Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Meta is no longer letting advertisers target teens by gender. This is just one upcoming change that will take effect next month.

This change is not voluntary. Meta is under a lot of regulatory pressure to change its advertising policies.

Especially after states like California have recently passed online safety bills.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/meta-to-stop-letting-advertisers-target-teens-by-gender-1.1868123

I designed this 3D-printed lightweight magnetic business card holder, which I'll attach to my research posters by using additional magnets to sandwich the poster. I'll put cards in it with a QR code that leads to more detailed info about the work.

https://www.printables.com/model/364897-magnetic-suspension-business-card-holder #science #chemistry #physics #research

OK, but what if I told you that anyone claiming that the #TwitterMigration was a fluke, and that #Mastodon is losing daily active users is just lying because they assume that the data to disprove their bullshit doesn't exist? I ask because the data does exists, and it's right here in this post.

The upshot of this dataviz is that, after a brief holiday break, the vast majority (>80%) of large and/or notable Mastodon accounts remain *very* active. A plurality have posted within the last 24 hrs.

Endless OS 5 beta is here! If you're interested in joining the beta:

https://support.endlessos.org/en/dev/beta-testing

The chance of encountering bugs in a beta release is higher than usual, so please ensure your data is backed up.

This release brings several improvements detailed in the release notes:

https://support.endlessos.org/en/endless-os/release-notes/5-0-0

As a beta tester, you can help by providing feedback on stability and hardware support, and reporting any regressions. Thanks for your support, and happy new year! 🎉

#Linux #GNOME #EndlessOS

Yesterday Nature Communications published our paper about Russia’s foreign influence efforts *on Twitter* in the 2016 election. We've seen many claims about the implications of the findings, so we want to be clear about what the paper says and what it doesn’t. 1/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35576-9

Second, what the paper doesn't say.

It does NOT say that Russia never interfered in the 2016 election or that the influence campaign didn't matter. The campaign was broad & multifaceted – we only looked at the Twitter portion. 4/

Here's more from Jane Mayer in the New Yorker on the Kathleen Hall Jamieson study mentioned there. 7/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/01/how-russia-helped-to-swing-the-election-for-trump

And here’s a thread summarizing the findings. 9/9

https://mastodon.social/@csmap_nyu/109659623956834983

You can read the full Nature Communications paper here. It's open access and free to read. 8/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35576-9

"anyone can write code that seems complicated. The hard thing is solving complex problems with simple code. If you can develop that skill, nobody will ever doubt your abilities."

Josh Comeau, "Clever Code Considered Harmful"

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/career/clever-code-considered-harmful/

For #ecology #conservation #Zoology #research #science purposes which do you mainly use for #statistics #analysis?
Please boost for wider reach.
I'm interested to know to what extent #Python is or is not replacing #R.

I got a DuPAL kit for preserving old PAL chips.

Nobody told me* I'd need to install Linux, a bunch of dependencies, and compile code to get a binary file.

When I want things to be quick, they aren't.

https://github.com/DuPAL-PAL-DUmper/DuPAL_Firmware
* I didn't read the instructions.

An interesting thing I learned from Eleanor Roosevelt's biography is that Hitler used the USA's treatment of black people as justification for his treatment of Jews, and this was widely regarded *in the USA* as a reasonable point and a reason to stay out of the war: "we would have to stop mistreatment of black people".

Because of the fantastic success of #JWST, now astronomers want even more powerful gear up in space.

They are planning the Habitable Worlds Observatory that would be even bigger and make detecting life on other #Earth-like #planets reality.

The telescope will also be perched at L2. Unlike JWST, it will be designed for robotic servicing and upgrades, which could enable it to operate for decades.

#astronomy #exoplanets #astrobiology
https://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-unveils-initial-plan-multibillion-dollar-telescope-find-life-alien-worlds

NEW: New York Senate passes #SB616, which would effectively rescind an out-of-date ban on providing food and water for voters in line at the polls, also known as line warming. The bill now heads to the New York State Assembly.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/new-york-senate-passes-bill-removing-line-warming-ban/

Astronomers Find the Most Distant Stars in Our Galaxy Halfway to Andromeda

https://news.ucsc.edu/2023/01/milky-way-halo.html

Search over 1,000 astronomy and space news releases at www.stars-n-stuff.com/news-stories

#astronomy #space #science #news #stargazing #NASA #ESA #STScI

Image: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild [STScI]

The #openscience community is building a second home on #MastodonSocial. Are you over there, looking for others who care about #reproducibility, #OpenAccess, #oer, #opensource, #metascience + all other things Open? Join this list so we can find each other! https://germanrepro.github.io/Mastodon-OpenScience/

Astronomers May Have Just Spotted the Universe's First Galaxies - NASA’s new JWST space telescope has revealed some cosmic surprises, including galaxies th... - https://www.wired.com/story/astronomers-may-have-just-spotted-the-universes-first-galaxies/ #science/space #youngones #science