This is your periodic reminder that when posting a link of any sort you should include at least a sentence or two describing what it's about, because many fediverse apps (including e.g. the Mastodon web app) don't display useful previews for many types of links. Be polite: don't make people […]

I'm sympathetic to #NIH-funded authors who want to publish in #APC-based #openaccess journals and can't find the money to pay the APCs. But it's false to say that they must publish in those journals, in any other APC-based OA journals, or even in OA journals. Shame on _Inside Higher Ed_ leaving […]

I very much believe that if capitalism hadn't tried to turn large language models into infinite money and they were strictly in computer science land, people would find it really cool the idea that weighted sums can independently figure out relative meanings of words via context clues is […]

The Nextclade dataset for Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) has been realeased and is available on Nextclade!! Enterovirus is an RNA virus that mostly causes respiratory illness, but is also suspected of causing a polio-like disorder called acute flaccid myelitis (AFM): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterov...

The Verge: Screw it, I’m installing Linux https://www.theverge.com/tech/823337/switching-linux-gaming-desktop-cachyos #win11 #linux

Avrilcadabra - 20 mins of glorious chiptune | Bitscape 2025 https://youtu.be/Kk0HUPxJn_0

A rather comical conjunction of posts just appeared in my timeline thanks to @cstross, XKCD and @lhcstatus2

My prediction: When the new Steam Controller, "GabeCube", and Frame hit the market, #SteamDeck might get a 2nd refresh most likely with the same TMR analog stick as the rest of this products line-up, probably improved wireless (dual radios to facilitate streaming like the Frame?), perhaps […]

Pour répondre à la clameur populaire, j'ai fait un petit site qui présente mon cours / atelier sur l'IA : > Les tenants du bon sens et de la modération répètent que « la question n’est pas d’être pour ou contre les IA, mais de savoir comment les utiliser ». Je propose la perspective inverse […]

yo dawg i heard you like linux so i put linux in your linux so you could linux while you linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-WebAssembly

Thinking that I might start adding something like this to more of the software I write.

@Viss @catsalad yes but for your consideration:

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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With great power comes great electricity bill

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 […]

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. 🥲