Dr. Stephanie

@punkrockscience@genomic.social
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PhD brain and genomic scientist. Ocean junkie. Computer wrangler. Open data believer. Geek. Punk. @punkrockscience at birdsite, sky site. Views only my own. She/her.
I’m not the only one who picks up hexes as a “ooh, I’ve never heard of that one!” research list, right? #positconf2023

What will it take me to start crossposting to mastodon again? A software conference.

I'll be likely bsky-only again next week. I have codes if you want to join ScienceSky.

In a very me issue, I keep getting errors because the course instructor doesn't use Oxford commas in some of his dataset values and I reflexively do. #positconf2023

RT @darkmicrobio
For the love of all that is holy.

Science is NOT a bias-free, logic-based collection of immutable truths. It does not exist outside of the human condition.

We are the universe observing itself. We are conducting natural philosophy. (1/n) https://twitter.com/rottenindenmark/status/1654284730748256261

Michael Hobbes on Twitter

“The paper itself reads like, well, a Pamela Paul column: Disingenuous summaries of left-wing critiques alongside blithe acknowledgements that those critiques are correct on the merits. https://t.co/1EKn1HDUJl”

Twitter
Opinion | A Paper That Says Science Should Be Impartial Was Rejected by Major Journals. You Can’t Make This Up.

Research ought to be independent, not ideological.

The New York Times
RT @caitlinmoriah
i don’t know how many more ways i can express the apparently little-known fact that homeless people—maybe sit down for this one—are people
RT @EffinBirds
RT @Gingerhazing
A precedent is being set right now that says that all creatives deserve a viable longterm career. Companies have been exploiting the idea of the "dream job" to their own benefit, and we don't have to accept that. The WGA's success is everyone's success!
RT @sarahhollowell
It is so wild to me that people in other industries will say things like "well WE also aren't paid enough" and seem to think the conclusion to draw is "therefore the WGA strike is wrong because they also don't deserve higher pay" rather than "we're ALL being screwed over"

RT @kareem_carr
The perception of IQ as a seemingly objective measure of intelligence is frequently used to promote racist pseudoscience on social media.

For this reason, I think it's extremely important for people to know some relevant facts about IQ: