@rmdes@mstdn.social2026-02-04 20:27:46
@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.social2025-11-29 14:30:16
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Many aquatic animals are described as "filter feeders" but this is not functionally correct since it would require water forced through a mesh. Instead, most zooplankton, including copepods, are suspension feeders. They create feeding current gyres using appendages, and use spiny modified ones (maxillae) to intercept individual algal particles and move …
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-12-20 12:00:07
qa_user: User interactions on Q&A websites (2016)
Networks of interactions among users from four online Q&A sites: Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. A directed edge (i,j) indicates a user i responded to user j's post. Edges are timestamped. For each Q&A site, four differently defined networks are provided, based on the definition of an edge: (i) a user answered a question, (ii) a user commented on a question, (iii) a user commented on an answer…
@tschfflr@fediscience.org2026-01-14 16:00:48
International postdocs: Come to Bochum for a two-week stay to plan a research project and learn how to apply for funding for it in Germany.
I'm available as a host for any topic related to my research interests: digital forensic linguistics, experimental semantics/pragmatics, emojis, (computational analyses of) harmful language, metaphors, discourse, etc.
https://www.research-academy-ruhr.de/programm/researchexplorer/
@zack@mamot.fr2025-12-16 00:53:43
"Le cas du député Emmanuel Pellerin révèle les contradictions entre le discours politique intransigeant Š l’égard de la consommation de drogues et la réalité de la réponse judiciaire quand un élu est mis cause pour de tels faits" résume le tribunal dans son jugement, en indiquant que ces révélations portent pleinement sur un « sujet d’intérêt général ».
C'est compliqué, apparemment, pour un avocat-député de comprendre cette notion d'intérêt général.
@june_thalia_michael@literatur.social2026-01-22 07:16:08
Ich bin sehr motiviert, heute Weltenbau zu Syrlain zu machen. Eine große Liste an Fragen habe ich bereits, aber ... gibt es was, das euch interessiert?
@marcel@waldvogel.family2026-01-12 06:42:22
"Die Justiz wird unter Trump gerade zu schamlos zur Waffe gemacht, die nun gegen politische Gegner gerichtet wird.
Teilweise forderte Trump das Justizdepartement sogar öffentlich zu solchen Strafuntersuchungen auf. Auch das jetzige Vorgehen gegen Powell hat den Anschein einer politisch motivierten Strafverfolgung, eines beispiellosen Druckversuchs auf die Zentralbank […]"
@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.org2025-12-11 07:38:34
What happened in Gramzow is just awful, and I really hope they can remove all the oil
There something interesting linguistically, though. They're all using “die PCK Schwedt,” which sounds odd. Apparently, “PCK” has lost the property of being an acronym for “das Petrol-Chemische Kombinat” but turned into a modifier or even only arbitrary first part of the name “die Raffinerie.” Similar as people use “der Radio” or “der Fernseh” skipping “apparat.”
@boris@cosocial.ca2025-12-08 17:30:00
I did not know the Semble logo was a cairn.
Now I want a pet rock mascot. With googly eyes.
(I should make sure we have googly eyes at the conference)
Also a very good post by @wesleyfinck.org on naming in interfaces and products.
https://notes.wesleyfinck.org/3m6mpbihiy22o
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-11-13 12:00:08
qa_user: User interactions on Q&A websites (2016)
Networks of interactions among users from four online Q&A sites: Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. A directed edge (i,j) indicates a user i responded to user j's post. Edges are timestamped. For each Q&A site, four differently defined networks are provided, based on the definition of an edge: (i) a user answered a question, (ii) a user commented on a question, (iii) a user commented on an answer…
