Karin Nordström @puh23@qoto.org

7 things all kids need to hear

1 I love you

2 I'm proud of you

3 I'm sorry

4 I forgive you

5 I'm listening

6 RAID is not backup. Make offsite backups. Verify backup. Find out restore time. Otherwise, you got what we call Schrödinger backup

7 You've got what it takes

Sometimes I wish every lecture could be about mantis shrimp. They are just such charismatically violent, silly critters, and lend them selves so well to describing exciting visual systems and behaviours!

One of the papers I'm most excited about right now is newly in press at Functional Ecology!

Darien Satterfield & coauthors upend a paradigm cited thousands of times in the fish community and show that body shape does NOT constrain routine swimming in reef fishes!

https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14227

Check out the amazing movie poster Darien made for her paper: 😍 😂 🐟 🎥 She's not on mastodon yet, but you can find her on twitter @/DiverDarien -- give her a follow!

#biomechanics #fish #swimming #evolution

Writing your Mastodon #introduction

Ever wondered how animals sleep? Sleep experts Niels Rattenborg and Gianina Ungurean have published a great summary about the evolution and diversification of sleep in the animal kingdom. Read the review here: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1g6OqcZ3WuSvZ
Art by @somedonkey

Hey #ChemiVerse

Nature Chemistry is recruiting for a full-time editor!

The ideal candidate will have expertise in chemical biology or biological chemistry.

Closing date for applications: 12th December

Locations: London, Berlin, New York, Shanghai

#Editorial #Publishing #Chemistry #Jobs #ScienceJobs #ChemJobs

Boosts appreciated!

https://careers.springernature.com/job/London-Associate-or-Senior-Editor%2C-Nature-Chemistry/871414101/

Most of the .au #Mastodon admins have set up out of band comms, and are co-ordinating moderation responses and infrastructure setup and deployment tips, and mental health guidelines for dealing with moderation.

This feels like the organic, federated, community-driven, relationship-driven internet of my early twenties.

When I felt hope, and optimism for an internet of diverse minds but like values. An internet of connection, of exploration, of curiosity. An internet of potential, of promise, of purpose.

I never anticipated that the counter-culture that gave us #opensource #FLOSS #FOSS would morph into the #SurveillanceCapitalism (ref: Shoshana Zuboff) of mega-platforms.

Where my eyeballs are tracked for money, and my clicks are mined and sold to profile me, and to nudge or sway my behaviours. Where opinion trumps facts and outrage is manufactured instead of civil debate being nurtured.

I am excited for the counter-counter-culture.

Long live the Fediverse

3000 Free medical images to illustrate your publications and powerpoint presentations!
https://smart.servier.com/

#PhD #Bioinformatics #datascience #Biology #neuroscience #phdchat #postdoc #methodology #Journals #OpenAccess #science #phdlife #research
Please check the licence if you are using them for commercial purposes. #medicalwriters #medicalcommunication
Thank you to @Verukita1 for the original post on the bird app

"The standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital."
- Noam Chomsky

Every year, students in my CS 488 Software Development course work in teams of 4-8 to build software for an external customer. If you are in the Portland, Oregon area, that customer could be you!

Last year's ​projects included:

* A video game to teach people about earthquake preparedness.
* Creative animation software for an artist.
* A tool to help a faculty member organize course content.

Do you (or someone you know in a local organization) have a computational problem for which you need a piece of software? Let me know and maybe we can help you out.

WHAT YOU GET

Free custom software! This comes with some caveats:

* We usually produce stand-alone desktop applications. Other things are possible, but I'd prefer to stay within this realm.
* These are mostly seniors working on their first large piece of software. I make no guarantees as to quality; you might get something that you can use to do real work, but you might just get a fragile "proof of concept". We use an agile development technique that regularly reexamines goals, priorities, and expectations; this leads to a good probability that we'll have something working by the end of the semester, even if some of your more optimistic features have to be dropped.
* There probably won't be anyone to maintain your program after the semester is over. You might be able to hire some juniors to do more work on it.

WHAT YOU GIVE (We'll work with you on all of these things)

* Create an initial description of your project.
* Create and maintain a list of "user stories"​ (​things that you want your program to do​)​.
* Commit to meet with the students every other week to discuss progress and priorities. This must be a firm commitment; it's a disaster for me ​and ​the students and me if a customer flakes out.

Please boost and let me know ASAP if you're interested!

#software #ComputerScience #education #portland #pdx

How to Catch a Mountain Lion
an illustrative guide

1. Place a cardboard box where the animal frequently visits.
2. Sit back and wait.
3. A cat is a cat is a cat.

A very good read about saying no, equity at work, and non-promotable tasks
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03677-6

I've been using #AnnotatedEquations in my recent papers. I think it really adds to the readability and understanding of the math.

Here are some examples. It uses #tikz in #latex.

Let me know if you like it. Happy for any feedback.

Thrilled to see this beautiful beast led by my friend and colleague Andrius Pašukonis out at last 🤩
https://elifesciences.org/articles/80483

The Milky Way arch over Namibia’s Quiver Tree forest - when it’s really dark, you see more than darkness. #milkyway #photography #astrophoto #astrophotography #fotografie #travelblog #namibia

Every year, I do a group assimilation exercise to get feedback:
https://yisongyue.medium.com/phd-advising-tips-group-assimilation-exercise-b0aedfb8febc

One interesting thing that came up this year was the level of detail in advice/feedback that I give to different students (high variance in the group). After reflecting on it, I recommended students to propose concrete plans/approaches (with the understanding that plans will change) in order give me grounding in their motivations and intuitions. This has noticeably improved several interactions thus far.

I'm a beginner here. I just learned that you can click on the little 'follow' sign after you've found a hashtag you like....lovely.

My very last dahlias of the season. I have seldom been successful growing anything but I seem to have found my stride with these beauties. Time to put them into their cosy pots until spring. 💤 #dahlias