🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@freemo @MrsDi @DrK @arinbasu @SteveZissou I am a newbie too (not #TwitterMigration though). I really appreciate all the post and hints as to how to conduct ‘business’ in here. Enjoying it way more than I should.

@General

“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.”

― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

#TerryPratchett #DiscWorld #Fantasy #magic #magick #Literature #Book Quote #Quotes

@freemo
I'll set an NA Guinness Stout aside for the purpose. Let me know when it's time! I do love a brew you have to chew.

In my opinion, criticisms of mastodon being unusable by the general public are over blown.

@freemo I haven't been here long & still finding my way round, but I'm liking it so far. Hope you get your small bugs sorted. Sending lots of energy to help. Thank you

@DrK @freemo @SteveZissou

I too think this is really a good decent server; if you check the local timeline, you will discover nice folks around. The editor is well designed, and this server actually allows you to integrate other federated tools, that's fantastic. I also found nice uptime and so on.
#GoodInstance

@freemo @arinbasu @SteveZissou I’m very new here, but must say I’m loving this server! Excited to be part of such a great community which is not something I’ve felt on social media before! 🤩

@freemo @SteveZissou

You have set up an extraordinary server. And an ecosystem that can enable people to do and write good science on #fediverse
Qoto.org is like #arxiv of fediverse.

@SteveZissou
@freemo

As I often say these days, there's bog #mastodon. Then there's qoto.org Mastodon, ;-)

@freemo @zleap
Another app we may need to consider
is
https://curvenote.com

They integrate #jupyter notebooks with text editor for version control and is an excellent editor. I will see if we can get the developers here and have a discussion. Great tool!

@freemo A timeline

As someone with Stage 4 cancer, I was really struck by this quote at the beginning of Mukherjee's "The Emperor of All Maladies:"

"Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place." -- Susan Sontag

An #introduction
I have way too many interests to list them all, but in university I studied #chemistry #classics #theater
These days mostly occupied with my gainfull employment and #parenthood
I'm a lifelong learner to the bone.
A large part of my time is also occupied by community building/service activities. #bahai faith is my spiritual path.

Cheers to all.

Hello! #introduction I'm a San Diego-based science writer with La Jolla Institute for Immunology. Working on immunology-related blog posts, press releases, features articles and more. I'm interested in #biology, #virology, #autoimmunity, #CancerResearch, #immunotherapy #PostdocLife, etc.

In my personal life, I'm passionate about #SciComm, #BackyardPoultry, #WomenInSTEM, and San Diego eateries!

Writing highlights: https://www.lji.org/blog/
Professional affiliation: https://www.lji.org/news/media-inquiries/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/madelinems/

Awesome to see the #scicomm posts on here! Any other #SanDiego #science writers making their way to Mastodon—or other members of the National Association of Science Writers? #NASW #sciencecommunications

Hello #ScienceMastodon!

I'm a microscopist and image analyst at the BIOP imaging center at EPFL in Switzerland.

I'll be sharing mostly nerd stuff about #ImageJ/#FijiSc. Can't wait to see if the scientific mastodon community takes off!

So, let's get serious: can we share videos here? Let's find out:

This looks interesting for people who use #LaTeX, #Overleaf or work in sciences

Introducing Overleaf Labs
https://www.overleaf.com/blog/introducing-overleaf-labs

I don't work for overleaf I just use the platform, and really recommend it.