Andy Boughton

Scientist. Programmer. From there it all gets rather meta.

[Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten]

A new edition of Zotero, Zotero 7, has been released. It is the biggest update in Zotero’s 18-year history, and the company describes it as a major leap forward in design, performance, and functionality.

https://t.co/AnuHwRBtHS

[Florian Naudet @NaudetFlorian]

« An association between two variables merely implies that knowing the value of one variable provides information about the value of the other. It does not necessarily imply that one causes the other. Hence the mantra: “association is not causation.” »
https://t.co/JtECxTGkBN

[NCBI @NCBI]

New milestone! PubMed Central (#PMC) now includes over 10 million free full-text articles in the archive. Thank you to the publishers, scholarly societies, and research funders who collaborate! Check it out: https://t.co/LNSc795lZn #OpenAccess

[dkNET @dkNET_Info]

New NIH #Funding Opportunity: Building Sustainable Software Tools for #OpenScience(R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)!
Enhance research software sustainability through best practices and design principles!
Application due: Dec 4, 2024
Learn more: https://t.co/M10zwnp6Ol
#FAIRdata

[MathMatize Memes @MathMatize]

POV: A mathematician just said “recall”

[Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen]

This whole article is incredibly interesting:

[Ben Reinhardt @Ben_Reinhardt]

@michael_nielsen This was the part that was like 😯

[Justin Elze @HackingLZ]

Something that has come up here a few times and that I encounter more than I expected is researchers at universities refusing to run provided EDR because they own their research and don't want the university to access it. At the same time, they're a target for various APT groups and have a lot of randomness exposed to the internet.

[ErrantScience @ErrantScience]

Never underestimate the destructive power of a supervisor who thinks that regulations don't apply to them... any relation this cartoon has to current news stories is purely coincidental

[Zoé Ziani, Ph.D. @ZoeZiani]

Yes... I had to censor my work without which my committee wouldn't sign it... But the great thing with Internet is that you can post the original version and even add a disclaimer explaining why it differs from the published version…

[Retraction Watch @RetractionWatch]

We were an odd choice to be sent this email. Extra points for a Frankenstein quote at the end of it.

[ErrantScience @ErrantScience]

From a custom cable company I was speaking to today about trying to replace some cables on some old equipment, "Why would anyone make that!"

[David Tolnay @dtolnay]

If you are running into broken GitHub integrations today, it's because GitHub issuecomment IDs have just passed the maximum value of i32.

For example @rustlang's rfcbot is currently out of commission with an i32 overflow.

[Sally Burn, PhD @SallyingAbout]

1 in 10 of the top 100 ‘best’ scientists are named Michael or Eric, but only 3% are female, according to @guide2research. Putting aside the obvious flaws of the H-index, these numbers are disheartening. Thanks to @mbeisen for sharing. https://t.co/zSmvmrNh09

[Lea Verou, PhD @LeaVerou]

Doing some research on design systems / design tokens, especially around color.

What are some good open source color palettes?

So far I have: Open color, Open props, Tailwind, Material, Adobe Spectrum, GitHub Primer, Ant Design, IBM Design Language, Radix UI, Bootstrap.

Req: Need to have a page that lists all their colors (see examples).

[Michael 英泉 Eisen @mbeisen]

So we’re calling academics “toddlers” now?

[Lior Pachter @lpachter]

I'll see your co-third authors and raise you co-fifth authors (also on a 6-author paper).

[Isak Finnbogason @icelandfpv]

Bulldozer driving across hot lava field in Iceland to improve the lava protective walls🌋 #iceland #volcano #bulldozer

[autumn @adrusi]

i genuinely feel unsafe with the status quo practices in software development

npm/poetry/cargo/whatever install 600 packages by a bunch of randos, and then load that code in a process that can read all my session cookies and signal messages and keypresses

it's BAD

[Joe Rossignol @rsgnl]

Ha! The new AirTag firmware was supposed to roll out to 1% of users on March 19 and eventually to 100% of users on April 9. However, Apple put "24" instead of "2024," so the firmware went to 100% of users right away because "April 9, 24" already passed nearly 2,000 years ago.