Jan Smyčka
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Jan Smyčka
@smyckaj.bsky.social
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(he/him) evolutionary biologist, mostly interested in predictability of species origination and extinction, backcountry skiing freak

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Center for Theoretical Study @cts.cuni.cz · 17h
‪New paper by David Storch, @graceridder.bsky.social & Jordan Okie in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social applying the Equilibrium Theory of Biodiversity Dynamics to Cenozoic diversity. Temperate diversity likely below equilibrium; tropical diversity may be above it.
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Jan Smyčka @smyckaj.bsky.social · 13d
But I think what makes a usable Linux distro is the community, for two reasons. With more people around you can find solutions to your problems. And also, the big distro and its features are less likely to be discontinued, which can easily happen in pro bono projects and really sucks.

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Jan Smyčka @smyckaj.bsky.social · 13d
I'm on Ubuntu, but touched Fedora and Arch too. Omarchy looks great, and I really like the systematic approach they took about documentation. I'm not quite sure what they talk about customisation though, pretty much all the distros are customizable to the extent you can make one distro from another.

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Jan Smyčka @smyckaj.bsky.social · 14d
I can imagine what you will find the most annoying is the absence if MS Office and all these niche office tools. Coding on Linux is lovely and thats why people have it. But I recently spent a day making my Czech electronic signature work🙃

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Jan Smyčka @smyckaj.bsky.social · 14d
VSCode works great, although I'm not entirely sure about all the integrative functionalities, cause I tend to things directly in bash rather than through VSCode. Git is more straightforward than on Windows I would say, after all it was originally developed as a Linux tool.

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Jan Smyčka @smyckaj.bsky.social · May 22
If you open unix terminal and start RStudio from there, it will open you an independent session. Quite commonly used on Mac and Linux, dunno if there is any workaround for Windows, but perhaps PuTTy would handle this?

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · Apr 4
Check out this blog post from one of our authors shortlisted for the 2024 Robert May Prize! @graceridder.bsky.social talks about their research on spatially realistic null models and their journal in ecology 🌎🧪
Grace Ridder: Generating spatially realistic environmental null models with the shift-&-rotate approach helps evaluate false positives in species distribution modelling
Throughout March and April, we are featuring articles shortlisted for the 2024 Robert May Prize. The Robert May Prize is awarded by the British Ecological Society each year for the best p…
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