Alex Weber @weberam2@qoto.org

Guaranteeing jobs and income. Redistributing wealth and power. Eradicating racism, poverty, and militarism. This is how we honor Dr. King’s legacy.

We just sent out our last tweet for the foreseeable future, announcing that this Mastodon account is our only social media account now.

We have come to the conclusion that Twitter/X is no longer relevant for #SciComm. Our peers are here. Thank you!

Other compelling reasons for quitting Twitter and moving into the Fediverse are given in this petition: https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/open-letter-to-the-german-rectors-conference-hrk-on-the-use-of-social-media#petition-main

I've easily found tech people on Mastodon but it's been harder to find #psychology and #neuroscience people, and I've noticed I followed mostly men, too. I've been consciously following new people when I see boosts, but it's really slow.

Then I found this tool, which finds people who are followed by people you follow, based on public information (so no permissions required!). Really nice way to get more of a diverse feed.

(And if I've just followed you today, hi!)

https://followgraph.vercel.app/

The latest blog post by #ErikHoel makes the case that #neuroscience suffers from a #ReplicabilityCrisis crisis going beyond the well-known replication issues in psychology. Sample sizes are small, brain “areas” may be an artifact, and researchers are floundering for lack of a generally accepted theory of consciousness. https://open.substack.com/pub/erikhoel/p/neuroscience-is-pre-paradigmatic?r=2cb3jc&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

@OpenAlex (#OpenAlex) has a new and friendly user interface.
https://openalex.org/

PS: The new interface is wonderfully simple and should bring this powerful tool to more users. Next time you have a research question, try it before #GoogleScholar or your other stand-bys. Or try both and compare. OpenAlex searches titles, abstracts, and full-text, and has unrivaled scope, indexing over 250m works from 250k sources.

#Search

Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?

I'm someone who argued fifteen years ago against Linux fanatics who wanted to pretend #Linux was a viable replacement for the average user for #Windows. As much of a #FOSS enthusiast as I am, that simple wasn't true at the time - Windows was a much smoother experience in general than Linux.

Today though, I can confidently recommend a major Linux distro and know that they'll have as smooth an experience as they would on Windows. Not (just) because Linux has improved by leaps and bounds, but also because Microsoft seem to be doing a great job driving Windows to the ground.

That’s it, no more use for Google Scholar! Have been looking forward to this day! Amazkng work Team @OpenAlex! 🚀

From: @OpenAlex
https://mastodon.social/@OpenAlex/111744405065505035

🚨#ComplexityThoughts issue #24: #ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #Neuroscience #HumanBehavior #Evolution

Unraveling complexity: building knowledge, one paper at a time!
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https://open.substack.com/pub/manlius/p/complexity-thoughts-issue-24?r=n4iyo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcome=true

Someone on LinkedIn pointed out that #OpenAI doesn’t use an LLM for their support chat, but has instead opted to use some extremely limited decision tree. Which is both understandable, telling, and fucking hilarious.

So perhaps Boeing makes unsafe planes because of woke DEI or perhaps, just maybe, it's because the last time they killed a bunch of people just five years ago they got away with it and not a single manager or executive responsible was prosecuted? https://fortune.com/2024/01/09/boeing-deferred-prosecution-doj-criminal-charges-737-max-crashes-alaska-airlines/

We pay attention only to things that matter to us, and the dry presentation of disconnected facts by a teacher, even under the threat of a test, does not meet the threshold of importance to most students.