My first Virginia Rail, William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon, USA #Birds #BirdPhotography

⏰ Current in-person pricing for #IRSC26 ends 7 Aug. Join leaders from across the global research software community on 7-8 Sept in Sheffield, UK + online to advance coordination, sustainability, and collaboration in the age of GenAI. Register: tinyurl.com/IRSC-registr... #ResearchSoftware

Fantastic paper demonstrating how LLM editing is gradually distorting our writing and the way we think to write: arxiv.org/abs/2603.18161

How LLMs Distort Our Written Language

Large language models (LLMs) are used by over a billion people globally, most often to assist with writing. In this work, we demonstrate that LLMs not only alter the voice and tone of human writing, b...

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There is a seemingly terrible plagiarism case at Cambridge. Prof Jason Arday. The plagiarism seems, in my opinion, Not Good. But: 'journals & universities across the board “do not regard plagiarism by researchers as actionable”' retractionwatch.com/2026/07/27/c...

ReSA’s July newsletter (preview.mailerlite.io/preview/7781...) is here! - News, incl. @softwaresaved.bsky.social Responsible AI Risk Register for RSE - IRSC partner: @ncsaatillinois.bsky.social - Dutch ADORE.software signatories meet Subscribe: www.researchsoft.org/news/ #ResearchSoftware #IRSC26

7-8 September 2026 | Sheffield, UK & online

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🎉 Registration is open for the inaugural International Research Software Conference: tinyurl.com/IRSC-registr... On 7-8 September, leaders and decision-makers from the global #ResearchSoftware community will come together in Sheffield and remotely. One conference. One community. A shared agenda.

A Coneflower Mining Bee on a Yellow Coneflower, Urbana, IL, USA

A Gray Catbird and American Pokeweed on a cool and misty morning in Champaign, IL, USA

This made me laugh - Politician reads AI prompt during assembly www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlYa...

Politician reads AI prompt during assembly

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It's nice to see this article in #HPCWire about #RSE #RSEng at #PEARC26 - I'm looking forward to talking there on Tuesday next week www.hpcwire.com/2026/07/24/a...

A Home of Their Own: PEARC26 Debuts a Dedicated Research Software Engineering Special Track - HPCwire

When ACM PEARC26 happens July 26-30 at the Minneapolis Convention Center, it will mark two firsts at once. The conference series, which began as PEARC17 in 2017 and has been sponsored by ACM and its S...

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I hope to some of you at this event

EVERSE@eosc-everse.bsky.social · 2w ago

📢 EVERSE Stakeholder Event | 24 Nov 2026 | Brussels For funders, policymakers, RSEs & infrastructure leaders shaping research software's future. Only ~40 spots, first-come, first-served, with a waiting list once capacity is reached: indico.cern.ch/event/1682301/ #EVERSE #ResearchSoftware

To be fair, substack literally platforms Nazis, so anything else they do is pretty unimportant next to the “welcomes and promotes Nazis” thing

Why does a two-day conference matter? Because it serves a goal far bigger to recognise research software and its personnel. That doesn’t happen by accident. It takes community leaders and champions aligning on a shared agenda. IRSC is where that alignment happens. www.researchsoft.org/irsc/

Following the update of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI, openscholarlyinfrastructure.org) to v2.0, @joss-openjournals.bsky.social has updated its commitment to the principles in blog.joss.theoj.org/2026/07/JOSS...

JOSS's 2026 Updated Commitment to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure | Journal of Open Source Software Blog

Blog for the Journal of Open Source Software • <a href='https://joss.theoj.org'>https://joss.theoj.org</a>

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1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.

The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science

As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...

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It's nice to get a very detailed, clearly human-written review of a paper, even if it means there's potentially a lot to change for the camera-ready version. I need to keep remembering in my own reviews that I'm writing as much for the author as for the PC chairs and other reviewers. #eScience26

After the World Cup, I tried to find a juvenile Yellow-crowned Night Heron that's been seen in a local park in Champaign, but failed, only finding a Great Blue Heron and a Green Heron #Birds #BirdPhotography

I wonder if I'm the only one here who uses Apple Mail to access institutional email on outlook365 (cloud-hosted Exchange)? My university wrote to all faculty and staff in its regularly weekly email that this won't work after October 1, saying: 1/4

Somehow I missed this incredible Weird Al Yankovic song that's entirely in palindromes when it came out, so in case that's also you, please enjoy it now

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Bob (HD Version)

YouTube video by alyankovicVEVO

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Great job 👏

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CHORUS/ReSA Forum explores embedding research software in scholarly publishing - Knowledgespeak

The Research Software Alliance (ReSA) and CHORUS convened a forum bringing together publishers, funders, infrastructure providers, software researchers, engineers, and open science leaders to discuss ...

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 A Research Software Institution (RSI) in Germany should collaborate not only with national but also with international RSE organisations – but how? 🙌 Find out more in our new blog post! ➡️ www.futursi.de/newsfeed/sim... #RSE #ResearchSoftware

📢 The proceedings of #SERS2026, the 1st International Workshop on Software Engineering and Research Software (conf.researchr.org/home/icse-20...), that we held at #ICSE2026 in Rio de Janeiro, are available here: 📑 dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi... 🔓 All articles are #OpenAccess. Happy reading!

Thought 1: who would eat this? Thought 2: @scalzi.com?

“The wealth of Illinois is in her soil and her strength lies in its intelligent development”

A really interesting browser fingerprinting technique - browsers have different mathematical outputs depending on the operating system scrapfly.dev/posts/browse...

Join us at the BoF: Committing to Sustainable Research Software with ADORE session at the International Research Software Conference (IRSC). www.researchsoft.org/irsc/

Research Software Alliance@researchsoftware.bsky.social · 4w ago

Dutch signatories of the Amsterdam Declaration on Funding Research Software Sustainability – NWO (@opensciencenl.bsky.social), ZonMw, CIT-RUG (@rug.nl) & @esciencecenter.bsky.social – met to reflect on progress made and work still ahead. Read the ReSA blog post: doi.org/10.59350/0q7...

Dutch signatories of the Amsterdam Declaration on Funding Research Software Sustainability – NWO (@opensciencenl.bsky.social), ZonMw, CIT-RUG (@rug.nl) & @esciencecenter.bsky.social – met to reflect on progress made and work still ahead. Read the ReSA blog post: doi.org/10.59350/0q7...

I think this is the case in some technical fields as well: the journal or conference in which the work is published marks you as part of that community or trying to be in it. I often think of conferences in particular as clubs, where your membership is based on the existing members and their work

Samuel Moore@samuelmoore.org · 4w ago

One thing I think DORA gets wrong is that in humanities fields the journal is not necessarily a marker of prestige or quality but of where you situate your scholarship, so it's helpful to take the publication into account when trying to understand where someone's work sits.

This is a more complete reason "From this perspective the move to “open-access” at Statistics and Computing might seem to have some merit on the surface. However, achieving this through APCs simply moves the financial barrier to a different part of the system." (1/3)

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 4w ago

SN flips a journal to open, and the associate editors resign.