Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Did you know that ISC is hiring? We're looking for a Kea DHCP escalation engineer. If you're interested in joining our team, please visit https://isc.recruitee.com/o/escalation-engineer-for-open-source-dhcp-new-market to apply!

The market has failed. Philanthropy can't do it. The public good that is local news needs another support system. Now there's an alliance calling for public policy solutions. Rebuild Local News it is called. Their ideas:

* A tax credit for consumers to subscribe to or donate to local news
* A tax credit for small businesses to advertise in local news
* A tax credit for local news organizations to hire and retain local journalists

https://www.cjr.org/opinion/how-public-policy-can-help-save-local-news.php

#journalism #localjournalism

Japan's oak trees are confronting a pandemic. But this crisis began long before COVID-19, and the threat comes in the form of a fungus carried by insect pests rather than a virus. The good news is by digitally cataloging the trees, researchers say extensive oak wilt can be prevented.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/01/16/national/oak-tree-wilt-pandemic-naragare/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Mastodon

#science #forestry #nature #Japan

As I am preparing a PhD workshop on Good Research Practices I have been teaching for 11 (!) years, I looked up what I considered Possibly Good Research Practices in 2012. I might add some things, but it's a list I can still get behind a decade later.

The latest episode of Quantitude gives a nice introduction to the idea of equivalence testing: https://quantitudepod.org/s4e15-equivalence/

It is nice this is rapidly becoming a thing we expect all scientists who perform hypothesis tests to know about. Long overdue.

If you want to learn more about equivalence testing, this chapter in my free textbook should get you to a point where you can perform equivalence tests in your own research: https://lakens.github.io/statistical_inferences/equivalencetest.html

Unprecedented strike action will hit 150 UK universities throughout February and March unless university employers make substantially improved offers in disputes over pay, working conditions and pension cuts.

The full dates of strike action are:

Wed 1 February
Thurs 9 & Fri 10 February
Tues 14, Wed 15 & Thurs 16 February
Tues 21, Wed 22 & Thurs 23 February
Mon 27, Tues 28 February and Wed 1 & Thurs 2 March
Thurs 16 & Fri 17 March
Mon 20, Tues 21 & Wed 22 March

https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/12759/University-strike-dates-in-February-and-March-confirmed

Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Neural Systems

The Aksay Laboratory of Weill Cornell Medicine is seeking a postdoctoral research scholar to advance our understanding of neural systems.

https://jobrxiv.org/job/weill-cornell-medicine-27778-postdoctoral-research-scholar-in-neural-systems/?feed_id=35238

#ScienceJobs #job
New York City #U...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/weill-cornell-medicine-27778-postdoctoral-research-scholar-in-neural-systems/?feed_id=35238

Most people are familiar with the usual explanation of Aerodynamic Lift

- that air moves faster across the upper surface of a wing than it does across its underside.

But most people don't stop to consider WHY that air's moving, when it WASN'T moving before the wing turned up...

IMO, this puzzle is what prompted the 'Equal Transit Time' explanation of Lift

- a WRONG explanation, but that's totally normal for Lift Explanations...)

#Science
#Aviation
#SciComm
#Aerodynamics

Many folks are saying, "We need to build a federated TikTok clone!"

That can't exactly happen because TikTok's *reason* to exist is surveillance. Its algorithms work because it watches everything you do, and thus collects data on you.

However, what we need to do is build federated platforms for audio and video.

Some already exist, but they're works in progress.

Regardless, we need more.

Twitter has reinstated the account of white nationalist Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/nick-fuentes-reinstated-twitter-1234667137/

RIP Third-Party Twitter Clients: In just a few days, Twitter has destroyed over 15 years of fruitful collaboration with third-party developers, and we're all worse off for it. https://www.pcmag.com/opinions/rip-third-party-twitter-clients

Alternative protip: if you ever have writer's block, imagine you're chat-gpt and get a friend to send you the prompt!