Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org

As I was privately babbling out my own diatribe on the FLI letter yesterday, I was honored to be pinged by @emilymbender and @timnitGebru about joining forces to put out coherent thoughts. Excited to be able to share it today.

There are clearly foreseeable long-term AI harms. To address them, regulatory efforts should focus on transparency, accountability and preventing exploitative labor practices.

https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/letter-statement-March2023

Current pocket rock - wee piece of carboniferous limestone full of crinoids and bryozoans 🖤 #ScottishFossils

If You replace the w in "what, when, and where" with a "t" it answers each of those questions.

Wondering if anyone has access to this paper:

Onwuegbuzie, A. J. (in press). Prevalence of statistics anxiety among graduate students. Journal of Research in Education

It is one of the main papers in #StatisticsAnxiety research in undergraduate samples and from around 2004 but I am having trouble finding and accessing it. If anyone had a copy that they could share that would be much appreciated.

I am still disappointed every time I see (what seems like) an in-person conference only.

We learned to do better, and now many are choosing to unlearn it…

https://openbiblio.social/@openaccessnetwork/110105672763644418

Oh shit now the "hey transpeople are evil cause one just shot some kids" morons are creeping in on my timeline... its almost like being a member of one of the most abused, ridiculed, attacked, and tortured groups in existance (trans people) might lead to a very very small portion of them snapping and becoming violent... the level of stupdity of these people to think it infers trans people are just bad people, instead of recognizing it might be a symptom of extreme abuse, is mind boggling.

@nicolaromano You can try StringTie2 (https://ccb.jhu.edu/software/stringtie/index.shtml?t=manual) and FLAIR (https://flair.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) to discover transcript isoforms from all samples and quantify them with packages like featureCounts (https://subread.sourceforge.net/) and Salmon (https://salmon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/salmon.html)

Want to master Reproducibility with #rstats?

Join our course in October where you'll learn to manage environments, track changes with #Git, collaborate with @GitHub and publish containers.

Enhance your skills and make your work more efficient!

Instructors: @eliocamp @paocorrales

Important and sobering thread - we ALL need to do better. Whatever our role in this ecosystem

This is appalling

I am so sorry that you had to go through this @ESanganyado
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RT @ESanganyado
I have decided to leave several editorial boards this year because I realized I was an unnecessary hurdle to authors. Peer reviewers are less likely to accept a request from a non-white EBM with a "strange" name like mine 1/5 https://twitter.com/…
https://twitter.com/ESanganyado/status/1639887146537431043

That the Internet Archive lost their lawsuit only serves to prove that we need more projects like Sci-Hub and Library Genesis to bolster the availability that more mainstream libraries cannot provide due to pressure applied by rent-seekers.

When a fish beats its tail, it produces vortices in the water that other fish could take advantage of to save energy while swimming. ​​https://elifesciences.org/articles/86807?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_insights

strange thought:

If I got 1$ per month for every package I maintain for Fedora Linux, that would basically be enough money to live on ...

Popular packages I'm responsible for include:

- the new Sequoia based GPG backend for RPM (present on *every single Fedora 38 install*)
- CLI tools like ripgrep, exa, lsd, bat
- Rust bindings for GLib, GTK3, GTK4, GStreamer, etc. (which are used to build librsvg2, gnome-tour, helvum, etc.)

so ... who wants to adopt some packages? 😁
https://github.com/sponsors/decathorpe

"My designs were so deceptively simple that it was easy for people to assume I just had easy problems, whereas others, who made super-complicated designs (that were technically unsound and never worked) and were able to talk about them in ways that nobody understood, were considered geniuses." -- Radia Perlman, the woman who developed the algorithm behind the Spanning Tree Protocol, an innovation that made today's Internet possible.

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#WomenInTech #WomenInSTEM #Design #StrongWomen #Tech #STEM

A friend and ex-colleague is #hiring for a #NGS #datamanagement / #developer. This probably ideal for someone with #database building and / or #ontology knowledge looking to work at the forefront of human genetics data with the The German Human Genome-Phenome Archive (GHGA)

https://www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/stelle.asp?id=10272
#bioinformatics #datascience

I've recently thought about if there is not an easier to learn alternative to #LaTeX...and maybe even in #Rust!?

My inner voice: Come on, you are a dreamer!

Well...sometimes dreams come true:

#Typst - A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn.

https://typst.app/

It is in beta and open source:
https://github.com/typst/typst

#Markup #OpenSource #TypeSetting #PDF #RustLang

Such a wonderfully clear result today that the “exciting approach that we were going to use to do many things” does not work. I am actually really happy about it. I mean, it would’ve been great if it did work, but there’s nothing worse than weeks of tantalising glimpses that something might work if the conditions are just right.

#CellBiology #LifeOfPI

@TheManyVoices @feditips
Also, you can add an alt-text description of the audio just as you can with an image or video!

@maegul @academicchatter A wonderful shared repository of useful graphics, many with open licences, exists

https://bioicons.com

created by Simon Duerr.

I just served as a @pcirr recommender for a cool piece of research by Alley, Axt, and Flake. They will determine whether data from students and crowdsourced online platforms measure the same thing.

Thanks to our wonderful reviewers @itchyshin and Benjamin Farrar!

#RegisteredReport: https://osf.io/32unb

Recommendation: https://rr.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec?id=349