Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org

So today I met with an executive from the International Association of Forensic Nurses—an organization I’m collaborating with. I was told that they were receiving overwhelming communications from their 6,000+ membership of nurses unable to access information on #sexualhealth and #traumainformed care. My Mastadon buddy @lavaeolus was able to upload access to important #CDC documents through #safeguardingresearch

This place really is making change. #mastadon #HoosierMast

Scientific societies: please do not advertise X/Twitter to "live tweet" your conferences this year. Prepare now accounts and instructions to use Mastodon and Bluesky.

Strongly recommending if you rely on any pubmed article, even if Euro-mirrored, in your practices as doctors, you get local copies tonight. CDC too.

Elons methhead marauders are locking US officials out. Hostile takeover style, only Congress & SCOTUS approve.

CDC datasets already ghost. Gone. Hasta.

i'm working on a giant terminal cheat sheet with

- how to quit
- redirect syntax
- keyboard shortcuts you can use (including in `less`)
- how to set environment variables
- some basic useful commands (history, !!, kill/pkill/killall/top, reset, alias, etc)

and it's really leaving me feeling like "how is anyone supposed to LEARN all of this stuff??” like all of this is theoretically documented and obviously I learned it somehow but it's split across so many different man pages

1/ Explore our new Reproductive Health Special Issue

Research into #ReproductiveHealth has historically been overlooked, while issues shape everything from fertility and pregnancy to demographic trends and healthcare disparities.
https://elifesciences.org/collections/f8cc6f3f/special-issue-reproductive-health?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

More and more reports like these coming in from the US, so far unconfirmed but consistent with Project 2025:

https://mastodon.social/@DeliaChristina@sfba.social/113904395784087309

https://mastodon.social/@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io/113903050750787577

This time, the coup happens without storming the Capitol and without cameras recording it - for now.

Is DeepSeek really sending data to China? Let’s decode https://venturebeat.com/ai/is-deepseek-really-sending-data-to-china-lets-decode/ #AI #privacy #Perplexity

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring.

US science is going to suffer, by the looks.

"Panels that were scheduled to review grant proposals also received eleventh-hour word that they wouldn’t be meeting."

No grant reviews, no grants.
No grants, no science.

#Science #Research #Academia

https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-hits-nih-devastating-freezes-meetings-travel-communications-and-hiring

Journalists really need to stop referring to #ElonMusk's "Department of Government Efficiency" as if it were real. It's not, until and unless Congress creates and funds it. A president can listen to advice from anyone, but that's not the same as building an actual federal agency. Don't perpetuate a fraud. #journalism

Ever wonder about the basis for fear-mongering & conspiracy theories about mRNA vaccine? Wish you had a place to go when someone cites "proof"?

I've got you covered! In my latest post @PLOS, I buckle up for the waves of anti-vax claims likely to come at us in 2025 :

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2024/12/28/getting-ready-for-more-mrna-vaccine-fear-mongering-a-compendium/

#Vaccines #Covid

Do you know of any #rstats teams who could use some help in 2025?

I'm a freelance consultant with 10yrs of experience in #DataSci, #DataEng, #DataOps, and providing #SysAdmin for related tools. I primarily work with R, but I have enough SQL and Python knowledge to get by. I know my way around a linux terminal and docker-compose file. I'm also handy as an interpreter between IT and analytics teams. Open to many types of engagements (project-based, temp staff, etc).

If you have a need or a lead, I'd love to chat!

boosts welcome :-)

Spotify killed the Car Thing, but they don't have to die! When a company like Spotify decides to generate huge amounts of unnecessary e-waste, the community steps in to save them from the landfill.

Image credits:
DeskThing (Dammit Jeff on YouTube)
GlanceThing (GlanceThing on GitHub)

#spotify #SpotifyWrapped #ifixit #ewaste #trash #hacking #repair #righttorepair

Today is the day. Welcome to THE charger!

USB-C is officially the common standard for charging electronic devices in the EU.

This means:

The same charger for all new phones, tablets and cameras
Harmonised fast-charging technology
Reduced e-waste
No more “Sorry, I don’t have the right cable”

One charger to rule them all.

#SingleMarket #DigitalEU 

In case you missed it, the hackers who reverse-engineered DRM on Polish trains got sued by the train manufacturer…

…multiple times.

You can donate to their defense fund:
https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2024/das-ist-vollig-entgleist

Context:

Their original talk from last year
https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12142-breaking_drm_in_polish_trains

My piece about the first lawsuit against them
https://rys.io/en/175.html

#Newag #38C3 #DRM #Trains

@ColinTheMathmo When I was younger it was all just arithmetic practice drills (which I knew I could've been doing with a calculator...) and then when we moved on to "higher math" there was just never any purpose grounded in reality.

Algebra? I still do not actually know what the point of solving for X is. No one ever told me. They were just like "do this a bunch." I did. A purpose never occurred to me. It is now decades later and I don't know why I had to do that.

@ColinTheMathmo

"Fun" is a kind of engagement. It is also subjective. Learning can be enjoyable; that's not identical to "fun".

Learning is better when not unpleasant, let alone miserable. But when you ask a person (of any age) to learn something, for no obviously good reason—other than to avoid punishment—they will find it unpleasant.

Curiosity is specific. Utility a bit more general. But neither work on kids who expect to be celebrities due to magical thinking.

@ColinTheMathmo @rakhichawla I think that the "fun" stuff can be important for getting people over the initial activation barrier. I.e. those who say they're "just not good at maths" without ever seriously engaging with it. But I agree that fun is not enough in the long term.