@ElenLeFoll Yes, the music was awesome! It was also nice to hear from Eva Martha Eckkrammer that #DigitalHumanities has a well-etablished and innovative role within the #Romanistik, a strength to maintain into the future. I agree that the voice of Romance Studies, with their experience of […]

Der 39. #romanistiktag in Konstanz ist eröffnet! Mit toller Musik von ladunna. #romanistik

My former PhD sister, Anna Fankhauser, and I are organising a one-day symposium on "The Language of Foreign Language Teaching Materials and Reference Works" on Friday 7 November in Osnabrück. If you want to join us, we are doing a last call for posters […]

This is a long shot, but here we go: in November 2024, I made this screenshot presumably from a YouTube video that I watched on #reproducibility or #OpenScience. Does anyone recognise it? I sadly did not make a note of the source... Thank you!

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

I used the data from the google sheet I did a while ago to make a #starterpack for those researching in and about #africa. Please let me know if you want on there (I was not able to add all of the accounts because not all servers allow it). Here's the Pack: https://fedidevs.com/s/NjM4/ […]

Good morning #Quarto wizards out there! 🧙‍♀️ I have a question: How do I write the following code chunk option using the #| code option syntax? {r eval=knitr::is_html_output(), echo=FALSE} I know it renders fine with this syntax, but this is for a textbook so I'm trying to be consistent and […]

Open science orgs are stronger together 💪 @thecarpentries , Open Life Science, @pyOpenSci & @prereview and rOpenSci are convening to move from surviving → thriving. Read how we’re charting a sustainable, collective path forward: https://ropensci.org/blog/2025/09/15/collaboration-communities/ […]

The University of Utrecht is cancelling the #webofscience and offering training sessions on #OpenAlex. https://www.uu.nl/en/news/access-to-web-of-science-will-end-on-1-january-2026 "Discontinuing Web of Science is a logical step that fits in with the UU vision on #OpenScience. Closed commercial […]

Wait, the Journal of Open Humanities Data has a publication fee (also called Author Processing Charge or APC) of £760?! 🤯 That seems like a lot even if it covers "all publication costs" and "allows the journal to be run in a sustainable way". Also, the link to the breakdown of the costs is dead […]

I went to the Good Food shop (where you can get food that's past its best-before date on a pay-what-you-like basis) in my lunch break and now I'm in my office snacking away an entire cantaloupe melon. If life brings you lemon, eat melon, is all I have to say! 😅

Oh the irony, I followed a link marked "Germany-DEAL Consortium and Wiley" and it redirected to an online casino. #openaccess #academicpublishing

Train travelers of Europe, What is the current situation on cross-border Swiss-German passenger traffic? Is this journey realistic or is it doomed to fail? Thanks a lot! #TrainTravel

Lunch break #homeoffice: - Cook and eat very nice pumpkin and caramelised onion ravioli - Watch 20 minutes of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vucT7I_LOqI - Help a musician friend remove the word "Gott" from an 18th century German song so that she can teach it in a French school (yes, that's how […]

Just saw an add for a (free) interactive workshop on how to create #oers with #genai and my immediate reaction is noooooooo! Honestly, I think this is the last thing we need: pollute #oer databases with AI slop. Might as well bury the OER movement before it even really took off... #education

**Please slow down!** An important message from Russell V. Lenth, developper of the {emmeans} #rstats package.

Today is my first time volunteering to count postal vote ballots for the local and municipal elections. First impression: Quite a lot of us cycled here! It was very difficult to find a spot to park. #Kommunalwahlen #koeln 1/🧵

Many asked me about #chatcontrol and its link to CSAM. In my view, it actually puts children more at risk. Private conversations between parents, teachers, or healthcare professionals will be exposed, increasing the amount of children-related content visible to third parties. Encryption protects […]

It's high time I bought myself a decent monitor for my home-office set-up. This monitor (https://www.proshop.de/Bildschirm/27-Dell-S2722QC-3840x2160-4KUHD-IPS-65W-USB-C-HUB/3007116) has been highly recommended by two colleagues and was about to simply get it because I hate comparing products […]

"Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources." https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/education-report-calling-for-ethical-ai-use-contains-over-15-fake-sources/ PS: No, this slipshod practice is not declining on its own. Or not yet. #ai #hallucinations #irony […]

Cycling home in the rain. Con: Cold and wet. Pro:

I've finally finalised my slides for the closing keynote of @UniKoeln's Summer School on Large Language Models for #DigitalHumanities research entitled: "LLMs for DH research: The good, the bad, and the ugly". If you happen to be in Cologne this coming […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

I've finally finalised my slides for the closing keynote of @UniKoeln's Summer School on Large Language Models for #DigitalHumanities research entitled: "LLMs for DH research: The good, the bad, and the ugly". If you happen to be in Cologne this coming […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

🚨 Call for applications: Journalist-in-Residence Fellowships 2025/2026 🚨 The Collaborative Research Center “Prominence in Language” (SFB 1252) at @UniKoeln is offering committed journalists with an interest in mediating between research in the humanities and […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

This weekend I serendipitously met a former professional clarinetist specialised in historical clarinets who taught me how to make a thread ligature for my new alto chalumeau. This morning I was able to play a little sarabande: a very happy start to the week! #clarinet #earlymusic #baroquemusic

Wir haben einen Job in der @stabihh : 100% E11, verteilt auf 50% unbefristet in der IT Infrastruktur im Bereich Nutzerverwaltung, Telefonie, ... 50% befristet auf 3 Jahre beteiligt am Aufbau der nationalen Servicestelle Diamond Open Access (#sedoa), https://diamond-open-access.de/ . In diesem […]

Springer now demand that your pre-acceptance version of a paper on the arXiv comes with a disclaimer: “This preprint has not undergone peer review (when applicable) or any post-submission improvements or corrections. The Version of Record of this article is published in insert journal title] […]

What VIBE in "Vibe Coding" stands for https://x.com/lingodotdev/status/1963483263743176762 #vibecoding

🚨 Call for applications: Journalist-in-Residence Fellowships 2025/2026 🚨 The Collaborative Research Center “Prominence in Language” (SFB 1252) at @UniKoeln is offering committed journalists with an interest in mediating between research in the humanities and […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Ausschreibung: Journalist-in-Residence Fellowships 2025/2026 Der Sonderforschungsbereich „Prominence in Language“ (SFB 1252) der @UniKoeln bietet engagierten Journalistinnen und Journalisten mit Interesse an der Vermittlung zwischen geistes-, und […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

This should have been big news! Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals: FWF 🇦🇹 RCN 🇳🇴 Forte 🇸🇪 ARIS 🇸🇮 SRC 🇸🇪 FCT 🇵🇹 CSIC 🇪🇸 DFG 🇩🇪 Formas 🇸🇪 ANR 🇫🇷 Only two of them issued press releases in […]

📣 Save the date!! Next Community Call: R-multiverse: a new way to publish R packages with @landau 📆 Monday, 29 September 2025 14:00 UTC Information + find your local time + How to join: https://ropensci.org/commcalls/r-multiverse/ 🙏 Please share this event with anyone who may be interested in […]

Today is the first working day of my first #phd student ever! ☀ Any tips from (former) PhD students and/or PhD supervisors? #phdlife #postdoclife #academia

I was just thinking to myself "It would be good if #mastodon let you follow someone's original posts without seeing all the stuff they boost, which is not relevant to me". Then it occurred to me to look and see if it does ... and it does! Click on the person's username, then click the […]

Working on the train allows me to get a glimpse into the working style of other people. Today I've sat next to two students. The first (who was possibly a doctoral researcher) was, like me, working on a laptop. But they also had their phone on the table and, every few minutes (if not seconds) […]

When your code works but no idea how

Lecture du samedi matin. Je recommande vivement ! #lecture #reading #graphicnovel

I hadn’t seen an analog train departure board for a long time! #breizh #TrainTravel

My sincere apologies to the nice-looking man who asked me for a dance and whom I inadvertently rebuked: I was wearing ear plugs and I thought he asked whether I had a partner for the next dance to which I loudly replied “no”. He immediately turned around before I worked out that he had actually […]

Beginning of the term means I am once again noticing the arms race of student ennui + anxiety. Increasingly students don't do things unless it is directly assessed. So instructors are assessing more. So students are panicking that every small thing will be assessed. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Planning the next (and penultimate!) chapter of my textbook al fresco. 😎 #acwri

Elsevier "hybrid" journal called _Ecological Modelling_ which charges an APC of USD 3,040 (excluding taxes)... ...publishes THIS abomination as a graphical abstract. 🤣 Source: Zhao et al (2025) Designing Ecological Networks to Foster Regional Economic […] [Original post on mastodon.social]