Dave Dubyoo

@quokka79
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This is my secondary account -- find me @quokka too! I'm a scientist (microscopy, immunology, computery things) in London #reallifescientist.
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VOTE NOW for the New ImageJ Logo!

Here is the community selection from which we will choose the next ImageJ logo: A Hopefully you get a sense of ‘community’ from this design! There are also some accessory files detailing how it can be script-generated from shape primitives. B The letters I and J create a minimal representation of ImageJ's traditional microscope icon; this logo was script-generated using ImageJ2 functionality (i.e. ImgLib2 etc). C It's true ImageJ is not just for microscopy, but i...

Does anyone do science penpal outreach? What organizations do you participate through?

#scicomm #science #outreach

I upgraded my #mastodon instance to 2.1.2 but it's missing the #Lists ... is this something that has to be enabled somewhere?

I did the upgrade as per instructions (stopped services, updated git, updated Ruby and node.js dependencies, updated db, pre-compiled assets, restarted services).

The about page says v2.1.2 but there's no Lists in the Getting Started panel.

Has anyone else had this? Or knows why...?

It's goodnight from this Christmas Dog

https://mastodon.social/media/iDCeFjKtAFNuI11EyQc

I think I broke my Mastodon instance (scicomm.xyz) but it might also just be because I am running it on the lowest possible DigitalOcean droplet configuration...

Oh hey, a very nice explanation of why memes turn communities to trash

https://www.reddit.com/r/Psychonaut/comments/o1zjo/ban_memes_in_rpsychonaut/c3drsz4/?context=1

Ban memes in r/psychonaut • r/Psychonaut

I used to think this. I am a very big proponent of free speech, so I figured this was an extension of that. It isn't. There is actually a very...

a silly science thing

i literally cried when i read this abstract because the idea of the world tiniest bacterium livin in the belly of this tiny leaf eating beetle was just SO CUTE

http://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(17)31251-5

picture of the also adorable tiny green beetle attached

#science https://glitch.social/media/7MYbrAbLcHA42Ywqm74

Thinking of starting a new instance of Mastodon for #SciComm ... any #science people out there interested?

Who's enjoying Mastodon more than Twatter?

https://mastodon.social/media/Vy-tVhXMBqE8ZLQWAvY