“You dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a f***** education you coulda' got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library.” — Good Will Hunting I was a user of computational chemistry for years, but one with relatively little understanding of how things actually worked below the input-file level.

Mastodon works great as a non-algorithmic, timeline oriented social media feed. But it can be hard to catch up with the most popular topics of the day if one follows many people and didn’t have time to stay on top of it. On a per-post level, there is Adam Hill’s fediview , which aggregates popular posts and sends them over via email in regular intervals.

Abandoned Appalachia Series Crossroads in Coal Country Smith Garage once stood at 192 State Highway 72 in Baxter, Kentucky—an unincorporated hamlet where KY-72 meets the old alignment of US-421 at the confluence of Martin’s Fork and Clover Fork, head-waters of the Cumberland River. Mid-century travelers approaching the junction first glimpsed the black-shining Harlan County Coal Monument, a blocky

I am beyond thrilled to introduce the Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides (COSIG), a community-led open source resource for performing post-publication peer review. At the end of this post, I’ve reproduced a commentary I wrote explaining the motivation behind COSIG and how we hope that it will be used.

Schutzsuchende aus Afghanistan stehen in Deutschland oft im Mittelpunkt der Debatten über Migration und Asyl. Dieser Beitrag blickt zurück auf zehn Jahre deutscher Politik in Bezug auf afghanische Geflüchtete. Im Zentrum stehen die Abschiebungen zwischen 2016 und 2021 und die Aufnahmeprogramme für Afghan*innen, nachdem die Taliban in Kabul im August 2021 erneut die Macht übernommen hatten.

Nuria Román, DR © Agua y madera Nueva York, USA, 2025. Parte de la colección Coser la tierra Sitio de la autora Esta es una reproducción digital, con fines de divulgación, de una obra original proporcionada por su autor o propietario. Todos los derechos están reservados por la artista.

Since 2018, I’ve been having some live-updating info snippets about myself in the footer of this website, thanks to a little Personal API Django/Python app that I’ve written.

In der sehr empfehlenswerten Veranstaltungsreihe Open Divide 2025/2026 vom 28. Mai 2025 berichteten Thomas Parisot (Directeur Général Adjoint Cairn.info, France) und Yann Mahé (Managing Director at MyScienceWork, France) unter der Überschrift “Open Science and the Information Industry: French Debates and Insights.

Ich schreibe gerade an einem Social Media-Konzept für WiNoDa. Man sollte meinen, dies sei eigentlich ein einfaches Unterfangen: Bereits definierte Zielgruppen (Personas) mit möglichen Kanälen matchen; die Kommunikation den Zielgruppen entsprechend definieren; Posting-Rhythmus bestimmen; Ziele erkennen; Kontrollelemente definieren – nun kam ich aber schon einige Male ins Grübeln… Aber beginnen wir am Anfang.

I’m currently writing a social media concept for WiNoDa. You would think this would actually be an easy task: Matching already defined target groups (personas) with possible channels; defining the communication according to the target groups; determining the posting rhythm; recognizing goals; defining control elements – but now I’ve already started to ponder a few times… So let’s start at the very beginning.

On dire wolves, de-extinction, and the strange privilege of building what comes next