Appel à contributions | Le christianisme aux frontières. Quelques études de cas des périodes romaine et tardo-antique | Frontière·s, supplément 3, 2025
Coordination : Dominic Moreau (Univ. Lille, HALMA, coordinateur du projet DANUBIUS)
@bookstodon
“so much of the writing submitted (and selected) peeks through the cracks of doors, pushes boundaries, asks the reader to step out of the known and comfortable… these are haunted pages. There are many, many ghosts.”
—from the editors’ intro to NWS41
If you're following me, it's very likely you've already got my wee romantic-slash-comedic-slash-erotic "Rear Admiral" but did I mention there are over TWO HUNDRED more stories?
@RolloTreadway oh is that the server lark? I think the design of this is wrong the server lark should be seemless IMO. put a bunch of peeps off, lucky I'm a geek :)
So both lemmy and lotide were having big problems where they'd get totally overwhelmed, especially once I started federating with huge instances. At first I thought it was because my servers aren't very powerful, but eventually I got the idea that maybe it's because it can't keep up with federation data from the big instances.
So I decided to limit the connections per IP address. Long-term testing isn't done yet, but so far both my lemmy and lotide instances aren't getting crushed when they're exposed to the outside world, so I think it's helping.
In /etc/nginx/nginx.conf, under the http section, I added the line "limit_conn_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=conn_limit_per_ip:10m;"
Then, in my sites-available folder for the services, I added "limit_conn conn_limit_per_ip 4;" or something similar. Both lemmy and lotide have different sections for ActivityPub and API, so it appears I can limit the connections just to those parts of the site.
It's only been a few days, but whereas before both instances would die randomly pretty quickly once exposed to the outside world, now it appears that they're both stable. Meanwhile, I'm still getting federated posts and comments.
#AskingAutistics (if you are not autistic please don’t comment, read and learn. Yes, I’m fed up to read allistic comments in thread asking input from autistics. And don’t waste your time and mine by trying to argue with me about that I will simply block you)
Why did you choose to identify yourself as #autistic, #Asperger, being on the spectrum, etc. ? Usually from what I read it’s a generational word and/or a cultural one as our #ActuallyAutistic is international and this is too often forgotten
Oh wow. It was absolutely stunning! An incredible translation of the novel, with so many extra elements which couldn’t have worked in any other medium except live #theatre.
If you have a chance to see it wherever it’s playing next, don’t miss it; it’s a hell of a show!
As we all hopefully know, everything @neilhimself touches turns to magic, like a less cursed King Midas!
<p>Motivation Science, Vol 9(3), Sep 2023, 205-215; doi:10.1037/mot0000299</p>
<p>The relationship between reward value and cognitive performance is often thought to be curvilinear, shaped like an inverted U. Moderately valuable rewards should facilitate, but extremely valuable rewards should harm, performance. Despite the popularity of this idea, the dose–response relationship between reward value and cognitive performance is not yet well understood. Here, we present a set of experiments (total <em>N</em> = 254) that examine the effects of monetary reward (no reward, medium reward, extreme reward) on task-switching performance. Overall, more valuable rewards led to better performance. Yet, when physical reward cues were present (i.e., when the money at stake was placed on the table), we observed the predicted inverted U-shaped relationship. Together, our results suggest that (a) people are often able to maintain good cognitive performance when the stakes are high and that (b) physical reward cues may play a key role in triggering “choking under pressure.” (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)</p>
<p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1037/mot0000299" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read the full article ›</a></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://ifp.nyu.edu/2023/journal-article-abstracts/mot0000299/">Mapping the dose–response relationship between monetary reward and cognitive performance.</a> was curated by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://ifp.nyu.edu">information for practice</a>.</p>
Since I am planning to delete my Twitter account soon, I am slowly deleting every post I made manually, so I can see what I posted (I also do not trust that they will delete the posts if I delete the account). A large portion of my replies are congratulating people on things like their newly published paper, graduating, getting a grant, etc. These kind of posts are what I miss about Twitter, and I hope more people come and post their successes on Mastodon. #AcademicChatter
@DrEvanGowan
What do you think is the best way to encourage more academics to switch?
I don't know the answer, nor do I think people should be actively persuaded. Maybe just creating an inviting alternative environment on Mastodon is enough, but the risk there is you never reach a network effect / gravitational pull. #academicchatter#mastodon#twitter @yetiinabox@academicchatter
Live tooting from conferences, celebrating publications, circulating calls, putting out the word on jobs...all the stuff we used to do over there! And also, the more difficult bits - calling out abusive profs happened in significant part on Twitter, as did the formation of alternative informal networks.