Joseph P. @tonic@qoto.org

@freemo
Honestly, I probably would have disengaged from the Fediverse/Mastoverse a long time ago - or at best had a mostly dormant account (like I do on the birdsite) - because of stuff like this, if not for #QOTO.

To my knowledge, this is the instance that comes closest to having the culture that Hacker News wants to have:

> Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents.

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

(from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

So, thank you, for creating an environment for those of us that want to have genuine and curious conversations.

LOL my article got my blocked by #joinmastodon on twitter... haha

https://jeffreyfreeman.me/eugen-rochko-ceo-of-mastodon-found-to-support-nazis-agenda/

#mastoadmin #fediblock #QOTO

Blackouts & terror across #Ukraine, attacked by 70 Russian missiles today—35 on #Kyiv🇺🇦, killing 4.

In #Zaporizhzhia🇺🇦an entire wing of a hospital maternity ward was decimated, a newborn killed.

It's freezing, and people are w/o power.

#RussiaIsATerroristState #ARMUKRAINENOW!

CW: Mass Shooting in Virginia

We are bombarded by rage shootings back to back to back to back and we have zero time to process any of it individually or as a society. Baseline traumatic existence in this country.

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/walmart-shooting-chesapeake-virginia-11-23-22/index.html

Also folks, I'm using 3 different instances while as a #MastodonNewbie I try to figure out what's the best choice for me. In a week or so I'll probably consolidate. Meanwhile you may see me follow you 2 or 3 times, from qoto, c-dot-im, and vivaldi Mastodons.

#Mastodon really needs a better system for handling repeated #boosts of the same toot. Apparently "Group boosts in timeline" affects things only if two people's boost of a post occur within 40 posts of each other. I need that number to be about 25 times larger, at least.

'We have developed OpenFold, a complete open-source reimplementation of AlphaFold2 that includes training code and data. By training OpenFold from scratch and matching the accuracy of AlphaFold2, we have demonstrated the reproducibility of the AlphaFold2 model for protein structure prediction. Furthermore, the OpenFold implementation introduces technical advances over AlphaFold2, including markedly faster prediction speed.'

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.20.517210v1?med=mas

Watching your national team 🇦🇷 loose their first match at the World Cup represents the bottom of the emotional well of living overseas...

La thèse défendue par Anthony J. Leonardi (@fitterhappierAJ), jeune chercheur en immunologie à Johns-Hopkins, très présent sur Twitter, est que Sars-Cov-2 endommage le système immunitaire. Par certains aspects, le covid possède les caractéristiques d'une maladie auto-immune, chronique, avec un effet cumulatif des réinfections. Il a été sévèrement attaqué et moqué pour ça (par les "minimizers"). L'histoire semble pourtant lui donner raison.

As a blind guy, I'm really liking these alt text for images. Keep em going! #Accessibility is da bomb!

NEW BARTMAN LAB WEBSITE JUST DROPPED: https://bartmanlabpenn.squarespace.com/
Techs/staff scientists/postdocs/students, come work with us in 2023!
(pls retoot =)

Hi Mastodon! I'm an epidemiologist and disease ecologist interested in #scicomm, currently leading microbiological risk assessment at the UK Food Standards Agency. I have a background in vector- and (more recently) food-borne disease, particularly viruses, and an interest in food more generally. I'll be sharing interesting research and issues around food, risk and epidemiology. Please say hi - especially old friends from Twitter, it'll take a while to find you all!

Given the #twittermigration, it's probably time to re-up an #introduction given the space has changed since 2018.

I am a geeky CTO working at Blueprint Power focused on encouraging a distributed grid and clean energy production/optimisation. I am a long-time Linux/UNIX user and spent my early life hacking on things when we called it #infosec

I live in the small rural town of #standish Michigan "up north!"

#cleanenergy #tech #linux #security #energypolicy #aviation #ev #travel

I think I want to bring up a castopod instance on QOTO, seems it would be a better alternative to hosting podcasts than our current funkwhale solution.

Just arrived here on Mastodon so here's an #introduction! Total Internal Reflection (TIR) is a #science #blog (http://totalinternalreflectionblog.com) but one that focuses on the human side of science instead of research.

Posts typically fall into two types - either commentary/opinion (sometimes silly, sometimes serious), or #HowTo guides aimed at improving young scientists' #SoftSkills.

I'll be highlighting new postings here, and would be delighted to get comments/feedback/input - the blog is all about starting a discussion rather than having the last word.

Let's start with the #FluorescenceFriday @ mstdn.science !!

Here you have "the explosion of life" during #cell division.

#microscopy #scicomm #organelles @cellcommlab

Team #onefist with #OperationNeutrino targetting critical infrastructure. Truth of the matter is most of these SCADA systems are a disaster waiting to happen

https://www.onefist.org/post/operation-neutrino

Thanks @tonic for surfacing this

#infosec #scada #grid