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Konrad Hinsen

@khinsen.net
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Researcher at CNRS (France). Computational science, in particular computational biophysics. Metascience, in particular the evolution of science in the digital era. More active in the Fediverse: scholar.social/@khinsen

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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 29/09/2026
@semble.so Is there a way to update the title of a card? Or even edit it arbitrarily?
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
👀 Florida attorney general to OpenAI: (www.myfloridalegal.com/sites/defaul...)
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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 25/09/2026
New blog post: "Knowledge refinement in the digital era" 🧪 How can computational knowledge move from research into education and general culture? blog.khinsen.net/posts/2026/0...
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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 25/09/2026
Lecture notes on "The Source Code of Science" 🧪, by Roberto di Cosmo. hal.science/hal-05734828 Its source code: github.com/rdicosmo/sou...
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Making sure you're not a bot!
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Marcin J. Suskiewicz @msuskiewicz.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026
Today, the day of the 100th anniversary symposium for Jean-Pierre Serre in Paris, I'm thinking of this quote from another mathematician, A. Connes. I do think it's important we foster confidence in our own expertise - as a nonsense filter and departure point for creativity.
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I wrote down my thoughts about the last several weeks of AI hell. aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...
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Misleading Metaphors, Real Risks
What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency
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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 10/09/2026
Both MOOCs are free, thanks to the generous support by the Inria Learning Lab.
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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 10/09/2026
Want to learn good practices for reproducible research? There's a MOOC for that! 🧪 First level, for anyone doing research using computers: www.fun-mooc.fr/en/courses/r... Second level, for those who do computational research: www.fun-mooc.fr/en/courses/r...
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Reproducible research: methodological principles for transparent…
This Mooc proposes methodological principles for open and transparent science. It deals in a practical way with note-taking, computational documentation, replicability of analyses.
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hey @ericlipton.nytimes.com 👋 AI is not “evolving” on its own. *People* are choosing how to build it. *People* are choosing how to train it. *People* are choosing how to run it. Maybe the problem is that they are the *wrong people* to make these choices.
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MetaROR @metaror.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Here is the evaluation for "an empirical assessment of the inferential reproducibility of linear regression analyses in health and biomedical research". It demonstrates "substantial violations of key modelling assumptions" that often went unnoticed by authors and reviewers. 👇 Read it on MetaROR
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An empirical assessment of inferential reproducibility of linear regression in health and biomedical research papers - MetaROR
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 16/07/2026
> Young people [...] coined this term ‘AI slop’ … There’s a sort of disdain for things AI. Where are all those who claimed the problem with AI adoption was because every new tech that young people use old people hate? Oh, did that parallel collapse because it's actually the kids who hate it?
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 09/08/2026
Chess is a formal system. Language isn't. There's a huge difference between the rules of chess and language, which doesn't have a set of rules in the same way.
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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 05/08/2026
Yes, clustering with adjustable resolution would be great! Zooming into a topic sound promising!
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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 13/07/2026
Just released an early preview of Zemble, a @zotero.org plugin for @semble.so! - Augment you Zotero library with all of the activity happening on Semble/Atmosphere. - Easily save and view items in Zotero on Semble. - Publish Zotero collections as Semble collections.
Screenshot of a Zotero library with "Added By", "Collections", and "Connections" columns populated from Semble.Screenshot of a Zotero library with options to save and open items in Semble.A screenshot of a Zotero library showing the option to save Zotero collections to Semble.
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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 05/08/2026
This looks great! But... where do the 28 topics come from? Derived from the graph? If so, how do you define a topic? 28 looks like a pretty small number, given the number of links.
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David Gasquez @davidgasquez.com · 31/07/2026
Wanted to take a peek at @semble.so and didn't knew where to start. I built this as a static explorer of all the links in there. sites.wisp.place/davidgasquez... Love AT Protocol for letting me build the UI I want! 😍
Interactive “Semantic Field Map” for the Semble Link Atlas, showing
 31,367 links grouped into 28 color-coded topic clusters. Thousands of
 colored dots form a central map labeled with themes such as Experimental
 Web Projects, AI Industry Criticism, Language Model Engineering, Books
 and Literature, and Open Source Infrastructure; a searchable topic
 legend with link counts appears on the right.
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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Copying manuscripts by hand must have been an incredibly deep learning experience. Working through the ideas of Plato or Aristotle or Augustine line by line. Swimming in author’s head for months.
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Fastmail @fastmail.com · 03/08/2026
Fastmail data can now live primarily in the EU, on servers our own engineers set up in Amsterdam. Current customers can switch in settings; new accounts pick a region at signup. 

 Our CEO Bron's post walks through exactly what lives where.
www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmai... #Fastmail #Email
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Fastmail offers EU data region
Choose if you want to make the European Union the primary home for your Fastmail data, on our own secure servers in Amsterdam.
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I recommend this article about AI reasoning, where the author lets us in on his struggles w/ AI cognitive dissonance. Plus some priceless quotes from @rao2z.bsky.social. (My recommendation has *nothing* to do with the fact that I'm quoted in it too 😇) www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-reason...
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Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? | Quanta Magazine
The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled.
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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
See below for a preview of our Munich Manifesto for Equitable Open Research - if you care about #openscience for all, please consider signing too! We are gathering support for a formal launch in September #philsci #research #policy #equality #sts Thanks so much @alelazic.bsky.social for your insight
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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
OK one of the greatest things IA've ever built. Bi-directional SVG source code editing. Drawing as programming with programmable drawings. *this* is how I want computers to collaborate with me. Ordinary SVG with a plurality of editable views. tomlarkworthy.github.io/lopebooks/no...
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
normally, as a metascientist, I should be elated to read about "establishing metascience units to institutionalize continuous improvement" as a government science priority but in this case it fills me with dread
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 13/07/2026
This problem by the way with industry actors destroying open source projects and taking advantage of people who pour their hearts into things has been well-known for ages and their entryism is reaching new heights bsky.app/profile/khin...
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 12/07/2026
Things like: Cooper, R. P., & Guest, O. (2014). Implementations are not specifications: Specification, replication and experimentation in computational cognitive modeling. Cognitive Systems Research, 27, 42-49. doi:10.1016/j.cogsys.2013.05.001. PDF: pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i...
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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 07/07/2026
I suppose it's this thread (from 2017!): github.com/ReScience/Re...
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Post-publication maintenance · Issue #43 · ReScience/ReScience
I have tried to reproduce the results of some of the papers published in ReScience, with the goal of using them as examples in a course on reproducible research. The idea is to let students re-run ...
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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 07/07/2026
My experience from my Fortran days is that sticking strictly to the Fortran 77 standard yielded very portable programs. Prospero Fortran for the Atari ST had a strict F77 mode, which made this easy for me.
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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 07/07/2026
A reproducible container, e.g. built from a Debian snapshot, will do fine as a baseline. My personal preference would be Guix instead, but that's a detail. My main point is that a non-reproducible container (built from "latest Ubuntu", for example) is not a good choice.
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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 07/07/2026
Yes, stone tablets! I have always wanted to do an April fool's message announcing a cuneiform clay tablet backend for LLVM.
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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 07/07/2026
Digital archivists use virtual machines. But they preserve unique executable artifacts, not building blocks that need to be assembled for a specific research project.
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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 07/07/2026
Time scales are really important and a huge cause of misunderstandings. In my field (biophysics), a joint theoretical-experimental research project can easily run over ten years. For someone in machine learning, that's all of known history.
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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 07/07/2026
There is indeed a one-time complexity cost for having C libraries. But I haven't seen any case of Python software collapse caused by a C library so far. Nor of the C build system, unless it's CMake.
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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 07/07/2026
The only form of software distribution that is really OK for science is source code with build instructions, for all parts of the software stack that are not stable over years to decades.
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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 07/07/2026
Containers are OK (if you don't mind their size) for sharing and archiving binaries. But research requires not only running compiled code. You have to be able to modify the source code and recompile. You cannot do that if all you have is a container. And then, as you say, there are hardware issues.
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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 07/07/2026
I definitely simplify the past, but I don't think I idealize it. There have always been more and less rigorous people in science (which is good!). What has changed is that being rigorous is no longer a possibility in many contexts.
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ville hautakangas @vhautaka.milfmessenger.app · 06/07/2026
"Conviviality can only happen if a majority of a community adopts it as a value. What small groups of people can do, however, is develop and use convivial tools at their modest scale, to demonstrate that it is possible, and to provide a model that others can learn from if they want to."
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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 07/07/2026
Yes, I have seen this, and I have talked to people who were involved in the various processes. It's much more complicated than the article suggests. Have a look at the thesis itself if you want to know more - its scientific quality is... well... questionable.
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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 07/07/2026
There's an issue thread somewhere on GitHub about this. I tried to reproduce results from published ReScience C papers. They were all "confirmed reproducible" by two reviewers at publication time. A few years later, I couldn't run the code any more.
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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 07/07/2026
If all versions are given AND you manage to reconstruct an environment from that list, your chances are much better. For full reproducibility, you need the versions of everything, down to compilers, system libraries, and the operating system itself. There are real-life examples where this matters.
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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 06/07/2026
That's actually a quote from Illich's book!
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/07/2026
oh that's very related to @khinsen.net and co's rescience.github.io
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ReScience C
Reproducible Science is good.<br/> Replicated Science is better.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/07/2026
anyway read the paper @khinsen.net links to as well: doi.org/10.4000/16954
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Conviviality for Digital Degrowth
1 Introduction In Tools for Conviviality [1973], Ivan Illich laid down a strikingly prescient analysis of the woes that can plague a technological society and destroy what he called conviviality, t...
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/07/2026
> Conviviality can only happen if a majority of a community adopts it as a value. What small groups of people can do, however, is develop and use convivial tools at their modest scale, to [...] provide a model that others can learn from if they want to. — @khinsen.net
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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 06/07/2026
New blog post: "Conviviality in computational science" blog.khinsen.net/posts/2026/0... "Conviviality matters for science ... if you want to derive knowledge from your work, you need to know exactly what you are doing, and that includes a detailed understanding of your tools." 🧪 #metascience
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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 26/06/2026
Your account your PDS (Personal Data Store). It's much like a Web site, but for structured data rather than pages. Apps read data from PDS (it's all public), and given your authentication they can modify data in your PDS. One account for any number of apps. Which can all read each other's data.
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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 25/06/2026
What exactly do you verify? What can I deduce from the fact that an account was verified by you? I can't find anything about this on your Web site.
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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Nothing says "we should probably do something about this" quite like an extreme heat conference being canceled because it's too hot. 🫠🌡️
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
"Open science is increasingly losing its liberating and democratizing potential, as it becomes entangled with the interconnected and mutually reinforcing logics of commercialization, political instrumentalization, and media-driven visibility of science."
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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 21/06/2026
I just tried again, and now it only asked me if I am 18 or above. Different computer, different browser, a few days later.
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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 21/06/2026
BlueSky only asked me if I am 18 or above. Mu asked me for my birth date. But apparently, others only get asked if they are 18 or above (e.g. bsky.app/profile/fger...).
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