Benediction

Love letters to an angel. Widowed young (forever hers). — Nerd. Doin’ my best. Mid 50s cishet guy. Hope you’re well and being very kind to yourself.

[weantuniverse]

(via (1) Facebook)

[myriap0da]

chuck’s antenna

[miscosasalberto]

[pmamtraveller]

by Aurelie Castex.

[to-orrr]

summer sketches 🌾

[spudnuto]

[pmamtraveller]

Fumi Yanagimoto

[unbfacts]

Karolinska Institutet says the system now has well over 100,000 volunteers in Sweden, and research found volunteers provided CPR in almost half of the cases they were alerted to. The idea is simple: save the first few minutes, because those minutes matter most in cardiac arrest.

[jaidefinichon]

[andykaufmanisnotdead]

IO

[draculasdaughter]

This is about Sci-Hub. yeah we get it.. gatekeep knowledge and protect the interests of capital…

[three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat]

Listen, this is serious.

Do not use the website called Sci-Hub!

It lets people access scientific articles for free. This is dangerous. It helps the free flow of knowledge and reduces the competitive edge of all the people who worked really hard to have been born into a wealth.

Like, it’s literally a website where you can type in the DOI of an article and read it, without ever having to pay the publisher who exploited the author.

So, again, do not, under any circumstance, use Sci-Hub. I mean, can you imagine a world where knowledge is free and easily accessible to everyone? Even, y'know, poor people?

[whateverthebeeswant]

Libgen also has many books online, including textbooks, searchable by name, author, and ISBN. Can you imagine textbook companies not getting their hard-earned income from poor college students? Here is the link just so you make sure that you never accidentally stumble across this horrible, unethical website.

[three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat]

Oh, and while we’re talking about books, if you’ve managed to stay clear from Libgen, definitely don’t go to zlibrary, where you can also find a lot of textbooks, but unfortunately they’re completely free.

[teachingtales]

Reblogging so you know which sites to totally avoid

[professionalwritingnerd]

[irockasingranite]

Another inside tip from academia: Those papers in really expensive journals that are effectively inaccessible to anyone not in a university network? Depending on the discipline it’s very likely that same paper is on a “preprint” server somewhere, with no access restrictions.

Like if you want to read basically any physics, math, or CS paper, arXiv.org will have you covered, because everyone uploads their papers there before submitting to a journal (and generally updates it after peer review). I know all of my papers are on there. This is such common practice that journals have it baked into their licensing agreements that authors retain the right to upload their work to these places.

So the next time you get hit with that paywall, you may not even need sci-hub, just click the arxiv link on google scholar instead.

[twinkenjoyer-deactivated2023083]

if for some reason none of this works, the old “send a email nicely asking for the paper to the author” is always a good trick. remember most scientists hate the commercialisation of scientific knowledge

[afoxwithpenguins]

Don’t mind me, just gotta share this with my bf so that he knows what websites to avoid

[astudyinpanda]

Many authors of papers are on ResearchGate! You can ask for papers there, if they don’t just post a copy to download. If they’re associated with a college, you can usually find their email addresses in the department directory, also.

[viking369]

Always reblog.

[myrandomstuffpage]

Traitor say what?

[alientitty]

a few indian brutalist buildings

[mariekristina]

My favorite things about the early seasons are the promo pics, they're so adorable!

[sniperct]

there’s a word for this it’s on the tip of my tongue…

[aranock]

If you do not fucking get it at this point I dont know what to say. Its genocide. They want us all dead. They are making our existence illegal and the punishment is death.

[spudnuto]

[chennnington]

I think I should start bragging about my adopted son’s achievements when people around me start bragging about their kids. Ooooh your child can count to 10 in mandarin? Well, my child found 110 landmines! And he’s only 6 years old!

[socialistexan]

[bartfargo]

Almost.

You need to factor in the people who say "I don't like that puppy, give me a different puppy, even if it means diarrhea wins."