A European alternative to MS Office: Software auto shuts at 5pm. It does not load on weekends, public holidays, & most of August. Any out of hours messages sent are diverted until 9am on a workday. It will occasionally refuse to open documents in French in solidarity with striking rail workers.

There are many reasons to hate Teams, but it is particularly frustrating that copying and pasting between Teams and other Micro$oft programmes is often super weird...

There is no other explanation.

Thread on troubles with teaching evaluations. I’ll add simply that the peer-reviewed literature is quite clear that they are biased instruments also. Universities need better metrics, if they want to use metrics.

Perhaps we are at the point where universities should be making themselves much less dependent on microsoft.

🌍 What’s the CO₂ footprint of an international academic conference? 🛫 Our analysis of 22 studies shows: travel for one in-person international conference emits ~1.23 tonnes of CO₂ equivalent (tCO₂e) per person. With local emissions its ~1.26 tCO₂e. Travel hence dominates conference footprint.

Another day, another reason to be frustrated with the legacy journal system! Also, sounds like really important research

We @iscycle.bsky.social will have some really exciting results on this coming soon and I can't wait to share!

Another for instance! Down in Queensland, Australia, fossil gas used to provide all the peak power. Then batteries start nibbling at it. Then chomping on it. And now they've basically eaten it all up. No more gas. Look at this graphic! Glorious. reneweconomy.com.au/big-batterie...

Sometimes co-authors ask me “did you see what they cited us for???” and of course I didn’t, because if you want to keep faith in humanity, you don’t look up what people cite you for, just like you don’t read comment sections.

The City of Cincinnati just rolled out 0% interest loans for e-bikes. $100/month, no down payment. Cincinnati hills are no joke, so affordable e-bikes could be a game changer for getting more people to bike.

Amazing how the media continues to mess this up and conflate E-motos with E-bikes. On purpose?

Some days trial randomisation is the weirdest thing ever. I just did 8 electronic coin flips in a row, and they all landed on condition X I hope this doesn't breach the blinding lol

@olivia.science In the 'new words to watch' in Australia, someone has coined the term 'digital asbestos' www.macquariedictionary.com.au/words-to-wat...

I am in this cartoon and I DO NOT LIKE IT

Ireland is not perhaps quite as sunny as the Netherlands, but this really shows the potential for solar

You wanna know something really wild? E-bikes are already displacing more emissions from autos than electric cars. Wild! Break free from the uncertainty and cost of gas prices - buy an e-bike! www.cbc.ca/news/climate...

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli. (was this actually hard? also OG Charlie & Chocolate Factory)

I'm super sad I'm already busy this week, as this looks amazing!

New Zealand's charming obsession with voting for X of the year. Now it's the turn of the fun guy (and gal) mycologists

Sigmund manifesting his unconscious desire to be ridden (on a cargo bike) #freudOnABike

This chart appears to be sourced from kpler.com, a reputable freight analytics firm, but the original is proprietary. If correct is suggests that mass flight cancellations are imminent, initially in Europe.

This is really a lot of houses (though less in the Colbert quarter than I would have expected)

NYC study shows men are 2.6x more likely than women to bike to work. When protected bike lane coverage is high, women’s cycling rates rise significantly faster than men’s. When protected lanes are limited or fragmented, women’s participation drops sharply. Good bike investments give women choices.

That semester and a half IU took of formal logic and Gödel finally relevant

live skeets of RFK junior (B= RFK)

New team members join the ISCycle team. Read more at www.iscycle.ie/news#h.96lb2...

It’s International Haiku Day apparently and so for today’s poetry offering, here are a few assorted haiku.

Weird Cologne to Lyon flight just now by the German air force that seems to have touched down in Porto and now about to land in Shannon?! @flightradar24.com GAF938 from Cologne to Lyon fr24.com/GAF938/3f3ea...

I really didn't understand how this might work, but seems remarkable if true, that an LLM can conceal info about owls in it's numeric output

funny that it turns out the moon is much more rock coloured than we realise!

For followers who are into running and/or #RStats It's marathon season. I crunched the numbers on the 2025 NY Marathon to work out how to optimally pace a marathon. There's a general rule that works if you're going for sub-2:20 or trying to make it round in 6 hours. quantixed.org/2026/04/06/m...

Here is the same diagram for Ireland in 2017; illustrating just how much energy is lost mostly as heat from the system. The current picture would show a much stronger contribution from wind & solar flowcharts.llnl.gov/commodities/...

Good explainer by @janrosenow.bsky.social “Have we been duped by the primary energy fallacy?“ by Jan Rosenow on Medium: medium.com/@jan.rosenow...

Website of our new research team CIITÉS is out ! 🇫🇷 'Our main objective is to produce knowledge that enables a better understanding and mitigation of the health impacts of climate change, taking into account socia/territorial health inequalities' cites-irset.fr/en/homepage/ #Rennes #AcademicSky

how I feel when open science initiatives choose to publish in Nature

Very proud to have worked on the 2026 update to the CRediT taxonomy with @rbly.bsky.social

Not an April Fool’s! At age 39, I have finally learned how to ride a bike. Just had my first cycling lesson and managed to stop and start and ride without falling over, which is more than I expected. Don’t know if one can simultaneously feel proud and embarrassed, but I’m buzzing!

cargo balance bike!!! 💚🚴‍♂️

I enjoy this a lot, but in our @iscycle.bsky.social research, we've really found that bakfiets are not for everyone, especially if you are shorter or less confident, and they're not as good for taking a second adult as a longtail

Here's the link to the free pdf of my new book The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet. Access is so important and I'm grateful that the press is platforming it as one file that is easy to download. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...

Why isn't the government even talking about the fairly easy voluntary fuel demand constraints that are laid out in the National Fuel Plan? Makes sense to start some of this now. None of this would cost anything.

Cool little package on CRAN for adding a download data button into html files created from your Rmd. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

We have summer internships y'all! Come work at Posit on the PyData, tidymodels, shiny, or Connect teams: grnh.se/tigz810a3us. You will have an awesome time, learn a ton, and help advance our open source and pro tools 🧰 #rstats #pydata

While we are all focussed on fuel prices; it continues to amaze me that EVs are designed with all sorts of features to improve aerodynamics to boost efficiency (and range), but car manufacturers don't seem to be interested in carrying over these innovations for fossil-fuel powered cars 1/x

This is a man who doesn't know he is in the market for an electric bicycle. Go on, it'll be every bit as much fun (and useful) as your nifty fifty! www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...

That's what I thought when I first heard (recent) mention of and LNG terminal: the only way it makes sense is as something to offer the Trump administration.

Went down a bit of a rabbit hole looking at why eg diesel/kerosene/jet fuel prices are more affected at the moment than petrol, and found this rather amazing picture of very different types of crude oil, which helps explain why different crudes are good for making different products 1/x