-learning, deep learning, and natural language processing.

EthanRusso.org is the personal website of #EthanRusso, MD, a #neurologist and medical #researcher.

I’m proud to announce a new course offering with our partners at MM411, “Certificate of Advanced #Cannabis #Pharmacology & #Therapeutics”. This course is for practitioners and professionals who want to provide evidence-based care and support to patients seeking alternatives to conventional pharmaceutical therapies.

#WEEDMoB #Hanfgeschichten #Streeck #NinaWarken #Hanf

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2RH7gOz04I-dN6WEb-eSsg

→ Former OpenAI Researcher Says the Company Broke Copyright Law
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/technology/openai-copyright-law.html

“Suchir Balaji spent nearly four years as an artificial intelligence researcher at OpenAI. [A]fter the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, he thought harder about what the company was doing. He came to the conclusion that OpenAI’s use of copyrighted data violated the law and that technologies like ChatGPT were damaging the internet.”

#Balaji #researcher #OpenAI #ChatGPT #copyrighted #data #law #internet

Bug Bounty Plattform "#HackerOne" warnt nun auch in einem offenen Brief vor den negativen Auswirkungen der geplanten #UN #Cybercrime #Konvention für #Cybersecurity #Researcher:
"While the convention aims to enhance international collaboration against cybercriminals, Cohen writes that its vague terminology could inadvertently suppress ethical research activities."
https://cyberscoop.com/un-cybercrime-treaty-hackerone-letter-security-research/

As a #researcher, whenever I can't use a service hosted by my #university, I use #framasoft tools:
- Framadate, not #doodle
- Framagroupes, not #GoogleGroups for email lists
- Framatalk, not #Zoom
- Framateam, not #Slack
- Framaforms, not #GoogleForms
- Framapad rather than #GoogleDocs (if I don't need formatting, fortunately I have uni-hosted #onlyOffice + a #CNRS hosted #overleaf too, #plmLatex)
- Framagit for #git, not #github/ #gitlab

https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/

#gafam #google
@Framasoft

It's been a while since I did an #Introductions #Connections #Introduction #TwitterMigration post, where I curate a list of interesting people in the #Fediverse :fediverse: you might want to follow - helping us create valuable communities and connections.

@nrennie is a #lecturer #researcher in #health #DataScience at #LancasterUniversity, and she does amazing work in #DataViz, primarily with #RStats

@mkohler is a #SoftwareEngineer and #EngineeringManager, and a long-time contributor to all things @mozilla, and in particular, the #CommonVoice project

@isomeme is a #SoftwareEngineer too and she practices Hermetic #Magick

@skc is Scott Kingsley Clark, who is also a #SoftwareEngineer and Lead Dev of the #Pods framework for #WordPress

@aehdeschaine is interested in #libraries #archives #architecture and #PaleoGeography

@hclarke is a Senior #Research Fellow at #UniMelb. He researches #WildFire and #ClimageChange 🔥 🌲

@blogdiva is Liza, and she, well she's generally awesome and shares my views on Space Karen / ApartheidBoi 🇵🇷