mineralfellow
@mineralfellow@lemmy.world
- Comment on Erasure 6 days ago:
It is pretty standard practice. For one, it helps people who read or review your work know who they are dealing with. For another, it helps the general public understand who scientists are. Part of the mission is to make sure that the next generation carries the work on, and by emphasizing the human aspect of the science, young people can actually imagine themselves getting to that point some day.
- Comment on Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway. 2 months ago:
No, not today, but give it a couple of years.
- Comment on Pterosaurs 2 months ago:
Imprint fossils preserve feathers and other soft tissues. No ears.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 months ago:
An existential crisis is an important part of growing up.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 months ago:
Private school, Mississippi.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 months ago:
I was a YEC before going to university. I studied geology. After two years, I accepted that evolution happened. After four years, I was an atheist. I went on to get a doctorate, and I have published quite a few papers about rocks that are >2 billion years old.
As a kid, there were literally 0 authority figures in my life that accepted that evolution happened. It was taken as a given that it was ridiculous. My biology teacher skipped the chapter on evolution, saying, “this is controversial.”
Patience, love, and making critical information available gives kids like I was a chance.
- Comment on Why, in English at least, is the letter W called "double U" and not "double V"? 4 months ago:
The Water of Life features in lots of fairy tales. Is that what is being referred to? Is Water of Death another name for an alcohol?
- Comment on With breasts 4 months ago:
I just think it’s funny that it goes from “terrible heads,” “fierce looking,” “beast head,” “dog teeth,” “two dog-like teeth,” to… “With breasts.” Really a dramatically different category.
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- Comment on Comparative anatomy 4 months ago:
- Comment on The two types of jobs 4 months ago:
Have you seen the FMWC?
- Comment on How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way? 5 months ago:
Feels > reals.
- Comment on Publishing Revenue 5 months ago:
Depends strongly on the community. Every sub discipline has its own standards of respectability. Publishing outside of those constraints can cause articles to be ignored.
- Comment on Sloths 🦥 6 months ago:
I wasn’t sure if this was true or a weird misunderstanding or conspiracy type thing. Seems to be true. Here is an accessible writeup: bbc.com/…/20231127-brazils-mysterious-tunnels-mad…
- Comment on Flowchart for STEM 6 months ago:
Yes. In the heirarchy of science, it ranks just below literature.
- Comment on Emma Roberts says internet culture doomed Madame Web 7 months ago:
I really liked it. Definitely could have been tighter, and the ending was not well thought out, but absolutely a fun movie. I like Ms Marvel as a character.
- Comment on No red circle. Not sure this one checks out. 7 months ago:
My wife made this joke during a presentation that was part of a job interview. Nobody laughed. Clear sign of a toxic environment.
- Comment on Hero 8 months ago:
Depends on the program you are in. The view from being a doctoral student to being a postdoc to being research/lecturing staff is very different. Not all advisors expose their students to the realities of higher levels of academia. And when a woman or minority is being mentored by a white man, they may not be aware of biases that can affect the student’s later career.
- Comment on Jan Smit 10 months ago:
I actually know him. Incredible guy. Was really pivotal in the discovery of the importance of the impact killing the dinosaurs.
- Comment on Thank god I don't sing publicly anymore 1 year ago:
When I was a teenager, I thought it was so funny that the guy sang, “Life would be ecstacy, you and me and Lesley.” Took a while to realize it was “endlessly.”
- Comment on Do the people in Reniassance festivals pccurring in Brotain also speak with faked British accents, or do they ise faked French/Iralian accents? 1 year ago:
I watched a catapult fire projectiles into a castle moat outside of Cardiff at a medieval fair. Also got propositioned by a Welsh girl, but couldn’t understand what she was saying.
