AKA NickleDave
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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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Our summer intern, Britney Whittington, spent 3 months making NumPy's test suite thread-safe, working alongside mentors Nathan Goldbaum and Lysandros Nikolaou. Read Britney's detailed breakdown: https://t.co/ZbtdPzHDvv
#Python #NumPy #OpenSource
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The Python community thrives on diverse perspectives. That's why we're backing @pyladiescon 2025 as a Partner Sponsor. 6 languages 🌍 Talks, panels, sprints & workshops 💻 FREE online event ✨ Mark your calendar: Dec 5-7 Get involved → https://t.co/TodPxMVCTw
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The Jupyter Foundation has accepted 4 proposals from Quansight in the first round of Jupyter Community Funding proposals. Shoutout to Michał Krassowski, Darshan Poudel, & Tania Allard for their work on the proposals. 👉 https://t.co/3ReSl2LHr8
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Why do we need libraries like FlexiBLAS? Michał Górny's latest blog post explains how multiplexing libraries solve the API/ABI compatibility puzzle in BLAS/LAPACK packaging, making life easier for users, developers, and distributions alike. Learn more: https://t.co/1P6GPsHCaM
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I am on the (red-hot) 2025–26 academic job market! I study wide-ranging, important, and contemporary issues in education policy and domestic violence. My job market paper studies academic accommodations in higher education: trends and drivers, who uses them, and academic impacts.
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👀👀 Very very interesting — data on disability accommodations in college, at last! Many of us have suspected that high-income students are benefiting the most from disability accommodations. Some answers! 🧵 as I read 1/
I am on the (red-hot) 2025–26 academic job market! I study wide-ranging, important, and contemporary issues in education policy and domestic violence. My job market paper studies academic accommodations in higher education: trends and drivers, who uses them, and academic impacts.
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xAI engineer on his deathbed like I wish……… I’d spent a few thousand more hours making grok racist……… BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
A look into the @xAI office today, on Grokipedia release day. It's early morning and the xAI engineers are still in their tents. A good night's sleep will often do wonders.
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Of course you want to sleep in a tent inside. You’re 12!
A look into the @xAI office today, on Grokipedia release day. It's early morning and the xAI engineers are still in their tents. A good night's sleep will often do wonders.
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🔥 Python 3.14's free-threaded build just got 2-12x faster GC performance! New optimizations available to the community: ✔️ Mark-alive phase ✔️Software pre-fetching ✔️Smarter GC triggers Get all the details from Neil Schemenauer in our latest blog: https://t.co/aD8CzQC1IX
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Comcast Executives Warn Workers To Not Say The Wrong Thing About Charlie Kirk 🔗 https://t.co/ta0VYUFn1Y
https://t.co/ta0VYUFn1Y
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An email sent to NBCUniversal employees, including journalists at NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo and more, eulogizes Charlie Kirk as an "advocate for open debate" and reminds staff that even milquetoast...
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Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way 🔗 https://t.co/yb5S9nyxS9
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The mainstream media seems entirely uninterested in explaining Charlie Kirk's work.
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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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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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