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IFTAS @iftas.mastodon.iftas.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

⚠️ #SW_ISAC_ADVISORY A series of ongoing phishing campaigns are actively targeting people using fake verification and support accounts. Admins will never contact you publicly for verification or access issues. Never open links from unsolicited posts […] [Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]

Example of a phishing post, including the text "ᴀᴜᴛᴏᴍᴀᴛᴇᴅ ꜱʏꜱᴛᴇᴍꜱ ᴅᴇᴛᴇᴄᴛᴇᴅ ɪʀʀᴇɢᴜʟᴀʀ ᴀᴄᴛɪᴠɪᴛʏ ᴡɪᴛʜ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴀᴄᴄᴏᴜɴᴛ.

ᴛᴏ ʀᴇꜱᴛᴏʀᴇ ꜰᴜʟʟ ᴠɪsɪʙɪʟɪᴛʏ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀᴄᴄᴇꜱꜱ, ᴘʟᴇᴀꜱᴇ ᴄᴏᴍᴘʟᴇᴛᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴠᴇʀɪꜰɪᴄᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴘʀᴏᴄᴇꜱꜱ."

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Everyone knows that in robotics many tasks are easy, but seemingly simple tasks, such as cleaning a room or doing the dishes are hard. Well I have solved every room cleaning task. First the entire room is fed into an industrial shredding machine, the valuable metals are recovered by melting the […]

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Maartje De Meulder @mdemeulder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Thanks to support from @jdsde.bsky.social we can cover travel and visa costs for one or more participants from the Global South at this Winter's Dr Deaf workshop. Apply for funding and join a growing international network of deaf academics. drdeaf.org/workshops-events/#global-south-funding #drDeaf

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Workshops & events

Upcoming: PhDeaf Workshop and Writing Retreat — 7 to 11 December 2026. Registrations will open soon. Funding Available: PhDeaf Workshops 2026 (Global South Travel Support) The Dr Deaf Team is pleas…

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v_i_o_l_a @v-i-o-l-a.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Falls jemand in Münster und umzu zufällig grad einen Sekretär gebrauchen kann: Ich verschenke diesen hier meiner Großmutter, da er leider bei uns nicht mehr reinpasst. Sehr stabil, die vier Schubladen und die Ablagefächer oben sind sehr geräumig. Über die […] [Original post on openbiblio.social]

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Dan Stowell @danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

...but you don't know which one. One frog always tells the truth, one always lies.

Seen in Wikipedia: "A Giant Water Lily, one of which can support up to 32 kilograms of weight"

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Nathan Dykes @nfdykes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

My dissertation is online: doi.org/10.25593/ope... It presents TILDe (Traceable Interpretation through Linguistic Description), a meta-framework for corpus-assisted discourse studies. The starting point: which patterns you find in a discourse depends on how you enter the corpus.

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Making sure you're not a bot!

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Julika Mimkes @kami.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

Liebe Bubble! Mein Sohn, demnächst Mathe-Student, sucht ein WG Zimmer in Hamburg. Wer hat einen guten Tipp? 😃

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Lambert Heller @lambo.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

Wer hat sein*ihr flauschiges Nilpferd an der Baustelle Falkenstraße/Jacobsstraße allein gelassen? #Linden #FediVerloren

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge.fed.interfree.ca.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Angry hot take: If you are an expensive "accessibility professional", and the reports you're generating and sending to your clients are inaccessible, you should just get a new job. There is no hope for you. I've encountered that three times, from three different people, this month. WTF? #a11y […]

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Amy Isard @amyisard.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Seen at a cinema (aka movie theater) in Philadelphia.

On the right a wall-mounted hand dryer with air vent pointing downwards, above a counter with a sink. Behind the sink is a mirror with a paper sign stuck to it reading“This hand dryer is motion activated. Please do not place your popcorn under the sensor”

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v_i_o_l_a @v-i-o-l-a.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

"A Purr-fect Library Program: From Seven Cats to 1,800 Votes" uncommonwealth.lva.virginia.gov/blo… "What happens when a group of cat-loving librarians starts wishing for a library cat? In Alexandria, Virginia, they turn that simple idea into a […]

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Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

This is AWESOME! Cast members from different #StarTrek series make the case for reducing #LightPollution and preserving our ability to experience the stars from here on Earth: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc2zeKd-xf0 #DarkSkyInternational #StarTrek60

Photo of Terry Farrell from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine holding a microphone

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com Many more here: www.theguardian.com/profile/tom-gauld

Title (in a yellow star): "Offers at our Bookshop"

Panel 1: Buy two, get one free
A figure approaches the till with three books

Panel 2: Buy four, get a free tote bag
The cashier holds up a tote.

Panel 3: Buy one, get talking to staff, leave with five
Customer leaved happily, carrying a full tote and waving to tthe wo staff

Panel 4: Buy none, get a guilty feeling
Customer skulks out of the shop

Panel 5: Buy three as gifts, get the urge to keep them
Customer walking home already reading the books

Panel 6. Get overexcited, buy twelve...Get home, get eye-roll from partner
Customer arrives home reading a book and carrying two full totes.

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juliette @juliette.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

I am researching ways to minimize the impact of light pollution on wildlife of all sizes, with a focus on insects, in an industrial area. "Just turn it all off" is off the table, but I can make arguments for reducing it. I want to find out what is actually effective. So far I found one article […]

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge.fed.interfree.ca.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

After over eight years, my journey with Fable (makeitfable.com) has come to an end. I’ve worked full time at Fable since the beginning: back when Fable only worked with Canadian screen reader users. Over that time, Fable grew from a three person company to the enterprise it is today, expanded […]

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Laurent 🫠 @on-code.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

"You already have all the solutions. You just refuse to implement them." by Dimitra Rizou linktr.ee/ahoy_universe

Comic by Dimitra Rizou: a guy is presenting his "genius machine that will find solutions to all the world's problems" to hear the machine replying: "You already have all the solutions. You just refuse to implement them IT JUST NEEDS
to protect the financial interests of the wealthiest 0.001%."

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

ACAA* my latest for @newscientist.com *a cartoon about abbreviations

Panel 1
A figure addresses an audience from a lectern:
"Welcome to the IWAS*! Today I'm Going to talk about ARPs* in our communications."

Notes
*1 Institute-Wide Abbreviation seminar
*2 Abbreviation-Related Problems

Panel 2
She continues "These fall into two categories:" gesturing to a screen wshich reads:
1. ROAs*
2.WUAs*

Notes
*3 Ridiculously Obscure Abbreviations
*4 Wrongly-Used Abbreviations

Panel 3
She says:
"...In conclusion: Stick to WRAs* and use them correctly and sparingly."
One of the audience thinks "WTF!"

Notes
*5 widely-recognised Abbreviations
*6 Well, that's fascinating.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026

Paris has transformed more than 300 streets outside schools into pedestrian-only “garden streets,” replacing traffic and parking with trees, benches and light-coloured paving. Researchers found the redesigned streets were on average 5°C cooler than nearby roads during summer heat. The projects […]

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Amy Isard @amyisard.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

I enjoyed attending the Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages on the first day of #LREC2026 and also later in the day meeting someone for the first time in real life (@tschfflr) who I know from the fediverse!

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Amy Isard @amyisard.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

I woke up last night from a dream where my metadata creation process had gone wrong and had become poisonous - the output was also somehow my duvet and kind of a carpet of ivy and I had to get away or it would sting me. Unfortunately I scooted across the bed rather than out of it and woke up my […]

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Three cool scientists introduce their work "Our new theory has been submitted to a peer-reviewed journal, but we feel its depths and intricacies are best appreciated on the limited-edition vinyl release."

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inpc @inpc.go.mxtthxw.art.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026

The reason AI is so sketchy is because some of you incorrectly identified motorcycles.

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Amy Isard @amyisard.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026

This looks like a really intersting job for a techy cat lover. careers.cats.org.uk/job/851046 @astronomerritt maybe for you?

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Amy Isard @amyisard.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

Does anyone know of projects which have encoded a linguistic grammar in TEI format? I have been able to find documentation about and various examples of dictionaries and corpora, but so far no grammars. #TEI

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Amy Isard @amyisard.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

Wir sind mindestens 3 #dhd2026 Leute im (etwas verspäteten) Nachtzug nach Hamburg :-)

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Amy Isard @amyisard.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

Heute bei #dhd2026 war ich bei der AG #dhrse treffen (Research Software Engineering in den Digital Humanities) und wir haben viele interessante Themen diskutiert! dh-rse.github.io/@SabinaMollenhauer…

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Tatjana Scheffler @tschfflr.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026

RE: fediscience.org/@tschfflr/116124799… Hi #dhd2026 crowd, I have a #DH job (leading to a PhD) open in my group right now! Tell your students 🤗

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Amy Isard @amyisard.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/02/2026

Ich bin bei der #dhd2026 Konferenz (Digital Humanities im deutschsprachige m Raum) und werde morgen mein Poster präsentieren „Making Archives Explorable: Visualising Digital Materials for a Wider Public“, co-Autoren Sebastian Schirrmeister, Janis-Marie Paul […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

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Kavana Ramaswamy @kavana.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

Is anyone/does anyone on the fedi know string instrument players ( #cello mainly, but also #violin ) in #London interested in joining a #StringQuartet? Alternatively is any almost-quartet looking for a #viola player? Asking for partner :) #music #ClassicalMusic :boost_requested:

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026

Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots How I managed to give an exam while giving the students the choice to use a chatbot or not. And what I learned in the process. ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chat…

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Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots

Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

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Amy Isard @amyisard.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/01/2026

I combined two of my hobbies at the weekend - the 3rd bassoon/contrabassoon part in Bruckner’s 8th symphony has quite a few bars rest so I took my knitting along to the rehearsal. #knitting #bassoon

My lap with a colourful partly-knitted scarf on it and part of a bassoon visible on the right, leaning against my leg.

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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025

Master #Yoda? ‘The Smithfield Decretals’ (Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria), Toulouse ca. 1300, illuminations added in London ca. 1340. British Library, Royal 10 E IV, fol. 30v. #medieval #MedievalArt

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Amy Isard @amyisard.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/12/2025

I received an excellent selection of books this year!

A small pile of books. Three are lying flat: Vegetarisch by Paul Ivić, Slow Horses by Mick Herron and The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman and a small one is standing on top: Little Miss Marple Muddle at the Vicarage by Roger Hargreaves and Agatha Christie

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Maartje De Meulder @mdemeulder.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Academia wasn’t built for deaf scholars—but what if it was? Our new paper uses #DrDeaf as an example of alignment in action: how deaf ways of knowing and teaching reconfigure academic space and becoming. With tensions, yes—but also with a distinct deaf rhythm. academic.oup.com/jdsde/advanc...

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This is our rhythm: academic becoming and realignment in deaf space

Abstract. Deaf scholars have long worked at the margins of academic institutions not designed for them. Designated deaf academic spaces—where deaf ways of

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