Question for all the #cat lovers out there. Our four-legged furry companions obviously need to eat. I have noticed that the #prices for #catfood exploded over the last months. For example, the "Cosma Snackies Maxi" that they love as treats doubled (!) in […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

#hamburg + #schnee = #fail Haha, dort wo ich herkommen, räumt man den Schnee vom Gehsteig weg 😄 Morgen gibt es #glatteis zum Frühstück 🙄

I suggest you support Standard Ebooks 📚 “Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of … copyright restrictions, and free of cost.” ⚖️ See what’s free to read […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

In the age of enshittification Robert Pirsig becomes mandatory reading. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_Maintenance #enshittification #Pirsig #zen #books #bookstodon

In der Arte-Mediathek versteckt wie der Schneeleopard in den Bergen Tibets. Nicht nur für Sylvain Tesson Fans. #nature #naturephotography #NatureWriting https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/110234-000-A/der-schneeleopard/

Happy Kitty-Cat-Mas to you all! <3 #cat #cats #catsofmastodon #furry #fluffy #flufftmasfluff #xmas

"but how do i know that it's real" you don't. and that's okay

Can we please stop holding important conferences in the US? One of my students is affected by the full travel ban and for others it just doesn't seem sufficiently safe. I love my US colleagues and would have enjoyed attending HSP and ACL/CoNNL but it's simply not an option at this point.

Did you know: you can avoid the need for backups by failing to do anything worth saving a copy of Follow me for more computing lifehacks

The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science "From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science, along with the Core Collection and Journal Citation Reports." […]

Update. The #un is dropping #GoogleDocs in favor of #opensource #cryptpad (@CryptPad). https://itsfoss.com/news/un-ditches-google-form/

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In the Netherlands, cycling meets art & sustainability in a remarkable way. A glow-in-the-dark bike path inspired by Vincent van Gogh's painting Starry Night lights up the town of Nuenen, where the artist once lived. The bike path uses thousands of […] [Original post on mastodon.nu]

Finished reading #UrsulaKLeGuin 's 1820s historical novel set in a (fictional) part of the Austro-Hungarian empire - Orsinia, a setting she has returned to, in various time periods, in a few of her non-SFF works. The story does eventually feature a violent […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/your-washing-machine-could-be-sending-37-gb-of-data-a-day The owner was puzzled […]

"Die größte wissenschaftliche Krise aller Zeiten" Internationale Forscher warnen in der #StockholmDeclaration vor dem Zusammenbruch des Wissenfundaments moderner Gesellschaften – und fordern Reform des wissenschaftlichen Publizierens. Interview im […] [Original post on eduresearch.social]

mastodon should fix the bug where typos are invisible in the editing box but obvious on the timeline

Okay, but hear me out, what if we produce an entire generation of students who are *all* the ones who did nothing in the group project?

@GeorgKrammer on the other hand, getting a legitimate article through peer review can seem impossible at times. Is peer review just systematically broken?

@GeorgKrammer The higher the prestige, the lower the quality: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00037/full

Wow... I was just pointed to this paper https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfin.2024.104081 and its retraction https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfin.2024.104081 Want to read the first sentence of the introduction together with me? "Certainly, here is a possible […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Here's a reasonable request: please provide access to the data and code producing the results reported in your manuscript, so that it will not go down the gutter as unverifiable magic. Yet another study - this one by @ianhussey - finds that few authors claiming data are available upon request […]

OJS ist für unser Diamond-OA-Hosting-Angebot essentiell. Darum sind wir als UB Mannheim beim OJS-Konsortium dabei (bitte gerne nachmachen): https://academiccloud.social/@TIBopenpub/115416804029633101

I just gave my mate a laptop with Mint on it, this lappy's like ten years old and it's replacing a two-year-old one with win11 on it (and the linux one is faster, natch, another reason why this actually might be important, given that I've gotta live on a planet with a bunch of e-waste on it) and […]

Für die #Sozialwissenschaften und #Psychologie haben sich in Deutschland drei #OpenAccess-Repositorien etabliert. Über diese Portale wird wissenschaftliche Literatur aus der #Erziehungswissenschaft, #Bildungsforschung und #Fachdidaktik, den […] [Original post on bildung.social]

Up close, nature reveals its most extraordinary designs. This stunning macro by @flynn_prall reminds us how much beauty exists beyond what the eye can see. 🐛 #nature #wildlife #caterpillarcloseup 📸 Source: www.facebook.com/share/p/1BgV...

@torproject @eff I only recently stumbled upon the TOR University Challenge https://toruniversity.eff.org/ Is this still an ongoing thing? And I don't mean the prize, I mean the thing itself.

Searching for #solarpunk #symbol s: A flash memory pendant containing an offline copy of #wikipedia , #openstreetmap , #appropedia and #opensourceecology project. Oversimplifying, a stand-in for "the sum of human knowledge". (Possibly some Linux distro, some documentation, manuals to restart […]

»Linux von Anfang an« ist ein kostenloser Online-Kurs, in dem ihr lernen könnt, wie #linux funktioniert – ganz ohne Vorkenntnisse. In zwölf Abendterminen arbeitet ihr mit eurem eigenen Linux-PC oder -Laptop und lernt euer Betriebssystem und euer Gerät in seiner ganzen Tiefe kennen. Wir fangen […]

Guten Morgen - Tässle Kaffee ☕️? Der weltweite Erfolg der Elektro - #Verkehrswende mit über 30 Tsd. neuen Elektroautos pro Tag (!) ist eine gute Nachricht nicht nur für die #Mitwelt , sondern auch für Mitmenschen: Die #Ölpreise sinken, #Öl - Diktaturen geraten unter Druck, fossile […]

An early start for me and Dr. Brompton (my folding bike!) this morning as we head to Münster to take part in the “Making Replications Count” Hackathon: super excited to meet everyone and get cracking! #replication #OpenScience

Every time you tell someone to drive safe, an adverb loses its wings

@R_Foundation has added a Mastodon "news ticker" on the r-project.org homepage 🤩 #rstats https://www.r-project.org

Morning #landscape #photography

Arrived at the #hsu in #hamburg for my stay as guest professor. Settling in and feeling welcomed by my name on my new office 😍 #leaveofabsence #uni #science #guestprof #prof

Die Innenstadt von #linz am Sonntag am Vormittag: eine einzige Müllhalde. Danke dem Fußball...

Update. This new study confirms those above by showing that "low-JIF [journal impact factor] journals are often primary sources for much applied work of narrow regional or taxonomic interest essential for successful intervention on the ground." PS: I repeat, cockeyed emphasis on high-JIF […]

Every user: "We want #firefox to be a real agent for the user, that doesn't give us AI slop and won't sell out our privacy." #mozilla: "On Firefox for iOS you can now get an "AI" to summarize a page by shaking your phone" 🤦 https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/shake-to-summarize/

if you need me, i'll be doing matcha pilates at the labubu rave

A WiFi router in #Germany While I have no clue how AI is driving WiFi these days ...🙄 🤔 🤣 ...I do know what "Mist AI" translates to in the country this pic was taken: #garbage #ai #ai #translation #fail #hype

One of the side-effects of the AI bubble is that we stopped talking about alternative solutions to computing problems. Everything needs to be solved with "AI" - meaning an LLM - and nobody stops and asks if there is an alternative. This drives me mad because LLMs are not only unreliable, but […]

on our very recent shipments of MNT laptops to the US, i can see that a number of people had to pay "government charges" via UPS before delivery. there is no transparency on these charges, we can only see the dollar amount. the amount is never the expected 15% (EU->US agreement), but usually […]

But the most important about #earli205 🤭 is the "Invited Symposium: Mapping the European Educational Research Field: Thematical Trends and Clusters over 30 Years" Our colleagues @ChristophSchindler and @alexchrist will present their work on the app […] [Original post on eduresearch.social]

Another paper is with #methodsinpsychology at #elsevier submitted in the middle for February. 6 1/2 month later and it doesn't even have a second #reviewer yet. I am an advocate of #slowscience but that is not what I meant by it :( #PeerReview #frontiers #science #publishing #frustrating […]

My paper is now with #frontiersin #psychology for 4 month since submission. I don't even have reviewers yet :( I am an advocate of #slowscience but that is not what I meant by it :( #PeerReview #frontiers #science #publishing #frustrating #AcademicJournals #academia

somehow we have made a computer which cannot place squares regularly on a grid. this is impressive honestly

Kannste sagen was Du willst aber #omasgegenrechts sind ne stabile Bank! 👍 #hamburg #csdhamburg #pride