Jeff Dean (the Biochemist) @jeffdean@qoto.org

I have started a pop-up newsletter about #Mastodon. It’s called #HowToMastodon. I will publish in the mornings usually, but give the first issue a look over this way: https://midrange.tedium.co/issues/mastodon-onboarding-tips/

Nanoscale resolution with Iterative U-Expansion microscopy (iU-ExM). Check out @louvel_vincent 's paper. Yes it is an image of a centriole with a simple confocal 😱😱https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.14.516383v1.full.pdf

A nice thing about Mastodon, which i also noticed my first time around, is how once you conquer signing up there's plenty of engagement for new/small accounts

No algorithm to defeat, no need to show off in people's mentions trying to get noticed, you just start posting and in my experience pretty much immediately make some new friends

Pretty neat

Every year, students in my CS 488 Software Development course work in teams of 4-8 to build software for an external customer. If you are in the Portland, Oregon area, that customer could be you!

Last year's ​projects included:

* A video game to teach people about earthquake preparedness.
* Creative animation software for an artist.
* A tool to help a faculty member organize course content.

Do you (or someone you know in a local organization) have a computational problem for which you need a piece of software? Let me know and maybe we can help you out.

WHAT YOU GET

Free custom software! This comes with some caveats:

* We usually produce stand-alone desktop applications. Other things are possible, but I'd prefer to stay within this realm.
* These are mostly seniors working on their first large piece of software. I make no guarantees as to quality; you might get something that you can use to do real work, but you might just get a fragile "proof of concept". We use an agile development technique that regularly reexamines goals, priorities, and expectations; this leads to a good probability that we'll have something working by the end of the semester, even if some of your more optimistic features have to be dropped.
* There probably won't be anyone to maintain your program after the semester is over. You might be able to hire some juniors to do more work on it.

WHAT YOU GIVE (We'll work with you on all of these things)

* Create an initial description of your project.
* Create and maintain a list of "user stories"​ (​things that you want your program to do​)​.
* Commit to meet with the students every other week to discuss progress and priorities. This must be a firm commitment; it's a disaster for me ​and ​the students and me if a customer flakes out.

Please boost and let me know ASAP if you're interested!

#software #ComputerScience #education #portland #pdx

Wow, look at the steep, early curve of the flu in the US this year (red line on the left). Thanks to Katelyn Jelina for the share. JHU data. #epidemiology #PublicHealth #influenza

Our piece on how science education needs to adapt for the misinformation age is now out in Scientific American.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-fight-misinformation-we-need-to-teach-that-science-is-dynamic/

Y’all, if you’re getting frustrated you’re not seeing the content you want to like news or intel you need on Mastodon, you really need to shift your thinking from algorithmic social media. Follower counts don’t matter much here. Likes do not matter to post reach. Without your interaction, you will just see a live FIFO firehose. Some quick fixes:

Hashtag your posts liberally and consistently, and follow key hashtags of interest to you. Hashtags matter a ton here to being seen.

Follow and also alert on accounts you always want to see content from.

Consider using the built in RSS feature for your feeds and for specific hashtags.

Consider switching to the more advanced UI in your preferences, so you can watch multiple filtered and unfiltered feeds. Or a different mobile app.

Use Fedifinder to follow all the accounts you followed on Twitter, and sync up your follow and block lists.

Avail yourself of the multiple public lists of hundreds of journalist accounts on Mastodon.

#mastodontips

I think it's glorious that there's now a Mastodon server operated by people who used to work for Twitter (macaw.social). I could have never imagined it when I started in 2016.

Hey, #hEDS folks! Here is an amazing #internship opportunity for students with #hypermobile #EhlersDanlosSyndrome with the Norris Lab. Be a leader in your own disease. https://www.thenorrislab.com/intern-program

Staff Scientist, Data Science

https://jobrxiv.org/job/fred-hutchinson-cancer-center-27778-staff-scientist-data-science/?feed_id=29382
#ScienceJobs
Seattle, #UnitedStatesUS #Scientist
https://jobrxiv.org/job/fred-hutchinson-cancer-center-27778-staff-scientist-data-science/?feed_id=29382

LIVE NOW: Teams are preparing to launch the @NASA_Orion spacecraft to the Moon aboard the @NASA_SLS rocket. Watch coverage of the rocket fueling process for the #Artemis I mission. Follow @NASAGroundSys for updates. https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1vOxwMWkQEmGB

Have you ever encountered a wasp about 4 to 5 cm long? At the risk of anthropomorphising, as it raises into the air, hovering near you, observing you, one feels the presence of a being so confident in its position at the top of the food chain, that it judges you, it evaluates you as a non-risk (perhaps unwisely), and, after a brief few moments, moves on with its day–to find a large spider to sting and stash away in its offspring's pantry. It's entirely harmless to us, and the adults drink nectar from flowers. It's enemies are, I'm sure, other parasitoid wasps.

Cryptocheilus annulatus is one such wasp. From Hvar island, Croatia. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/130544437

#iNaturalist #wasplove #insects #wasps

I wrote these helpful tips for anyone else who, like me, has trained their brain over the past decade to think only in tweets. (Includes some very gentle ribbing of Mastodon.) https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/fifteen-ways-to-share-your-joke-after-twitter-implodes #humor #twitter

I’m looking for grad students for 2023. Projects related to cell-free placental DNA dynamics, (Epi)genomics, and placental dysfunction. Projects are computational. See website for details about lab, also pls RT (http://wilsonpregnancylab.com)

@IFPA_Official @SRIWomensHealth
@CEEHRC

Anyone out there in #PopGen #Populationgenomics #RNAseq or #Molecular biology have any leads on where to buy duplex-specific nuclease? Main provider is a Russian and unavailable to most because of sanctions. I have not been an alternative supplier or enzyme. Please boost!

Did you know?

There are at least 2,700 species of wasp in Ireland and only 7 of those are the black and yellow picnic wreckers!

Some are big, but most are small or tiny. They still play a huge part in the control of flies, beetles and other insects and invertebrates.

When you see them up close though... WOW!

This is male Trichopria wasmanni, a wasp of the Diapriidae family. He is only a couple of millimetres long.

Look at his hairy antennae!

#wasps #insects #entomology

The latest episode of the #EMBOPodcast is out today.

I spoke with Roberto di Lauro who's had a fascinating career at the NCI during the golden age of molecular biology there, in Naples - both at Federico II & running one of biology's mythical places, the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, and even served some time in the diplomatic core.

This was a fun talk about science, #SciencePolicy, #HistoryOfScience, #MolecularBiology, science in Italy and much more.

#Podcast #SciencePodcast

https://www.embo.org/podcasts/we-should-know-more-this-is-our-main-job/