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Astronomer, #ESAEuclid developer, cares enthusiastically about #space, #urbanism, #climatechange, and #HumanPoweredVehicles

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NickEast , to writers
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I didn't realise this was a thing, do people really think Mary Shelly wasn't the first SciFi author? 🤔

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And then there's the other connection: she sketched the plot of the book during the really grey and rainy summer 1816, which was due to the eruption of the in Indonesia. "The summer that wasn't there" in Europe also led to mis-harvests and the rise of a new means of transportation: the .

So and the bike share the same catalyst!

renordquist , to academicchatter
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Me: Gets PhD in animal behaviour and studies animal behaviour for 20-odd years

Random man: "I, too, have looked at an animal once in my life, I will now e-mail this woman to tell her about animal behaviour that she probably has never seen as fully and expertly I have"

Me: Puts e-mail with the mainsplaining collection

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Most of us astronomers have email folders like that. Mansplaining (also to men) why we're all wrong with a tendency towards conspiracy theories.

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In my use not. Mansplaining for me is a condescending explaining of issues to people that probably have more knowledge on the topic than the mansplainer. And it's 95% men that do this, but not exclusively.

Crank for me is someone that propagates non-scientific "science" ideas.

Those cranks that I hear of are usually also mansplainers (and men, as far as I can tell), but only some mansplainers are cranks.

AlexSanterne , to academicchatter
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I've just computed that if you want to ONE by to (about 2880 tCO2, according to @labos1point5), by not sending (without attachment), I need to completely stop sending emails for the next ...

272 YEARS !

assuming an average of 10 mails per day, each working . The of an email is considered to be 4g CO2eq.

It's much easier to @StayGrounded_net !

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@AlexSanterne @labos1point5 @StayGrounded_net @academicchatter

And if you want to weigh video-meeting vs. in-person meeting then if you had to drive an ICE car to a full-day in-person meeting the break-even distance for emissions is about 5km.

Not 500km, 5km.

renordquist , to academicchatter
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I very much feel this column on "slaying zombie projects"; I remember as a newly-minted PhD not understanding how it was possible to have a drawer full of unpublished data. I now have my own zombie data sets, and this take on how to deal with undead projects is a quite refreshing way to look at them.

Perhaps time to clean up some hard drives.

(sorry, its in Nature, thus not OA. Moral of the story: "do, or do not, there is no try")

@academicchatter https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03958-8

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I've just cleaned up a 10-year old side project. Have some hardware to dispose of, wrote a blog-post style result summary instead of a full science article. Spent 2 afternoons, 1 for writing, 1 for plots. That's it. Was lingering in the back of my head for many years. Not good!

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