Holly Beale @hollybeale@qoto.org

A wee video over on Utter Nunsense: Ask A Sister: Why is ‘passing’ a problematic idea? Sister Alaska Lott gives their answer.

https://youtu.be/FypbDKFVlPg

Minnesota passed a law that people making under $80k/year can go to any state college or university for free.

Guys, I might actually be able to get my Computer Engineering degree after all 😭

Mini (the car company) just sent me a Pride Month email and while I'm down with their commitment to equality and love being love, I question their skill at reading a calendar

This year being afraid someone might ask you to make a website is enough to give standing to sue the state, but next year fearing your spouse will kill you won’t be enough for you to ask the state to take away their firearms.

Affirmative action was never about admitting unqualified Black kids. It was always about ensuring qualified Black kids could also get accepted despite a world of systemic racism.

The “unqualified admission” you’re thinking of are legacy students—like how Kavanaugh got into Yale, or how George W. got into yale, or how Kushner got into Harvard.

Every GOP accusation is a confession, and this is no exception.

Rest in peace #apolloapp. #apollo #reddit

HBCUs produce 46% of all Black women STEM graduates.

https://uncf.org/the-latest/the-impact-of-hbcus-on-diversity-in-stem-fields

Reducing funding for HBCUs would have a direct and awful impact on the number of Black women doctors, scientists, and software engineers.

Because Black women doctors have such a huge positive impact on Black patient life expectancy, reducing the number of Black women STEM grads would have knock on impacts on Black infant mortality and life expectancy, not to mention net worth, education and quality of life.

Please accept this important picture of a purple coneflower into your timeline, thank you

Yesterday a paper came out for a project that I’ve been working on for a while as part of my work at the Childhood Cancer Data Lab. I'm really happy about it, not because my name is on it, but because it was the result of a large and completely open process of analysis and writing. https://www.cell.com/cell-genomics/fulltext/S2666-979X(23)00115-5

The randomly generated docker container names brighten my day. Here's the code that generates them!
https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/39f7b2b6d0156811d9683c6cb0743118ae516a11/pkg/namesgenerator/names-generator.go#L852-L863
Combination of an adjective and a noted scientist/hacker. Today I am running "crazy euclid".

Dentist: So, do you floss?
Me: Do you use a unique password for every account?

Attention new people from Twitter! People may tell you to use Content Warnings (CWs) as a subject line, to help them avoid seeing your posts. Feel free to do this, or do I like do, feel free to not do it!

I use Content Warnings for, well... content warnings! I sometimes use it to filter out topics everyone might not want to hear about (Eg that other site). I don't use it to make my lived experience more palatable for others.

Folks that don't like this have unfollowed me, which is fine!👍🏿

purrr 1.0.0 is scheduled for release on Dec 19. You can read about what's new in https://github.com/tidyverse/purrr/blob/main/NEWS.md, or wait for the blog post 😀 #rstats

Reading so many accounts of especially Black people being harassed on here to the point of leaving. And also the type of aversion there is to talking about it. SMH. Can’t we have anything that isn’t racist by default?

Being kind is good.

First Toot!

Who’d have guessed Elon Musk would pay $44 billion to promote Mastodon.

We're hiring a senior editor at Scientific American to help run our opinion, commentary & analysis coverage. Thanks for applying or recommending the job to people you think would be good candidates. https://careers.springernature.com/job/New-York-Senior-Opinion-Editor%2C-Scientific-American/866115301/

Hi everyone! #introduction

I am Mari, an #earlycareer scientist at Monash University (AU) researching how (and maternal mitochondrial inheritance can lead to the accumulation of male-harming mutations. I am also a #rstats enthusiast and a #bioinformatician.

Here mainly for the #caturday and to share my void (pictured).

Interested in: #science, #evolution, #bioinformatics, #datascience, #genomics #womenwhocode #Rladies #fruitfly

I am looking forward to meeting you all!!

Greetings, I am dipping my toe in these Mastodon waters, trying to begin a process of building a community here in case I have to vacate Twitter.