Tavo @tavoglc@social.cleverlibre.org

So, from this week 48k academic workers (like grad students and postdocs) across all the Univeristy of California system are on #strike, including here in San Diego.

The #union that represents us is trying to bargain a new contract after ~18 months of delays and procrastination from the University. We are fighting for (among many other things) fair wages that actually reflect the exhorbitant cost of living in California.

This is the largest #strike ever held at an academic institution in the history of the US, and the first *ever* for postdocs. It has already inspired people in many other institutions across the US to form new unions and to fight for fair working conditions.
I really hope this brings **some** change to the whole system. We **really** need it.

[NYT article](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/us/university-of-california-strike-pay.html)

[Another NYT article](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/us/uc-workers-strike.html)

[LA Times article](https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-11-09/la-ed-potential-strike-by-academic-workers-tarnishes-prestigious-university-system)

[Inside Higher Ed article](https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/11/15/48000-u-california-student-workers-researchers-strike)

More information [here](https://www.fairucnow.org/)
#FairUCNow

Video from the first day of strike at UCSD

I do some writing on Medium. https://medium.com/@rud-merriam

A couple articles on C++:

C++: Static Polymorphism Using Lambdas https://medium.com/gitconnected/c-static-polymorphism-using-lambdas-4919097aafe0

C++ Return: Any, Optional, or Variant?
https://medium.com/gitconnected/c-return-any-optional-or-variant-3c2222dbf787

#cpp #CPlusPlus

Every day is a good day to remember that Russia's "firehose of falsehood" propaganda model has been adopted by the likes of Trump, Steve Bannon, etc., and we are all targets of it. The goal of this style of propaganda is not to convince you that any particular narrative is true, but to exhaust your cognitive resources and make you question whether the truth really exists at all.

Some of us were unfortunate enough to be introduced to institutional betrayal in the past. All of us were introduced to institutional betrayal during COVID.

We are a nation suffering from undiagnosed and untreated mass trauma.

Landmark👹

How fetal liver vasculature serves as a transient niche for #HematopoieticStemCell expansion while undergoing #BranchingMorphogenesis

Fetal liver hematopoietic stem cell niches associate with portal vessels

Dr. Paul Frenette lab Science 2015
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aad0084

This is cool: Modulating ankle exoskeleton torque in response to fore-aft deviations in center-of-mass movement can reduce the effect of disturbances. Afschrift, Van Asseldonk, Van Der Kooij, De Groote and teams, in preprint:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.19.512851v1.full.pdf

For a lab recording I used #Matlab R10 from 1998 on iMac G3 with Mac OS 9.
Another proof that old computers are still usable for everyday tasks.
No need to buy newer faster machines, if you don't need internet.

The side-effect is that the recording looks much better. <3

#macintosh #OS9 #mac

Manuel Wielandt, Fishermen In The Venetian Lagoon

#landscape https://artvee.com/dl/fishermen-in-the-venetian-lagoon/

Studio Update -

Blinkenlight level: Über

#StudioPorn #BlinkenLights

Every year, students in my CS 488 Software Development course work in teams of 4-8 to build software for an external customer. If you are in the Portland, Oregon area, that customer could be you!

Last year's ​projects included:

* A video game to teach people about earthquake preparedness.
* Creative animation software for an artist.
* A tool to help a faculty member organize course content.

Do you (or someone you know in a local organization) have a computational problem for which you need a piece of software? Let me know and maybe we can help you out.

WHAT YOU GET

Free custom software! This comes with some caveats:

* We usually produce stand-alone desktop applications. Other things are possible, but I'd prefer to stay within this realm.
* These are mostly seniors working on their first large piece of software. I make no guarantees as to quality; you might get something that you can use to do real work, but you might just get a fragile "proof of concept". We use an agile development technique that regularly reexamines goals, priorities, and expectations; this leads to a good probability that we'll have something working by the end of the semester, even if some of your more optimistic features have to be dropped.
* There probably won't be anyone to maintain your program after the semester is over. You might be able to hire some juniors to do more work on it.

WHAT YOU GIVE (We'll work with you on all of these things)

* Create an initial description of your project.
* Create and maintain a list of "user stories"​ (​things that you want your program to do​)​.
* Commit to meet with the students every other week to discuss progress and priorities. This must be a firm commitment; it's a disaster for me ​and ​the students and me if a customer flakes out.

Please boost and let me know ASAP if you're interested!

#software #ComputerScience #education #portland #pdx

#introduction

Theoretical physicist by training but I work on biological problems, in particular regarding microbes and their ecology. I would ultimately like to understand the relationship between the physiology of individual bacterial species and the ecology of whole communities.

I started as a pure theoretician, but after my PhD I switched to also doing experiments so now I can repeatedly bang my head on something different than my laptop.

If I'm not in the lab I'm probably trying out new restaurants, walking my dalmatian Bruno or bingeing some show on Netflix.

Create your own custom map
https://www.mapchart.net/
#Education #EdTech #Geography #EduTooter #Map

The US Covid death rate (7-day average) drops below 300 for the first time since June 2022. Lowest since pandemic began was 222 in July 2021.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html

#introduction Hello #sciencemastodon I am a cell biologist running a research group in the UK focused on membrane traffic and cell division in human cells. I aim to post mainly about science but also music, running and cycling.

Hashtags:
#cellbiology #microscopy #imageanalysis #membranetraffic #mitosis #cytoskeleton #cancer #academia #statistics #openscience #Rstats #igorpro #datascience #raspberrypi #generativeart #music #running #cycling

Humidity (indoor, relative) is associated with outcomes of Covid infections, a population-based study in 121 countries
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2021.0865

Those interested in scientific visualization (#scivis, #sciviz, #datavis, #dataviz) may enjoy the videos in the #HHMIJanelia Scientific Visualization Interest Group playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfBkfxqisR_dU9RyIeX0I1WbQee86ZTss

These videos include talks from the creators of systems like Agave, ANARI, Datoviz, #napari, Neuroglancer, PyGfx, VizPy, and VMD. Thanks to @billkatz for organizing the series.