I recently had the opportunity to speak on Deutschlandfunk about the Wayback Machine from the Internet Archive. The occasion was the recent cyberattack on the Internet Archive (Schräer 2023). The Wayback Machine plays a crucial role in preserving websites and providing access to our digital past—for researchers, journalists, and the interested public alike.

Luz María Zárate, DR © Fotografía Oaxaca, Oax., 2024 Fotografía Teotitlán del Valle, Oax., 2024 Sitio de la autora Esta es una reproducción digital, con fines de divulgación, de una obra original, todos los derechos de autor y reproducción están reservados por el artista.

I joined Twitter1 way back in 2009. For nearly 10 years “scitwitter” was an amazing place for discussion, discovery, and engagement with the scientific community. The #Rstats and #pydata hashtags were great places to learn about something new in programming, #icanhazpdf was great for getting papers you didn’t have access to, and conference live-tweeting was common and useful for those of us with FOMO not able to make it in person.

An Exploration of the 2023 Elk Hunting Season Elk hunting enthusiasts have wrapped up another exhilarating season, leaving them with tales and experiences that assert the 2023 hunt as unforgettable. As shared by the Williamsport Sun-Gazette, hunters and guides alike embarked on a journey filled with challenges, camaraderie, and triumphs.

Productoras: Fausta Gantús y Alicia Salmerón Realización y música: Arturo Torres Salmerón Diseño de imagen: Rodrigo Salmerón Los procesos de desindustrialización promueven una herida comunitaria que impulsa la búsqueda de reparación. La memoria del daño alienta la exigencia de justicia, la que se expresa en demandas de resarcimiento económico y simbólicas acciones de desagravio.

In my little corner of the FHE world, things have been steadily heating up. For those who don’t know, my main work project right now is HEIR (Homomorphic Encryption Intermediate Representation), a compiler toolchain for fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). For an extended introduction see this talk from October 2023. The primary focus of HEIR is to compile to FHE hardware accelerators. And boy there are a lot of them.

Editor’s note: This essay was originally published in 2019. I have made minor edits in this republishing. There was a MathOverflow thread about mathematically interesting games for 5–6 year olds.

This blog considers the psychological conundrum of ageing within the academic workplace, offering an autoethnographic approach, reflecting upon passing moments from film and TV, that are both treasured, and engrained in the author’s psyche. “Drive Louise! Drive!

Als Auftakt der Reihe „Quo vadis offene Wissenschaft in Berlin und Brandenburg 2024/25“ und im Rahmen der International Open Access Week fand am 21. Oktober die Online-Diskussionsveranstaltung „Open Access Monitoring – Chancen und Herausforderungen für die offene Wissenschaft“ statt. Zitiervorschlag: Weinberg, L. &

In the picturesque Bay Area, residents are currently dealing with an unexpected nuisance – raccoons that seem to have a peculiar taste for pristine lawns. This wildlife issue has stirred a debate among locals as they search for effective ways to combat these lawn-damaging invaders. Here’s how you can deal with this pesky problem.

This week’s recap highlights an AI agent for automated multi-omic analysis (AutoBA), rapid species-level metagenome profiling and containment (sylph), a review on genome-wide association analysis beyond SNPs, private information leakage from scRNA-seq count matrices, and a method to “unlearn” viral knowledge in protein language models as a means to develop safe PLM-based variant effect analysis (PROEDIT). Others that caught my attention include