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Last Notes npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik I couldn't help myself once the idea came into my head following the post from this morning (https://mastodon.world/@ombialik/116973827494220301) npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik I'm not going to even pretend things are going to be easy from now to November. Both the national and international politics are going to be a mess, and likely adversely affect my well-being; work is not going to show me any mercy, and personal life... well, that's personal. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik While I am for the end of some of these incentives (given the strain they put on researchers there and the system as a whole), together with restrictions on U.S. researchers' foreign collaboration, we are witnessing a fragmentation of the entire scientific architecture. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik I like to finish tasks early, both so I don't forget about them and because every task I clear off my desk is a bit of time I open up for myself down the line. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik #WeekendReading: Remírez et al., about a boron-based salinity proxy for normal marine conditions! I'm going for cautiously optimistic. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik When sewing is treated as a premium hobby for an eccentric few, priced accordingly, and one needs to make a special trip to find basic supplies, no one should be surprised that people can't patch a hole in their pants or put back a button on their shirt. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik I'm putting this under #SciFiScience. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik The nice thing about working on parts of the world that not many people study is that you get to find out a lot of new things simply by observation. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik There's this paper, I wrote it a decade ago, and for reasons it was left in the drawer. Recently, because of other reasons, I found myself brushing it up and submitting. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik Title of the paper: The global distribution of CO2-rich magmas is determined by lithospheric thickness. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik @nprofile…sypg The attached map is to llustrates where the geographical regions are. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik The sad reality of engineering is that just because physics and maths say something should work or be more efficient, it doesn't mean we have any idea how to pull it off (or at least, while being economic). npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik Some things I want for my birthday: npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik What would happen if we stuck a stick to the butt of a chicken 🐔? npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik 🤦 I became one of those people who can't even remember how many papers he has in review. Yesterday, someone asked me, and I counted and said four. Today I got emails about two others I forgot. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik SciComm people! npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik Radar absorbing materials in use are super secret, but new ones? Those are developed by researchers, oft in academia, so you can just open an academic journal and read about the next-gen MnZn ferrite/epoxy coating. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik @nprofile…tg2e I'm going to make a long post at some point about "why the thing you care about has no scientific research on", but "no clear path for progress" is, in my limited experience, not actually a main reason there. Scientists tend to be curious and respond to frustrating topics with tenacity. It's just that if there isn't funding, that would be a personal project running in the background at take much-much longer. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik There is still some debate about what Brain Fog is, how to define it, and what it means (it's not one thing), despite it being associated with more than a dozen chronic diseases. Some people try to outline definitions now. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik Dear scientific reviewers and editors out there... please! Make sure people label axes on their figures and provide units. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik @nprofile…qysn If you look at production volumes, then Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Indonesia. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik It is sort of absurd that in this day and age, countries that grow cocoa are nonentities for chocolate products, while countries where it's hard to even grow it in a lab are world-famous for theirs. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik @nprofile…sypg "Fast" ~ 20 milion years. Why? Sulfides got oxidized by increasing oxygen levels, paired with barium, and precipitated as barite. What? The ocean became less toxic to things we recognize as life. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik There were a lot of weird chemical reactions that had to occur through Earth's history to make Earth habitable. Getting rid of barium and sulfides was one of them and might have happened very fast in the late Ediacaran. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik @nprofile…hmf0 So far, they seem to be migrating mostly to LinkedIn, which is just depressing. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik Every time I send a copy of a paper of mine on request from someone, be it on ResearchGate or less commonly on email, I tell them in my reply that I'd be happy to answer any question they might have on the text. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik No! Bad characters! No breaking off from the main plot to pair up and start a romantic subplot. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik Unpopular opinion - terrain painting is fun. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik I'm still struggling to find my footing here on Mastodon. A bit with the platforms and tags, but mostly finding people to follow. I'm a bit all over the place, posting about my #writing, be it academic or fiction (mostly #SciFi), and about cool #Science I ran into, and the more common than it should be - complain about stuff. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik I'm painfully aware that for most people, "the sea" goes only about as far as they can see from the beach. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik #WeekendReading: Zhong et al. on Cadmium isotope systematics in seep carbonates. Looks like it tracks seawater in calcite and aragonite, but the pore fluids in dolomite. Not surprising, but potentially useful! npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik Remember that thing about plants becoming less nutritious (mostly less protein and more sugar) with climate change? npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik Someone should really do something about this 24-hour limit on a day's length; it's a real hindrance on getting stuff done. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik #WeekendReading: Williams et al., on the role of orbital forcing versus #CO2 on ice feedbacks in the (geologic) near recent using some modeling work. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik #WeekendReading: Platt et al., on automated mineralogical classification of hyperspectral images from #Mars to better map and understand the Red Planet. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik #WeekendReading: Douglas et al., on how #heatwaves impact the emission of #greenhouse gases from estuaries. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik #WeekendReading: Edwing et al. on the impact of marine heatwaves on ocean-athemosphere CO2 fluxes (specifically in the US East Coast, but that part is less interesting for me). npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik One of the most amazing projects I got to be part of is finally out! We now have a unified and comprehensive framework for #seafloor #geomorphology, which will, with a bit of luck, get us all to call things the same way. A major step forwards to be able to study the #ocean's floor consistently. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik #WeekendReading: Wang et al., on magnesium isotopes and how they work in carbonate minerals (notably the role of flow regime in setting the rate limits). npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik @nprofile…djfr Al as aluminum, just elemental chemistry here, no heavy models. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik No #WeekendReading this week, taking an internet break for the weekend. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik @nprofile…yucc That I can get behind, same as I don't send pre-prints that are right there on the repository. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik I have been trying to get into Discord, but it always feels like those WhatsApp groups I mute because there are a thousand messages a day, and then stop keeping up because there are a thousand unread messages that were added while I was asleep. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik My new job is far (far) from being my dream job, but it has some upsides. A big one (and a big reason I took it) is access to the #sea . It's nice to be on a #boat again, and for good or for ill, it's going to be a common thing. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik Thinking about buying a new e-ink #ereader (not a tablet, I want something exclusively to read #books and nothing else). npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik Hey! Amazing SFF reader community! npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik One of the joys of working at a university is that I need to dip into dark corners of the internet to get only ~25% of the research papers I want/need to read and not ~97%. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik @nprofile…uhkh We're not really sure. It seems to be a combination of elements, including changes in trophic states, sediment input, development, pollution, over-harvesting, and maybe also diseases, depending on where and when. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik I got an #OpenPosition (fully funded) for a PhD student/postdoc in #marine #biogeochemistry. As part of the MARBEDS project, we are looking for someone to study #seafloor fluxes and their interactions with #microbial communities in #biodiversity hotspots. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik Most people, when they think "reef", think of corals. That might be because that is the only one they heard about, as we lost many of the oyster #reef systems that used to dot the European coastline. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik I really hope this part will make it past my co-authors, because I don't know when again in my career I will have the opportunity to open a paper with a quote from The Princess Bride. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik I'm getting really tired of playing whack-a-mole blocking emails from predatory journals and conferences. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik Every space opera setting needs a map, and My WORLDS OF THE PACT, cannot be an exception. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik Back when I was a student, the high-level advance classes in analytical chemistry were given in the Geology department, and the one on proteins in the Chemistry department. Knowledge partition works really strangely sometimes. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik As far as I could find, we don't really have anything like the Star Trek alphabetized #planetary classification, at least not for rocky #planets. But we do have something for gas giants in the form of the Sudarsky classification based on spectra and temperature. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik Getting a #reef to solidify and harden is one of those things that seems simple (it's the framework builders, isn't it?). But it's actually (much) more complicated (different orders of strength and crystallinity, resistance to bioerosion, chemical stability). Dissolution, alkalinity generation, and precipitation might be key here. Sulfate reduction does some interesting things there. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik Seawater is an electrolyte, that is why we can use cathodic protection for metals we submerge in it. But it also means we can make #batteries with seawater... assuming we can overcome the many, many complications related to the complex ionic mix that is #seawater. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik @nprofile…w778 That's the original work from 1979, it has been expanded on by many subsequent studies. I just fell down the rabbit hole trying to figure out how this entire scheme (which I was first introduced to when a co-author used it in one of our papers) came to be. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik #WeekendReading: (back to classics) Huang and Meinschein about sterols (type of organic compound) as #ecological indicators. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik I am becoming more and more convinced of the existence of the Typo Fairy. They sneak in when you sleep, open your files, and add random typos into your documents. They most delight in the files that have already been proofed and edited, especially on the night before submission. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik Bah... it looks like if one wants to get the most out of push-ups, the narrow-base (or diamond) hand position gives the maximum #muscle engagement. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik The words "permanent hydrological regime changes" are something that I could have lived well without ever reading. #ClimateChange npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik One day I'll figure out how multiple people are willing to put their name on a paper, but not one of them bothered reading it and go "You know, maybe we should discuss the results in the discussion". npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik So you know how everyone complins that they are under so much stress their #hair is turning gray? npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik Ran into this in a random visit to the other place (wow, my feed, there is a desert, mostly the big names with thousands of followers still around). npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik Rejoice! For the days of #ornithopters are soon upon us (or at least the Birdy robots from Gundam Seed). npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik #WeekendReading: Hoogakker (and 67 other people) go into the current state of low-oxygen #proxies currently in use in #paleoceanographic. It's a small book (95 pages), more than a paper, and covers a lot. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik I have my own critique on the possible over-focus on #reefs sometimes, but the simple fact is, today and across the #Phanerozoic, reefs have been loci of #biodiversity hotspots. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik In a warming world, we experience more heatwaves. Thing is, they induce feedbacks. If we heat coastal waters, their ability to store organic carbon decreases... you know, the same carbon we could like to not go back to the #atmosphere and drive the #ClimateChange fueling the warming. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272771425001301 npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik I'm a sucker for Mother-of-pearl (and my earrings collection would attest). I'm not the only one, and not just for looks; Nacre has a lot of interesting properties, and there are a bunch of #biomimetic #materials trying to replicate these traits. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik @nprofile…jw7t It's a weird and fun journal, it's not peer-reviewed (possibly because it's an independent small one with a wide range of topics that would have required a huge editorial board to run if it had review). But a lot of the papers are properly written studies by actual researchers. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik #StarWars, #paleontology and #biomechanical analyisis. 'nuff said. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik Thallium isotopes are an interesting proxy for #ocean oxygenation, and it has an interesting partitioning mechanism related to Mn oxides. But it never got very popular. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik @nprofile…4yl9 Ho dear, that sounds like a management nightmare. How do you generate the epub for them? npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik With Amazon locking books from download (& zero traction on Kindle Unlimited), I canceled the renewal for KDP Select today. Once the exclusive period ends, I want to make my books available elsewhere. Thinking Itchio and D2D. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik #WeekendReading: Rivas et al., on an Early #Cretaceous volcaniclastic–carbonate ramp in southern Chile. An interesting aperture into the Cretaceous temperate #carbonates (lots of #oysters) and their interactions in #volcanoes npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik Tales of #radicalization are complicated if you are #writing them or trying to understand them IRL. There are a lot of underlying processes, but the role of #respect, #honor (including conflicting perspectives of it), and #humiliation seems rather key. One's perspective of self and importance are good #story beats because they reflect real processes people go through. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pops.12163 npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik @nprofile…enz4 hungry professors tend to be hangry professors, esp. as it gets closer to the last few in the queue. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik Don't sit an #exam straight after a large meal. Despite mental resources being somewhat related to energy stocks, postprandial somnolence ( #food coma) increases feelings of fatigue and depletion of cognitive resources - leading to lower scores. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik I like learning new stuff and skills. So on the back burner, I've been trying to learn 3D design and sculpting. Getting to the point where I am getting happy with the things I produce, and it's a fun side #hobby. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik @nprofile…y7th Next you'll ask about the mining and transport as well... shh... that's not what this is about. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik In the absence of a #ZeroEmission grid, npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik I find it rather cool that even as we develop more advanced and complicated #composite materials, we also figure out ways to utilize and integrate common #clays into them in new ways to achieve better outcomes. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik Today, in crazy #SciFi research - reinventing #photosynthesis . This type of Cu–Pd disordered network metamaterials can convert #CO2 into simple organic molecules by interaction with light, but it needs to be rather hot (225–300 °C). Can't but think of the Interesting implication for #xenobiology, in addition to what it can do for matter synthesis. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik Hay, #bookstodon ! npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik @nprofile…uklg Someone did their homework. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik What does it mean to "Set sensors to detect life signs"? How can we remotely detect signs of #life in #space ? Lucky enough - someone recently wrote a manual outlining where, what, and how (lots of spectral analysis). npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik @nprofile…nrhu Very good point. In the view where the creators presented the concept, they noted something about use in bed, and based on what I saw of the hinges in their demo model, I think it'll work for that without any other modification. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik In the off chance you're tall, a laptop user, and fabrication-inclined, I would like to call to your attention this ( #opensource ) concept for an Ergonomic Laptop Frame. Can't say I'm not tempted to try and build one in my local #maker space, although it is a fair bit of investment. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik Scientists like to play with their #SciFi / #spaceship ideas. Didn't realize just how much work was done over the years figuring out the comfort zone for spin-generated artificial #gravity. We can make, apparently, smaller rings that spin faster. But just because we could tolerate 4 rpm, doesn't mean we'll have good times. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik New model using perioperative, layered, autologous, tissue-expansion graft shows promising application for vaginal reconstruction. Unclear if it would be applicable for vaginoplasty in gender-affirming surgery, but we'll see what will come from this. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik It's easy to forget that #climate shifts is not uniform. Take the so-called Medieval Warm Period (which or #Medieval Climate Anomaly in newer literature). Western Europe was warmer, but the Middle East and some Mediterranean coastal regions were cooler. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik I wanted to talk with my students about the use of #English as the #international language (which is why science is written in it) and how that interacts with #status. Looking for data on this, I found that the patterns are more complicated than I expected. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik Orbitally oscillating ice ages are not a Neogene inversion, we had them before. Last time was in the Late Paleozoic. Expansion of terrestrial floras and the intensified weathering got it going. But we're not sure why it ended. It might have been a massive volcanic release of CO2 might have driven this #ClimateChange, but it might also have been a shift in the #CO2 sinks. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik HI, #bookstodon ! Just a reminder: I have a new (stand-alone) #SciFi book out for you to check out. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik @nprofile…lg5l @nprofile…8psw It was an excuse to give the extra details, and I took it! npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik So you know that #asteroid Bennu? The one that might hit Earth in 2182 CE. Someone went ahead at simulated what that's going to do to #climate and #ecology. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik @nprofile…lg5l @nprofile…8psw You are correct; within this scope, as far as I understand based on current setups, we're talking primarily at near infra-red (to ~2500 nm, maybe a bit longer wavelength). I try no to get too technical in these short posts to make them more accessible, but that does come, at times, at the expense of preciseness. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik @nprofile…3jfp No coincidence, saw the same video, and the idea of the upconversion solar cells was interesting enough I went out to read more about it. npub1hp5fftml23xd45yx6nkqzwzwj9gj7jzfznnpg9u423ljzf58grwskgpetr Dr. Or M. Bialik Wierd #SciFi idea of the day that sounds like it shouldn't work, but the science says it might - upconversion #solar cells. A composite structure where a layer absorbs infrared radiation and remits it at a higher frequency for the other layers to utilize.
