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enviclashon Electrochemical potential enables dormant spores to integrate enviro signals

This is a beautiful piece of Science! And please ignore those fighting about the title edits..

enviclashon New York University professor fired after students say his class was too hard

I am a professor and have seen both extremes. I am worrying about how to keep high scholarly standards all the time --- also on teaching, and especially when supervising theses.

enviclashon New York University professor fired after students say his class was too hard

Never heard of this system. Please can you post a link/source?

enviclashon New York University professor fired after students say his class was too hard

Wow are you advocating to hire people for teaching and for evaluating separately? Sounds both interesting and a cultural war ground.

enviclashon New York University professor fired after students say his class was too hard

The simply is like the husband that "simply" does not know how to clean the kitchen. Those professors never attended a pedagogy course.

enviclashon New York University professor fired after students say his class was too hard

I see two extremes: one represented by this professor who IMHO cares too little about students --- still he deserves to keep his job. The other extreme is more dangerous and is about University professors actively accepting and facilitating immature behaviour by students. Where could a sweet spot be drawn along this gradient?

enviclashon A Ruby program that generates itself through a 128-language quine loop

Code that writes code that writes code... my limited experience combining AWK and GAMS gave me impressively powerful feelings about my limited code. This surely belongs to the next level, I'll go for more!

enviclashon Google officially launches Equiano subsea cable

The idea of net positive is flawed, as multiple local net positives from different disruptions (other than cables) might lead to deterioration of global quality thresholds for sensitive issues, e.g. chains of wetlands required for migratory birds. These global connections are most often unwisely accounted.

enviclashon Notes against note-taking systems

This is just need of balance and moderation.

enviclashon Google officially launches Equiano subsea cable

I only have concerns about the coastal connection point being in an environmentally sensitive area, e.g. a wetland.

enviclashon I am fine without a smartwatch

An exemplary attention-disruptor.

enviclashon Elon Musk moves ahead with Twitter deal in 13D filing

Man this "4D chess" expression is really something to describe Musk's strategies.

enviclashon Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months

This was the most abundant (to my perception, as I have no numbers) about climate-related work.

enviclashon The 'attention economy' corrupts science

"I do think we need a mechanism to ensure that reviews are good and high quality. Especially the reject ones." This is a very important point, IMHO more for proposals than for articles. The latter deserving less time because time is at a premium, although I am aware that this is a most painful truth!

enviclashon Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger

I am also not an expert on the topic, but citing a MDPI paper to argue against a Nobel prize seems also unconvincing.

enviclashon The 'attention economy' corrupts science

To be honest I'm working 10 years in a university and I still don't understand how Academies work.

enviclashon The 'attention economy' corrupts science

Not even Nature dares launching a journal about economics.

enviclashon The 'attention economy' corrupts science

"Science being Science will sort itself out most likely" defies logic of current events.

enviclashon The 'attention economy' corrupts science

Not even a mentally sick person would get into science for a green card. I see prejudices behind your opinion.

enviclashon The 'attention economy' corrupts science

We all get papers rejected. Nobel prizes get also papers rejected. And rejection is one of the very few tools we have to stop the crap from flowing in. This is not to say that all rejected papers are crap. Sorry to hear about your bad time with rejections, this is a universal thing.

enviclashon The 'attention economy' corrupts science

"Have never met a group of people less interested in the truth, or a system that goes to such extreme effort to actively inhibit discovery, than what I experienced in academia." Totally true!

enviclashon The 'attention economy' corrupts science

Science was already a badly governed and "corrupted" arena. This just adds more trash to disentangle/deal with.

enviclashon Svante Pääbo awarded Nobel Prize for studies of extinct human ancestors

Yes yes, we know the problem.

enviclashon The Nord Stream leaks are a wake-up call for countries with vulnerable pipelines

There is always an existential risk at hand.

enviclashon Svante Pääbo awarded Nobel Prize for studies of extinct human ancestors

Random walks.

enviclashon The Nord Stream leaks are a wake-up call for countries with vulnerable pipelines

And with vulnerable plans, like the Netherlands and the envisioned sea walls!

enviclashon Svante Pääbo awarded Nobel Prize for studies of extinct human ancestors

That is the clear and smart way of phrasing it, I did not have enough clarity to make the point, thanks!

enviclashon Svante Pääbo awarded Nobel Prize for studies of extinct human ancestors

Your statement leaves little doubt to my unsettling question, thanks for the clarity!

enviclashon Svante Pääbo awarded Nobel Prize for studies of extinct human ancestors

Are you underestimating the choices of his mother and her capacity for creating an unprecedented intellectual atmosphere?