Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org

#introduction #science #climate #clouds #modelling #geosciences

bonjour le fediverse ! je suis français mais je tooterai majoritairement en anglais (^c^) !

hi fediverse. I'm Lucas, a PhD student at IGE (CNRS, Grenoble, France) whose work focuses on studying the interaction between aerosols and clouds in the Arctic. I'm using climate models and collaborate closely with satellitary observers to improve our understanding of clouds.

I'm counting on mastodon to share about my work and raise awereness around my main scientific concern : climate change (big surprise, is this even a thing anymore ?).

More generally, I wish my academic work could go on being more interdisciplinary and more focused on helping societies and citizens understand and adapt to climate change.

Finally, I'm engaged in climate struggles and love to learn new stuff and share about it. All contents not related to my work will be showed with the appropriate CW.

happy to meet you all c:

This is a Magic Eye. I love it.

Hello world! 👋

This is Encyclia, a new project to bridge ORCID records into the Fediverse. Our software platform is a work in progress and we'd love to hear your feedback!

Project website: https://encyclia.pub

via Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16eDx3zoA2/

NPR - The year red-blooded patriotic American high-school jocks replaced migrant farm workers!

The year was 1965. On Cinco de Mayo, newspapers across the country reported that Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz wanted to recruit 20,000 high schoolers to replace the hundreds of thousands of Mexican agricultural workers who had labored in the United States under the so-called Bracero Program.

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#ArteConcert is so amazing! I don't remember who on Mastodon first pointed me to it but it's *so good*. Thanks to whoever you are.

If you don't know it, Arte is a a European public service channel and Arte Concert is their live music. The live concert performances are top quality and it's all free to watch, with *no ads* (thanks EU!).

This evening I've been watching a jazz concert by Hiromi's Sonicwonder. Earlier in the week I watched Moderat live at the Grand Palais in Paris. I've discovered fantastic African blues musician Fatoumata Diawara and Cuban funk musician Cimafunk and singer song-writer Asaf Avidan. There's everything from metal to electronic to jazz to classical.

While a lot of the internet has been turning to ad-filled spyware goop, Arte Concert is a wonderful exception.

This is me feeling grateful.

https://www.arte.tv/en/arte-concert/

#music #concerts

This was a brave project with an ambitious goal and I think it kicks the legs out from some shaky, simplistic assumptions about cycle time, and how we use software metrics in general. We've also got a huge bank of code, statistical approaches, and methodology along with our preprint so others can replicate our work or use it as a learning example.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05040

Two open positions in my lab to develop scientific software with python and javascript.

Software: CATMAID

Documentation:
https://catmaid.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

Source code:
https://github.com/catmaid/CATMAID/

Example:
https://l1em.catmaid.virtualflybrain.org/?pid=1&zp=108250&yp=82962&xp=54211&tool=tracingtool&sid0=1&s0=3&help=true

If you have experience with #SQL (#postgresql), #python and its many libraries (particularly #django), #rust, and #javascript, write to me and let's discuss.

Examples of open issues: https://github.com/catmaid/CATMAID/issues

Brits can sleep safely tonight, after the heroic work of the Metropolitan Police. The Reverend Sue Parfitt, 83, a retired priest, was arrested in Parliament Square for holding a sign which read:

“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”

Under British law, this now puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist. The courts may impose a prison sentence of up to 14 years, to protect the public against the existential threat posed by this very dangerous woman.

You may have heard that globalchange.gov and all the national reports on climate change have gone down.

We got em all on #sciop, a webrip and all the PDFs extracted: https://sciop.net/datasets/globalchange-gov-webrip

Edit: context - https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-national-assessment-nasa-white-house-057cec699caef90832d8b10f21a6ffe8

Americans make fun of the European regulation on data protection (GDPR), regularly ("cookie banner law").
And then a data leak happens, and they're like: why do we even have this data around? who decided to keep admission forms for ten years?
GDPR is based on sound principles. The US should use it.

A recent comic on the US giving international tourists the Big Brother treatment

#comic #cartoon #uspol #travel #firstamendment #privacy

Over my years in academia, I helped create a variety of free online mathematical materials. Pirouette is a Spirograph clone that runs in a web browser. I hope you and your students enjoy the software! Read more:

https://www.diffgeom.com/blogs/free-online-math-materials/pirouette/

#Math #MathArt #ITeachmath

Dear practitioners in statistics and data scientists:

In writing a data file, are there any standard ways, symbols, or notation, to indicate that some ordinal or continuous values of some datapoints are right- or left-censored?

Very grateful to anyone who share their uses and experience – as well as references!

[Edit: adding tag for R]

#statistics #datascience #rstats

Please share widely: I'm still looking for a postdoc in computational genomics to join my team in Oxford. If you want to help develop better ways to detect AML from epigenetic profiles in blood, then get in touch:

https://cutt.cx/analytics/masto1

Great team and environment, 3-year secured funding, ideal for transition to independence!

#jobs #academia #science #job #FediHire

"LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. […] Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels."

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #ML #MachineLearning #Learning #ChatGPT #OpenAI #Llama #Ollama #LMStudio

I recently saw a highly accomplished woman I know demonstrating a new AI product that, of course, has a female name.

When the product launch was shared on LinkedIn, the C-level men didn't share the name of the woman doing the demo, in spite of her being in all the photos, just the name of the AI.

I'm still mad.