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data science UChicago -> NY; vegetative electron microscopist; current pipeline: rust, neovim, humanoid robotics, scientific integrity; writing @ https://nicoroman.substack.com/, https://chicagomaroon.com/staff_name/nicolas-posner/;
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Anyone can do post-publication peer review. Anyone can be a steward of the scientific literature. Anyone can do forensic metascience. Anyone can sleuth. That's why we are launching COSIG: the Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides, an open source resource for all of the above. cosig.net

Friends, I have news. It is very good news. You'll just have to read it, I'm afraid. jamesclaims.substack.com/p/introducin...

I finally had a read of the MAHA report today, and aside from the obvious use of generative AI and false citations, what strikes me is how remarkably unprofessional and amateurish the document is. It's just wild garbage 1/n

I do not have the mental capacity to deal with this. Will someone hound them about this? Create a whole vertical devoted to taking the controversy? Call them everyday to ask? Or is that just for Black women?

If someone comes into my home wearing this I am going to smash it with a hammer.

Who said you can't have fun in data science?

Today marks a decade since the 1st stable release of #rustlang 🎉 To commemorate this milestone, we asked Karen Tölva (Ferris creator 🦀) to design a celebratory graphic & answer a few questions in our blog. Congrats to EVERYONE who has made Rust what it is today 🧡 rustfoundation.org/media/celebr...

This is insane and I can't wait to try it out myself will-keleher.com/posts/2d-nav...

Here are all the posters I designed for RustWeek 2025! 1. "Box<impl Future>" (Back tot the Future) #rustweek #rustweek2025

Instead of an analysis of fraudulent beta-blocker studies, let's cheer ourselves up with an absurd short story with a total addressable audience ~50 people. nicoroman.substack.com/p/ancient-fr...

Exactly a year ago, a paper claimed apple cider vinegar was as effective as Ozempic for weight loss. *Clearly wrong.* This is the story of exactly one year of dealing with this paper. And the very normal, very complete failure of governance that resulted. open.substack.com/pub/jamescla...

Congrats, @carlos.ag!

God above, there's more www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sure it is, yolo, sure it is