Listening

I was gobsmacked to get a note from the SIGARCH ASPLOS steering committee that our 2013 paper "Unikernels: library operating systems for the cloud" won the most influential paper award at the conference last week! I couldn't make it to Rotterdam myself due to the travel time, but Richard Mortier was already there and so accepted the award on the whole team's behalf!

On Wednesday this week (April 9th, 2025) I gave a talk entitled “Future interface(s) for BHL” (the slides are on FigShare) at BHL Day 2025.

This talk explores the articulation of food and television through an analysis of the soap opera genre and their transmedia cookbooks. Whilst debates on food & literature and food & film have been researched extensively, the relationship of food & television remains relatively underexplored (Murray, 2012; Oren, 2003). This limited work has tended to focus on the cookery programme genre (Strange, 1998;

Wie in ihrem Koalitionsvertrag skizziert, will die kommende Regierung aus CDU/CSU/SPD Migration „steuern“, „Beschädigungen am gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt“ eindämmen, Integrationsmaßnahmen besser finanzieren und die liberale Demokratie wehrhafter machen. Das sind alles richtige und wichtige Ziele. Fraglich ist allerdings, ob das mit den im Koalitionsvertrag vereinbarten Maßnahmen gelingen kann. Schließlich wirkt vieles im Koalitionsvertrag widersprüchlich, unfertig oder […]

Der Beitrag Migrationssteuerung und Integration: Kann es mit den im Koalitionsvertrag skizzierten Maßnahmen gelingen? erschien zuerst auf Netzwerk Fluchtforschung.

Fabled Sri Lankan national parks battle for wildlife supremacy – discover which reserve offers your ideal safari experience.

This week’s recap highlights Evo2 for variant effect analysis and genome design, a preprint showing that pretraining doesn’t necessarily increase performance on genomic foundation models, a new R package ggalign for making complex biological data visualizations with ggplot2, and an ancestral reconstruction method for ancient DNA. I also highlight a few reviews in biodiversity genomics.

In a reimagined Midwest shaped by biotech, one young woman steps into a future grown from code, community, and courage

Discover Sri Lanka’s top leopard hotspots where these elusive predators lounge in trees and roam ancient wetlands.

Uncover Sri Lanka’s ultimate jungle adventure with breathtaking trails and a treehouse paradise that will leave you speechless.

Plan your perfect Sri Lankan wildlife adventure by discovering which national park suits your animal-watching dreams.