When I first started my PhD in France, I couldn’t help but address my PI with the formal “you” in french (“ vous ”), instead of the informal “you” (“ tu ”). She was very quick to tell me to use the informal form. It took some getting used to, but I stuck to it.
(This is part 3 of my ICFP25 series: see also 1. Chairing PROPL25, 2. OxCaml tutorial, 4. post-POSIX IO, 5. What I learnt) It's been about six years since we wrote the papers on parallelism and effects, and four years since we helped to release upstream OCaml 5.0 with multicore support, a mammoth effort that took up years of work for my OCaml Labs and Tarides crew.
Das Projekt Infra Wiss Blogs des Lehrstuhls Information Management am Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft (IBI) war auf den Open Access Tagen 2025 mit dem Workshop „Wissenschaftsblogs als integraler Bestandteil der Open-Access-Landschaft“ vertreten. Der Workshop wurde von Catharina Ochsner und Heinz Pampel zusammen mit Björn Gebert (Mittelalterblog) &
The Infra Wiss Blogs project by the Research Group Information Management was represented at this year’s Open Access Days with the workshop “Scholarly blogs as an integral part of the open access landscape”. The workshop was organised by Catharina Ochsner and Heinz Pampel (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (HU Berlin), Berlin School of Library and Information Science (IBI) in collaboration with Björn Gebert (Mittelalterblog &
The call for applications for round 3 of the OBF Event Fellowship for 2025 is now open. The deadline for this round is 1 December 2025. You can submit your application through this Google Form. We have provided a Word template to help you draft the application locally before filling out the form – make a copy of this template.
BOSC 2026 , the 27th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, will take place July 13-14 or July 15-16 in Washington, DC, as part of ISMB 2026. We hope you will join us in person or online! Since 2000, BOSC has covered all aspects of open source bioinformatics and open science. BOSC 2025 took place July 21-22, 2025 in Liverpool, UK (as part of ISMB/ECCB 2025). Read our BOSC 2025 report on F1000Research!
Giving students fair, justified and consistent feedback on their work is a cornerstone of good teaching practice. So how consistent are humans when they are grading programming assignments?
This morning I woke up to the notice that my Garmin watch had now collected enough data to provide me with a Health Status insight - a new beta feature I hadn’t heard about before. Curious, I opened it to see how Garmin approaches making health status predictions – and was greeted with a familiar view.
Entre os dias 1 e 3 de outubro de 2025 ocorreu o I Encontro de Filosofia da Psicologia, organizado pela Pós-Graduação em Filosofia da UFPR, o Departamento de Psicologia da UFPR e o Departamento...
Successively clicking the first link in a Wikipedia article almost always leads to Philosophy
Disziplinäre Realitäten. Ein Kommentar zur Diskussion um den Ausschluss des Verfassungsblogs aus dem DOAJ Anfang des Jahres machte der Verfassungsblog seine unfreiwillige Auslistung aus dem DOAJ bekannt.