Flor @flor@scholar.social

Why is it that there is always some typo in that manuscript that you don't see until AFTER you hit the Submit button?

At least with online submissions you can re-upload.

Anyway, this is journal #2 for this manuscript. Fingers crossed.

Im a protest medic. I ran a clininc in Occupy. I was hit by a cop in Chicago for getting a patient who had been hit so hard by a baton they were semi-unconscious. I helped run a clinic in NYC after Sandy.
Protest medics (PM) developed from the civil rights era when doctors would join the Black marchers to provide aid because no one else would. We started in anti-oppression politics and that trend continues.
In our trainings and practices we

public transit doesnt make sense because it is impossible to make it profitable and it has to be heavily subsidized by the government! the private sector is more efficient! *capitalist ride sharing services also turn out to not be profitable and are heavily subsidized by investors* ah, nevertheless,

Can we all just agree to call TERFs FARTs (Feminism Appropriating Radical Transphobe) from now on?

For anyone who's interested in creating their own #conda packages, I've put together a brief intro on how to make them [1].

Hopefully it's a bit easier to follow than the official documentation for getting started. Any feedback is gladly welcomed

[1]: https://jrhawley.github.io/2019/03/28/conda-packages-intro

I have just started using "Aliview" as a replacement for the aeging BioEdit for #Phylogenetics. Pretty good so far!
Open-source (GPLv3);
Has edit mode;
Use external tools (mafft, etc.);

Code: github.com/AliView/AliView
Website: ormbunkar.se/aliview
Paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btu531

How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/technology/how-to-disappear-surveillance-state.html

Ignore the "Bitcoin" in the title, this is pretty interesting

Someone: "Science is a precise and exact thing with definite answers that everyone in the field agrees on"

Chemists: Haha no

Physicists: *maniacal laughing*

Linguists: *fistfighting each other whilst cackling like hyenas*

My two favorite types of people: 1. Willing to publicly ask for an explanation of a joke, and 2. Willing to non-judgmentally explain it to them

University of California couldn't get Elsevier to agree to universal #OpenAccess to UC research so they're not renewing their contracts with Elsevier. Fascinated to see How this plays out. (go bears) https://news.lib.berkeley.edu/elsevier-outcome

I wish the discussion of how to help queer students wasn't placed on the shoulders of queer people in academia who are already dealing with sometimes outright aggressions.

It'd be nice if more than One cishet person I know would be invested in queer grad students not having to worry about whether to be out or not. That'd be nice.

Just logged into LiveJournal for the first time in 9 years. Forgot how much I liked the long, thoughtful format, as opposed to the fleeting snippets of birdsite, faceache and even mastodon. Makes me wonder if a similar model using wikipedia's style of donations for costs would be good.