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prachisrivas , 5 hours ago to academicchatter

The 2025 UKFIET Conference, held in Oxford every two years in the broad field of education and global development, is looking for theme convenors.

Conference Theme: Mobilising Knowledge, Partnerships, and Innovations for Sustainable Development through Education and Training

Deadline: 30 September 2024

https://www.ukfiet.org/2024/ukfiet-2025-conference-seeking-theme-convenors/

#Conference #Education #GlobalEducation #SDG4 @academicchatter

SRDas , 4 hours ago

@prachisrivas @academicchatter Tempting even across the pond - though I'm not affiliated with any of the orgs

SRDas , 2 hours ago

@prachisrivas @academicchatter Sounds terrific! I miss going to the BCCE (Biennial Conf for Chem Ed) - I learned so much about Chem Ed and pedagogy there. Am trying to do new educational things now with new technologies (remote automated lab). So no research pubs on this - but would be nice to try and highlight education impacts and potential - and learn what's happening (globally) in Ed+tech etc.

idk that I can/should do this as a convener tho

Uair , 3 months ago to bookstodon

@bookstodon

Idea:

Bookstores should group fantasy with horror instead of scifi. Both fantasy and horror are purely creations of the author's mind; scifi is tethered to factual information.

If you need to group scifi, I'd put it with mysteries and thrillers.

SRDas , 3 months ago

@aprilfollies @_L1vY_ @Uair @bookstodon

This was 25+ yrs ago now but I'll not forget it. Visiting a friend in grad school at Duke and we walk into a (mostly used) bookstore in Durham, NC. I was looking rebuild by my SF collection so I go straight to the SF section and there I find: Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species.

dilmandila , 7 months ago to blackmastodon

So the good news continues as my book, Where Rivers Go To Die, makes it to the #BSFA longlist for Best Collection, shortly after it became a finalist at the Philip K Dick Awards. Yay!

The BSFA this year is a very long list with lots of good books to discover and put on your reading list for 2024.

https://bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-longlist

#book #books #reads #amreading #sff #writing #writingcommunity #scifi #amreadingsff
@bookstodon @blackmastodon

SRDas , 7 months ago

@dilmandila @bookstodon that's awesome! 🙌🏽

dilmandila , 8 months ago to bookstodon

Oh my God! Oh fck! I wake up to this big news and all I can say is fck! I went to bed having read something about Philip K Dick Awards (I can't even remember what I read about it!) and I wake up to learn that my book, Where Rivers Go To Die, has been nominated for this and its a big deal to me and all I can day is f*ck! What a way to start the year!

https://www.norwescon.org/2024/01/09/2024-philip-k-dick-award-nominees-announced/

@bookstodon #books #sff #book #writing #writingcommunity

SRDas , 8 months ago

@dilmandila @bookstodon wow that's so awesome! 🙌🏽

TheConversationUS , 10 months ago to histodons

In 1911, George de Hevesy had the sneaking suspicion that the kitchen of his boarding house cafeteria was reusing leftovers in their soup.

So he came up with a plan and sneakily sprinkled a small amount of radioactive material in his leftover meat. A few days later, he measured the radioactivity in the prepared food – catching his landlady red-handed. It was the first successful radioactive tracer experiment.
https://theconversation.com/how-a-disgruntled-scientist-looking-to-prove-his-food-wasnt-fresh-discovered-radioactive-tracers-and-won-a-nobel-prize-80-years-ago-214784
@histodons #histodonds #historyofscience

SRDas , 10 months ago

@TheConversationUS @histodons although leftover meat :(

SRDas , 1 year ago

@drinkswriter @drinkstodon @bookstodon looks terrific! Such a super contents list!