drksolsen.bsky.social
Martian science at Oxford
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All figured out
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I love climbing into the back of black cabs
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Went back to X to see what the politicians are saying and Kanye's back, peddling bedazzled swastika jewellery and had 40 thousand likes. 🙄😤
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Just caught this headline on CBC, I like a good dollop of kindness and enthusiasm alongside my art criticism!
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Pretty perfect launch.
The team celebrated crossing the beyond of geostationary orbit and communicating with the NASA deep space network.
They have a mission!!
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Lookin' good
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With it happening while re-opening talks with Russia, it really felt like he was seeing which side was ready to pay biggest, most self-enriching bribe.
Checking the real estate potential of the 'riviera of the black sea'.
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And good ol' free speech, let's go call astronauts retarded and blame Ukraine for starting the war and tell the world that tobacco isn't addictive and SARS is no worse than the flu and CO2 emissions aren't linked to temperature.
Every attack on academia and the media curtails free speech.
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Peer review is only as good as the integrity of the reviewers and editors. Publish for profit models will take rejected work and just find more reviewers. If the reviewer isn't an expert or doesn't care....
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The iron oxide gives Mars its red colour.
If it's ferrihydrite, that means it was likely formed in a wet environment - hinting that the ancient climate supported surface water.
(ESA also used the sploosh emoji when talking about how moist Mars was)
🧪ðŸ”
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Also, got the email from Thames Water yesterday declaring the average household bill will go up £16 a month..... they don't even treat the water anymore so that's going straight into pockets
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Worst part is that about 10% of UK power comes from incinerators whose fuel source is our kitchen and general waste and the councils make us pay to have it collected!!!
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In the photo, Trailblazer is undergoing vibration testing last Feb. The white disk under LTM is an antenna, solar panels are left, and the High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM3) is on top.
From Lockheed's Flickr, trailblazer.caltech.edu/gallery.html
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This spring, rather than this summer, start tomorrow!
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Why wait?
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What are you talking about?🤣 There's no such thing as academic authority. Integrity among researchers and among journalists, yes - some more than others. There's no factual monism, discourse and debate are everywhere. Academia is committed to building and providing the tools and means to find truth
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Low quality publications dilute the good.
Example: when anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists cling to refuted studies denounced by the authors themselves.
Or whenever a contemporary study attempts to refute climate change... those papers are sometimes paid for by the oil sector.
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😂 obvs! The essay asks why people stateside are doing what they are doing, and my comment pointed out known flaws in the system!
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The author of that study is a member of @ox.ac.uk @jesusoxford.bsky.social and on Bsky: @jonnyjjt.bsky.social
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Also: @thesillyserious.bsky.social is on here!
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The fringes of publishing are big business without academic rigour or integrity. Paper mills, predatory journals, fake papers and publish-for-profit damage public trust in academia.
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The essay concludes by suggesting that independent media, with weakened journalistic integrity, is being subverted through financial campaigning. The same thing may be happening in academia.
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A fatal flaw in the ideology: as I recall, media have been fighting academia on climate science for our entire lives!
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Classic examples that stuck with me are Moon, Primer, Attack the Block, District 9.... they just came out of nowhere...
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Ghostery
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Shit, it's the Independent with the illegal splash requiring cookies to read.
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You can install a tool in Firefox to do that for you. It's bliss.
Doesn't work on Telegraph and a couple other right-wing news outlets - they don't allow the option to reject cookies, which is illegal.
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And yet ....
Definitely check out the article.