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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 2d

Yes, it's fuzzy. The only way to figure out how to review code appropriately is to start doing it!

Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 2d

New publication: "Reviewing research software"

Unlike experimental or theoretical methods, software is almost never peer reviewed. Maybe this should change. But is it possible at all?

doi.org/10.1109/MCSE...

Preprint: hal.science/hal-05274018

🧪 #openscience #metascience

Reviewing Research Software

Every research project in computational science requires writing some code, even if it’s only a few scripts. This code is instrumental in generating results, and often important for understanding in d...

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Tomas Petricek @tomasp.net · 11d

I'm at #uist2025 presenting our new work with @jonathoda.bsky.social!

𝗗𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗸 is a computational substrate for end-user programming that makes it easy to implement programming experiences like programming by demonstration, collaborative editing and more!

tomasp.net/academic/pap...

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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 17d

Found the solution via a hint on Mastodon. The culprit is ibus, installed as a dependency of Zoom.

To disable it without uninstalling:
sudo chmod 000 /usr/bin/ibus-daemon

Source: forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.ph...

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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 17d

Question to Linux experts: Where does this weird pop-up come from that I get whenever pressing a deadkey on my keyboard? How can I disable it?

I see this since I updated from Debian 12 to Debian 13. I see it only in a few programs, such as xterm and Emacs, where it often covers text I need to see.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 23d

In the early days of quantum chemistry, before we had computers to calculate the shapes of electron orbitals, one man invented a mechanical machine that simulated their shapes. My latest column for @chemistryworld.com
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-...

The simple machine that visualised atomic orbitals

In 1931, Harvey Elliott White developed a device that traced out the shapes of electron clouds by approximating solutions to the Schrödinger equation

www.chemistryworld.com

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 24d

One thing that fascists understand well is that social and traditional media are both media and need to be controlled to undermine democracy.

Meanwhile, in camp democracy no government seems to fathom this simple fact let alone act in consequence.

We need more strategy less meekness.

Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 24d

Andreessen Horowitz, which will be one of three firms to lead the acquisition of TikTok, is headed by Marc Andreessen, a Silicon Valley tech titan who considered himself to be "an unpaid intern" of Elon Musk's DOGE. But he's not the only major Trump ally involved with this deal

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 24d

TikTok’s U.S. business would be controlled by an investor consortium including Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz under a framework the U.S. and China are finalizing.

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Bart Penders 🟥 @penders.bsky.social · 24d

"Epistemic oligarchies: capture and concentration through science reform", a new preprint by Sven Ulpts (not here), Sheena Bartscherer (also not here), @nicolecnelson.bsky.social and me. Read it here: zenodo.org/records/1713... 1/

Epistemic oligarchies: capture and concentration through science reform

In this paper we describe how current efforts to reform science create oligarchic power structures within science and prepare scientific products for the uptake by existing oligarchic actors like Big ...

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 26d

LINK ROT: 38% webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer available 10 years later.

Even among pages that existed in 2021, 22% no longer accessible just two years later. This is often because individual page was deleted or removed on otherwise functional website.

Many implications for knowledge 🧪

A line chart showing that 38% of webpages from 2013 were no longer accessible one decade later.

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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 27d

Then "it" was something else than what I want to fork.

Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 28d

No, I can't.

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Tomas Petricek @tomasp.net · Sep 9

Slides from my talk "Critical Architecture/Software Theory" at PPIG 2025 in Belgrade: tpetricek.github.io/Talks/2025/c...

The talk has been a great excuse to organize some more ideas, on top of my earlier article on the topic: tomasp.net/architecture/

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 7

I'm still a bit shocked at the attention because I expected something, but this is immense. 11k views on zenodo!? What? Thank you all! (doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)

Wondering if my new followers are into my research? Shall I do a thread of my work for you all? Do you like papers also like below? 🥰

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Jan 24

Oh, gosh! It's out! Delighted with the process at Computational Brain & Behavior; thankful to all especially @irisvanrooij.bsky.social for inviting me to the workshop and Todd Wareham for editing it! Hope you enjoy:

What Makes a Good Theory, and How Do We Make a Theory Good? doi.org/10.1007/s421...

Table 1 in Guest, O. What Makes a Good Theory, and How Do We Make a Theory Good?. Comput Brain Behav (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42113-023-00193-2

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · Sep 5

Very cool postdoc opportunity (at intersection of physics, philosophy, and complex systems) ⬇️

Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · Sep 5

Postdoc job! I expect to have an opening at Johns Hopkins for a postdoctoral researcher working somewhere in the broad realms of physics, philosophy, and complexity. Apply at Academic Jobs Online:

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30496

Johns Hopkins University, Physics and Astronomy

Job #AJO30496, Postdoctoral Fellow in Foundations of Physics, Complexity, and Emergence, Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, US

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · Sep 6

Good scenario planning doesn’t predict. It…
- Models systemic forces
- Explores how they may collide to generate a wide range possibilities
- Prepares multiple contingency plans

Adaptation beats prediction in VUCA environments.

Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · Sep 5

Predictions feel safe. But 8m into 2025, some of The Economist’s most confident forecasts are already wobbling.
Why? Because the world is not linear. It’s a tangled web of feedback loops, emergent patterns & path dependencies.

#Complexity isn’t optional.

manlius.substack.com/p/the-past-t...

The paths and loops we miss: complexity lessons from The World Ahead 2025

AI, trade wars and energy shifts aren’t separate stories

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · Sep 4

"The central axis of this geopolitical struggle will not be the 20th century’s struggle between liberalism and authoritarianism, but a clash over the metabolic basis of modern industrial society."
foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/e...

I think this piece is worth your time but I have quibbles & notes. 🧵

The Coming Ecological Cold War

Decarbonization isn’t just about technology and markets—it’s a geopolitical revolution.

foreignpolicy.com

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Bart Penders 🟥 @penders.bsky.social · Sep 3

Our data stewards have started recommending that we no longer use US-based infrastructure for #openscience practices, given the risk of (near-future) censorship, from pre-print and data hosting to preregistration and more. That includes OSF.

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · Aug 26

At the last NGI Forum, when asked what I would like to have next to address the threats of tech authoritarianism, I answered that the first thing I wanted was a European Commissioner in charge of Tech Sovereignty.

Was this too harsh? 🧵

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · Aug 25

Ah, so I discover on returning from holiday that @thenewworldmag.bsky.social has also published my piece on the current assault on truth. I intended it as a kind of taxonomy, to help make sense of the onslaught.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/phillip-trum...

Trump's war on scientific truth

Ideologues don’t like science because it confronts them with truths they can’t dismiss. Donald Trump seems to think he has a workaround

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · Aug 13

This is sort of part two to the far more enjoyable (to write and, hopefully, to read) essay "how to science a science with science". You might want to read that first.

diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/h...

How to science a science with science

The purest description of the scientific method I ever saw was in a novel by Kurt Vonnegut. A workman discovers that if he puts a bucket full of nuts and bolts on one of the many supporting struts …

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · Aug 13

Metathugs

Science, metascience, metametascience, *critical* metascience, and how science's greatest strengths are its greatest weaknesses.

Gloomier than usual and it's only Wednesday.

diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/08/13/m...

Metathugs

This is a sort of second part to How to science a science with science but it’s somewhat bleaker and made the whole thing rather long, so I cut it in two. As the ads say: when the fun stops s…

diagrammonkey.wordpress.com

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Center for Open Science @cos.io · Aug 12

Metascience 2025 recordings are now available! #Metascience25 gathered researchers, funders, policymakers & more to explore how the research process can improve. The program included preconference symposia & plenary sessions on topics from policy change to AI in research.

🎥 cassyni.com/s/metasc...

Cassyni | Science starts with a seminar

Seamlessly organise, run and publish academic research seminars. Get started in minutes.

cassyni.com

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Guillaume Gaullier @guillawme.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Aug 8

@khinsen have you seen this survey on computational reproducibility in HPC: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/computationalReproducibility2025

Thought you might be interested if you hadn't seen it yet.

Computational Reproducibility in High Performance and Cloud Computing

ec.europa.eu

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · Aug 7

It’s Open Access!! If not available today, it should be by tomorrow - definitely don’t pay that money 😊

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