It’s important to remember that for every product you love, there was a passionate group of people that spent an excruciating amount of time debating every single detail to get it right. This is hard and rare, which is why you don’t love most products.

Precision on Lego manufacturing is wild. Every new piece has to fit with every piece ever made. So the most variability between pieces that Lego allows is 0.0005” (half a thousandths of an inch). Here are some other details:

Oh well. Platforms come, platforms go...

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Rather than saying, “this is what's going to make you successful,” she (Audrey) asks “how can I make you successful? What's going to help you?” Read more on how our CS team works with new users to help them transition in this @Labmanager article: hubs.li/Q01rVwXn0 #biotech

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We are searching for talented players to join #TeamTetra. If you or someone you know, would like to join us on our mission to accelerate scientific discovery and improve and extend human life, apply today! View all of our open roles here: apply.workable.com/tetrascience

I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?" As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.

I think the Mastodon model is the best alternative. No ads. No algorithms. Groups (like journalists) can own their own servers and make their own rules. It's decentralized, so corporate or billionaire owners. I remember feeling lost on Twitter at first. New things take time.

Looking for science, research, or STEM nonprofits doing good work in US or Europe. Ideally national or pan-Europe (but not necessary). Any suggestions?

4 days left! Join SWCC and Content Marketing Specialist Theresa Liao [email protected] to learn how to reach more people with your science writing using SEO best practices. Date updated to: April 24th, 2023 at 2pm PT. Register here: sciencewriters.ca/event-5170603 #SEO #scicomm

Looking forward to checking out this Ganymede webinar on their data automation process! blog.ganymede.bio/live-webinar-a…

Super excited about hosting this discussion on Thursday!!

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One more sleep till this ELN/Data management webinar with Dr Nathan R. Tykocki @dr_n8_phd & Dr Markus Schosserer! #AcademicTwitter If you can't make it, register to make sure you get an email when the recording is available.