AC @coldwave@fediscience.org

I won #nanowrimo. back to your regular science/life programming

#introduction
#phd student in one area of #physics, forever trying to understand all of it. #math spectator.
also posts about #running, #mushrooms I find, #lit
#trans #gay scientist

the anti-trans narrative, especially the one about teenagers, is really proliferating. I'm gonna have to start stating the obvious daily.

Don't you think it's weird that there's no preoccupation with climate crisis in pop culture? Music, tv shows? In past decades, at least a little bit of preoccupation with nuclear apocalypse scenarios was showing everywhere

It's going to become nearly impossible for humans to live on large parts of our land area. I don't mean "do agriculture" or "have drinking water", I mean "live". At certain heat and humidity, we can't cool our bodies.

How does anyone work when internet

I've been hearing it both ways on the Uyghur genocide (the mainstream position of western governments and the claim that it's all made up), from not particularly conspiracy-prone directions, including on here. I just want to know - where do you all get your information? Are there more sources behind the latter than hearsay in internet comment sections?

- I want to read a book
- I'm preoccupied with the overwhelming disinformation problem (regarding politics, history; interacting with internet)
Recommendations, anyone? There must be thousands such books out there on a trendy topic. Tell me if you've read any, if they're good (or bad).

Especially the NHS has no right to paste rainbows on everything if they're not going to do anything to help trans people

out of love with doing or thinking anything as stimulated by random number generators. even traditional/analog ones like tarot don't feel good. it's not interesting or unique to commit a series of minor decisions to a dice roll when it's everywhere.

People are advising me that since the thesis evaluation criteria is to have material "suitable for publication", the easiest way to prove this is publish a few chapters as papers. Then examiners don't have to make the judgement call.
But this book says "suitable for publication" merely means that the thesis is appropriate to be printed and put in the thesis archive.

I looked into the book "How to get a phd", and maybe this is dated already, because it says nothing about having to publish a few papers, (get teaching experience, conferences, outreach, and why-don't-you-do-a-startup) on top of a thesis to be considered successful.

hopefully I have had a good idea for the final phase and main point of my phd project