Andrea Hacker
@ahacker.bsky.social
Listening to all of J.S. Bach. Learning French. At home on campus. Itinerant baker. Subversive librarian. Living in Alderaan. "In an age of performative cruelty, kindness is punk as f*ck. Be punk as f*ck". She/her
Crops grown underneath solar panels produce more, require less water and are more resistant to extreme weather, even during a hot, dry summer. We need agrivoltaics to be rolled out asap, for both the electricity and the better growing conditions. microgridmedia.com/solar-panels...
Solar Panels Are Helping Crops Grow Better, Global Studies Show - Microgrid Media
For farmers worried about losing land to solar energy, new research brings surprising news: many crops actually produce more food when grown beneath solar
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Nachrichten sollten immer mit "Heute haben sich wieder Milliarden Menschen anständig benommen" eingeleitet werden.
🛠️ Tool Spotlight: JATS XML Converter Service Developed by SRCE, this service helps editors and researchers convert journal articles from .docx into JATS XML to support digital publishing, discoverability and interoperability for #DiamondOA journals. 🔗 Explore the tool: tinyurl.com/3tk7bu8r
Sometimes Monet planted his art before he painted it. At Giverny, he redesigned nature like a canvas—diverting rivers, planting lilies, bamboo, and willows. “My finest masterpiece,” he said, “is my garden.”
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” Aldous Huxley, English philosopher, writer, author of Brave New World, born #OTD 1894. Photo by Charles Sheeler, Michener Art Museum
Susan MacDowell Eakins, a great portrait from 1899 by her husband Thomas Eakins. It’s been his day.
The Japanese Bridge (The Water-Lily Pond and Path by the Water) - 1900 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10789
All the pretty ladies and their books (and lamb, for Agnes) at the mystic marriage of Saint Catherine. By Adriaen Isenbrandt, whose day is today.
On the terminology of open access (e.g. "diamond"): "I think these terms are terrible and confusing."
Open Library of Humanities@openlibhums.org · 2w agoOLH Interview with Semantics of Natural Languages Our Editorial Officer, @maddiesinclair.bsky.social, speaks with the SNL editors about their move to #diamondOA, community-led publishing, and leaving Springer Nature to launch SNL with OLH. Read full interview: www.openlibhums.org/news/977/
Five hundred years before we landed on the moon, imaginative medieval manuscript makers created these moon masterpieces. Happy #MoonDay to all that celebrate! 🌚
A bio-inspired robot crosses paths with a real insect , 400 million years of evolution face to face with human engineering.
"don't cite what you haven't read" remains the basic entry level academic responsibility; & if your discpline "doesn't have that as a norm" then sorry, your discipline needs reforming for this new world. Citations are structural parts of trust and knowledge building, not trinkets or optional extras
Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 8mo agoAcademics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
Prog night a the #proms - some of the vocals are a bit rough around the edges so far...
It's very hard not to love @doctorow.pluralistic.net when he gets stuck into something. This video really lays out the AI bubble clearly!
Wow. Published in May in The Lancet. Look at those numbers of fabricated references per 10,000 articles in PubMed. The urge to publish is overcoming the urge to, I dunno, discover and learn things? #AI #medsky 🧪 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Fabricated citations: an audit across 2·5 million biomedical papers
Scientific literature depends on the integrity of its references. Each reference implicitly asserts that a verifiable source exists and supports the claims being made. When references point to non-exi...
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The Netherlands' new open access strategy specifically name-checks 'scaling small' & puts community-driven publishing at its core - the very ethos the OBC was built on. Fantastic to see scholar-led values embedded into national policy! #OpenAccess #OAPolicy #ScalingSmall
When 'scaling small' becomes national policy
The Netherlands' new open access strategy echoes the principles the Open Book Collective was built on - 'scaling small' and community-led publishing
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Annie Londonderry (1870-1947) a Latvian immigrant to the US, in 1894–95 became the first woman to bicycle around the world, after a bet by two men who thought it would be an impossible challenge for a woman.... #womensart
Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/04/california-hawaii-rowing-solo-journey (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873692)
Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii
Kelsey Pfendler set out to become first US woman, youngest woman and fastest woman to solo over 2,400-mile journey
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Magnificent portrait of a woman, 1620, by Artemisia Gentileschi. She was born on this day in 1593.
In 1638, Artemisia Gentileschi paints herself as the allegorical figure of Pictura. Bold! But justified. Today is her day.
Schönes Detail am Anfang des Buches von @antjeschrupp.bsky.social. Während der Entstehung der Staatlickeit war die Anzahl der Untertanen wichtiger als die Grösse des Territoriums. "...dazu passt dass sich im Indogermanischen vor ca 4500 Jahren ein grammatikalisches Geschlecht herausgebildet hat."
And the same for authors and books
Tja, während man junge Menschen einsperrt und wegen des Verdachts der Bildung beziehungsweise Unterstützung einer kriminellen Vereinigung vor Gericht zitiert, zeigt uns die globale Erderhitzung von welcher Seite die wahre Gefahr droht. #Symbolpolitik auf Kosten von Menschenleben
taz@taz.de · last mo.Nach der Hitzewelle fragt sich das Internet, wo die „Letzte Generation“ bleibt. Anders als die Klimakrise wurden die Aktivist*innen aber bekämpft.
