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My department is advertising for a fixed-term University Teacher in English with expertise in contemporary literature. Deadline: 3 June.
https://vacancies.lboro.ac.uk/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ET…

Been chasing some spam PRs on my free-for.dev list. Well I say spam but really its obvious it is people learning git.
But why would they pick a 80k star 1600 watcher repo so practise on?
Finally got one of these people to respond - it is a university that has a list of big repos to open merge conflict PRs against as part of their passing criteria.
Arg.

San Francisco Bay Area peeps!
THURSDAY, April 11th
@ CCRMA
(660 Lomita Ct, Stanford)
#PamelaZ will perform a selection of solo works for voice, electronics, and video.
This event is free and open to the public.

CCRMA Presents: Pamela Z | Department of Music
Pamela Z visits CCRMA to perform a selection of solo works for voice, electronics, and video. Admission Information Free admission. Stanford University guidelines now state that masks are no longer required, but are strongly recommended. We encourage you to continue wearing masks for the comfort of our patrons, staff, and artists. Proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test will no longer be required.

At San Francisco State, a Democratic Movement for Palestine https://jacobin.com/2024/05/san-francisco-state-student-protest-palestine/

University of Florida folks - please consider signing this letter calling on the president to protect student speech by fairly applying university rules and prioritizing de-escalation.
https://www.petitions.net/signatures/open_…

Open Letter from the University of Florida Community on Campus Protests and Arrests

Open faculty position:
W3 Substitute Professorship for Data Science
at the School of Business Informatics and Mathematics at the University of Mannheim,
(8/9 W3 professorship, limited for three years, no tenure track)
more info: https://www.uni-mannhei…

Please boost/share!
Open Letter from Vancouver Island Univesity Faculty and Employees to Administration in support of #CampusProtests #FreeSpeech
"We, the undersigned Vancouver Island University (VIU) faculty and employees, are alarmed by the extreme measures th…

Morgan State University in Maryland is Set To Become The First HBCU To Open A Medical School In 45 Years
https://www.morgan.edu/news/first-hbcu-to-open-a-medical-school

Morgan State University Set To Become The First HBCU To Open A Medical School In 45 Years
Morgan State University (MSU) is about to make history. The Maryland-based educational institution will become the first HBCU to open a new medical school in 45 years.

Announcement: #socialcoop member Nathan Schneider has a book that recently went open access!
[[Governable Spaces]]: Democratic Design for Online Life
https://luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.

das #openaccess-journal "EP Europace", das sich mit herzrhytmusstörungen beschäftigt, verlangt #APCs in höhe von 4.177 € netto, also rund 4.971 € brutto. da bekommen bibliothekar:innen auch herzrhythmusstörungen. 🥴

Lucy Parsons Labs Takes Police Foundation to Court for Open Records Requests https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/lucy-parsons-labs-takes-police-foundation-court-open-records-requests

Ne22 distillation and the cooling sequence of the old metal-rich open cluster NGC 6791
Maurizio SalarisARI-Liverpool John Moores University, INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico d'Abruzzo, Simon BlouinDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Santi CassisiINAF-Osservatorio Astronomico d'Abruzzo, Luigi R. BedinINAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova

Ne22 distillation and the cooling sequence of the old metal-rich open cluster NGC 6791
Recent Monte Carlo plasma simulations to study in crystallizing carbon-oxygen (CO) white dwarfs (WDs) the phase separation of Ne22 (the most abundant metal after carbon and oxygen) have shown that, under the right conditions, a distillation process that transports Ne22 toward the WD centre is efficient and releases a considerable amount of gravitational energy that can lead to cooling delays of up to several Gyr. Here we present the first CO WD stellar evolution models that self-consistently in…

(postdoc position, Sorbonne University, Paris) Audio-touch: Simulating social touch at a distance through sounds https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/200915

Audio-touch: Simulating social touch at a distance through sounds
A 2-years post-doctoral position in cognitive psychology is open at ISIR (www.isir.upmc.fr), Paris, under the supervision of Malika Auvray (www.malika-auvray.com).

Breakthrough “Protein Sandwich” Could Transform Cancer Drug Discovery
https://scitechdaily.com/breakthrough-protein-sandwich-could-transform-cancer-drug-discovery/

Breakthrough “Protein Sandwich” Could Transform Cancer Drug Discovery
A groundbreaking discovery of a new type of molecular glue at the University of Dundee could open doors for the development of innovative drugs aimed at combating cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. A research team at the University’s Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation (CeTPD) led by Prof

European Peatlands & Policies Open Data Mapathon 2024
Seeking teams (2 to 4 people) from all European countries to register for European Peatlands & Policies Open Data Mapathon 2024 #Mapathon2024
Date: 6th April Venue: Online/University of Galway

First Prize €1,200.

🐋 Killer whales use specialized hunting techniques to catch marine mammals in the open ocean
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-killer-whales-specialized-techniques-marine.html

Killer whales use specialized hunting techniques to catch marine mammals in the open ocean
Killer whales foraging in deep submarine canyons off the coast of California represent a distinct subpopulation that uses specialized hunting techniques to catch marine mammals, Josh McInnes at the University of British Columbia and colleagues report on March 20 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE.

Opening Gaps in the Spectrum of Strictly Ergodic Jacobi and CMV Matrices
David Damanik (Rice University), Long Li (Rice University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03864

Opening Gaps in the Spectrum of Strictly Ergodic Jacobi and CMV Matrices
We prove that Jacobi and CMV matrices associated to generic continuous sampling functions have all gaps predicted by the Gap Labelling Theorem open. We also give a mechanism for generic gap opening for quasi-periodic analytic sampling functions in the subcritical region following from the analyticity of resonance tongue boundaries for both Jacobi and CMV matrices.

"The Open Library of Humanities (#OLH) is an award-winning publisher of #humanities scholarship based at Birkbeck, University of London. We play a leading role within a growing ecosystem of scholar-led digital publishing, that combines cutting-edge technology with community governance and not-for-profit…

Open Library of Humanities
The Open Library of Humanities is an award-winning open-access publisher of internationally leading academic scholarship. Our mission is to support and extend open access to scholarship in the humanities – for free, for everyone, for ever.

Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, the Lawrence D Biele chair in law at Hebrew University and the global chair in law at Queen Mary University of London, was detained by Israeli police on the afternoon of 18 April over comments made on a podcast more than a month earlier. More than 250 academics at Queen Mary have published an open letter in support of their colleague and calling on the university to stand by her.

I've managed to get paid to develop free/open source software for 15 years or so now.. Via research student scholarship, university/institutional research grants, a non-profit-hosted research grant, arts funding, crowd funding, pay-as-you-feel tutorial videos, talks, running workshops on the software, and getting paid to use the software I make (music performances).
It's not always well paid and I've been really lucky at times, but it is possible. I've rarely felt expl…

Re-sharing a post from @jwbaker.bsky.social:
The 2024 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History is now open for dominations of works published since January 2023.
Nominate your work or a work that you 💜.
Deadline 31 May.
Full details here: https://ihrdighist.blogs.sa…

The 2024 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History - Digital History Seminar
Richard Deswarte (1965-2021) was one of the founding convenors of the Digital History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of London, an advocate for the value and importance of digital history,...

“Two quick taps and we open the door,” says Wouters, a researcher in the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography group at the KU Leuven University in Belgium. “And that works on every door in the hotel.”
https://www.wired.com/story/saflok-hotel-lock-uns…

Hackers Found a Way to Open Any of 3 Million Hotel Keycard Locks in Seconds
The company behind the Saflok-brand door locks is offering a fix, but it may take months or years to reach some hotels.

DONAPI: Malicious NPM Packages Detector using Behavior Sequence Knowledge Mapping
Cheng Huang (Sichuan University), Nannan Wang (Sichuan University), Ziyan Wang (Sichuan University), Siqi Sun (Sichuan University), Lingzi Li (Sichuan University), Junren Chen (Sichuan University), Qianchong Zhao (Sichuan University), Jiaxuan Han (Sichuan University), Zhen Yang (Sichuan University), Lei Shi (Huawei Technologies)

DONAPI: Malicious NPM Packages Detector using Behavior Sequence Knowledge Mapping
With the growing popularity of modularity in software development comes the rise of package managers and language ecosystems. Among them, npm stands out as the most extensive package manager, hosting more than 2 million third-party open-source packages that greatly simplify the process of building code. However, this openness also brings security risks, as evidenced by numerous package poisoning incidents. In this paper, we synchronize a local package cache containing more than 3.4 million pa…

Delayed share of this from my tutorial session...I think we have like mind in our mix this year's UG, well done 👍 #teaching #university

🐋 Killer whales use specialized hunting techniques to catch marine mammals in the open ocean
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-killer-whales-specialized-techniques-marine.html

Killer whales use specialized hunting techniques to catch marine mammals in the open ocean
Killer whales foraging in deep submarine canyons off the coast of California represent a distinct subpopulation that uses specialized hunting techniques to catch marine mammals, Josh McInnes at the University of British Columbia and colleagues report on March 20 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE.

Thirty-four Vanderbilt University faculty are calling on the Vanderbilt administration to permit the BDS referendum initiated by the Vanderbilt Divest Coalition to go forward.
https://bit.ly/faculty4vsgvote

Open Faculty Letter re VSG Referendum

Wenn der #Permafrostboden oder #Permafrostfelsen taut oder/und wenn der Gegendruck des abgetauten #Gletschers am Berghang fehlt, kann es zu gigantischen

New detection method aims to warn of landslide tsunamis
University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers have devised a way to remotely detect large landslides within minutes of occurrence and to quickly determine whether they are close to open water and present a tsunami hazard.

$125K stolen in 10 minutes
From Kim Komando's newsletter —
"Feb. 16 was a typical Friday night. Barry and I decided to stay home, grill chicken and make a salad for dinner. At about 6:45 p.m., we heard some loud rumbling overhead.
We walked onto the back patio, and two police helicopters were shining lights all over our property. A recording echoed, “Police. You are under arrest. Stay right there and I won’t shoot you.”
As I looked across the fence, a swarm of armed Phoenix SWAT team members with a few dogs were circling our property. One of the guys said, “Yeah, there’s a jammer right here.” He picked it up. I leaned over the patio and asked, “What’s going on?”
The police told me to go inside
When I asked again, a SWAT member said, “Ma’am, it’s a South American gang targeting homes to steal from. The jammer says you might have been next. Do we have permission to enter your property?” I said, “Yes!” and then he asked something like, “If we find anyone, will you pursue charges so we can arrest them?” I replied, “Of course!”
I opened the driveway gates to our property and the guest house while Barry tossed the police keys to open the security gates. People asked me if I was scared. How could I be? There was a team of really professional police officers protecting me from who knows what.
Turns out, when the gang saw we were home, they likely diverted their attention to the house next door. A house four doors down from us wasn’t so lucky.
The homeowner left at 5 p.m. to have dinner and got a notification his security cameras were offline at 5:05 p.m. He thought the internet went down. Nope, the gang broke in and took $25,000 in cash and valuables worth $100,000. They were in and out in under 10 minutes.
How are they getting away with this?
The gang places cellular and Wi‑Fi jammers around the homes they’re targeting. This way, security cameras and phones are useless. A Phoenix police officer told me the gang probably noticed nothing was down in our house.
We have our cameras and internet hardwired. Even when they tried to jam our signals, the red lights on the security cameras still showed they were recording everything.
But how frightening is that? Your phone doesn’t work. Your cameras aren’t recording anything. On the upside, the gang doesn’t carry guns. This way, if they get caught, they’ll spend about six months in jail before being extradited to Chile.
Nothing is random
The gang scopes out homes beforehand. They drive the neighborhood and look up houses on real estate sites to get an idea of where the primary bedroom is located. They look for dogs, too.
It’s not just in Phoenix, by the way. This is happening all over the country. A friend was robbed by this gang, and he lives in a guarded, gated community in California. Kudos to the Phoenix Police Department — they arrested three members of the gang who were in my neighborhood that night.
So, what can you do?
☑️​ Wireless cameras go kaput with no signal. Try a wired camera for a backup.
☑️​ A cam with SD card storage will still record if there’s no Wi‑Fi.
☑️​ Put up motion-activated lights; they make it harder for anyone to sneak around.
☑️​ A femtocell (think of it as a mini cell tower) could be enough to keep your connection if thieves use jammers — T‑Mobile or Verizon.
☑️​ Have an Amazon Echo? Away mode lets you control your lights so it looks like someone’s home.
☑️​ Make it look like someone’s watching TV at your house when you’re not there with a Television Simulator.
☑️​ A University of North Carolina survey of over 400 incarcerated burglars found security system signs deter thieves.
☑️​ Check Zillow, Realtor⁠.⁠com and Redfin for photos of your house. The more crooks know about the layout, the better for them. Ask to have them removed.
☑️​ Blur your house from Google Maps and Apple Maps while you’re at it.

The 'Must Stock' Challenge in Academic Publishing: Pricing Implications of Transformative Agreements
W. Benedikt Schmal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03597

The 'Must Stock' Challenge in Academic Publishing: Pricing Implications of Transformative Agreements
The high relevance of top-notch academic journals turns them into 'must stock' products that assign its often commercial owners with extraordinary market power. Intended to tackle this, university consortia around the globe negotiate so-called 'transformative agreements' with many publishing houses. It shall pave the way towards standard open-access publishing. While several contract designs exist, the 'publish-and-read' (PAR) scheme is the one that comes closest to the ideal of an entirely ope…

White House announces opposition to slew of House GOP bills targeting environmental regulations
The Biden administration announced that it “strongly opposes” a group of Republican-backed bills expected to be considered by the House this week that will target its environmental regulations.
The White House office of management and budgeted targeted six bills proposed by Republicans,
including measures to remove gray wolves from the list of endangered species,
open up land…

No matter your side in this conflict, this letter is worth a read...
#israel #gaza #palestine #columbia

“Two quick taps and we open the door,” says Wouters, a researcher in the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography group at the KU Leuven University in Belgium. “And that works on every door in the hotel.”
https://www.wired.com/story/saflok-hotel-lock-uns…

Hackers Found a Way to Open Any of 3 Million Hotel Keycard Locks in Seconds
The company behind the Saflok-brand door locks is offering a fix, but it may take months or years to reach some hotels.

An interesting conversation about publishing, sparked by @… ‘s blog post, happening over on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/danielbingham.bsky.social/…

Yay! Yesterday I gave a (remote) talk at the Narrating Futures Symposium at the University of Bristol (UK) run by Cecilia Thirlway and Elise Kraatila. I spoke about how narrative is used for social change in activism, governments, business, and entertainment & the arts of course. How the common notion of the dramatic arc tells a story of change that is tethered to an undesirable present. I offered 2 narrative design tools that open up possibilities rather than closing them down.

The longevity of the oldest open clusters: Structural parameters of NGC 188, NGC 2420, NGC 2425, NGC 2682, NGC 6791, NGC 6819
N. Alvarez-Baena (Instituto de F\'isica, Universidad de Antioquia, Medell\'in, Colombia), R. Carrera (INAF-Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Padova, Italy), H. Thompson (Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK), L. Balaguer-Nu\~nez (Institut d'Est…

The longevity of the oldest open clusters: Structural parameters of NGC 188, NGC 2420, NGC 2425, NGC 2682, NGC 6791, NGC 6819
Context: Open clusters' dynamical evolution is driven by stellar evolution, internal dynamics and external forces, which according to dynamical simulations, will evaporate them in a timescale of about 1 Ga. However, about 10\% of the known open clusters are older. They are special systems whose detailed properties are related to their dynamical evolution and the balance between mechanisms of cluster formation and dissolution. Aims:We investigate the spatial distribution and structural parameter…

A very worthwhile read. Canadians are addicted to seeing housing as an investment. Changing those expectations will open up other ways to solve the housing crisis.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Affordability

No matter your side in this conflict, this letter is worth a read...
#israel #gaza #palestine #columbia

Pneumonia Diagnosis through pixels -- A Deep Learning Model for detection and classification
Amit Karanth Gurpur, Janani S, Ajeetha B, Brintha Therese A, Rajeswaran Rangasami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12405

Pneumonia Diagnosis through pixels -- A Deep Learning Model for detection and classification
Manual identification and classification of pneumonia and COVID-19 infection is a cumbersome process that, if delayed can cause irreversible damage to the patient. We have compiled CT scan images from various sources, namely, from the China Consortium of Chest CT Image Investigation (CC-CCII), the Negin Radiology located at Sari in Iran, an open access COVID-19 repository from Havard dataverse, and Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, India. The images were preprocessed using various methods su…

Yay! Yesterday I gave a (remote) talk at the Narrating Futures Symposium at the University of Bristol (UK) run by Cecilia Thirlway and Elise Kraatila. I spoke about how narrative is used for social change in activism, governments, business, and entertainment & the arts of course. How the common notion of the dramatic arc tells a story of change that is tethered to an undesirable present. I offered 2 narrative design tools that open up possibilities rather than closing them down.

🔥 Nigerian bakeries need support to shift to clean energy, researchers say
#energy …

Nigerian bakeries need support to shift to clean energy, researchers say
Bakeries in Nigeria which use traditional open ovens fueled by hardwood cut from local forests are contributing to rapid deforestation and climate change, according to a study from academics working in Nigeria and from the University of York and UCL.

Velocity Dispersion of the open cluster NGC 2571 by Radial Velocities and Proper Motions
Maxim V. KuleshUral Fderal University, Aleksandra E. SamirkhanovaUral Federal University, Giovanni CarraroPadova University, Joao Sales SilvaObservatorio Nacional, Roberto Capuzzo DolcettaLa Sapienza University, Anton F. SeleznevUral Federal University
https://…

Velocity Dispersion of the open cluster NGC 2571 by Radial Velocities and Proper Motions
We use a Kernel Density Estimator method to evaluate the stellar velocity dispersion in the open cluster NGC 2571. We derive the 3-D velocity dispersion using both proper motions as extracted from Gaia DR3 and single epoch radial velocities as obtained with the instrument FLAMES at ESO VLT. The mean-square velocity along the line-of-sight is found to be larger than the one in the tangential direction by a factor in the interval [6,8]. We argue that the most likely explanation for such an occurr…

🔥 Nigerian bakeries need support to shift to clean energy, researchers say
#energy …

Nigerian bakeries need support to shift to clean energy, researchers say
Bakeries in Nigeria which use traditional open ovens fueled by hardwood cut from local forests are contributing to rapid deforestation and climate change, according to a study from academics working in Nigeria and from the University of York and UCL.

🧠 Social bonding gets people on the same wavelength, neural synchronization study suggests
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-social-bonding-people-wavelength-neural.html

Social bonding gets people on the same wavelength, neural synchronization study suggests
When small hierarchical groups bond, neural activity between leaders and followers aligns, promoting quicker and more frequent communication, according to a study published on March 19 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Jun Ni from Beijing Normal University, China, and colleagues.

An upper limit to differential magnification effects in strongly gravitationally lensed galaxies
Stephen SerjeantThe Open University
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14663

An upper limit to differential magnification effects in strongly gravitationally lensed galaxies
Differential magnification is now well-known to distort the spectral energy distributions of strongly gravitationally lensed galaxies. However, that does not mean that any distortions are possible. Here I prove an analytic upper bound to differential magnification effects. For example, a thermal or sub-thermal CO ladder cannot be made to appear super-thermal just from gravitational lensing, and the Balmer decrement emission line ratio H$α$:H$β$ cannot reduce below the case B prediction just f…

An upper limit to differential magnification effects in strongly gravitationally lensed galaxies
Stephen SerjeantThe Open University
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14663

An upper limit to differential magnification effects in strongly gravitationally lensed galaxies
Differential magnification is now well-known to distort the spectral energy distributions of strongly gravitationally lensed galaxies. However, that does not mean that any distortions are possible. Here I prove an analytic upper bound to differential magnification effects. For example, a thermal or sub-thermal CO ladder cannot be made to appear super-thermal just from gravitational lensing, and the Balmer decrement emission line ratio H$α$:H$β$ cannot reduce below the case B prediction just f…