Konstantin Stadler @kst@qoto.org

My spicy opinion on agile—pretty much any software development methodology—is that the method is never and has never been the problem. Agile can work. Scrum can work. Waterfall can work.

The problem has always been management and executives and their obsession with command and control tactics. If you don’t fix management, shuffling things around on the dev side won’t matter one jot.

"Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty."

The #1 choice is Mastodon!

Let's reach out to all our scientist (and non-scientist) friends and acquaintances and encourage them to join the Fediverse. If you still have an account on twitter, post some messages there with links to the Mastodon signup site. Let's welcome them here and provide some gentle hints on how to be productive here.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0
#Scientists #twitter

Remember the fuzz about Zoom? It worked.
Meanwhile they backpaddled. The ToS from August 11th exclude any use for #AI #ML training.
For now.
https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/

A list of astronomers on Mastodon, by Kelly Truelove @TrueSciPhi
https://truesciphi.org/ast_mas_col.html

#astrodon #universe #astronomy #astophysics #space #science #research

Credit image: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images

Where do you go #scicomm ? 🤔

Interessanter Artikel von Nature zu einer Umfrage unter Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern über #Twitter / #X. 46 % sind zu anderen Plattformen gewechselt:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0

#wisskomm #wissenschaftskommunikation

RAINFOREST aims to reduce the negative impacts of #food and #biomass value chains on global #biodiversity. Funded by #HorizonEU, the project is tackling environmental degradation and helping to achieve the UN’s #SDGs. #RainforestHorizon

We work with #stakeholders to develop and evaluate #transformative change pathways and interventions that are just, viable, and actionable. Our main objective is contributing to a more sustainable future for our planet.

https://rainforest-horizon.eu/index.html

@Ruth_Mottram @rainforest_horizon This looks excellent! And glad to see Horizon projects showing up here :)

*unsolicited academic advice time*
Write the method and the conclusion of the article in the abstract.

Why this is important?
1- inclusivity: abstract are open and everyone can get an idea of whether they should buy your article if they know what's in it
2- outreach: people outside your field read your articles. People will ask AI to summarise your paper, so you may want to control the summary

@academicchatter #academicChatter #Abstract

Team meeting summary 2023-08-14

The September CodeRefinery workshop is 5 weeks away (minus on-boarding 1 week before). We are starting to share lessons to the teachers. Everyone can already register at: https://coderefinery.github.io/2023-09-19-workshop/

It’s worth noting that by Fall of 2012, the majority of both Republican & Democrat voters acknowledged #ClimateChange is occurring. But not the majority of all politicians.

Back then, I ran large public opinion surveys out of UT Austin & it was the first time citizens from both parties agreed. (Here’s a 2015 SciAm piece w totals https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/over-3-out-of-4-americans-now-acknowledge-climate-change-is-occurring-including-the-majority-of-republicans/)

We can’t said what changed attitudes, but a drought had impacted U.S. crops that summer & the pope was also discussing #climate. /2

Turns out, I can summarize the last two years of my job life in a single venn diagram #opensource #softwaredevelopment

We are heartbroken by the loss of the Vim boss.

Rest in peace, Bram

https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/tWahca9zkt4

#vim

I know I’m always on about this when cops or other folks kill some agitated person, but for real y’all — we in the ER see people who are angry, threatening, violent, and scary EVERY shift, and we kill zero of them. We don’t shoot them. We don’t choke them to death. Most of the time we talk them down and that’s it. Sometimes we restrain them, but we do it safely.

I have very scary people blow up at me. Often I literally pull up a chair and we talk it out. Please, we can be better.

Anyone with a #Bayes background interested in reviewing a new package for the Journal Of Open Source Software? 😊

Ping me with your Github handle if so.

Effective 27 July #Zoom changed their terms of service (T&C) whereby **without opt-out** YOU give them consent to perpetually use your content (video, audio,…) also for #AI #ML “training and tuning of algorithms and models”.
https://stackdiary.com/zoom-terms-now-allow-training-ai-on-user-content-with-no-opt-out/

Check for yourself:
https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/
Compare with the version archived 25 July by #WaybackMachine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230725013414/https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/

#generativeAI #deepfake

Get a sense of scale for computer storage...

Byte of data: a grain of rice
Kilobyte: a cup of rice
Megabyte: 8 bags of rice
Gigabyte: 3 container lorries
Terabyte: 2 container ships
Petabyte: covers Manhattan
Exabyte: covers the UK (3 times)
Zettabyte: fills the Pacific Ocean

sup. is an open source encrypted fediverse instant messenger, similar to whatsapp, made by pixelfed.

The beta will be launching later this month, and btw most fediverse accounts will work, not just Pixelfed 😉

Found it! (Thanks @largess)
If the world's richest 10% reduced their carbon footprint to the EU mean, carbon emissions would fall by 32%.

@kst There are some, like @OceanIceEU for example.