Christian Wilms @ChrisWilms23@qoto.org

It’s happening! From 25 May, London depart 15:04 by Eurostar, Brussels depart 19:22 on Mon, Wed, Fri by sleeper, Berlin arrive 06:48. Change for Prague, arriving 11:35.

Followgraph [https://followgraph.vercel.app/] for Mastodon suggests accounts to follow ranked by most-often-followed by accounts you follow. (Though, these are the accounts who might anyway get boosted into your feed.)

What (maybe?) surprised me is that many of the top people were mostly people at the center of dramas on Twitter. Reveling in the peace here, and not even having an algorithmic filter…no way was I going to follow them.

But, I scrolled at random, and found many other interesting people!

@tsawallis @julialang @rlmcelreath IM the Julia vs. Python debates boils down to the fundamental difference: Python was designed as easy, general-purpose language and solutions to science-related applications (e.g. NumPy) came second. Julia is from its very foundation designed (it's the key issue here) for science-related programming tasks. Therefore, I choose Julia as its more coherent for the task. Moreover, #julialang is the most natural language I've been programming in. Also. the "speed" :)

"Juno: a Python-based graphical package for optical system design" — A complete library that includes a graphical user interface to design and visualise arbitrary optical elements, set up wave propagation simulations and visualise their results.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.12540
Code: https://github.com/DeMarcoLab/juno

#NewPaper #Python #Simulation

<<Find this useful? Please boost so that others can benefit too 🙂>>

@mhoye

When some says "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear", I always reply with, “that’s awesome! Here’s a pen and paper, write down your logins for you email, storage and social accounts. I’ll be visiting tonight..”

they're called hooves, dummy🙄

A sobering read:

How the U.K. Became One of the Poorest Countries in Western Europe - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/10/uk-economy-disaster-degrowth-brexit/671847/

Ich gehöre einem Geheimbund an und trage als Erkennungszeichen auf Reisen und in Versammlungsräumen eine Maske in Form einer stilisierten, zweiseitigen Pyramide über Mund und Nase. Wir sind nicht mehr Viele, aber wir sind die Hüter eines uralten Wissensschatzes, der von Generation zu Generation weitergegeben wurde und wird. Zur Begrüßung umkreisen wir mit den Mittelfingern unsere Ohrmuscheln. Unser oberster Glaubenssatz lautet: Heute ist der Tag vor Freitag. Immer. Außer freitags.

#Twitter suspends #Mastodon account, prevents sharing links: Our statement

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2022/12/twitter-suspends-mastodon-account-prevents-sharing-links/

My last two Washington Post stories on Elon Musk before Twitter suspended me and other journalists discussed his flirtation with QAnon and the public data about his private jet:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/14/qanon-musk-revival-twitter/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/14/elonjet-twitter-suspension-jack-sweeney-talks/

There's always a tweet.

Thinking back to the summer heatwave in the UK when everyone was “Our houses aren’t built for the heat, they’re designed to keep warm in winter”, and now everyone is “Our houses aren’t built for this cold”. Maybe time to admit that the UK has just been building homes for 100 years that are shit at *everything* aside from extracting rent from the poor.

Would you like to learn from some of the best microscopists 🔬 the nuts & bolts of light #microscopy for #lifescience applications? If so, you should check out this free comprehensive #iBiology series with presentations by #RonVale @kurtthorn #NicoStuurman #StefanHell #DanielFletcher #JeffLichtman #EdwardSalmon #ShinyaInoue #RogerTsien & many more covering topics ranging from #imagingformation, #fluorescence, #superresolution & #lightsheet #microscopy to #Optogenetics 👉 https://www.ibiology.org/online-biology-courses/microscopy-series/

A reminder of why we are trying to make a new and improved science community here on Mastodon.

"We're living through a cost of lying crisis"

From the current Private Eye

a 2-gram 3-photon microscope! featuring tiny little silicon photomultipliers, and syncing photon counting to the room light flicker

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-022-01688-9

A postdoc position is available with Kazoo Kitamura at the University of Yamanashi in Japan. I can 100% say that it would be great to work with Kazuo, he would be a great postdoc advisor.
http://nphys-lab.yamanashi.ac.jp/hiring/

This seems like a step improvement in 2-photon microscopy
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.06.515343v1

Spencer has a nice thread on it on Twitter (I don't think he's on Mastodon yet?): https://mobile.twitter.com/Labrigger/status/1589471340356333568

What's an image made of?

There are many correct answers.

But the most fascinating one is: << sines & cosines >>

Read on if you're intrigued👇🧵🪡

#python #images #fourier

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Okay this might be a long post

One thing that I realised is making #twittermigration harder for people to switch is because the whole concept can feel daunting & overwhelming for non-tech savvy people.

With Twitter to them it was straight forward and easy to find topics they enjoy but with mastodon its a bit different.
So if you're new to mastodon or you want to introduce someone to mastodon here are some tips, useful sites & tools:
### Tips:
- Choosing a home instance isn't as importance as it seems, don't overthink it. Yes moderation rules & policies may differ but they all have one thing in common: Be a decent human. You **always** have the option to migrate your account to a new instance.
- Toots (or posts if you think toots are cringe ) are what we call micro-blogging instead of tweets
- You’re supposed to "boost" AKA "reblog" toots that you like.Since Mastodon does not have an algorithm that surfaces toots that have been liked a lot, boosting is the best way to help spread stuff that you like, and to show appreciation. (credit to @orsvarn for this comment)
- Another way to fill your timeline with content you enjoy is to: Find other people with similar interests, follow them, favourite their posts, boost their posts, use hashtags. rinse, repeat. (credit to @garry)
- If you ever feel yourself getting sucked into arguments on the #Fediverse, you might want to take advantage of the instance mute/block feature!
Instances tend to foster a culture, so if you find people from a specific site tend to be bothering you, muting/blocking that instance will keep other members of that community from bothering you as well.
- Finally do not share private/sensitive information via DMs on Mastodon. Direct Messages are not E2E. **Keep it in mind**

### Useful tools & resources:
[Twitodon](https://twitodon.com/) - Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
[FediFinder](https://fedifinder.glitch.me/)- Similar to Twitodon
[Fedi Tips](https://fedi.tips/) - an informal, unofficial guide for non-technical people who want to use Mastodon and the wider Fediverse
[Fedi Directory](https://fedi.directory) - A human-curated small selection of accounts to spice up your timeline.
[Trunk](https://communitywiki.org/trunk) -Trunk allows you to mass-follow a bunch of people in order to get started with Mastodon or any other platform on the Fediverse
[Fediverse.info](https://fediverse.info/explore/people) -growing list of people and topics can help you discover mutual interests with people around the world
**Mobile Apps:**
[Metatext for iOS ](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/metatext/id1523996615)
[Tusky for Android ](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keylesspalace.tusky&hl=en&gl=USt)

Lastly if you are interested in setting up your own instance you can learn via https://learnfoss.org/ its completely free and its made by the wonderful @stux

I apologize for the long post lol, just hope this helps anyones transition over