#Science Field

[nasa]

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[reasonsforhope]

If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...

Start helping with citizen science projects

What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!

You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases

Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.

Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.

Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.

Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.

Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.

Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.

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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.

Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help

Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.

[coffeeanddaggers]

I MEAN YEAH THIS IS ACCURATE AF!

[fossilprep]

Hadrosaur fibula with a Tyrannosaur tooth embedded! The tooth is in the spongy bone on the proximal end of the bone, plus there are subtle bite marks along the shaft, which could point to scavenging behavior from a Tyrannosaur. This fibula is part of a skeleton we're currently excavating at Jack's Bonebed in Havre, Montana, and was found laying on top of the tibia.

[starry-bi-sky]

bruce and danny being fuckign nerds together,,,, they are being the BIGGEST nerds. geeks. if you will

these losers are color-coding the most inane bullshit. they are making diagrams for things you've never even thought of. they are having the time of their lives

"what are you two doing?"

Danny, sitting criss-cross on a table, hunched over a spread of papers and a bunch of different jello cups, his back is gonna hurt SO much: color-coding jello

Bruce, sitting in a nearby chair, also criss-cross, scribbling on a graph paper: hm [agreeing]

Alfred, already exasperated and SO fond: may i ask why? and on what parameters?

Danny: we're basing it off which flavors are the most mentally stimulating and for which subjects :}

Alfred, SO fond: ah. i see.

Danny, snapping his head over to Bruce and leaning over: wh- no-- no. Buzz, I told you: lemon-flavored jello stays strictly in the 'smelling salts' category--

Bruce, still writing on the graph paper: mn. no.

Danny, nearly sprawled across his back, faux-outraged: strawberry is NOT good for math-- you fucken HEATHEN--! Give me that pen!

Bruce, did that solely to rile up Danny, now trying not to smile: hnm.

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

Charged Drops Don't Splash

When a droplet falls on a surface, it spreads itself horizontally into a thin lamella. Sometimes -- depending on factors like viscosity, impact speed, and air pressure -- that drop splashes, breaking up along its edge into myriad smaller droplets. But a new study finds that a small electrical charge is enough to suppress a drop's splash. (Image and research credit: F. Yu et al.; via APS News) Read the full article

[cryptid-with-an-axe]

-Pros to me doing my field research alone: nobody saw me sprain my ankle by tripping over a gopher hole

-Cons to me doing my field research alone: I keep pointing at bugs/critters going "woah look a cool bug/critter!" and nobody's there to go "woah lemme see!" so I'm really just entertaining myself only

[salamispots]

drew some creatures at the amnh :0

[dandp]

So during the tit premiere I made this jokey post and then the Phannie Statistic Brain popped out and said "actually is that even hyperbole or is that accurate" so naturally the only thing to do was rewatch tit and mark down every time they touched and do a statistical analysis. Yes this is an incredibly dumb concept/post. Results under the cut!

So I counted pretty much every touch, all of which are listed at the end for anyone curious. Boxing is kind of an outlier and I didn't count every single individual moment in that but am roughly considering it to be 13 touches. I'll include stats both counting it as just 1 and counting the full 13. Also counting Sister Daniel entrance because it's close enough with what Dan does with the cross necklace and I felt on principle it had to be counted. Here's what we ended up with:

Total number: 28 (40 if you count boxing)

Average: 1 touch every 3.36 minutes (2.35 minutes if you count boxing)

Total number of shoulder touches specifically: 12 (1 every 7.38 minutes)

All but 2 of the non-boxing touches were done by Dan

The largest amount of time without a touch was 16:24 - Dan did in fact beat the "needs to touch him every 10 minutes" allegations once! He made up for it in the averages though, where he certainly did not beat them. It should also be noted that this stretch of time was during parts of conspiracies and role model/nole model, where they are generally staged further apart from each other. Dan getting right up in Phil's space during the fake video conspiracy was also within that time period which, while it couldn't be technically counted as a touch, is in the spirit.

The staging overall did tend to play a role in the frequency of touches throughout the whole show. I've summed up this phenomenon in this very scientific and real graph.

In conclusion: Man, those boys really touch each other a lot! (Mostly Dan though. No one is surprised)

Full list of touches:

Shoulder touch 2:01

Shoulder touch 10:00

Arm grab 11:04

Shoulder touch 13:51

Shoulder touch 15:02

Wrist grab 15:22

Hand touch 21:27

Shoulder touch 37:51

Shoulder tap 43:17

Shoulder tap 44:27

Shoulder grab by Phil 46:44

Arm touch 47:40

Shoulder touch 48:09

Side bump 51:14

Hair tousle 52:05

Slap fight 52:07

(52:38-57:38 intermission)

Boxing 57:38-1:04:50

Shoulder touch 1:09:18

Hand slap 1:09:33

Shoulder touch 1:09:51

Arm touch 1:14:38

Shoulder touch 1:14:58

Grab + push 1:15:06

Sister Daniel entrance 1:20:30

Shoulder touch 1:25:53

Extended hand touch in song 1:35:49

Tit grab 1:35:56

Back to back 1:36:37

[forecast0ctopus]

i think we should ship carol marcus and gillian taylor

[chernobog13]

Don't leave the ship without 'em!

[devilsmarmalade]

being known for writing yaoi is crazy bc i have much cooler insects interests. like i could tell you a degree's worth of information about mushrooms and insects. like how there's a species of termite that farms mushrooms. did you know that?

[sexhaver]

okay so uploading ur consciousness is a bad idea obviously BUT what if you ship of theseus'd the brain itself

like one neuron at a time

as much as i disagree with John Searle about pretty much everything (including his second scenario here, which i personally find a bit dramatic), i do have to give him credit for foreseeing basically every single relevant cognitive science question of the next half-century and showing his work for how he arrives at his conclusions. he wrote this in 1992

[theofficialastronomy101]

Absolutely amazing tonight

[fiveandknives]

Cynic, probably autistic, disabled, science guy with a cane with his best friend who he’s also fuckin’ on the down low…oh and probably ethic and conduct violations too