Updated STEM display
I have updated the Paignton Library STEM display.
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#YearOfTheFediverse,#FediverseRising,#STEMDisplay,#PaigtonLibrarySTEMGroup,#Fedevolution2022
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Tilde – text editor
Tilde is a nice, curses based text editor. It is useful for if you are at the console or terminal in Linux and want a menu driven editor.
While other tools are more command driven (nano, emacs, vi, vim and joe to name a few). Tilde is being mentioned for those of you who may find it useful
As you would expect with a modern editor, tilde has support for syntax highlighting.
Which is really useful for programming or editing website code for example.
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#YearOfTheFediverse,#Linux,#TextEditor,#Editor,#Text, #Tilde,#Programming,#SyntaxHighlighting,#console, #terminal
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Smart windows can significantly reduce indoor pathogens
Smart windows can significantly reduce indoor pathogens
Posted to Mastodon.
The researchers found that, compared to windows with blinds, the smart windows significantly reduce bacterial growth rate and their viability. [1]
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An idea / question from this is could this technology be used on space missions to help protect spacecraft from harmful UV radiation but also take advantage of sanitising properties of UV Radiation. As a quick reference, I have put a link to a wikipedia article below, please note: Wikipedia is not an academic source of information the link is there for reference purposes only.
Perhaps discuss at a STEM group meeting or on a forum. Links
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#YearOfTheFediverse,#FediverseRising,#Science,#Technology,#ScienceDaily,#ScienceDaily,#SmartWindows,#UVFilters,#Pathogens
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References
University of British Columbia Okanagan campus. “Smart windows can significantly reduce indoor pathogens: Daylight can disinfect surfaces.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 19 January 2022. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/01/220119121350.htm.
Journal Reference:
Man In Lam, Kinga Vojnits, Michael Zhao, Piers MacNaughton, Sepideh Pakpour. The effect of indoor daylight spectrum and intensity on viability of indoor pathogens on different surface materials. Life Sciences (accepted), 2022 [abstract]
Smart soil bugs offer farmers an ecofriendly route to controlling crop diseases
Smart soil bugs offer farmers an ecofriendly route to controlling crop diseases*
So given we have managed without chemicals for 1000's of years, this is going back to what we have done before, only the research will allow us to grow crops better based on science based knowledge of soil composition.
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#YearOfTheFediverse,#FediverseRising,#Science,#Technology,#ScienceDaily,#PaigtonLibrarySTEMGroup,#ScienceDaily,#Crops,#Science,#EcoCropGrowing
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Fediverse Rising
This is a copy of my article sent in to the Beach hut article published January 2022
Fediverse Rising
Former President Donald Trump just launched his own social media network. If the login screen looks familiar, that may be because it has the same look and feel of the social media application Mastodon [1]. But what is Mastodon, and why is it important?
Mastodon is a decentralized social media site. This means that instead of one big site, like Facebook, people can run their own “nodes” and the users on each can share information with the rest of the network. There is no advertising, no data collecting, or tracking, so there is more privacy, although this is not to say public posts can’t be “scraped.”
Mastodon sites are federated and there is no single owner of the whole social media service. You can run your own Mastodon server, called an “instance,” and interact with other users on other instances. These communicate through a protocol called ActivityPub. [2] The network of instances, called the Fediverse, consists of instances running the Mastodon software licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License [3] from the free software foundation [4]. An example of Federation is e-mail, there are different providers of e-mail e.g disroot, protonmail and they can all work together.
Just like on mainstream social media such as Facebook and Twitter, you can share pictures, messages, media, and links and can follow other people or topics (using hasthtags) of interest. A project called Trunk [5] helps you find people who like similar interests.
The Fediverse community values user input. The community on socialhub [6] are keen to build a social network system that is welcoming and safe for everyone, one that everyone can collaborate and work together. Some of this community are communicating with the EU / UK governments to ensure legislation and internet governance is fit for purpose and puts users before profits.
References
1. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/
2. https://activitypub.rocks/
3. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html
4. https://www.fsf.org/
5. https://communitywiki.org/trunk
6. https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/
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#YearOfTheFediverse,#FediverseRising,#Science,#Technology,#ScienceDaily,#PaigtonLibrarySTEMGroup,#Fedevolution2022
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Proto School
This was posted to Mastodon, useful set of tutorials from Proto School [1]
Our self-guided interactive tutorials are designed to introduce you to decentralized web concepts, protocols, and tools.
These were posted by DignifiedSilence [2]
Courses on offer
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1 Proto School 2 DignifiedSilence
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#YearOfTheFediverse,ProtoSchool,#tutorials, #ProtoSchool,#lessons,
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LibreOffice Documentation 31/12/2021
Documentation update(s)
LibreOffice 7.2 guides
PUBLISHED 7.2
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1 LibreOffice 2 LibreOffice Bookshelf 2a LibreOffice Documentation * LibreOffice shortcut keys 3 Free Software Foundation 4 Free Software Foundation Europe 5 LibreOffice Conference 6 7.2 blog documentation announcement TAGS
#YearOfTheFediverse,#LibreOffice,#Office,#Writer,#Calc, #Draw,#GettingStarted,#Documentation
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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.
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
Women in Chemistry
To celebrate International Women's day, Compound Chemistry have released a great poster celebrating the contribution women have made to Chemistry.
Posting here too, in the hope it will inspire more Women and Girls in Science and Chemistry.
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#YearOfTheFediverse,#Chemistry,#Women,#science,#international, #women's, #day,#women, #WomenInChemistry
Essay and report writing skills
This is a repost
Hopefully reposting this here, will inspire people.
I completed Essay and report writing skills [3] with OpenLearn [2], earlier this year. This is part of the Open University [1]. In fact, this course mirrors a student tool kit book I have here, also from the OU. It is nice to have a printed and bound version.
Very useful course, lots of useful ideas, pointers to writing good essays and reports. Topics included structure, referencing, quotations,drafting, polishing and letting go. So probably just as applicable in the workplace as it is in the Academic world
I am looking forward to further study.
The UK government want all adults to spend time learning. To this end have created the skills toolkit [4] to help adults find learning and development courses.
This is a great idea, provided that employers:-
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1 Open University 2 OpenLearn 3 Course Website 4 Skills toolkit
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#Essay,#Report,#Writing,#Skills, #OpenUniversity,#OU,#OpenLearn,#Course,#E-learning,#Study, #YearOfTheFediverse,
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