Matthew @mattasdata@qoto.org

THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
1. Private School
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family money
5. Club memberships
6. Personal assistant, nanny, ghostwriter
7. Journalists who ask “what’s your secret?” and uncritically publish the lame answer

Put a raindrop anywhere and see where it ends up.

https://river-runner-global.samlearner.com/

On #scienceTwitter, my favourite thing were reading and, on rare occasions, writing "paper/preprint threads". From the researchers I followed and through the #Twitter algorithm, this became my most important source for new #research.

While people start to do the same on #Mastodon, I have the feeling that I miss important work bc no algorithm "saves" it for me if I don't watch my timeline constantly.

Two simple solutions would be: a commonly accepted hashtag that everybody uses when writing "paper threads" or a [...] @ a.gup.pe group with a similar adaptation rate.

#Question 1: is there already a mechanism for this that I missed?
#Question 2: What hashtag or group name?
I saw #TootPrint before. Maybe #PaperInAToot? #PaperInAPost? #PaperInAThread? #PaperPost? #MastoPrint?

Suggestions and boosts, please, we need reach for this! 🤓​

#TwitterMigration #Science #Scientist @phdstudents @academicchatter @neuroscience @cognition

grocery store chains: we set record profits this year

retail chains: we've never made so much money

energy companies: we just posted our best quarter on record

news article: who is to blame for inflation? you peasants wanting wages, probably

Making my first real post on here 😬

And my first real blog post in a while, motivated by a workshop @gvwilson gave on writing

"Four tips for research groups sharing code on how to structure Python packages"

http://blog.nicholdav.info/four-tips-structuring-research-python/

Bit of an #RSEng post.
Would love to hear what ppl think.

@catch_me_coding @kelly_sovacool @benfulton @labarba @astrojuanlu @hdashnow @simon @brianokken @danielskatz @us_rse @tacaswell

“I have seen over the years, consistently, that people who spend a lot of time on computers don’t get a tenure job in physics,” said Vermaseren.

“It’s more prestigious, maybe, to actually produce physical results than to work on tools,” said Ruijl.

And this is how we keep pushing people towards career death, burnout due to overwork or out of academia entirely.

https://www.wired.com/story/a-crucial-particle-physics-computer-program-risks-obsolescence/

Team Murena wishes you a spectacular New Year!

Choose freedom and join the movement for privacy!
https://murena.com/

#choosefreedom #NY2023#HappyNewYear #eOS #privacyphone #smartphone #Murena

@gael @e_mydata

"If you hate watching a billionaire destroy the place you live online, wait till you hear what they’re up to with planet earth."
- Meghna Jayanth

Christmas, all I want for, you is.

In case you don’t believe the same equations govern #motion in the #atmosphere and the #ocean.

Video by Tristan Heth in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

Q. Why do mathematicians confuse Halloween and Christmas?

A. Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec.

Happy Christmas.

I am once again asking you to stop using LastPass. The company has a history of security issues dating back years, and has yet to make holistic security improvements — or heck even investigate incidents properly.

Good alternatives:

- 1Password is my #1 rec, best for most use cases
- Bitwarden if you want open source
- KeePassXC if you want local vaults and open source
- I hear ok things about Dashlane but don’t know a ton

https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/12/notice-of-recent-security-incident/

We interviewed OpenAI's new chat bot chatGPT. In addition to writing and explaining code, it was also able to write these haikus for us.

Check out the blog post for an explanation of quicksort by Yoda and a rewrite of the song Imagine to be about #RSEs.
https://blog.esciencecenter.nl/interview-with-chatgpt-c17b87214b9c

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