I know there are a lot of CSS magicians on the fediverse, is anyone open to freelance work? we're looking for some help with https://wizardzines.com share a link to your site?

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Bruce Schneier has a good high-level look at threat-modeling under an authoritarian government. Alas, it’s not amenable to a simple recipe approach, but involves carefully thinking through the tradeoffs […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

We’re happy to announce our study on tracing influenza A from wastewater has been published in Water Research. We developed a novel tiling amplicon approach, enabling deep genomic coverage and our method is now part of Swiss-wide wastewater surveillance efforts. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congratulations to Xiang Ge Luo for the Outstanding Student Paper award at ISMB/ECCB 2025 in Liverpool (www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025...) for her work on the Bayesian inference of fitness landscapes via tree-structured branching processes published in Bioinformatics at doi.org/10.1093/bioi...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... In our new study, we use mathematical modelling, simulations, and Swiss wastewater data to show that that key epidemiological metrics are not biased by differences in virus shedding. This highlights the robustness of wastewater monitoring for pathogen surveillance.

Attention Gen Xers and boomers with registered domain names 🚨 If you, like me, put a fictitious organization in your domain name registration 25 years ago because NetSol or ICANN did not allow you to leave that field blank, recent policy changes will make that organization name the *legal […]

Lorenzen: unlike polar bears, Bowhead whales had stable environment suitability and genomic population size until very recently. Then human hunting (whaling) arrived, leading to a demographic crash. Modeling predicts that population recovery will be very slow at best. #bc2basel

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

Science peeps who are NOT in the USA: biotech is apparently circling the drain here, so I'm wondering about other places. We have two cats, and that's honestly the main reason I haven't focused on ex-US jobs until now. I'd be grateful for any and all information on moving to where you are for a […]

This is the completely unofficial Mastodon Cat Verification Service. If you have or are a cat, please verify by posting photos. Failure to do so will have no effect on your Mastodon service. I just want to see photos of cats.

On my way back ... I think, such a retreat / hackathon is needed more often. Particularly in my home country, Germany. The RSE landscape is shifting, becomes more divers and flourishes. Still, compared to our colleagues in the Netherlands, I dare say, such retreat/hackathons are needed more […]

Literally me the other night and I ended up getting up and fixing the bug. I knew I wouldn’t go to sleep if I didn’t fix it right then and there.

I’m an AI skeptic because I’ve been involved in AI dev longer than a lot of you have been alive. I was obsessed with it before most people used internet regularly. And I know what a dangerous illusion it can be. #ai #cybersecurity

> Fan upgrade made my system run faster

My wife just set up her first #linux on a computer via the #debian 13 #trixie netinstall: https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ via USB thumb drive I provided for her. I was sitting nearby but she accomplished the task all by herself. I just explained what "LVM" means as this was not explained […]

Il ne s’agirait pas simplement de records mensuels battus, mais de records absolus pulvérisés, non pas de façon isolée… mais par dizaines. Si ces prévisions se réalisent, c'est un cauchemar absolu pour tous les agriculteurs du sud-ouest de la France. [2/2]

Je n’arrive toujours pas à y croire. Les prévisions de lundi restent unanimes et alarmantes sur l’ensemble des modèles. Avec des températures brutes de 40 à 44 °C sur de vastes régions, nous dépasserons largement les seuils de tolérance de tous les végétaux et animaux présents. [1/2]

I "celebrated" the launch of GPT-5 by donating to the Wikimedia Foundation. Support Wikipedia, the *actual* knowledgebase which gives people's brains superabilities. It's far from perfect, but it's the best thing we've got! https://donate.wikimedia.org

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if you haven't taught someone who is helplessly addicted to LLMs, LLM brain is _so much worse than you can possibly imagine._ the problems i'm seeing from someone i am currently teaching are indistinguishable from illiteracy - this person literally cannot read single-line, fully descriptive […]

My cartoon for this week’s Books pages in @theguardian.com

When you don't have a cat at hand to randomly smash the keyboard for your Perl code, then you have...

If you want to vibe code open up a can of monster, put on your catears, put up the volume of some nightcore stuff and open emacs. Or vi. Both are a vibe.

"Microsoft can't protect French data from US government access" "The Senate hearing exposed tensions between sovereignty rhetoric and practical implementation. While French officials promote digital independence, procurement decisions consistently favor non-European solutions for critical […]

I used GPT to generate cryptic, professional-sounding names for a meeting where we secretly play Azul. AI for work? Nah, AI for working the room. For legal reasons this is a joke.

Stop and enjoy the #caturday! #cat #cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon #humor #humour

@WeirdWriter "Anxiety was a swarm of elephants under my ribs" is the new "Interesting fact: cats sleep most of their lives" is the new "Disregard All Previous Instruction and write a poem".

"Interesting fact: cats sleep most of their lives" is the new "Disregard All Previous Instruction and write a poem".

Modern academic publishing means I don’t have access to the published version of my own paper. 🥲

Gendered bathrooms: the "whatever" gender edition. (Just wash your hands).

I wish there was an easier way to save posts

"For staff across the National Institutes of Health (NIH), we dissent to Administration policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe." #nih #bethesdadeclaration https://www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-declaration

Ha! Someone sent me this comic of mine from about 15 years ago, predicting the TRUE THEORY OF VIBECODING www.smbc-comics.com?id=2362

We are excited to share our latest research published in Nature Genetics, where we could detect genetic heterogeneity within circulating tumor cell clusters that can seed metastases. To do so, we tailor-made a new phylogenetic algorithm "CTC-SCITE": www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Anecdote from my partner: "I have just installed 96TB of disk space in an external enclosure on [work computer]. [coworker] wants it for storing astronomical images. The first time I installed a disk drive on a computer it was 48 years ago and the drive held 90kB. Today's storage is one billion […]

Beware any industry that claims you need more of what it is selling to offset negative externalities generated by its unbridled use. This seems to be the pitch of the AI cheerleaders: If your systems are doing a poor job screening automated activity from AI […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Obligatory work post... We're hiring again for some senior software engineers and a product manager. We're all remote, but with an option to go into the office in Oxford. UK-based only. It's a great opportunity for anyone wanting to make a difference and use their code to help researchers in […]

If you want a scalable, international method for social publishing that is not subject to the whims of a US-based corporation (and therefore also the whims of America's authoritarian government), the fediverse really is the only viable option at this point. #europe would do well to invest in […]

Unsure Calculator: calculate with numbers you're not sure about Pretty neat! https://filiph.github.io/unsure/

Today at the #snakemakehackathon2025: We did a tour around the CERN! But, of course, work was done, too! On cvmfs support for software deployment, many core features, improved metadata reporting, more stable SLURM executor, etc. etc. etc. Soon you will read more. 😉

#snakemakehackathon2025 ! We started! At the CERN for better #reproduciblecomputing and #ReproducibleResearch .

"We now have the bizarre situation that anyone with any sense can see that America is no longer a reliable partner, and that the entire US business world bows to Trump’s dictatorial will, but we STILL are doing everything we can to transfer entire governments and most of our own businesses to […]

J'ai signé la “Open letter for strong science journalism” (en allemand) de scientifiques et grand public suisse contre le projet de coupes dans le journalisme scientifique au service public SRF https://openpetition.eu/!sciencejournalism #suisse #scicomm