Cody K. @codykirkp@qoto.org

I always have mixed feelings about trans awareness week and trans day of visibility, because most cis people who talk about it go exclusively for the "you are valid" angle instead of the "trans healthcare has collapsed entirely and we need to do something about that" angle. Like I appreciate the first one, don't get me wrong, but sometimes it reads as a little shallow when you don't also talk about the second. You get me?

Part of my "slightly better versions of the kinds of pictures of local attractions you find in hotel rooms" series, here's the Lincoln Memorial, on a quiet evening.

Embarrassingly high resolution version available at https://flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/50402933763/

#photography

Hey, I never did an #introduction!

I'm a climate scientist and geographer at Indiana University, Bloomington. When left to my own devices, I do research on climate-change detection and impacts. I often work on developing new statistical approaches for analyzing large-scale climate processes. I also have an amazing network of collaborators that brings me into the worlds of dendroclimatology, hydrology, landscape ecology, food studies, and more.

Happy to be here, learning from all of you!

Here it comes...

*Amazing* sunset tonight… My camera was having trouble with the dynamic range. This picture *almost* does it justice 😊

If you download your Twitter archive it arrives wrapped as a static HTML page, which is not very useful for doing anything with, and worse: it requires the original account to be still active to do useful things like enlarge the images since they use t.co links.

So here's a Python script to convert a Twitter archive to markdown or other formats: https://github.com/timhutton/twitter-archive-parser

Now you can archive your tweets in any way you want.

Over my 15 years of #teaching and #marking it is only in the last 3 that I have moved from alphabetised "whole paper" to "question by question" marking. Got to say that the latter really is the superior method. I have not done an official "which is faster" investigation, but I feel it is definitely fairer. #edutoot #edutooter #IBchemistry

I'm really not worried about Mastodon scaling issues at all.

When I left Twitter in 2008, we had roughly twice as many users as the current combined Mastodon network, all running on one MySQL server that had the same specs as a high-end 2013 MacBook Pro, plus roughly 10 web servers and 5 queue servers.

To be fair, growth wasn't as rapid, and we had local-infra advantages over federated systems, but these problems are solvable and I have no doubt will be fixed soon.

*Hugops to all admins!*

Point: the machines will take over

Counterpoint: the algorithm thinks that I would like to buy a denim cape

#Lightning can happen anywhere around the world, and I mean anywhere!

It is important to monitor lightning in the high #Arctic, because it can be an indicator of our changing #climate.

In 2021, nearly twice as much lightning was detected north of 80°N than the previous 9 years combined. In 2019, lightning was detected just 52 km from the North Pole!

This will save me some points on my Calc assignment. I was unsure if I could have a normal line if I couldn’t have a defined slope but I guess that’s just what a vertical line is?

And like the perfect stack exchange answer it is perfectly seasoned with a bitter, salty reply 😂

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2820388/the-equation-of-the-normal-when-the-gradient-of-the-tangent-0

#calculus #math #stackExchange