From @STAT:
"A new paper suggests a simple fix to the primary care physician shortage"

TLDR? Have #medicare ( #CMS ) pay them more. #healthinsurance too

This has been discussed in the media and a big subject of advocacy for decades but apparently you can still publish a paper about it now.

#directprimarycare allows physicians and patients to fix #primarycare without waiting for this.
#internalmedicine #pediatrics #familymedicine #medmastodon #RUC #AMA
@missanabeem
https://www-statnews-com.ezproxy.library.tufts.edu/2023/09/01/primary-care-physician-shortage/

My 🐘 #introduction 👋

I'm a researcher at Roskilde University (#RUC) in 🇩🇰. My background is #physics and research I do revolves around #fluiddynamics 🌊 💦 using #CFD and #theory. Much of my work is focused on #thinfilms or #droplets. My perferred #CFD tool is #LBM but I started using #VOF with #openfoam. I try to be open when it comes to coding which is why I switch languages for different tasks #julialang, #python, #C++, #JS.
Besides that I'm into #running 🏃‍♂️, #gaming, #coffee ☕ and #politics.

@nextcloud @koherecoWatchdog The #RUC library also denied ebooks to students who were unwilling or unable to access the #Cloudflare website that served them. The #Chromebook ban is a good start but there is a hell of a lot of work to do along these lines in #Denmark to free the students from #surveillanceCapitalism.

@koherecoWatchdog @nextcloud It’s good news, but note that I went to a #Danish university (#RUC in #Denmark) and was forced to use MS Outlook for email; got excluded from several activities because I was not on #Facebook (which the school uses officially), and was forced to use #GoogleDocs (had to borrow someone’s mobile phone to verify a Google account).

@alu Online or at a university? #Roskilde University (#RUC) is free to EU citizens and they have a chem program, but there are some downsides to that school. You’ll generally be required to use products and services of Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Cloudflare.. the school is dependent on several tech giants which should be embarrassing for a college of science & environment.

@yichalal #Roskilde University (#RUC) violates the #GDPR by using #googleAnalytics without anonymization. https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/a8aowo/danish_university_now_forcing_students_to_share/ https://external-preview.redd.it/B6YVsXH02rP6dh-bwKEbumeFY1XJyxZufDNJTMoN8RE.jpg?auto=webp&s=b3f92c567977620073c67412e36386535c5025c9

@redstarfish @vesperto Just to give an idea of how persersely insidious schools have gotten, at #RUC students are forced by their peers to obtain & use a #Google account, which requires giving Google a mobile phone#. Should a student at a tax-funded *public* school be excluded from education for not having a mobile phone? Students without #Facebook are excuded from some classes & class announcements.

@redstarfish I must say Wojciech Kosior did not succeed because he used a lab machine that ran non-free software. But I will say that he probably did as good as humanly possible.

I hope the fact that his university made it impossible reflects poorly on the university enough to cause some embarrassment.

In my case, avoiding non-free software at #RUC (#Roskilde University) was a disaster. There are no labs. Everyone brings their own laptops (which wasn't directed, everyone just assumed this). No one in the class ran linux.

The first class required using #MatLab. I probably could have installed GNU Octave instead, but RUC does /everything/ in groups. So even if the prof would allow me to use Octave it's unlikely I could assemble a group of Octave users. I would probably have to get the prof to allow me to work in a 1-person group.

Many of the students in groups for other classes had to collaborate on papers in realtime. Most groups fight LaTeX/Overleaf. They prefer gdocs. I got a group to agree in advance to do all deliverables in Overleaf. Then when the 1st deliverable was due, everyone in the group voted to switch to gdocs. I was fucked.

The general attitude of all technology & science students at this #Denmark school was that proprietary tools were inherently better, & the students were already so fixed in their commercial tools I really don't see free software getting traction. This is a school that has a "Free Software" internal webpage which actually distributes gratis proprietary software. They also refused to change the heading of the page from "Free Software".

@panais @jz It really should be. At #RUC university, the internal website for students has a page for "Free Software", where you can download MS Office 365, Mathworks Matlab (tm), etc; not a single free software app. Thinking that it must have been a bad translation from Danish to English, a support ticket was sent to update it to "gratis proprietary software". The school refused to fix it.

@r_a @hhardy01 @fribbledom no, #RUC students must login. They don't control who can enter the building. Anyone off the street can enter the library and read paper books there so long as they don't leave with them. But ebooks are more tightly controlled.

@r_a @fribbledom You say "expensive paywalls" but I have to say it's not just about cost. #RUC university buys access to books & journals from a #CloudFlare site. Access is gratis to the students, but they must sacrifice their privacy because the material is on a Tor-blocking #CloudFlare website. #SciHub has an onion site which protects privacy. /cc @hhardy01

@danie10
Headline says "#European" when it should really just say "#German".

It's quite the opposite in #Denmark, where you have #RUC pushing #nonfreesoftware onto students. And the students also have little respect for #freesoftware. Not a single student in the college of science & environment uses #linux at that #Danish school.

https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/acwc2b/how_a_danish_university_dependent_on_corporate/

@0 @climagic At #RUC in #Denmark there are no computer labs. Students bring their own laptops, and not a single student in the college of school and technology uses #linux. All MAC & Microsnot Winblows. Papers are written with #Google docs or MS Office. #LaTeX is tolerated but discouraged. The university is dependant on #GAMCAF.

@Ruptly #RUC is forcing students to use #Microsoft Teams. Students should not be forced to use the #privacy and freedom limiting services of tech giant #MAGAF corporations. (#Denmark)

@FuckOffGoogleZurich @shahaan@mastodon.social Concur. #RUC in #Denmark buys #GDPR-violating Microsoft products & forces students to use #Microsoft services. Students who don't use #Facebook are excluded from school events and optional lectures. Most students are pushed by peer groups to use #Google docs. The RUC website pushes non-anonymized Google Analytics (a GDPR violation).