Matthew @mattasdata@social.cleverlibre.org

Microsoft released copilot in Excel, and it is officially caught up with Google on the AI race.

Fantastic to watch.

Our #CodeRefinery workshop is next week, and we are getting close to 500 registrations. We are especially happy how we can cater to so many different learning styles and ways of attending - we aren't a typical online course!

CodeRefinery teaches to practical tools for developing #ResearchSoftware, targeted to scientists. Either join yourself, or join and help make a local breakout/exercise session for your own community:
https://coderefinery.github.io/2023-03-21-workshop/ #RSEng #OpenScience #FAIR #AcademicMastodon

we have chosen to put most of our research into documents in PDF format.

PDFs are a huge pain to make accessible.

most scientists write their papers in Latex, overleaf, etc., which cannot produce accessible PDFs.

to make such PDFs accessible, one uses Adobe Acrobat, which is expensive and proprietary.

increasingly, we post our PDFs to arXiv, which ~forbids accessible PDFs b/c they can't be compiled from source.

~none of our science is accessible.

artifacts (and file formats) have politics.

Stop thinking of Twitter, TikTok, IG, (et al) as social media sites.

They are **Content Refineries.**

Like processed food manufacturers they take user content & extract the most addicting/engaging content. Brains eat it up but in an unhealthy “devour the whole bag of chips” way.

They make hyper-processed social media junk food.

Mastodon is more like a potluck. We're all bringing dishes. It's a mess. Kids are running all over. But we are, at least, real people sharing real things.

RIP Dick Fosbury, a man who revolutionised his sport with a smart piece of physics.
Fosbury realised that by jumping backwards and bending his back he could pass over the bar while his centre of mass went under.
Genius.

We're recruiting a new Head of Research Software Engineering at the University of Sheffield.

Come and help us to make research better!

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CYD056/head-of-research-software-engineering-rse

#RSE #rseng #software #engineering #research #jobs #academia

Two years since the new version of google icons and the struggle is still real

Irony: That this is in the square outside the HQ of the BBC.

To everyone outraged about Gary Lineker, I'd like to remind you that Jeremy Clarkson said striking public sector workers should be shot dead "in front of their families" on The One Show. We were told that Clarkson had a "right to his freedom of expression and that is protected".

As a former expert on infectious diseases and large language models, and a newly-minted expert on bond risk management, let me explain what happened at SVB

🚨🚨 It's happening!!! 🚨🚨

Submissions for the first @us_rse Conference are open:
https://us-rse.org/usrse23/participate/

Chicago, Oct. 16-18.
This year's theme: “#SoftwareEnabled Discovery and Beyond.” #RSEng #reproducibility #researchsoftware #Engineering

Please boost!

One lesson connected to ChatGPT is that reliable pple aren't those who have good answers in general, but those who answer ONLY things they know v. well.

When lost, you'd rather get no direction than a wrong one.

Real doctors let you know what is outside their expertise.

accidentally wrote "saad" instead of "saas" in a text to my partner; they immediately coined "Software as a Disappointment"

and honestly, where is the lie

𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯!
This call is open to researchers from all disciplines and you will receive 2 person-year in-kind support from eScience Center research software engineers on improving the sustainability of your software.

𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱?
𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟭𝘁𝗵
https://www.esciencecenter.nl/calls-for-proposals/call-for-sustainable-software-2023-ss-2023/

Would you happen to know someone who would be interested in the Call for Sustainable Software? Please share this message with them!

git-sim

Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos with a single terminal command.

https://github.com/initialcommit-com/git-sim