Daniel Dvorkin @medigoth@social.cleverlibre.org
Bioinformaticist / biostatistician, veteran medic and infantryman, armchair paleontologist, occasional science fiction author, vaccinated liberal patriot.
Joined Oct 2022
@venividivici sorry I didn't see your question before. Has it been answered sufficiently in the thread? :) If not, I'll post screenshots of how to do it on Qoto, but I don't know how useful that would be on other servers.
@SocraticEthics Military communications are too important ever to be left in the hands of one person, particularly a volatile jackass like Musk. I hope he doesn't pull support, because I understand how useful Starlink has been—but I also hope that whatever happens, the Ukrainian military starts trying to reduce their dependence on it ASAP.
@lverner nope, no edit button. 😐 Best you can do is "delete and re-draft" which is available by clicking the three dots underneath the post. This is a major weakness of the platform IMO, and I'm not sure it's fixable.
@freemo Ah hah, I see it now, thanks!
@freemo Subscribing sounds like what I want to do. Basically just have anything with a particular tag show up in my Home feed. How does that work?
@freemo Is there any way to follow a hashtag?
Cool story, bro.
@brewnoir Is your religious belief the only thing that gives your life meaning?
I enjoy my life for the most part. My family and friends make me happy, and I try to do the same for them. My work is satisfying and useful. When I do die—hopefully a long time from now—I expect to leave the world a better place than it was when I was born. Even if it’s not, I can take my last breath with the knowledge that the bad parts were none of my doing, and I contributed at least a little bit to the good. That’s plenty for me.
Hello, all. I've been around for a few days but haven't yet made an #introduction post. So here we go.
I'm a #bioinformatics consultant with [The Bioinformatics CRO](https://www.bioinformaticscro.com/) working on a variety of small and large projects ranging from fundamental genomics to clinical decision support. Before that, for several years I was a postdoc and ORISE fellow specializing in high-altitude medicine and physiology at the University of Colorado Altitude Research Center. My academic background is a nearly even mix of #biostatistics, machine learning, and biology.
The ARC* has been sadly moribund for a few years, but thanks to collaborations with other groups, we're [starting to get more active again](https://harcsummit.org/). Hopefully I will have more to say about that in the future. Meanwhile, feel free to ask me anything about #altitude medicine---I think I still remember most of it.
Years before _that_, I was an Air Force #medic (after a brief stint as an Army infantryman) followed by a couple of years as a civilian EMT. My time in patient care informs my approach to science: the numbers I crunch represent human lives.
Otherwise, I'm an armchair #paleontologist hoping to be able to call myself an _amateur_ paleontologist again one of these days---by which I mean actually spending some time in the field and/or the prep lab---a too-occasional science fiction writer, and chronically sleep deprived. Also, my life is the internet: it's cats all the way down.
*Fellow #Primeval fans may recognize the jacket in the picture. My wonderful fiancée found it for me when I was hired at the ARC, for exactly the reason you think.
@fatsam @smaniktahla That's reasonable. I hate that it is, but yeah.
@vivtek Sounds like Brazil might be due for a little ... [cracks knuckles] ... liberation.
@smaniktahla I've heard you can only search on hashtags, not text. That's a serious weakness IMO, but nobody asked me.
It is! And apparently South American right-wing would-be dictators are more willing to abide by the democratic process than their North American counterparts these days. Funny old world.
@ToddRockford @qoto FWIW, when I follow users from other servers (like you) their posts show up in my feed on qoto, so I assume it works the same way on other servers. But I'm not sure that would work to get *all* qoto posts on your feed.
@Crazypedia Nonfiction, because they're still describing what we observe, even if what we observe is made up. For example, literary criticism is nonfiction, even though the subject itself is (usually) fiction.
Bioinformaticist / biostatistician, veteran medic and infantryman, armchair paleontologist, occasional science fiction author, vaccinated liberal patriot.
Joined Oct 2022
