Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@social.cleverlibre.org

At one in six, it is more likely than not that you know someone who has had issues with fertility. However, given the taboo nature of the topic, it is much less likely that you know about it. Normalising talking about issues is a big step towards improving the lives and mental health of those you meet in this world. #infertility #MentalHealth

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/03/one-in-six-people-worldwide-affected-by-infertility-who-reports

🇫🇷 French newspapers published a large investigation on delivery workers in mid-sized towns.

Lots of interesting tidbits there, like the fact that they earn roughly 1500€/month for 10 hours of work, with no days off. That's half the minimum wage.

See here e.g. in Lorraine: https://www.republicain-lorrain.fr/societe/societe/livreurs-les-forcats-de-l-uberisation

@nicolaromano two of my favourite topics!

(see e.g. https://tomstafford.github.io/psy-checklist/ and https://tomstafford.github.io/psy6422/)

“Help,” cries the journalist, “I’m being held captive by Elon Musk!”

He calls out from the unlocked cage, door wide open, to which he holds the key in his own hands.

“Quickly,” he begs now, “I can’t bear the thought that someone might think I’m paying for this.”

He gestures to the searing blue legacy checkmark, a brand affixed not to his skin, but the cage.

Concerned passerby leave treats at the door, in the hopes he might free himself. But alas, he shall surely starve.

@jaysonmassey

I was under the impression (will look later for corroboration) that poor grammar in phishing serves as a filter: phishers don't want to waste their time on people who won't get duped, so in an attempt to filter those people out early they send initial e-mails that will look suspicious to those people. If that's true, then the most obvious way to interpret the reason from that article doesn't apply. However, there might be some more involved reasons: e.g. if text generators make interaction with the potential victim cheaper, the reason for the filter's existence might disappear.

Science Hell!!

😱

#Humor #Meme #Joke #Jokes
#Funny #Humour #LOL
#Science #ScienceHumor

As I was privately babbling out my own diatribe on the FLI letter yesterday, I was honored to be pinged by @emilymbender and @timnitGebru about joining forces to put out coherent thoughts. Excited to be able to share it today.

There are clearly foreseeable long-term AI harms. To address them, regulatory efforts should focus on transparency, accountability and preventing exploitative labor practices.

https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/letter-statement-March2023

Current pocket rock - wee piece of carboniferous limestone full of crinoids and bryozoans 🖤 #ScottishFossils

If You replace the w in "what, when, and where" with a "t" it answers each of those questions.

Wondering if anyone has access to this paper:

Onwuegbuzie, A. J. (in press). Prevalence of statistics anxiety among graduate students. Journal of Research in Education

It is one of the main papers in #StatisticsAnxiety research in undergraduate samples and from around 2004 but I am having trouble finding and accessing it. If anyone had a copy that they could share that would be much appreciated.

I am still disappointed every time I see (what seems like) an in-person conference only.

We learned to do better, and now many are choosing to unlearn it…

https://openbiblio.social/@openaccessnetwork/110105672763644418

Oh shit now the "hey transpeople are evil cause one just shot some kids" morons are creeping in on my timeline... its almost like being a member of one of the most abused, ridiculed, attacked, and tortured groups in existance (trans people) might lead to a very very small portion of them snapping and becoming violent... the level of stupdity of these people to think it infers trans people are just bad people, instead of recognizing it might be a symptom of extreme abuse, is mind boggling.

@nicolaromano You can try StringTie2 (https://ccb.jhu.edu/software/stringtie/index.shtml?t=manual) and FLAIR (https://flair.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) to discover transcript isoforms from all samples and quantify them with packages like featureCounts (https://subread.sourceforge.net/) and Salmon (https://salmon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/salmon.html)

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Important and sobering thread - we ALL need to do better. Whatever our role in this ecosystem

This is appalling

I am so sorry that you had to go through this @ESanganyado
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I have decided to leave several editorial boards this year because I realized I was an unnecessary hurdle to authors. Peer reviewers are less likely to accept a request from a non-white EBM with a "strange" name like mine 1/5 https://twitter.com/…
https://twitter.com/ESanganyado/status/1639887146537431043