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UniversityofGroningenLibrary

"Publishing #diamond #OpenAccess is a noblesse oblige for us. Let everyone benefit from research, so that we contribute together to appropriate care and improve the quality of life for people with #intellectual #disabilities."

Read the interview with Alain Dekker, editor of an open access book on #psychosocial #support #methods:

🔗 rug.nl/library/open-access/blo

The book, published in 2024, has been downloaded >10,000 times by now.

#research #care #psychology #SocialWork

📷 by Silvio Zangarini

Dr Alain Dekker, Photo by Silvio Zangarini, University of Groningen Honours College
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Douglas E. Welch

14 Ways to Quickly Improve Your Photography fro, Digital Photography School [Shared]

Feeling like your photography skills have plateaued? It happens to the best of us. One minute, you’re cruising along, picking up new techniques and elevating your sense of composition and light like a boss – and the next, you’ve hit a creative wall.

But don’t worry! While there’s no single magic bullet for improving your photography, I do have plenty of techniques and exercises that are designed to help you level up your skills, and that’s what I share in this article.

Note that different techniques will work better for different shooters, so if you don’t like a method, just skip it and move on. With any luck, you’ll find an approach that works for you, and you’ll be able to develop that creative eye once again.

welchwrite.com/blog/2025/03/26

#photography#photos#education
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svoop ✊

Here's a #Ruby #design #question that regularly pops up in various contexts such as this: The Mailjet gem is a REST API adapter, 99% generated code. It exposes things as #class #methods like `Mailjet::Contact.create`. For a simpler, more consistent interface, I'm wrapping these in my own #PORO service class, all class methods as well, but I don't like this orgy of `class << self`. How to better design this? Here's a gist with the method bodies removed for readability: gist.github.com/svoop/25accb41

Gistwebhook_service.rbGitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
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Frédéric Rimet

and this paper also in MBMG erally nice : good work Tiina 😀
mbmg.pensoft.net/article/13083
Technology Readiness Level of biodiversity monitoring with molecular methods – where are we on the road to routine implementation?
by Laamanen et al.
#edna #methods #TRL #metabarcoding #standardisation

Metabarcoding and MetagenomicsTechnology Readiness Level of biodiversity monitoring with molecular methods – where are we on the road to routine implementation?Human activities are causing rapid biodiversity loss across ecosystems, affecting human well-being and crucial ecosystem services. Traditional biodiversity monitoring tools cannot keep up with the increasing demands of monitoring due to their limited spatial or temporal coverage, high costs, and lack of taxonomic expertise. Thus, implementation of novel molecular monitoring methods such as environmental DNA (eDNA) and DNA metabarcoding, are necessary. Molecular monitoring methods offer significant benefits for biodiversity monitoring and environmental assessment: high sensitivity and accuracy, non-invasive sampling, broad taxonomic range and cost and time efficiency. However, the diverse methodological approaches lead to poor comparability between studies and surveys, highlighting the need for standardised assessments. We used the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) framework to evaluate the maturity of molecular monitoring methods, providing a structured assessment of their readiness for routine use. In a systematic literature review, 420 articles fulfilling the study criteria were assessed and both individual studies and method categories ranked according to the TRL scale. The findings revealed a growing number of studies, particularly in aquatic environments, with most studies validating molecular technologies on a small scale but lacking large-scale system demonstrations. Aquatic eDNA-based methods targeting fish showed overall higher technology readiness compared to other sample types and taxa and applications of molecular monitoring methods ranked into the highest TRL were predominantly freshwater studies. Key barriers to the broader implementation of molecular methods to monitoring include the need for international standards, better quantitative estimates and comprehensive reference libraries. National and international cooperation is crucial for establishing common standards, ensuring reliable and comparable results and expediting the routine use of molecular methods in biodiversity monitoring. Recent efforts towards international standardisation are encouraging, but further coordinated actions are necessary for the global implementation and acceptance of these methods.
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Frédéric Rimet

Nice paper in MBMG about eDNA methods standardisation
mbmg.pensoft.net/article/13207
What is eDNA method standardisation and why do we need it? by Theroux et al.
#Environmental #DNA #lab #accreditation #management #methods #standardisation #edna

Metabarcoding and MetagenomicsWhat is eDNA method standardisation and why do we need it?The rapid advancement of environmental DNA (eDNA) science in the past two decades has inspired a concomitant growth in the development of eDNA sampling and analytical methods. However, these methods are often developed by individual laboratories or institutions, which can isolate protocols within programmes, agencies or regions and prevent the beneficial exchange of data and ideas. Recent efforts to advance national and international coordination have resulted in a groundswell of standardisation efforts, but there is still considerable confusion around the role of formal standards for regulatory or research applications. With this commentary, we hope to provide clarity on the terminology used in standardisation discussions, including the differences between formal standards and best practice guidelines. Additionally, we discuss how eDNA method choice may be informed by environmental management scenarios and review examples of formal eDNA method standards being used to inform management action. The eDNA community now has an opportunity to develop a roadmap for method development to help close standardisation gaps, advance eDNA method adoption and accelerate our ability to monitor biological life at the scales our current environmental challenges demand.
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Aral Balkan

Oh my goodness, how did I miss that in ES7 you can use a closure as a method. Goodbye `bind()`, you will not be missed :)

e.g.,

```js
class A {
b = () => console.log(this)
}

const a = new A()
a.b() // A { b: [Function: b] }

const c = a.b
c() // A { b: [Function:b] }
```

Nice! :)

**Edit**: Be careful with this. See this note by @marsup: mastodon.social/@marsup/113799

MastodonMarsup (@marsup@mastodon.social)@aral@mastodon.ar.al Respectfully, this looks like an anti-pattern. `b` won't be part of the prototype, potentially preventing some meta programming, and you're going to get a new `b` for each instance of that class, consuming that much more memory for each instance you hold.
#JavaScript#EcmaScript7#ES7
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Thomas

I recommend reading #JacquesEllul "Le fascisme, fils du libéralisme" ("Fascism, son of Liberalism, 1937).

Ellul was an eye-witness of fascism in Italy, Germany and Spain. He argued that fascism is a method, not an ideology, a technology of the social. By using industrial organization methods it turns a society into a totalitarian enterprise.

An OCRed version of the articler is available on JSTOR (a free account is sufficient)..

Screenshot of Ellul's article in French. Here is the English translation (Google Translate didn't get it right): "(When people) faced thinking disembodied of its role, there was only one cry: death to Byzantinisms - we must act. To act, methods were found: one no longer searched for a reason to act, but for a justification for action. Doctrine was replaced by method - the electoral program. One would make a method of taking power, the same as a method of absorbing surplus wheat, but no general thought dominates and centers the act. And then we see appearing, in the domain of intelligence, the primacy of technique: because method is nothing other than a technique of intelligence. Here again, technique triumphs over what's human. Now this passage from system to method characterizes exactly, from the intellectual point of view, the passage from liberalism to fascism."
#Fascism#systemsthinking#methods
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Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

okay yeah this is definitely good

METHODS POST I mean it's trivial but

* put your yeast and sugar into the warm water like always

* let it activate the usual 10 minutes (or however)

* add rounded 1/4 cup onion flakes, stir in well

* let them rehydrate in the mix for 3 minutes

* mix into drys and proceed as usual

trust me on this one if you like onions it's dang good

#baking#bagels#onions
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💧🌏 Greg Cocks

Handbook On Remote Sensing For Agricultural Statistics, UN [2017]
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openknowledge.fao.org/items/49 <-- link to technical resource
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[a little older but still very valuable; it would be interesting to see how more recent AI plays into any 2nd edition]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #agriculture #farming #crops #croplands #foodresources #statistics #geostatistics #sustainability #global #strategy #methods #model #modeling #research #GPS #precisionagriculture #census #estimation #yields #monitoring #openaccess #opendata #handbook
@UN @FAO

diagram - workflow for land cover mapping from satellite observation time series
cover page - Handbook On Remote Sensing For Agricultural Statistics, UN [2017]
maps - (global) priority indicator map and updated typology
text and maps - stratification and sampling for the Sentential-2 for agriculture, system supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) in Mali, Africa
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Dorothy Bishop

Please to announce that our book Evaluating What Works has now been updated online bookdown.org/dorothy_bishop/Ev (free) and is also available for purchase if you want hard copy or ebook: taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1
#intervention #statistics #methods Also, thx to Mastodon for sensitising me to need for alt.text. All figs in online version now have this!

bookdown.orgEvaluating What WorksIntroduction to methods for evaluating effectiveness of non-medical interventions
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Ingmar Lippert

Happily joining today University of Frankfurt am Main (aka Goethe Uni, GU) for a position to teach #anthropological #theory, #ethnographic #methods & #ScienceAndTechnologyStudies. My new academic base is GU's Institute of Cultural Anthropology & European Ethnology, @KAEEGoetheUni.

Fun plan: use this base to continue exploring theoretical roots of #STS in #sociology, #anthro, engage with #geography takes on STS. Meanwhile continuing research with #MaterialSemiotics. #introduction 4 assemblage.es

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Kristen Olson

Here's my introduction post!

I'm a #survey methodologist and professor of #sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I also direct our academic survey center, the Bureau of Sociological Research. And I edit the survey methods side of the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology.

My work is on mixed-mode surveys, interviewers, qnaire design, and nonresponse.

I will post about survey #methods work.

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