Posts by freeDomForTooting@qoto.org
 (DIR) Post #APXwsxWueMynkQ41rc by freeDomForTooting@qoto.org
       2022-11-13T02:10:33Z
       
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       Hello! As I’m new both to #Mastodon and to the #QOTO instance, I’d like to make my #introductions here.I’m Dom, a postgraduate researcher studying #CondensedMatter, in particular #SoftMatter, #ActiveMatter, #MolecularBiology, #CellBiology, #PhaseTransitions, and #ComplexSystems using the tools of #TheoreticalPhysics, #BioPhysics, #StatisticalPhysics, #FluidDynamics, #ComputationalPhysics, and #Simulation.I’m working on a few projects at the moment. One addresses #universality in active #turbulence with #spectral techniques. Another predicts a new microphase separation regime in inhomogeneous active #nematics by simulating the coupled #CahnHilliard, #NavierStokes, and #BerisEdwards equations. In another project I’m developing a #FieldTheory of the #orderphobic effect, a nonspecific interaction between #transmembrane bodies anchored in a #lipid #bilayer.I’m also interested in…#cycling#ArchLinux#Linux#LibreSoftwarelearning #Korean#yoga#calisthenics#singing#autonomy#Cooperatives#DeliberativeDemocracy#CitizensAssemblies#ParticipatoryDemocracy#DemocraticInnovation#OpenDemocracy#LibertarianSocialism#RightToRepair#democracy#humanism#rationalism#OpenScience#science#CommunityEmpowerment#community#commons#research#wikis#governance
       
 (DIR) Post #APhIqlvqkJt4c3jIoK by freeDomForTooting@qoto.org
       2022-11-17T14:29:03Z
       
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       @freemo thanks for the heads-up!As I only recently joined I assumed that was normal performance for the browser portal and mostly stuck to the app.On inspection it seems the ticker theme causes repeated requests to https://miy.pw/ which times out with 503: Service Unavailable. This is indeed avoided by switching to a theme without a ticker as you say, such as `qoto-no-ticker`.Hope other folks pick up on this and switch themes for themselves. In fact, I wonder, is it possible to remove the themes that do this to avoid the problem?
       
 (DIR) Post #APpXgoiQYlnpqofgmW by freeDomForTooting@qoto.org
       2022-11-21T12:33:38Z
       
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       https://twitter.com/joelycett/status/1594302742847426562
       
 (DIR) Post #ARMl88aMY8h14psJ3w by freeDomForTooting@qoto.org
       2022-11-24T14:17:56Z
       
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       @pavlosvas1This bit feels even more relevant for today’s #UCU #strike #ucuRISINGFor many years, academics accepted relatively low pay (relative to their skill level) and long hours in exchange for relative #autonomy at work and a dignified retirement. That #socialContract has been torn up under a decade of #marketisation. The supply of “good will” (i.e. #underpaid and #unpaidLabour) that has kept #universities running for a long time is now close to zero. Even if the employers win in this dispute, it will be a #Phyrric victory, or a Carthaginian one — creating a desert and calling it peace. Unless vice-chancellors change course, #workplace relations will be poisoned for a generation and universities will become increasingly #dysfunctional.The Seven Deadly Sins of Marketisation in British Higher Education by Lee Jones