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Chaotic Brain Person @chaoticbrainperson.bsky.social · 20d

Question for my UK/EU forensic anthropology friends.

Any of you currently has a PhD position available? Please drop your links, and share widely!

#forensicAnthropology #forAnth #BiologicalAnthropology #FindAPhD #PhDSearch #UKPhD

Chaotic Brain Person @chaoticbrainperson.bsky.social · Sep 1

(if you get this reference, please let's be friends 😃)

Chaotic Brain Person @chaoticbrainperson.bsky.social · Sep 1

September 1st. 1989.

Dear Diary.

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Chaotic Brain Person @chaoticbrainperson.bsky.social · Aug 29

If you are interested in climate change, I need your help. Who is your favorite climate communicator?

This is for a project I'm working on :)

Please share widely :)
(Can be cross platforms)

#ClimateChange #ClimateSky #ClimateScience #SciComm #ClimateCommunication

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Chaotic Brain Person @chaoticbrainperson.bsky.social · Aug 26

It also includes the minor bug fix that it now won't break in leap year February :) (fixed until 2100, when you get an extra day 🤷‍♀️)

Chaotic Brain Person @chaoticbrainperson.bsky.social · Aug 26

IMPORTANT UPDATE FOR MY WORD COUNT TRACKER!

THERE HAS BEEN A MAJOR BUG DISCOVERED!

So, in the current version, when you write in a project for more than 18 days, further tracking will only return negative word counts.

The updated version is now online, so please redownload it.

ChaoticBrainPerson

Chaoticbrainperson.itch.io

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Chaotic Brain Person @chaoticbrainperson.bsky.social · Aug 16

I'm not very good at #ShamelessSelfpromoSaturday.

Anyways if you're a writer and you want an easy way to track your word count and see if you're still on track of meeting your monthly/project deadline, why not check out my free, Excel based* word count tracker on itch♥️
(*Stand alone version coming)

ChaoticBrainPerson

ChaoticBrainPerson.itch.io

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Chaotic Brain Person @chaoticbrainperson.bsky.social · Aug 13

Other than the writing word count tracker i made (link in bio ;)) this one is an independent program, so no need for Excel or anything :)

Right now the first version is just about finished, and I'll probbly start looking for betatesters for this one soon, so keep an eye out for that :)

Screenshot of the main tracking page. You have a headline reading: you have read 0 books 0 fanfics 0 papers this year.
you can then enter the author, other authors, title, finished on, pages, hours minutes , words, Ref(ISBN, DOI, Link), unpublished work (incl. pre print, beta read, etc.), You have a dropdown menu to choose between printed books, audio books, fanfics, and papers and finally a box to leave a rating. On the botoom you have a few rectangles to track how far along with your reading goals you are.

Chaotic Brain Person @chaoticbrainperson.bsky.social · Aug 13

This is where my WIP comes in.

In the current version, you can keep track of everything you read, including an option to rate it,
you can set a reading goal for a bunch of things (books, minutes, fanfics, etc)
and it automatically calculates a rough translation between words, pages and minutes

screenshot of the first time set up page, on the left you choose what you're reading namely printed books, audio books, fanfiction, papers and on the right you can choose what you want to track namely books, fanfics, papers, pages, minutes, words. You can also choose a background color. A footnote explains that the trackr has a conversion between pages minutes and words.

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Chaotic Brain Person @chaoticbrainperson.bsky.social · Aug 13

#WIPWednesday

this one is for the #readers!

What's the biggest problem you as a reader have?

Exactly! simultaneously tracking you printed and audiobooks, fanfics and scientific papers!

The second biggest problem is trying to figure out, how many audiobook minutes the 100k fanfic is :D (/j))

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Chaotic Brain Person @chaoticbrainperson.bsky.social · Aug 12

STYNA NOOOOOO

don't confess to planning/doing crimes on the internet. :)

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Chaotic Brain Person @chaoticbrainperson.bsky.social · Jul 26

#ShamelessSelfPromoSaturday

I made a word count tracker! It's very easy to use, supports up to 8 different active projects and it can deal with daily, monthly or project word goals!

100% human-made, 0% AI!

It's also free!

#writersky #authorsky

Word Count Tracker for Writers by ChaoticBrainPerson

A simple, easy to use, Excel based word count tracker

chaoticbrainperson.itch.io

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Chaotic Brain Person @chaoticbrainperson.bsky.social · Jul 26

I made a thing! You can get the thing on chaoticbrainperson.itch.io

If you are writing and want to keep track of how many words you write, this is a perfect for you ♥️

It is also free for you to use :)

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Chaotic Brain Person @chaoticbrainperson.bsky.social · Jul 2

I have done it again 😭

(Getting obsessed with the music of a Netflix production, without having a Netflix account to watch the show)
(But damn is Kpop Demon Hunters good music 😂)

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Danny Krieger @dannykrieger99.bsky.social · Jun 14

Please share widely.
I want everyone to know about the @unpreparedcasters.bsky.social Livestream happening in 2.5 hours that is raising money for @translifeline.org. please support this and share so it reaches more people. (Link to stream in comments, when live)

#TTRPG #DnD #Pathfinder #PenAndPaper

Tiltify

donate.tiltify.com

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Chaotic Brain Person @chaoticbrainperson.bsky.social · May 25

Hey #SciSky #SciComm #Science #Academia People on here.

I'm on holidays the last week of July and I kinda wanna get back into knowledge absorption.

Can you please drop academic/scientific conferences in Europe in the comments?

Mostly interested in Climate, Anthropology, but anything is good!

Chaotic Brain Person @chaoticbrainperson.bsky.social · May 4

I can highly recommend reading a book that's older than me that exactly predicted what's happening now, except of course it was meant as a warning and gave a few good ways to avoid this, ah well. Shit happens. After all we do live in "A Demon Haunted World" 🤷🫣

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · May 4

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

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Chaotic Brain Person @chaoticbrainperson.bsky.social · May 2

And so the overall co2 changes in the atmosphere are mostly dictated by the changes in plant growth in the northern hemisphere, but slightly shifted by the changes in the southern hemisphere.

So our max CO2 concentration each year is in April/May and the lowest in September/October :)

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Chaotic Brain Person @chaoticbrainperson.bsky.social · May 2

The answer is that they partially do. But if you look at a world map, and compare the land masses in the northern hemisphere, vs the landmasses in the southern hemisphere, you see a very large imbalance. Most of the Earth's land mass is in the northern hemisphere. And with that most of the plants ->

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Chaotic Brain Person @chaoticbrainperson.bsky.social · May 2

Quick #SciComm:
CO2 is taken up by plants. So when plants grow (in Spring/summer) CO2 levels in the atmosphere go down, and when plants die back (autumn and Winter) CO2 gets released back into the atmosphere.
But the seasons are shifted in northern and southern hemisphere, so why don't they cancel?>

Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · Apr 28

Looking up ...

Yesterday marks the first *daily* Mauna Loa reading above 431 ppm since record keeping began in 1958.

The Climate Casino put the Over/Under for the *monthly* max CO2 this year at 430.70 ppm. Stay tuned!

gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...

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Chaotic Brain Person @chaoticbrainperson.bsky.social · Apr 30

Sadly the US government has also stopped basically all funding in this area, so even if you would like to run your own double blind study in your living room, sadly there's no more money for that :(

Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · Apr 30

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines”
Subheader:
“In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”

Chaotic Brain Person @chaoticbrainperson.bsky.social · Apr 30

Well at least the burned down pier in the background is fitting 🤷 (/s)

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Mara Fischer @marafischer.bsky.social · Apr 30

My first paper is out! 🥳🐠🐟

Prof Ceri Lewis @cezzalew.bsky.social · Apr 29

Fish are important benthic bioturbators too! Great new #ConvexSeascapeSurvey paper from our @exetermarine.bsky.social PhD student Mara Fischer. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A functional assessment of fish as bioturbators and their vulnerability to local extinction

The seabed is one of the key ecological interfaces on the planet, exerting a major influence on global biogeochemical cycles. Biological processes suc…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Chaotic Brain Person @chaoticbrainperson.bsky.social · Apr 28

If there is one thing missing in the world it's memoirs by men, yes. ... 🙄

Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · Apr 28

"Focusing initially on male authors" - ah, yes, because it's often so hard for men to break into traditional publishing.

The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · Apr 28

Novelist and critic judecook_ has launched Conduit Books, a new independent press that will publish literary fiction and memoir, “focusing initially on male authors” 👇 #BookSky

Chaotic Brain Person @chaoticbrainperson.bsky.social · Apr 28

No Isabel is actually a time traveler and has in fact edited this 424 years ago ... Obviously... (/j) 😃😃

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