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Time to take in some #StarrySights!

Over the next couple weeks, we'll be exploring Hubble views of different types of star clusters. Find out more: go.nasa.gov/3gNrNFf

Here's a quick guide for star cluster categories ⬇️
#Hubble



Hello professors on here: this semester we've seen a tidal wave of academic misconduct (copy and paste plagiarism, sharing answers). What strategies do you use that *work* to deal with this (not including giving 0s)? Right now we're having students meet with the chair for a chat & I assign a make-up assignment using Andrea Edinger's Cultivating a Conscientious Citation Practice. Other practices? unwrittenhistories.com/cultiva…



Open Clusters:

These contain between a few dozen to a few thousand stars, all formed from the same cloud of gas and dust. Their shape is more irregular than spherical, with large amounts of gas between the stars.
#Hubble



Embedded Clusters:

These are like a "prequel" to open and globular clusters. As the youngest type of star cluster, they contain newly born and forming stars surrounded by cosmic gas and dust.
#Hubble



Does anyone have any information on books or websites that can help guide my partner on making body butters and haircare, specifically from Black/African backgrounds? She'd like to know the use cases of ingredients and how to use them together. (jacky.wtf/2022/11/DQuk)


Hey there! Remember me? It’s Commander Moonikin Campos, and I’m taking over this account again… but this time, from the Moon!

As I write these Tweets, my crew and I are flying aboard the @NASA_Orion spacecraft in a distant retrograde orbit! nasa.gov/moonikin-comic
#NASAArtemis #Artemis



I am joined on the #Artemis I mission by my two trusted companions, Helga and Zohar, aka the #LunaTwins!

Not only are Helga and Zohar joining me here inside @NASA_Orion… they are also joining me here on @Twitter!
#NASAArtemis #Artemis



I'm still finding my feet here, so it feels right to share with you the first #JournalCover I ever got with my #sciart

I was a #postdoc at the time and I had 1 evening to produce something around the idea that virulence in #bacteria is often 'all about the #phage ... '

A lucky break for me!
#MastoArt #Introduction

in reply to Eliza Wolfson

very cool. What sort of stuff had you made with aquarelle/printmaking prior to this work?
in reply to Danny (he/they)

@danwchan Thank you! This was my first go at it. To be honest, at the time, I didn't even know that it was an actual technique with a name. I was just making it up as I went along! I didn't have any lino to hand so used some thick card instead. It's more absorbent and gives different printing effects.

I got commissioned by #FEMSmicro to make a visual identity for their blog using this technique some time later...



Half-Life: Alyx LEVITATION mod adds four hours of new story - out now

gamingonlinux.com/2022/11/half…



Wine 7.22 out now with more 32bit on 64bit work gamingonlinux.com/2022/11/wine…


JSAUX release 'CaseKiller' for the official Steam Deck Dock to help with protective cases gamingonlinux.com/2022/11/jsau…


The Long Dark: Tales from the Far Territory begins on December 5th gamingonlinux.com/2022/11/the-…


Cyberspace hacking looter-shooter Black Ice gets a big content upgrade gamingonlinux.com/2022/11/cybe… #IndieGame #FPS


Dome Keeper adds new cave types and little critters to make exploration more interesting gamingonlinux.com/2022/11/dome…


📄 Statistical code for #ClinicalResearch papers in a high-impact specialist #medical journal

Interesting #paper on the availability of #statistical #code in European Urology papers. And a checklist to get us all thinking about how good the code we share is.

thanks for finding and posting it first @MarkKelson

🔗 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/…

#Science #OpenScience #Reproducibility #Research #OpenAccess

in reply to Open Science ✅

Thanks, I believe this really sheds light on the rush to publish as soon as you get results.
Unfortunately often those results are not reproducible due to how the code is written, which is often specific to the machine of the researcher.

I admit I'm also guilty of this, trying to become better and placing more care in the code.

in reply to Open Science ✅

If I get 10 guesses for criteria to assess code quality, I don't think I would guess 1 out of those 3 criteria, tops.

I understand the code quality standards out of the software community may be low, but precisely for that reason it's scary to see code quality evaluated in terms of extensive annotations, no repetition and markup for formatting. People may start thinking that's what they should do... 🤔


in reply to Peter Tennant, PhD

@pwgtennant I can agree with that. I think the inspection tools have a big effect. I think that if code has been sighted by more than one person, preferably by an outsider and along with some useful comments, it will be comprehensible to most readers.
in reply to Open Science ✅

@openscience @pwgtennant
I don't know what the right answers are but this feels like an enormously healthy conversation to be having.

Best practice for research/analytical code may or may not reflect best practice for code in industry. A process to get consensus around what research code best practice is seems valuable.

I agree with Peter - I think readability is more important in research/analytical code. Efficiency is often less important (at least I hope so!).



What makes Nextcloud stand out? ✨

"First of all privacy. The ability to host your own data and to know where your data is."

Listen to this customer interview with Nassim Shahin, Information Technology Services Manager at Erzbistum Köln.
vimeo.com/748722216



Leonid Meteors Through Orion apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221128.ht… #APOD
#APOD


*yodeling intensifies*

I dunno, if I were a wresler I would pick some god damn Yodeling as a theme song.

Imagine: Beefy Mcbeef Pants enters the arena with heavy metal. John Cena does the whole patriot stuff.

Random guy appear in pajamas, eating shreaded cheese, Yodeling blasting. John Cena starts sweating, other wreslers also have never heard of guy before and don't know how to react.

Be the bright colored toad that'll kill by mere touch.

youtu.be/_w2joqV5XVA

#shitpost



Leonid Meteors Through Orion

Image Credit & Copyright: Luo Hongyang

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221128.ht… #APOD

#APOD


This Chinese music group produce songs that are either beautiful, or beautiful and funny! This is just amazingly beautiful!

youtu.be/E5WQD1GX-RQ



If you haven't seen this video of Greta Thunberg with Russell Howard, give it a watch! Delightful and informative.
youtu.be/62ECkYYbPlA


On the 12th day of the #Artemis I mission, @NASA_Orion continued its distant retrograde orbit of the Moon and engineers conducted more planned tests on the star trackers - navigational equipment that helps the spacecraft determine its orientation: go.nasa.gov/3XPMgu3
#NASAArtemis #Artemis
in reply to NASA

Wow!!! 🤩 These images are incredible. I love seeing this perspective ❤️ 🌎 🖖
in reply to NASA

Suggested Alt Text: One end of the Orion spacecraft dominates the left foreground & continues out of the frame at left. At right, a tiny blue-&-white disk recognizable as Earth floats far, far away. Behind both objects is an empty black expanse of blackly empty space.


Friendly highland cow by James Hollis!


Friendly sheep by James Hollis.



Pipe organs are officially the most badass instrument human kind has ever made.

If aliens came to earth and we were to show them how we make nice "beeps and boops" we should show them a guitar as the "simple folk instrument".

And then show them a fucking HUGE pipe organ the size of a room, the kind that makes you feel your ribs vibrating with the sound.

That'll make them impressed.

youtu.be/XX1if-VCgt0






wandering.shop/@feliciafm How do I follow Felicia, here?
in reply to William Gibson

Paste that into the search field and press enter, the account will come up
in reply to Eugen Rochko

@Gargron @GreatDismal@mastodono.social

At least on my Mastodon instance[1] that does not work; copying the text and pasting it into the search box doesn't find anything.

Instead, I need to right click the linked text, then choose "Copy Link" and paste the link into the search box -- that is, without the "https://" part it doesn't work.

Is that a bug I should file? Not sure, I'm a n00b too...

[1] mstdn.axhxrx.com running v4.0.2

in reply to Eugen Rochko

@Gargron having the same issue with @UnlikelyWorlds , keep getting the ‘follow’ button flip to ‘pending’. Paul says he doesn’t have it set to approve follows, would it even show up if a server is blocked?



I Am A God #shorts #Twewy #YouTube youtube.com/shorts/pzHoT7vpyAQ


AMDs Raytracing Analyzer Finally Goes Open Source #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/MzvB39BwdAQ


I'm live on twitch! Come hang out with me while I play Welcome to Elk: twitch.tv/averymd #magic


#DestinationLinux is live right now so come join us to keep those #Linux 🐧🐧🐧 marching!

Everyone is welcome! Go to DLNLive.com, and Patrons can join the "recording studio" for the Patron Postshow! 😂

Not a patron yet? Go to
patreon.com/destinationlinux



The first detailed map of another planet 🗺️

#50YearsAgo today, the US Geological Survey @USGS's global map of Mars was published. It was created using over 7,000 photos taken by @nasa's Mariner 9 spacecraft.

Read more:go.nasa.gov/3i3S6as
#NASAhistory

in reply to NASA

Those features on the center-left stick out. With the lines around the peaks, it almost looks like a happy puppy dog!



Check out the latest episode of the Sudo Show #57!😀🐧

Brandon, Bill & Neal get together to expand on why corporate contributions to open source matter and the unintended benefits or consequences.

@dbrandonjohnson@twitter.com
#Linux #podcasts #OpenSource

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youtu.be/B7uUCPVD-eA

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