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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 6d

📣 Calling 2nd-year grad students and their mentors:

You just abruptly lost the ability to apply for the NSF grad research fellowship.

Join ~900 others (and growing!) in signing @omfishient.bsky.social's petition to reverse that.

[Or reshare this petition if you're not directly impacted]

Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition

laurenkuehne.github.io

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Melissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social · 7d

It's always fascinating to find out about pieces of infrastructure that of course must exist, but you didn't know about them and they operate according to totally different institutional norms.

Behold! Data repository à la consumer market research!

dovetail.com/blog/introdu...

Store, reference, and share all of your files in Dovetail!

Files lets you store, share, and collaborate on popular filetypes within Dovetail. Whether industry or research reports they can all live in Dovetail.

dovetail.com

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Wangle-BOO-ry @wangleberry.bsky.social · 8d

Thirty days hath September
April, June and November;
All the rest have thirty-one,
Except the Month of Absent Sun.
('Tis the month we dare not name;
Be wary, lest it come again.)

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 8d

From an NIH source:

"The fact that it’s 8am on the day of a likely shutdown, and NIH personnel have received not one word about it from our leaders, from HHS, or higher, is gobsmacking.

Normally we receive shutdown preparations emails starting days in advance. Absolute silence except at IC level."

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Melissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social · 8d

cool cool cool great great great

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Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 11d

I've found it kind of a pain to work with resources like VerbNet, FrameNet, PropBank (frame files), and WordNet using existing tools. Maybe you have too. Here's a little package that handles data management, loading, and cross-referencing via either a CLI or a python API.

GitHub - aaronstevenwhite/glazing: Unified data models and interfaces for syntactic and semantic frame ontologies.

Unified data models and interfaces for syntactic and semantic frame ontologies. - aaronstevenwhite/glazing

github.com

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Maëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · 15d

"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭

anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...

How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog

“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!)  and I like working with ...

anniemueller.com

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.bsky.social · 18d

22-26 episode seasons.
And bottle episodes. Love a bottle episode.

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 18d

kids these days just don’t understand their computer’s filesystem. gotta organise your files into folders, not just rely on cloud and search!

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Melissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social · 22d

(but seriously RIP, he's a career hero of mine, imagine inventing something so ubiquitous and embedded in everything to the point where you can't imagine it's absence!)

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Melissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social · 22d

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

Jay. @meangrape.com · 22d

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

Nunsense & Shenunigans @annaleehq.bsky.social · 22d

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23d

Mirror image pictures labeled “Samuel L Jackson” and “Samuel D Jackson”

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Melissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social · 25d

KidPix or gtfo

Mike (spooky version)🍁🍂😈👹👻💀☠️👽🎃🧛🏻🧌🧟‍♂️ @michaelt2300.bsky.social · 25d

start with ms dos and Carmen sandiego, move to windows 95 in the computer lab, searching web crawler for “Michael Jordan dunk”, then
get dial up internet and windows 98 with AIM and ICQ and start a xanga. Then Napster on fast dorm room internet. No MacBook until you are 25.

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 25d

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Nov 10

The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up

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Melissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social · 26d

(One of the levels can be "we didn't use an existing form, here is the full text of the consent form and check boxes re:applicability of GDPR, HIPAA etc)

Melissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social · 26d

I'd like a CC-style system of internationally recognized levels and permissions for consent forms/human data sharing, please & thank you.

(I know of a number of leveling systems I like, including Databrary's, but I want badges and a social movement)

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Melissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social · 26d

BIG BOAT STUCK

Lauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname @verbingnouns.bsky.social · 26d

🚨 boat stuck 🚨

Alison @finger-post.blog · 26d

Deeply embarrassed to realise that there's been a Big Stuck Ship in literally Franklin Strait for several days, and I've only just noticed.

Still, any excuse to trot out my Beechey Island/Ever Given shitpost.
nunatsiaq.com/stories/arti...

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Katie Carmichael @drkatcarm.bsky.social · 27d

::slowly stands while clapping::

Image of labubu doll labeled labubu next to image of spiky labubu doll labeled lakiki

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Melissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social · 29d

I don't want to see the picture anymore, thanks

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · Sep 8

i bet it feels amazing to be a middle aged college professor and say stuff like "napoleon wouldn't stay in his lane so the duke of wellington locked in" to a survey course of a hundred bored 18 year olds

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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · Sep 8

A slide from my med school syphilis talk

Antibiotics for syphilis. GOATED: penicillin. Sus: doxycycline, ceftriaxone. Ohio: azithromycin, linezolid.

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Melissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social · Sep 6

All toddlers know this 1 weird trick

Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · Sep 6

incredible work. become uncarryable.

Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · Sep 5

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

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drew @adrew.dadguy.help · Sep 6

dril tweets as biblical figures: a thread

Job

the dril tweet about budgeting and his family dying

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · Sep 5

As a historian of computing, can confirm, this is exactly what happened

BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · Sep 4

the dailup sound was a protection spell the computer said for us every time we went online but we thought we were too good for it. we wanted to be on the phone and the computer at the same time. we wanted to be on the phone and the computer at the same time and now we’re fucked

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · Aug 26

thinking about the time someone tried to impersonate our Department Chair on July 4th

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