Help scientists find cures for diseases by contributing some of your computer's power to analysing how proteins "fold". Run "Folding@home" on your computer!
Life-hack advice of the day for researchers who use #R :
Anyone who writes stuff in #Rmarkdown in #RStudio that uses citations should use the "citr" #RStudio add-in with #Zotero + Better BibTeX extension for Zotero. I cannot stress how useful this tool is. It's like the Zotero add-in for Word or LibreOffice Writer, except it works with RStudio.
It's a travesty that it's not on CRAN.
https://github.com/crsh/citr
http://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/
Welcome new users of the Fediverse/Mastodon. Please enjoy this photo of a Sodosol, Victoria's official state #soil.
Here's an explanation of all the state soils: https://www.soilscienceaustralia.org.au/about/about-soil/state-soils/
#SummerSchool 2022
Hey friends,
For the last 2 years, we've hosted an interdisciplinary inter-time-zone all-online all-free conference for the Fediverse
So I'm gauging interest for #SummerSchool 2022
If you want to be one of the co-organizers (one of the people who makes sure that presenters have moderators and fills out the schedule, etc—we're not recruiting moderators or presenters yet), please reply to this message as a DM before 2022-06-04 and I'll schedule a meeting!
Politics, preference voting idiots
I really want to yeet every idiot who complains about a candidate winning with less (first preference) votes than their preferred candidate.
Every single person who is elected (in good preferential voting systems like Australia's) is elected because >50% of people prefer the candidate to the one you are whinging about.
It's a feature, it's the point.
It's a true democracy.
I don't shed a tear because you can't manipulate results because of it.
Hi fediverse! Boosts appreciated on this one.
I’m part of a co-op building a platform for artists to sell art without getting exploited. I’ve been working on it for a while but there’s a lot of work to do and I could use some help. A ton of the main features are in place, but there’s still some big gaps and a lot of polish left before it can launch.
The platform is fully open source and developed in the open. It’s built on Phoenix/Elixir and Tailwindcss. Our co-op is already incorporated and established and it’s open to members that want to actually commit but you don’t need to be a member to contribute or help.
Does this sound interesting? I’d love some help! I’m also happy to answer questions. And no, you don’t need to know Elixir already. It’s pretty easy to learn for the things you’d be using it for. Even some design help would be welcome. Feel free to reply here or DM me!
NEW Preprint alert! Policymakers, medics, data analysts, industry IP lawyers, open research folks, this is one for you: COVID-19: An exploration of consecutive systemic barriers to pathogen-related data sharing during a pandemic.
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2205.12098
🧵 - boosts appreciated!
Twitter will pay a $150 million fine over accusations it improperly sold user data
"In court documents made public on Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice say Twitter violated a 2011 agreement with regulators in which the company vowed to not use information gathered for security purposes, like users' phone numbers and email addresses, to help advertisers target people with ads."
#Twitter #FTC #2FA
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/25/1101275323/twitter-privacy-settlement-doj-ftc
Gabriella Morreale💉✨
Italian-born Spanish chemist who specialised in the study of the thyroid. She established a newborn screening program for congenital hypothyroidism in Spain and helped to introduce iodised salt to prevent thyroid problems caused by iodine deficiency.
#mastoart #science #art #womeninscience #creativetoots #illustration #digitalart #portrait #ciencia #history
Good news everyone! A new version of graph-tool is just out! @graphtool@twitter.com
Single line installation:
anaconda ⤵️
conda create --name gt -c conda-forge graph-tool
homebrew ⤵️
brew install graph-tool
debian/ubuntu⤵️
apt-get install python3-graph-tool
Shared story with kid.
According to child Pocky is also apparently high up on the list of good things about Japan.
And I'm going to share this video of a Japanese park or zoo giving a group of capybara eating a giant watermelon.
England to allow cultivation and sale of new GMOs By Cécile Ducourtieux - Le Monde
Boris Johnson is touting the bill introduced Wednesday, May 25, as one of the major benefits of Brexit, with the European Union continuing to severely restrict the growing and sale of genetically modified species.
I found this article on organising computational biology projects and I'm going to follow its advice.
Noble, W. S. (2009). A Quick Guide to Organizing Computational Biology Projects. PLOS Computational Biology, 5(7), e1000424. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000424
Before I tell you about how HSBC just announced it wants to literally render the planet Earth unfit for human habitation, I want to talk about HSBC's other crimes. Remember the LIBOR scandal? HSBC was neck-deep in it, costing the world's public coffers *trillions* through fraud?
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Soil science PhD student and food delivery driver in Naarm aka Melbourne. My PhD is on dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium in forest soil.
Born at 335 ppm CO2.
Indie music fan and record collector.
Occasional Foldit player