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

And no, I cannot get internet from my phone hotspot, because I cannot connect to both my phone and the target network simultaneously to perform the authentication. Props to the designers!

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? 🤔

Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Wow, you're right; arXiv enforces a file size limit of 10 MB (not 3, though...). arXiv hosts close to 3 million manuscripts, which at 10 MB each still represents a manageable 30 TB, though I can imagine that they're more concerned about bandwidth (30 million manuscripts/month)

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

hal.science proudly claims it hosts about 1.5 million papers, which could all fit on a single USB-SSD drive. I would personally send them another USB stick if they lack storage, as long as my manuscript file can be a healthy 5-10 MB.

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...

Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Thanks for the summary. Familiar scenes from the previous platform

Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I'm out of the loop. What did Leadership day/do?

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

What is particularly annoying about this particular platform, is that it will log you out after a set amount of time (instead of a set amount of inactivity). Did you just write out an entire author list for this publication? How about I log you out first so you can do it again?

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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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I'd consider the impact factor to represent the journal's ability to generate citations. Whether that correlates with a positive author experience is anybody's guess. I'd rather see some kind of "social impact factor" that measures the wellbeing of authors, reviewers, and editors.

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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."

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SciRev - Review the scientific review process

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Exactly that! We need to make it more popular amongst our community. And they need to index Seismica!

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

I'm sure that there are many other journals out there that can act with complacency and negligence, knowing that their reputation is mostly derived from the Impact Factor. We need more push-back from the community to ensure they are meeting their "high quality standard" that we are paying $$$ for.

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

I just had a manuscript returned to me and my co-authors after almost 3 months since submission. The main reason: we declared funding in the acknowledgements but not in the metadata. I could fill out an "author satisfaction survey", but this will not change anything, and the world deserves to know

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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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I haven't seen those in a long while, but had I filled them out truthfully, half my family and friends could get into my user account at any time. They should have asked more private questions, like "Business address of your drug dealer" or "Name of your second mistress"

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

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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...

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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

This PSA was prompted by an email from Sapienza's IT to renew my password that looked suspiciously like a phishing attempt. When you do notify users, never say "Click here to learn more"...

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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 · 11/08/2025

I indeed suspect an overly-zealous find-replace tool. I initially feared that Overleaf had enabled an AI language tool that automatically "corrected" my writing, but fortunately that was not the case. But given how many scientific terms end with -or, I anticipate more victims of this macro...

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

I could understand how this could happen for a non-specialist journal, but this journal supposedly specialises in trees. They should have known how to typeset Latin species names. Want to see for yourself? academic.oup.com/treephys/art.... I will gladly send you a copy if you don't have access.

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Using fibre-optic sensing for non-invasive, continuous dendrometry of mature tree trunks

Abstract. Dendrometry is the main non-invasive macroscopic technique commonly used in plant physiology and ecophysysiology studies. Over the years several

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"...

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

DMs are open for inquiries or assistance with the French application portal.

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...

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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

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

And the reason I was able to take that picture, is that there were no trams either, so I had to walk. Lunchtime= you drive a car or you stay where you are...

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

Also, I'm writing this while I'm waiting for my train, because around lunchtime there is only 1 train per hour...

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

The worst part is that all of this is considered in line with the city's (Nice) policies to get people out of their cars and into alternative modes of transport. The infrastructure was created just one year ago, and this will be the reference for the next 30 years or so.

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

The black metal poles are there to prevent drivers from parking their vehicles on the cycling/walking infrastructure. This is absolutely necessary, because elsewhere you can see obstructive parking all over the place. A sidewalk is considered wasted space.

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

The path itself is just wide enough for 1 bicycle. There is a small ledge separating the cyclist lane from the pedestrian lane; not significant enough to prevent pedestrians from sprawling out, but certainly tall enough to cause you to crash your bike if you attempt to cross it at the wrong angle.

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.

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

Which is already the case, I believe. If I remember well, corresponding authors need to declare CoIs at the submission stage, including funding sources.

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/...

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‘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

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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

With a single click, my dev environment became completely unusable. I turned off all the settings pertaining to Copilot, and yet it is still there. This reminds me of the good old days of Norton Anti-Virus, which required 3rd party malware removal tools to be uninstalled completely.

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

What's worse, by enabling Copilot, auto-complete got enabled too, and I can't turn it off any more. The suggestions are absolutely terrible, constantly proposing me to access class objects that don't even exist! The only solution is to uninstall VS Code, because Copilot infected it like a virus...

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.

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