Adam Jackson is tooting on the other network

@pauldauenhauer I want the figures wherever LaTeX puts them. It has better layout judgement than vast majority of scientists.

I will be attending the #SOOCON24 and #stateofopencon and speaking about my work. I will present preliminary research on applying the Do No Harm framework to open source/science interventions. Grab a ticket - limited free tickets are also available. stateofopencon.com.

@scanlond81 @Kavanagh_Sean_ @UCLChemistry @MMMGroupYork @lonepair @bkoz37 @Materials_Intel Well done Seán!

End of an era, as @Kavanagh_Sean_ has passed his PhD Viva @UCLChemistry. Thanks to @MMMGroupYork and Richard Catlow for examining. Pictured here is Seán with proud co-supervisor @lonepair, Keith, and myself. He is off to join @bkoz37 and the @Materials_Intel group in Harvard.

I asked Stable Diffusion XL to draw a hot-desking office in Hell and most of these look like UCL offices and some look better than UCL offices.

@ThePSF Maybe it's the sleep deprivation but I don't really understand term 3 of the T&C: 3) Additional Terms. You understand that we may present you with additional terms and conditions ... including on the JetBrains website ... Can someone explain what this one means?

💙💛 Hey Pythonistas, have you responded to the Python Developers Survey 2023? We need your perspective! #python bit.ly/3QPBDFW

Applications now open for our next #Neutron Training course in May 2024. This is a practical instrument-base courses for postgrad + post-doc researchers who have little or no experience but whose future research program will make use of neutron techniques. bit.ly/3MuB6Xg

@MolecularXtal @UniJena @BAMResearch Woo! Well done, Janine!

@Andrew_S_Rosen Yes one can reimplement from the paper but it delays community benefit, repeats effort on implementation "gotchas" and if code *is* available means wading through complex/irrelevant interfacing details. 2/2

@Andrew_S_Rosen It's so frustrating to see new publicly-funded methods published as a de-facto "exclusive" to one package when it isn't technically necessary. Something has gone wrong with the incentive structure. 1/2

"It is for the above reasons that I present my call to arms to the community: we need more reusable code instead of more modular." Preach!!!!!!

@AndrewBKin @AstroKatie To be clear, by "explanations" I mean "what does this paper say", "what does this figure mean", etc. I think that's a more exciting, open and democratic kind of Sci Comm than the usual "summarise this field in a few easy sentences that make it sound like one man did it."

@AndrewBKin @AstroKatie But then I also see very highly liked/retweeted/viewed posts on LK99 that are much lower quality. Something is incentivising that. The cultists are haunting "For You", not "Following".

[poll] Twitter has gone through some… changes… in the last year. Do you find it, in its current form, useful for ✨science communication✨? (E.g., science news, discussions, analysis, learning)

@AndrewBKin @AstroKatie Differing viewpoints of scientists on science stuff, yes. Differing viewpoints of cultists on unrelated issues, not so much.

@AstroKatie Well in science you would want different view points. Not an echo chamber. So I would say X would be the place to be. Particularly for discussion as it's not just fluff and pictures.

CW: Nerd stuff 🤣😂🥲🤔🤣

@ifndef_define @Andrew_S_Rosen @MaximZiatdinov Here's a cheeky little blog post about bad tests from a @SoftwareSaved event a few years ago! "Five failed tests for scientific software" software.ac.uk/blog/2018-05-2…

@ifndef_define @Andrew_S_Rosen @MaximZiatdinov 70-80% is a good sign. I am slightly wary of code with 95+% coverage as there is a danger Goodhart's Law is at work. It is possible to write tests that technically execute the code branches but don't really stress the problem areas well.

If your code does not have unit tests, I am not touching it. 🙃

@Andrew_S_Rosen @DrDeCaluwe A _practical_ difference is that when a "unit test" fails it should make it pretty clear where the problem lies and what internal expectation/promise is being violated. Whereas "integration" tests check one path through a lot of code; they are easier to write but harder to fix.

@DrDeCaluwe On second read, you're right! 😊

@owainkenway The more I learn about devops, the more sure I am that networking computers was a huge mistake.

@benjcartlidge Yup, I remember this one whenever I meet a new cat xkcd.com/231/

I am an intelligent, rational man, with a large vocabulary honed from years of reading. Then the cat does literally anything and I say things like "who's daddy's perfect baby mcsnuggleferkin?"

These ten recommendations from @DrHorrell apply to all neutron users as well 😇😉 #beamline #scientists