AI is coming for our jobs... (for the record: the train driver was not, in fact, delaying the international high-speed train to cook a beef stew for Christmas) @rocksandfaults.bsky.social

I think I've seen it all now... Using Distributed Acoustic Sensing to monitor rats chasing one another in the sewers: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Distributed acoustic sensing reveals urban rat dynamics through environmental intelligence of dark fiber - Communications Earth & Environment

Rat nightlife in cities is shaped by the weather, with wind, heat, and cloud cover keeping them underground, according to a study that used distributed acoustic sensing on a 20-kilometer dark fiber in...

nature.com

1) In order to connect my laptop to a wireless network I need to install an app. 2) In order for the app to authenticate with the network, it needs an active internet connection. 3) In order to have internet, I need to be authenticated on the network. See the problem here? 🤔

Why do manuscript repositories pretend like it's 1998? For hal.science, the maximum file size is 3 MB, and if you cannot stick to that they will remove your submission within 5 months. Nowadays a single HDD has a capacity approaching 30 TB, which could store 10 MILLION documents.

⚠️ Faults don’t slip evenly!! Varying slip rates along faults drive complex earthquake cycle patterns, yet they are overlooked in seismic hazard assessments. Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

Submission day is approaching, and already 24 hours before the submission deadline this ancient-looking platform buckles under the strain of at least 100 scientists trying to submit their projects. Stress testing clearly wasn't part of the development objectives...

Martijn van den Ende@martijnende.bsky.social · last yr.

Spending half my day filling out forms on yet another CV platform mandated by a particular funding agency. Can't we just export/import a simple XML/JSON from one platform into another? See also: xkcd.com/927/

Spending half my day filling out forms on yet another CV platform mandated by a particular funding agency. Can't we just export/import a simple XML/JSON from one platform into another? See also: xkcd.com/927/

scirev.org 👈 "SciRev.org is [...] offering researchers the opportunity to share their experiences and select an efficient journal to submit their work." And guess what: "The website is owned and maintained by [...] a non-profit organization located in The Netherlands."

We need a rating/review site for academic journals. Something like Yelp, but for academia. As far as I can tell, there is currently no mechanism to hold journals accountable for editorial malpractice, or to provide feedback that is transparent and visible to the public.

I was just asked to review a paper, but I had to look up several words from the title in a dictionary. I took that as a sign that I'm not qualified for this assignment.

SeisBench v.10 is out and it's time for some new models: - SkyNet allows picking regional phases and can even distinguish Pn, Pg, Sn, Sg (beware of the Terminator though) - SeisDAE brings easily retrainable seismic waveform denoising Check out all changes here: github.com/seisbench/se...

Release SeisBench v0.10 - SkyNet, SeisDAE and a more powerful model API · seisbench/seisbench

Major updates The SkyNet model is now available in SeisBench. SkyNet is specifically designed to pick phase arrivals at regional distances (up to 20 degree) and also comes with a set of weights to...

github.com

PSA to all IT departments out there: mandatory periodic password changes are no longer recommended (cybersecuritynews.com/nist-rules-p...). And requiring at least one capital letter, a number, and a special character has a 50% chance of resulting in "P@ssword123". Offer MFA instead.

NIST Recommends New Rules for Password Security

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released updated guidelines for password security, marking a significant shift from traditional password practices.

cybersecuritynews.com

Yet another strike for the Tree Physiology journal: I noticed (too late) that the copy-editors rewrote Latin species names into EN-GB spelling: Brachychiton discolor became Brachychiton discolour everywhere in my manuscript! Fortunately I didn't pay anything for this "high quality typesetting"...

Measuring rock slides is cool, but modelling rock slides is cool too. So why not do both? Come join us at the beautiful Côte d'Azur! We have a fully-funded PhD opportunity available in the framework of the ERC UNREST project. Application window is open until 25 August: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

AAA estimates the average cost of owning a car is $12,297 a year, and recommends drivers spend no more than 10 percent of their income on car costs. This means you should make 120K to afford the average cost. Median *household* income in the US is $77K. The math just doesn't work.

When you back-up your data to the same drive as the original data...

This is considered state-of-the-art cycling infrastructure at the Côte d'Azur (🇫🇷). The cycling path just ends and merges with a pedestrian lane. You're expected to zigzag between the black poles to complete the merge.

@agu.org is imposing some Italian-style administration on all authors of all submitted manuscripts. We already disclosed funding sources and conflicts of interest in the manuscript itself, and probably also during the submission process. Why does every author have to repeat that procedure again?

No Microsoft Word, I don't think that "Slikeennines" is "More concise language that would be clearer for your reader". I'll stick with "Southern Apennines" for now.

New personal best (worst): I broke a new git-tracked repository within 34 seconds since creation. Can't merge upstream because of "diverging branches". I think we all need to look inside ourselves and acknowledge that only Linus himself really knows how to use git...

The insect population crash is one of the most visible, because you can see it in your own backyard. Walk out to a meadow full of flowers: you no longer hear the constant buzzing of bees, bugs, and beetles. At night, leave the windows open and the lights on: hardly anything comes in to visit you...

Emily May@emtomology.bsky.social · last yr.

Need a visual for insect declines and shifting baseline? Read this, and use the image sliders. “It’s the same sheet, with the same lights, in the same place, looking over the same vegetation…” he says. “There’s just no moths on that sheet.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Need a visual for insect declines and shifting baseline? Read this, and use the image sliders. “It’s the same sheet, with the same lights, in the same place, looking over the same vegetation…” he says. “There’s just no moths on that sheet.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects

A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

theguardian.com

Got experience in DAS data processing and/or subsurface imaging, and looking for a postdoc? Come work with us at Géoazur on a massive DAS data set from Chile! Job advertisement: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... Want a sneak peek of the data? Check our live stream: pisco.unice.fr#/live

I made the grave mistake of trying out Copilot in VS Code. To fix the error that I got, it suggested me to upgrade optimistix to version >0.13 (note that the current version is 0.0.10...). It completely hallucinated a story of version incompatibility.

I'm sure that the Belgians are working overtime to come up with a joke about Dutch avarice and stealing wind

Caroline de Gruyter@carolinedegruyter.bsky.social · last yr.

New word: ‘wind theft’ www.brusselstimes.com/1595046/belg...

Got experience in DAS data processing and/or subsurface imaging, and looking for a postdoc? Come work with us at Géoazur on a massive DAS data set from Chile! Job advertisement: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... Want a sneak peek of the data? Check our live stream: pisco.unice.fr#/live

SeisBench v0.9 is out now. Some highlights of the new version: - The CWA dataset with broadband and strong motion data from Taiwan. - The CEED dataset covering more than 4 million waveforms from California. - A 20% speed-up when picking continuous datasets. github.com/seisbench/se...

Release SeisBench v0.9 - Two new datasets, pick exporting, lots of small tweaks · seisbench/seisbench

Major updates Two new datasets: CWA for Taiwan, containing lots of larger events, and CEED for California, combining millions of manual phase picks with rich metadata from Northern and Southern Ca...

github.com

This is truly mind-blowing. At first I only looked at the crack appearing in the foreground in the pavement, then I saw the sudden and fast movement of the earth in the distance and on the right. 🤯🧪⚒️ youtu.be/77ubC4bcgRM?...

First fault rupture ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar

YouTube video by 2025 Sagaing Earthquake Archive

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I've heard of several of these initiatives, which at the surface look noble, but deeper down they often don't come with extra money to pay for these academic refugees. That, or it reallocates existing budgets, so that the grand total remains the same. Could we call it academic greenwashing?

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · last yr.

Big news: Dsit confirms UK scheme for foreign research talent. The science department has confirmed it will launch a funding scheme designed to attract foreign researchers, as calls grow for the UK to do more to recruit disaffected US scientists. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

Distributed Acoustic Sensing is a promising technology, but it has a limited dynamic range. @martijnende.bsky.social Van den Ende et al. conducted an in-depth investigation into what this means for Earthquake Early Warning. Read now: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...