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Thorbjörn Sievert

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Postdoc @ Aarhus University, Denmark. Working on applied animal behavior. Dabbling with ML to analyze large amounts of videos. |Passionate about mammalian chemical […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ fediscience.org/@volephd, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Happy "Charles Darwin is poorly today" Day to those who celebrate 165 years ago today, Charles Darwin was having a rough one
Photo of Charles Darwin's hand-written journal entry from 1 Oct 1861 and digitized text of same

"But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything."
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Christian Schwägerl @christianschwaegerl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
Nach dem Hitzesommer ist das Gras im Hinterhof nur wenige Millimeter hoch – aber wird jetzt mit lauten Benzinmotorsensen bearbeitet, sodass nur noch braune staubige Erde übrig ist. Sinnbild für deutsche #Klimapolitik gerade. #Tankrabatt #Berlin
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Elio Campitelli @eliocamp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
Journal asking for an author contribution statement for a single author manuscript. I guess I can write "I did everything". #AcademicChatter
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All Europeans 🇪🇺 @ueeu.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
RE: reseauculture.fr/@MuseeOrsay/117236… The Musée d'Orsay is now on the Fediverse! It's the second most-visited museum in France after the Louvre. We're glad to see many French cultural institutions arriving here! 🇫🇷 😀 Their account is on an instance set up for French […]
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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
#SpringerNature just published a report showing certain download and citation benefits of "gold" #OpenAccess. (I'm linking to the executive summary.) stories.springernature.com/from-acc… But it's very misleading, even […]
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Lambert Heller @lambo.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
Hey dear international followers, you want to make sense of what's going on with the AfD conquering Sachsen-Anhalt state elections? German journalist Mohamed Amjahid has a quick but nuanced analysis of what's going on. (In Germany, Amjahid is maybe best known for his coverage of German police […]
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Ulrich Kelber @ulrichkelber.bonn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026
Was für eine 🟫 💩
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Erik Svensson @evolodonata.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
Come join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology at #LundUniversity in #Sweden! New position as Senior Lecturer in Computational Biology just announced. Apply or spread the word to all interested candidates! […]
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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
Ignore this guy, join a Union www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view…
Screenshot: "August 27, 2026
Postdocs Aren’t Burger Flippers: Why Unionization Is a Bad Idea

Unionization disrupts the bespoke mentor-mentee relationships that are central to the advancement of science.

By  Evan D. Morris
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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
Wow, I just realized that for my current #MachineLearning #ComputerVision #DeepLabCut project I have manually placed over 100.000 labels. Of course the model is still terrible, so it feels a bit like a lot of time wasted. #AcademicChatter #PostdocLife #PhDLife
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
I know that Elon Musk gets a lot of hate on here, but hear me out. I think we could hate him more. We have the capacity, we all just need to put in a little more effort.
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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
RE: fediscience.org/@volephd/1168096078… Well, it's time to post this gain. I'm looking for a new job starting next year. Please share it far and wide! #AcademicJob #FediJobs #FediHire #GetFediHired #LookingForJob #AcademicChatter #PhDLife #PostdocLife #AcademicMastodon
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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 19/08/2026
Wenn Fridays For Future sagte, dass man beim Klima doch bitte auf die Wissenschaft hören sollte, haben manche Konservative erklärt, dass das ein "Kult um Greta" sei. Wenn fanatische "Nur-noch-AfD"-Anhänger sektenartig die Propaganda ihrer Führer herunterbeten, heißt es, man "muss sie ernst nehmen".
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Ulrich Kelber @ulrichkelber.bonn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026
#Wsocial macht Werbekampagne EU-Kommission wechselt - trotz minimalster Nutzungszahlen - auf Wsocial Wsocial gibt bekannt, auch rechtsextremistische Inhalte nicht löschen und blocken zu wollen EU-Kommission bleibt auf Wsocial Die Wsocial-Chefin Zeitler, die sich schon über Alice Weidel freute […]
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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026
Well, tomorrow I have a meeting with my boss to talk about prolonging my contract. Right after I give a talk about how terrible the situation for #postdoc.s is (precarious work environment, high prevalence of mental health issues). I can't decide whether the timing is great or terrible. I […]
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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026
What should digital infrastructure for open science look like, and more importantly, who should shape it? Universities and scholarly communities are starting to explore new directions together. This includes a living lab at Warwick, governance research with Princeton HCI and experiments with […]
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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026
Whenever I learn about a new statistical method: Do I know what I'm doing? - Highly debatable Do I hope for the best? - 100% It's not helping that I need to run things on an #HPC, so my failing forward is hogging resources. I sincerely hope #Reviewer2 is […] [Original post on fediscience.org]
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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
Today I was knee-deep in #Python dependency hell. At some point I used my browser to access the #HPC, to emulate #KDE, to launch another browser with #Jupyter. It still did not work. Current solution is to try making a minimal bundle and run on #GoogleCollab. Luckily it's only a tiny piece of […]
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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026
Together with @AvSchroeder we had a lovely chat with @jorgeluis about openscience.network It's a particular flavor of @Bonfire, aiming to meet the needs of researchers & in the early stages of development. I think it's a very worthwhile project (mostly for my potential second account […]
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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026
For anyone interested in #OpenScienceNetwork, the flavor of @Bonfire, we have a matrix room now: matrix.to/#/#osn:matrix.org (thanks @ivan) For more context, see: fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/117009903990…
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There is a matrix room now: https://matrix.to/#/#osn:matrix.org We (@AvSchroeder & I) had a lovely chat with @jorgeluis@pub.solar about https://openscience.network It's a flavor of @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe, aiming to meet the needs of researchers and #OpenScience - in early stages of development. I think it's a very worthwhile project (for a potential 2nd account more focused on academia). Time permitting, I may even contribute - that's the great thing: We can shape it the way we want! If that sounds good, follow #OpenScienceNetwork
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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026
New court case filed by @juancommander eugeniereichlaw.com/wp-content/uplo… charges that academic publishers price-gouge to a factor of up to ten above their true publishing costs: f1000research.com/articles/10-20/v2 […]
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rollingguyam @rollingguyam.mastodon.tetaneutral.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026
Donc #JeChercheUnJob sur #Toulouse et environs, je tente ici avant d'aller sur le site de réseautage m'as-tu-vu de Microslop. Je cherche dans la génomique, la phylogénie, la bioinformatique, l'analyse de données, un poste type ingénieur de recherche, éventuellement postdoc même si pas convaincu […]
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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026
Seems like I don't have access via my university and the usual suspects don't have it listed yet. Could someone help out? doi.org/10.1163/1568539X-bja10379 #CanIHazPaper #AcademicMastodon
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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026
The amount of swearing during baking seems to be proportional to the quality of bread in the end 🤔 #Sourdough #SourdoughBread
Picture of a good looking (in my opinion) loaf of sourdough bread.Picture of a loaf of sourdough bread. Bread is cut in half, and big bubbles are visible in the bread.
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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026
Open position of Associate Professor in Behavioral ecology and cultural evolution at the @dee_unil You can toggle the ad to English on top right: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/application/a…
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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026
@koen_hufkens @errantscience I plan on doing both. They performed a self-evaluation last year, and to nobodies surprise junior staff (postdoc and assistant prof) rate job prospects really low. Then combine it with the Nature report from a few years back and the last @eurodoc report ( […]
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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026
@koen_hufkens @errantscience Oh the systemic issues are exactly the point of the talk! Our small section is getting more postdocs, and senior staff seems to be blissfully ignorant about the issues.
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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026
I'm looking for #comic suggestions about life as a #PostDoc for a department talk I'm preparing. I have a pretty good collection from @phdcomics and a few from @errantscience, although with the latter I feel that I must have missed some. If you can think of any other sources or specific comics […]
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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026
@jannem Yeah, this is the partition with 7 days of wall time, so they limit it to 4 jobs per user while allowing 128 cores per job. I would prefer using a different partition, but the calculations run from 90 minutes to over 5 days (single core). I had hoped that throwing more cores at the […]
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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026
@jannem Thanks! But I think the core/user limit is 512, the jobs/user limit is hitting me harder.
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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026
@jannem Yeah, I have it currently as a job array, so one computation per job. So on this partition I can have 4 jobs simultaneously. Now I just need to wait if the 8 core (and actually using them) approach beats the 17h of the accidental single core run
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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026
@jannem I played around with n_threads and omp_threads (I think), but as far as I understand, the main issue is that only a fraction of the calculations can actually be done in parallel. I don't have a good grasp on how big that fraction actually is though.
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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026
Don't tell IT, but I just realized that my #rstats GAM/BAM only used a single core on the #HPC while I requested 128 🫣 Now I'm up to 4 cores at least, no idea why #mgcv isn't using more. I didn't expect it to be this difficult to use more resources. #PhDLife #AcademicChatter #PostDocLife […]
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Daniel Pelliccia @danielpelliccia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026
Hey everyone, I'm on the look for new projects! I develop #MachineLearning models applied to spectroscopy and imaging, but experiences in lots of tasks related to #DataScience in #Imaging and image processing. Here's some more info about what I do. I'm looking for gigs, but happy to discuss […]
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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026
@jon I frankly haven't bothered trying. Inside DK I either travel such short distance that I just use the public transport ticketing system (rejsekort), to Copenhagen and then I rather use the Kombardo buses, or to Germany, and then I use the DB app with my Bahncard 25. I still have the DSB app […]
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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026
@jon Anything going through DK. Danish trains are such a pain in my opinion. For example the DK-CZ connection is better and more comfortable than anything within Denmark. I got hit with the unavoidable delays once it hit Germany, but at least the DB app kept track of the delay in DE and CZ (for […]
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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 20/07/2026
Danger Dan wurde vom ZDF ausgeladen, weil es keine "angemessen kritische Einordnung und Distanzierung von den problematischen Inhalten in der Sendung und in angemessener Länge" gäbe, trotz 7 Minuten dafür. Beim Sommerinterview mit Rechtsextremistin Weidel gibt es immer noch keine Live-Faktenchecks
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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 20/07/2026
Dass das ZDF Danger Dan den Auftritt verboten hat, war der falsche Weg. Sie hätten versuchen sollen, ihn inhaltlich zu stellen.
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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026
Small #rstats win: I successfully changed my code to run the heavy #GAM on an #HPC and the first (of 7) finished without any errors after 17h!!! Luckily it's holiday season, so nobody is complaining that I'm hogging 128 cores 😅 No I just need to hope that saving the results as rds works, so I […]
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Luca Hammer @luca.social.luca.run.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026
🎶 „Es geht um linke Straßenpolitik und nicht um Fame Ihr braucht Regeln für die Kommunikation Nicht nur Nazis und Konsorten, die in eurer Gegend woh'n Auch die Sicherheitsbehörden werden sich schnell interessier'n“ — Keine Angst von Danger Dan youtu.be/Gg-SCpXba64
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Odin Halvorson @indubitablyodin.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026
I would love to do work that makes the world better. I'm a librarian (MLIS), scholar, ethical AI expert, creative writer, and instructional designer. I specialize in knowledge management, user design, and systems design. I also need to work remotely for various reasons. I'm interested in […]
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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026
A very #DeutscheBahn experience. I'm currently on the #Railjet from #Denmark to #Prague, and there, as usual, is a staff change in #Padborg. To nobody's surprise, the train with the #DB staff is delayed, so we'll be here 20 minutes waiting. #RailTravel #SlowTravel
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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026
@erc_bk That's Neighbourhood Cross Validation, and alternative for AR(1) for strong temporal autocorrelation
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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026
Let's try this again outside of the heat wave and weekend: I'm looking for help with #rstats, specifically larger #bam / #gam in #mgcv with NCV. It's running, but it has been about 60h by now, minimal CPU usage, and steadily climbing RAM usage. Any pointers how to speed things up are welcome! […]
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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026
Question for the #stats folks working with #mgcv and #gam / #bam: I'm dealing with a dataset with a high temporal autocorrelation, so after a lengthy discussion with the author of `gratia` (my current PI), we concluded that I should move away from AR(1) models and rather work with #NCV. No […]
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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026
Don't mind me, just testing some formatting 'test' `test`
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KickDownCH @kickdownch.swiss.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026
“I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are.” Genau das!
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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026
Since it remains unclear whether my current #PostDoc contract will be prolonged in January, I am starting to look for a new #AcademicJob! My expertise are #ecology, #ethology, #AnimalBehavior, with a focus on #olfaction in #mammals. I had a stint in #NeuroEthology, but that wasn't quite my cup […]
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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026
Multitasking? Of course I can multitask! Look at me, waiting for my #rstats code to run and looking for new jobs, because my contract will end in 6 months and there hasn't been a clear commitment to prolong it, and drinking tea all at once! #AcademicChatter #AcademicLife #PhDLife #PostDocLife […]
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