Wow, if you are a fan of watches--and you want to win the geek of the year award--get yourself an Arithmo Slide Rule watch by Juvenia. I just saw one appraised on Antiques Roadshow, and it was not in very good condition, for $7000-8000! I've never worn a watch, but if I had one of these, I just might wear it! So cool!

Photo via: https://fabsuisse.com/juvenia-arithmo-calculating-slide-rule-steel-1950s/

#Geek #Math #Mathematics #Watch #Vintage #Antique #Science #Engineering

Wow, if you are a fan of watches--and you want to win the geek of the year award--get yourself an Arithmo Slide Rule watch by Juvenia. I just saw one appraised on Antiques Roadshow, and it was not in very good condition, for $7000-8000! I've never worn a watch, but if I had one of these, I just might wear it! So cool!

Photo via: https://fabsuisse.com/juvenia-arithmo-calculating-slide-rule-steel-1950s/

#Geek #Math #Mathematics #Watch #Vintage #Antique #Science #Engineering

Museums Victoria are the largest museums organisation in the Southern Hemisphere, based in Melbourne. They are custodians of over 15 million collection objects and welcome over 2 million visitors each year and around 11 million visitors to their digital channels each month.

Science is a Superpower is a modular online video series designed to build interest and confidence in STEM amongst young women, girls and non-binary students #globalmuseum #science #museums

"Inoculation" doesn't just work to protect you against diseases. You can also psychologically prime people against persuasive attacks from media — for example, by explaining to people how deepfakes work. Here's more from @TheConversationUS.

https://flip.it/HuORk4

#Psychology #Science #SocialScience #Deepfakes

"Inoculation" doesn't just work to protect you against diseases. You can also psychologically prime people against persuasive attacks from media — for example, by explaining to people how deepfakes work. Here's more from @TheConversationUS.

https://flip.it/HuORk4

#Psychology #Science #SocialScience #Deepfakes

Seit vielen Jahren gibt es die ARD/ZDF-Onlinestudie, die nun Medienstudie heißt. Ich habe mir die Studie 2025 mal im Hinblick auf soziale Medien angeschaut mit besonderem Fokus auf das #Fediverse. Erhoben wird dabei allerdings nur der Dienst #Mastodon. Wir schauen uns näher an, wer es wie nutzt!

Ein Thread. 🧵

Kurz noch vorab zur Studie selbst: die Grundgesamtheit ist die deutschsprechende Wohnbevölkerung ab 14 Jahren in Deutschland, Feldzeit war im Frühjahr 2025, n= 2.512, Dual Frame-Stichprobe (d.h. es wurde per Telefon und Online befragt).

#Kommunikationswissenschaft #Science #Medien #SocialMedia #ARD #ZDF #Empirie #Befragung

Seit vielen Jahren gibt es die ARD/ZDF-Onlinestudie, die nun Medienstudie heißt. Ich habe mir die Studie 2025 mal im Hinblick auf soziale Medien angeschaut mit besonderem Fokus auf das #Fediverse. Erhoben wird dabei allerdings nur der Dienst #Mastodon. Wir schauen uns näher an, wer es wie nutzt!

Ein Thread. 🧵

Kurz noch vorab zur Studie selbst: die Grundgesamtheit ist die deutschsprechende Wohnbevölkerung ab 14 Jahren in Deutschland, Feldzeit war im Frühjahr 2025, n= 2.512, Dual Frame-Stichprobe (d.h. es wurde per Telefon und Online befragt).

#Kommunikationswissenschaft #Science #Medien #SocialMedia #ARD #ZDF #Empirie #Befragung

🎙️ Our Young Academy Fellow Dr Deniz Sarikaya launches ‘aboutlogic’
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In the new biweekly #podcast #logic, #mathematics, #philosophy and #computer #science come together, funded by the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg.

Watch #videos
👉 https://www.youtube.com/@aboutlogic/videos

Listen to the #Podcast
👉 https://aboutlogic.podigee.io/

@DenizPhiMa

🎙️ Our Young Academy Fellow Dr Deniz Sarikaya launches ‘aboutlogic’
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In the new biweekly #podcast #logic, #mathematics, #philosophy and #computer #science come together, funded by the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg.

Watch #videos
👉 https://www.youtube.com/@aboutlogic/videos

Listen to the #Podcast
👉 https://aboutlogic.podigee.io/

@DenizPhiMa

Bin man warns of food waste mistake that’s contaminating your bin

To some, this is common sense. But according to one bin man, not everyone thinks this way. Taking to…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #Bincollection #Binmanadvice #Foodwastecontamination #Science #TikTok #TikTokBINfluencer #UKrecyclingrules
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/448100/

I am looking for someone who can take some ideas i have for a business logo, sketched out with evil ai, and then improve them with a human touch.

My requirements are fairly simple, but it will be trademarked so they need to be okay with assigning copyright for the design.

Fee negotiable.

Please boost, I’m not sure what tags to use for this. More details in Alt

#art #FediHire #design #logo #graphicdesign #science #sciart

We need more scientists giving feedback here:

🇪🇺 European Open Digital Ecosystems: Call for Feedback

⏰ Deadline: Feb 3, 2026

➡️ 🔗 https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems_en

EU Commission collects feedback from the #opensource community to shape strategies for boosting open source. Scientists need to share insights on how open source can boost #science and #innovation.

#OpenScience
#ReproducibleResearch
#GitHub #GitLab #Codeberg #NumFOCUS
#Funding #Grant

🧵As AI systems grow in sophistication, some people are supposing chatbots are moving toward being conscious entities.

This is incorrect, but we should be more precise about what consciousness and perception are.

If we are, we realize that minds do not create experience; experience is what creates minds. https://plus.flux.community/p/its-like-this-why-your-perception

#philosophy #cognitivescience #cogsci #science #ai #chatgpt

The @universityofgroningen is aiming for complete #digitalautonomy by 2030 🕊️ Looking forward to discussing this ambitious plan at tomorrow's autonomy fair. https://www.rug.nl/library/calendar/260203-digitalautonomy-fair #science #bigtech @citrug.bsky.social

Long shot, but hopefully I get results. In the early 2000s, I read a Ugandan newspaper article about two Indian scientists trying to genetically engineer the anopheles mosquito. That set off alarm bells so I wrote a short story, which some universities in UK and Kenya teach in a course Applied African Science Fiction. I've looked for that article but can't find it. I guess it must have been via Reuters or AP or such a newswire.
Anyone think they can dig it up?

#science #scientist

⭐ Crown-of-thorns starfish are notorious for crunching down on coral reefs, and Aussie researchers believe that some of the starfish outbreaks could be due to overfishing of the predatory fish that eat them

✨Follow the link for more information on this story✨
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/overfishing-might-be-the-cause-of-reef-munching-starfish-outbreaks

#science #sciencenews #research #stem #facts #knowledge #sciencefacts #COTS #crownofthornsstarfish

#Jumpingspiders are best known for being cute, but there's also a branch of not-so-cute-but-wonderful ant-mimicking species. The head mimics the abdomen, which is a bit disorienting! Probably evolved mainly to avoid predation—ants are unattractive prey. https://youtu.be/XRUZGtdp_TM?si=QCYKPkTRH8jX8DYW #biology #science