Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@social.cleverlibre.org

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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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RT @ESanganyado
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

That the Internet Archive lost their lawsuit only serves to prove that we need more projects like Sci-Hub and Library Genesis to bolster the availability that more mainstream libraries cannot provide due to pressure applied by rent-seekers.

When a fish beats its tail, it produces vortices in the water that other fish could take advantage of to save energy while swimming. ​​https://elifesciences.org/articles/86807?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_insights

strange thought:

If I got 1$ per month for every package I maintain for Fedora Linux, that would basically be enough money to live on ...

Popular packages I'm responsible for include:

- the new Sequoia based GPG backend for RPM (present on *every single Fedora 38 install*)
- CLI tools like ripgrep, exa, lsd, bat
- Rust bindings for GLib, GTK3, GTK4, GStreamer, etc. (which are used to build librsvg2, gnome-tour, helvum, etc.)

so ... who wants to adopt some packages? 😁
https://github.com/sponsors/decathorpe

"My designs were so deceptively simple that it was easy for people to assume I just had easy problems, whereas others, who made super-complicated designs (that were technically unsound and never worked) and were able to talk about them in ways that nobody understood, were considered geniuses." -- Radia Perlman, the woman who developed the algorithm behind the Spanning Tree Protocol, an innovation that made today's Internet possible.

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#WomenInTech #WomenInSTEM #Design #StrongWomen #Tech #STEM

A friend and ex-colleague is #hiring for a #NGS #datamanagement / #developer. This probably ideal for someone with #database building and / or #ontology knowledge looking to work at the forefront of human genetics data with the The German Human Genome-Phenome Archive (GHGA)

https://www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/stelle.asp?id=10272
#bioinformatics #datascience

I've recently thought about if there is not an easier to learn alternative to #LaTeX...and maybe even in #Rust!?

My inner voice: Come on, you are a dreamer!

Well...sometimes dreams come true:

#Typst - A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn.

https://typst.app/

It is in beta and open source:
https://github.com/typst/typst

#Markup #OpenSource #TypeSetting #PDF #RustLang

Such a wonderfully clear result today that the “exciting approach that we were going to use to do many things” does not work. I am actually really happy about it. I mean, it would’ve been great if it did work, but there’s nothing worse than weeks of tantalising glimpses that something might work if the conditions are just right.

#CellBiology #LifeOfPI

@TheManyVoices @feditips
Also, you can add an alt-text description of the audio just as you can with an image or video!

@maegul @academicchatter A wonderful shared repository of useful graphics, many with open licences, exists

https://bioicons.com

created by Simon Duerr.

I just served as a @pcirr recommender for a cool piece of research by Alley, Axt, and Flake. They will determine whether data from students and crowdsourced online platforms measure the same thing.

Thanks to our wonderful reviewers @itchyshin and Benjamin Farrar!

#RegisteredReport: https://osf.io/32unb

Recommendation: https://rr.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec?id=349

I really like the idea of microPublications. This one is an intriguing observation:

https://www.micropublication.org/journals/biology/micropub-biology-000737

I’m sure many labs have some interesting results tucked away that suit this format.

#CellBiology #MembraneTraffic #ScienceMastodon

Anyone know a good review paper / learning resource for building gene regulatory networks #GRN from #scATACseq #ATACseq and/or #scRNAseq data?
Thanks!

It's time to vote for Inkscape's 1.3 About Screen Contest!

We're proud to present an amazing gallery of entries: 🖼️

54 entries by 43 #Inkscape artists!
Thanks to all who entered!

Community vote open from
Mar. 20 (0:00 UTC) to Mar. 26, 2023 (23:59:59 UTC). 🗳️

https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-13/

#ArtWithOpenSource #InkscapeAboutScreen

At the local primary school, the children sing a Mother’s day song with the lyric

“My mum’s ever so clever. She may not have a degree,
But she can help with my homework and that’s what matters to me.”

After many complaints the school have agreed to change the lyric (hooray!). To:

“… even though she’s got a degree,”

Which simultaneously makes having a degree sound bad and also shaming Mum’s without degrees.

#EverydaySexism
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Further damage to the dysfunctional academic career system in Germany: The government has just presented its reform of the fixed term contract law (#WissZeitVG).
After years of #IchbinHanna protests, the max. length of fixed contracts for postdocs has been reduced to 3 years. The cynical argument: Careers become more predictable, because 3 years after your PhD, it's either professorship, third party funding, or exit.
The lack of a broader tenure track system makes this a devastating development.