Several of us overly online biologists spent years quietly doing an experiment on Twitter, trying to find out if tweeting about new studies from a set of mid-range journals caused an increase in later citations, compared to set of untweeted control articles.
Turns out we had no noticeable effect; the tweeted papers were cited at the same rate as the control set.
Our paper, headed by Trevor Branch, was published today in PLOS One:
Multiple studies across a variety of scientific disciplines have shown that the number of times that a paper is shared on Twitter (now called X) is correlated with the number of citations that paper receives.
When you think of a theme you probably think of images, config files and mayve some CSS but when we're talking about a KDE Global theme that's not really acc...
the fact that on modern Linux still every executable runs with all the permissions of the user is kinda baffling.
The permission system is developed for multi-user systems where users don't trust each other but trust the software. On modern PCs, we have mostly only one user, but a bunch of random executables that we shouldn't have to trust with our whole drives.
Following a successful launch of NASA’s SpaceX 30th commercial resupply mission, new scientific experiments and technology demonstrations for the agency are
NASA’s BurstCube, a shoebox-sized satellite designed to study the universe’s most powerful explosions, is on its way to the International Space Station.
Fully funded PhD project to work on current natural selection, evolution and demography in several populations of Albatrosses, with fieldwork in the subantarctic.
A French version of the project is here: univ-larochelle.fr/wp-content/…, but if you do not read French know that it is flexible anyway. I will post an English ad later.
Email me with any question if you may be interested.
Fossil stingray (Cyclobatis sp.) Upper Cretaceous. Approximately 100.5 million to 66 million years ago. When alive, this creature lived in warm, shallow seas and had a very short tail, which was fitted with a venomous stinger. Discovered in Haqil, Byblos, Lebanon. It just happens to look like an ancient space alien. #science #fossil #archeology #evolution #photo #nature #biology #wildlife
Well, that didn't last long did it. After a first release, GitLab have already pulled down the Nintendo Switch emulator suyu project, due to a DMCA hit as a result of it being forked from yuzu which Nintendo shut down.
I would like open source lawyers to look into this case, because I wonder if it could be a dangerous precedent against the GPL license and therefore for the entire free software community.
I am absolutely ashamed to use GitLab for my projects these days. They are just as bad as GitHub. They removed this unprovoked. Shitty corporate behavior at its finest. Hopefully Suyu can find a new home on a better hosting platform. I want to dump GitLab for Codeberg mor and more and GL's awful decisions aren't helping. I won't be recommending GL to anyone anytime soon.
It's almost like Nintendo is trying to get me to not spend another cent on them ever again. All they are doing each time something like this happens is incentivize people to make emulators that don't even bother to reverse engineer anything, and then host them somewhere where they can never be taken down.
I really enjoyed this Cup of Jo essay about the pleasure of coming back to childhood hobbies as an adult. I know I’ve mentioned this here before, but my own life transformed when I got back into what I loved as a kid (drawing!). kottke.org/24/03/on-returning-…
kids are a way into this -- working on Halloween costumes, school projects, etc., have restarted my love of all things crafty. not sure what direction that will take post-kid, but just feels good to use the muscles!
Tecnoafecciones es un proyecto que implica repensar la tecnología en clave feminista, descolonial, situada, que nos permita desarrollar y generar pensamiento…
Thank you Charlotte - our Nextcloud ambassador of excellence at SCaLE! 🚀
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A fast boat crosses the waters several hours after NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 splashdown on March 12, 2024. The SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft landed in the
During an event at NASA Headquarters in Washington Thursday, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary
As NASA continues to pursue new human missions to low Earth orbit, lunar orbit, the lunar surface, and on to Mars, the NESC continues to provide a robust
Condicionamiento y seguridad en el capitalismo de vigilancia
si el análisis de tantos datos y la creación de perfiles pueden generar una idea detallada de nuestro comportamiento, ¿pueden predecir y coartar nuestras acciones?
Tenemos un nuevo elemento en la vida social: internet, cuyos tentáculos de la hiperconexión tocan casi todos los aspectos del mundo. Tras miles de servicios e innumerables horas de ocio se esconde …
A total solar eclipse creates stunning celestial views for people within the path of the Moon's shadow. This astronomical event is a unique opportunity for
“Not only was I going to school, raising a family, and working a full-time job, but I was also the state director for my sorority over 1,200 members at one
It takes two to tango, but in the case of brown dwarfs that were once paired as binary systems, that relationship doesn’t last for very long, according to a recent survey from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
I'd also add that third party themes (for Qt in general) can lead to segmentation faults, causing applications to crash. It's quite annoying for application maintainers which receive crash reports they can't fix because of that.
After being removed from various stores back in 2019, GOG have revived Alpha Protocol from Obsidian Entertainment along with the launch of their own Spring Sale.
A team at NASA is trying to reestablish communication with Voyager 1 after a malfunction left the probe broadcasting jibberish. The problem: debugging the issue from almost 1 light-day away is challenging! blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/2024/03…
In the movie version the jibberish is actually aliens manipulating the computer to make contact, which is discovered when a cleaning person decodes it on their shift in the middle of the night.
A rare update for Red Dead Redemption 2 has landed, and for those who want a little more performance, you might like this one especially if you're on Steam Deck.
Thomas "GloriousEggroll" Crider has released the latest GE-Proton 9-2 with a bunch of upgrades, plus some news about the Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher.
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in reply to Brodie Robertson • • •the fact that on modern Linux still every executable runs with all the permissions of the user is kinda baffling.
The permission system is developed for multi-user systems where users don't trust each other but trust the software. On modern PCs, we have mostly only one user, but a bunch of random executables that we shouldn't have to trust with our whole drives.
Time for the year of the BSD desktop, anyone? 😁
#BSD #Linux