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MarkHanson , to random
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The strain on scientific publishing 📄:

The publishing sector has a problem. Scientists are overwhelmed, editors are overworked, special issue invitations are constant, research paper mills, article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!?

Myself, pablo, @paolocrosetto and Dan have spent the last few months investigating just that.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884

A thread🧵1/n

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MarkHanson OP ,
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isthereanydeal , to steam
@isthereanydeal@mastodon.social avatar

Brotato is a roguelite where you play a potato wielding WEAPONS to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.

Get Brotato from the Shmup fest on @steam :
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1942280/Brotato/

lupec ,

Yup, makes it even cooler!

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elonjet , to random
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Landed in Austin, Texas, US. Apx. flt. time 33 min.

elonjet OP ,
@elonjet@mastodon.social avatar

527 mile (458 NM) flight from 00AR to AUS

~ 283 gallons (1,070 liters).
~ 1,894 lbs (859 kg) of jet fuel used.
~ $1,583 cost of fuel.
~ 3 tons of CO2 emissions.

elonjet , to random
@elonjet@mastodon.social avatar

Took off from Eagle Pass, Texas, US.

slhuang , to random
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smol thread!

Do you ever do something as an author that's SO VERY CLEVER AND CHALLENGING and then

and then

nobody notices?

Y'all I wrote 1 of 5 POVs in a 3rd person book entirely without personal pronouns and I don't think anyone's mentioned it at all 🤣🤣🤣

slhuang OP , (edited )
@slhuang@wandering.shop avatar

end of thread. here is the book btw!

my 150,000-word novel with one of the 5 third-person POVs written pronoun-less!

THE WATER OUTLAWS:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250180421/thewateroutlaws

plus yanno lots of swordfights 😆⚔️

@bookstodon

MacropodCare ,
@MacropodCare@mastodon.au avatar

@slhuang @bookstodon

Good luck with the book.

elonjet , to random
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Landed in Eagle Pass, Texas, US.

GreenFire ,
@GreenFire@mstdn.social avatar

@elonjet
ELoon has made the MAGA pilgrimage down to our southern border I see.

tegeljerk ,
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elonjet , to random
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Took off from Austin, Texas, US.

mektastic , to random
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So, I kind of dipped my tippy toe in to dark romance. And I have questions. I feel like I need a mentor lol

mektastic OP ,
@mektastic@romancelandia.club avatar

@herhandsmyhands Me too. I have dipped my toe and I don't know if I like the water or not lol

herhandsmyhands ,
@herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club avatar

@mektastic I am trying to think if I know of anyone who's here who is into it.

@romancelandia could you please scroll up this conversation and help @mektastic navigate her way through dark romance?

richardsever , to random
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BioRxiv has joined forces with Company of Biologists to expand our presence on Mastodon.

Mastodon accounts now available for every subject category https://connect.biorxiv.org/news/2023/09/27/biorxiv_expands_on_social_platforms

gpollara ,
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@richardsever fabulous, thank you. Supporting Mastodon as a source of academic material identification & sharing! @academicchatter

kde , to random
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Check out our new "KDE for Gamers" guide.

Whether you are into casual, retro or AAA , KDE has something for you 🎮🎲!

https://kde.org/for/gamers/

@kde

BiblioWingate , to random
@BiblioWingate@hcommons.social avatar

people! Have you ever read a book or article that proposed anything like the communications circuit for manuscripts? Basically a conceptual model of the creation, circulation, and reception of mss books? I would love to know about them for my quals paper!

dancingtreefrog , to random
@dancingtreefrog@mastodon.social avatar

Young male college students + booze + sex = murder

Students made Oxford the murder capital of late medieval England, research suggests

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-students-oxford-capital-late-medieval.html

> A project mapping medieval England's known murder cases has now added Oxford and York to its street plan of London's 14th century slayings, and found that Oxford's student population was by far the most lethally violent of all social or professional groups in any of the three cities.

ClaireFromClare ,
@ClaireFromClare@h-net.social avatar

@dancingtreefrog These are based on those of the which also has an excellent new website. Here's the HTT post: https://www.historictownstrust.uk/post/mapping-medieval-murders

Terrific material for a , , or !

@medievodons @histodons

ClaireFromClare ,
@ClaireFromClare@h-net.social avatar

residents & alumni, what are your favourite aspects of your ? Any quirks to highlight after seeing the , or the new overlay from ? Ghostly, evocative, thoughts on green space & a ?
https://medievalmurdermap.co.uk/maps/oxford/?t=%5B%22homicide%22%5D

@trishgreenhalgh @HLaehnemann @OxMedStud @dancingtreefrog @medievodons @histodons

tkinias , to random
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Something that’s been nagging at me all day: A discussion with a parent about their teen’s belief that history classes are a waste of time—not because the kid isn’t interested in history, but because they believe that they can learn all they need to know about the Roman Empire from YouTube videos far more efficiently than by taking classes.

There’s so much misunderstanding of what history is about baked in there that I don’t even know where to start.

CitizenWald ,
@CitizenWald@historians.social avatar

@tkinias I know, right? Exactly what I meant in last post about popular tendency to reduce history to a set of facts rather than an interpretive method and framework (not that there aren't good videos about Antiquity, from Mary Beard to Tom Holland and others).

And on that note, I've made a point of using @AHAHistorians documents in teaching my intro history & methods course: e.g.

Where Do People Get Their History? | AHA

https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/history-the-past-and-public-culture-results-from-a-national-survey/3-where-do-people-get-their-history

@histodons

CandaceRobbAuthor ,
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GreenRoc , to random
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as long as society in general has the ability and incentive to call the cops on anyone acting 'weird' I will not be safe to exist outside of my home.

btaroli ,
@btaroli@federate.social avatar

@GreenRoc I regularly have “the talk” with my son, who already has a bone to pick with trigger happy cops. Please goddess let his drive for self-preservation overcome unfiltered sharing when his time in front of a gun arrives. 🙏🙏

@actuallyautistic

ahrimans_erbe ,
@ahrimans_erbe@social.anoxinon.de avatar

@btaroli @GreenRoc @actuallyautistic
I was only once in USA and it was in your area and city. No place in the world I felt so constantly tension and unsafe like there. Eg. I accidentally thought it would be a good idea to walk by foot and cross tenderloin to reach union square. After three blocks and seeing police taking people under arrest, people taking openly drugs, running around like zombies I backed out again. Also everywhere this aggression and people knowing no borders.

georgetakei , to random
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It’s finally happened. Trump’s business empire is on the verge of total ruin as his decades-long practice of fraudulently inflating his property values led a NY judge to CANCEL the business certificates of the Trump Organization entities.

Kudos to NY Attorney General Letitia James for bringing this all to light and achieving accountability against Trump. He’s a fraud. He’s a rapist. And he’s a clear and present danger to our democracy.

But justice has caught up to him, and it is glorious to see.

tommyyum ,
@tommyyum@mstdn.social avatar

@georgetakei @actuallyautistic What took so long is my question. A notorious liar, cheat, and scoundrel.

roknrol ,
@roknrol@neurodiversity-in.au avatar

@tommyyum @georgetakei @actuallyautistic theyre dragging everything out and hoping he dies before there are repurcussions. There wont ever be actual consequences for him...maybe for his kids, but not for him.

It's taking so long because nobody in charge actually wants to hold him accountable.

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