Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

“Knowledge of feelings | A Working Library”

https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/knowledge-of-feelings

It's basically impossible for me to choose which bit to quote. I want to quote the entire thing. It's simpler for you all to just go read this :-)

Have you ever wanted to start editing #Wikipedia, but got overwhelmed or felt like you didn't know where to start? Every time I encourage people to start editing, I hear that, so I'm trying to help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRRHR1NEOqE

@enriquericos

The perils of amateur myrmecology! I suspect that entomologists have already discussed, laughed at, or made some other conclusion on what this is. But, I will be here in the Bronx trying to solve the replication crisis by myself with an iPhone in macro mode and a box of ants.

August 2019 "Trump's White House issues an ominous request for a list of top U.S. spies" https://salon.com/2019/08/03/trumps-white-house-issues-an-ominous-request-for-a-list-of-top-u-s-spies_partner/

October 2021 "CIA admits to losing dozens of informants around the world: NYT"
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/575384-cia-admits-to-losing-dozens-of-informants-around-the-world-nyt/top secret documents mar

"Classified files found in Trump bedroom at Mar-a-Lago" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3gglgwe49zo

#Trump

“Your iPhone won’t get AI features because of the EU” is not the PR triumph Apple thinks it is.

“OpenAI CTO: AI Could Kill Some Creative Jobs That Maybe Shouldn't Exist Anyway | PCMag”

https://www.pcmag.com/news/openai-cto-mira-murati-ai-could-take-some-creative-jobs

Here's some free PR advice: don't brag about your tech destroying jobs, and don't say out loud that those jobs shouldn't exist.

Assistant Professor in Global Change Biology

Texas Tech University

The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at Texas Tech University invites applications for a 9-month, tenure-track, A

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/texas-tech-university-27778-assistant-professor-in-global-change-biology/?feed_id=76649

#ScienceJ...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/texas-tech-university-27778-assistant-professor-in-global-change-biology/?feed_id=76649

Covid-19 cases on the rise in Belgium since start of June

A total of 608 new Covid-19 infections were diagnosed between June 9-15, portraying an over 50% surge compared to the first week of June.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/1102531/covid-19-cases-on-the-rise-in-belgium-since-start-of-june

Stat news piece co-authored by Dan Samorodnitsky, Kevin Bird, Jedidiah Carlson, James Lingford, Jon Phillips, Cathryn Townsend & me making the case for removing Richard Lynn’s egregiously flawed “national IQ" dataset from the academic literature. He never described methods for its construction & there is evidence the dataset is systematically biased. Why are journals so reluctant to retract?

https://www.statnews.com/2024/06/20/richard-lynn-racist-research-articles-journals-retractions/

There are many situations were you need access to different R versions: rig is a way to manage them https://github.com/r-lib/rig #rstats #datascience

The last few miles: how to prepare for the late-career stage in science https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02093-2

I have written a FAQ about potentially applying for a job at JAXA, and living in Japan as a researcher.

https://www.elizabethtasker.com/faq

I'm hoping being able to stuff this at people will ease my guilt at only really wanting to talk about science. Or cats. Maybe VR.

@ralfmaximus @janisf @glent

Competition doesn’t require a bottom that grinds people up. Quite the opposite: when basic needs are met (health, and housing, and food) you don’t need to stay in that shitty job, you can take a chance on that idea, dream, or passion.

The issue here is that the late stage capitalism that you find in the US is in fact quite the opposite of competitive, and that would need to change.