"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:

https://www.rug.nl/library/open-access/blog/publishing-a-open-access-book-on-psychosocial-support-methods-for-people-with-intellectual-disabilit

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

#research #care #psychology #SocialWork

by Silvio Zangarini

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.

https://welchwrite.com/blog/2025/03/26/14-ways-to-quickly-improve-your-photography-from-digital-photography-school-shared/

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: https://gist.github.com/svoop/25accb41d09a667e54c98b6f04a21fdd

and this paper also in MBMG erally nice : good work Tiina
https://mbmg.pensoft.net/article/130834/
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

Nice paper in MBMG about eDNA methods standardisation
https://mbmg.pensoft.net/article/132076/
What is eDNA method standardisation and why do we need it? by Theroux et al.
#Environmental #DNA #lab #accreditation #management #methods #standardisation #edna

GSPy - A New Toolbox And Data Standard For Geophysical Datasets
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https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.907614 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.5066/P9XNQVGQ | https://code.usgs.gov/g3sc/gspy <-- shared code repository
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[an older paper, but code is in active and ongoing development/evolution]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #geophysics #geophysical #NetCDF #datatypes #code #opensource #library #dataformats #standardisation #standardization #openstandard #portable #metadata #Python #package #GSPy #methods #workflows #xarray #CRS #opendata #architecture #toolbox

Gynepunklab As Medical Performativity
Mondays, 17. February -17. March,
6-8PM CET

For more info and to join:
https://www.schoolofma.org/programs/p/early2025-gynepunk

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

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.