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Using embargo in publishing; we were just chatting about this.

This morning I was reading/following this link path, its about a study on diversity in food production:

1) mastodon chat: https://mastodon.social/@SustainabilityOnline/115026061599312348

2) blog article: https://sustainabilityonline.net/research/blueprint-to-tackle-biodiversity-impacts-of-farming-outlined-in-new-study/

3) press release: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1094143

and came across this passage. (emphasis added)

The study ‘Towards positive net outcomes for biodiversity, and developing safeguards to accompany headline biodiversity indicators’ will be published at 10 AM BST / 5 AM ET Monday 11 August in npj Biodiversity at https://www.nature.com/articles/s44185-025-00095-5 To view a copy of the study before this under embargo, contact Joseph Bull: joseph.bull@biology.ox.ac.uk

4) journal version: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44185-025-00095-5

5) research report: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44185-025-00095-5.pdf

This shows the info-publishing food chain from author-of-info to a chat-news-blurb. There are a lot of moving parts.

The flow from 16 pages of dense academic words to a 500 character mastodon chat; this is skipping over the professors and all the grad and undergrad students doing the actual work and the funding processes involved. This also skips over the editors that make the information digestible by people of different educational backgrounds and all the technical engineering website work needed to support the food chain.

Its good to see the respect shown to the difference between the needs of the printed pdf users and web versions designed to be read from a screen.

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The current work of the USA president(circa 2025), the conservative USA political party system, and worldwide bigCorp business structure will destroy all of this with their attacks on higher education and the functioning democracies of the world in the service of their corporate masters, wealth concentration, and ignorant racist beliefs.

We left the fascist system of government and the feudal economic system back in the 1400's for a reason. Let's not let them bring it back.

Democracy is more than how we vote!

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Terryl Warnock is an eccentric with a happy heart who lives on the outskirts of town with her cat. She is known as an essayist, proof reader, editor, maker of soap, and proud pagan. A lifetime student, she has pursued science, religion, and sustainable communities. This, plus life experience from the local community service to ski instructor, from forest service worker to DMV supervisor, from hospitality to business owner gives her a broad view on the world.

Terryl is the author of:
The Miracle du jour, ISBN-10: 0989469859, ISBN-13 ‏: ‎ 978-0-9894698-5-2

AJ Brown, in a past life, was an embedded systems engineer (digital design engineer). He worked on new product designs from hard disk controllers, communication protocols, and link encryptors to battery monitors for electric cars.

A few years ago he surrendered his spot on the freeway to someone else. Now he is more interested in sailing, building out his live-in bus for travel, and supporting the idea of full-circle food: the propagation, growth, harvest, storage, preparation, and preservation of healthy sustenance. He is a strong supporter of Free/Libre Open Source Software[F/LOSS] and is willing to help most anyone in their quest to use it.

Together, we are MoonLit Press.

A pagan contemplation of equilbrium at the Vernal Equinox.

By Terryl Warnock

Balance is fluid.
 Energetic,
  adventurous,
   and dynamic.

Balance descends,
like a skier playing with gravity.

Element of Earth.

Balance soars,
like a musician ascending octaves.

Element of Air.

Balance shimmers,
like a sunbeam toying with leaves.

Element of Fire.

Balance ripples,
like a dolphin frolicking with waves.

Element of Water.

I played, and soared, and frolicked, and shimmered.
And, at that fleeting moment of equality that is Ostara,
prayed for balance I could be still in.
A balance that was not my nature.

Ancient wisdom cautions that we take care what we pray for.

Now I am dragged behind long years.
My prayers have been answered,
the stillness I once prayed for
is imposed upon me now.

From the wreckage of this wake I look back
and yearn for the playful, the musical, the ascending,the shimmering, and the frolicking.

The balance of stillness may be peaceful,
it can also ossify and become brittle.

Element of Earth.

The balance of stillness may be quiet,
it can also blow away on a breeze like dust.

Element of Air.

The balance of stillness may be warm,
it can also burn down and smolder to ash.

Element of Fire.

The balance of stillness may be smooth, like a glassy pool,
it can also stagnate and choke with decay.

Element of Water.

Balance is a meditation,
 Solid, unmoving, and static.
  May take itself too seriously,
   stuck reflecting on what has been lost.

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Ostara is the pagan celebration of the Vernal (Spring) Equinox, one of only two days out of the three hundred and sixty-five when daylight and night are perfectly equal. As spring marches on, days will become longer and nights shorter until the cycle turns around at the Summer Solstice and starts back.

We wish you all the blessings of the season, and pray that you are gaining in strength as well. May you find your way to a happy, healthy balance.

Follow Terryl's work and give her feedback on:

Mastodon	https://mastodon.sdf.org/@wordsbyterryl
email	mailto:moonlitpress@proton.me

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Gratitude list:

Graphic design by AJ Brown	https://mastodon.sdf.org/@mral
Phptography by AJ Brown	https://mastodon.sdf.org/@mral

Terryl is grateful always to the Life in Pieces writing circle for their invaluable feedback on an earlier version of this piece. She is also grateful beyond words to the spiral of time and the long, wonderful years she has lived. She has been taught at last what true balance is in her own life and on her own journey.

AL(not AI) and Terryl are both very grateful, always, to the people who read our work. You are what makes all this worthwhile.

Terryl Warnock is an eccentric with a happy heart who lives on the outskirts of town with her cat. She is known as an essayist, proof reader, editor, maker of soap, and proud pagan. A lifetime student, she has pursued science, religion, and sustainable communities. This, plus life experience from the local community service to ski instructor, from forest service worker to DMV supervisor, from hospitality to business owner gives her a broad view on the world.

Terryl is the author of:
The Miracle du jour, ISBN-10: 0989469859, ISBN-13 ‏: ‎ 978-0-9894698-5-2

AJ Brown, in a past life, was an embedded systems engineer (digital design engineer). He worked on new product designs from hard disk controllers, communication protocols, and link encryptors to battery monitors for electric cars.

A few years ago he surrendered his spot on the freeway to someone else. Now he is more interested in sailing, building out his live-in bus for travel, and supporting the idea of full-circle food: the propagation, growth, harvest, storage, preparation, and preservation of healthy sustenance. He is a strong supporter of Free/Libre Open Source Software[F/LOSS] and is willing to help most anyone in their quest to use it.

Together, we are MoonLit Press.