Matthew @mattasdata@qoto.org

Shortly after Twitter released the 400.000 lines of code of their tweet ranking algorithm the mastodon algorithm code leaked. It is ‘select * from toots order by publishing_date desc’

Thrilled to announce our we have received a grant from the Sloan Foundation! (Copying @iancosden's Slack post)

We will host a special Community Call on Thu Apr 20 2ET/10PT to outline upcoming plans & provide an opportunity to answer questions

Register: https://t.co/xLjPQEgE61

quoting @iancosden's post:

"Thank you all for your ongoing support of, and participation in @us_rse. Together, we can continue to make a difference for Research Software Engineers in the US."

HUGE Thank you for contributing to our #python packaging guide @tupui @HenrySchreiner3 @ralfgommers @frostming @pradyunsg @astrojuanlu @stefanv @jonny @marmochia @ocefpaf @scientific_py @nicholdav @lwasser@fosstodon.org @hugovk & so many others!

community is really a wonderful thing. #opensource #openscience

Check it out here:
https://www.pyopensci.org/python-package-guide/package-structure-code/intro.html

hey so did y’all know about the oral part of the CCNA exam?

Amazing how many brilliant scientists will look at an LLM "passing" a standardized test and think, "wow, this computer is very smart" and not "standardized tests are very bad at measuring intelligence"

A Venn diagram representing my normal evenings

Our first #RSEng Education and Training Tutorial is coming up next Wednesday March 22, 3-5 PM ET / 12-2 PM PST!

Marshall McDonnell will tell us about “Setting up a Scientific Software Project using GitLab: From ‘Zero’ to ‘Hero’.”

More information and registration link here: https://us-rse.org/events/2023/2023-03-education-training-tutorial/

Boosts appreciated!
@codebrewer @danielskatz @nicholdav

When you managed to convince your friend to join #Linux desktop cult

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#survey #eOS #yourdataisYOURdata #privacy 


@gael @murena

Microsoft released copilot in Excel, and it is officially caught up with Google on the AI race.

Fantastic to watch.

Our #CodeRefinery workshop is next week, and we are getting close to 500 registrations. We are especially happy how we can cater to so many different learning styles and ways of attending - we aren't a typical online course!

CodeRefinery teaches to practical tools for developing #ResearchSoftware, targeted to scientists. Either join yourself, or join and help make a local breakout/exercise session for your own community:
https://coderefinery.github.io/2023-03-21-workshop/ #RSEng #OpenScience #FAIR #AcademicMastodon

we have chosen to put most of our research into documents in PDF format.

PDFs are a huge pain to make accessible.

most scientists write their papers in Latex, overleaf, etc., which cannot produce accessible PDFs.

to make such PDFs accessible, one uses Adobe Acrobat, which is expensive and proprietary.

increasingly, we post our PDFs to arXiv, which ~forbids accessible PDFs b/c they can't be compiled from source.

~none of our science is accessible.

artifacts (and file formats) have politics.

Stop thinking of Twitter, TikTok, IG, (et al) as social media sites.

They are **Content Refineries.**

Like processed food manufacturers they take user content & extract the most addicting/engaging content. Brains eat it up but in an unhealthy “devour the whole bag of chips” way.

They make hyper-processed social media junk food.

Mastodon is more like a potluck. We're all bringing dishes. It's a mess. Kids are running all over. But we are, at least, real people sharing real things.

RIP Dick Fosbury, a man who revolutionised his sport with a smart piece of physics.
Fosbury realised that by jumping backwards and bending his back he could pass over the bar while his centre of mass went under.
Genius.

We're recruiting a new Head of Research Software Engineering at the University of Sheffield.

Come and help us to make research better!

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CYD056/head-of-research-software-engineering-rse

#RSE #rseng #software #engineering #research #jobs #academia

Two years since the new version of google icons and the struggle is still real

Irony: That this is in the square outside the HQ of the BBC.