David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 21/11/2025Catalan human towers ("Castells") in the 25th anniversary ad from Wikipedia 🔝 ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castells 020
Reposted by David Mas-PonteKevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Sure. Just one question: How?media.tenor.coma man in a purple suit and top hat is making a funny faceALT: a man in a purple suit and top hat is making a funny face 183
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 11/11/2025big 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) 000
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 11/11/2025There'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 👌 110
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 11/11/2025The google-scholar pdf reader just added syntax highlighting 😱 I really needed this haha 130
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 05/11/2025the 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... 020
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 02/11/2025If 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 alphagraphite.rsFree online vector editor & procedural design toolOpen 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. 130
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 02/11/2025they 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 110
Reposted by David Mas-PonteFabian Zimmermann @fabianzimmermann.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Been 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? 111
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 31/10/2025* 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. 100
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 31/10/2025This 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. 131
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 24/10/2025Wow! great feature in the newest @typst.app update 🎉🎉 130
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 20/10/2025the drone view looks sick but from the inside they just look like a bunch of half-sized silos, victory point for brutalism here 000
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 15/10/2025this 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 110
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 15/10/2025the link didn't copy well, i think this is the good one for reference github.com/kundajelab/c... 110
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 25/09/2025when the test is significant but you forgot to check its effect size 040
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 24/09/2025Science aside, the typesetting of this preprint is beautiful. Apple-worthy 010
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 27/08/2025media.tenor.coma woman in a blue dress is talking to a man in a blue shirt .ALT: a woman in a blue dress is talking to a man in a blue shirt . 061
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 05/08/2025Sure, 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). 010
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 05/08/2025TIL you can create a multiqc compatible json/yml file and will just work out the box. docs.seqera.io/multiqc/cust...docs.seqera.ioCustom content | Seqera DocsReport on your data, even without a MultiQC module 130
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 05/08/2025I 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 110
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 25/07/2025(link to the publication) www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...cell.comNeuropeptides specify and reprogram division of labor in the leafcutter ant Atta cephalotesWe 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... 000
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 25/07/2025"hairy-headed leafcutter ant" is also a badass name. well captured in the art 👏 100
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 25/07/2025Big fan of this hand drawn wholesome graphical abstract in today's @cp-cell.bsky.social 🐜 120
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 10/07/2025TIL 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/GendBuntuen.wikipedia.orgGendBuntu - Wikipedia 010
Reposted by David Mas-PonteHadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 03/06/2025At 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... #rstatsposit.coPositWe’re happy to announce that we’re supporting Typst by funding one of their full-time engineers. 524052
Reposted by David Mas-PonteZeqian Li @zeqianli.bsky.social · 28/05/2025I 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 16720
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 05/05/2025i am curious why you think that, is there smth specific you think money would not buy? 100
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 19/04/2025or this one from Madrid's publicly funded research center www.nature.com/articles/d42...nature.comMadrid’s unique Alzheimer’s research hub reaches a pivotal momentBy narrowing the gap between clinical care and post-mortem analysis, researchers in Madrid are cultivating a unique bank of data to advance the diagnosis and treatment of dementia. 010
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 19/04/2025at least it's not like this one by Xunta, not the most ethical use of tax euros IMO 🥲 www.nature.com/articles/d42...nature.comSpanish region emerges as scientific powerhouseGalicia, a region in Spain’s north-western corner, is emerging as a biomedicine and tech innovation hub, tackling regional and global challenges from disease prevention to secure communications. 110
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 11/04/2025Never thought i would say this but R becoming more pythonic is a good thing 🙃 "R 4.5.0 introduces a new way to load objects from a package: use()" 020
Reposted by David Mas-PonteDarren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 06/04/2025American scientists aren't special. It's the institutions, and willingness to spend on research, that set them apart. Similarly invest here, and you will naturally attract the best talent from *everywhere*. www.politico.eu/article/euro...politico.euEurope to burned American scientists: We’ll take you inThe EU’s body for scientific research, as well as local, regional and national governments, are mobilizing to poach top U.S. scholars. 515044
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 24/03/2025similar policy in California, it might extend to all the user base. bsky.app/profile/vald... 000
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 24/03/202523andMe to be sold off now, agree with @philippbayer.bsky.social it's likely there ll be a opt out mechanism for people that don't want their data distributed to pharma companies, but just glad I managed to delete my data on the site under GDPR, thanks EU 👌 110
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 16/03/2025this is really cool! 😎 obsidian is now free for all, simplicity over subscriptions 051
Reposted by David Mas-Pontekepano @stephango.com · 15/03/2025opening files in Obsidian, not sped up 1118711
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 24/02/2025Excited about the HTML experimental feature in @typst.app 0.13! 👏 typst.app/blog/2025/ty...typst.appTypst 0.13 is out now – Typst BlogWith Typst 0.13, we wanted to improve the day-to-day experience of using Typst. We fixed some of the most long-standing bugs and made Typst even more flexible to... 020
Reposted by David Mas-PonteKeith Robison @omicsomics.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Roche Ripple Predictions My take on how Roche SBX will roil the sequencing landscape omicsomics.blogspot.com/2025/02/roch... 🧬🖥️omicsomics.blogspot.comRoche Ripple PredictionsIn the prior piece , I covered the technical details unveiled by Roche for their SBX technology, but generally tried to avoid predicting its... 02611
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 21/02/2025What a world we live in that the highest cost of a DNA sequencer is the computer+GPU instead of the "sequencing" itself, big benefits for SBX if AI bubble pops eventually "the biggest expense [...] is assuredly the compute onboard" by @omicsomics.bsky.social omicsomics.blogspot.com/2025/02/roch...omicsomics.blogspot.comRoche Xpounds on New Sequencing TechnologyBar bets can be a powerful force in human society. One of the best known books on the planet, The Guinness Book of World Records, originate... 010
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 10/02/2025by @mnot.net on UK's demands to Apple 1. Comply 🔪 (seriously harm their core values and reputation) 2. Apple-xit 💸 (leave UK and lose 1.5Bn) 3. Decentralize 👥, would be cool to self-host your own iCloud data and would probably set the example to other companies www.mnot.net/blog/2025/02...mnot.netApple’s Best Option: Decentralize iCloudWhat can Apple do in the face of a UK order to weaken encryption worldwide? Decentralize iCloud, to start. 000