Your regular reminder that genAI/chatbots not trained to do chemistry are bad at chemistry.

Nice view

Asi, millest ma ei ole varem kordagi mõelnud: Ukraina sõda on kestnud nii kaua, et sellest on juba päris tõsist teaduskirjandust.

With love and respect, Eesti Rahvaringhääling, one of the most respected news outlets in Estonia, needs to something about their website (err.ee), because it is such a cluttered mess

Thanks to @jennyostrop.bsky.social for pointing this one out: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Researc...: "... to recognize scientists who study previously published data in ways not anticipated by the researchers who first generated it" ;)

Det ER mulig å "vinne" valget 💚

it's so easy to integrate assets like a Spotify playlist into a webpage, but man do you feel cool when you pull it off

Lessons Learned: 🔹 Don’t rely blindly on automation—manual checks are essential. 🔹 Test versioning and de-duplication processes rigorously. 🔹 Establish escalation protocols for anomalies. 🔹 One error can damage institutional credibility.

🎃SALARY SURGE THAT NEVER WAS In August 2025, Statistics Estonia reported a 13.8% wage increase—twice the real figure. A versioning error duplicated salary records, and automated checks missed it. False data went public, a five-day crisis of corrections before the true numbers (5.9%) were released.

70% of my work-related stress is caused by people not replying to my emails

har Erna 9 t skjermtid eller sier hun det bare for å virke mer folkelig? 🤔

Ruin any book by adding "Tom Clancy's" to the title. Tom Clancy's Protective Groups in Organic Synthesis

Just learnt that the metal box that comes with the Raspberry Pi 4 acts as a Faraday cage, meaning that if you want to connect to WiFi, you’re out of luck

this is so cool: strudel.cc, a JavaScript-based drum machine for "live coding" of music. You can make music on the fly in a browser. Check out the track "Hard Reset" by @dj--dave.bsky.social as an example of what is possible

what! NRK (the Norw. state channel) has a website dedicated to learning how to code: nrkno.github.io/prog-videre/

I know that I shouldn't have a folder on my computer that is the equivalent of a mouldy dumpster, full of random data. But I do 🗑️

mdg.no/kollektivopp... skriv under, skriv under! og stem @mdg.no!

musik for folk som inte kan bete seg som folk

Glad for å ha stemt @mdg.no

Would you like to analyze your data in a smarter way, but need some help to get started? Join our next Software Carpentry @carpentries.carpentries.org course at @unibergen.bsky.social! Sign-up deadline is this Friday, Aug 22nd: www.uib.no/en/ub/178263...

In my spare time the last months I've been working on planning a music festival on an old tram here in Bergen. It will be utterly cool! We are 100% volunteer-driven and feature young, local and up-and-coming artists. Check out trikkefestivalen.no for more info (only in Norwegian)

We have waffle Friday every week at work. It’s a nice, social initiative where two volunteer to make waffles for the rest of the department. Everyone likes it!

bra uke for Generasjonspartiet

Alle kjem til å skrive metervis om ChatGPT 5 snart, når den nye utgåva blir lansert seinare i månaden. Ting å hugse på då: - Det er framleis ein språkmodell, ikkje intelligens. - Modellen kan ikkje "resonnere", berre bryte svara ned i mindre steg - Den prosessen er uhyre lite energi-effektiv

I love @mikemorrison.bsky.social's take on how to make better scientific posters: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYk2.... I know this approach would have been highly frowned upon when I was making them, but we can all agree on that posters sessions in general kind of suck

Update on the Tidal migration - works well, but I did not realize they do not have an podcasts.

Det er valgår og jeg anbefaler alle å høre på "Mørch og makta" på NRK Radio (tror video kommer neste uke på NRK Nett-TV?). Erlend er dritflink på å stille fjasete og hardtreffende spørsmål om hverandre.

Det her er så sykt imponerende

I made the jump from Spotify (after using it for... 17+ years?) to Tidal. I am curious to whether I will notice a difference in QOL or not.

OK, this is hilarious: if you want to disable the AI search function in Google, you can add a swearword to your search query.

had a convo yesterday with some colleagues how we use LLMs - I strongly believe that the best approach is to give concise prompts without adding extra politeness fluff ("hello, can you give me ..."), because I do not want to view the LLM as a person, but a machine.

"that'll be $700 please 🫴"

drew a comic about chiropractors

I've been reading a few non-fiction books over the summer, and wanted to give them a shouty outy for people who might be interested:

📚 Best versus good enough practices for open music research. doi.org/10.18061/emr... “This paper discusses some of the particular challenges that empirical music researchers face when working towards Open Research practices: handling (1) (multi)media files, (2) privacy, and (3) copyright issues.”

Turning down a 10 million $ grant is not an easy decision, but good on @carpentries.carpentries.org for sticking to their core principles. I hope they will find a way to finance their projects through a different channel. carpentries.org/blog/2025/06...

love this. Kaffeklubben = "Coffee club"

fin fjell da, Bergens Tidende, selv uten kontekst

In September, we are hosting another iteration of the Software Carpentry course in Bergen: www.uib.no/en/ub/178263... If you are a researcher who is looking into an introduction to programming, this is the course for you! The course is over 5 days and we cover: Python, R, Unix, Git, SQL, ++

These could be @vsauce.bsky.social video titles: www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/jLE...

How it started vs how it ended at yesterdays seven mountain hike

I've been checking the weather report every hour the last days, hoping for a miracle that www.dnt.no/dnt-der-du-e... on Sunday will not be so shitty

På denne fikk jeg Partiet Sentrum som mitt førstevalg basert på svarene mine (og selvfølgelig FOR på fjerde plass). Det virker som målet med valginnblandingen er at småpartiene skal få mer makt, da det skaper splittelse i samfunnet

Ja gi meg noe sprøt og ektoktisk øl pliz