Alex Weber @weberam2@qoto.org

"If Tetris has taught me anything, it's that errors pile up and accomplishments disappear."

It is well-understood that stars like our sun synthesize elements up to Iron (Fe) through nuclear fusion. Many of the elements heavier than Fe are forged in highly energetic events such as supernovae and neutron star mergers in a set of nuclear reactions known as the r-process.
The graphic below shows the cosmogenic origin of each element in the Periodic Table.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-process
#JWST #Tellurium
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A woman. An immigrant. A scientist.
A Nobel Prize winner. And thanks to her pioneering research, a #COVID19 vaccine.

Dr. Katalin Karikó. https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/10/the-story-of-mrna-how-a-once-dismissed-idea-became-a-leading-technology-in-the-covid-vaccine-race/ #HistoryRemix #science #history

20 yrs ago @PLOSBiology opened its digital doors to start a revolution in #LifeScience communication

Through 2023, we have explored what the next 20yr will bring in different fields & landmark PLOS Biology papers through the lens of time

This month we feature articles on #SciencePublishing & #OpenScience. We hope you find food for thought & inspiration to enact positive change

https://collections.plos.org/collection/plos-biology-20th-anniversary/

A huge thank you to our authors, reviewers, editors, readers. YOU are PLOS Biology

Do we really need more evidence before implementing open peer review? A comment on a recent article in PLOS Biology. https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/comment?id=10.1371/annotation/2b0d72d9-b22b-41f5-ac5d-6c8a65d1d5ad
#PeerReview #fraud #papermills

Helen Joyce’s recent book Trans repeats Bilek’s “Jewish billionaires” theory without citing her by name. Joyce was then reviewed by anti-trans commentator Jesse Singal in the New York Times, and Singal—while calling Joyce’s book “an intelligent, thorough rejoinder to an idea that has swept across much of the liberal world seemingly overnight”—

https://xtramagazine.com/power/far-right-feminist-fascist-220810

“publishing review reports aims at greater transparency of review processes for readers” #academicchatter https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002255

Our answer to the question of reproducibility, transparency and innovation in academic publishing

42 co-authors, 94 datasets from 18 sites, 5 interactive figures and an award-winning dashboard, all bundled in our most ambitious NeuroLibre preprint yet.

Check it out at the link below!

https://preprint.neurolibre.org/10.55458/neurolibre.00014/

that uBlock Origin post about how to bypass YouTube's adblocker nags has been making the rounds, but it isn't the clearest in terms of steps, so here's a quick PSA:

1. click the uBO shield icon
2. click the settings button (gears)
3. go to the "Filter lists" tab
4. click "Purge all caches"
5. click "Update now"
6. now refresh the YouTube page.

every time I've seen one of the nag popups, this has instantly fixed the problem.

On a roll here . . .

R for Data Manipulation and Visualization online tutorial.
Includes working with dplyr, janitor, ggplot2, leaflet, plotly & gganimate. Plus the{librarian} #rstats 📦 for package management.
Lessons by Uku-Kaspar Uustalu, senior data scientist at Tufts University, and Kyle Monahan, senior data science specialist at Tufts.
Repo: https://github.com/tuftsdatalab/r-data-viz
Web page: https://tuftsdatalab.github.io/intro-r/
@rstats
@uustalu

Some good tips in there:

From: @sls
https://neuromatch.social/@sls/111225766630331376