I’d be very interested to read that as I recognise many of the points raised. Was there much representation from non-profit publishers at the meeting? (I have a vested interest as an EiC for a non-profit)

Interesting because I don’t really feel like much has changed in the intervening (checks watch) 20 years. But I have done a lot of teaching, which I think has helped me better assess how much content fits a time slot. (Says no one who’s witnessed one of my 2.5hr overruns.)

Doing some housekeeping and found a talk I gave as a postdoc. 21 slides in one hour! I could barely manage five now…

There's one week left to submit an application to be a #postdoc in our group! The project is very flexible, so there is room for own ideas. The advertisement lists more details: www.ds.mpg.de/4078435/job_...

Giving a talk on “the physics behind our irreversible reality” in Kent next month. Expect grape juice, buttercream, starlings and grammar.
research.kent.ac.uk/kent-physics...

🥳 EPL is now on Bluesky! 🥳

FREE TO READ - OPEN ACCESS: Skyrmion soliton motion on periodic substrates by atomistic and particle-based simulations

by J. C. B. Souza, N. P Vizarim, C. J. O. Reichhardt, C. Reichhardt and P. A. Venegas

#FreeToRead #OpenAccess

👉 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Congratulations! I hope it's not cancelled along with the Street Party...

Suddenly a lot busier in here.

If you've read the docs and still can't get your C++ code to compile, chances are you need either to add or remove some consts. But you will never know which.

Eeek. "Maybe expand x" is all my reviews in a nutshell.

Supplemental Information: Where science goes to die.

One would have thought that after ~30 years of C/C++ coding I would suspect a self-inflicted buffer overrun over an obscure compiler/CPU bug as the most likely source of unpredictable half-right output...

Spent a _ridiculous_ amount of time chasing a bug that turned out to be an array index i mistyped as the numeral 1.
Ouch.

📢Now out in Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory🔓
"Reliable identification of selection mechanisms in language change"
doi.org/10.1515/cllt...
/Juan Guerrero Montero, myself, Kenny Smith, @dralgernon.bsky.social
The method is general, applicable to also cultural, social etc data!

If you post on a new social media platform, does it make it make any sound?

(I have a feeling I made more-or-less the same 'joke' the last time I signed up to something like this)