| ORCID | 0000-0001-6553-5274 |
Great article on #Git and some of the changing being made.
While I'm happy to see the transition from SHA-1 to SHA-256, the user interface improvements cannot be understated. Git truly is "use 10% of the tools to complete 90% of the work", largely because it's so damn complicated.
"DOGE fired them. Elon Musk’s 'Department of Government Efficiency' gutted USDS and 18F — the organizations that were actually doing what DOGE claimed to be doing — and replaced their expertise with… whatever this is. An app built by an outfit called 'forty-five-press'…running on WordPress, with 'Greatest President Ever!' hardcoded in the source, loading code from some random person’s GitHub Pages, and shipping the developer’s home IP address to the public."
In February 2021, a town in Brazil showed up for a groundbreaking whole-of-town randomized Covid vaccine trial, providing evidence of population effects of mass vaccination in a pandemic.
My latest @PLOS post digs into this exciting precedent, and why it matters so much:
https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/03/28/a-unique-pandemic-control-trial/
In the future, we might see one million more satellites in Earth's orbit. The consequences to astronomy would be devastating.
Fighting for a fair and sustainable usage of space, for astronomy and humanity — that's Betty Kioko's job as ESO’s Institutional Affairs Officer.
Learn more about her job and what ESO is doing in this direction: https://www.eso.org/public/blog/betty-kioko/
#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science #environment #sustainability
Report: Israel is systematically torturing Palestinians on a scale “that suggests collective vengeance & destructive intent."
Since Oct 7, "Palestinians in custody “have been subjected to exceptionally ruthless physical & psychological abuse.”
"Brutal beatings, sexual violence, rape, lethal mistreatment, starvation & systematic deprivation of the most basic human conditions."
~Francesca Albanese, Mar 20 report
An extremely good article on the horrific bombing of the primary school in Minab that puts it in the context of both the wider history and the recent technological acceleration of the error-prone process of military “targeting”.
Small feature, big convenience 📦
Galaxy’s ZIP explorer lets you browse local or remote ZIP archives and import only the files you need.
Been working on a browser version of BRIG. No install. Interactive. Looking for beta testers; message me if you're interested.
BRIG Is a visualisation tool that draws circular genome comparison plots. The user provides a reference genome and a set of query genomes which are aligned using BLAST. Genomes are bacteria sized (< 20Mbp). Colour gradient shows alignment identity. Users can also provide tables of coordinates for their own annotations on the plot.
Where does the money go if you buy Harry Potter books or support the franchise by watching the HBO series or visiting attractions at Universal Studios theme parks? Potter author J.K. Rowling has established a new fund, using her personal funds, that “offers legal funding support to individuals and organisations fighting to retain women’s sex-based rights in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.” Here's more from The Advocate.
Aaron Toponce ⚛️
Anirvan Chatterjee
Hilda Bastian
ESO
DrALJONES
Greg Egan
galaxyproject
Nabil-Fareed Alikhan
Flipboard Culture Desk
Garvin Hicking