Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org

#Introduction. Hi everyone! The current state of #Twitter brought me here.

A little about me, I am a #PublicHealth scientist with a master's degree in Epidemiology. I am interested in #InfectiousDiseases, #Virology, and #Immunology, through the lens of #healthequity. I am a first year #PhD student in #Epidemiology and I am hoping to connect with other academics on mastodon.

If you're in #STEM, #academia, or a curious and avid knowledge seeker (like me) in any discipline let's connect!

The #ThreadsApp can’t launch in the EU because of EU data and consumer protections- which tells you about the level of surveillance bales in- but it has launched in the U.K., which tells you about the U.K.

I’m coming to love #Mastodon’s boost culture. Everybody’s all like, “Follow everyone! Boost it all!”

In the Blue Place, it felt like we were all competing for attention. Here, it’s more like we’re cooperating for attention.

At one level, that doesn’t make sense—everyone still has only so much attention to spend. But it *feels* better, and without The Algorithm enforcing power law, winner-take-all dynamics, the boost culture does seem to lift a lot of voices that were drowned out over there.

Who's gonna tell them?

Having spent the last few days surround by the incredible NHS staff of my local hospital I honestly can’t imagine being without them and find it absolutely disgraceful how they have been treated and underfunded over consecutive UK governments.

#NHS #NHSBirthday #SupportTheNHS #NationalHealthService

Quoi?

'We find that at least half of TFs also bind RNA, doing so through a previously unrecognized domain with sequence and functional features analogous to the arginine-rich motif of the HIV transcriptional activator Tat.'

https://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/fulltext/S1097-2765(23)00434-3?rss=yes&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Predicting Parkinson's disease up to 7 years before it is clinically diagnosed, and better than any known predictive risk factor, with a wrist accelerometer https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02440-2

So many good points in this piece by
@PhilippBayer

My highlight in this screenshot, but if you're vaguely involved in #academia, do have a read and think how it may apply to you. #academicchatter @academicchatter
https://genomic.social/@PhilippBayer/110644840476993836

@helma @helenajambor Apparently there’s a phenomenon known as “Nobel Disease” https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nobel_disease

Well worth reading this:

Don't get mad, get equal: putting an end to misogyny in science.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02101-x

@pre perhaps we will return to a pre Facebook internet experience. Perhaps this will backfire and we will have less monoliths and more distributed niche forums. Does every interest need the same platform to build a community?

Today
* Reddit ends free API access.
* Twitter turns off anonymous reading.
* Youtube is talking about banning ad-blocking users.

The tech industry was living on cheep money and low interest rates, and now they're all afraid to let their precious content get used for AI training.

The walls are going up, the lawful corporate web is collapsing in on itself.

After a day of running into multiple accessibility barriers while attempting to do multiple online things, I just needed to come here to say thank you to everyone on Mastodon who participates in creating a small corner where I don't feel like an afterthought. I appreciate the dedication to alt text and video descriptions so, so much, and I know many people have already said it, but I don't think it can ever be overstated.

New posting! This one is about the number of unpaid hours in #academia, an insight that's come from the realisation of how much time I'm still committing despite now (currently) being unemployed. To what extent is academic research sustained by the massive expenditure of unpaid labour? How much unpaid overtime do you think you're clocking? Let's lift the lid...

https://totalinternalreflectionblog.com/2023/06/29/pro-bono-a-riff-on-unpaid-labour-in-academia/

In a new video @geerlingguy spots the #enshittification of #RedHat #Linux quoting @pluralistic thanks to the new Redhat source code paywall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF5pyVUQBH8

Turnitin acknowledged that its AI detector sucks
https://www.utimes.pitt.edu/news/teaching-center-doesn-t?fbclid=IwAR1Lp40fzkpNbWFPt1J-CeUBzbk8ENplO0Z2jgff1_AumOiZSe80R79vOE4

The Company of Biologists is excited to announce the launch of its new mastodon instance @biologists.social, on which you can now find all our journals and community sites. We look forward to sharing more news about this new community in the coming days.