Experimental #rstats package for nice graphics display and UX in VS Code (and other potential front-ends)

https://github.com/grantmcdermott/jgd

Very lightweight and seems to work as expected on my system, but please kick the tyres.

Prototaxites

"About 400 million years ago—long before the first giant dinosaurs—a massive and strange organism up to 8 meters long loomed over the Lilliputian plants, mushrooms, and bugs that carpeted the land"

Not a fungus. Not a lichen. Not a plant ...

An unknown branch of multicellular life that went extinct

https://www.science.org/content/article/bizarre-400-million-year-old-fossil-was-unknown-life-form

#fossils #Prototaxites #newFormOfLife #evolutionaryBiology #Edinburgh #Scotland #paleobiology #RhynieChert

Ensembl is hiring!!

We are on the lookout for a Senior Platform Developer to join our team.

“In this role, you will help shape the Ensembl platform’s technical direction, applying your expertise to build reliable, scalable systems and guide best practices across teams.”

Based in South Cambridgeshire, UK

Please boost or apply!

https://embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/job/Hinxton-Cambridgeshire/Senior-Platform-Developer_JR2824

#jobs #getFediHired #python #devops #science #fediHire

#PSA: If someone says they accidentally reported you, it's a scam.

If someone says you need to verify your Mastodon account, it's a scam.

If someone says you need to change the email address on your account, it's a scam.

If someone tries to lure you off-platform to Discord or Telegram, it's a scam.

If someone jumps into your replies or DMs with a mutual aid request, it's a scam.

If someone from mastodon.social sends you an unsolicited DM, it's a scam.

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Telltale signs of a scam:

- wants you to move off-site
- wants you to change account settings
- wants you to click something
- unsolicited private interactions
- new account
- under ~20 followers and over ~5:1 follow ratio
- sense of urgency
- appeals to your compassion
- piggybacks on a trending post or event

#KnowTheSigns #Report #Scams

Many of you might have already seen the ultra cute "sea sheep" (Costasiella kuroshimae), but yesterday I learned 2 mind-blowing facts about the family of sea slugs they belong to:

1. They incorporate chloroplasts (the organelles in plant cells that do the actual photosynthesis) of plants they eat, into their own bodies to do photosynthesis directly for them (that is the green colour you see), in order to survive if food is scarce.

Imagine being able to live from light!

1/2

#WondersOfNature

Preview of a #Neovim plugin I've been working on for a while – Jet: a #Rust- powered Jupyter client.

Here's a brief screencast showing Jet running the Ark #RStats kernel. If you know you know!

My proudest achievement: this runs with zero lines of Python.

Currently not ready for general use, but you can follow development on GitHub if you're interested: https://github.com/wurli/jet