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i deeply need the video essay on the typographical success of the Zohran campaign

🚨 Job Alert We're hiring our first Postdoc to work with us on our @erc.europa.eu Project on Generative AI for Particle Physics. Check out the details below and don't hesitate to get in touch or spread the word! Deadline: Nov 30th inspirehep.net/jobs/3075448

Now I'm also looking for a research software engineer to implement a pile of research results to R packages loo, posterior, bayesplot, projpred, priorsense, brms or/and Python packages ArviZ, Bambi and Kulprit. Apply by email with no specific deadline (see contact info at users.aalto.fi/~ave/)

Aki Vehtari@avehtari.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm now also looking for a postdoc with strong Bayesian background and interest in developing Bayesian cross-validation theory, methods and software. Apply by email with no specific deadline (see contact information at users.aalto.fi/~ave/). Others, please share

URGENT ACTION 🚨 If you do one thing for trans rights today – contact your MP about the proposed EHRC Code of Practice, which would devastate trans people's lives. Even if you've sent a letter before, make sure you use our new tool to send another. Now is the moment to keep the pressure up 👇

Scrap the Bathroom Ban

🚨This is urgent🚨 Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Prac...

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Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

just wanted to share that after nearly 8 years of programming in Python and dabbling with other languages as-needed, I've finally written my first bash script! having random blind spots as professional does not make you bad at your job, and i just wanted to normalize that :)

"You might feel powerless. That it is too late. It is way too late for way too many. But way too late is going to have to be soon enough." 'The Sound of Solidarity' from @saranahmed.bsky.social feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/the-sound-...

The Sound of Solidarity

“From Birzeit University, in the heart of occupied Palestine, we are screaming with Gaza.

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please use this fantastic email tool to make some noise about the EHRC Code of Practice!! some awful stuff might be made law without a parliamentary vote. different links for both trans people and allies :) www.scottishtrans.org/emailfortransinclusion

Scottish Trans@scottishtrans.bsky.social · last yr.

"What email tool?" (we hear you ask) - the one that takes two minutes and lets you tell the people with power to make a difference that trans people deserve safe, inclusive services like everyone else. Use it whether you're in England, Scotland or Wales: www.scottishtrans.org/emailfortransinclusion

with how good AI-assisted coding is now, are programmers going to become more of a luxury trade? "We hand-craft artisanal Python code to solve your use-case. Experts weave every letter of the variables into your codebase. All commits are done manually -- personalize your messages for a small fee."

obsessed with this vinted account that models all their items with a djungelskog

If your library doesn't have any documentation, it can't have any bugs simonwillison.net/2025/May/22/...

being 194cm, this has always been the most frustrating thing about living & travelling in the uk compared to the rest of europe -- i have to go out of my way to get stupidly wide beds just to increase the length & not have my feet dangle off the end 😭

Today, we’re announcing the preview release of ty, an extremely fast type checker and language server for Python, written in Rust. In early testing, it's 10x, 50x, even 100x faster than existing type checkers. (We've seen >600x speed-ups over Mypy in some real-world projects.)

We believe the Supreme Court has placed the UK in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act. Over 8,000 people have supported our case - will you join us? goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

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well, this is a new one for me 😄 turns out that python's list creation shorthand for duplicating elements (e.g. x = [obj] * n) does not make the instances of obj distinct in memory! TIL.

<proud advisor> Hot off the arXiv! 🦬 "Appa: Bending Weather Dynamics with Latent Diffusion Models for Global Data Assimilation" 🌍 Appa is our novel 1.5B-parameter probabilistic weather model that unifies reanalysis, filtering, and forecasting in a single framework. A thread 🧵

I still genuinely think this is the best thing I have produced in my entire life so highly recommend a listen if you like things I do generally.

Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · 2y ago

I gave an interview to Al Jazeera on the Supreme Court judgment, and the surrounding context. I think it's possibly the best thing I've ever done (?) so give it a listen. youtu.be/dhRKIZi60NI?...

looking into distrax a bit to implement some normalising flow stuff for a talk — found out the CI is failing because pylint flags the *whole library* for bad indentation (google uses 2-space tabs). this is what happens when you make double standards 😌 github.com/google-deepm...

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So sorry trans cousins in the UK. I'll never forgive that author, the author of the notorious report or associated 'adult human female' shitheads for the hatred they've spread against you. This "lets hate trans people instead of doing anything to fix anything" bullshit needs to STOP.

bias-variance tradeoff

idk if this is a neurodivergent thing, but having a low-volume audiobed with some kind of background music can really help me stay in long meetings when i'm remote. i'd recommend giving it a try if your concentration can waver easily — i find it surprisingly grounding!

yay im a real ml engineer now 📉

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

Mark today in the history books. The first AI weather prediction model labeled “operational” by a major world forecast center. Congrats ECMWF 🎉

ECMWF@ecmwf.int · 2y ago

We have taken our Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System (AIFS) into operations today to run side by side with our physics-based weather forecasts. The #AIFS outperforms traditional models for many measures, at a fraction of energy use. ➡️ www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med... #AI #MachineLearning

after enjoying some testing of @simonwillison.net's LLM CLI tool, going to try some more regular use of models for my more organisation-related tasks. what model would people suggest that meets these reqs: - long context (e.g. many long text files) - economic - if local, fits in 32GB mem?

the em-dash is a primary love language of mine — just look at all the mental space that made! and our context is perfectly preserved 😌

Mark Riedl@markriedl.bsky.social · 2y ago

Em Dash an appreciation club member, checking in