RE: https://mastodon.social/@dawnnafus/116409476929596525
Thanks for this, yes yes yes, we need more of the otherwise;
> to sit with curiosities that feel somehow peripheral or irrelevant or otherwise not in keeping with one’s professional self-…
I still think the dumbest thing about Python is how all the functions have to go at the top of the file instead of the end of the file.
Yes, this Gov't Coalition's decision to slash funding to basic science (and trivialising science as 'a black box you crank and money comes out' with their stupid consolidation of scientific organisations) is a travesty for present and future Aotearoa NZ.
Some of our most educated, capable, earnest people are being spurned by our dumbest & least capable - namely those making up this Coalition. Once we lose specialised scientists, they probably won't come back.…