Nominations for the Sarah Jones Award 2026 are still open until 14 June!
What is it?
‘The Sarah Jones Award for exceptional contribution to fostering collaboration in hashtag#OpenScience’ was established by the Research Data Alliance (RDA) in June 2024. This bi-annual award honours the memory of our dear colleague Sarah Jones, and her significant contributions to the global open science community.
🔗 Learn more and apply at
NightOwl LIVE - "黎明" 2024.4.6.@LIQUIDROOM 「夜夢夜夢祭ツアー<Final>
When, in 2024, Chinese scientists reported developing an artificial-intelligence tool to design conotoxins, it raised eyebrows in some quarters.
In an e-mail to a private AI and biotechnology discussion group seen by Nature, a senior US government employee flagged the study as a possible biosecurity risk.
The employee, who asked not to be named because of concerns for their job, felt it was especially concerning that the conotoxin AI is based on an open-source protein language …
One of the clearest examples of an uninsurable area to date comes from California.
In 2024, State Farm, one of the largest home insurers in the United States, chose not to renew 72,000 home insurance policies across the state due, in part, to unsustainable wildfire risk.
It was not alone, as six of California’s twelve largest insurers had already paused or heavily restricted new policies.
Homeowners who can no longer find private coverage are directed to California’s insure…
Nur ein komplett vertrottelter Kapitalist würde zu #Ostern die Preise senken und den Marktpreisvorteil weitergeben, selbst wenn er es aufgrund interner Umstände/Einkauf/Lagermix bereits könnte. 🤪
#Schokolade
Vorweg: Ich bin kein Freund von Talkpodcasts, die leider zunehmend aufwändige Produktionen verdrängen.
Beim c't "we talk tech" wurde über Scam auf Hotel-Buchungsportalen gesprochen, mit annekdotischer Evidenz. Soweit, so interessant.
So nebenbei hieß es, Booking.com verlange von Vermietern den Bestpreis.
Der EuGH hat aber im Herbst 2024 geurteilt, dass sogenannte Bestpreisklauseln kartellrechtswidrig sind. Kein Wort davon.
(PS: ich hoffe
IFG-Ablehnung #BMJV: Unterlagen zu #Quickfreeze aus 2024 dürfen nicht beauskunftet werden, denn
"Würden diese Positionen bekannt und die im BMJV und in der Bundesregierung Beteiligten öffentlich an diesen Positionen festgehalten, würde es im weiteren Verlauf der Beratungen erheblich erschwert,…
Oh and I have a 2024 vintage Garage Project beer to soothe the muscles. It has travelled a long way from Wellington to get here (was actually amazed to see in a Belfast off-licence)
I'm very glad it made the trip.
Big Oil wants you to think renewables are expensive and unreliable. The reality? The clean energy shift saved $467 billion globally in 2024 alone.
Solar and wind have zero fuel costs. New sodium-ion batteries are slashing storage prices. Renewables now create more jobs than fossil fuels while surpassing coal as the world's top electricity source.
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 22.05.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
"Root Cause:
A dog named Kubernetes ate a YubiKey."
This a fun read.
"The legitimate maintainer has won €2.3 million in the EuroMillions and is researching goat farming in Portugal."
#infosec #incident
Robotik-Start-up entwickelt Universal-Industrieroboter in unter zwei Jahren
Noble Machines wurde erst 2024 gegründet. Doch ihr erster Industrieroboter ist schon bereit für seinen Einsatz.
https:/…
Ireland has some excellent writers.
"It seems that losing colonial control of Egypt has not stopped Denial flowing through the British body politic." -- @…
#TLDR: #MorganMcSweeney
Fascinating probability analysis of English council election voter flows (2024/2026).
https://oskanberg.github.io/2026-voter-flows/
H/T @…
I've updated (mostly culled) my list of Milwaukee Mastodon users.
This list used to be over 80 people, but the vast majority only posted in 2022/2023. A few straggled into 2024. I removed anyone who hasn't posted more than once in 2025.
It kind of sucks, but meh... it is what it is.
Also, I should try to find more people. And, move this off of GitHub at some point.
According to a peer-reviewed study in @…, the algorithms that control our largest social media platforms intentionally and explicitly tilted the playing field for Donald Trump and the GOP.
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.05.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
@… I have found some forum posts that confirm the above. EagleFiler 1.x requires Rosetta 2.
I also read that a 2.0 version is in the works since late 2024. No further updates since though.
I have a JPC-12 vertical antenna. On the good side, it puts the coil 4' away from the base, reducing coil losses by not putting it at the point with the highest current. On the other hand, it's stainless steel with significant real resistance, so even that reduced current still heats it up substantially. Some of that heat could instead be radiated RF!
I am considering rewinding the coil with lacquered silver-coated copper wire for substantially-reduced real resistance, as KA7O…
Designing single-layer PDMS devices for micron to millimeter-scale deformations
Leon Valentin Gebhard, Alexandre S. Avaro, Gabriel Amselem, Charles N. Baroud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17402 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.17402 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.17402
arXiv:2605.17402v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The elasticity of PDMS has played a central role in advancing important microfluidic technologies, ranging from early valves to sophisticated organ-on-a-chip systems. However, most deformable microfluidic devices are based on geometries that require complex multi-layer PDMS architectures and include thin membranes, leading to difficult microfabrication and poor stability. Recently, Jain, Belkadi et al. (Biofabrication 16.3 (2024): 035010) introduced a single-layer device in which a wide and long microfluidic channel was deformed by controlling the pressure in two independent and adjacent air chambers. While they demonstrated the ability to deform the channel ceiling to compress biological materials, the design parameters remain unexplored. Here, we perform a numerical study on 14,336 variants of this device and identify the height of the PDMS layer, the width of the microchannel and the width of the air chamber as the main features that determine the ceiling deformation. Three deformation modes are observed as the geometrical parameters are varied: A U shape with a central minimum, a W shape with two minima and a central maximum, or an inverse U shape with an upward-bulging single maximum. The numerical results are validated in experiments that reproduce the three shapes for the predicted geometries and demonstrate vertical ceiling deformations ranging from a few microns to the millimeter scale. The generality of this approach is demonstrated for two example applications: A fully closing single-layer microfluidic valve and an optical lens of controllable anisotropy. This work leverages the rapid prototyping enabled by 3D printing or micro-milling to open new perspectives in microfluidic actuation.
toXiv_bot_toot
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
With the safe return of NASA's Artemis II, it is time to talk about plankton space #science 🛰. PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) is the latest advanced observing satellite launched Feb 2024 which carries the OCI Ocean Colour Instrument measuring hyp…
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.05.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
Funny they are looking into 2020 but not 2024 where there are some definate oddities in the results for House Represenitive races vs national and state wide race results for that district.
FBI subpoenas election records in Arizona, expanding 2020 inquiry https://ground.news/article/fbi-subpoenas-election-records-in-arizona-expanding-2020-inquiry_77e5cd
@… can you recall the context to the 2024 thread? Thanks
Filing: Elon Musk texted Greg Brockman about settling days before trial; after being denied, he said Brockman and Altman "will be the most hated men in America" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/04/musk-altman-open-ai-settlement-tr…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Gossip:
🎵 Standing In The Way Of Control / Smells Like Teen Spirit (6 Music Festival, 2024)
#Gossip
https://open.spotify.com/track/2IxixfQUSQkwCCblJT3Eq1
#Elektroauto RANT über führenden Mineralölkonzern in D:
ARAL bzw die Europazentrale des Weltkonzerns BP ist nicht in der Lage eine funktionierende App herzustellen, die man zum Laden benötigt. Ich konnte mich tagelang nicht anmelden, jedes Mal brach der Vorgang nach erfolgreichem Einloggen mit Fehlermeldung ab und man wird vertröstet: "Versuche es noch einmal"
Aufgrund de…
Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.05.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1347447 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
POL-LER: Fall der schweren Brandstiftung auf Borkum bei Aktenzeichen XY...ungelöst! - Bisher etwa 25 Hinweise bei der Polizei eingegangen Polizeiinspektion Leer/ Emden (ots) - Borkum - Am gestrigen Mittwochabend strahlte das ZDF in der Sendung "Aktenzeichen XY...ungelöst!" einen Fall auf Borkum aus dem Jahr 2024 aus (https://www.
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.05.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
The Mutual Agreement Procedure (MAP) is a process by which a taxpayer can ask two states (or #tax authorities) to reach an amicable agreement to eliminate double taxation as required by bilateral treaties, where the normal processes have failed.
According to #OECD statistics, in 2016-2024 there were only 19 cases …
Schon seit ein paar Wochen bin ich ein Album der Woche schuldig. Weil ich wegen anderer Dinge nicht so richtig Zeit fand zum bewussten Musikhören, rotierte »Really Good Terrible Things« von North Sea Echos (erschienen 2024) hier mehrere Wochen im Player. Alder/Matheos (früher Fates Warning) machen mal wieder ein eigenes Ding, sie haben sich dieses Mal aber der ruhigen Töne gewidmet. Mir zu langweilig. #rocknroll
A profile of David Sacks, appointed as White House AI adviser in December 2024, who has a ruthless devotion to self-interest and helped pass the GENIUS Act (George Packer/The Atlantic)
https:…
@…
Continuing the "gymnastics" theme:
― what sporty word can we use to describe the twenty-four month wait for FreeBSD documentation of a feature that was added in April 2024?
Cc @…
Qualcomm says it plans to buy back another $20B worth of shares and is raising its quarterly cash dividend, after unveiling a $15B buyback in November 2024 (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-17…
Google's TIG documented 90 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in 2025, up from 78 in 2024; commercial spyware vendors and China-linked groups led the abuse (Jessica Lyons/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/05/zero_day_attacks_enterprise_tech…
BPOLD-H: BPOLD-H: Bilanz der vorübergehend wiedereingeführten Binnengrenzkontrollen an der deutsch - niederländischen Grenze in Niedersachsen im Zeitraum vom 16.09.2024 bis einschließlich zum 31.03.2026 Hannover (ots) - Seit dem 16. September 2024 kontrolliert die Bundespolizei in ganz Deutschland den grenzüberschreitenden Verkehr mit vorübergehend wiedereingeführten Binnengrenzkontrollen. Für Reisende zwischen Niedersachsen und den ...
April 12, 2026 -- By the end of 2024, inflation in the U.S., which had soared in the aftermath ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-12-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260413/p39#a260413p39