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'Tessier-Lavigne will be blamed for his vigorous and sometimes bombastic denials of scientific misconduct (here, here, and here), which while perhaps technically correct, don’t read well in light of a report that says his lab culture allowed repeated manipulation of research data. But there is another big issue here that is important for science—running a research laboratory is a full-time job and can’t be done effectively when the principal investigator is simultaneously fulfilling a challenging administrative role.'

science.org/content/blog-post/…



The monarch caterpillars in our garden haven’t been surviving over the past two years & I shared my disappointment with a friend in horticulture. It may have been due to neighbors pesticides, predators, or some other factor.

She suggested collecting caterpillars just after they hatch, and providing fresh milkweed leaves daily in a protected mesh enclosure.

This morning we awoke to this wondrous surprise!

in reply to Lyndee

@lynnedubois We have heaps and yes, they spread underground quickly! Sometimes I carry the pods around when the seeds are ready to fly and spread them widely.
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

Yay! I leave mine to spread where they may. Hopefully my neighbours will benefit.


We're making progress on building a #Meshtastic network across PHL! In the past few weeks we've shown it's possible to send messages 5 miles or more across the city via #LoRa nodes in high places. If you work in a tall building, get in touch!

For beginners, we're running our Meshtastic 101 class on Sunday, 7/30 at 1 p.m.:
iffybooks.net/event/meshtastic…

Our next two virtual Meshtastic meetups are Thursday, 7/27 and Thursday, 8/3 from 7 to 9 p.m.:
iffybooks.net/event/virtual-me…
iffybooks.net/event/virtual-me…



Legendary hacker Kevin Mitnick has died at the age of 59. engadget.com/kevin-mitnick-for…


Starfox meets Vampire Survivors - Whisker Squadron: Survivor out August 21st gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/star… #IndieGame #Linux #SteamDeck


Packages that made your life easy

Pak: installs R packages from CRAN, Bioconductor, GitHub, URLs, git repositories, local files, and directories.

pak.r-lib.org/

Thanks @jimhester & @gaborcsardi !!!



Keep an eye on Parkour Legends inspired by Olli Olli, Super Meat Boy and Celeste gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/keep… #IndieGame #Linux #SteamDeck


How To Reverse Engineer RGB Protocols #Linux #YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=tZEDV9hHbw…


oh hey dontcryiamjustafish has the misinformation chart on it!
thanks very cool


Dolphin Emulator devs give up on Steam release gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/dolp… #Emulation #Valve #Nintendo #Steam


Gravity Circuit released paying tribute to classic platformers like Mega Man gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/grav… #IndieGame #Linux #Gaming #SteamDeck


#climatechaos this is the mess we have created youtube.com/watch?v=sAD_JBF2n8… the new normal is going to grow.

Please, let's stop worshipping our #deathcult



M64: The Black Eye Galaxy Close Up

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, HLA; Processing: Jonathan Lodge

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230720.ht… #APOD

#APOD


We're introducing a featured 🌟 news section on our blog post page! Stay up to date with what is going on in and around Nextcloud, the latest news, blog, updates, events, webinars, and much more! ⬇️nextcloud.com/blog/


M64: The Black Eye Galaxy Close Up apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230720.ht… #APOD
#APOD


in reply to Muse

The average novel earns its author $3,000 (as of a few years ago - probably more now, but consider inflation). For every million seller, there are thousands of flops (which may be perfectly good novels but that just didn't "catch" in the market).
in reply to Muse

@Jay Bryant Book publishing is incredibly wasteful. Many books are published on spec. The corporations now expect the author to do most of their own marketing. If they can bring their book to prominence, then the publisher may deign to put some marketing dollars behind their next book. In the meantime many books go out, don't gain attention, then are pulped and put into landfill. Whole forests are wiped out for books that people never had a chance to know what they are about!


Billions of years ago, a river coursed through the area where @NASAPersevere is now. The rocks it brought in hold stories not only of where they came from, but how they got there. What could they reveal about possible ancient life on Mars? Read more: go.nasa.gov/3K5IXJA
#NASAMars


#BlackMesa time, you know the drill youtube.com/watch?v=jk-d8i-LSk…


A large wildfire broke out on La Palma, the most northwesterly of the Canary Islands.

Fires here are common in the summer due to the island’s dry climate. @nasa's Aqua satellite captured the stream of smoke on July 15. go.nasa.gov/46S2hEb
#NASAEarth



What's going on with the hole in the ozone layer?

Thanks to a global effort to regulate ozone-depleting substances, the ozone hole is showing signs of recovery and is projected to return to a healthy level by mid-century. nasa.gov/esnt/2022/ozone-hole-…

[Video embedded in original tweet]
#NASAEarth

in reply to NASA

Nice.

Just on time for humans to finally cop on to the fact that we have killed ourselves with our carbon excesses.

in reply to NASA

We could have done that with CO2, if we had wanted to.


The American Museum of Natural History is one of my favourite places - it was great to visit again, crowds & all. When we lived in New York, I was a volunteer at the museum - I recommend the program to anyone living in the city (you don't have to be a scientist, in my group there was everything from lawyers to bodega owners).

amnh.org/join-support/voluntee…

in reply to Thiago Carvalho

I enjoy the sealed sphere with the aquatic ecosystem that has been cut off from the outside world for 50 years or so and still functions and supports multicellular life


Today’s students are tomorrow’s rocket scientists!

One of our #Artemis Student Challenges recently put undergraduate students’ skills to the test during the 14th First Nations Launch High-Power Rocket Competition.

Congratulations to all the competitors: go.nasa.gov/3XW3Z3f
#NASAArtemis #Artemis



Rock nerds rejoice! From big boulders to tiny pebbles, the ancient riverbed I’m exploring right now has it all. Washed in from upstream, these fragments can help my team uncover the river’s past and its potential for supporting ancient life. Read more: go.nasa.gov/3K5IXJA
#PerseveranceRover


Origin Of Slackware: Oldest Surviving Linux Distro #Linux #YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=dq6BoStBfE…
in reply to Brodie Robertson

Thanks for this walk down memory lane. Slackware 1.0 was my first distro. I remember buying a big Walnut Creek CD set with several distros but I think I may have downloaded Slackware from one of the ftp sites first. Great memories!


After months of work I'm so happy that our new preprint is online!

Profiling the expression of #transportome genes in #cancer: a systematic approach.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20…

It's a bit unfinished but it's by design! We want and need #feedback from #bioinformatics and #physiology people to move forward. I've tried to follow #openscience principles, so the pipeline is completely autonomous, containerized and the code for the paper is there, included in the repos!



Rogue planets – worlds that drift through space untethered to a star – may far outnumber planets that orbit stars. @NASARoman, set to launch in 2027, could help us find Earth-sized rogues, which would help us better understand planet formation. go.nasa.gov/43snphm
#NASAExoplanets


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in reply to Kenneth Finnegan

Is Redhat obligated to accept this pull request just because it's coming from a downstream contributor? No.

Does it always make sense to pull a minor fix into RHEL and risk the possibility of side effects? No.

Should Redhat engineers be pulling in fixes which they fully know won't be pulled into RHEL? Eh.

Does Redhat declining the very first notable contribution to Centos-stream after going scorched earth telling people to contribute to cento-stream have a bad look to it?

Yeah, this is the problem.



If you were Black and woke up in NYC on Monday, July 13, 1863, things got terrifying quick. For Black New Yorkers, there was no reprieve. Black life was dispensable to white mobs & law authorities. The Civil War, poverty, & rabid racism in 19th-century New York explains the events of that week. For Black Americans, the NYC Draft Riots were a heinous episode in an already brutal age. But it didn’t happen in a vacuum.

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@blackmastodon@a.gup.pe @BlackMastodon@chirp.social #BlackMastodon #Histodons #History #NYC



Five Exp 69 crew members carried out vision scans again today. Meanwhile, station maintenance continues. blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/20…
#ISS
#iss


Did you #WaveAtSaturn when Cassini took this @NASASolarSystem photo?
#NASA
in reply to NASA

No, but... I did make sure the whole ciclops.org website didn't disappear from the Internet. So I got all... The photos.


What's going on with the hole in the ozone layer? Thanks to a global effort to regulate ozone-depleting substances, the ozone hole is showing signs of recovery and is projected to return to a healthy level by mid-century: go.nasa.gov/3DhEBvp

[Video embedded in original tweet]
#NASA

#NASA


There is too much to say about Stanford and its lack of ethics in so many dimensions. Maybe I'll say more in due time.

But for now, what an amazing job by student reporters at the Stanford Daily.

stanforddaily.com/2023/07/19/s…



"Art is for everyone — or is it? In New York City, ticket prices for some museums and institutions are raising eyebrows." Single-day tickets at the Whitney and the Met are $30; and others like MoMA and the Guggenheim aren't far behind. hyperallergic.com/833929/these…
in reply to kottke.org

check the price of concerts or football matches. Not for everyone either…
in reply to kottke.org

Meanwhile, many smaller and more community-focused museums (for example, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) have free admission. We don't even charge for special exhibitions because art really _should_ be for everyone.


We are looking for a bioinformatics PhD student - get in touch if you want to to apply state-of-the-art machine learning methods to gene sequences and protein structures to analyze evolutionary patterns
wur.nl/en/vacancy/phd-research…
#PhD #PhDPosition #Evolution #Genomics #ProteinStructure #MachineLearning


7 months later, DigiKey is catching up on backorders! I forgot I had ordered these two last December while recovering from surgery lol. #RaspberryPi
in reply to Jeff Geerling

"No, Jeff, that's not the 'call nurse' button. that's the 'order another Raspberry Pi' button!"


Red Hat: Rebuilders contribute n̶o̶ ̶v̶a̶l̶u̶e̶ negative net value to RHEL. Contribute to CentOS Stream!

Rebuilder
@almalinux: okay we'll build off CentOS Stream. [Proceeds to submit patch to Fedora + Stream for a CVE against iperf3]

Red Hat: No, not like that!

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50 years ago, Skylab's prime spider, Arabella, was preparing for launch. From over 3,400 proposals from high school students across the country, the "Web Formation" experiment was one of 25 chosen to fly on Skylab. #Skylab50

📸 Dr. Ray Gause feeds Arabella a fly in July 1973
#NASAhistory



Judith Miles, a high school student from Lexington, Mass. (shown here discussing her project), proposed the “Web Formation in Zero Gravity” experiment to determine how well spiders adapt to microgravity.

Learn more about her experiment: go.nasa.gov/3OhDEt4
#NASAhistory



These students were the first ever to have experiments flown in space, but they weren't the last. Student experiments have been conducted on the @Space_Station over the last 20+ years.

📸 The 25 students whose Skylab experiments were chosen meet at @NASA_Marshall in May 1972
#NASAhistory

in reply to NASA

I proposed an experiment for one of the space shuttle missions that flew science “cans” when I was a kid. My idea didn’t make the cut, but I didn’t mind when I saw how amazing the winning projects were.

(Bonus pointless fact: I applied for the astronaut program when I was a grownup. I didn’t make the cut, but I didn’t mind when I saw how amazing the people who were selected turned out to be.)

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