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Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

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Safeguarding in Sachsen-Anhalt – Sicherung öffentlicher Daten vor dem Regierungswechsel Wir blicken besorgt auf Sachsen-Anhalt. Konkret unterstützen wir alle Demokrat*innen und Antifaschist*innen in Sachsen-Anhalt auf zweierlei Weise: 1. Webarchivierung von Regierungs- und Behördenseiten 2 […]

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Dr Micha Campbell @michcampbell.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 23h

Hunter Valley coal expansion approved. I just don't know, hey. It's hard to feel much hope when our governments are so visionless. We often talk about how scientists haven't done a great job at communicating climate science (which is pretty offensive, we've been up against a billion dollar […]

Haken dran @hakendran.social.heise.de.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

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Wer Facebook oder Instagram nutzt, stimme Menschenversuchen zu – und obwohl Meta weiß, was sie mit der Jugend machen, schauten sie bewusst weg. Dr. Anneke Buffone hat selbst als UX-Forscherin bei Meta gearbeitet - bis es für sie nicht mehr moralisch vertretbar war. Ich habe sie für eine […]

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Christian Meesters @rupdecat.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

My first poster since more than 10 years.... #MOPRED symposium Frankfurt, Germany.

Poster showing the Centre for Scientific Computing in Frankfurt, Germany. Or rather it's infrastructure.

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

French local authorities to replace WhatsApp with ‘sovereign’ encrypted messaging www.computerweekly.com/news/3666512… French local authorities to deploy ‘sovereign’ end-to-end encrypted messaging service in […]

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Jonatan Jalle Steller 🦖 @jonatan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

On route to @hermes_datenkompetenzzentrum Open Colloquium in Marburg on behalf of @adwmainz.bsky.social. Grand Theft Autocomplete: 'AI' enclosures and their threat to data sovereignty 👾 doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23047649 #LLM #Humanities #DataSovereignty #GLAM

Slide titled "How to respond to LLMs in the humanities?"

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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: chaos.social/@vgrass/11733251177434… EN: The new ARD/ZDF Media Study 2026 also highlights the use of decentralized social networks—yay! However, with only 2 percent of the German population using #Mastodon and #Bluesky, there’s still plenty of room for growth. At least #LeaveX […]

petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

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Update. "Dutch Government is the latest to ditch Microsoft — US sanctions push Netherlands towards home-grown NixOS-based software." www.techradar.com/pro/dutch-governm… […]

Helma @helma.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

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"For me the discussion whether AI is actually (super)intelligent or will ‘go rogue’ is a red herring, that stops us from seeing the actual disruptive effect it is already having, and to hold those that are responsible to account." #AI #ClimateChange #Security #Privacy […]

Snakemake Release Robot @snakemake.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

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I am now bridged to Bluesky, too!

Christian Meesters @rupdecat.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

I just discovered how to pin browser tabs. Now, a dozen or so redundant tabs are closed. Oh, sweet delights of modern computing! (NB I knew that feature. Newer tried it.) #academicchatter

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Prof Heino Falcke @hfalcke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Today we had the most unusual PhD defense of my career. Leon Houben fell 15 m in the Alps, landing on his head and loosing his memory while working on his PhD thesis. When he met me again, he had to google me. He had to re-learn everything and wrote two more […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

"Beware cargo-cult reproducibility" by Lorena A Barba. On the transformation of "reproducible" into an increasingly meaningless quality label that becomes a victim of Goodheart's law.

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Egon Willighagen @egonw.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

should we not be "Retracting datasets?" chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2… doi.org/10.59350/x7zsv-0c792 #data #openscience "A bit over half a year ago, Markus Englund wrote about copy/paste errors in scientific datasets. I believe that many of […]

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Prof Heino Falcke @hfalcke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

You can now listen to the live recording of the „Ongelooflijke Podcast“ in a packed theatre in Ede, which was also the Dutch premiere of my book „Tussen oerknal en apocalyps“ (Between Big Bang and Apocalypse). It was a lively discussion about the very […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Dr Micha Campbell @michcampbell.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

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Another look at Perth's temperature, prompted by some online discussion that "I remember real scorchers as a kid, we just don't get that anymore" (I need to stop scrolling reddit). First, we can look at the distribution of Perth's daily max. temp - when we […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

A kernel density estimate for daily maximum temperature at perth airport, coloured by decade. The data show decadal distributions of temperature getting warmer

A column chart of the number of days where daily perth max temp >40.3 degrees for each decade bewteen 1950 and 2026. There is a steady increase in the number of these extreme days.

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Christian Meesters @rupdecat.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I made a screencast. This is not the final version. I am merely testing, how it will look on Mastodon. Wondering if it will display well at all. This screencast is a) accelerated, b) shrank, c) incomplete and d) recorded on an "old" cluster. I hope with new […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

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Christian Meesters @rupdecat.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@openresearchcalend… This is a course, where I particularly hope to find many, who are interested: Programming and executing #Snakemake workflows on #HPC clusters! My first few courses will be on-site, only. Might be that next time, I will run […]

Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

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Ich liebe es wenn Leute, die niemals deswegen ein Land haben fliehen müssen, Fenster eingeschlagen bekommen haben, auf der Strasse beschimpft sind, ihr Shirt von Klassenkameradan gerissen bekommen hatten, in der Schule bedroht worden sind, "die geben dir doch nur gute Noten und das Stipendium […]

Christian Meesters @rupdecat.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

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Am 1. Oktober veranstaltet die Gesellschaft für Informatik ein Online-Seminar zu "La Suite - The French way to Sovereignty in the Digital Workspace". La Suite ist eine einheitliche Kollaborationsplattform für Mitarbeiter des öffentlichen Dienstes, die auf Open-Source-Software basiert. Zur […]

Christian Meesters @rupdecat.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

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Today? A few meetings. One only with those doing the work. No superiors. So important! Got to write a few course announcements. The courses are already in indico and the German #HPC calendar. But not yet distributed via the various mailing lists. This requires a second pair of eyes. Now it is […]

Prof Heino Falcke @hfalcke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

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RE: mastodon.nl/@venite/117316734987694… Als je zin hebt om een diepgaand gesprek met Gijs Groenteman te beluisteren in de podcast van de „Volkskrant“, kun je dat hier doen – we hebben het trouwens ook over Mastodon […]

Christian Meesters @rupdecat.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

RE: mast.hpc.social/@jobs/1173190392480… Soms wil ik echt weer iets jonger zijn ... Maar ook al is dit geen baan voor mij, misschien iets voor jij? En wie weet - misschien dat wij elkaar ook en keer ontmoeten? Want ik zal vast en zeker ook met EESSI werken en op lange termijn ook […]

Christian Meesters @rupdecat.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

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AI-Art, AI-Code, AI-Emails, AI-Proposals, AI-Music, AI-Films ... did I forget anything in my list?? I am so looking forward to my drawing class tonight!

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Tatjana Scheffler @tschfflr.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Der Fauxpas zum Antisemitismus von Merz rührt auch daher, dass er einer derjenigen ist, die Rassismus immer mit “Ausländerfeindlichkeit” weichzeichnen.

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Ionica Smeets @ionica.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

What a hero: Nihar B Shah interviewed authors of papers that would have been desk-rejected to see if they understood their own papers. medium.com/@TmlrOrg/asking-authors-… #FuckAI

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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

RE: fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/117248029115… The webarchiving effort of #noblogs I'm involved in (one of many independent efforts) is nearing completion. For a couple days now, the task is quality assurance to catch potential systemic issues. (Luckily nothing like this has manifested […]

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Christian Meesters @rupdecat.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

My second and last day at #NHR26 . Yesterday, the plans to get a uniform survey for course participants got a bit more concrete. I was gathering course feedback systematically for years. It has led to numerous improvements of my courses. BUT, I never got around to evaluating them at large for […]

Thomas Kahle @tomkalei.mathe.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

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Mathematicians seem to be in the mood for declarations and petitions and big picture "what will mathematics be" blog posts about #AI [and I'm guilty too]. But I have the feeling that this does not help at all in day to day decisions that one has to make when facing students or making editorial […]

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

"For many U.S. scientists funded by the National Science Foundation (#NSF), the agency they know and loved died on 10 September. That’s the date NSF issued a 10-page memo signaling a retreat from its traditional role of giving grants to individual researchers to pursue their best ideas and to […]

Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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From 2022 to spring 2025, American PhD-granting universities posted an average of 289 openings in departments of chemistry and biochemistry. Starting in the fall of 2025, that number fell to 185 openings.

a graph of the normal growth rate of the Chemistry Faculty Jobs List, showing two deviations, the year during COVID (fall 2020-spring 2021) and the first year of the second Trump Administration (fall 25-spring 26)

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Fotostrips @fotostrips.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Superhelden, allemaal leuk en aardig, maar hoe zit dat met real-life superkracht? Lees de hele fotostrip op fotostrips.nl/strip/3836 @ionica.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy @skepsis.nl

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Dr Micha Campbell @michcampbell.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Hitting 30 degrees here in Perth today, and naturally this has brought out the "akshually it's pretty normal" people. Well actually, it's pretty abnormal. Based off the Perth Airport data (1944-2026), if today gets to 30C at the airport, it'll exceed the […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

A density plot of daily September maximum temperature as measured at the Perth airport, with vertical lines indicating the 50th, 75th, 95th, and 99th percentiles, and one indicating today's forecast temperature of 30C. Todays temperature exceeds the 99th percentile.

Christian Meesters @rupdecat.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

En-route to the #NHR conference #NHR26, the conference of the German #HPC alliance. My focus: training and life-science support. This year, the conference focus is on other topics, but there will be enough to keep me busy for 1.5 days. It appears, those hashtags aren't in use, so far. Mastodon […]

700Sachen @700sachen.ruhr.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

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Etwas, was mich sehr sehr ärgert: sehr vielen Kindern wird der Spaß an Sport kaputt gemacht, weil sehr viele Sportvereine nur auf Wettkämpfe hin ausgerichtet sind. Ich musste mir als Erwachsene mühsam erschließen, dass Sport wichtig ist und mir gut tut, weil ich als Jugendliche immer nicht gut […]

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Christian Meesters @rupdecat.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Dear Bubble, the far right is on the rise - not just in Germany. But that a Nazi party won an election in a German country state, 80 years after WWII, made the headline in many papers. And it concerns many of you. I have many friends and acquaintances […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Protest sign, quoting an AfD member who wants to found a new SA to "clean up" society.

Hendrik Weimer @hweimer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

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Great tool by @rstockm to estimate the reach of accounts and posts in the fediverse: rstockm.github.io/fediwings This could be especially useful for academic institutions to improve their presence here. #fediverse #mastodon #academicchatter

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FediWings | Fediverse Reichweite

Datensparsame Analyse der Reichweite oeffentlicher Fediverse-Beitraege.

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

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In my Introduction to Data Analysis in R for Linguists (elenlefoll.github.io/RstatsTextbook), I spend a lot of time on project management, file naming conventions, file formats, and reproducible workflows using Quarto. Some might consider it a waste of time because it means I have less […]