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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 4h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 8h

Academics: In your discipline, are author names usually listed alphabetically?

{Reply with your field/discipline!}

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 13h

Here in central NYS, National Grid gives us a flat fee ~$21 rebate for charging off peak at home. At ~100kwh/month (i.e. 300-500 miles depending on temp) and 15c/kwh we literally make $6 dollar per month charging our EV.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

we charge our hyundai ioniq 5 around once every two to three weeks at a muncipal charger and i’d say it runs about $9 for 250 miles of range.

How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 14h

They are heavier -- e.g. the Kia Soul EV weighs almost half a ton (and ca. 35%) more than the ICE version.

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 1d

It's presumably this: www.beaverapp.ai

I personally don't think libraries can (or should) realistically stay out of that space and I'd much rather see it filled by tools developed by faculty with a long open source track record than by big publishers.

Beaver

AI research agent for academic research that lives in Zotero, instantly searching through all your documents and explaining complex concepts as you read

www.beaverapp.ai

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 1d

I think we should just throw in random Dutch phrases instead of Latin ones.
No more snobbish "ceteris paribus".
It's now "als alle andere dingen gelijk zijn"

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 3d

The one the 'student' mentions oddly explicitly, safeMyGPA

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 4d

You realize this is a viral video to promote an AI study platform? Neither students nor professors talk like this (they have produced a whole slew all following the same template)

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 4d

It's not a degree. It's a center that offers some related classes. I worry about some of the things SU is doing w curriculum (the 20 majors part) but having a podcast center at a journalism & media school doesn't seem off

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 5d

The link should show the "Black Maria, Oakland" selected. If it doesn't for you, you can search for that.

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 5d

JSTOR doesn't provide the metadata for them as images (you can download & inspect the RIS file, which just has this as GEN, i.e. generic), so not sure how much Zotero can do there.
For entering paintings consulted online following Chicago 14.133 see this entry www.zotero.org/groups/22055...

Zotero | Your personal research assistant

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Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 6d

Anyone here use typst to render a .qmd?

If so, do you know any way to customize numbering of figures and tables?

E.g. Figure A1, Table A1.

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 7d

Yes, likely system locale. Zotero lets you override that, I don't think Zbib does.
Best workaround I can think of is to use a style that fixes the language.
There's a "University of York - Modern Language Association" style that almost works, except for UK style quotation marks

Zotero bib bibliography with University of York - Modern Language Association style.

Watson, J. D., and F. H. C. Crick. “Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid.” Nature, vol. 171, no. 4356, Apr. 1953, pp. 737–38, https://doi.org/10.1038/171737a0.

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 7d

Holy Tom Friedman that's a lot of mixed metaphors in one poor paragraph...

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 8d

If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)?

Hoover
FDR
Truman
Eisenhower
JFK
LBJ
Ford
Carter

And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 8d

If you've ever wondered what the equivalent of the onslaught of gold in the physical oval office would look like online, whitehouse.gov got you covered.

(I think this is just incompetence, but the alt text on the images on JD and Melania is empty; it's how you mark an image as only 'decorative')

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Mareike König @mareike2405.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Kennt jemand Studien über die "Haltbarkeit" von digitalen Projekten der Geisteswissenschaften? Also wieviel Prozent ist nach wie vielen Jahren nicht mehr online? Ich meine, mal etwas gelesen zu haben, finde aber nur Studien über das Verschwinden von OA-Journals und allgemein #linkrot […]

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 9d

2/2 this becomes particularly obvious from the cut in the podcast where Coates' most effective, powerful summary statements are followed by long musical breaks to let them really sink in.
Chances are that Coates wld get the better of Klein in a genuine debate, but it's quite clearly not what this is

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 9d

Having now listened to the Klein/Coates convo, I think the 'debate' framing is wrong from the start. It's an interview in which Klein, like he often does, looks to bring out the best in his guest. That's admittedly not super hard w Coates, but it's quite obvious that Klein isn't trying to 'win' 1/2

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Andrew Sinclair @jandrewsinclair.bsky.social · 9d

A theory. Everyone who cares about politics on bluesky ALSO needs to make a habit out of posting about their other interests and hobbies. Making bluesky work for many communities of interest will increase the political reach of the experts here.

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 9d

via @conradhackett.bsky.social this 2022 survey is telling:
www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

Here's the crosstab that shows pretty strong evangelical dislike for Mormons

Cross-tab showing how people with various faiths feel about other faiths (views favorable - unfavorable percentage). Shows that Mormons have overall positive feelings about everyone, whereas everyone but Catholics has negative feelings about Mormons, with evangelical Christians at -12% (atheists at -55%)

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 10d

Perhaps even more importantly than the lowest tier price tag, even Zotero's free version is completely usable, even for large projects. For Overleaf to tell users "your giant doc you've invested months into now doesn't work anymore until you pay" is really shitty

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 10d

Oh, I know very little about fashion, but you can imagine this trend (which has been going on for 5+ years) is fascinating for a music teacher

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 11d

The other thing that's funny about the shirts is that they are purely fashion. The kids (mostly) don't actually listen to the music (certainly not to ACDC & GNR...)

(Trend goes back to Gaultier & was popularized by Chloe (?) Kardashian)

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