Olivia Guest @olivia@scholar.social

@socrates I feel empowered to make this the kind of space that owns and lives these values - and it's great to know that the other people here have signed up for that too. Thanks to @olivia for bringing me in here - it was her happiness at finding such a space here that got me to join.

So, thanks ya'll!

@bthall @olivia slightly late to the party here, apologies... I saw those slides too (courtesy of hspter@twitter), and found them fascinating.

However, I'm not really a notebook user, so as an R user I gotta ask - is there a big win over something like a Shiny Gadget/webapp that can be packaged up, shared, and run in RStudio? Seems like that gets the interactivity without some of the headaches... But maybe I'm missing the point?

visualization hot take: animated plots tend to hide most of the data. either follow follow tufte’s “above all else, just show the data” or give the audience control over what data is shown with an interactive plot

Greetings scholars,

You may have noticed there was some unscheduled downtime yesterday. Basically, there was so much traffic that the server got knocked down and kept getting knocked down.

So I got out my credit card and doubled the amount of RAM on the instance VPS. The instance is feeling nice and snappy today, if I say so myself!

We've just launched the #TornApart/#Separados website v2 featuring the work of volunteer scholars responding to the ICE-led border crisis of 2018. "Follow the Money", exposes the financial world of criminalizing free movement. http://xpmethod.plaintext.in/torn-apart/volume/2/visualizations.html

What are the #opensource & #openscience communities in this place like? ☺️

I am exhausted by some of the so-called open people in my field being hostile to my ideas — although the people who work with software are way more positive thankfully!

I feel really strongly about how science needs to dump closed source and bad programming habits, like Matlab. Often this blog post gets exposure that's positive but now it's being treated a bit negatively.

What do you all think?

http://neuroplausible.com/matlab

Unsurprisingly, there's a neat linear relationship between users and toots per instance on this plot of my upcoming book "why log scales are neat yo":

"LaVAN: Localized and Visible Adversarial Noise"

Neat paper by @DannyKarmon@twitter.com, Daniel Zoran, and @yoavgo@twitter.com (credit to @sir_deenicus@twitter.com for mentioning it in tweet thread). It feels like there should be a general purpose approach for dealing with such things.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.02608.pdf

@olivia There's the Mastodon logo, like in your link, but if you want the Scholar Social tusks crest, click on preferences in the web interface, then right-click the crest above "Back to Mastodon" and save that image

If you need it in monochrome, I can email that to you

(I maaaay have made a monochrome version to print on some business cards hahaha)

@olivia @socrates I guess you can use the mastodon icon to link to your scholar.social profile. Assuming that is your main mastodon account.

https://forkawesome.github.io/Fork-Awesome/icon/mastodon/

Hello, everyone.

I'm junior faculty in the Neuroscience department @MayoClinic. I primarily research #Alzheimers disease and #ALS using computational methods (#bioinformatics). I'm currently applying single-cell (#DropSeq) and long-read sequencing technologies (@PacBio and @nanopore).

My twitter handle is also @bioinfo_mark.

#Introduction

@aidanbudd @topologist Np! I'm open to feedback

I'm trying not to be authoritarian, while also trying to be clear that I will come down hard on people who are harming minorities or the vulnerable

It's a tricky line and I hope I don't screw it up too often!

@olivia I find it strange every time I read comments about how left academia is. My experience of it has not been in line with this, and while I am a STEM researcher, in the past I've worked in a psychology department and a music department.

I think the disconnect for me is that I don't regard the American Democrats as left. They're maybe centrist at best. Which is also how I see the Canadian Liberal party. I feel a false binary has been set up here.

@Lexnederbragt That's a good question

I'm the admin here but there isn't a tool on the admin panel for changing a user's username

I could go into the database manually and change the entry on the users table, but tbh I don't know if that would mess other things up, so I'm reluctant to do so

So.

People who know more about Masto than me:

Will this bork my instance if I un-capitalize a user's name?

Boosts please!