
AKA NickleDave
@nicholdav
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Bad biologist, worse programmer. Good generalist. Open science, broadly defined. Pythonista. He/him (they's ok too). Bailador a medio tiempo
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Joined June 2012
Essential conversations about research software sustainability 🤝 @ixek will contribute to the conversation at RSECon25 with her keynote "Paths for impactful software: or how to keep research and scientific software relevant for tomorrow." 🔗 https://t.co/TVx6eqNcLE
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I wrote about what it means for nearly half-a-million union contracts to dissolve overnight. Union presidents were locked out of their offices. Moms are being forced to cut their maternity leaves short. Clerical staff are answering VA hospital call bells.
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Deteriorating services, moms forced back from maternity leave, and more as federal workers lose formal union protections.
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@willmacaskill If I was supposedly an ethical philosopher and then I started blindly worshipping a bullshit machine built to launder plagiarism, I would kms out of shame instead of posting about it on the Internet https://t.co/boXoBXWoNh
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I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a hous...
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So Republicans DO know their bill will hurt working Americans to give special tax treatment to corporations. Apparently they don’t give a damn because they are planning to vote for it…
Sen. Hawley, now a YES on ‘Big, Beautiful Bill,’ says Rs have a “lot of thinking to do” on Medicaid. “We can't be cutting healthcare for working people and for poor people in order to constantly give special tax treatment to corporations,” he told me.
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Our lab @EmoryUniversity is hiring a research technician! This position is ideal for someone who enjoys research, organization, and working in a team. Come for a few years and publish with us, or stay to build a career. https://t.co/a8Ex7xxndH
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My pre-PhD work is out @CurrentBiology! We studied Alston’s singing mice, neotropical rodent that produces loud, human-audible 'songs' and engages in vocal turn-taking. Using thermal imaging in semi-natural arena, we probed song use across social contexts. https://t.co/oYWu2jwIeX
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🔥 Meet our Keynote Speakers for #SciPy2025! Hon. Dr. Kathryn D. Huff 🇺🇸, nuclear engineer, policy leader, and former Assistant Secretary for the Office of Nuclear Energy will be joining us in Tacoma! 🙌 Don't miss her talk, grab your ticket now: https://t.co/ox0fa4He6A
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🔥 Meet our Keynote Speakers for #SciPy2025! Dr Malvika Sharan, co-Director of Open Life Science (OLS) and a senior researcher at The Alan Turing Institute will be sharing with us her expertise at our favorite conference. You can't miss her ➡️ https://t.co/ox0fa4He6A
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🌳 Ever wonder how small code changes can have a massive environmental impact? Gagandeep Singh's PyCon India talk shows how reducing SciPy's wheel size by 4.6MB saves petabytes of bandwidth for millions of users! A fantastic case study in sustainable software development and
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@404mediaco @josephfcox @micahflee I speculated about the potential for hackers to access the archived messages in @DropSiteNews. If these hackers could get in so easily, highly likely some intelligence agencies are already in there. Also it seems like they’re just lying about the archives being encrypted?
🚨NEW with @DropSiteNews: Waltz wasn’t on Signal during the cabinet meeting. He was using an Israeli intel-linked app used for extracting and archiving chats, staffed and founded by vets of IDF intelligence units. The CIA once called Israel its #1 counterintelligence threat. 🔗👇
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Very useful initial tutorial for network programming in C, relied on it for undergrad --
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IF YOU EVEN CARE!!! I LOVE THIS INTERVIEW
New Sixteenth Minute (of Fame): the world according to tay zonday 🎙️ @jamieloftusHELP @why_sophie_why
https://t.co/Tneh7OvdSg
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The rest of the trees did ordinary things with their ordinary lives, but Attica had a fancy streak that she liked to display at the local forest parties.
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While marginal, Baltimore finally halted a decade of steep population decline, the U.S. Census Bureau is reporting
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Baltimore City gained population for the first time since 2014, census data released Thursday shows.
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Tired but happy to say this is out w @andrea_e_martin: Are Neurocognitive Representations 'Small Cakes'? We analyse theories of representation in neuroscience showing how vicious regress, e.g. the homunculus fallacy, is (sadly) alive and well — and importantly how to avoid it. 1/
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This is a very important paper about problems that go to the core of cognitive science. A must read! 🌟 (humbled by recognition for developing a formal subtype of Ryle’s regress) 🔁 😌
Tired but happy to say this is out w @andrea_e_martin: Are Neurocognitive Representations 'Small Cakes'? We analyse theories of representation in neuroscience showing how vicious regress, e.g. the homunculus fallacy, is (sadly) alive and well — and importantly how to avoid it. 1/
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Here's the case. Trump's alignment with Putin - and his plan to sell out Ukraine - is shameful. But it's part of a bigger story. Trump sides with dictators bc it legitimizes his plan for America: a Russian-style kleptocracy where the rich steal from us to enrich themselves.
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