One reason to move my blog from Blogger to a git-backed repository is that I can update links but that the version history shows exactly what change was made.

English | Français “I noticed that every time he went to appointments or emergency services, he was often met with suspicion or treated as if he was exaggerating his symptoms,” shared a community support worker from Canada, describing how an Indigenous teenager waited three months for mental health services while non-Indigenous youth were seen within weeks.

English | Français GENÈVE, le 11 avril 2025 – Une initiative internationale inédite a rassemblé près de 5000 professionnels de santé pour partager leurs expériences face aux discriminations dans l’accès aux soins « Un enfant est mort parce que sa famille ne pouvait pas déposer 500 000 nairas [environ 300 francs suisses] avant le début des soins.

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