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World’s largest sand battery starts slashing emissions in Finnish town
The 15 metres wide battery can store a month's heat demand in summer - how does it work?
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My university just instituted a new workload model that explicitly states external service work, like journal editing, is not to be considered part of paid workload allocation. Yet such service is still listed on promotion guides. When will academics get fed up with working for free?
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Peer reviewers are exhausted. It's common to spend months inviting reviewers, getting refusals, inviting more, maybe 12 or more, then 2 agree but 1 doesn't complete, so you go again. That's why your paper is in limbo. I'm very sorry, it's awful, but it's also an untenable academic labour issue.
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Müllermilch is very big in UK and other countries, so we translated our piece about Theo Müllers extravagant birthday party and his right wing friends with the help of our trusted translator Charles:
www.spiegel.de/internationa...
Müllermilch Boss with Fringe Friends: A German Dairy Billionaire's Links to the Far Right
The dairy billionaire Theo Müller is friends with Alice Weidel, the co-leader of the right-wing extremist party Alternative for Germany. She and other fringe figures were invited to his extravagant bi...
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Live footage of historians these days
Live footage of historians these days
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Anthropic are not being penalised for using copyrighted material without permission - that’s been (scandalously, tragically) ruled fair use. They’re specifically being fined for downloading registered material from a pirating site. It is a weak, toothless ruling.
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I was going to add another comment here about how many of the scholars that should be doing this work simply aren't in academia anymore and then I realized I already did--this is phantom pain where your colleagues should be.
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oa in its state-mandated form was always about using research funds to pay big corporations to make it legal for other big corporations to train on them; they get us coming and going
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Love this idea: struggling to think of a movie I love (i’m a watch once and forget movie consumer usually 😅)
Come to think of it, we should really do more blind dates on the pod. Nothing romantic obviously, but I should take two random historian friends of mine and put them together to talk about a movie we love. So if you’re a historian and you want in on this idea, message me with a movie you love.
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(Mine was actually turned off - I think because i got sick of repeated braaaps when the really big storm was in our area back in February. Popped it back on to be prt of the great trumpeting today)
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Most phones also allow you to turn off all alerts: ios it’s under settings >notifications (scroll aaaallll the way down)
If you know anyone who has to keep a phone secret, and can safely let them know, it is going to be really, really, important that they know to make sure those phones are switched off, or on airplane mode, before the alert goes through at 3pm.
