rastinza @rastinza@qoto.org
Italian, MSc in chemistry specialized in cheminformatics and QSAR.
I'm interested in cooking and building stuff.
I love traveling, I lived in India, China, Slovenia, Poland and Spain.
Currently working in Spain in the field of genomics; and doing a PhD in Drug Development using Quantum Mechanics and Artificial Intelligence.
Don't take what I say as an insult, I have no bad intentions and I'm open to talk about it.
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Joined Feb 2022
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Starting 2023, four universities are pausing or ending their Elsevier subscription due to exorbitant pricing.
Elsevier's subscription was costing them ~10% of their Libraries' entire budget.
"Elsevier’s prices have increased each year and have outpaced inflation"...this is despite Elsevier having the highest profit margins of virtually any other industry or publisher.
via https://www.dailyemerald.com/news/pressing-pause-on-elsevier-subscription/article_93c07dec-9120-11ed-8ce9-abbca97ab954.html
Figure via @MatteoCarandini
#OpenScience #AcademicPublishing #Science @academicchatter
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My apartment is quite humid, thus I decided to buy some mushrooms to grow in here.
I'm hoping the temperatures will be high enough since I have not heating...
Let's see if I get to eat any!
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Qualche persona qui ha già provato a collegare a Linux un badge a led con testo scorrevole?
Ci si possono caricare 8 messaggi, ma il programmino che lo fa è solo per Windows.
Il comando lsusb lo identifica come
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0483:5750 STMicroelectronics
My company internet access blocks youtube, which I need for my job, and not porn websites...
Changed the dns and finally I can follow my youtube courses.
Apparently they don't care which dns server you use.
This year only half the doctoral thesis written in the University of Santiago de Compostela were in English.
42 of these were in Galician, which might make sense considering 44 of these thesis were written by Spanish students working in the fields of arts and humanities, thus they might have written stuff about Galician literature in Galician.
This fact to me highlights the poor aperture of Spanish academics to the outside world and plummets the value of their work.
Some time ago, I was talking with a professor about a possible collaboration and he sent me a PhD thesis of one of his students to give me an overview of what they've been doing. This thesis was in Spanish, I didn't even read it. I believe that if you feel you've done a good work you'll try to share it with other people as much as possible, publishing a thesis in Spanish makes me think you do not value your work enough to make it accessible to other researchers.
I'm disappointed by the Spanish researchers because of this.
Indeed, lots of good researchers are Spanish and I've read plenty of good articles with Spanish authors; however, I believe that this kinds of things lowers the value of their research.
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*Why are walks in the coniferous forest so useful?*
Scientists have proven that the air in a coniferous forest is practically sterile (no more than 200-300 harmful bacteria per cubic meter). A walk in a coniferous forest relieves stress and nervous tension, tones the body, activating gas exchange in the lungs and, as a result, improves breathing. Such walks are vital for heavy smokers and office workers.
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More interesting: @Lost_World@mastodon.social
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Wow-- "The US has approved use of the world's first vaccine for honey bees. It was engineered to prevent fatalities from American foulbrood disease, a bacterial condition known to weaken colonies by attacking bee larvae..... It works by introducing an inactive version of the bacteria into the royal jelly fed to the queen, whose larvae then gain immunity." #bees #pollinators #insects #animals #environment
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64180181
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Had to share this amazing DIY rotovap published in Make Magazine
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Computational Chemistry Daily is out! https://paper.li/compchemdaily?edition_id=993109a0-8837-11ed-967d-fa163e65ae25 Stories via @MLSTjournal@twitter.com @alvascience@twitter.com
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female nudity | click "show more" for artist info
Artist: Jace Wallace | https://wakkawa.tumblr.com/
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This year was very hard for me in many aspects. I learned the importance of work-life balance and the value of rest. So if I don’t accept your speaker invitation or paper submissions or random foreign grant review (especially the latter!) well, such is life.
I want to focus on creative science in 2023, which is why I joined academia in the first place.
I will keep my quixotic crusade against bureacracy. Every zoom call avoided is a good outcome.
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Using python quite a bit lately, this stuff is getting large and eventually I decided to bring some structure to it and design some classes to make it more manageable.
It's horrible, objects in python really suck; I feel this will eventually create more problems than it solves.
I'm seriously thinking about switching to Julia; do you know if that can be used to handle this kinds of things?
I doubt I wish to go the C++ way, I'm a single person and my main occupation is not software development.
Java could be I guess, but I'm afraid library support for the kind of stuff I'm doing could be quite poor...
I mean, frankly at this point even Fortran04 appears more appealing than python 😂
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Italian, MSc in chemistry specialized in cheminformatics and QSAR.
I'm interested in cooking and building stuff.
I love traveling, I lived in India, China, Slovenia, Poland and Spain.
Currently working in Spain in the field of genomics; and doing a PhD in Drug Development using Quantum Mechanics and Artificial Intelligence.
Don't take what I say as an insult, I have no bad intentions and I'm open to talk about it.
Don't star my toots, I find that often useless: if you liked it send a reply.
Consider boosting the toots, it's the only real way in which stuff is propagated through mastodon.
Joined Feb 2022
