Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org

Tired of waiting until the end of a sentence before you can be histrionic? The exclamation comma.

This is a @xieyihui
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(Context: https://yihui.org/en/2024/01/bye-rstudio/)

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‘Unthinkable’: Marie Curie’s Paris lab saved from the bulldozers … for now https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/jan/06/unthinkable-marie-curies-paris-lab-saved-from-the-bulldozers-for-now Via @guardian

@nicolaromano

Rachel Hayes-Harb discusses her approach to student collaboration and group assessment in the following webinar;
https://youtu.be/5ExuqTkNNuU
For the specific coverage of your questions, start from about 9.30 in

this remains one of my favourite joke ever told

Absolutely devastating news. I would not have accomplished what I have accomplished in the last decade without Yihui's work. If you've ever encountered a website, report, or book built with R in recent memory, you have Yihui to thank.

https://yihui.org/en/2024/01/bye-rstudio/

Until he gets a new position, he's looking for sponsorship: https://github.com/sponsors/yihui

One cannot simultaneously value my privacy and share every detail of my visit to a website, down to the &#%* screen size, with 1505 partners.

Exobasidium is a parasitic fungi that lives in plants as an endoparasite. It galls flowers changing the scale and morphology of flowers and other plant structures in surprising ways.

I just found out they exist and I'm shocked, fascinated and horrified.

They were mentioned in passing in this Crime Pays video (I have NOT been binge watching CPBD looking for ant cameos, what kind of weirdo would do something that? Not me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaUMcaKgkw8)

Citations show gender bias — and the reasons are surprising https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03474-9
Gender bias in paper citations is less common among younger scientists, but it still plays a part in making women’s research less visible

Happy New Year! Our New Year's resolution is to keep your devices running strong in 2024 and beyond. More updates, less e-waste!

#Fedora #Linux #Security #Tech

Irregular sleep-wake patterns are associated with a higher risk of overall mortality, and also mortality from cancers and cardiovascular disease. #Epidemiology #Cancer https://elifesciences.org/articles/94131?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_insights

This paper, showing how violins went from O-shaped holes to F-shaped holes, is one of my favorite examples when I discuss "technological trajectories" and search as tinkering with students. The amazing thing is that this all happened without theory, all is just trial and error and slowly optimizing the air-resonance power over the centuries. The full paper is worth reading/skimming if one has only a slight interest in innovation, music/acoustics or both: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.2014.0905