First, before the world drowns in madness, it’s a-QUILL-ops, like a quill pen. Not AWK-wuh-lops, like Aquafina. Second, I made good use of my recent birthday and went to the Lego store at the local mall.

It’s plot recreation time! In this post, we’ll look at how we can recreate a plot in R. I thought it might be useful to provide the solution but also to detail the process I went through to get there. We have a FACS plot taken from a BD FACS Aria machine: Briefly, it’s a histogram of the fluorescence levels of 10000 cells from three different sources.

The National University of Rosario (UNR) in Argentina has long been committed to principles of Open Science and public access to knowledge.

Here I summarise a few posts on Bluesky where I raised concerns about some metadabarcoding datasets that were highlighted by GBIF: Looking at these datasets it’s clear that something is wrong. Data The datasets discussed are for CO1 Amplicon Sequence Variants from Madagascar, which are part of the Insect Biome Atlas project.

English version Dado que Crossref celebra su 25º aniversario este año, nos gustaría destacar algunas de las regiones activas y comprometidas en nuestra comunidad global. Durante los primeros 25 años, la composición de los miembros de Crossref ha evolucionado significativamente. De un puñado de grandes editoriales fundadoras, ahora tenemos más de 22.000 miembros de 160 países.

We are excited to introduce the new team of mentors for the rOpenSci Champions Program! This year, we have ten very talented individuals, all from Latin America, who bring a unique combination of experience, enthusiasm, and commitment to open science. Some of them have already been part of the program in previous editions, either as mentors or Champions, and today, they return to continue strengthening this community.

¡Nos alegra presentar al nuevo equipo de mentor(a|e)s del programa de Campeon(e|a)s de rOpenSci! Este año, contamos con diez personas muy talentosas, todas originarias de América Latina, que aportan una combinación única de experiencia, entusiasmo y compromiso con la ciencia abierta. Algunas ya formaron parte del programa en ediciones anteriores, ya sea como mentores o como campeonas, y hoy regresan para seguir fortaleciendo esta comunidad.

En la entrada anterior hablé del valor separativo de los saltos de igual a igual (también llamados saltos por homoioteleuton u homeoarcton), explicando que la mayoría de los manuales de crítica textual los considera errores separativos, pero no conjuntivos (o, en todo caso, de valor conjuntivo moderado). Esto significa que estos errores pueden emplearse para demostrar que un manuscrito X no fue copiado de otro manuscrito Z, pues X conserva un

“You dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a f***** education you coulda' got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library.” —Good Will Hunting

A small Django/Python app to convert popular mastodon links to an RSS feed

Abandoned Appalachia Series Crossroads in Coal Country Smith Garage once stood at 192 State Highway 72 in Baxter, Kentucky—an unincorporated hamlet where KY-72 meets the old alignment of US-421 at the confluence of Martin’s Fork and Clover Fork, head-waters of the Cumberland River. Mid-century travelers approaching the junction first glimpsed the black-shining Harlan County Coal Monument, a blocky obelisk of quarried coal