Dr. James Cuff 

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executive director @ #mit • office of research computing and data • long time high performance (#hpc) and scientific computing nerd • industry professionalization advocate for folks running gnarly research computing services (#rse, #aciref)

part time & forever chief marketing officer for https://micheleclamp.com

happy admin @ https://cuff.social • running on an awesome artisanally overclocked #raspberrypi

~20yrs as an expat brit in #massachusetts, #usa

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#keyhttps://keyoxide.org/[email protected]
#webhttps://witnix.com
#githttps://drcuff.github.io
#tag#hpc #linux #rse #green #foss #science
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@mhanwell

Do so love my old Garmin stats.

Every time I look at them, I miss retirement.

@aka_pugs

Heh. Even with my lightly federated single instance, seems to be >10% empty profiles.

https://cuff.social/@james/109417025055287040

Dr. James Cuff :verified: (@[email protected])

While I'm down in the Postgres weeds, this is a friendly public service reminder to put a bio and avatar on your accounts so folks will know who you are! 😃 Looks like >10% of accounts currently don't, but that's ok. Just interesting seeing data. (total accounts) select count(*) from accounts; ------- 30871 (empty avatar) select count(*) from accounts WHERE "avatar_file_name" IS NULL; ------- 3178 (empty biographies) select count(*) from accounts WHERE "note" = ''; ------- 4395

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We are searching for a Director of our X-ray crystallography center at the University of Florida. Come be our colleague! And spread the word, please. #ChemJobs #chemistry #ChemTwitter #crystallography https://explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/524730/scientist-director-of-the-center-for-xray-crystallography
University of Florida - Details - Scientist; Director of the Center for X–ray Crystallography

@Marla_MarineBiol

Welcome. I knew a fair few folks at WHOI on the other socials. No idea if it helps with my *vast* network here, but 100% boosted. Hope you can get to find your tribe here!! So far it’s been awesome even for a tech nerd like me. I’m watching the various science communities evolve and grow. It’s fab.

Hi all! Mastodon newbie here. I'm trying to find my community of #scientists to follow-- mainly #deepsea #marinebiology, #entomology and #datascience but definitely not limited to just those. Any help is greatly appreciated!!

Dirty secret time.

Today I logged in via the web to the old birdscroller. I’m not proud of myself, but I do have to say.

My old list is basically a random wasteland of can’t deciders.

The best bit by far was seeing our good pals still down in the trenches pitching adverts for:

https://mast.hpc.social

I’m ok with all of that.

#hpc #cloud

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@mhanwell

Since starting this new gig it’s been terrible. Leaving the house at 5am for meetings isn’t conducive to my early morning trots.

The VO2max now just prints out:

YOU LAZY BASTARD.

But I’m not. Honest. 🤣

@mhanwell

Never dared upgrade from the forerunner 235 I have. It struggles to mostly tell me what time it is. I’m ok with all of that. 🤣

@brunoph

This made my day. In 🇬🇧 this would be a tin of Quality Street.

Childhood memories of a magical shed full of sweet and biscuit tins.

Editor: they were all packed full of rusty nails, bent screws and assorted “come-in-handys”