Matthew 
@mattasdata@qoto.org
Research Software Engineer | PhD Physics | Author of Super Smart Science: Nuclear Physics Made Easy | Lindy Hop + Yoga + Programming FTW
Joined Apr 2022
If you are having trouble getting a submission together for #RSECon23 or just want to find out more about the process, sign up to this event coming up on Thursday:
RSECon2023 Submission Preparation Event | tocyn.cymru (beta)
https://tocyn.cymru/en/event/d690ac4b-1fef-4cd7-8808-8e2f1b18ed4d
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Following Elsevier's decision to raise the article processing charge for NeuroImage to $3,450, all editors (inc. chief editors) from NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports have resigned, effective immediately.
I am joining this action and have also resigned.
Full announcement: https://imaging-neuroscience.org/Announcement.pdf
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Here's to 35 years of Totoro! Keep exploring and keep dreaming.
🌙☁️
Anime: My Neighbor Totoro (1988).
#ghibli #studioghibli #スタジオジブリ #hayaomiyazaki #myneighbortotoro #totoro #tonarinototoro
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Finally, I find it utterly mind-boggling that ready-made “GDPR-compliant/No EU data included” training data sets don’t seem to be a thing in Machine Learning. It’s such an obvious legal-compliance issue, with such a clear solution that it makes the entire field look _incredibly_ irresponsible.
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Hello Fediverse!
Wikipedia :wikipedia: is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system called MediaWiki -- at least that's what our Wikipedia article says (https://w.wiki/W).
#Introduction #FreeCulture #FreeContent #OpenKnowledge #wiki #CreativeCommons
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Python foundation slams pending EU cyber security rules
https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/12/python_management_eu/
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/12/python_management_eu/
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I remember reading and doing exercises about ***determinants*** in high school.
The name was scary, and sadly not much context was given at the time. 😞
For a long time, I thought a *determinant* was just a value I had to blindly compute using a formula.
Here's what I would like know about *determinants* when I first started... 🧵
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Both Peter Capaldi and Sylvester McCoy have been out on the picket lines supporting junior doctors. Doctors for doctors.
Via Dr Gordon Fletcher
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Looks like #Codecov have not only deprecatred but completely deleted their #Python package from #PyPI:
https://pypi.org/project/codecov/ is 404
https://github.com/codecov/python-standard/issues/31
Alternatives:
https://github.com/codecov/uploader
https://github.com/codecov/codecov-action
@joss @nicholdav congrats!!! 🤩
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Remember when the mantra was "write boring code"? Can we do that again? Seeing way too many efforts to bring unnecessary complexity to engineering.
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Web browsers have had back buttons since the beginning of time. But we've spent like 15 years breaking and fixing and rebreaking their behavior to the point that it is now notable heck even delightful when they do anything remotely resembling their purpose.
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I wrote this blog post about my #AdventOfCode2022 foray into #FunctionalProgramming using the #Elm 🌳 language and then completely forgot to share it! It was an interesting experience, with the main conclusion that I won't continue using Elm but that I want to keep investigating functional programming patterns and design.
Thoughts welcome 😁
https://bielsnohr.github.io/2023/02/18/elm-advent-of-code-2022.html
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Happy Ramadan to my Muslim friends 🌙
Happy Passover to my Jewish friends ✡️
Happy Easter to my Christian friends 🐣
Happy Vaisakhi to my Sikh friends ❤️
Happy Hanuman Jayanti to my Hindu friends 🌝
Happy Mahavir Jayanti to my Jain friends ☮️
Happy Days to my secular friends 😊
Much love to my friends of all of all faiths and no faith. Pass it on!
@eScienceCenter @egpbos Interesting blog post! My initial reaction is that GHCR still suffers from the same deficiencies as DockerHub: you are relying on the good will of a company to continue to make these services free, and the underlying code for this infrastructure is proprietary. Zenodo is an interesting suggested alternative, but as you point out has the manual download step which makes it quite inconvenient. Sounds like a docker interface to Zenodo could be something useful 🤔
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Are you using Docker Hub to store your containerized #Software? Recent attempts to change it’s pricing model have made it less attractive as a long-term repository.
Check out our #Blog post by Patrick Bos (@egpbos) to learn about some great free alternatives: https://blog.esciencecenter.nl/ditching-docker-hub-serve-research-software-with-ghcr-zenodo-2e47b8c93d88
@rkdarst @us_rse @de_rse @nordic_rse Great question and I have been wondering the same thing. Need to raise with SocRSE (UK) to get a mastodon account since they have a lot of followers in the community and that move in itself might bring a lot of people over here.
I have seen Guppe groups used for this sort of thing https://a.gup.pe I just created one called @researchsoftware Any toot you do that mentions that name will go out to everyone who follows that account. Kind of like an email distribution list.
There is also https://fedi.directory for finding lists of people to follow. We could inquire about getting an Research Software Engineering topic created on there.
Research Software Engineer | PhD Physics | Author of Super Smart Science: Nuclear Physics Made Easy | Lindy Hop + Yoga + Programming FTW
Joined Apr 2022
