Bad biologist, worse programmer. Good generalist. Open science, broadly defined. Pythonista. He/him (they's ok too). Bailador a medio tiempo
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AKA NickleDave retweeted
Bro I'm so sick of pretending this isn't weird.
The internet spent 20 years creating tutorials, open-source projects, blog posts & answers for free.
AI companies turned all of it into products worth billions.
And now the same people who created that knowledge are being told they're replaceable.
We built the library.
Someone else started charging admission.
AKA NickleDave retweeted
📣 @ericmjl is teaching an "Agentic Data Science" workshop to raise funds for #SciPy2026
🗓️ March 27 & April 3, 2-4 PM EST
🎟️ $1,000 minimum donation ($200 for students)
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👉️ Pay to NumFOCUS (tax-deductible) at givebutter.com/RBJuGI.
AKA NickleDave retweeted
This administration is criminally corrupt and violates the Constitution. It is supported by a complicit Court. There will be a reckoning. I propose to have trials in Nuremberg, PA in 2029.
AKA NickleDave retweeted
Our summer intern, Britney Whittington, spent 3 months making NumPy's test suite thread-safe, working alongside mentors Nathan Goldbaum and Lysandros Nikolaou.
Read Britney's detailed breakdown: buff.ly/xbOcVLI
#Python #NumPy #OpenSource
AKA NickleDave retweeted
The Python community thrives on diverse perspectives. That's why we're backing @pyladiescon 2025 as a Partner Sponsor.
6 languages 🌍
Talks, panels, sprints & workshops 💻
FREE online event ✨
Mark your calendar: Dec 5-7
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AKA NickleDave retweeted
The Jupyter Foundation has accepted 4 proposals from Quansight in the first round of Jupyter Community Funding proposals. Shoutout to Michał Krassowski, Darshan Poudel, & Tania Allard for their work on the proposals. 👉 buff.ly/RYDk4R1
AKA NickleDave retweeted
Why do we need libraries like FlexiBLAS?
Michał Górny's latest blog post explains how multiplexing libraries solve the API/ABI compatibility puzzle in BLAS/LAPACK packaging, making life easier for users, developers, and distributions alike.
Learn more: buff.ly/JBTP86m
AKA NickleDave retweeted
I am on the (red-hot) 2025–26 academic job market! I study wide-ranging, important, and contemporary issues in education policy and domestic violence. My job market paper studies academic accommodations in higher education: trends and drivers, who uses them, and academic impacts.
AKA NickleDave retweeted
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Very very interesting — data on disability accommodations in college, at last!
Many of us have suspected that high-income students are benefiting the most from disability accommodations. Some answers!
🧵 as I read 1/
AKA NickleDave retweeted
xAI engineer on his deathbed like
I wish……… I’d spent a few thousand more hours making grok racist……… BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
A look into the @xAI office today, on Grokipedia release day. It's early morning and the xAI engineers are still in their tents. A good night's sleep will often do wonders.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Per an xAI cofounder, this is not the xAI office: hindustantimes.com/trending/us/xa…
AKA NickleDave retweeted
Of course you want to sleep in a tent inside. You’re 12!
A look into the @xAI office today, on Grokipedia release day. It's early morning and the xAI engineers are still in their tents. A good night's sleep will often do wonders.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Per an xAI cofounder, this is not the xAI office: hindustantimes.com/trending/us/xa…
AKA NickleDave retweeted
🔥 Python 3.14's free-threaded build just got 2-12x faster GC performance!
New optimizations available to the community:
✔️ Mark-alive phase
✔️Software pre-fetching
✔️Smarter GC triggers
Get all the details from Neil Schemenauer in our latest blog: buff.ly/OhxIpph
AKA NickleDave retweeted
Comcast Executives Warn Workers To Not Say The Wrong Thing About Charlie Kirk
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AKA NickleDave retweeted
Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way
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AKA NickleDave retweeted
Essential conversations about research software sustainability 🤝
@ixek will contribute to the conversation at RSECon25 with her keynote "Paths for impactful software: or how to keep research and scientific software relevant for tomorrow."
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ALT A social media graphic promoting RSECon25. The background is a purple and blue gradient. At the top left, the white Quansight logo is visible. The main text in large white letters says "RSECon25." Below it, in smaller white text, are the location and date: "University of Warwick Coventry, UK" and "September 11, 2025." To the left, there's a heading "Keynote Talk" followed by the full title: "Paths for impactful software: or how to keep research and scientific software relevant for tomorrow." On the right, a circular image features a person with purple hair, identified as Tania Allard, CEO of Impact Quansight. The bottom of the graphic displays the RSE logo and the text "RSECon25."
AKA NickleDave retweeted
I wrote about what it means for nearly half-a-million union contracts to dissolve overnight. Union presidents were locked out of their offices. Moms are being forced to cut their maternity leaves short. Clerical staff are answering VA hospital call bells. prospect.org/labor/trump-fed…
AKA NickleDave retweeted
So Republicans DO know their bill will hurt working Americans to give special tax treatment to corporations. Apparently they don’t give a damn because they are planning to vote for it…
AKA NickleDave retweeted
Our lab @EmoryUniversity is hiring a research technician! This position is ideal for someone who enjoys research, organization, and working in a team. Come for a few years and publish with us, or stay to build a career. staff-emory.icims.com/jobs/1…
ALT In this light microscopy image of dividing cells within a Drosophila embryo, multiple centrosomes are labeled in cyan. Each centrosome is surrounded by a concentration of orange fluorescent dots, showing the localization of a model mRNA via single molecule detection.