It really is amazing what you can do with statistics and a large enough data set. I can’t wait for what this brings the community in a few years!

The Battle for Wesnoth is my all-time favorite FOSS. Can’t understate it.

I’m not sure about this particular paper, but usually you can compare the number of mutations in a common protein and use that to estimate how long ago a common ancestor existed. As an example here is a graph of the number of mutations in mitochondrial DNA for the protein Cytochrome C. The more mutations you accumulate in a genome the larger amount of time since they split from a common ancestor.

Neutral Mutations in Cytochrome C

I suppose it is the original recycling program haha

Ah yes, we have a necromancer in our midst 😎

Hmm. The server is up right now. Does it give an error or just sit there?

I can say I’ve had horrible luck trying to sign up through the apps. It works much better through a standard browser for initial sign up.

One more for Bitwarden. You can even run your own local server and avoid using the cloud.

I joined mander.xyz because it has a central theme around the natural sciences. It could possibly include STEM content as well; there is an ongoing discussion about it. The admin(s) are present and very responsive.

For anyone with a love of science and/or nature I recommend it highly as a home instance of Lemmy.

“Like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass,” the CEO wrote.

This is true. By sheer population most Redditors never left. But I’d say a core percentage responsible for actually making content has moved on and won’t be back.

Well said. I usually don’t get farther with my students than the 3D models of enzymes changing shape and the reactions involving Pi. That’s just the reality of non-grad level classes. But it’s one of those things you can follow down the rabbit hole very easily.

It’s getting better! All the time! This was just posted yesterday.

I know this is an old post, but it’s extremely cool.

The newsgroup server I’m on is actually called eternal-september.org in remembrance.

Same here as well. I uninstalled rif and replaced its icon with Jerboa. I don’t even notice the difference until the screen loads 😄

My personal take on it is that such behavior comes from the large-site mentality. Smaller subs initially do have higher levels of discourse, but each posting account is still sharing a karma score across the entire site. Eventually it shifts to discussion-ending posts with high upvotes.

I have high hopes that the decentralized nature of things like Lemmy will help preserve quality topic discussion. Lemmy.ml being overloaded pushed me to find a server instance more in line with my individual topics and ending up joining a very nice science community. Shout-out to Mander.xyz

In any laboratory, including ours, we always find the same result: Adolescents just are not as good as adults at cognitive control — except in studies where we say, if you do this trial correctly, we’re going to give you extra points for more money. And, miraculously, adolescents can then do it like adults.

As a teacher I’ve found this is key to motivation in the classroom. It’s an amazing transformation for the 10-15 minute window.