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🌳 The #nasa #giss #nyc #MoonTree arrived today

The first moon trees were from Apollo 14 when Stuart Roosa packed seeds in his bags as part of the US bicentennial:
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/

The idea of a tree grown of a seedling that had made its way around the moon piqued the interest of so many #STEM lovers that the modern #Artemis team decided we needed a new cohort of inspirational, well traveled trees:
nasa.gov/learning-resources/na

Our sapling sweet gum is hanging out w plants on our living wall

The first rule of #Enshittification is that proper lock-in cannot occur if the product is thriving as Open Source, so once you've reached sufficiently high switching costs, pull out the rug.

github.com/bitwarden/clients/i

#bitwarden

been working with Hack Club (hackclub.com/) to sell them print zines at cost to give away to teenage programmers in their community and I'm super excited about it

it's so fun to see the kinds of things teenagers are making, for example I was so impressed with cpu.land/ by kognise.dev/

Instagram and Threads block accounts that shared public data on Mark Zuckerberg’s and Donald Trump’s private planes. A similar move on Twitter/X stirred up a free-speech firestorm. wapo.st/3AhU68v

apparently now you can run Jupyter notebooks in the browser without a server with WebAssembly using JupyterLite?? jupyterlite.readthedocs.io/en/

I learned about this because @paddymul made a pull request to my pandas-cookbook tutorial on github to add support for it

you can try it out here, it seems to work: jvns.github.io/pandas-cookbook

honestly it's time to hit pause on studying human cognition to figure out wtf is happening with crows

link.springer.com/article/10.1

Hooded crows (Corvus cornix) manufacture objects relative to a mental template - Animal Cognition

It was recently found that not only tool-specialized New Caledonian crows, but also Goffin cockatoos can manufacture physical objects in accordance with a mental template. That is, they can emulate features of existing objects when they manufacture new items. Both species spontaneously ripped pieces of card into large strips if they had previously learned that a large template was rewarded, and small strips when they previously learned that a small template was rewarded. Among New Caledonian crows, this cognitive ability was suggested as a potential mechanism underlying the transmission of natural tool designs. Here, we tested for the same ability in another non-specialised tool user–Hooded crows (Corvus cornix). Crows were exposed to pre-made template objects, varying first in colour and then in size, and were rewarded only if they chose pre-made objects that matched the template. In subsequent tests, birds were given the opportunity to manufacture versions of these objects. All three crows ripped paper pieces from the same colour material as the rewarded template, and, crucially, also manufactured objects that were more similar in size to previously rewarded, than unrewarded, templates, despite the birds being rewarded at random in both tests. Therefore, we found the ability to manufacture physical objects relative to a mental template in yet another bird species not specialized in using or making foraging tools in the wild, but with a high level of brain and cognitive development.

SpringerLink

I was rounding up papers and preprints for something and I realized something so cool which is that my last six scientific papers/preprints that have co-authors, all on software developers, are ALL with all-female author teams

I’m really proud of this article on Masonry & CSS.

It was incredibly hard to write. We spent weeks writing and rewriting, digging deeper & deeper into the issues at hand, working to make things as easy to understand as possible.

webkit.org/blog/16026/css-maso

There’s also a really cool idea about how to add another new feature to CSS Grid. (It would make it super easy to create a common article layout that’s not easy today.)

I can’t wait to hear what you think.

Incredibly cool: A community of people on Discord are salvaging Redbox kiosks from Walgreens all over the country and are reverse engineering and modifying them. Redbox OS got dumped this week and people are actively figuring out how to repurpose it:

404media.co/tinkerers-are-taki

Our department Data Analysis and Mathematical modelling is looking for a postdoctoral researcher. You'll be teaching a course introduction to #DataScience , assist with a number of master courses and spend 70% of your time in research on #MachineLearning methods with focus on analyzing #omics data.

More info:

jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-Post-d

#fedihire #Phd #Math #genomics #proteomics

The first 256 antennas of the Low-frequency part of the #SKA are there in 🤩
(movie via skao.int/en/explore/constructi)

Also in the same website, you can see the synchronisation dance of the SKA - MID (high frequency part of SKA) with MeerKAT dishes, in South Africa.

#astronomy #astrodon #science

Remember the first time you created that index.html, opened in the browser, and it felt like magic?
@bw wrote a free online ebook and I love the promise:
“I feel strongly that anyone should be able to make a website with HTML if they want. This book will teach you how to do just that. It doesn’t require any previous experience making websites or coding. I will cover everything you need to know to get started in an approachable and friendly way.”

htmlforpeople.com/

Some groups keep trying to use copyright to control our ability to access and share the law. But from New York, to Missouri, to the District of Columbia, judges understand that this is an absurd and undemocratic proposition. eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/cour

@lukas @taylorlorenz

I've seen a number of instances where celebrities/youtubers/well-known people have been harangued out of the Fediverse by potentially well meaning but... militant, denizens.

It's not a nice place to be when something like posting a picture of your dinner results in 12 people calling you out on not CW'ing it.

@elduvelle Unfortunately, I don't see such an option. My instance uses a fork of Mastodon, so perhaps that's the issue. I guess I'll need to try asking folks on my instance specifically.

The great climate scientist Warren M. Washington, one of the first climate modelers in the world and a White House advisor from the Carter to W administrations, passed away yesterday at the age of 88.
#climatescience

I would dearly like to turn off the notifications I get when people edit their posts, but I can't find the option. Is this possible, and if so how?

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