Facebook Manipulated 689,003 Users' Emotions For Science
If you use Facebook, please STOP also saying you are committed to safeguarding. Please read this article [1] on Forbes which raises, yet more concerns about the behaviour of this Tech Giant, who seem more interested in profits than the welfare of users.
1 Forbes Article
Enough said, users deserve better, people need to be treated like people and not as data sources for exploitation, manipulation.
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#DeleteFacebook,#Joinmastodon,#Welfare,#Exploitation,#Data,
#MentalHealth,#YearOfTheFediverse
Scismic webinar December
I am looking forward to the next Scismic webinar 'event next month is Maintaining Resilience During Your Job Search' which will take place in December.
Date : 15th December
For details, please see the Scismic Website. I get access to these because I am signed up on their website (free).
If you are interested in a career within Biotech then these webinars are really worth checking out, as is Scismic. I would also recommend the CV template workshop they did in association with Overleaf a while back. Please see the Overleaf Webinars page for more details.
However these webinars / workshops are interesting anyway and have some useful ideas / advice etc.
#Careers,#Jobs,#BioTech,#BioTechnology,#Overleaf,#Scismic
Autism Awareness
I have now completed 'Autism Awareness' with e-learning at work. Another really good course.
This course will provide you with an understanding of what autism is and how it affects a child's daily life.
It will touch on what factors contribute towards a child developing autism as well as some of the typical behaviours associated with it and how you can provide effective support for those with the condition.
It also discusses what happens during the diagnosis process, some of the intervention methods that can help manage the condition and suggests some simple adaptations you can make to improve a child with autism's day to day life.
The course covers the following modules:
- Definitions, Context & Background
- Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Diagnosing Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Testing and Support
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#CPD,#Autism,#Awareness
Teaching Resources
As I am hoping to be working as a supplyTeaching Assistant, having resources to help me can be really useful.
Alpha blocks are really useful for teaching or helping to teach letter sounds and phonics.
More of Alpha blocks.
Lots of cards with common words on.
Finally, some resources to help teach Numeracy.
Update to this article – Now completed a Teaching Phonics course
#Teaching,#Alphablocks,#Phonics,#Literacy,#Reading,#Writing
Ask for Evidence infographic
This is a really good resource to help people get to the facts by asking for evidence. I have some information at Paignton Library about this too, along with more resource set aside for the next STEM group meeting on the 11th December.
Hopefully it will make a good discussion topic at the meeting too.
This is a really important issue. Especially given all the information we are bombarded with on a daily basis, different viewpoints, sources separating good and bad information is a skill. This goes for looking up how to undertake tasks, you need to find the right information, this takes time.
When looking at Science it is about doing proper, robust and high quality research,
Getting this peer reviewed is an important step. However the resource on this is really useful for understanding the peer review process, as I this is an important step to ensure we can trust the research in the first place.
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#Science,#Evidence,#AskForEvidence,#Infographic
Library display
I have added some of the resources that Sense About Science sent me to the display.
Code Club 20/11/2021 write up
A really productive code club today. Small group, which was split between FreeCodeCamp, Scratch and Micro:bit. I have put some crocodile clips to one side for the next code Club.
So with the Micro:bit, we got an LED to light up, then controlled this with the built in switch, and eventually connected a speaker (which didn't work expected) so we connected a headphones.
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#CodeClub,#FreeCodeCamp,#Micro:bit,#Scratch
Next Code Club
Next code club Saturday 4/12/2021 : Please contact Paignton Library to book.
Citing posts on Mastodon
As I have an interest in Science, and am on a STEM based Mastodon instance 'qoto' [1]. I suggested a feature which helps users cite individual posts (if writing a paper for example).
This has now been added to the issue tracker [2]. The actual issue suggestion can be found at [3]. At present this is a very rough idea.
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- [https://qoto.org]
- Mastodon Issue Tracker
- Feature Suggestion – Citing posts
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#Mastodon,#Issue,#Tracking,#Feature,#Suggestion
Trojans Rookie Camps 2021 5
Date : Sunday 21st November 2021
Time : 10 am —> 14:00
Location : Foxhole playing field, Bellfield Road, Paignton
Peer review process
I have been contacting various organisations to ask for resources for the STEM group, Sense About Science [1] have now sent the Library some resources.
On their website, I found a really interesting document looking at the peer review process [2].
Well worth reading, even if you are not in academia.
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- SenseAboutScience
- Peer review process
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#Science,#Papers,#Resarch,#PeerReview,#AskforEvidence
World Antimicrobial Awareness Week
“This week is World Antimicrobial Awareness Week and when we’re asked to keep antibiotics working this winter.”
“This means not taking antibiotics when you don’t need to. Overuse can weaken your body’s immunity to disease and prevent them from working.”
“Antibiotics don’t fight off the common cold, flu or COVID-19. Infection prevention measures like good handwashing are always best.”
“There’s more information on the Antibiotic Guardian website including details of how you can take a pledge to think about different ways to protect yourself from illness. Pledges include:”
- “Treating cold and flu symptoms for five days rather than going to the GP”
- “Speaking to a pharmacist rather than visiting the GP”
- “Taking unused antibiotics to a pharmacy for safe disposal”
- “Taking up an offer of a flu vaccine https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/flu-influenza-vaccine/
- “Taking antibiotics exactly as described and never sharing with others.”
“Don’t let antibiotics go viral this winter.”
World Antimicrobial Awareness Week