finally february 😅

Catalan human towers ("Castells") in the 25th anniversary ad from Wikipedia 🔝

ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castells

Sure. Just one question:

How?

big limitation is that the highlights are not exported when you download the file locally... 🥲 (you don't see the highlights in other programs other than chrome)

There's some black magic stuff happening under the hood. You can read a pdf online, highlight stuff, download the pdf in your computer, highlight stuff in your local copy (using chrome), open the remote version of the file and it shows the updated highlights. Really useful 👌

The google-scholar pdf reader just added syntax highlighting 😱 I really needed this haha

the infographic is really bad... but there are some gems in the actual pdf plan, with different and more detailed routes. Wildest to me Scandinavia <-> Mediterranean route. Stocholm, Berlin 8h and Berlin to Naples in 11-ish hours.

transport.ec.europa.eu/document/dow...

Free online vector editor & procedural design tool Open source free software. A vector graphics creativity suite with a clean, intuitive interface. Opens instantly (no signup) and runs locally in a browser. Exports SVG, PNG, JPG.

If they indeed keep it free forever might be bad news for inkscape, I wasn't a fan of it from the time it barely worked on mac but i know it's been better recently.

A really cool open source project that is also rising now is graphite.rs. Same idea as inkscape with web version too, still in alpha

they ve claimed they re serious about "free forever" (the AI generation is not free).

they have an income stream from Canva subscriptions and claim it will be enough to maintain the software. Some people might even get it for the Ai stuff too.

it's fair to be cautious about it

Been a fan since v1 so I’ll give v3 a try, too. I liked how easy it was to switch from adobe products. And so far I’ve never missed any feature. Any estimates how much academia funnels into adobe per year?

* I have not tested this version of affinity (V3) yet, but based on my V1 expirience, the features it had were already sufficient for most academic needs for slides/figure composing.

This is big news for academics, a fully* featured, modern vector editor software for free (hopefully) forever. We should be sad when research money is unnecessarily directed to the adobe whirlpool of subscriptions.

Wow! great feature in the newest @typst.app update 🎉🎉

the drone view looks sick but from the inside they just look like a bunch of half-sized silos, victory point for brutalism here

also bocconi university

awesome! thanks! 👌

this is cool! always want to migrate to vs code for R but i keep going back to rstudio, is there a tutorial/guide on how to customize vs code to be as rstudio-like as possible

the link didn't copy well, i think this is the good one for reference

github.com/kundajelab/c...

discounted product, from 1,50 to 1,49

when the test is significant but you forgot to check its effect size

Science aside, the typesetting of this preprint is beautiful. Apple-worthy

Sure, message is clearly better. I think, however, it's just optics, EU comission doesn't collect taxes so it has to "beg" for money to member states. Big difference with Trump that uses the spending cuts to "justify" for lower taxes (even if he does not really balance the sheets in the end).

TIL you can create a multiqc compatible json/yml file and will just work out the box.

docs.seqera.io/multiqc/cust...

I think it's early to celebrate, still has to pass through Council, EU parliament and (some) local parliaments.

The same budget comes with 131 billion for defence, deeply unpopular in the south.

I hope i am wrong, but looks to me like a maximalist budget proposal that will inevitably get cut

Neuropeptides specify and reprogram division of labor in the leafcutter ant Atta cephalotes We identify specific neuropeptides mediating worker division of labor in the leafcutting ant A. cephalotes, finding two neuropeptides associated with characteristic behaviors of leafcutting and of bro...

(link to the publication) www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

"hairy-headed leafcutter ant" is also a badass name. well captured in the art 👏

Big fan of this hand drawn wholesome graphical abstract in today's @cp-cell.bsky.social 🐜

GendBuntu - Wikipedia

TIL that the Gendarmerie (military police) in France uses GendBuntu, a slight modification of ubuntu. And everything because they didn't want to move from Windows XP to vista 😅

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu

Posit We’re happy to announce that we’re supporting Typst by funding one of their full-time engineers.

At Posit, we love @typst.app:

⚡ Make PDFs in milliseconds, not minutes
✨ The power of LaTeX with today's technologies
✍️ Modern typography (including emojis!)
🧠 Clear mental model

So I'm thrilled to announce that we're now supporting its development: posit.co/blog/posit-a...

#rstats

I started tgv to learn Rust and building it has been unbelievably fun! If you wanna pick up a super fast and fun programming language, tgv is open for contribution! There aren't many bioinformatics tools built entirely by the community. If tgv can become one, I'll be so psyched