#PPOD: On June 25, NASA’s #JWST turned to famed ringed world #Saturn for its first near-infrared observations of the planet. The initial imagery from JWST's NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) is already fascinating researchers. Saturn itself appears extremely dark at this infrared wavelength observed by the telescope, as methane gas absorbs almost all of the sunlight falling on the atmosphere. However, the icy rings stay relatively bright. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Andrea Luck
Great to see that the report from ORF (austrian television) picked up on the point I highlighted in the interview (in German) that we need to include indigenous environmental knowledge when looking at migration and #resilience in the context of environmental change
Der Klimaschutz - auch als Fluchtgrund - ist schon jetzt ganz klar in der Allgemeinen Erklärung der Menschenrechte enthalten. So z.B. in den Artikeln 22 und 25, sowie in der Konvention über die Verhütung und Bestrafung von Völkermord (Art 2c)
Inwieweit es sinnvoll wäre, das in einer zusätzlich Konvention (z.B. analog der UN-BRK) explizit auszudefinieren, ist auf jeden Fall bedenkenswert. Könnte aber auch - versehtlich oder vorsätzlich - zu Schlupflöchern führen.
@K_Reuss_Manaus@geography ja es gibt wichtige Schritte in die richtige Richtung und auch im GCM und GCR wird der Umweltwandel als Faktor für Migrationsentscheidungen anerkannt. Jedoch bleiben die Formulierungen sehr vage und es gibt derzeit noch keine rechtlichen Mechanismen, die umgesetzt werden können. Aber ich sehe es wie sie Menschen in Notlagen haben immer das Recht sich in Sicherheit zu bringen. Auch im Vorfeld von Umweltereignissen!
NWS continues to flout ADA and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act...after the breaches have been repeatedly brought to their attention
Don't tell me ableism in STEM is no big deal. What the hell use is your #SciComm if you refuse to communicate important data (weather alerts, warnings, disasters) accessibly? Eugenics, is what it ends up being. #DisabledAndSTEM
You may think "eugenics" is an exaggeration here, but if you're a public agency disseminating information people need to make decisions about their safety and the safety of their homes in a form that can only be fully read by abled people, in the midst of #ClimateEmergency, then you're not just ableist but eugenicist. #DisabledAndSTEM#SciComm
While on the subject, AAPD has a call out for testimonials to the US Dept of Justice as to how web inaccessibility affects you. Comments need to be received by Oct 2: https://aapd.quorum.us/campaign/51385/
The publishing sector has a problem. Scientists are overwhelmed, editors are overworked, special issue invitations are constant, research paper mills, article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!?
How does a city sound? It's an issue we often take for granted. My students, Juliane Hirz, Carl-Philipp Bodenstein, and Marvin Alfa, from @univienna, have developed an interesting #soundscape project on Vienna's #Donauinsel.
Via the link below, you can explore the sound map and discover the diverse #soundscapes of this relatively quiet corner of #Vienna.
🔭🧬🔬 Arranca la segunda jornada del #CGutenberg23 con la mesa "Ponga usted a un comunicador o una comunicadora en su organización" con🗣️Angela Monasor, Rubén Permuy, Núria Saladié y moderada por Concepción Sanz.😉
#PPOD: Pictured, behind this darker cloud, is a pileus iridescent cloud, a group of water droplets that have a uniformly similar size and so together diffract different colors of sunlight by different amounts. T Also captured were unusual cloud ripples above the pileus cloud. The formation of a rare pileus cloud capping a common cumulus cloud is an indication that the lower cloud is expanding upward and might well develop into a storm. Credit: Jiaqi Sun
Be ungovernable, like birds who make nests OUT OF ANTI-BIRD SPIKES. A new study describes resourceful Dutch & Belgian corvids besting evil architecture by stealing metal anti-bird strips and using them like thorny twigs, to construct their homes.
Like thorns, the spikes may protect their nests from predators.
@laminda I was privileged to witness this glorious moment in person :) These little legends spent over an hour demolishing these spikes and dropping them onto the pavement, street, and pedestrians.