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  • bcraven 15 hours ago
    I must say, "Fig tree in Africa. Credit: Mike Rowley" is one of the shittest photos I have ever seen. Wow.

    https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2025/fig-trees-convert...

  • thimkerbell 11 hours ago
    If you (or phys.org) are posting a rewritten press release for research results that have not yet successfully undergone peer review, you need to say so at the outset.
    • PaulHoule 7 hours ago
      Write them, they can use all the complaints they can get.

      My first paper was https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9512055v1 which eventually got published in Physical Review E but the abstract for a talk I gave at the March Meeting of the APS caught the eye of a reporter at Science News so I had the cover story one week, I think before the real publication.

      The magazine printed a photo I took of Ron Maimon crumpling paper on the sofa of my office with an apparatus that I invented. Ron never completed his PhD on string theory but he eventually became a notorious 9/11 "truther" and conspiracy theorist.

      • gsf_emergency_2 3 hours ago
        I wouldn't recommend complaining.. bellyfeels only

        Thus said, PR's can look like narcissism .. those who call it out are some of the prigs Uncle Paul warned us about :)

        Schizotypes too.. it's the peer-unreviewed grandiosity i suppose. what would Kohut say?

        Wish I'd discovered Ron earlier. His *overflow throwaways make me want to mine his conspiracy theories :) hope somebody addressing his emotional holes RN

        If I had to guess your ex a Borderline. Glad dang concurs on the method.. (?) if that kinda helps/works it'd be worth internalizing

        Equivalently I'd have to deal with the (situational?) emo holes associated with Stripe before I can internalize "their" (alien) way of thinking[0] :) but maybe you already have more experience there:

        https://xcancel.com/patrickc/status/1848393059559502177

        Stripe acquires Stablecoin s-u Bridge

        Fun thing of his to equate htsc with sc. It's one of those things nobody has to or will shout about when they've got it

        [0] with Daub as a bedside reference/biblio

        https://www.adriandaub.com/s/NOTES-What-Tech-Calls-Thinking....

        https://www.adriandaub.com/books/what-tech-calls