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One of our most popular cartoons of all time is the "Who can work in science" pie chart. We felt that it was long overdue a small update. Happy #PrideMonth everyone #LGBTQ

French authorities are now considering that using encryption (eg encrypting your harddrive, using @signalapp, educating others about privacy-preserving apps) as evidence of conspiracy and terrorism. That's much scarier than "AI" taking over the world.

https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2023/06/05/criminalization-of-encryption-the-8-december-case/

Fascists hate it when you shine a light on their dirty actions.
Judge agrees to unseal names of those who helped George Santos make bond - NBC News https://apple.news/AL0mjb_DqSRqckHJJaE95wg

Record 106 vetos: Gov. Hobbs says 'no' to GOP bills criminalizing homelessness, ranked-choice voting https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/060623_hobbs_veto_streak/record-106-vetos-gov-hobbs-says-no-gop-bills-criminalizing-homelessness-ranked-choice-voting/
Arizona Gov. Hobbs has racked up more than 100 vetoes, rejecting Republican-backed bills that criminalized homelessness, banned ranked-choice voting, and a bill that created penalties for filming sexually explicit acts on school property - but also threatened educators with prison.
#Tucson #Arizona

The two iROSA roll-out solar panels will be installed by NASA astronauts Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg on June 9 and June 15. These will be the 5th and 6th iROSAs installed at the ISS, on the 1A and 1B power channels. See graphic below for the locations of the various iROSA panels.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/facts-and-figures
#NASA #SpaceStation #ISS #IROSA
2/n

From the article:

“Carbon dioxide levels in the air are now the highest they’ve been in more than 4 million years because of the burning of #oil, #coal and #gas.”

(HT @samlitzinger)

https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-carbon-dioxide-hawaii-warming-194da356db37ff4d465c6ffebdf0e3fb

Donald #Trump, when asked by an audience member at the #CNN town hall what he would do to “bring the cost of things down”:

“Drill baby, drill!”

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #FossilFuels

Unsupervised Deep Learning Can Identify Protein Functional Groups from Unaligned Sequences https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad084 #science #evolution #biology #genome #evolgen_paper

Alzheimer's went into the textbooks with n=2

Many of you might know (or not) that Alzheimer's disease is named after Dr. Alois Alzheimer who first reported that the brains of some patients with age-related dementia had "a peculiar substance" (which today we know as beta-amyloid plaques).

But did you know that he found that in exactly 2 patients that he studied before his boss put it in a 1910 textbook and coined it "Alzheimer's disease"? That substance could have been a complete coincidence! (And in that case, I guess we never would have heard about it again) ...

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546010/how-not-to-study-a-disease/

Republican presidential candidates are eager to appease Putin—and Putin's surely listening https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/6/2173649/-Republican-presidential-candidates-are-eager-to-appease-Putin-and-Putin-s-surely-listening?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=main&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Learn to let certifications expire when they’re no longer needed. For example, I received my second reminder email today:

“Your credential for Logical Operations Certified Virtual Educator (CVE) will expire on 2023-07-03. If you haven't already, you should start the renewal process with CertNexus.”

At the beginning of the pandemic I thought it might be useful to take a class on teaching in a virtual environment. I'm glad I did. I got lots of useful tips and advice from this course, and many of the things I learned are now automatic for me. I do them all the time, in all of my virtual course preparation and delivery.

But…

No one has ever asked me if I’m a Certified Virtual Educator.
No one has ever asked me for proof of certification.
My certificate has not “clinched the deal” with any student or business.

So…

I’m not spending money on renewal.
I’m not taking the time to study for a refresher.
I’m not taking the exam again.

Be aware, there are times when you should absolutely renew your certifications.

If there have been lots of changes in a particular domain of expertise, keep your training current. Using Certified Virtual Educator as an example, let’s suppose that VR headsets become a routine part of virtual education. That’s a significant change, and it would be well worth my time and money to get some training on how to make the most effective use of that technology for education.

Maybe next year, or the year after that. But not yet.

#callmeifyouneedme #fifonetworks

#onlinecourses #cybersecurity #informationtechnology #securityawarenesstraining

Since posting 👆 job advert, I've only been contacted by men.

If you are a woman in cybersecurity, please apply! I'm happy to offer an informal chat about the role and the team.

Union forces captured Memphis, Tennessee, from the pro-slavery Confederate forces OTD in 1862 during the American #CivilWar https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/washington-lee-mansion/?s=mb #history #BlackLivesMatter

If you want to build a public online profile for your scientific work, you really need more than a Twitter profile and a validated entry on Google Scholar.

Blogging can build an in-depth profile of more than just dashed-off thoughts, on an independent website that’s fully connected and searchable on the open Internet.

#science #genetics #ecology #evolution

https://www.molecularecologist.com/2023/06/05/write-for-the-molecular-ecologist/

“We invite all elected officials … to speak out against #racism and extremist ideology and all forms. We think they have a real responsibility to do that.”

On the one-month anniversary of the #Allen shooting, Special Investigative Reporter @stevanzetti reached out to the 15 elected officials who represent constituents in the town. Not one Republican would condemn the shooter's beliefs: https://www.texasobserver.org/allen-shooting-republicans-extremism/

#Fascism #news #Politics #guns #MassShooting #Texas #Republicans #Extremism

Firefox 114 released https://mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/114.0/releasenotes/ #Linux #Unix #macOS #Windows #opensource

[first date]

Her: Are you wearing a wire?

Me: *realizing I forgot to take the hanger out of my shirt before putting it on*

You have more in common with the homeless than you do with billionaires...