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Dr. Anna Latour
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Computer Scientist. Assistant professor interested in counting and reasoning under uncertainty. Feminist. Trekkie. Traveller. LaTeX enthusiast.

Flirting allowed, but no […]

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Almost 20 new years for this one.

#cats #catsofmastodon #torties
Photo of the fluffy old tortie Mila looking like she’s seen it all
January 1, 2026 at 3:04 AM
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@anna APPROVED
December 31, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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@venite nativity with lighthouse!

#lighthouse #nativity #christmas #christmas2025
A miniature town housings nativity scene, built inside a church. In the foreground out of focus a tiny white lighthouse with a flag on top. A miniature nativity scene with small figurines. Baby JC is in a boat inside an opening in the rock face, with Mary and Joseph looking over him. On top an angel with a banner that says “Gloria”. Some worshippers have gathered. Same view of the miniature village built inside the church, but now it is out of focus and the white lighthouse is in focus. It has two horizontal red stripes right below its light and the white triangular flag on top has a Red Cross.
December 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Hiking on the Campo dei Fiori, Varese, Italy. We could see Milano from the distance, and two parts of Lago Maggiore!

#silentsunday #italy #varese #hiking #outdoors #mountains #campodeifiori
View of Lago Maggiore peeking between the hills. The water is very blue, and you can clearly see the villages along the lake. In the background are the Swiss Alps, covered in snow. The hills in the foreground are largely covered in brownish trees, with here and there a bit of dark green. In the foreground is another village. View of Lago di Varese and the hills and mountains behind it. A mist is rising up from the lake, making it almost look like it reflects fluffy clouds from the sky, despite the fact that the sky is clear and blue and the sun is quite bright. The mountaintops in the background are covered in snow. A peek between bare trees at two lakes with a misty valley in the background. A hillside with bare trees, covered in a thin layer of snow. In the foreground is a snowman, in the background three people are having a snow ball fight. The sky is blue and the scene bathes in sunlight.
December 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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It looked like this red-bellied woodpecker was about to spread its wings and fly giving me a face-on photo, but the more energy efficient hop was chosen.

I still got a decent capture.
#birds #nature #photography
1/4 A red-bellied woodpecker is among fig branches scoping out the area. 2/4 It sees something interesting and appears to be ready to swoop down. 3/4 But instead, it leaps to the next branch without opening its wings. 4/4 Once there, it makes another ground check but in the end saw nothing of interest.
December 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Hiking on the Campo dei Fiori, Varese, Italy. We could see Milano from the distance, and two parts of Lago Maggiore!

#silentsunday #italy #varese #hiking #outdoors #mountains #campodeifiori
View of Lago Maggiore peeking between the hills. The water is very blue, and you can clearly see the villages along the lake. In the background are the Swiss Alps, covered in snow. The hills in the foreground are largely covered in brownish trees, with here and there a bit of dark green. In the foreground is another village. View of Lago di Varese and the hills and mountains behind it. A mist is rising up from the lake, making it almost look like it reflects fluffy clouds from the sky, despite the fact that the sky is clear and blue and the sun is quite bright. The mountaintops in the background are covered in snow. A peek between bare trees at two lakes with a misty valley in the background. A hillside with bare trees, covered in a thin layer of snow. In the foreground is a snowman, in the background three people are having a snow ball fight. The sky is blue and the scene bathes in sunlight.
December 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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10/n Time for a sight-seeing break! I had a 52-minute (ahem, 46-minute) layover at Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof, so I took advantage and went geocaching. It's an absolutely gorgeous day!

#stuttgart #germany #tourist #sightseeing #geocaching #train #travel […]

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View of Stuttgart's Palace Square. Main eye catchers are a 30 meter high column with a statue of the Roman Goddess Concordia on top (Jubiläumssäule) and an equally tall ferris wheel next to it. In the background is the palace, with hills behind it. In the foreground is grass with people on benches and strolling around. Sky is blue and sun is shining. The Pavillion on Palace Square. It is very ornate and people are chilling inside. Behind it is a tall Christmas tree and a shopping mall in neoclassic style. Memorial to Dr. Eugen Bolz. It's a bronze sculpture of a man who seems sort of half-trapped in a wall. His hands are shiny from where people have touched him. Above him is what looks like a hook for hoisting heavy things with a crane, on a steel beam. Above that a hand making the gesture that you make when you swear an oath. Metal plate in the floor with the following text: GPS - Referenzpunkt Geografische Koordineten: 48º 46,715 'N 09º 10,721 'E Höhe: 248,0 m über NN Einrichtung im Jahr 2012 anlässlich der 25-jährigen Amterpartnerschaft zwischen dem Stadtmessungsamt Stuttgart und dem Service de l'Information Geographique Strasbourg. It also shows an image of what looks like satellites circling the earth.
December 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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(Iemand gooit de krant op mijn schoot) “Blijkbaar is het zaterdag! Maar eigenlijk wist ik dat al. Ik zag iets over ‘caturday’.”
“Ja, dat is een Mastodon-traditie. Op zaterdag post je foto’s van je kat.”
“En op zondag tot en met vrijdag ook!”

Hij leert snel hoor
December 27, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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24/24 Merry Christmas from Lugano!

#christmas2025 #travel #annaonatrain #trains #lugano #switzerland
View of Lugano at night. A lot of light sprinkled across the hills in the background. Mountains obscured by clouds. Foreground had to tall pine trees in the middle and a bell tower on the right.
December 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Today is another day of train travel! Hopefully utterly uneventful, but feel free to follow along in this thread!

#train #trains #travel #traintravel #deutschebahn #treinleven #annaonatrain
December 26, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Today is another day of train travel! Hopefully utterly uneventful, but feel free to follow along in this thread!

#train #trains #travel #traintravel #deutschebahn #treinleven #annaonatrain
December 26, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Happy Hogswatch to all who celebrate!

#hogswatch #hogfather #gnuterrypratchett
December 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Merry Christmas from Leiden!

#MerryChrismas #xmas #christmas #sleutelstad #leiden #bloomscrolling
A branch covered in pink blossoms against a blue sky. The City Hall and Koornbrug in the city center of Leiden. The bridge over the canal has a grey roof, and a triangular tympanum and columns in pale yellow. The Sun hits it and the City Hall building behind it. The city hall building is of red brick, and the tower is topped with green copper decorations and a golden wind vane. In the foreground we see a parked cargo bike with the cargo part covered in canvas as a little tent for kids. The trees are bare and the sky is blue. Nobody to see. The old Astronomical Observatory of Leiden. Part of the building is off-white, but the front part is red brick. We see four grey cupolas on the back part of the building, and a normal grey roof on the front part. The Observatory is situated inside a botanic garden along a canal. The sky is pale blue and the trees are bare. The sun hits the entire scene. Picture of the inside of the Citadel on top of a small hill in the Leiden city center. Picture is taken from the top of the wall, looking at the walls on the other side, with the city hall building in the background. The trees inside the walls are bare and the sun is hitting them and a part of the wall. The sky is a pale blue.
December 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Happy Hogswatch to all who celebrate!

#hogswatch #hogfather #gnuterrypratchett
December 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Do you know what one of the biggest seasonal culture shock was here in the Netherlands Vs back in the UK.

Public transport is work today.

The UK tends to shut down all public transport sometime on Christmas eve and not restart it until early on the 27th. Cos noone needs to use public transport […]
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December 25, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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People think about you much less than you either hope or fear.
December 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Ter herinnering: als je deze dagen gevraagd wordt even de computer/printer van een familielid te fixen is het ok om er Linux op te zetten. Doe een leuke strik om de usb-stick
December 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Merry Christmas from Leiden!

#MerryChrismas #xmas #christmas #sleutelstad #leiden #bloomscrolling
A branch covered in pink blossoms against a blue sky. The City Hall and Koornbrug in the city center of Leiden. The bridge over the canal has a grey roof, and a triangular tympanum and columns in pale yellow. The Sun hits it and the City Hall building behind it. The city hall building is of red brick, and the tower is topped with green copper decorations and a golden wind vane. In the foreground we see a parked cargo bike with the cargo part covered in canvas as a little tent for kids. The trees are bare and the sky is blue. Nobody to see. The old Astronomical Observatory of Leiden. Part of the building is off-white, but the front part is red brick. We see four grey cupolas on the back part of the building, and a normal grey roof on the front part. The Observatory is situated inside a botanic garden along a canal. The sky is pale blue and the trees are bare. The sun hits the entire scene. Picture of the inside of the Citadel on top of a small hill in the Leiden city center. Picture is taken from the top of the wall, looking at the walls on the other side, with the city hall building in the background. The trees inside the walls are bare and the sun is hitting them and a part of the wall. The sky is a pale blue.
December 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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[Vegan food pics, mention of alcohol]

Xmas cooking in progress!

#food #holidays #xmas #xmas2025 #cooking #cookingwithwine
Top down view of a gas stove with two pots: one contains whole, peeled pears simmering in white wine, sugar and whole spices. the other holds orange peels in orange juice and sugar. Background contains tea kettle. Messy kitchen counter and a sink. Sink contains orange peels and a hand-held citrus juicer. On the counter a bowl of peeled pears, and a cutting board with pear peels. Also a plastic container with whole spices. Also a measuring cup.
December 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@simple_sabotage/115748382025337609

This toot might be how I discover my own hidden identity of undercover citizen saboteur.
mastodon.social
December 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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@venite 👀 https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/nieuws/brei-een-schotse-archiefsjaal

#knitting #fibrecraft #shawl
Brei een Schotse (archief)sjaal
Wanneer u aan het Nationaal Archief denkt, denkt u waarschijnlijk niet meteen aan mode. Toch zijn er in onze collectie aardig wat zaken te vinden die verband houden met kleding en stoffen.
www.nationaalarchief.nl
December 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Ach nee! Hans van Manen! 😢

https://youtu.be/QVCSE-yWGPo

#hansvanmanen #ballet #rip
December 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Ach nee! Hans van Manen! 😢

https://youtu.be/QVCSE-yWGPo

#hansvanmanen #ballet #rip
December 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Proud of Denisa Arsene for presenting us and our work at the Complex Networks conference last week. She had a lot of engagement during her presentation, and made a ton of cool new science friends from all over the world 🤓 🌟

Key contribution: SANA (simulated […]

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Denisa presenting her poster to another conference-goer. She is pointing excitedly to the part of the poster that summarises the finding that our new algorithm has the same running time as the state of the art and retains the same utility value, but performs much better in terms of anonymisation. Denisa posing next to her poster.
December 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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OK, I need help with my #adhd teenage daughter. It's to the point where she can't get anything done. Everything is just "I forgot."

Are there any techniques or skills that actually worked with your kids (or with yourself)? I'm grasping at straws at this point
December 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM