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sennoma

@sennoma@chaos.social

Thinkmonkey for hire. He/him; they/them is also fine.

Biologist, humanist, atheist, democratic socialist.

Science, art, culture, literature, film, music, poetry, photography, chocolate, beer.

If I follow you it's because you said something funny, insightful, or both, and I'm hoping you'll do it again.

Ceterum censeo, Elsevier delenda est.

#OpenScience, #Biotech, #AssayDevelopment, #InVitroDiagnostics, #WorkerOwned, #AntiFascist

https://justmytoots.com/@sennoma@chaos.social

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mhoye, to random
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I linked to this earlier, but this is genuinely great: a new ways counting enormous quantities of data that will give you something statistically likely to be very close to the correct answer for potentially a vanishing fraction of the computation cost of the deterministically correct answer: https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-invent-an-efficient-new-way-to-count-20240516/

sennoma,
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@mhoye Some people like to pretend that Science Will Solve Everything and yet we've only just figured out how to count stuff. 🤣

RickiTarr, to random
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The most ridiculous thing about cop procedural shows is when they ask where a person was, and what they were doing at a specific time the person always has perfect and immediate recall. I'd be desperately trying to remember what day of the week that was, and trying to open my phone calendar. If I was the cop, I'd immediately be suspicious of the person who remembered exactly where they were and what they were doing.

sennoma,
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@RickiTarr Also at the top of the list: everyone talks to the cops. Invites them in, answers their questions. In the real world: stfu, insist on a warrant, call a lawyer, and most of all, STFU.

sennoma,
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@HunkThunderzone @RickiTarr Right, or the local Auntie with the catering business, or the part-time magician who reluctantly but hilariously teams up with the investigative reporter, or... Yeah. Fuck off. Especially if I've been doing crimes.

Jorsh, to random
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Fuck your golf course. I piss on your golf course.

sennoma,
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@msquebanh @Jorsh In my day it was bleach on the greens; you can write "Die Yuppy Scum" with a squirt bottle. (Or so I hear.)

But I like seedbombing better.

misc, to random
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For a long time I was critical of any would be post-Twitter than didn't federate from the start, because that seemed like the obvious essential way to bootstrap a critical mass.

But now, I'm starting to feel like there is gonna be some strength in the fact that Mastodon + the broader microblogging fediverse, Bluesky, and Threads are going to come together after developing separately.

sennoma,
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@misc I'm deliberately on a server that blocks Threads, and I could see a similar block on Bluesky being implemented eventually.

To me, that's the power of federation: the ability to keep the fascists and their useful idiots OUT.

I don't understand the drive to connect everyone to everyone else on social media. Twitter is a nazi bar, Threads is Facebook in a cheap suit, and BlueSky is going to end up being just a mini-Twitter. What's good or useful about any of that?

nyquildotorg, (edited ) to random
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Ok, Cory Doctorow is pissing me off now, lol.

"Break down the steps of training a model and it quickly becomes apparent why it's technically wrong to call this a copyright infringement. First, the act of making transient copies of works – even billions of works – is unequivocally fair use. Unless you think search engines and the Internet Archive shouldn't exist, then you should support scraping at scale."

We need some kind of term for arguing via false equivalence.

sennoma,
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@nyquildotorg Doctorow is one of those people who just... bug me. I've quite often agreed with him, but still he just... doesn't sit right with me somehow.

I usually put it down to the fact that I'm an asshole, but then he writes something like this and my intuition is all "See? See? We fuckin' TOLD you that guy was no good!"

sennoma, to random
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https://mstdn.social/@SuigSays/112439691563361950

sennoma, to random
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Have you people never seen Day Of The Triffids?

anildash, to random
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Just trying to imagine if people a few hundred years ago had been here to witness, in the span of a few weeks, an eclipse, an earthquake, a supernova as bright as the North Star, and an unexpected appearance of the northern lights.

sennoma,
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@anildash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY

ml, to accessibility
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Please boost in the hopes of reaching someone who can answer:

Can someone direct me to a form and/or a person responsible for ensuring ADA compliance (not a defensive "cover your ass" thing, but actually caring about accessibility) at USDA?

Thank you!

@plantscience

sennoma,
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@ml @plantscience
@sarahtaber might know someone.

FiStitchWitch, to mentalhealth
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Okay, its a terrible picture and its not ironed cause its way too hot to iron. The pattern is straight, fabric is just bundled up under it.

by . Stitched on white 16ct aida fabric, using approx 370 metres of black DMC thread, 6 needles used. Final stitched area is - 55cm wide and 69cm high.

This was a labour of love, a challenge, a reward to myself, part of my journey.

Its done now.

@crossstitch

sennoma,
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@FiStitchWitch @crossstitch That's amazing, and gorgeous!

dlakelan, to science
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Here it is people. A PhD student describing details of what they've come to realize is the completely scientifically bankrupt methodologies their high-powered successful, well funded lab PI demands the lab members do. Everything this person says is basically commonplace in todays labs #science #openscience #statistics #bayesian

https://www.reddit.com/r/PhD/comments/1cksfmd/i_realised_that_my_pi_and_research_group/

sennoma,
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@schymans @dlakelan "most countries have research integrity offices"

I can't speak for other countries but I have some experience of the US ORI and its main function seems to be to prevent the truth from interfering with funding. It is the place where integrity goes to die.

Your point about the self correcting nature of science is well taken, but what a waste of resources to have to correct deliberate malfeasance! Surely there are enough honest errors to be going on with?

fkamiah17, to random
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🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬

sennoma,
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@fkamiah17 How you know you're the spare and not the heir.

sennoma,
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@fkamiah17 He stood up for his wife, which is more moral courage than any of the rest of 'em have demonstrated. I respect that.

I can see how he's in a bad place: that kind of fame can only be endured if you have money, and if he tells his family to fuck off he'll still have the fame, but not enough money to deal with it. (Also, they're a vindictive bunch of bastards.)

The UK needs a sort of Witness Protection Program, but for royals who abdicate/renounce all claims. 😃

sennoma, to random
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Uh, Bavaria, are you OK?

https://sfba.social/@AbbyFla/112333473714930524

annika, to random
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I love how warm this is, even on a cold day

sennoma,
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@MisterMoo I guess I'm a downer too, because I agree: this is a VERY bad and stupid thing to do. I'm surprised it's even legal.

@annika

mrundkvist, to Archaeology
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Dude contacts me because he's watched a YouTube clip and has picked up some folk pseudohistory about his home area. Shows me his family tree which has him descending from a fictional regional ruler. When I tell him I think that's just imagination, he asks me to explain why I "assume" so. "Hello professional research scholar, please deliver a detailed critique of the amateur theory I believe in." I just blocked him, can't be bothered, not my job.

sennoma,
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@mrundkvist An engineer once emailed me a whole essay on how to cure HIV. To get him to understand how utterly wrong it was, I'd have had to give him the equivalent of an undergrad biology education. (I just deleted it and never replied.)

sennoma,
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@mrundkvist There are still too many in the Sciences who cling to the idea of culture-independent understanding. "Pure" science, "pure" knowledge, no context, no muddying of the Pierian waters by human foibles. (Idiots. 😂 )

impactology, to random
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Damn Taiwanese work culture is just as shitty as Indian.

This is an article on struggle of American engineers on adapting with TSMC's military-style work culture

Indian style of managerialism is generally to demand obsequiousness by shouting and screaming as opposed to giving people the freedom to experiment and question freely

TSMC's work culture seems exactly the same

Inside TSMC’s Phoenix, Arizona expansion struggles - Rest of World

https://restofworld.org/2024/tsmc-arizona-expansion/

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sennoma,
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@impactology Why, o why must Scandinavia be so miserably cold and dark? If I could stand the climate I'd move there in a heartbeat.

sennoma, to random
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Everything is terrible BUT I have calculated the maximum angle from which the HOA snitches can view our backyard during their automotive reconnaissance, which allows me to leave a large triangle of lawn unmowed in the middle of it.

NO GODS, NO MASTERS

sennoma,
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@jbiserkov I am the master of my fate/I am the captain of my lawn!

sennoma, to random
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As a rule, I do not boost PhD or postdoc opportunities: it feels too much like baiting a hook. But this is a friend of mine, and someone I greatly admire. His lab is one of the few places left in the world where one can still experience the real joy of scientific discovery and community.

(Also, and this isn't in the formal information: they have beer.)

https://mastodon.social/@brembs/112313929843338215

brembs, to random
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Faced with a collective action problem, it helps to pick a small group with the autonomy to change their ways.
In scholarly publishing, there are about 8-12 million authors who are not even free to decide where they publish.
There are only a few thousand editorial boards where editors have complete freedom to choose where they work.
"Save editors time."
"Time is scholar’s most precious resource."
"Focus on the community."
"Journals are communities. "

https://theroadgoeson.com/we-can-help-the-journals-escape-and-evolve
by @danielbingham

sennoma,
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@brembs @danielbingham I like almost everything here, but the idea of an "open impact factor" gives me hives. Even if transparently and consistently calculated, it's still likely to be (mis)used to assess individual papers (viz. create a predictive prestige market, the bête noire of all numerate people).

sennoma,
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@brembs 🤣🤣 I suspect those who worked at it (rather than negotiating) might be the exact people who'd jump ship if offered a transparent, consistent alternative. It does seem to be too much to ask most people to abandon IF entirely -- at least for now.

Do we want to be right, or do we want people to move in the right direction? If Daniel's right and this can get them off the corporate teat, then at least more "radical" ideas have a chance.

I honestly don't know the answer.

@danielbingham

Alice, to random
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The worst thing about having a birthday the day after Cinco de Mayo is that everybody is always like "Here's a present for both Cinco de Mayo AND your birthday."

sennoma,
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@Alice Happy Birthday! 🍰 🎂 🍸 🍻 🎆 💐 🌹 👑 🎶 🥳 🎉 🎈

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