Alexander (Sasha) Wait Zaranek @wait_sasha@scholar.social

no longer behind paywall:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220701135737/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/29/abortion-state-lines/

A lot of stressful news these days, so I'll just point out that you can cut a bagel into quarters using two Möbius strips.

And believe it or not, this is actually kind of important in math.

(1/n)

"Software Freedom Conservancy: Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come!" https://lwn.net/Articles/899530/ #xp

“The impact of community work can feel small in the face of a pandemic’s scale... In fact, such work is foundational. It creates a bedrock of trust and solidarity, without which public health cannot operate. The problem isn’t that community work is trivial; it’s that there hasn’t been enough of it.”

lots of contemporary and historical examples of this, such as ACT UP in the 80’s

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/06/pandemic-protections/661378/

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Abortion is not just a right, it's a necessary medical procedure. It's a way to prevent a rapist from controlling your whole life. A way to prevent certain death due to a miscarriage.

Banning abortion is choosing to let healthy people die from preventable causes.

Banning abortion is murder.

And this is not where they will stop. These religious extremists will kill all who don't follow their views. Stop them.

#FuckSCOTUS #RoeVsWade #abortion

"Make Data Count is a global, community-led initiative focused on the development of open research data assessment metrics. The principles of our social and technical infrastructure are rooted in transparency and accessibility." - "https://makedatacount.org/team/

#OpenRepos2022

Hopefully one of you can help me with this one:

I have certain things in my bibliography I don't want to be cited in the classical (Name Year) scheme in my text, but as a specific string.

For instance I want the German version of Marx and Engels complete works cited by their shorthand MEW (Marx-Engels Werke), eg. Capital I (the 23rd volume of the MEW) not cited as (Marx and Engels (1867) 2014, p. XY), but as (MEW23, p. XY).

Is there any way to do this not manually?

Okay, I finally have some downtime, so I guess it's time for some shameless self-promotion, haha! Maybe some of you #plant people out there have heard that hexaploid #oats (Avena sativa) recently got it's first reference #genome publication, in #Nature, no less! Well, actually, that's what I've been working on for the past four years! https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04732-y

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Does anyone know a good guide to attaching arbitrary data to an entry in Zotero which will be printed with it? Two typical examples: transliteration/non-Latin script title of a publication, and info about where the same publication may be found (eg. collected writings, later editions by a different publisher, forthcoming volume) 1/n

Here is a quick thread about tools and methods I use for research, maybe some of you will find them useful. I'll try to update it as I find new things.

Let's start with a game changer: the #zettelkasten method
https://writingcooperative.com/zettelkasten-how-one-german-scholar-was-so-freakishly-productive-997e4e0ca125

If you don't know it, give it a try. It really revolutionized my way of learning and doing research. As an #emacs user, I'm using #orgRoam, but I know that #obsidian is also excellent