Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org

What could go wrong?
#genomics #bioinformatics
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.08.556814v1

@sellathechemist it's simple: hardly any publisher use LaTeX for the production version of the paper s. Rather, they pass perfectly fine TeX through (proprietary) software, which sometimes fails epically.

Having published with APS throughout my PhD, I was very surprised to find out that Nature recommended sending in submissions in MS Word format.

This, en passant, reminds us of how utterly exploitative scientific publishing is. Kudos to Sci-Post and JS Caux for trying to make some right out of this wrong.

Finally made an #ImageJ macro to generate rotated zoom boxes!

--> Want to publish images? Use our #checklist to ensure all image data is understandable!

Today out @springernature
@naturemethods - wonderful home, its so pretty in its final form! 😍

Joint effort of 54 authors, some are on here too:
@NadiaHalidi
@ALMicroscopi3S
mycroscopy@mstdn.science
@LaurePlantard
@bethcimini

READ ARTICLE:
https://rdcu.be/dl9Z8

#Bioimaging #Images #ScienceCommunication
#scicomm #BioImages #Microscopy #dataviz #images #Image #ScienceMastodon #Science

China Unleashes AI-Powered Image Generation For Influence Operations https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/china-ai-image-generation/

So now that I have X-ited Twitter for good and settled in the #Fediverse, it is time to renew my #introduction, or rather my #introduction thread.

I am a physics scholar, vice president of Université de Lorraine, in charge of the digital, data and #OpenScience policies. I also work for the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, in charge of the international side of #OpenScience.

#Foss
#OpenData
#Xodus
#TwitterMigration

As Twitter self-immolates, I am seeing people I know setting up on Bluesky.

I find this perplexing. Can people really not learn the lesson that a social network owned by a capitalist is a social network they don't control?

You can argue about whether Bluesky or Mastodon has the better technology, but what's 100% clear is that Mastodon is run BY users FOR users. And that difference is the only one that matters in the end.

ENORMOUS congrats to @BSDB Student RepTamina Lebek who today won a "Community award" from the University of Edinburgh School of Biological Sciences for her amazing work to support her fellow PhD students 🏆

Oh, and she ALSO won the "Best student talk" award for her equally amazing science! 🏆 🏆

We'll be submitting her work to BioRxiv in the next week or two, so watch this space if you want to learn more about how she illuminates cellular neighbourhoods using... pufffins #Yes #Really #Pufffins

If I had one wish for everyone teaching with #rstats this academic year it would be to focus your materials on “learning skills through R” and not simply “learning R”. The latter is an unachievable goal and sets your students up to fail. The former approach can be used to break the teaching down into manageable building blocks, for students, & learning subsequent complex skills. When you are learning, how something is phrased matters!

#teaching #statistics #academia #highered #highereducation

“Facebook has already shifted users’ agreements for UK users away from the EU to its US terms, does not allow UK users to opt-out of personalised advertisements, nor do they plan to switch to a consent-based model of advertising like is happening in Europe.

It's more than obvious that Facebook doesn't believe the Information Commissioner's Office will enforce UK data protection standards."

🗣️ @marianods for ORG

#GDPR #dataprotection #meta #ukpolitics

https://theferret.scot/uk-privacy-watchdog-threads-app-probe/

“Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.”

— Carl Sagan

#quote #CarlSagan

I just installed `tldr` (https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr) and it provides very practical Linux documentation! I've attached the output from `tldr zip`; I only use `zip` when sharing files with collaborators on Windows so I always forget the parameters and `man zip` takes a while to read. You can install it using `pip3 install tldr`. Thanks to @drgroftehauge who told me about the tool!

Troubling story in Times Higher Education by Philip Moriarty, Prof of Physics at University of Nottingham.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/im-being-docked-pay-boycotting-marking-i-teach-free#comment-68607. It's behind a paywall, so I'll summarise. His salary is 100% from EPSRC research fellowship, but he does some teaching (which he's v good at) bcs he likes it, is good at it, and is public-spirited. Now Uni is docking his pay bcs he participated in a marking boycott as part of industrial action.
#university #strike #administration 1/2

Any cell biologists out there in the #ScienceMastodon universe?

Highly recommend taking a look at this one day meeting in the UK in #Bristol - https://mellorlab.wordpress.com/actin-2023/

The #Actin meeting aims to "bring together the UK actin community for a day of informal talks and discussion."

There are short talks - mostly from #Postdocs and #PhD students, there's a poster session at lunch and prizes, too.

It's a friendly and inclusive conference and great for networking - check it out!

#CellBiology

This is great: you type your zip code into the app, and you're shown a complete list of books prohibited in your area; then download the e-reader, and these books are available to download.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/18/us-teens-banned-books-schools

I wonder if the book-banners will end up making these books more widely read than they ever were in libraries?

Dear journalists,

If you publish an article about a new scientific paper and you don’t include a link to the paper, you suck.

Sincerely,

Possum

Take the ability to block away, and Twitter immediately becomes utterly unusable for anyone who doesn’t revel in being overwhelmed by an avalanche of racist, misogynistic, bigoted filth - and that’s intentional, of course. An incitement of abuse.

https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/elon-musk-x-twitter-block-feature-delete-1235699759/

San Franciscans: this is Wily. She is loose in San Francisco after escaping her dog sitter. We are not in town. If you see her, please call animal control.