RE: https://mastodon.social/@RSCcicag/115446260017174307 yeah, we like zombies, don't we

Oh nice a new #openlinksw #virtuoso release coming! https://github.com/openlink/virtuoso-opensource/commit/5cf13cd06c131c25043c4b6525eee46455a606ca looks it will have some nice fixes and improvements.

We moeten terug naar het oude ideaal, een waarin het internet in handen is van ons allemaal, en niet van de zeer rijken. https://neerlandistiek.nl/2025/10/lang-leve-het-wereldwijde-web/

I'm going to have two idle days in Portland, Maine, having never been there before. What should I make sure to do or see or eat or drink?

this week, 25 years ago, @steinbeck, @egonw, and @gezelter came together in South Bend., USA and founded the Chemistry Development Kit #chemistry #openscience

I want to reach out: Do you know any good(!) paper for benefits or downsides of online course? Or of online vs. on-site courses? I did a little research, found nothing compelling, but I am _not_ an expert in this field and might very well be overlooking something. #teaching #online #on-site […]

Join our colleagues in Plant molecular biology, with an exciting opportunity as tenure-track professor of Plant-organism interactions. This profile includes the study of plants interacting insects, bacteria, fungi, viruses or plants. https://lnkd.in/epTuA_Ck #academicjobs #PlantBiology […]

more "how do you use this git feature" questions: do you ever use `git reset --soft`? What do you use it for? (note: --soft is not the default)

#uniprot The largest open+free #knowledgegraph in the life sciences. I will be talking about the why and the use cases at #semantics2025 5th of September 2025. Looking forward to seeing you all there! https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/sessions?page=1nZsC6p2V3Yk73axR9Jl1NWq1IhVpkqtN

#java #jvmls impressive talk by Brian Goetz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz7Or9C0TpM it's going to take a while, but the proposed capabilities would be amazing.

Many EU member countries have a rich colonial past, e.g. France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium... (I know, Germany too - but this is off my topic here.) Do you know any museum from any of such country who would be interested to work with us on a European funded project about taking […]

«Our project [#openstreetmap] is constantly under a threat from technical people, who see it as a database, or a fixed structure, or an API to work with – and not as a community of people with specific knowledge who make the map as a by-product of understanding the world.» So we'll put by […]

👉 New eCH expert group develops standard for political transactions 🔎 In an informative short video, the co-chairs of the eCH expert group, Christian Gutknecht (member of our board) and Michael Luggen (Federal Chancellery), explain how this came about, what […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Very nice preprint on the importance of #FAIR data resources in the life sciences, for AI and generally for science, by a great @SIB#FAIRteam led by @dessimoz. With @bgeedb inside ;) https://zenodo.org/records/15724104

very excited ot have @jelabra here in Maastricht since Tuesday evening. Yesterday he was opponent in Ammar's PhD defense and he give presentation in the mini symposium in the afternoon, and right now we're looking into his new Rudof tool #openscience #semweb

There should be a reality show where contestants have to complete challenges in as dignified a manner as possible, and are graded by a panel of wickedly sarcastic fashionistas and high-society snobs. I want to watch, I dunno, Miranda Priestly deliver vicious commentary on someone struggling to […]

yeah, Prague is a great city! it's been too long since I was there (first time somewhere in the nineties, after the fall of the iron curtain). I am seeing plenty of posts on other platforms, but I am hoping to see some good coverage of #metsoc2025 here too (mumbles to himself in his bubble)

the many ways AI is making humans less productive #1: - I have to proof I am human when visiting website - websites are generally slower because they need to check if my browser is an AI bot - I spent time every week now, restarting services affected by AI scraping bots And I am not even using […]

"Why would companies push generative AI into seemingly everything, even though customers don't like it and it doesn't really work? They neither know nor care what the customer wants, how their businesses function, what their products do, and barely understand what their workers are doing […]

there is the UK Figshare and the EU Zenodo. What other internationally-oriented #openscience workhorses for sharing research output exist around the globe?

My partner and I are heading to NYC for a show in October, and I'd like to know if there's a comprehensive theatre calendar somewhere, where I can see everything on, off, off-off, or way the fuck off broadway on any given date. Boosts for reach please?

Javi Millán Acosta's #elixireurope BioHackathon Europe proposal "A shape-driven visual interface to integrate heterogeneous biomedical databases into knowledge graphs" has been approved https://biohackathon-europe.org/projects/

I'm looking for security consultant recommendations! I support a non-profit that’s building PII-storing open source software that integrates with government data storage systems, and they would like a third-party security assessment. This is *not* about compliance, this is straight-up wanting […]

A new #Jepsen report! We worked with TigerBeetle to find seven crashes, elevated latencies during single-node failures, and requests which were retried forever in version 0.16.11. We found only two safety issues: missing results for queries with multiple predicates, and incorrect timestamps in a […]

some phrases are just meaningless. Take for example: "we can do it at a faction of the cost" I think we all think we know what it means. Until you realize that 11/3 is also a fraction

oolonek⁩ reminded me how cool IDSM is (see https://doi.org/10.1186/s13321-021-00515-1) and works wonderfully in the rich chemistry SPARQL world (see https://doi.org/10.1186/1758-2946-3-15). Here I mashed up @wikidata, IDSM, QLever, @cdk Depict, and Ammar […] [Original post on social.edu.nl]

Yes, I know I've posted this before, but I really want one 😊 Public libraries could make this the door to their reading areas, then I could try it, get sick of it, and not be bothered 😁 @libraries @librarians @bookbubble @bookstodon @humour #Library […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Loving this: "The Copilot Delusion" Quotes: "Copilot isn’t that. It’s just the ghost of a thousand blog posts and cocky stack-overflow posts whispering, "Hey, I saw this once. With my eyes. Which means it's good code. Let’s deploy it." Then vanishing when the app hits production and the landing […]

Got a #knowledgegraph want some use cases and example queries and how to share them: Read our paper in GigaScience https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/article/doi/10.1093/gigascience/giaf045/8133871?searchresult=1 Join us in #sparqling your #sparql to improve your #SPARQL ;)

Adrian Schwend on another platform: "Super happy to see that RDF 1.2 and SPARQL 1.2 (formerly known as RDF-star) will land in a first, experimental version in Apache Jena."

The #elixirmetabolomics community is tackling key challenges in standards adoption, high-quality metadata, and data integration. The new RCI-M project (“Next level of reproducible, comparable and integrable Metabolomics”)-just funded by ELIXIR-brings together 11 labs across 9 nodes together […]

The race is on

Ben je onderzoeker/ondersteuner bij een hogeschool en klinkt "leer hoe je data kunt ordenen en opschonen met behulp van spreadsheets en OpenRefine. Ook leer je de beginselen van statistiek met R" als iets waarmee je de 2 dagen tijdsbesteding snel weer ruimschoots terugverdient? Zet dan 11 en 12 […]

Thanks to AWS's Sergey Melnik, as well as HN commenters matashii and Ants Aasma, we now know that Long Fork in PostgreSQL clusters is caused by a disagreement between primaries and secondaries on the order in which transactions become visible […]

question, I am looking for a #java fundtion/library that does String replacement, but that returns all variations with at least one replacement. For example, if I start with "xxAxAxxA" and I would do a replace("A'", "B"), I would get all of these: "xxAxAxxA" (optional) "xxAxAxxB" "xxAxBxxA" […]

@cthoyt @Cmungall do you have any further plans for ChemRof or is it a dead project?

I've got a quick favour to ask. If you're reading this post on Mastodon (or the Fediverse), please click share. How come? I recently moved across to my own self-hosted single-user server (using GoToSocial.org). For a bunch of reasons, including visibility across the Fedi, it would really help out.

Many universities and research institutes have their own #gitlab or #gitea instances, which is a good thing. But are there any plans for these instances to be federated ? It's a bit cumbersome to open a new account on a new instance every time I want to collaborate on a project. #openscience

Looking for a copy of https://www.iso.org/standard/88862.html does anyone know if there are cheaper legal options to access these specifications or drafts thereof ?

It is maddening how stingy and bureaucratic societies and academic institutions are. Many expect me to work for free, only offer economy flight tickets, and have me fill out forms for hours. It is almost as if they do not value science integrity. I am very thankful to my Patreon supporters!

I've never understood how scientists, in particular, could flee from that Musk place only to take refuge in, wait for it, a Bannon place like #bluesky. 🤦‍♂️ "On social media, Mastodon is managed and run by the community (e.g., https://neuromatch.social is a server run by neuroscientists) […]

@petersuber @mrak One alternative is to accelerate the move of international conferences to outside of the US, but that ends up harming foreign US-based scholars here on visas, who now can't travel abroad for fear that their status will be revoked without warning at the border when they return […]

one thing I've learned about teaching over the years is that if I make a negative statement (like “git commits aren't stored as diffs"), it doesn't really work -- often people will just ignore it, especially if it contradicts their current mental model so I always have to figure out how to […]

Oh hell yes, finally cashing out. Later, suckers! 🤪

I’m currently using a US based time tracking and invoicing service. I’d like to, after a decade of using them, cancel it and migrate to a non-US service. Can anyone recommend anything? I’m currently using Harvest - so it would have to have a similar set of features. I don’t take payment through […]

Open Context has been getting overwhelmed by bots. Again. Huge range of IP addresses, many, many user-agent strings that look like human controlled browsers, but all accessing random pages of content. If I'm blocking your IP address and you want #opendata in #archaeology I apologize. If […]

https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2559370-te-afhankelijk-van-amerikaanse-internetdiensten-kom-nu-met-een-plan-b Technologiedeskundige Hubert heeft alvast een dringend advies: "Ga nou niet halve maatregelen nemen. Begin vandaag met een plan B: een Cloud Kootwijk waarmee we onszelf kunnen redden."

At @swat4hcls there was a presentation by @albdrg that I really like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Nl-nmLZA4 This uses #SPARQL to combine data in a privacy aware #beacons-api and combine it with public #knowledgegraph like #uniprot by @SIB#sparql#knowledgegraph#uniprotd #wikidata @wikidata to reduce cost of the data […]

after a great first @cdk user group meeting (see "cdk2024 #4: Chemistry Development Kit User Group Meeting - Day 1", https://doi.org/10.59350/e08pe-thb38), today we will have a hackathon (starting in about an hour) #cdk25ugm