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Florina Piroi
@flrp.bsky.social
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TU Wien, Center for Research Data Management, Computer Science, ML/AI. Hobbies are my own.

P.S. I block easily
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blisterpearl.bsky.social
Reminder: it's not ok to execute guilty people, either
January 26, 2026 at 5:29 AM
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retractionwatch.com
Science journals retract 500 papers a month. This is why it matters
Science journals retract 500 papers a month. This is why it matters
A small team of volunteers is tracking thousands of falsified studies, including cases of bribery, fraud and plagiarism
www.thetimes.com
January 18, 2026 at 11:38 AM
flrp.bsky.social
I've lived in such a political system for a good part of my early life. Every single line is true. The damage of a dictatorship to generations of young minds is huge, from creativity potential to self-fulfilment to innovation spirit to courage to dare ...
hcrichardson.bsky.social Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 15d
Dr. @timothysnyder.bsky.social has written many powerful works, but this one stopped me dead in my tracks when I first read it. Please take the time, and share widely.
timothysnyder.bsky.social Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15d
The Strongman Fantasy, from March 2024.
May it break.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-strong...
January 12, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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tuwien.at
🏆 Große Erfolge für die TU Wien: Stefan Rotter wird mit dem EPS-QEOD-Preis für seine Forschung an Licht geehrt, Eduard Gröller erhält den IEEE-Lifetime Award für Visualization & Graphics.

www.tuwien.at/tu-wien/aktu...

© Stefan Rotter / Amélie Chapalain/TU Wien Informatics
January 8, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy
How my students taught me that Github’s monopoly is hurting the Open Source ecosystem even more than I thought.

https://ploum.net/2026-01-05-unteaching_github.html

#github #floss
How Github monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem
How Github monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
ploum.net
January 5, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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steamtraen.eu
Drake "Hotline" meme Bad: Fabricating your participants Good: Having Qualtrics fabricate your participants
December 18, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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tuwien.at
Das Wiener Doktoratskolleg für digitalen Humanismus ist gestartet. Die Auftaktveranstaltung zeigte Wiens Strategie, mit Forschung & Förderung Hauptstadt des Digitalen Humanismus zu sein.

👉 www.tuwien.at/tu-wien/aktu...

© WU Wien, C. Bachmaier
Gruppenfoto: von links nach rechts: Marta Sabou (WU Wien), Jan Maly (WU Wien), Veronica Kaup-Hasler (Stadträtin Kultur und Wissenschaft Stadt Wien), Manuela Baccarini (Uni Wien), Peter Ertl (TU Wien), Bernadette Kamleitner (WU Wien), Sophie Lecheler (Uni Wien), Michael Strassnig (WWTF), Peter Knees (TU Wien)
December 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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murderbotbot.bsky.social
They were all annoying and deeply inadequate humans, but I didn’t want to kill them. Okay, maybe a little.
December 13, 2025 at 7:20 AM
flrp.bsky.social
too little for the damage they do
December 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
flrp.bsky.social
Only life as we know it.
nature.com Nature @nature.com · Dec 1
Machine-learning algorithms can help to identify traces of life in ancient rocks — expanding the ways in which scientists can look for life on Earth and beyond

go.nature.com/4roXrIF
AI finds signs of life in ancient rocks
A specially trained algorithm could aid the search for biological activity both on the early Earth and on other worlds.
go.nature.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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tuwien.at
Orange the World 2025 🧡
Die TU Wien schaut hin und setzt ein Zeichen gegen Gewalt an Frauen und Mädchen. Achtsamkeit, Inklusion und Gleichberechtigung gehören zu unseren zentralen Werten.
Gewalt hat keinen Platz an der TU Wien.
www.tuwien.at/tu-wien/orga...
© TUW
Gruppenfoto mit ungefähr 15 Menschen, die großen "Orange the World"-Schildern vor einer orangen Flagge zusammenstehen.
November 25, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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annastaerk.bsky.social
Selbsternannte „Alpha Males“ träumen auf Social Media von einer Welt, in der Männer allein bestimmen. Sie wollen zurück in eine Vergangenheit, die auch in Österreich noch nicht lange her ist: Bis vor 50 Jahren durften #Frauen ohne Erlaubnis des #Ehemanns kein Geld verdienen. 1/6
November 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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noyb.eu
📰 "#Privacy activists are predictably outraged. Billboards urging Ursula von der Leyen to put Europeans over #American tech CEOs lined the street outside the #Commission HQ, the Berlaymont, throughout Wednesday morning."

👉 Continue reading: www.euractiv.com/news/eus-dig...
EU’s digital law cuts spark fears and doubts on competitiveness | Euractiv
"If it's about competitiveness, this is certainly not helping," said Mario Mariniello from a Brussels-based think tank
www.euractiv.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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tuwien.at
Im September 2025 hat das TU Wien Research Data Repository die international anerkannte CoreTrustSeal (CTS)-Zertifizierung erhalten und damit gezeigt, dass die TU Wien beim Aufbau einer verlässlichen und nachhaltigen Forschungsinfrastruktur zu den Vorreiterinnen zählt.
TU Wien Research Data Repository erhält CoreTrustSeal
Die TU Wien gehört dadurch zu den Top-Playern in der Liga der offenen Repositorien.
www.tuwien.at
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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ricci.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy
While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #unix v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973

Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition

We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum

#retrocomputing
An old reel to reel magnetic tape. It has a label, in Jay Lepreau's handwriting, proclaiming it to be "UNIX Original from Bell Labs v4 (see manual for fmt)"
November 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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fwf-at.bsky.social
Jede/r fünfte Österreicher:in glaubt an geheime Mächte in der Politik, gleich viele wie in der Schweiz und mehr als in Deutschland (12 %). Eine Studie @unisalzburg.bsky.social zeigt, wie #Verschwörungsglaube und #Politik zusammenhängen.

Mehr auf scilog entdecken 👉
scilog.fwf.ac.at/magazin/euro...
Europas Politik im Bann der Verschwörungen
Im Zuge der Coronapandemie wurden Verschwörungserzählungen zum politisch relevanten Phänomen. Forschende der Universität Salzburg untersuchen in einem internationalen Projekt, wie diese Inhalte in den...
scilog.fwf.ac.at
October 31, 2025 at 9:00 AM
flrp.bsky.social
Every time before a lecture starts ...
#teaching #nlp #ws25 #whatamidoinghere
murderbotbot.bsky.social MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · Oct 24
I don’t know what I was going to tell them, but it was going to involve the words “I can’t do my job if none of you fucking listen to me”
October 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy
FAIR data: 'too little, too late', unless … by @steltenpower:

Some thoughts and suggestions to seriously try for researchers that want to share their data.

https://communities.surf.nl/en/regie-op-data/article/fair-data-too-little-too-late-unless
FAIR data: 'too little, too late', unless …
When people say "make data FAIR" I wonder whether they mean doing extra paperwork after the fact, or changing how data are created so they’re FAIR from the start —
communities.surf.nl
October 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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murderbotbot.bsky.social
Humans always think they’ve covered their tracks and deleted their data, but they’re wrong a lot.
October 20, 2025 at 8:55 AM
flrp.bsky.social
I might want to pin it on all my feeds!
murderbotbot.bsky.social MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · Oct 13
Why the hell does everything have to happen at once?
October 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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noyb.eu
"'The decision highlights the lack of transparency in #Microsoft 365 Education,' said Felix Mikolasch, a data protection lawyer at Noyb [...] 'It is nearly impossible for schools to inform students, parents and teachers about what is happening with their data.'"

👇 Read the full article 👇
Microsoft violated EU law in handling of kids’ data, Austrian privacy regulator finds
Austria's data protection authority ruled that Microsoft illegally tracked students using its education software by failing to give them access to their data and using cookies without consent.
therecord.media
October 14, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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noyb.eu
🎉 Big #WIN for student privacy! 🔒 Austria’s DPA has issued a decision finding that #Microsoft 365 Education illegally tracks pupils and uses student data for Microsoft's own purposes.

📰 Read the full blog post, including a comment by Max #Schrems 👉 noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-...
noyb win: Microsoft 365 Education tracks school children
Favorable decision by the Austrian DSB: Microsoft Education 365 may not track school kids and Microsoft is ordered to provide full access to kids' data.
noyb.eu
October 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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noyb.eu
🚨 In case you missed it: We've filed a complaint against Whitebridge AI. The company sells “reputation reports” on everyone with an online presence – without a valid legal basis.

More info 👉 https://noyb.eu/en/whitebridgeai-your-personal-data-sale-you-and-anyone
September 30, 2025 at 8:30 AM
flrp.bsky.social
Nothing that we didn't know since the emergence of language models. Landmark is only the fact that OpenAI (finally) states it publicly.
September 24, 2025 at 7:18 AM