#iDNA from #flies used to track native species across WA's wheatbelt.

#conservation #eDNA #carrion #metabarcoding #mammals

https://phys.org/news/2023-05-idna-flies-track-native-species.html

RT @jodirowley
Exciting new research led by @Tim_Cutajar using #iDNA - invertebrate derived #DNA - to suvey #biodiversity. 🪰🧬

By sequencing the DNA in the blood meals of biting invertebrates, they unexpectedly detected invasive & threatened species! 🦎🐄🐕

https://australian.museum/blog/amri-news/its-in-the-idna/

Fun with internationalised domains:
Mastodon appears to render some Emoji characters in domains (but not all, I haven't had a chance to dig into the code yet).

If you want to be doubly verified, add a DNS record for "xn--13h" which is the punycode for ☑️, then configure and use that as your URL. See my profile for an example.

(I haven't posted an introduction, but expect more DNS crazy and silliness, some past hits have included Wordle over DNS and Wikipedia over DNS.)

#punycode #idna #unicode #emoji #dns

I am super excited to see our project win the local ANZ Hackathon round for Inclusiveness Analyzer!! With the Inclusiveness Analyzer project we want to create a more inclusive Microsoft and impact our wider industry by bringing awareness to the non-inclusive language that we might be using unconsciously in our day to day interactions.

All credit to Marcus Carvalho who came up with the idea for building the GitHub Action version of the original plugin that we made for Visual Studio for this hackathon.

We then had a dream team come together with Tracy Yu, Catherine Watkins, Cédric Blomart, Jason Thompson and Adarsh Rema to build out not just a GitHub Action but also an Azure DevOps extension, update the Visual Studio extension to support VS 2022 as well as tie it altogether with the site at InclusivenessAnalyzer.com

Our awesome ANZ judges were impressed that we built all this in just five days.

If you are a developer, we would really love to see you make your code inclusive by adding Inclusiveness Analyzer to your project.

Try it out at InclusivenessAnalyzer.com

PS I also want to thank the Microsoft Identity family (IDNA D&I) for creating a very unique D&I culture within Microsoft where D&I is not just a buzz word but something we live by and put into practice everyday. I was fairly ignorant of D&I before I joined Microsoft a couple of years ago. Not only have I learnt a lot, I have also been given the freedom and encouragement to work on initiatives like this. Thanks to my manager Ben Wolfe and LTs Prasanna Samarawickrama, Susan Bohn and Joy Chik ❤️​

#idna #diveristyandinclusion #microsoft #microsoftlife #devops #hackathon2022

When certbot go down because of python dependencies resolving and that all your personal infra. go down too.. No cloud, no webmail, no caldav, no sync 😥 #letsencrypt #certbot #idna