I have two tickets for the Kraftwerk concert in Leipzig on Thursday to give away. I can’t attend and I’m happy if they are used. A small donation is of course welcome. Please DM if you’re interested, I’ll put them in the mail today.

Hello to anyone at #sfn2025, I'm here presenting our work on https://sciop.net, archiving at-risk information and bootstrapping a broader hybrid federated/p2p archive. Thats along with some of our more neuro-focused work on rebuilding NWB and integrating acquisition through analysis with a […]

A new home for Open Science

"Federate with Mastodon and Bluesky and integrate your social graph with scholarly data. Transform any conversation into citable FAIR data with persistent identifiers. The future of scholarly communication is open, community-owned, and interconnected." […]

I've lately been quite obsessed with this app called StreetComplete. It gamifies contributing to OpenStreetMaps in a really nice way by giving you you little quests to do while you walk around. A fun way to get some steps in, to make you look closer at your […]

[Original post on mas.to]

Years ago, I came across an article mentioning "Virtual Reality for Fruit Flies" - which seemed wild to me at the time. Reaching out to the author changed my life in many ways.

I am not promising something similar for the the job offer here, but you would be working with a lot of really smart […]

Pleased to announce that my book, Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media, is now available online, and will be out in print in a couple weeks!
https://moveslowlybuildbridges.com
That site has more stuff, too -- links to related […]

100 years of #quantummechanics this year! Werner Heisenberg introduced fundamental uncertainty into physics and demolished Newtons clockwork.
Few people know that Werner Heisenberg's youngest son Martin spent his career introducing uncertainty into #neuroscience studying #drosophila fruit flies […]

The street that my mum lives in is a one-way street, but wasn't marked as such on #google Maps. This caused many drivers to drive the wrong way. I have tried to edit it on Google Maps (there is such functionality), but to no avail. No matter how often I submitted a change (with photos of street […]

Liebste Bubble, ich unterstütze Jemanden bei der Suche nach Geschäftsräumen für überwiegend weiblichen Kundenverkehr, hier in der Region Sachsen (am liebsten im Bereich Erzgebirge).

Es sollte ebenerdig sein, ca. 100qm groß sein, Kundentoiletten haben […]

[Original post on social.tchncs.de]

FYI, if you happen to be a scientist in a large English speaking country with uncertain financing for your future career, my employer, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) is looking for grad students, postdocs and PIs.

It's a research institute, so no undergraduates, and the […]

🤔 Warum sind wir als Universität Innsbruck auf Mastodon?

Einige Gründe:

🔸 Digitale Souveränität: Wissenschaftskommunikation auf unabhängigen Plattformen
🔸 #openscience & Third Mission: Wissen frei zugänglich bereitstellen
🔸 Gesetzliche Regulierungen […]

[Original post on social.uibk.ac.at]

Yesterday, I learned that we have only 16 - in letter: sixteen - people attending my course in Dresden, so far.

So, if you are interested in creating sustainable data analysis workflows using #snakemake on #hpc systems, this course might be something for you:

On the 26th and 27th, I will be […]

I'm changing jobs in the next few months, and while plans are in motion, I'm curious to hear any leads folks may have. Connectomics, bioimage analysis, ML for scientific discovery. I've ~20 years of dev experience, CS BS, ML/HPC MS, neuro PhD. Mostly interested in research, staff science, or […]

Working on an illuminated truncated icosahedron (soccer ball) made from pentagonal and hexagonal PCBs. The concept is the same as the regular icosahedron I posted previously. Each side will hold a piece of etched acrylic illuminated at its corners. The […]

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