Today? - paperwork - noticed that I forgot to push material for my courses (images, slides), so that I need to complement this from home :-/ - minor update to my ORCID to reflect the latest status change (noticed, that I should enter past adventures at some point, too) Plus minor stuff […]

Today-I-have-done: - first login to the cluster I should work and teach on - installed #Snakemake and the #SLURM plugin, both using #pixi Noticed that I need to amend the docs for this. - installed the #Nanopub reporter plugin, too. - merged a couple of dependency PRs (those are auto-generated) […]

Today was my first day in Frankfurt. No science-related accomplishment to tell ... But before leaving I've been told to speak with an Australian accent. @michcampbell, promised: I have never been down under! I never tried to get a mock accent either. 😅

The Facts: Ceuta is not Europe. Ceuta is an enclave of Spain in North Africa, a remnant of Spanish trading outposts and colonialism. Ceuta does not belong to the Schengen Area; an uncontrolled border crossing to the European mainland is not possible. Worldwide […] [Original post on mas.to]

Computing's original sin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists

As of today, I will be starting a today-I-have-done series. Already tried before. Possibly with breaks, as I will not always find the time to post. Sometimes, I might sprinkle in a blog post or event announcement. Next Monday I will start on a new position […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Fwd: "Ten simple rules for scholarly blogging" https://doi.org/10.54900/xn57k-gyw73 "Similar to preprints, blogs enable researchers to communicate ideas, preliminary findings, and emerging debates without waiting for lengthy peer-review processes. At the same time, blogs provide more space than […]

Ich bin die Tage mehrfach von großen Medien für Streitgespräche zur Abschaffung des Informationsfreiheitsgesetzes angefragt worden – bisher mussten aber alle ausfallen, weil niemand von CDU/CSU die Gegenposition vertreten wollte.

Es wird noch dauern, bis ich den Schock verarbeitet habe. #CSDBerlin In der Zwischenzeit das, was @jascha sagt: https://ohai.social/@jascha/116992592076650270 Außerdem trifft es @medicointernational auf den Punkt: https://mastodon.social/@medicointernational/116992117651052975 Um es hart & […]

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So viele reply people die auf die Posts queerer Menschen bezüglicher ihrer Trauer und Wut in den Replies dann plötzlich ihr Thema aufmachen. Ich hab da jetzt schon fast alles gesehen: Klimakrise, free Maja, Diskussionen wie hirnverbrannt Religion sei, Autoverkehr und mein Liebling war der Aufruf […]

Danke, Max Heckel #demokratieverteidigen https://www.news4teachers.de/2026/07/ich-werde-jetzt-einen-praezedenzfall-dafuer-schaffen-dass-lehrer-sich-im-unterricht-gegen-rechtsextremismus-positionieren-duerfen/

„Ich werde jetzt einen Präzedenzfall dafür schaffen, dass Lehrer sich im Unterricht gegen Rechtsextremismus positionieren dürfen“ - News4teachers

STENDAL. Der Fall des Lehrers Max Heckel entwickelt sich zunehmend zu einem Grundsatzstreit über den demokratischen Bildungsauftrag an Schulen. Nachdem

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Colleague: Last class of the semester for you too today, hey? Me: Yes, I can't wait!! Colleague: We're watching film. What fun thing are you doing with your class? Me: An introduction to multiple linear regression analysis! Colleague: 🥴 #Rstats #HigherEd

La 4ᵉ canicule se dessine dès mardi. Reste désormais à en préciser la durée et l'intensité. Après avoir vécu le mois de juin le plus chaud jamais observé, la France s'apprête également à connaître son mois de juillet le plus chaud. 1/4

Puik stukje acteerwerk weer in de nieuwe @fotostrips.bsky.social, al zeg ik het zelf. (Ben dol op spinnen.) https://fotostrips.nl/strip/3813

Finally, I a new blog article by me: https://blogs.fediscience.org/rupture-de-catenaire/2026/07/21/reflections-on-four-open-science-retreats-friendship-and-finding-meaning-beyond-metrics/ There will be more! Please answer on the blog - not here (as here on Mastodon the answers are not […]

[Music - Folk - Youtube] I do not know many English folk songs, but this version of "But a short time to live, Danny Boy" is one of the best I know (which does not mean a lot, I suppose): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr2JjqflMXA

Just returned from my holidays. Well, from the actual being-away part. One more week to go. 🌴 I could not resist and peeked into my software issues: Again one user who wrote that "Claude" helped him. Alas, I have to assume, that no human Claude was involved. I would not mind, but I hardly […]

RE: https://fediscience.org/@rahmstorf/116945592188564262 We already entered a stage where it's too late for many things: Loss of productive soil, agricultural stability in many regions, etc. It is now time to act to avoid total disaster. Yes, phasing it this was this is not scientifically […]

[climateEmergency] RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/116940202343501685 this will cause thousands of death. this is totally absurd

kim_harding ✅@kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 3w ago

EU loosens carbon market rules to let industry pollute for longer https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-loosens-carbon-market-rules-to-allow-industry-to-pollute-for-longer/ Steelmakers, chemical producers and power generators will be able to release emissions well into the 2040s under the proposed law.

Putins Agenten geben sich mittlerweile richtig dolle Mühe, Mastodon-Accounts zu bekommen. Die letzte Begründung hätte mich überzeugt. Sie war in perfektem Deutsch und erwähnte sogar den Namen der Instanz. Aber eine WHOIS-Abfrage der IP-Adresse verwies auf Russland. Diesmal war die E-Mail-Adresse […]

2001(!): "Mortality increased significantly during all of the heat waves studied, and the elderly were most effected by extreme heat." https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.01109463 (by Maastricht Uni colleagues) "The heat waves led to increases in mortality due to all of the selected causes, especially […]

As a GP in Germany, I struggle with the claim that “people don’t want to work.” In daily practice, I see the opposite: many patients push themselves to keep working, even when they should rest. They worry about burdening colleagues, unfinished tasks, or upcoming deadlines. If we want to […]

na alle haal rond het stikstofdebat wil ik toch even zeggen dat de stikstofcrisis er voor zorgt dat ons mooie Nederland naar de klote gaat. Ben je trots op Nederland, hou je van ons kikkerlandge, los dan het stikstofprobleem op. (voordat die kikker geen plek meer heeft om te leven)

Did a sketch. Again. Always wanted a background image for "now we are doing some pair programming and what is that"-slide. #teaching #programming #pairprogramming

Warum sondert Friedrich Merz seine Ansichten über Fußball auf X ab und warum berichtet @tagesschau darüber? Warum verwendet die Bundesregierung immer noch X?

"Dat is nou precies het issue. Dat mensen, ook onderzoekers, hun evenbeeld aannemen. Ze zijn het meest enthousiast over mensen die op hen lijken. Dus als er meer mannen zijn die belangrijke posities hebben, komen er automatisch meer mannen bovendrijven. Dat is gewoon aangetoond. Het is […]

Morgen deze weer eens uit de kast halen, over hoe we in Europa een tweesporenbeleid hebben, waarbij Amerikaanse bedrijven met bijna alles wegkomen, maar wij processen starten tegen lokale tennisverenigingen.

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"US Supreme Court just blew up EU-US Data Transfers." https://noyb.eu/en/us-supreme-court-just-blew-eu-us-data-transfers This is big but confusing. Here's my take: US tech companies that want to sign up #EU users must promise (through a formal process administered by the US Commerce Dept) to […]

RE: https://toot.kif.rocks/@fsmathe_informatik_mainz/116840329378546543 Es ist so traurig! Wenn selbst Informatikstudierende lieber auf "Insta" hereinfallen, als ein unabhängiges Netzwerk auch nur mitzuspielen. So könnte man meinen. Noch trauriger, dass wir in unserem Wissenschaftssystem die […]

🔋 Finland's 'sand battery' survived its first brutal winter. But the viral story gets one big thing wrong. What's real: - Polar Night Energy built a commercial thermal battery in Pornainen, Finland (5,000 people) - 2,000 tons of crushed soapstone heated to 500-600C - 1 MW power, 100 MWh […]