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My #SEM shows a female of the #mite #Histiostoma sp. (H. feroniarum-complex, special fixation) on #rottenlemon from Italy, #feeding a mixture of #fungi and #bacteria. It is seen from above and displays the symmetrically #fenestrated #proterosomashield that i.a. stabilizes muscle origins and still needs research. I published research information on that mite as poster #publication.

© #StefanFWirth Berlin (2006-) 2025

Poster S. F. Wirth, FAO, Global Soil Partners. (2024)
fao.org/global-soil-partnershi

My week started well with the acceptance of a paper for publication on Monday. I was very pleased (& surprised) to see the accepted version already online with New J. Phys. (doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/adaf).

The paper, with colleagues from Exeter, looks at waves on flexural lattices with beyond-nearest-neighbour interactions. We demonstrate that competing power channels, between mass and rotational inertia, drive the position and existence of zero group velocity modes within the first Brillouin zone.

Full credit must go to the PhD students, Erica Paul & Robyn Edge, who drove this work forward.

Question about what y’ll think of when you hear the word “blog.”

I have a site where I publish my articles and essays. They’re all in-depth. No small posts, no comments, and no categories (although I do use tags).

Should I be calling that site a blog?

I never do because that feels incorrect. Especially because it doesn’t fit the model of that format. But I’ve been wondering what makes sense.

markwrites.io

Mark W.ritesMark W.ritesArticles and essays on design, technology, and my POV of the world. For shorter bursts find me on Mastodon.

The Gemini Protocol is something I am instinctively enthused by -- and indeed have taken to browsing the #Geminispace with my preferred client (Lagrange).

#Gemini holds potential in supporting the rapid decentralized #publication of #scholarly work, esp. in specific disciplines. But is it too arcane to ever gain purchase, e.g. focus too textual, too outside HTML, too many users not au fait with markdown? I can't see much happening in the Geminispace at present. Am I missing something?

Five years of no flying
✈️ ❌ ➡️ 🚅 ✅

5 years ago, I realised that my #academic travels were emitting way too much #greenhouse #gas #GHG (up to 20 t #CO2 / yr) and hence that my #professional activity was not #sustainable. I thus decided to completely ban air #travel (#plane) and travel mainly by #train within #Europe.

5 years later (i.e. now), my professional travels' #carbonfootprint dropped by **a factor 50**, without impacting my #publication records (compared to 2017 - 2019).

I wrote a post for the #blog of @a4e about my experience. Check it out: astronomersforplanet.earth/fiv

cc @labos1point5 @LAM_Marseille @CNRS_INSU @academicchatter @astrophysics @StayGrounded_net

Following up on the #eLife / #Clarivate saga, DORA has posted a statement:
sfdora.org/2024/11/25/clarivat

extracts:

"This development reinforces how a commercial entity such as Clarivate, can, through its ownership of scholarly databases and indices, hold the academic community to ransom. Clarivate’s announcement is disappointing as it both punishes innovation in peer review and disregards the important role of authors in deciding how and where their research should be published."

"As funders and institutions increasingly move away from using single metrics to assess research(ers), the role of Journal Impact Factors is becoming increasingly irrelevant."

"We therefore support eLife and encourage it to continue its innovation and encourage other journals to consider doing the same."

Go #eLife, Go AWAY #ImpactFactor!

DORA · Clarivate's actions regarding eLife: DORA's response | DORAThe Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) recognizes the need to improve the ways in which the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated.

I am so glad to be one of the two ICTA-UAB representants—the other is Joan Villanueva—for the interlaboratory #study led by Cindy De Jonge and Francien Peterse!
doi.org/10.1029/2024GC011583
Let's summarize this important #scientific #publication with the following #thread! 👇🏻 (1/6)
#Science
#ScienceMastodon #AcademicMastodon
#WomenInSTEM
#Paper #OpenAccess #OpenAccessWeek #OpenAccessWeek24 #OpenAccessWeek2024
#RoundRobin #Reproducibility
#LiquidChromatography #MassSpectrometry
#GDGTs #brGDGTs

#hello I'm #new here and want to make #new acquaintances... I'm a #musician but due to some health problems my activities are a bit "stopped" nowadays ... I want to meet #new #people for #new #motivation ... #french and #english speaking users are welcome, especially Celtic ones ... and also #spanish speaking users (I'm self-learning this language)... #thanks !
(I don't know what #audience will get this #publication ; That's why I put so many #hashtags on it, to optimize its results and effects)

Traffic is imperative for most business! To keep your readers interested, you have to think outside the box. Keeping up with the trends requires using imagination and all the tools available. #Flipboard #blog #traffic #publication #business #Flipboardmagazines Read “How to Boost Traffic Using Flipboard’s Popular Topics“ by Janette Speyer on Medium: janettespeyer.medium.com/how-t

..."Stellar is freely available to anyone and is part of the print/online editions of The Astrological
Journal, the #magazine of the Astrological Association [AA]. #astrology
Stellar will grow as an online #publication and remain free.
...
In our pilot issue, we have a boxed guide to the eclipses in September and October, defined by their Saros Series classifications which identify divinatory themes, such as political upheaval. The infor

astrologicalassociation.com/wp