Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Matt Farmer PhD, RN

@mattfarmer.bsky.social

300 followers 1.1K following 320 posts

🩺☕ 💻 🧪 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 ✝️ 🤘 🤟 🤔 📚 ♟️ 🎲 github.com/mfarme/ orcid.org/0000-0003-0989-2968 mattfarmer.me

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Matt Farmer PhD, RN @mattfarmer.bsky.social · Sep 3

My farmework desktop arrives this Friday. 🎉

Reposted by Matt Farmer PhD, RN

Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · Aug 29

If this is turning into a battle, then the researchers’ possible counter is to normalize updating preprints and CVs with “accepted at journal x” as sufficient for getting publication credit and not pay the fees.

Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · Aug 29

Making Your Research Free May Cost You
* With federal funding exceptionally unreliable, scientists say they are stressed about spending thousands of grant dollars on unexpected and questionable open-access charges.
By @stephaniemlee.bsky.social for @chronicle.com
www.chronicle.com/article/maki...

Making Your Research Free May Cost You

Under a new requirement that NIH-funded research be freely, immediately available, some journals are forcing researchers to pay to publish.

www.chronicle.com

5 12 27

Matt Farmer PhD, RN @mattfarmer.bsky.social · Aug 7

I've yet to see you use 'game-changer' to describe AI releases. You're good!

Matt Farmer PhD, RN @mattfarmer.bsky.social · Aug 1

Pebble brought a friend to snatch up the cat food. Adorable.

1 3

Matt Farmer PhD, RN @mattfarmer.bsky.social · Jul 29

It's an ad

Matt Farmer PhD, RN @mattfarmer.bsky.social · Jul 19

Hit the daily limit today 💪

Matt Farmer PhD, RN @mattfarmer.bsky.social · Jul 19

ISO or bust 💪

Matt Farmer PhD, RN @mattfarmer.bsky.social · Jul 18

AI safety anyone?

1 2

Matt Farmer PhD, RN @mattfarmer.bsky.social · Jul 16

Amazon joins the LLM IDE race
kiro.dev

Kiro

The AI IDE for prototype to production

kiro.dev

1 1

Matt Farmer PhD, RN @mattfarmer.bsky.social · Jul 15

both

Reposted by Matt Farmer PhD, RN

David Green, PhD @ecologistgreen.bsky.social · Jul 8

How do you fix #PeerReview to be more ethical, streamlined, and affordable? 🧪

You start small — and you collaborate. #SciPub

A 🧵

A picture of Dr. David Green, Founder of Stacks Journal.

1 3 4

Matt Farmer PhD, RN @mattfarmer.bsky.social · Jul 5

Dear health data folks, what are some best practices for managing a monorepo in a team with various levels of technical expertise?

#analytics #stats #datascience #python #sql

Matt Farmer PhD, RN @mattfarmer.bsky.social · Jul 4

Here's an unsolicited reminder to critically think about the age of a reference in your research. Avoid the bias of chronocentrism, that the present is ALWAYS better than the past. Just because an article is old (like from the "1900's") does not inherently affect the quality of the findings.

Matt Farmer PhD, RN @mattfarmer.bsky.social · Jul 4

I use the paid notion but used the free one for years. Great for tracking manuscript progression, databases of presentations and conference notes, and has a publish option to create an accessible web version of any page which is nice for a CV-style page. Obsidian is also nice for notes.

1 1

Matt Farmer PhD, RN @mattfarmer.bsky.social · Jul 4

@academic-chatter.bsky.social when doing peer review, do you validate every reference used by the authors?

5 2 6

Reposted by Matt Farmer PhD, RN

Posit @posit.co · Jul 1

Ever wonder how the #tidyverse came to be? 🤔

#TheTestSet's first episode features @hadley.nz on his accidental empire of #RStats packages, bear encounters, and more!

Stream it at thetestset.co, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts.

#DataAnalytics #PodcastLaunch

Hadley Wickham in a white t-shirt and jeans sits on a light-colored couch across from Michael Chow, wearing a dark green shirt and pants, who is seated on an orange pouf. Between them is a white coffee table with books. In the background, there's a dark bar with shelves displaying numerous bottles, a wood-paneled wall, and a black, modern fireplace. Text overlay reads "Hadley Wickham CHIEF SCIENTIST, POSIT".

1 30 75

Matt Farmer PhD, RN @mattfarmer.bsky.social · Jun 29

"Okay, so"
The verbal equivalent to a paragraph break and indent.

Matt Farmer PhD, RN @mattfarmer.bsky.social · Jun 28

I love marimo

Matt Farmer PhD, RN @mattfarmer.bsky.social · Jun 24

Oh I now learned that Artemis II had been delayed to April 26 😅

Matt Farmer PhD, RN @mattfarmer.bsky.social · Jun 24

Halfway through 2025. What keywords would you tag this year with so far?

tariffs, switch 2, DOGE, NIH funding cuts

🤞Hope to add Artemis II to the list

Matt Farmer PhD, RN @mattfarmer.bsky.social · Jun 22

I have a statistics joke, but I'm not entirely confident in its posterior probability of being funny

1 1

Matt Farmer PhD, RN @mattfarmer.bsky.social · Jun 19

Finally found a home for a manuscript of my dissertation research. It only took 14 months of getting rejected!

1 4

Matt Farmer PhD, RN @mattfarmer.bsky.social · Jun 7

Hoping for remakes or mods of classic games as "talkies" now with the advancements of voice models. Chrono Trigger, FF7, Kings Quest 6, Super Mario RPG, etc

Matt Farmer PhD, RN @mattfarmer.bsky.social · Jun 2

ALDI officially announced that due to inflation and tariffs, carts are now unlocked by dollar bills.

#satire