I’m glad to see someone making good use of the name.Hydro International Boaty McBoatface Goes Virtual! Boaty McBoatface will set sail from Southampton today thanks to an initiative from international maritime charity Sailors’ Society and vessel tracking website MarineTraffic. cross-posted on Facebook

In case you needed a good reference to explain it’s not as simple as XX/XY when it comes to sex determination and differentiation. Like a *LOT* less simple! I thought I knew something about it before reading this.WHO | Gender and Genetics Humans are born with 46 chromosomes in 23 pairs. The X and Y …

“Surprisingly, our results show that women’s contributions tend to be accepted more often than men’s. However, when a woman’s gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.”Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus …

Why you should be suspicious of simple stories Tyler Cowen asks us to step away from thinking of our lives — and our messy, complicated world — in terms of a simple narrative. cross-posted on Facebook

Here’s The Powerful Letter The Stanford Victim Read To Her Attacker A former Stanford swimmer who sexually assaulted an unconscious women was sentenced to six months in jail because a longer sentence would have “a severe impact on him,” according to a jud… cross-posted on Facebook

I don’t know what I just did, but it said I would be a water bear. I’m good with that.The Lobster | Now Playing What animal will you be if you end up alone? cross-posted on Facebook

“In fact, there is very little in the English language that doesn’t have roots somewhere else in the world. […] The term haboob has been around for decades. As Henson notes, “‘[H]aboob’ is hardly a new term in the meteorological literature. […] a 1925 paper in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society was …