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@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-06-30 13:07:57

The conclusion from a big #Python 3.15 #Gentoo porting run today: the most common kind of #NIH Python package is one providing colorful output on the terminal…

@lschiff@mastodon.sdf.org
2026-05-26 16:23:45

Government #censorship is having a direct impact on federally funded research, restricting the topics addressed and the experiences & perspectives recognized. Join Jeremy Berg, Former #NIH institute director and Editor-in-Chief, Science magazine, Michael D. Green, Ph.D., Early Career Researcher…

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Federal research funding in the United States is increasingly shaped by political priorities rather than scientific merit—reshaping what research gets funded, how it is conducted, and what findings are ultimately shared. In this webinar, researchers examine both the visible and less visible consequences of this shift. Drawing on publicly available data, Jeremy Berg presents emerging evidence of grant terminations, project disruptions, and even changes to grant language—offering a rare, dat…

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-07-25 16:44:55

Also, zero days (well, minus a lot of days because I've been slacking) since a random #Python package got a new #NIH dependency on another Python package which is actually a "fastest" #RustLang package which cannot be built because the author thinks it a great idea to require a nightly Rust compiler.
…and of course it's full of "unsafe" calls. Because Rust is obviously such a great language for making secure code.
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