Andrew Kennard @askennard@qoto.org

Sharing this in case it's useful: I find that students often have a hard time conceptualizing quantitative parameters in genomics and popgen.

Here is a draft version of a cheat-sheet that I put together for my winter-quarter human genetics class. It's also part of a book that I am slowly writing on human popgen.

Corrections and other comments very welcome

This is absolutely insane. A mom was prevented from taking her daughter to a Christmas show at Radio City Music Hall because she works for a law firm litigating against the venue's parent company. They spotted her with facial recognition technology according to this report: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/face-recognition-tech-gets-girl-scout-mom-booted-from-rockettes-show-due-to-her-employer/4004677/

Some of you may have seen Elon Musk's endorsement of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s crazy antivax conspiracy theories today.

Over at post.news, I just posted a long-form piece about this, and about how science education needs to adapt to online disinformation.

Please a look. If you like it, boost it there or here or — if you dare — over on the birdsite.

https://post.news/article/2J7VEapSIpNWsrC0EawD8CopYqo

The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs was technically the highest ratio of killing birds to one stone.

Nina Simone - Four Women (Audio) https://youtu.be/V8C5lloBfV8 via @YouTube

#BlackFriday #NinaSimone

Sister Mary Kenneth Keller was born #OTD in 1913. She worked with John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz on the design and implementation of Beginner’s All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code — BASIC — and was the first woman in the US to earn a PhD in Computer Science.

10 PRINT “HAPPY BIRTHDAY”
20 GOTO 10

Does the Qoto web client lack the ability to follow hashtags?

There are more people here now so maybe this will find someone who knows - is this some kind of lichen? I find it in my firewood, it’s often a little ball form as you see. #lichen #mosstodon #fungi #forest

Looking for more motor and cytoskeleton friends out here in Mastodon, it's slow going so far...

What happens when you twist your lens' focus ring while shooting long exposures of fireworks

#photography

Great news for python lovers: A python version of DESeq2 is out! @biorxivpreprint #bulk #RNAseq #python #bioinformatics
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.14.520412v1

There are many legitimate reasons to track Elon Musk's flight coordinates, for example to offer him ads more relevant to his interests

@andrei_chiffa @admin @edward_marcotte @richardsever (using personal account)
yes I have prototyped an external parser for dereferencing shortlinks on masto and also just have been tinkering around with a fork that does a lot of the UI you would need to do to implement it in browser ( https://wiki.neuromatch.io/Mastodon/Mathjax ) so I think it would be maybe a months work?

#GhibliBracket Match 3/24:

THE CAT RETURNS (Hiroyuki Morita, 2002) (semi-sequel to Whisper of the Heart)
vs.
THE WIND RISES (Hayao Miyazaki, 2013)

Vote for the film you prefer. The winner will face KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE in round 2 🐈‍⬛

#GhibliBracket Match 1/24:

NAUSICÄA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND (Hayao Miyazaki, 1984)
vs.
TALES FROM EARTHSEA (Goro Miyazaki, 2006)

Vote for the film you prefer. The winner will take on Porco Rosso in round 2.

@richardsever

Richard, with the increasing migration of science Twitter to sites like Mastodon, what are the prospects for adding a Mastodon sharing option, and more importantly, adding Mastodon to Altmetric article metrics in bioRxiv and medrXiv? For obvious reasons, supporting science dissemination by sustainable, non-commercial social media sources seems more important than ever.

"...in the large plenary meetings, where all parties come together, Indigenous representatives can speak out and share their point of view. But when negotiations break into smaller groups for detailed discussions..."

"We can only participate at the discretion of the co-lead"...in other words, they need permission to enter the room and sit at the table."

Colonizers just keep colonizing! 🤬

#Indigenous #climatechange #landback
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/indigenous-nations-status-cop15-1.6681705