Uhhm
What the fuck, academia.edu??
Is there no opt-out for this? I'm not a first author on this but I do NOT want my papers fed into this bullshit. Any help..?
#scientistsAgainstGenerativeAI #artistsAgainstGenerativeAI #writersAgainstGenAI #aiSlop #ai_slop #AITheft #science #publishing #research #academia #AcademiaEdu
Heyyy singing fans of Surrey, London and nearby...
Want to see the UK's nerdiest choir performing? For free??
Come to CHOIRBLAST in Godalming (GU7 1HR), 14 June!
https://www.choirblast.com/festival
We'll be there with lots of other singers - please do share especially if you know people in the area! 🎶
https://www.choirblast.com/meet-the-choirs
#singing #choralMusic #choir #LondonGigs #surrey #surreyEvents #liveSinging #videoGamesMusic #soundtracks #choirs #nerds #geeks #videoGames #movies #tv
My kid just WhatsApped from his German exchange trip. They had to call an ambulance for him.
He has food poisoning, was very pale and nauseous. He was dehydrated and his blood pressure was dropping.
He's fine now but I wanted to share this because it has the most Western Europe Is a Civilized Place ending ever.
The paramedics came to the mall, took him into the ambulance, gave him an IV, checked him out, stayed with him until he felt better, then told him "No charge. Enjoy your trip to Germany." And if that wasn't enough, when they realized the group had had to move onto the train station without him, they gave him a ride over there to catch up with them.
I'm so ground down by the predatory realities of America in general in 2025 that this just about blew my fucking mind.
If you post about how much weight you're losing or how you're dieting, I'm not following you.
#DietCulture is toxic, harmful nonsense and i reject it. For my health and mood both.
What we weigh is not what we're worth. Fat is not a failing. Thin is not morally superior or automatically healthier.
So many people around you have or have experienced disordered eating. You're not helping.
Also please listen to Maintenance Phase.
#eatingDisorders #weightloss #dietsDontWork #health #dieting
@Garwboy am I imagining that you've used a brain scan in a talk before..? I know I've seen it but I can't remember who showed it!
Who's got an MRI scan of their own brain in a video file?
Would you be happy for people to use it for a broadcast TV bit? You wouldn't have to be in it, but we'd obviously like to credit you (if you want).
Let me know..?
#WeirdRequests #scicomm #ScienceCommunication #MRI #brain #brainHealth #cancerResearch
A good one to read and share - on how we talk about cancer, and how it affects our approaches to it, our conception and even our experience.
Battle metaphors are old and unhelpful, and we could do more to move on.
https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/shorthand_story/the-myth-of-the-battle/
#cancer #cancerResearch #language #illness #chronicillness #CancerDiagnosis #cancerAwareness #scicomm #science #scienceCommunication #research #cancersucks
Still think the Murderbot casting is bad. I never imagined a male-presenting body at all. Don't think I misread, and Martha was consulting producer... I'd have kicked off.
Not convinced by ep1 but will stick with it. The books are great, go read em
I've asked before but I can't see how to search my own toots for specific phrases (edit: found it! https://med-mastodon.com/@noodlemaz/114049653842102886)
so again:
Looking for masks that are:
- good-fit for small (not tiny) and M/L face separately
- ear loops for easy on/off
- N95/ffp3
- ideally not single use only
- shipping to UK so prefer not from US
Pls boost! Thanks :)
#masks #recommendations #masksWork #CovidIsNotOver
Hello nerds!
Are you free THIS Sunday, and in or around #London? Grab tickets to an epic concert here!
https://claphamgrand.com/event/ready-singer-one-x-press-x/
Feat:
- Over 100 Ready Singer One choristers (including me)!
- Press X anime band
- Lucia the Nerd Violonist
- Traditional Japanese instrumentalist and metal musician, JERO
🤓
We'll be singing songs from games, film and TV, like you've never heard them before. Boosts appreciated if you can't come!
#videoGamesMusic #choir #liveMusic #anime #videoGames #soundtracks #nerdy
I've got those washable makeup remover pads for post-concert de-greening (choir is green and black branded, y'see) but I *keep forgetting* to put them in with the relevant wash
Because they are in the bathroom not where the clothes are
Aaaaaa
#sustainability ish
I quite often accidentally put my phone on do not disturb
It takes me days to realise.
@AngryBlackLady IIRC @404mediaco contacted all of the period apps, and only one of them said they wouldn't provide client periods information to the police if asked.
Scientific American delivers a scathing article about the theologists holding the majority in the US Supreme Court. It’s so good, and so tightly written, that it’s difficult to pull an excerpt without wanting to also include the lead in and follow up. I’ll tempt you with some opening paragraphs, but the article is brilliant and deserves to be read.
“In five instances, Justice Neil Gorsuch’s opinion confused nitrogen oxide, a pollutant that contributes to ozone formation, with nitrous oxide, better known as laughing gas.
You can’t make this stuff up. This repeated mistake in the 5–4 decision exemplifies a high court not just indifferent to facts but contemptuous of them.”
#supremecourt #ScientificAmerican #corruption #failingempire
@kottke I've always figured that using waste heat from data centers for space heating was an obvious way to get double utility for a given quantity of consumed energy.
But I had imagined the data centers doing something useful. Protein folding. SETI. Distributing cat memes. Almost anything else, really.
Hey check out Ready Singer One at Japan Matsuri in London last month!
Such a great crowd, we had a blast.
https://youtu.be/HO6ueZLlbjU?si=7yGl9yQExRiXdn7Z
#London #ReadySingerOne #JapanMatsuri #LondonGigs #LondonEvents #singing #music #geekdom #choirs #ChoralSinging #ChoralMusic #videoGameMusic #animeSoundtrack #nerds #nerdcore #NerdLife #videoGames #video_game_music
WoooOOOooo! 👻#ReadySingerOne on the BBC #London evening news yesterday - complete with some footage from our spooky concert venue last night!
Check out our super-nerdy #choir, we love #singing together and we love our equally nerdy audiences!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP1ThivEDRE&ab_channel=MermanSam
Standing tickets still available for our spoopy concert tomorrow! AND we're being featured on @bbclondonnews news tomorrow. Exciting..!
#ReadySingerOne in CRYPT in #Farringdon, #London tomorrow night. Halloween! 🎃👻🦇
Tickets: https://readysingerone.co.uk/this-is-halloween
#choir #choralmusic #nerdy #spoopy #singing #liveMusic #gigs #concert #spooky #videoGames #videoGamesMusic #filmMusic
#introduction
Hi, I'm Marianne aka Noodlemaz!
I'm a science communicator based in London UK, was briefly in California.
I'm in London's nerdiest choir, Ready Singer One - we do music from games/film/TV.
My PhD was in cancer biology; molecular pathology of cancer.
I love games, nature, SciFi friends (hi!), music etc.
Destiny 2 | Xbox: Noodlemaz#8188
My neglected blog: https://noodlemaz.wordpress.com/
#Introductions #science #scicomm #London #choir #cancerResearch #cancer #nature #VideoGames #SciFi