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More on today's "publish with us" email from @royalsociety.org, guys you need a new editor.. "I will be resigning my position as associate editor at the Royal Society’s journal Open Science with immediate effect (..) I would urge my colleagues to do the same" 👏🏻👏🏻 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

I wholeheartedly agree with this piece from @kityates.bsky.social. The Royal Society has to take may things into consideration, including what its US members feel - but even so, I think the right course in this instance is very clear, and they ducked it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 11 hours ago • 4 comments

"Fostering a Federated AI Commons ecosystem" codingrights.org/docs/Federat... this policy briefing by Joana Varon, @schock.cc & @timnitgebru.bsky.social is a must read 🔥

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

This is a shocking read. Solidarity with everyone affected. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Crypto is a busted flush, and many rich people have large holdings they can't off-load. Since crypto is essentially useless in the real world, they can't expect a govt bailout - the only way they can get one is to literally take over the govt and change the law to make crypto use mandatory.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

I will keep the letter open until 3rd March, the date of the meeting called by the Royal Society to discuss principles around the public pronouncements and behaviours of its fellows. So one more week to add your voice to the call for the RS to stand up for its values.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

He nails it.

submitted 10 days ago • 1551 comments

an old co-author emailed me looking for a confirmation a non-existent paper supposedly authored by me that one of her students has cited in an essay... so i got curious and prompted gpt-4o “papers by abeba birhane”. it listed 9 papers none of which I authored

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

Perci Diaconis is giving a seminar in UCD next Tuesday. maths.ucd.ie/seminar/3264

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

A nice interview with the very able Nathan McJames: www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/m...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

The PGR StudentSurvey.ie is now open in 15 Irish Higher Education Institutions! Take the survey here! studentbarometer.etioglobal.org/StudentSurvey/ **Closing this week: DCU, DKIT, TU Dublin, UCC** Continuing this week: ATU, MIC, MU, UG Opening this week: IADT, MTU, RCSI, UCD, TUS, SETU

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

A new SWE at Hubspot told a connection of mine that they are no longer allowed to write code - just to prompt an LLM to write it. My connection was told this isn't going well, but I'd be curious if any Hubspot folks can verify that this is in fact happening?

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

If you are interested in old maths exams, I have managed to find some exams from the primary certificate that people used to do if they weren't going on to secondary school.https://archive.maths.nuim.ie/staff/dmalone/StateExamPapers/

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

If you are interested in old maths exams, I have managed to find some exams from the primary certificate that people used to do if they weren't going on to secondary school.https://archive.maths.nuim.ie/staff/dmalone/StateExamPapers/

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

The US Government may be scrapping all its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies but that's not happening in Ireland. Here is a Full Professor position in Observational Astrophysics or Cosmology at Maynooth University for *female* caandidates. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

submitted 33 days ago • 107 comments

gentle reminder that deepseek is an open-weight model and NOT open source. there's nothing open about it; no information on how its trained or data trained on, just like its western counterparts

submitted 37 days ago • 13 comments

Please can I encourage all researchers to sign up as individuals to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, and encourage their employing institutions to do likewise? sfdora.org

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Enjoyed @seanferrick.bsky.social review of Section 31 - my better half has an excellent explanation of what Jamie Lee Curtis is doing at the end of it. Just think of the film as "Star Trek: Charlies Angles", and then she's Charlie.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

MU Campus will be closed on Friday, 24 January. Met Éireann has issued a Status Red wind warning for the entire country, effective from 6:00 am to 12:00 pm on Friday, 24 January across County Kildare, due to Storm Éowyn. Read campus arrangements here: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Last week, I managed to finish my project to 3D print the models that I extracted from the BBC micro version of Elite. I'm still pleased with myself. www.youtube.com/shorts/C2_jG...

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments