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Jörn Alexander Quent @jaquent.bsky.social · 20h

Here in China (in my exile from the #EU), I am still allowed to call this "Leberwurst" even though it contains no meat. #veggie

Jokes aside: the first self-made bread spread I am actually happy with.

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Andrew West 魏安 @babelstone.co.uk · Feb 7

For the Spring Holiday of 1985, during our year studying at the Beijing Language Institute (2nd year of SOAS Chinese degree course), my roommate (APB) and me decided to go on a big adventure overland from Chengdu to Lhasa 1/🧵

Set of three commemorative stamps (Set 特14) issued by the China People's Postal Service (中國人民邮政) in March 1956 to celebrate the completion of two highways from Sichuan and Qinghai to Lhasa (康臧青臧公路)

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Rob Hartsuiker @roberthartsuiker.bsky.social · 1d

New JML paper led by Merel Muylle with @bonnie-nozari.bsky.social reporting simulations and experiments showing that those pesky homophone errors in typing - there/their/they’re - reflect lexical competition and not poor spelling knowledge.

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Jörn Alexander Quent @jaquent.bsky.social · 1d

Just today, I thought about this issue when I typed suggest instead of success.

Jörn Alexander Quent @jaquent.bsky.social · 2d

I would still be afraid to buy anything ultra cheap but I did recently buy a full-carbon XDS road bike that I am so far pretty happy with.

This bike is probably 1/3 of what it would cost from a big name brand.

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Jörn Alexander Quent @jaquent.bsky.social · 7d

Instead of flying somewhere I bought a carbon road bike (I promise no #midlifecrisis) and we rented a car to drive to Taihu (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Tai) to give it a spin.

If you live close to #Shanghai #China and like cycling, it's definitely a must do. It was just amazing. Some impressions:

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Jörn Alexander Quent @jaquent.bsky.social · 7d

In the end, we had to walk a bit though.

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Jörn Alexander Quent @jaquent.bsky.social · 7d

Unfortunately, we blindly trusted a Chinese cycling app called #XingZhe, which on two occasions let us astray just "tiny" bit, which was annoying but taught as a valuable lesson.

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Jörn Alexander Quent @jaquent.bsky.social · 7d

... with some breathtaking scenery. While I haven't cycled in loads of places (mostly UK & Germany), the cycling in #China in the last days was the best experience I had so far. Also such a nice difference to the insanity that is traffic in #Shanghai.

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Jörn Alexander Quent @jaquent.bsky.social · 7d

95% of the cycling infrastructure around the lake offers a silky smooth ride...

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Jörn Alexander Quent @jaquent.bsky.social · 7d

Instead of flying somewhere I bought a carbon road bike (I promise no #midlifecrisis) and we rented a car to drive to Taihu (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Tai) to give it a spin.

If you live close to #Shanghai #China and like cycling, it's definitely a must do. It was just amazing. Some impressions:

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Jörn Alexander Quent @jaquent.bsky.social · 8d

You already have found a power user in me :)

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Jörn Alexander Quent @jaquent.bsky.social · 8d

Amazing!

Boris Bernhardt @borismontreal.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 New paper in Nature Methods:
HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of the human hippocampus

Open-source tools & data to explore structure and function of the 🍤🧠 (histology, in/ex vivo MRI, iEEG)

Led by @jordandekraker.bsky.social

docs: hippomaps.readthedocs.io
paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Boris Bernhardt @borismontreal.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 New paper in Nature Methods:
HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of the human hippocampus

Open-source tools & data to explore structure and function of the 🍤🧠 (histology, in/ex vivo MRI, iEEG)

Led by @jordandekraker.bsky.social

docs: hippomaps.readthedocs.io
paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 8d

Weird ggplot thing that got me this week with the update to 4.0 - it supports new ink and paper arguments (www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09... ) and they've changed how transparency works! If you a transparent bg, you can control it with theme_*() now #rstats

library(ggplot2)

# Doesn't work anymore!
ggplot(data = mtcars, aes(x = hp, y = mpg)) +
geom_point() +
theme_minimal()
ggsave("not-transparent.png", bg = "transparent")

# This works!
ggplot(data = mtcars, aes(x = hp, y = mpg)) +
geom_point() +
theme_minimal(paper = "transparent")
ggsave("yes-transparent.png")

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WIRED @wired.com · 9d

Jane Goodall understood better than most the impact humans have had on the planet. Having witnessed so much environmental deterioration during her lifetime, she was as much an activist as a scientist.

Read our piece from 2024 on the legendary primatologist. 💚

Jane Goodall Thinks It’s Not Too Late to Save the World

The world, the famed primatologist says, isn’t what it used to be—but there’s still time to save it, if we treat crises like climate change, biodiversity loss, and poverty as one.

www.wired.com

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · Sep 1

does someone good at coding & analysis want to work remotely w/ us in the coming few months (before end of 2025), as a paid consultant? project will be on neurofeedback (fMRI, ECoG, calcium imaging). we'll work towards developing the experiments & analysis pipelines together. if so pls DM me ur CV🧠📈

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Jörn Alexander Quent @jaquent.bsky.social · 11d

I never thought that one day I would be routing for film and music companies to aggressively defend their copyrights.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11d

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 11d

Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.

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Jörn Alexander Quent @jaquent.bsky.social · 11d

I will not forgive you that this file is not called playe.R.

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Jörn Alexander Quent @jaquent.bsky.social · 11d

Is this untypical? I thought this time of the year should be better. I wanted to go hiking there so rain would indeed suck.

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Jörn Alexander Quent @jaquent.bsky.social · 12d

How did they not get this guy who had to push his bike? bsky.app/profile/wuta...

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 12d

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

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Jörn Alexander Quent @jaquent.bsky.social · 12d

I am very jealous :) I meant to go to Gongga Shan this week as well but unfortunately I had to change my plans.

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Jörn Alexander Quent @jaquent.bsky.social · 12d

Hopefully I can go next year!

Jörn Alexander Quent @jaquent.bsky.social · 12d

I really want to go to Gongga. I meant to go this year but it didn't work out.

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Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel @minecr.bsky.social · 13d

What is it @github.com @githubeducation.bsky.social? Am I faculty or am I not faculty? Why do you keep asking me the same question, after saying you won't ask for 2 years, and then not believing my answer?

GitHub educator benefit application -- Apprived on May 25 and August 28 for 2 years, then asked to reverify on Sep 11 and denied, approved again September 27 and then denied three times again on the same day.

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