RE: https://mastodon.online/@Centre_Mersenne/115661990703325565 Society journals adopting the diamond open access model with financial support from science funding bodies and research institutions is a key step towards getting us out of the mess academic publishing currently is. This is […]

RE: https://mastodon.online/@neuroinformatics/115643481413121555 I'll be coordinating the "Animals in Motion" track of this summer school, returning to London in August 2026. Apply to join us for some hands-on learning and collaboration on open-source tools for video behavioural analysis […]

RE: https://mastodon.online/@neuroinformatics/115524165336030162 Today I came back from holidays but my first day at the office was happier than expected! @neuroinformatics just released a new version of `movement`, a software for #motion tracking #analysis, that includes my PR on which I […]

RE: https://mastodon.online/@neuroinformatics/115524203896180639 Thanks for the contribution @cirlo, and for the blogpost!

RE: https://mastodon.online/@TheCSCCE/115463442788556085 Taking part in the Birdaro programme by @TheCSCCE on behalf of https://movement.neuroinformatics.dev has been such a great experience so far. I'm learning tons about open-source governance and community building, and meeting a brilliant […]

I’ve been thinking about community software most of my life. 23 years ago, I started organizing communities. 15 years ago, I joined the wave of "next-generation" forums that popularized community as an enterprise feature. 7 years ago, I began reflecting on everything I'd learned in a notebook […]

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 […]

I enjoyed chatting with Peter about my @SoftwareSaved fellowship. Tune in for the backstory behind https://animals-in-motion.neuroinformatics.dev and @neuroinformatics's "Open Software Week". PS: Code for Thought is a great podcast to follow if you’re into research software […]

Had a blast teaching the "Animals in Motion" course last week as part of @neuroinformatics Open Software Week! All course materials—including hands-on coding exercises—are freely available as an online book: 🔗 […] [Original post on neuromatch.social]

One of my coworkers refers to Open Source as “the most incredible thing humanity has ever accomplished.” When he says that, he’s not making a socioeconomic or political statement, nor is he ignoring technical shortcomings. Rather, he is making an observation about how millions of people have […]

For everyone in the #us and able to visit some national parks in the coming days/weeks: We need your help in preserving history: #saveoursigns https://fedihum.org/@SafeguardingResearch/114790061502916768

new zine: The Secret Rules of the Terminal https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/06/24/new-zine--the-secret-rules-of-the-terminal/

“Nightmare bicycle” is a concept that I won’t get out of my head quickly. https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/03/03/the-nightmare-bicycle.html

Reminder to register for our @neuroinformatics "Open Software Week" this August in London, for some hands-on training and hacking on open-source Python tools for analysing animal motion, whole-brain microscopy (with @brainglobe), or big imaging data. Spaces are limited but registration and food […]

The Journal of Open Source Education is an educator friendly journal for publishing open-source educational materials and software. https://jose.theoj.org

Helping a labmate stream a video from python that gets processed framewise as a series of arrays to the browser for some dashboard, and the amount of tutorials that encourage you to encode every frame as a b64 JPEG and dynamically update the `src` attribute on an `img` element are too damn high […]

As part of this week-long event, I will be hosting a 2-day “Animals in Motion” workshop in London, with the generous support of @SoftwareSaved. It’s for anyone who wants to get hands-on experience with using open-source software to track animals from video footage and analyse their motion […]

to any academics who want their work to outlast their current hype cycle, the next publisher downsizing, or government book burning: * make your work available for free. * as a PDF or HTML document (or, fine, JATS) * from a URL that requires no login or javascript to access. having […]

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Now there's a protest sign you don't see often.

every core unix command I use

GIMP 3.0 has been released 🎊 The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) latest release have also switched from GIMP 2.10’s Python-fu to use standard Python 3 for 3.0. 🐍 All release notes here: 👇 https://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-3.0.html #gimp #python #gnu #image #manipulation #program

don't fuck up and think that disappearing Mahmoud Khalil and leveling Columbia is anything but trying to crush leftist organizing full stop. They don't give a shit about antisemitism, and they're not even doing it because they love Israel. They're going after campus organizers because […]

Happy #fetchallreplies day to those that celebrate (everyone)

This was among the most fun projects I’ve worked on! Borrowing some methods from MRI and applying them to whole-brain microscopy data of outstanding quality. Check out these beautiful (and magnetoreceptive) bird brains! #anatomy #neuroscience From: @adamltyson […]

I'm finally unveiling the #activitypub project that has been consuming my weekends: Encyclia, an #orcid bridge that will make ORCID records followable and interactable on the fediverse. 🙂 It's early-stage and the ORCID following function is not publicly available yet. We're seeking community […]

What's to stop Musk, who's already tried meddling with German elections, from seizing Zelenskyy's, or any other European leader's X account, and posting something with dire geopolitical consequences? We're way past the point where it's wise for European leaders and institutions to rely on a […]

🚀 Some exciting news! Our team is taking part in Google Summer of Code, which is a remote, asynchronous, global opportunity. This is a fantastic chance for someone to get paid to contribute to "movement" or our other open-source projects in neuroscience and animal behaviour. If you know […]

The only way to make archives under attack survive is to make a billion copies of everything. No archival organization can survive every or even most takedown attempts, and the more eggs we have in fewer baskets makes them even better targets. The only way to avoid the memory hole is […]

The bastards didn't even seed > Meta "modified the config setting do that the smallest amount of seeding possible could occur" https://torrentfreak.com/authors-seek-metas-torrent-client-logs-and-seeding-data-in-ai-piracy-probe-250120/

The work isn't producing the output, that's a tiny fraction of it. The work is thinking, taking time to understand the problem you're trying to solve, making sure it's the right one, communicating and collaborating around it within an organisational and economic system, it's.. complex. What we […]

Social media platform by level of resistance from the average user: Facebook: "Guess I heard something but my grandson says it's fine." Twitter: : racist bot tries to sell you NFTs: Bluesky: "everything is terrible and we're all going to die... but what can you do" Fediverse: : LITERALLY […]

"Don't waste your pro-social efforts on an anti-social community." This is an attempt to summarize some of the discussion I've been hearing around contributing to closed/exploitative/antagonistic social media platforms.

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extremely funny to me how most bibliometric research seeking to identify "cheating" in scientific publishing uncritically participates in creating the problem it tries to resolve. "A company makes money by selling jelly beans, and through decades of scheming has convinced my boss that the […]

An Open Letter to All European Politicians and Leaders to Abandon X/Twitter: "By abandoning X/Twitter, leaders can reduce its credibility, promote fairer alternatives, and take a stand against the spread of disinformation, ensuring democratic principles are upheld." H/T to @everton137 for […]

What does it mean for something to be Turing complete? I answer this question, and more, through a series of fully interactive Turing machine simulations! Play, pause, step forwards and backwards, and even write your own Turing machine programs in my latest […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

What if we designed our cities, and the land-uses, densities & infrastructure that make them what they are, so that daily activity and exercise was just a normal, ordinary, almost “invisible” part of every day life? It’s actually not that hard. We just have to change our priorities. #HealthyCities

Wake up babe, new Bartosz Ciechanowski just dropped https://ciechanow.ski/moon/

I LOVE the ink example in this writeup! Totally using that forever. https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-public-key-cryptography-really-works-20241115/ #encryption #mathmatics

Does anyone have a working #github action to create a fake #Slurm cluster within a CI action? (ours keeps failing, e.g. https://github.com/snakemake/snakemake-executor-plugin-slurm/actions/runs/12235923998/job/34193736191?pr=159) #askfedi #hpc

Pretty cool but also terrifying.. Voyager 1 is now about one light day from Earth! And that took about half a century While the nearest star besides the sun is about 4 light years away from us What I’m trying to say is.. space is terrifyingly big

Last week the Python package "Ultralytics" suffered a supply-chain attack on its build and release process. This is a review of the attack from @pypi.org's perspective. There's plenty of advice for how Python projects can increase their #security posture for their processes and repositories […]

movement—our free, open-source Python package for analysing animal motion—just got an upgrade (v0.0.21) and it’s first blogpost. Good time to check it out. #neuroscience #neuroethology #ethology #behavior From: @neuroinformatics https://mastodon.online/@neuroinformatics/113624043410144421

Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon whether or not it's more popular than Bluesky.

> The dangers of the situation are obvious and real, but it matters that we remember that the world’s big platforms are steered not by shadowy forces, but by teams of gold-rush-addled dorks whose sometimes-well-meaning employees are stuck frantically LARPing world government on internal forum […]