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Finally finished reading "An Introduction To Forensic Metascience" by James Heathers: https://jamesheathers.curve.space/ I didn't realize that it was so easy to sniff out statistical problems in publications. I am mostly concerned with text: plagiarism and AI use. It's a long read, and worth it!

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Next.js dropped a CVSS 9.1 authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2025-29927) over the weekend. This flaw is trivially exploitable by sending the header `x-middleware-subrequest: true` and causes the request to skip all middleware processing, including any authentication steps. Shodan reports […]

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Gäääh, that was not trivial, finding the page to opt-out of what I have bought on #eBay being used to train Yet Another AI Model (YAAIM): PSA: https://accountsettings.ebay.de/ai-preferences

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There’s much to be disturbed about from Columbia’s acceding to Trump’s various demands, but perhaps the most chilling is their creation of a “special provost” to “oversee” its Middle Eastern studies department. Unlike the other (also very problematic) measures, this represents direct meddling […]

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Federal immigration agents detained a Georgetown University postdoctoral fellow, seeking to deport him and accusing him of opposing U.S. foreign policy. https://thehoya.com/news/developing-gu-researcher-detained-by-immigration-agents/

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The White House is now being served with Elon Musk’s Starlink. Trump officials claim it's hard to get good internet access. At the White House. So we're running all White House communications through the network owned by Elon Musk, who's in close touch with Vladimir Putin. Cool cool […]

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A federal judge has just found that Musk and DOGE likely acted unconstitutionally in shutting down USAID. He has granted a preliminary injunction which means that for the remainder of proceedings USAID personnel must be reinstated, no buildings may be closed, etc. Text of injunction at […]

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Amazes me how unfriendly the UX of academic publishing is. I have to click log in with my institution, search the name of my institution, log in with university SSO, do 2-factor auth, wait for page to reload to see if that gives me access, click download PDF, often that takes me to a web viewer […]

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A coalition of First Nations has offered to purchase the struggling Hudson’s Bay Company in exchange for tobacco, blanket “We may be willing to go as high as a copper kettle, but that’s about it.” #HBC #Colonialism #Capitalism #Indigenous #Irony […]

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The world's richest man stole food from the world's poorest children. Now they are beginning to die www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Must-see/read reporting by Deutsche Welle and Spiegel about abusive work relationships at #MPG. It rightly notes: Max Planck Society's famous "Harnack principle" (top researchers as the de-facto kings or queens at the top of their own institutes) fits with abusing young researchers. Though to […]

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Time to cause DOGE some pain! Rep. Jamie Raskin has announced a campaign encouraging Americans to FOIA their personal data held by DOGE. Recent court rulings mandate DOGE must comply. PDF form letter: https://archive.ph/JYXXA My Typst template […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil have filed a motion to have ICE return him to New York, asking the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to protect Khalil from disruption of the underlying habeas corpus proceedings begun before ICE transferred him to Louisiana […]

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A complete and all-out attack on NOAA. Without a functioning NOAA there is no function seafood industry, no functioning radar network, no functioning weather models (US or otherwise). Would you cut a personal investment that saved you 70 times over your original investment every single year? (1/3)

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lol, the same dude that got to tell on himself for letting “AI” write his papers now got a second column in Nature about how to let “AI” do peer review for you. If academia at large had any actual curiosity or integrity left, that dude should have lost his jobs after the first piece already… […]

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I'm giving a talk on Thursday, March 13, 2025 at the Háskóli Íslands (University of Iceland): "Ritstuldur og gervigreind í háskólakennslu" (Plagiarism and AI in University Education) I really like the Icelandic word for #Plagiarism: writing-stealing I look forward to interesting discussions!

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A second German citizen (travelling as a tourist) has been arrested at the US border and is being detained for deportation. I definitely won't be travelling to the US any time soon, especially for science events. It's too easy to end up causing misunderstandings at the border (Are you there […]

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The Royal Society shows their true colours: Elon Musk stays a member. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/03/elon-musk-royal-society-fellowship-survives-fractious-members-meeting #RoyalSociety #ElonMusk #CodeOfConduct #UKscience

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Most of us are limited to expressing our disdain for the current administration through posts and comments on social media and/or sign carrying. Gotta love the guy who buys a full page ad in the front section of the NYT to say what needs to be said: (I sent an email thanking him.) 👍

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Wie alles begann: der erste Chatbot der Welt, Weizenbaums berühmtes ELIZA wurde nach Auffinden des iriginalen Quellcodes wieder zum Laufen gebracht. https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06707 Mit nur 420 Zeilen sicherlich auch im Unterricht behandelbar. #Chatbot #Eliza #FediLZ

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I'm looking for work! :kittywave: I'm a software engineer with 4 years' professional experience. Special interests include railway open data, networking (I run AS213185 for fun!), and embedded programming, but I can do most things! ✨ I care about delivering software that makes a difference […]

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Es sieht so aus, als setze sich die Idee des Anschlages mit dem Auto als Tatwaffe jetzt durch, weil sie so erfolgreich ist. https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/mannheim-grosser-polizeieinsatz-in-der-mannheimer-innenstadt-a-f097bca2-4039-486d-af01-b3fb5c1c6290 Die Regierung hat beim […]

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Re conferences people should probably just do virtual ones if possible. If it’s not safe for others to enter the U.S. it’s also not safe for many people to leave it.

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German tourist and her friend wants to make art on a holiday trip in the US, but Trump's goons decide she is probably there for illegal work and throw her in a detention facility, just like MAGA wants it. I hope the German government helps this couple sue the US to kingdom come […]

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I find Trump as repulsive as most people here, but as a German, one thing I want to push back on is focusing on one man. Hitler's rise was possible because he was able to exploit the racial hatred and conspiratorial thinking that already existed. It's MAGA acolytes that see Trump as an […]

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"Liebe Fahrgäste, ich hatte versprochen, Ihnen nicht mehr zu belästigen, aber ich habe erfahren, dass jemand im Zug raucht. Das ist seit langem nicht erlaubt. Wenn ich der Person erwische, halten wir am nächsten Bahnhof an und übergeben sie die Bundespolizei. Das kostet mindestens 200 € Strafe […]

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“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be […]

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If you're American and you can afford it - don't just post, donate, e.g.: https://u24.gov.ua/ (run by Ukrainian gov't). Assume your taxes will now go towards "normalization" of America's relationship with Russia, enabling Putin to continue his war of aggression and to threaten all of Europe.

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Don't forget...

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Die Niedersächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu #Göttingen ist klammheimlich jetzt auch auf Mastodon angekommen. @nawg hat aber noch fast keine Follower. Das können wir ändern, oder? #DigiHum

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I know that pretty much every trans or non binary person outside the US already knew America wasn’t safe anymore, but this is double plus ungood and you need to be aware. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/25/visa-ban-transgender-athletes “Athlete” is arbitrary and carries a lot of […]

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Es braucht nur eine Grafik, um die Migrationsdebatte in Deutschland komplett zu widerlegen: Ein hoher Migrationsanteil führt nicht zu mehr, sondern zu weniger rechtsextremer Wahlneigung. Die AfD wird nicht durch Migration stark, sondern durch geschürte Vorurteile über Migration.

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Heyo! I'm still looking for a job in Germany. I have 5+ yrs of professional experience in developing backend python, even more years as hobby. I know how to work with the infra bits too, and have embedded and networking experience on the side! I know some rust and have done projects with it […]

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Somebody hacked the TVs at the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the US today to play this video on a loop. They couldn’t figure out what to do so they sent staff to turn off the TVs, but other staff started turning them back on.

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I just got an email "on behalf of the Elon Musk America PAC" telling me that I've won the daily one million dollar raffle. All I have to do is give them my name, address and bank account 😜 You're a little late to the game, "Andrew Valentino", that scam only ran up until the election.

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I just exclaimed "holy _hit" as I opened this House of Commons e-petition which I signed this afternoon. It had 38,000 signatures then which was insane. It has 65,000+ signatures now. 😱 all In only 2 days. IT IS TO REVOKE ELON MUSK'S CANADIAN […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

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In der 9. Stunde habe ich heute mit meiner 5. Klasse über die Bundestagswahl gesprochen und die erste Frage, die kam: "Wenn die AfD gewinnt, müssen wir dann alle aus Deutschland raus?" Gefolgt von, ob sie wenigstens selbst bestimmen könnten, wohin sie wollen. Dann die Frage eines Mädchens, ob […]

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I’m sure this is nothing to be concerned about, right? https://cyberintel.substack.com/p/doge-exposes-once-secret-government

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RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA! You may believe Trump is a Russian asset, you may not But the facts remain facts. And they're worse than you think. Soviet and Russian intelligence identified, groomed, and leveraged Trump as an asset ...starting all the way back in the 1980s. A thread. 🧵 Trump 1/

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Am #Sonntag bitte #wählen. Die #Demokratie braucht Eure Stimme. Und überlegt einmal, Euch nach der Wahl zu engagieren: In einer Partei, einer Gewerkschaft, einem Betriebsrat, einer Kirche, einer NGO oder einer Bürgerinitiative. Demokratie ist wo Menschen etwas gemeinsam tun. #Wahl

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While wandering down a rabbit hole (instead of writing, like I should have been doing), I stumbled on this long-running experiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_drop_experiment And of course there is a livecam, so that you can watch the next drop forming […]

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President Zelenskyy is one of the most remarkable leaders of our time. With unwavering courage and determination, he confronted Russia’s unprovoked aggression, refusing to back down in the face of overwhelming odds. He has become a symbol of resilience, hope, and strength—not just for Ukraine […]

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@sundogplanets Oooh, last night the skies over Berlin lit up with some of Elmo's SpaceX junk re-entering the atmosphere: https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2025/02/satellit-absturz-weltraumlagezentrum-leuchten-nachthimmel.html It was a Falcon-9 rocket part that had been launched on Feb. 1 […]

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