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Kevin WilbrahamThe Church of St. Margaret of Antioch Church at Crick in Northamptonshire with its ball-flower decorated spire. The church is mostly C14th to C15th in date, but incorporates some earlier C12th and C13th elements. 📸 My own. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SteepleSaturday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SteepleSaturday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Medieval</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Crick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Crick</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Northamptonshire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Northamptonshire</a>

Kevin WilbrahamThe Norman font from the Church of St. Margaret of Antioch at Crick in Northamptonshire. 📸 My own. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FontsOnFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FontsOnFriday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Medieval</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Crick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Crick</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Northamptonshire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Northamptonshire</a>

Phil Thane ✅On day one of the boat trip Gareth and I took some video footage. I finally edited it, badly. It's here: <a href="https://tube.spdns.org/w/wv5nZsK22GQtvuMY5C923W" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tube.spdns.org/w/wv5nZsK22GQtvuMY5C923W</a> More on the blog tomorrow, done enough today. <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/BoatsThatToot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BoatsThatToot</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Boating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Boating</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/canals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#canals</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Crick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Crick</a>

Phil Thane ✅Yet again I've been fiddling with Seren's gear change. It's always been terrible, every year I improve it a bit, maybe one day it'll work properly. Details on the blog here <a href="https://www.pthane.weebly.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.pthane.weebly.com</a> Also info about a new plastic narrowboat at the Crick Boat Show. <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Crick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Crick</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/NarrowBoat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NarrowBoat</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/CanalBoat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CanalBoat</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Canal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Canal</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/HDPE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HDPE</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/AdriftBoats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AdriftBoats</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/FormationPlastics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FormationPlastics</a>

Gay CurmudgeonA Winter Walk along the Hungry Run Creek. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/outdoors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#outdoors</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/winter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#winter</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/creek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#creek</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/creeks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#creeks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/crick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#crick</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cricks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cricks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dolls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dolls</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dollcollector" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dollcollector</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dollphotographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dollphotographer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/barbie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#barbie</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/barbies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#barbies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/skipper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#skipper</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/toy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#toy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/toys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#toys</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/playthings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#playthings</a>

Daniel DvorkinA conversation.“When experts disagree, usually the best thing to do is listen to what the majority of experts say. There’s no guarantee that they’re right, but they’re more likely right than wrong. And if the majority view is overturned, it’s almost guaranteed that this will be done by other experts in the field presenting evidence for the minority view, not by random kibitzers.”“For the history buffs in here, while most scientific knowledge is advanced incrementally, the true breakthroughs are usually ridiculed by the reigning experts. That is why appeals to authority are the worst kind of logical fallacy for a scientist.”“That’s the pop-history version of scientific progress. The actual <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> of <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#science</a> is very different. Kind of like the difference between ‘history buffs’ and historians.”===Yes, there are examples—a few—of genuine breakthroughs that were ridiculed by the scientific establishment of the day. I bet you know what they are, because everyone does. They laughed at <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Semmelweis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Semmelweis</a>, they laughed at <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Wegner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wegner</a>, they laughed at Luis and Walter <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Alvarez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Alvarez</a>, they laughed at <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Marshall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Marshall</a> and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Warren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Warren</a>. These things happened.But they did not laugh at <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Galileo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Galileo</a>: indeed, they took his work with deadly seriousness. (And there really wasn’t any such thing as a “scientific establishment” at the time.) They did not laugh at <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Newton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Newton</a>, or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Watt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Watt</a>, or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Darwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Darwin</a>, or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Gibbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gibbs</a>, or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Pasteur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pasteur</a>, or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Einstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Einstein</a>, or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Curie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curie</a>, or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Heisenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Heisenberg</a>, or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Fisher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fisher</a>, or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Watson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Watson</a> and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Crick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Crick</a> and poor unacknowledged <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Franklin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Franklin</a>, or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Tharp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tharp</a> and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Heezen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Heezen</a>, or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Ostrom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ostrom</a> and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Bakker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bakker</a>, or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Hansen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hansen</a>, or the vast majority of scientists whose work has fundamentally changed our understanding of the universe.At least if by “they” you mean scientists working in relevant fields, who understood the questions at hand … not, in most cases, scientists from other fields, or those with no scientific experience at all. Nor the religious and political ideologues who muddy the waters by creating fake “controversies” to cast doubt on results they know are true, but cannot accept.In some cases they disagreed, quite vociferously. There were debates that descended into shouting matches, professional disagreements turned into personal feuds, once-eminent researchers become sad cranks, ruined careers and shortened lives. Yes. These things happened too, and that’s a tragedy.But most of the time, most researchers in the same fields as the revolutionaries said, “Oh, that makes sense!” Problems that had seemed insoluble suddenly became simple, or at least it was possible to see how there might be an elegant solution. Major discoveries spawned a host of medium-sized ones, each of which in turn spawned endless minor ones—and endless minor papers, academic bread and butter for when you can’t get steak and lobster. Everyone wins.Those ideologues I mentioned above? They really, really want you to believe the narrative of ridicule. You might want to consider why.

🦅 🪿RKeller Photography🏳️‍🌈A foggy day on <a href="https://toot.community/tags/ClearCreek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClearCreek</a>. (12/23/23)<a href="https://toot.community/tags/creek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#creek</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/crick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#crick</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/fog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fog</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#weather</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/woods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#woods</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/trees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trees</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/trail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trail</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/NaturePhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NaturePhotography</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#photography</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/AltText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AltText</a>

🦅 🪿RKeller Photography🏳️‍🌈Sunrise over <a href="https://toot.community/tags/ClearCreek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClearCreek</a> and a foggy <a href="https://toot.community/tags/IowaRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IowaRiver</a> in Coralville, Iowa. (09/18/23)<a href="https://toot.community/tags/fog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fog</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/foggy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#foggy</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/sunrise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sunrise</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/SunrisePhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SunrisePhotography</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/sky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sky</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/clouds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#clouds</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sun</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/river" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#river</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/creek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#creek</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/crick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#crick</a> trees <a href="https://toot.community/tags/bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bluesky</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#photography</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/AltText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AltText</a>

Patrick O'Beirne<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01313-5" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01313-5</a>What <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Rosalind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rosalind</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Franklin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Franklin</a> truly contributed to the <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/discovery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#discovery</a> of <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/dna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dna</a> 's structure Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/helix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#helix</a> was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player. <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/watson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#watson</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/crick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#crick</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/genetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#genetics</a>

ivanfrToday marks the 70th anniversary of the article published by Francis Crick and James Watson on the double helix structure of DNA. A one-page article that vastly changed the way we see the world<a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/ADN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ADN</a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/genetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#genetics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Crick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Crick</a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Watson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Watson</a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/doublehelix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#doublehelix</a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#physics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/hist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hist</a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/sci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sci</a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#histsci</a> Link: <a href="https://www.nature.com/scitable/content/Molecular-Structure-of-Nucleic-Acids-16331/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/scitable/content/Molecular-Structure-of-Nucleic-Acids-16331/</a>

🦅 🪿RKeller Photography🏳️‍🌈Sunrise above <a href="https://toot.community/tags/ClearCreek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClearCreek</a> and the <a href="https://toot.community/tags/IowaRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IowaRiver</a> in <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Coralville" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Coralville</a>, Iowa. (05/09/22)<a href="https://toot.community/tags/sunrise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sunrise</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/sunrisephotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sunrisephotography</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/morning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#morning</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/river" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#river</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/creek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#creek</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/crick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#crick</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/sky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sky</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/SkyPhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SkyPhotography</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/landscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#landscape</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/landscapephotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#landscapephotography</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/bridges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bridges</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/NaturePhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NaturePhotography</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/NatureMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NatureMastodon</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#photography</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/AltText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AltText</a>

Oliver Steinbock<a href="https://mas.to/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChatGPT</a> gently edits the famous <a href="https://mas.to/tags/DNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DNA</a> paper by <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Watson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Watson</a> and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Crick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Crick</a> (which is obviously well-written) and explains why. You be the judge! <a href="https://mas.to/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/scientificwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#scientificwriting</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chemistry</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biology</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/biochemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biochemistry</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/FSU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FSU</a>

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