It’s brassica all the way down.

Thank you, but I never intend to write another thesis. One doctorate was enough, and I work in clinical practice so I don’t do a ton of academic writing anymore. But thanks for sharing!

I wrote my thesis in LibreOffice and I would have been SOL if not for Zotero. Who cares what people use? Use what works.

I have lost any and all respect for Elsevier in particular after that whole AI debacle.

This is horrifying, thanks.

Cuddy’s one weakness…Na+/K+ ATPase!

It is astounding to me that this happened. A complete failure of peer review, of the editors, and OF COURSE of the authors. Just absolutely bonkers that this made it to publication. Completely clown shoes.

This is my new very favorite meme of all time. Thank you for posting.

The key is to do it manually. Reject modernity. Embrace reinvention of not just the wheel.

Nah, the trick is to, at random, leave a package out of the text file so the system isn’t truly managed and all is chaos!

Package managers are for chumps. Build everything from source and track where you installed it in a single master text file.

There is in no way sufficient evidence in this study to draw this conclusion. This study was in no way designed to provide causal evidence. At best, what we can say is that the people who tend to take sildenafil also are less likely to have alzheimers. It could very well be that the people who take sildenafil are more active, and that activity level staves off alzheimers. Or any number of other third variables. This is not as big a deal as the article is making it out to be. Spurious correlations happen all the time, and it behooves us to be measured in our excitement.

Holy confounders, batman, that article sure does make a big logical leap with insufficient evidence!

Ya see, soil is like ogres…

Following along with interest.

Where’s the “surely if I do ANOTHER postdoc I’ll be a better applicant for a TT position…”

I don’t think my family has ever been excited about one of my papers, but my whole extended family turned up to my thesis defense. Nearly overwhelming.

Are you using wayland on Elementary?

Is the VGA port on your dGPU or iGPU? I know Fedora uses Wayland by default – are you using wayland or X.org on elementary?

For me, the gateway was via palm pilot careware. My dad had a PDA when I was a kid, and he let me learn how to program it. Then I learned that there were websites to download software for it, and some of that software was “careware”, ie pay only if you’re able. Something clicked in my head that I could both write and access software without cost being a barrier, and that got me reading about FLOSS philosophy as I entered high school and suddenly I was dual booting ubuntu on the intel iBook I had saved up for and then it was too late for me: FLOSS had me.