Ethan White

@ethanwhite
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Associate Prof in Environmental Data Science. Research + software + education. @weecology & Data Carpentry co-founder. #datadon #DataScience #ecology #rstats #python #OpenScience #OpenData #OpenSource
Websitehttps://www.weecology.org
Pronounshe/him
GitHubhttps://github.com/ethanwhite/
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6728-7745

In a very on-brand move I just spent 30 minutes making this edge detection example for a single slide of a talk, just so I could have the edge detection demonstrated with the species I was already talking about (and, just maybe, because I'd rather do analyses than talk about them).

Original photo source: Steven M. Bellovin https://urbandinosaurs.org/blog/pictures/smb_best_2019-0003.jpg (CC-BY-NC)

Democrats keep control of the Senate with win in Nevada https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/12/senate-control-democrats-win/
Democrats keep control of the Senate with win in Nevada

The final blow to the GOP’s majority ambitions came Saturday in Nevada, when Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto was projected to win.

The Washington Post

A nice addition to the @ORCID_Org website to help integrate with Mastodon would be to support the use of the rel="me" attribute in a way that Mastodon users can use it to #verify academic identities.

This would let links to ORCID's show in green with check marks on user profiles, thus quickly proving that the account is run by the person associated with that #ORCID.

There's already an issue open, so go up vote if you'd like to see this supported

https://github.com/ORCID/ORCID-Source/issues/6668

rel="me" links are not rendered in the source code · Issue #6668 · ORCID/ORCID-Source

Websites like Mastodon, allow users to "verify" their profiles on other websites. For example, adding <a href="https://mastodon.example/@username" rel="me">Mastodon</a> to a website will let a craw...

GitHub

@ORCID_Org This would let links to ORCID's show in green with check marks on user profiles, thus quickly proving that they are the person associated with that ORCID.

See this picture of my profile to compare it to my website and my GitHub account.

"Do you want the good news or the bad news first"

"I'll take the good news"

"We might get hit by another hurricane"

"I said I wanted the *good* news"

"That was the good news"

"Wait, what's the bad news?!?"

"It might cross the state, hitting us from the south, then boomerang back across the state and hit us again from the north."

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Description of Twitter's algorithm or automated captioning error of "autoregressive process"?
When you're glad you edit the auto-captions on your videos.
Was anyone else petty enough to sign up for Twitter Blue last week just so they could cancel it after the sale became official?