Matthew @mattasdata@qoto.org

Our yearly #SciComp / # HPC Kickstart course starts tomorrow. It's #livestream on EU-afternoons, so the whole world is invited! (6-8 June 2023, starting 10:50 CEST, 4hr/day) #RSEng #DataScience #Computing

Day 1: general #SciComp basics + connecting, Days 2-3: #HPC usage

https://scicomp.aalto.fi/training/scip/kickstart-2023/

Universities often teach object-oriented design as being about the static structure of our OO code - types and relationships ("is a", "has a"). But good OO design focuses on how objects work together to achieve end user goals. Object relationships exist for sending messages.

I am 100% not shitting you when I say scientists named mastodons after their teeth which they thought looked like nipples. “Mastos” as in breast. “odont” as in tooth.
We’re on a website that, in Greek, literally means “Booby Tooth.”

Good design serves everyone.

This is the first X-ray taken of a single atom.

@arstechnica reports: https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/this-is-the-first-x-ray-taken-of-a-single-atom/

#Atoms #Science #Quantum

truth 😅

Pretty sure Madness wrote a song about this.

#Madness
#OurHouse

Check out this best worst thing I found. It is my UX nightmare but also fun to play.

https://userinyerface.com

#UX #Games

We spend roughly 10x as much time reading code as we do writing it. A tool or technique that makes you twice as "productive" at writing code *at best* makes you 5% more productive over all. Making your code easier to understand will have 10x the impact. But that doesn't sell tools, so you won't be reading about it in Forbes.

Secret Panel HERE 🧠 https://tapas.io/episode/2383199

#CollabW23 has started! We kicked off with a hybrid breakfast social. Excited to be back at my favourite conference and see how we can make this work in hyrbid!

@us_rse @de_rse @nordic_rse @researchsoft @HeathrTurnr @AlanSill @code4thought @mattasdata @codebrewer Based on your good replies in thread, I started this blog post, please improve since I wrote it fast!: https://github.com/nordic-rse/nordic-rse.github.io/pull/412
And what's our next follow-up?

Went to a rally, got a T-shirt.

Thanks for the design @tomflood

Stop the Online Safety Bill

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/634725

Sign the petition before they pass a law that requires all messaging providers to monitor the content of everyone's messages.

I often tend to lose track of my day. I have accepted myself for who I am. My supervisor hasn't. 🥲⁠ ⁠ #cartoon #cartoons #comic #comics #instacomic #instacartoon ⁠ #academia #science #research ⁠ #errantscience

Happy 33rd birthday to the Hubble Space Telescope, launched onboard space shuttle Discovery (STS-31) #OTD in 1990.

The 2023 anniversary image is the nebula NGC 1333, a star forming region about 970 light years away in the constellation Perseus.

Image: NASA, ESA, STScI