a hivemind of packbats

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Hikikomori, elder millennial, anxious autistic aroace ADHD, light-skinned black plural endogenic system. Posts often signed with emojis for system member + status/mood. We try to be thoughtful & kind.

Formerly @packbat. If we aren't already acquainted, please @ us with any follow request.

Not everything we post/boost is appropriate for minors; read the CWs.

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a hivemind of packbatsJan 11, 2023
The research fairyJan 11, 2023

Apache can change its name

So can Ubuntu tbh

The GNU photoshop too, but for different reasons

FOSS names are kind of shit huh

a hivemind of packbatsJan 11, 2023
Ken SchwenckeJan 11, 2023

Today my team @ProPublica released a news app that will allow you to look up any university, museum or other institution that receives federal money and has the remains of Native American people that they have yet to repatriate.

Here's my alma mater, the University of Florida, clocking in just under the top 10.

You can look up your own here: https://projects.propublica.org/repatriation-nagpra-database/

Does Your Local Museum or University Still Have Native American Remains? — NAGPRA Database

Use this database to find out where Native American remains were taken from and which institutions report still having them. Check on institutions near you.

ProPublica
a hivemind of packbatsJan 11, 2023
Nina RoussakoffJan 11, 2023

Official bug severity types at @lovewish

#gamedev #qa

a hivemind of packbatsJan 11, 2023
Susannah The TiredJan 11, 2023

Hey does anyone know anything about buprenorphine?

GP is offering a short term course for this hell pain flare. But fucked if I know anything about it. Not keen on taking it before I know if the patient community has had any major issues with it.

Any help appreciated! 🧡

#ChronicPain #NEISvoid #Disability #ChronicIllness

a hivemind of packbatsJan 11, 2023
The research fairyJan 11, 2023

> Protesters storm McGill University talk on sex vs. gender, shutting it down

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mcgill-backlash-anti-trans-talk-1.6708251

Protesters storm McGill University talk on sex vs. gender, shutting it down

Trans rights advocates stormed into a talk Tuesday at McGill University led by a speaker associated with a group they say is "notoriously transphobic and trans-exclusionary."

CBC
a hivemind of packbatsJan 11, 2023

it's always so funny to us when words like "amine" occur to us before words like "anime"

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a hivemind of packbatsJan 11, 2023

Has the New York Times always been a garbage fire? Has it gotten a lot worse in recent years?

Just, good grief.

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a hivemind of packbatsJan 11, 2023
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)Jan 10, 2023

The NYT continues to be trash at covering so-called "AI" (or, in NYT style sheet "A.I.").

This piece is framed as though the folks working on protein folding "took inspiration" from DALL-E & the like:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/09/science/artificial-intelligence-proteins.html

No, "A.I." doesn't have "artistry". And no the biologists didn't look at all the synthetic images on social media being passed around as "AI art" and say "hey, let's do that for proteins!"

A.I. Turns Its Artistry to Creating New Human Proteins

Inspired by digital art generators like DALL-E, biologists are building artificial intelligences that can fight cancer, flu and Covid.

a hivemind of packbatsJan 11, 2023
ScivilJan 11, 2023

#introduction #introductie
Hello everyone,

Since we are new here on Mastodon, we would like some help finding academics and other professionals with an interest in #citizenscience. So give us a boost, if you can. Thanks! 🙂

For those that don't know us yet: Scivil is the center for citizen science in Flanders (Belgium). We gather and spread #citsci knowledge, and bring actors and projects closer together.

We're also active beyond Flanders & within the EU, so we mainly 'toot' in English. Bye!

a hivemind of packbatsJan 11, 2023
Show threadRuth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]Jan 11, 2023

@c0debabe 2/2 then the next day the bird was back at the window and it flew over again and flew back and forth, so she went out to check and the feeder had frozen. So she brought it in, warmed it up, put it back out, now the same couple birds come every day.

And I loved this extremely successful cross-species communication (and as someone who had parakeets for a decade+, it all checks out to me).