Ben Gabriel

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Researcher in the field of virology/immunology located in Philadelphia. Most of the posts will probably be about this and (R)Stats.

"Scientifically processed potato chips." 🥔👩‍🔬

"A healthy food on the alkaline side." 🧂

(National Museum of American History.)

#science #food #foodie #health

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Gilbert Strang's final lecture.

https://grinfeld.org/strang/

#RStats

Gil Strang's Final MIT lecture

I just heard on CBSN that Twitter is offering end-to-end encryption to its blue users.

While it sounded like a "big deal", I wonder what the big deal is. In my opinion, it's that (1) Twitter is late to the end-to-end encrypted messaging game, and (2) it's only available to its paying customers. That's a pretty "bad deal" all around, I think...

#news #twitter

I'm giving a talk & workshop on our data viz paper at #aps23dc. If you use #rstats for data viz, what's your number 1 reason why you would encourage researchers to adopt it?

And if you don't use R/another programming language for data viz (or quant data analysis in general), what's your number 1 barrier/reason for not doing so?

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/25152459221074654

Is this "Dramatic video [which] shows Russian soldiers running away from attack" just playing for me at twice the speed of playback? 🤨🧐

#news

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/videos/world/2023/05/12/russian-soldiers-running-away-retreat-bakhmut-ebof-monologue-vpx.cnn

Dramatic video shows Russian soldiers running away from attack

Video appears to show Russian soldiers hastily retreating to safety after being attacked from above near the key city of Bakhmut.

CNN
For a change of pace, check out this library/reading center, where I would love to spend time. https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/03/kurkku-fields-underground-library/ #Reading #bookstodon #libraries #BalmForTheSpirit
Readers Burrow into a Bookworm Haven in Kurkku Fields' 'Underground Library' — Colossal

Opened last month in Kisarazu City, Japan, "Underground Library" is the project of Hiroshi Nakamura and NAP Architects.

Colossal

How One Man Keeps Showing Films in a Japanese Cinema That Closed 58 Years Ago: A Moving, Short Documentary

https://www.openculture.com/2023/02/how-one-man-keeps-showing-films-in-a-japanese-cinema-that-closed-58-years-ago.html

How One Man Keeps Showing Films in a Japanese Cinema That Closed 58 Years Ago: A Moving, Short Documentary

Since at least the nineteen-fifties, when television ownership began spreading rapidly across the developed world, movie theaters have been laboring under one kind of existential threat or another.

Open Culture

I feel pranked this morning after requesting guest WIFI access and receiving this text message with my temporary password... 🤨 🤔

#feelingpranked #joke #security

Berlin, London,... and now Düsseldorf.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00479-2

#science

Third patient free of HIV after receiving virus-resistant cells

But the risks associated with the procedure mean it is unlikely to be widely used in its current form.

No longer a breaking news, since this is now 24 hours old, but I found it funny that *NOT* finding classified documents in a vacation home is put into the '🚨 breaking news 🚨' category...

#news