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Felis Just @monstermietz.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Hier sind unsere erste Ergebnisse aus unserer Studie rund um Autismus im Software Engineering. Erkennt ihr euch darin wieder? Fehlen Themen, sind eure Erfahrungen ganz anders? Meldet euch gern :) @svenapel.bsky.social, @janetsiegmund.bsky.social Isabella Graßl, Stefan Sobernig #autism #se

Quadratische Sharepic-Grafik mit der Überschrift „Stärken erkennen“. Links steht eine gezeichnete, lächelnde Person mit erhobener Faust. Rechts befinden sich sechs grüne Themenfelder mit Icons: „Neugier und Offenheit für Neues“, „Andere unterstützen“, „Bewusste Kommunikation“, „Hohe Persönliche Standards“, „Leitung zielführender Meetings“ und „Interesse an Herausforderung“. Die Grafik wirkt positiv und ermutigend.

Quadratische Sharepic-Grafik mit der Überschrift „Handlungsbedarf“. Links steht eine gezeichnete Person mit verschränkten Armen und verärgertem Gesichtsausdruck; neben dem Kopf sind Dampfwolken als Zeichen von Frustration zu sehen. Rechts stehen sechs farbige Themenfelder mit Icons: „Bedürfnis nach Struktur“, „Sinnhaftigkeit der Arbeit“, „Probleme in sozialen Situationen“, „Zu viele Stimuli“, „Einhaltung persönlicher Standards für Arbeit“ und „Verantwortungen fair verteilen“. Die Grafik macht deutlich, wo aus Sicht der Forschung Handlungsbedarf besteht.

Quadratische Sharepic-Grafik mit der Überschrift „Autismus am Arbeitsplatz“. Links sitzt eine gezeichnete Person mit schwarzem Dutt an einem Tisch vor einem Laptop. Rechts stehen drei gelbe Themenfelder mit Icons: „Was spricht für ein Outing“, „Was spricht gegen ein Outing“ und „Wem gegenüber ist man geoutet“. Die Grafik nutzt warme Beige-, Gelb- und Brauntöne.

Quadratische Sharepic-Grafik mit der Überschrift „Eure Forschungsthemen“. Links steht eine gezeichnete Person mit roten Haaren, Brille und einem Buch in der Hand. Rechts sind drei rosa Themenfelder mit Icons zu sehen: „Abbau von Vorurteilen“, „Entstehung sozialer Normen“ und „Empowerment“. Die Grafik ist freundlich gestaltet und nutzt helle Rosa-, Beige- und Violetttöne.

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Felis Just @monstermietz.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

On the spectrum and working in IT? We think that especially in IT, research is still too often done about you rather than with you. @svenapel.bsky.social @janetsiegmund.bsky.social & Isabella Graßl #Neurodiversity #Autism #ComputerScience

A illustrated picture of a group of happy people. Around the image is the text: On the spectrum & working in IT. Then participate in our research.

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Felis Just @monstermietz.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Auf dem Spektrum und in der IT? Wir finden: Gerade in der IT wird leider noch zu oft über euch geforscht statt mit euch. Wir wollen wissen, was euch in euren IT-Jobs interessiert und bewegt. @svenapel.bsky.social @janetsiegmund.bsky.social & Isabella Graßl #Neurodiversität #Autismus #Informatik

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Saarland Informatics Campus @saarland-informatics-campus.de · 22/01/2026

🏆 Saarbrücken now houses 11 ACM Fellows — about 1/3 of all ACM Fellows in Germany — highest of any location nationwide. This year, only 3 new Fellows in Germany were named, and Saarland University software engineering professor Sven Apel was one! Congrats, Prof. Apel! 👏 🔗 Read more: sic.link/apel

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Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 21/01/2026

Meet the 2025 ACM Fellows! Hailing from 14 countries and chosen from among ACM's global membership of over 100,000 computing professionals, these 72 honorees are cited for contributions in a wide range of computing research areas. Please join us in congratulating the new inductees! buff.ly/Pga16R8

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Andreas Zeller @andreaszeller.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Problem: Reviewers did not read the paper. Solution: Write a detailed rebuttal and point to all the places in the paper that answer their questions. New problem: Reviewers did not read the rebuttal.

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Max Planck Institute for Informatics @mpi-inf.mpg.de · 08/12/2025

🎓 Interested in a research-oriented, fully funded PhD position in computer science, supervised by world-renowned researchers? Then apply for IMPRS-TRUST, the joint #graduateprogram of MPI-INF, MPI-SWS, @uni-saarland.de and @rptu.bsky.social 🗓️ Application deadline: December 31st ↪️ sic.link/imprs

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Andreas Zeller @andreaszeller.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Happy and honored: I have been selected to become an IEEE Fellow for "contributions to analyzing software and its development process". Thanks a lot to all of you who endorsed and supported me – especially @cispa.de + @saarland-informatics-campus.de, who always encouraged such long-term impact.

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Saarland Informatics Campus @saarland-informatics-campus.de · 27/11/2025

🏆 Congrats to Professor Reinhard Wilhelm for being awarded the 2025 ACM SIGBED Technical Achievement Award! His work in WCET analysis has shaped safe embedded, real-time, and cyber-physical systems used worldwide, from aircraft control to medical devices. 🔗 Read more: sic.link/profwilhelmacm

Professor Reinhard Wilhelm stands with his arms crossed in a bright hallway lined with framed artwork and potted plants. He is wearing a gray blazer and light shirt. Below the photo, a blue banner contains the text: “Honoring Decades of Excellence: ACM SIGBED Award for Reinhard Wilhelm.

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Saarland Informatics Campus @saarland-informatics-campus.de · 19/11/2025

🤖 Using AI while coding? Think again. 🖥️ A study conducted by Prof. Dr @svenapel.bsky.social and his team shows that, compared to human partners, developers working with AI assistants approach code less critically and experience less knowledge transfer. 🔗 Read more: sic.link/software

Prof. Dr. Sven Apel sits smiling in an office environment with computer monitors in the background. Beneath the photo, a blue banner displays the text: "Is AI your friend? Saarbrücken says: Not yet — especially while you’re coding." Logos for Saarland University and Saarland Informatics Campus appear at the top.

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Alina Mailach @mailach.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

How has our field’s understanding of validity in empirical SE research changed over the past decade? 🤔 Our paper on this topic, with @janetsiegmund.bsky.social, @svenapel.bsky.social, and @norbertsiegmund.bsky.social was accepted at ICSE 2026. Preprint: sws.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/wp-content/u...

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gperrouin.bsky.social @gperrouin.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

The first deadline for the research track @variabilityconf.bsky.social 2026 conference is Dec. 4 ! It covers all variability areas including software reuse, product lines, and configuration. It merges the 3 previous conferences in the domain (ICSR,SPLC, VaMoS). conf.researchr.org/home/variabi...

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Saarland Informatics Campus @saarland-informatics-campus.de · 29/10/2025

📰 This week at #SIC: Prof. Dr. Sven Apel, Chair of Software Engineering, and Dr. Marvin Wyrich, software engineering researcher at Saarland University, highlight the importance of science communication in November’s CACM issue! 📰 Read: sic.link/silentscientist 📺 Watch: youtu.be/85Q3gTx_MUs

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November 2025 CACM: The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience

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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 27/10/2025

ACM sent a professional filmmaker to Universität des Saarlandes to interview Sven Apel and me about the topic. It was an exciting experience, and the video is now online! 😁 👉 Article: cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-... 👉 Interview: vimeo.com/1125950450?f...

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The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience

Marvin Wyrich and Sven Apel discuss "The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience," an Opinion article in the November 2025 CACM.

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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 27/10/2025

Marvin Wyrich wrote: Our article "The Silent Scientist," in which we explain the importance of science communication for software engineering, appears in the November issue of Communications of the ACM. But it gets even better...

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The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience

Marvin Wyrich and Sven Apel discuss "The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience," an Opinion article in the November 2025 CACM.

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Jonathan Aldrich @jonathanaldrich.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Many organizations are changing their language and policies surrounding DEI. The ACM has not, we are sticking to our principles. - Yannis Ioannidis, ACM president, today I'm proud to be a member & volunteer for the @acm.org!

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Saarland Informatics Campus @saarland-informatics-campus.de · 29/09/2025

German Unity Day celebrates the reunification of East and West Germany. This year, Saarland is hosting the festivities! We will be in Saarbrücken, Mainzerstraße 3, joined by DFKI, MPI-INF, MPI-SWS, and LZI, to celebrate German Unity Day with you! 🥳 🔗 Find our full program here: sic.link/burgerfest

Poster for the "Zukunft durch Wandel" (Future through Change) event celebrating the Day of German Unity in Saarbrücken, October 2–4, 2025. Below, large white text reads: "Visit our booth – join our program! Mainzerstraße 3, Saarbrücken City." The background image shows three smiling people sitting outdoors, talking, and using a laptop.

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

First author Vs. Second author

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Max Planck Institute for Informatics @mpi-inf.mpg.de · 19/09/2025

Director Christian Theobalt joins the new season of the Max Planck podcast “Ach, Mensch!” and talks about his research in Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence. ↪️Link to the episode: sic.link/achmensch 📸MPI-INF

Christian Theobalt during the podcast recording.

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Saarland Informatics Campus @saarland-informatics-campus.de · 18/09/2025

🏅 Saarbrücken receives 2 #ERC Starting Grants in computer science this year, more than any other institution in Germany! Congrats to Dr. Mariya Toneva and Dr. Franziska Boenisch! 💶 Each project will receive €1.5M over 5 years. 🔗 Read more here: ➡️ sic.link/mariya ➡️ sic.link/franziska #AI #SIC

On the left, Dr. Mariya Toneva, on the right, Dr. Franziska Boenisch; on top of a banner that says "Saarbrücken computer scientists win 2 ERC Starting Grants!"

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Sven Apel @svenapel.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Maintaining and cultivating the traditions of my Alma Mater. Congratulations Dr. Roman!

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Sven Apel @svenapel.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Congratulations @mtoneva.bsky.social! Great project! I'm looking forward to the results!

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 04/09/2025

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out! Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025! ➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh #FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 02/09/2025

In 2025, the ERC received 3,329 proposals for Advanced Grant funding — 31% more than last year! The selected projects will likely be announced in the spring of 2026. More facts and figures on #ERCAdG applications 👇 europa.eu/!bm9gPT #FrontierResearch

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Applications for ERC Advanced Grants 2025: Facts and figures

The ERC Advanced Grants 2025 call closed for applications on 28 August 2025. These are the preliminary data on the submitted proposals:

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International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) @aseconf.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Have you recently published in ASEJ, IEEE TSE, ACM TOSEM, EMSE, or JSS? Present your work at ASE’25! ✅ Accepted after Jan 1, 2024 ✅ In ASE scope ✅ ≥70% new content ✅ Not presented elsewhere 👉 Full details: conf.researchr.org/track/ase-20... 🗓️ Submission Due: 1st Sep #ASE2025 #SoftwareEngineering

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ASE 2025 - Journal-First Track - ASE 2025

Welcome to the website of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2025. The ASE conference is the premier research forum for Automated Software Engineering. E...

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Sven Apel @svenapel.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Experiments in SE research often require a contrast condition or baseline (e.g., contrasting reading code with problem solving or reading prose). What is the influence of the choice of baseline on the actual results? See our TOSEM paper for answers: www.se.cs.uni-saarland.de/publications...

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International Conference on Software Engineering @icseconf.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Congrats to all authors of accepted papers in Cycle 1 of #ICSE2026! Out of 660 submissions, 60 papers were accepted and 107 invited for major revisions. We now invite you to share this post with more details about your paper! We'll see you in Rio! 🇧🇷🌴

A happy sheet of paper with ICSE 2026 written on it

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 17/06/2025

📣 Good news: 281 top researchers have just won ERC Advanced Grants! The new funding, worth nearly €721 million, is part of the 🇪🇺 EU’s #HorizonEurope programme. Find out more 👉 europa.eu/!JYKxkD #ERCAdG #FrontierResearch @ec.europa.eu

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Felis Just @monstermietz.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Am Wochenende durfte ich unsere Forschung auf dem #Kosmos vorstellen. Ich bin begeistert, dass so viele sich für #Programmieren und #Neurodiversität interessieren. Danke an alle vor Ort und die #TUC! @janetsiegmund.bsky.social @svenapel.bsky.social @schanlin.bsky.social @yifan00.bsky.social

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Saarland Informatics Campus @saarland-informatics-campus.de · 11/06/2025

⚛️ Quantum software meets Saarbrücken science: new €53M+ research center launched at @uni-saarland.de. With #informatics, #physics, #math & #engineering on board – and @dfki.bsky.social , @mpi-inf.mpg.de & ‪@fz-juelich.de in the mix. 🔗 Read more about the #QuTe initiative here: sic.link/qute

The leadership team of the new Center for Quantum Technologies, representing the fields of physics, mathematics, and computer science (from left to right): Peter P. Orth, Markus Bläser, Giovanna Morigi, Frank Wilhelm-Mauch, Moritz Weber, Jürgen Eschner, and Christoph Becher. Not pictured: Jonas Haferkamp, who is also part of the leadership team.

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International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) @aseconf.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

🎉 HUGE NEWS! 🎉 #ASE2025 has received a record-breaking 1,190 submissions – the most EVER for a single-cycle top SE conference! 🤯 Massive thanks to all authors who submitted. Looking forward to what promises to be an unforgettable conference with an incredible program 🔥!

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Marcel Böhme @mboehme.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Massive 1.2k submissions to #ASE25 in Korea! 🎉 📈

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Andreas Zeller @andreaszeller.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Occasionally, I get a reviewer complaining, “You don’t compare against any other approach. So how can we know you’re better?” So I found a simple way to still add the "bold number column" that apparently everybody wants these days.

Table with three columns: one "other approaches", all with 0%; one "our approach", with bold, non-zero percentages; and one "improvement", showing infinite improvement in all cases.

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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 10/05/2025

📢 ASE 2025 – Upcoming Deadlines! 🔍 Research Papers: 30 May ✨ NIER: 12 Jul ⚒️ Tool Demonstration: 23 Jul 🧑‍🏫 Doctoral Symposium: 31 Jul 🏢 Industry Showcase: 1 Aug 👩🏻‍💻 Student Research Competition: 12 Aug 📄 Journal First: 1 Sep More info: conf.researchr.org/home/ase-2025

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Marcel Böhme @mboehme.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

✨️ Now that #ICSE25 is over, it's time to get your papers ready for #ASE25 (30th May)! 📢 Here is what's new: * Major Revision v2.0 * Review criteria for tech. & experience papers * Policy on LLM-assisted Reviews * Auto-bidding (TPMS) * Rapid Response Reliable Reviewers 👇 For more details, read on.

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Volker Stolz🏳️‍🌈 @fm-volker.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2025

Meet the AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize Winners at ECOOP'25: Mira Mezini, TU Darmstadt (Senior Prize) Amir Shaikhha, University of Edinburgh (Junior Prize) Check out their awards-citation: 2025.ecoop.org/track/ecoop-2025-awa… It's also the first time […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Andreas Zeller @andreaszeller.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

A new look! We have created a new version of The Fuzzing Book, based on #JupyterBook, bringing * easier navigation * dark mode * search * mobile layout and lots of other features. Check it out at www.fuzzingbook.org/beta/html/in... Should we continue with this new look? Comments are welcome!

Web site of The Fuzzing Book in new, three-column layout

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Diomidis Spinellis @coolsweng.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Many sites provide incorrect or incomplete BibTeX entries. I therefore just use the provided DOI and a small shell script to create the BibTeX from it from the definitive data retrieved from Crossref.

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International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) @aseconf.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

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Jonathan Aldrich @jonathanaldrich.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Citation-based metrics are bogus anyway but if anyone wonders why ML people have higher h-indexes, now you know! Data from cspubs.org

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CSPubs: How Many ICLR Publications Is One Paper in Each Area?

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Jonathan Aldrich @jonathanaldrich.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Finally a confirmation: PL paper are worth more!

Figure showing average effort to produce one publication in each area's top-tier conferences, in the unit of ICLR points. PL papers take 5.03 times as much effort as ICLR papers.

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Mariya Toneva @mtoneva.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Together with @autreche.bsky.social, Adish Singla, Krishna Gummadi, Goran Radanovic and Nina Grgić-Hlača, we have multiple open positions postdocs in AI, Computing, and Society at the MPI for Software Systems! Apply by May 13 via the new Max Planck Postdoc Program! www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...

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Max Planck Postdoc Program

Launching in April 2025, the Max Planck Postdoc Program features structured application calls and a comprehensive support system for researchers.

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janetsiegmund.bsky.social @janetsiegmund.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

What is the essence object-oriented programming? It depends on whom you ask. The long answer is available in the preprint of our recently accepted paper: www.computer.org/csdl/magazin... Marvin Wyrich, Johannes C. Hofmeister, @svenapel.bsky.social , and I dared to go down this rabbit hole.

A summary of the two complementing perspectives on OOP. Formalist view describes what OOP is, hermeneutic view describes its benefits when applied.

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Mariya Toneva @mtoneva.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

One week left to apply! We'll have so much exciting data for projects: for example, neuropixel data from humans while they listen to sentences courtesy of @shaileejain.bsky.social, Eddie Chang, and his group.

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Sven Apel @svenapel.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Debugging performance bugs is a maze of complexity! We used VR to uncover how developers reason about performance bugs, revealing structured debugging episodes... To be presented at FSE'25, a preprint is available: www.se.cs.uni-saarland.de/publications...

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Jonathan Aldrich @jonathanaldrich.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Quite a cartoon, sure to be unpopular with the leaders of the two most powerful nations on earth!

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

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