Christian Meesters
PhD in Biophysics, Postdoc in Genetic Epidemiology, Detour in Industry, Currently: Computational Scientist (Life Science Support) HPC (NHR, University of Mainz (on leave), University of Frankfurt (current), Germany), Open Science and Science Communication Enthusiast (with little time)
Board member of FediScience e.V.
Snakemake Co-Developer
I also have a less science oriented account: @rupdecat@mastodon.m1234.de
May post in German, English, Dutch.
As of today, I will be starting a today-I-have-done series. Already tried before. Possibly with breaks, as I will not always find the time to post. Sometimes, I might sprinkle in a blog post or event announcement.
Next Monday I will start on a new position. And I have to commute. Possibly no time to take a break for posting on social media during working hours. Hence, the idea of posting little partially research-related summary posts is appealing to me.
Let me start:
- I tinkered with a #Fediwall for #Snakemake (https://cmeesters.github.io/Snakemake-Fediwall/). It will not be the final FediWall page as this is merely an experiment. But my idea is that as science communicators in the Fediverse we have to provide information proactively and not wait for demand to magically develop. So, this is a first step. (We cannot expect everyone to have a fable for social media - this will work for anyone without an account, too.)
- I did a few updates to the #HPC teaching material for Snakemake. We had a little "alliance" of like-minded people developing this material. A few drop-outs and a pretty LaTeX-oriented and obfuscated development environment and it was basically me. But I know there is some interest and I hope to be able to revive this group. Also, essentially new courses are on the horizon already.
- Last not least, some work on the teaching material for Snakemake #nanopub reporter plugin.
There are no releases, yet.
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Had a wonderful discussion at the #osr26uk about social media, the #fediverse and science communication.
I am a firm believer of REAL, venture capital free, social media. Yet, many institutions still refrain from posting to Mastodon. They cannot appreciate the different culture and this is an issue, because it dampens the growth of the Fediverse.
RE: @nsunami@akademienl.social
Hey folks following the #OSR26UK hashtag: Check out what our friends in the Netherlands did:
@bmbf_bund@social.bund.de mit Hardware auf die Schulen schmeißen bedeutet:
- vendor log in, weil die Schulen sich auf best. Software festlegen.
- dass Lehrkonzepte de facto den Vorgaben der kommerziellen closed-source Softwarefirmen folgen müssen - und nicht der didaktischen Forschung
- dass Lehre auf die Software der Elterngeneration im modernen Gewand beschränkt ist
- genervte Eltern, die ihre Kinder von Geräten (meist Schultablets) weglotsen müssen, wollen sie ihre Kinder nicht davor versacken sehen.