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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

AI is coming for our jobs... (for the record: the train driver was not, in fact, delaying the international high-speed train to cook a beef stew for Christmas) @rocksandfaults.bsky.social

Screenshot of an AI-generated summary of a Zoom meeting:

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Delayed Train Journey Anecdote

Martijn shared his delayed train journey back to the Netherlands, which was delayed by 2 hours due to a train collision. He mentioned that the train driver was delayed due to cooking a beef stew for Christmas. Marco expressed concern and noted that trains in the Netherlands are often delayed.

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

1) In order to connect my laptop to a wireless network I need to install an app. 2) In order for the app to authenticate with the network, it needs an active internet connection. 3) In order to have internet, I need to be authenticated on the network. See the problem here? 🤔

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Why do manuscript repositories pretend like it's 1998? For hal.science, the maximum file size is 3 MB, and if you cannot stick to that they will remove your submission within 5 months. Nowadays a single HDD has a capacity approaching 30 TB, which could store 10 MILLION documents.

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Home - Archive ouverte HAL

Your publications are easy to find, well referenced by search engines and interconnected with other services (ORCID, preprint servers)

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Seismica @weareseismica.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

⚠️ Faults don’t slip evenly!! Varying slip rates along faults drive complex earthquake cycle patterns, yet they are overlooked in seismic hazard assessments. Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Submission day is approaching, and already 24 hours before the submission deadline this ancient-looking platform buckles under the strain of at least 100 scientists trying to submit their projects. Stress testing clearly wasn't part of the development objectives...

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Spending half my day filling out forms on yet another CV platform mandated by a particular funding agency. Can't we just export/import a simple XML/JSON from one platform into another? See also: xkcd.com/927/

XKCD comic with stick figures. Title says "How standards proliferate". Panel one says "Situation: there are 14 competing standards". Character in panel two says "14?! Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone's use cases". Panel three says "Soon: Situation: there are 15 competing standards"

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anthonysladen.bsky.social @anthonysladen.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

scirev.org 👈 "SciRev.org is [...] offering researchers the opportunity to share their experiences and select an efficient journal to submit their work." And guess what: "The website is owned and maintained by [...] a non-profit organization located in The Netherlands."

scirev.org

SciRev - Review the scientific review process

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

We need a rating/review site for academic journals. Something like Yelp, but for academia. As far as I can tell, there is currently no mechanism to hold journals accountable for editorial malpractice, or to provide feedback that is transparent and visible to the public.

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I was just asked to review a paper, but I had to look up several words from the title in a dictionary. I took that as a sign that I'm not qualified for this assignment.

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Jannes Münchmeyer @jannesmunch.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

SeisBench v.10 is out and it's time for some new models: - SkyNet allows picking regional phases and can even distinguish Pn, Pg, Sn, Sg (beware of the Terminator though) - SeisDAE brings easily retrainable seismic waveform denoising Check out all changes here: github.com/seisbench/se...

github.com

Release SeisBench v0.10 - SkyNet, SeisDAE and a more powerful model API · seisbench/seisbench

Major updates The SkyNet model is now available in SeisBench. SkyNet is specifically designed to pick phase arrivals at regional distances (up to 20 degree) and also comes with a set of weights to...

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

PSA to all IT departments out there: mandatory periodic password changes are no longer recommended (cybersecuritynews.com/nist-rules-p...). And requiring at least one capital letter, a number, and a special character has a 50% chance of resulting in "P@ssword123". Offer MFA instead.

cybersecuritynews.com

NIST Recommends New Rules for Password Security

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released updated guidelines for password security, marking a significant shift from traditional password practices.

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Yet another strike for the Tree Physiology journal: I noticed (too late) that the copy-editors rewrote Latin species names into EN-GB spelling: Brachychiton discolor became Brachychiton discolour everywhere in my manuscript! Fortunately I didn't pay anything for this "high quality typesetting"...

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Measuring rock slides is cool, but modelling rock slides is cool too. So why not do both? Come join us at the beautiful Côte d'Azur! We have a fully-funded PhD opportunity available in the framework of the ERC UNREST project. Application window is open until 25 August: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

emploi.cnrs.fr

Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - PhD Thesis: Multi-scale seismic characterization of active rockslides: from internal deformation to mass movement dynamics (M/F)

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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

AAA estimates the average cost of owning a car is $12,297 a year, and recommends drivers spend no more than 10 percent of their income on car costs. This means you should make 120K to afford the average cost. Median *household* income in the US is $77K. The math just doesn't work.

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

When you back-up your data to the same drive as the original data...

A big red/brown sign saying in big white letters "Projet Grand Site de l'Estérel - Massif de l'Estérel". Next to it is a slightly smaller sign with exactly the same layout and text

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

This is considered state-of-the-art cycling infrastructure at the Côte d'Azur (🇫🇷). The cycling path just ends and merges with a pedestrian lane. You're expected to zigzag between the black poles to complete the merge.

A complicated traffic situation with a cycling lane that just ends. Any cyclists need to make a zigzag around a parked car surrounded by metal poles. The lane picks up again about 10 metres farther.

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

@agu.org is imposing some Italian-style administration on all authors of all submitted manuscripts. We already disclosed funding sources and conflicts of interest in the manuscript itself, and probably also during the submission process. Why does every author have to repeat that procedure again?

Screenshot of the AGU dashboard with 4 manuscripts marked as "action items pending". In all cases, I need to complete an electronic form that specifies (financial) conflicts of interest

Zoomed-out screenshot of the conflicts of interest form that every author needs to fill out. There are multiple sections and text boxes that need to be filled out

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

No Microsoft Word, I don't think that "Slikeennines" is "More concise language that would be clearer for your reader". I'll stick with "Southern Apennines" for now.

Screenshot of a Word document, with "outhern Ap" within "Southern Apennines" being underlined by Word. When clicking on the underlined text, Word suggests to replace this part by "like" because it would be more concise ("More concise language would be clearer for your reader"). Accepting the suggestion would result in "Slikeennines".

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

New personal best (worst): I broke a new git-tracked repository within 34 seconds since creation. Can't merge upstream because of "diverging branches". I think we all need to look inside ourselves and acknowledge that only Linus himself really knows how to use git...

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The insect population crash is one of the most visible, because you can see it in your own backyard. Walk out to a meadow full of flowers: you no longer hear the constant buzzing of bees, bugs, and beetles. At night, leave the windows open and the lights on: hardly anything comes in to visit you...

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Emily May @emtomology.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Need a visual for insect declines and shifting baseline? Read this, and use the image sliders. “It’s the same sheet, with the same lights, in the same place, looking over the same vegetation…” he says. “There’s just no moths on that sheet.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects

A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Got experience in DAS data processing and/or subsurface imaging, and looking for a postdoc? Come work with us at Géoazur on a massive DAS data set from Chile! Job advertisement: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... Want a sneak peek of the data? Check our live stream: pisco.unice.fr#/live

emploi.cnrs.fr

Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - RESEARCHER in the field of seismic speed and imaging (M/F)

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I made the grave mistake of trying out Copilot in VS Code. To fix the error that I got, it suggested me to upgrade optimistix to version >0.13 (note that the current version is 0.0.10...). It completely hallucinated a story of version incompatibility.

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I'm sure that the Belgians are working overtime to come up with a joke about Dutch avarice and stealing wind

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

emploi.cnrs.fr

Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - RESEARCHER in the field of seismic speed and imaging (M/F)

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Jannes Münchmeyer @jannesmunch.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

SeisBench v0.9 is out now. Some highlights of the new version: - The CWA dataset with broadband and strong motion data from Taiwan. - The CEED dataset covering more than 4 million waveforms from California. - A 20% speed-up when picking continuous datasets. github.com/seisbench/se...

github.com

Release SeisBench v0.9 - Two new datasets, pick exporting, lots of small tweaks · seisbench/seisbench

Major updates Two new datasets: CWA for Taiwan, containing lots of larger events, and CEED for California, combining millions of manual phase picks with rich metadata from Northern and Southern Ca...

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Henning @geohenning.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

This is truly mind-blowing. At first I only looked at the crack appearing in the foreground in the pavement, then I saw the sudden and fast movement of the earth in the distance and on the right. 🤯🧪⚒️ youtu.be/77ubC4bcgRM?...

youtu.be

First fault rupture ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar

YouTube video by 2025 Sagaing Earthquake Archive

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I've heard of several of these initiatives, which at the surface look noble, but deeper down they often don't come with extra money to pay for these academic refugees. That, or it reallocates existing budgets, so that the grand total remains the same. Could we call it academic greenwashing?

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Seismica @weareseismica.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Distributed Acoustic Sensing is a promising technology, but it has a limited dynamic range. @martijnende.bsky.social Van den Ende et al. conducted an in-depth investigation into what this means for Earthquake Early Warning. Read now: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

This work was funded by: European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 101041092 - ABYSS)

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Never in the history of GitHub has adding a new SSH key worked on the first try. I can easily spend hours trying to figure out why my new SSH key is not accepted, and it is always for a different reason...

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

So that's what all those ocean drilling projects were for...

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Could journals please stop using Editorial Manager or other platforms that require reviewers to provide a department address, phone number, fax number, expertise, and other things just to be able to decline the review invitation?

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

If you thought that AI only impacts creative work, then you should read this article: thelibre.news/foss-infrast... LLM bots devour Open Source projects like swarms of locusts, effectively DDoSing open code repositories that actually try to make a positive contribution to our lives.

thelibre.news

FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies

LLM scrapers are taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure, and it's getting worse.

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Maybe if I get 200 more followers I get to 966 666 69, which also isn't too bad (this post is #69)

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Noooo guys massive overshoot! Now I need to delete my account and start over...

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Guys if I end up blocking any one of you, it would probably just be me trying to get a perfect sequence of sixes. This post is #66 by the way so I only need a few more followers to get there, and you'll see no more posts from me until that happens.

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Michael Battalio @battalio.com · 20/03/2025

The planetary community is starting a diamond open-access journal: planetary-research.org (free to publish, free to read). They're looking for editors. Let's dump Icarus, Planetary and Space Science, AGU, AAS, etc. who charge ungodly sums of money then do nothing to protect our copyright anyway.

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Seismica @weareseismica.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

La technique de mesure acoustique distribuée (DAS) a un potentiel certain pour le suivi post-sismique rapide d'évènements sismiques. Mais ce système pourrait il se substituer aux déploiements de sismomètres existants? Van den Ende et al. se sont penchés sur le sujet.

seismica.library.mcgill.ca

Distributed Acoustic Sensing for aftershock monitoring: the case of the 2019 Mw 4.9 Le Teil earthquake

Recent developments in Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) have greatly expanded our capabilities for dense geophysical instrumentation by tapping into existing (but unused) fibre-optic telecommunicati...

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Seismica @weareseismica.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) has great potential for rapid response seismic deployments, but can it replace existing seismometer deployments? Van den Ende et al. put this idea to the test. Read now: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view... martijnende.bsky.social

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Yup, Windows Update botched another Windows installation. It still boots, though, so there's at least that. It's funny how people think of Linux desktop as a hacky mess, and yet I'm never worried when I do my weekly updates on Fedora KDE. But for Windows I always say a little prayer...

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Recruitment/promotion panels should ban publication/citation numbers. Instead they should ask "what are you good at?". Hyperprolific authors will not be able to answer that in a demonstrable way, at least no better than anyone else can

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

A French nuclear submarine with the prominently-displayed name: "LE TERRIBLE"

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Reading these screenshots gives me the impression that this person believes peer-review is flawless. If that's the case, why typically invite 2 reviewers and not just 1? Also, would anyone complain if a "non-engineer" detected a critical flaw in the design of a bridge? Why would a title matter here?

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Damn those captchas are getting harder every day...

A captcha screen asking the user to "Select all images that match the label: undefined". The options presented to the user show various street scenes (cars, traffic lights, etc.)

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Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry @weareagc.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

How to publish in AGC? Find us at buff.ly/41jkwBx

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I'm reposting this, because so far we had no applicant! We currently have 2 years of funded salary for a postdoc to work with us on Eocene climate simulations on an exciting topic: understanding how primates dispersed over 1000's of km and across two oceans!

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The .science top-level domain is a cool idea, but basically every single word in the dictionary + .science has been claimed by domain squatters. earth.science, seismology.science, math.science, etc. are all claimed but "available for a price". This is a crime against the scientific community

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LastQuake @lastquake.emsc.eu · 09/02/2025

❓Do you have an #earthquake prediction? The Collaboratory for the Study of #Earthquake Predictability(https://scec.org/research/projects/CSEP/scec3.html) accepts predictions & evaluates them. Careful though: saying you did predict after the #earthquake happens means nothing😉

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