Black-throated Green Warbler at Homer Lake Forest Preserve, Champaign County, IL, USA. I understand black-throated, but I can't figure out how green got in the name. Other warblers today were Nashville, Bay-breasted, Tennessee, Yellow-rumped, and American Redstart. #Birds #BirdPhotography

I have a feeling more events I go to that would have been in the US but that bring in people internationally are going to be in Canada for a while.

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Yesterday's sightings at Sangamon River Forest Preserve, Champaign County, IL, USA: Tennessee Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, DeKay's Brownsnake #Birds #BirdPhotography

One of my photos was used in a nature article: www.cambridgeday.com/2025/09/20/i... (but it’s not the first one shown here)

I'm halfway through the Shattering Peace by @scalzi.com - While it's all good so far, the start of Chapter 6 is the part that made me laugh

🌊 Registration for Collaborations Workshop 2026 is now open via Eventbrite! #CollabW26 will take place as a hybrid event from Tuesday 28 April to Thursday 30 April 2026 at ICC Belfast. Find out more about the available options and how to register at www.software.ac.uk/news/registr...

A nice view of Chicago from last night’s #eScience2025 banquet and awards on a boat on Lake Michigan

The final #eScience2025 keynote is by Fred Chong about #QuantumComputing

The #eScience2025 dinner and awards cruise is starting

Samuel Kounev wrapping up the second keynote (Serverless Scientific Workflow Engineering for Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Observation and Computational Ecology) at #eScience2025

The Committee for Open Science is proud to announce the publication of a preprint that demonstrates, for the first time on a scale of a country, France, that #Openscience could increase the chances for researchers to be cited. www.ouvrirlascience.fr/for-the-firs...

People coming in for the #eScience2025 opening and first keynote from Anna Liljedahl about permafrost science www.escience-conference.org/2025/

Starting lunch at #eScience2025

Vaccines work. Period.

Today at #eScience2025 I'm attending the Workshop on Harmonizing Python Workflows (workflows.community/workshops/ha...) This is interesting, in part for technical reasons, but also because it's an #NSF #POSE project that has a lot of social / community aspects

📅 Proposals due: Jan 8, 2026 🔗 Learn more, register for information sessions, and apply: www.ma3challenge.org It’s time to modernize academic advancement systems so they reflect the values institutions champion. Join us! (5/5)

The 21st IEEE International Conference on eScience (www.escience-conference.org/2025/) is starting in Chicago today with tutorials and workshops, with the main conference technical sessions starting tomorrow. #eScience2025

Chicago yesterday afternoon

Some birds at RIckmansworth Aquadrome this afternoon - not exciting, but decent pictures: European Robin, Carrion Crow, Gray Heron, Great Cormorant #Birds #BirdPhotography

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Next years #RSECon26 will be 9-11th September 2026 &co-located with the inaugural International Research Software Conference 7-8th September 2026 (www.researchsoft.org/irsc/ ) in Sheffield. Want to help organise RSECon26 see society-rse.org/volunteer-at... #RSECon25 #RSECon26 #IRSC26

Heading to #RSECon25 on the 06:33 train from London, which seemed like a good idea when I booked it

Some birds seen in in Parc Georges-Brassens in Paris yesterday: European Robin, Rose-ringed Parakeet, European Pied Flycatcher, Common Chiffchaff #Birds #BirdPhotography

I'm happy to be at @oecd-ocde.bsky.social today, co-running the "Access to research software: Opportunities and challenges" workshop (www.oecd.org/en/events/20...), which hopefully will lead to new policies that support access to research software as a key enabler towards advancing open science

The USRSE'25 Conference is less than a month away. Come join hundreds of #RSEs from Oct. 6th-8th in #Philadelphia. Hotel reservations are still available at the conference venue. us-rse.org/usrse25 #USRSE25 #RSEng #RSE

What I would really like would be for Slack's AI to remove all of Slack's marketing messages from all my channels, but that might be too hard of a problem until we get AGI.

#IEEE #eScience25 is the week after next in Chicago. www.escience-conference.org/2025/ I hope to see some of you there.

Scientific Open-Source Software Is Less Likely to Become Abandoned Than One Might Think! Lessons from Curating a Catalog of Maintained Scientific Software by Addi Malviya Thakur, Reed Milewicz, Mahmoud Jahanshahi, Lavínia Paganini, Bogdan Vasilescu, Audris Mockus doi.org/10.1145/3729...

Depends on how you spin it I guess (screenshots from 2 different articles). People working at universities are pushed so incredibly hard to ensure that every study is a breakthrough that they just...lie. All the time. Probably without even realizing it. www.standard.co.uk/news/tech/im...

I saw a new bird today! A Connecticut Warbler at Sangamon River Forest Preserve, Champaign County, IL, USA #Birds #BirdPhotography

Until I started paying attention to birds 5 years ago, I had no idea of the variety we have in Illinois, like this Black-and-white Warbler, seen at Homer Lake Forest Preserve, Champaign County, IL, USA #Birds #BirdPhotography

Red-spotted Admiral, Homer Lake Forest Preserve, Champaign County, IL, USA #butterfly

My experience on the first day of the hybrid ParslFest (parsl-project.org/parslfest/pa...) was quite good. There were lots of nice talks and interesting people, though about half the people were remote, which cuts down on the break discussions

#code_plagiarism is REAL & #AI is negatively affecting the #integrity of code/software. Dan Katz, @scedmunds.bsky.social & I discuss involved issues & their impacts on #research_integrity & #publication_ethics in a @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social post: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/28/g...

From me, @mhmdhsini.bsky.social, and @scedmunds.bsky.social Code Plagiarism and AI Create New Challenges for Publishing Integrity

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A Monarch Caterpillar on Butterfly Milkweed, Weaver Park, Urbana, IL, USA

Going to college and getting ChatGPT to write your essay is like going to the gym to watch YouTube videos of other people working out

From Eric Jensen and I, in PLOS One "Evolving funding strategies for research software: Insights from an international survey of research funders" doi.org/10.1371/jour... #ResearchSoftware #ResearchFunding #ResearchPolicy

This 2010 proposal for Research Software Engineering #RSEng is interesting to see in doi.org/10.1109/ICGS...

This feels like it is pointing out differences between the general writing that LLMs are trained on and more specific styles used in Wikipedia (or alternatively, academic journals). I wonder what a prompt to write a wikipedia article about x with in the style of a wikipedia article would lead to.

This is really fascinating Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Get more information about the events we have at CARLA2025 carlaconference.org/workshops-ev...

Join the @us-rse.bsky.social for the annual conference in Philly, Oct 6-8. The early bird deadline is tomorrow! Hope to see you all there!

I just ran into a COI: not a digital object identifier (DOI), but a content object identifier, specifically: coilink.org/20.500.12592... It would be nice if coilink.org explained a bit more about COIs, such as how they are different than / related to DOIs, ARKs, etc.

I'm surprised to learn that to apply for an Electronic Travel Authority (ETA) to visit Australia as a US tourist, you must use an app that exists on an iPhone or Android. There is no web version. I guess if you don't have a modern mobile phone, you can't visit Australia.