Notices by Jorge Saturno :oa: (jorge@scholar.social), page 19

The nibö #scicomm blog has a new logo :)

https://ko-fi.com/i/IM4M1JYKJ

On the difficulties of science scholars to read concepts through stories.

Fragment of

The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
By Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Thank you all who commented on this. I guess Okular wins. I will give it a try again. I have used it before but I don't like the interface very much.

As you can imagine, I don't like #Elsevier and would like to get rid of its #Mendeley software as my reference manager.

I am using #Zotero :zotero: too but I need annotations on pdf and I am not sure which program to use for that. I am running Linux, by the way.

Any advices are more than welcome!

I have been checking out a lot social accounts of science communicators on instagram just to have an impression of how they share contents there. I am surprised I have found so many Elon Musk's fans. What's wrong with the people? 🤦♂️

Many thanks to @GIMcGrew 😊 who just organized some coffee for me ☕

https://ko-fi.com/jorgesat

@beckborg that would be great! thank you!

about the name:

nibö is a word that means conversation in the pumé language. Pumé people are one of the most pacifist indigenous people in Venezuela 😊

you can also contribute buying me a coffee ☕
https://ko-fi.com/jorgesat
Thanks! ❤️

#Scicomm is really important. Especially, in the current fake-news dominated reality. However, most of scicomm is done in a unidirectional way. I think the web can help to make scicomm better and reciprocal. That's why I have started a new project, which I have called nibö.

nibö will start as a Spanish-written blog and later a video-blog that will try to make this sci conversation possible in the Spanish-speaking world.

If you want to contribute in any way, let me know.

@socrates A petition to remove bar plots 😂

Say no to hybrid journals.
Full #OpenAccess :oa: or nothing.

#Microplastics can spread via flying insects, research shows.
By Damian Carrington

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/19/microplastics-can-spread-via-flying-insects-research-shows

La lección de #Brasil: los museos no son para siempre

http://niboe.info/blog/2018/09/la-leccion-de-brasil-los-museos-no-son-para-siempre/

Cómo investigadores daneses descubrieron libros venenosos en su biblioteca

http://niboe.info/blog/2018/09/como-investigadores-daneses-descubrieron-libros-venenosos-en-su-biblioteca/

@carlcolglazier some people tend to criticize the mirrored pdf shown in violin plots. It has been suggested to use only one pdf (half violin). What do you think about that?

There is a scientist who sustains that dinosaurs 🦕 were not extinguished by a meteorite

https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/what-really-killed-the-dinosaurs/

#science #paleontology