Asanka P. Sayakkara
@asayakkara.bsky.social
Computer Scientist & Senior Lecturer, University of Colombo, #SriLanka / PhD from University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social , #Ireland
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📣 Early Bird Registration Open for DFRWS APAC 2025! 🕵️♀️💻
Great opportunity to connect, learn, and collaborate in Seoul this November.
🎟️ Early bird rates are available until September 15th!
👉 buff.ly/cAkr43c
#DFRWS #DigitalForensics #CyberSecurity #DFRWS2025
Great opportunity to connect, learn, and collaborate in Seoul this November.
🎟️ Early bird rates are available until September 15th!
👉 buff.ly/cAkr43c
#DFRWS #DigitalForensics #CyberSecurity #DFRWS2025
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buff.ly
August 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
📣 Early Bird Registration Open for DFRWS APAC 2025! 🕵️♀️💻
Great opportunity to connect, learn, and collaborate in Seoul this November.
🎟️ Early bird rates are available until September 15th!
👉 buff.ly/cAkr43c
#DFRWS #DigitalForensics #CyberSecurity #DFRWS2025
Great opportunity to connect, learn, and collaborate in Seoul this November.
🎟️ Early bird rates are available until September 15th!
👉 buff.ly/cAkr43c
#DFRWS #DigitalForensics #CyberSecurity #DFRWS2025
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Researchers have been sneaking secret messages into their papers in an effort to trick AI tools into giving them a positive peer-review report
Read the full story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Read the full story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
July 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Researchers have been sneaking secret messages into their papers in an effort to trick AI tools into giving them a positive peer-review report
Read the full story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Read the full story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king
June 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king
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Systemic protections and guardrails are essential to a functioning society. Nature understands this even if oligarchs don't.
May 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Systemic protections and guardrails are essential to a functioning society. Nature understands this even if oligarchs don't.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
May 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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An exhibition of children's art from GAZA is on display at UCD Humanities Institute for another few days. Heartbreaking and beautiful. Do pop in and support 🇵🇸🎨
May 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
An exhibition of children's art from GAZA is on display at UCD Humanities Institute for another few days. Heartbreaking and beautiful. Do pop in and support 🇵🇸🎨
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Golden Alexander blooming yesterday at Hayden Prairie National Natural Landmark in northern Iowa yesterday. It is a just plant for caterpillars of swallowtail butterflies.
May 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Golden Alexander blooming yesterday at Hayden Prairie National Natural Landmark in northern Iowa yesterday. It is a just plant for caterpillars of swallowtail butterflies.
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Got up before sunrise so I could see it on the St. Croix.
May 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Got up before sunrise so I could see it on the St. Croix.
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Kashmiri tailors, surround by tools, embroidering and crimping garments. Painted by an artist probably from Srinagar, 1850s. @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add.Or.1669
May 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Kashmiri tailors, surround by tools, embroidering and crimping garments. Painted by an artist probably from Srinagar, 1850s. @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add.Or.1669
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At least three universities in Hong Kong are inviting international students at Harvard University to join their institutions
https://go.nature.com/3ZDVU5d
https://go.nature.com/3ZDVU5d
Hong Kong universities woo Harvard international students targeted by Trump
The offers follow the United States administration’s decision last week to prevent the prestigious university from enrolling foreign students.
go.nature.com
May 27, 2025 at 10:11 AM
At least three universities in Hong Kong are inviting international students at Harvard University to join their institutions
https://go.nature.com/3ZDVU5d
https://go.nature.com/3ZDVU5d
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Brian Cox ~ The purpose of life?
May 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Brian Cox ~ The purpose of life?
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If scholarly work in your field isn't fun for me to read for pleasure and isn't eliciting enthusiastic "you changed my life!" emails from non-academics, it's broken, time to start over.
April 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
If scholarly work in your field isn't fun for me to read for pleasure and isn't eliciting enthusiastic "you changed my life!" emails from non-academics, it's broken, time to start over.
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“These aren’t luxury items. They’re the core infrastructure of modern science.”
Import taxes on staples such as microscopes, glassware and computer chips will affect institutions already feeling financial strain
https://go.nature.com/4207NUT
Import taxes on staples such as microscopes, glassware and computer chips will affect institutions already feeling financial strain
https://go.nature.com/4207NUT
Tariffs hit science labs: Trump levies raise cost of supplies
Import taxes on staples such as microscopes, glassware and computer chips will affect institutions already feeling financial strain.
go.nature.com
April 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
“These aren’t luxury items. They’re the core infrastructure of modern science.”
Import taxes on staples such as microscopes, glassware and computer chips will affect institutions already feeling financial strain
https://go.nature.com/4207NUT
Import taxes on staples such as microscopes, glassware and computer chips will affect institutions already feeling financial strain
https://go.nature.com/4207NUT
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Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.. There is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men.. upon whose well-being our own happiness depends
-Albert Einstein
-Albert Einstein
April 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.. There is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men.. upon whose well-being our own happiness depends
-Albert Einstein
-Albert Einstein
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Do you know about health-related programs that have been cancelled due to federal funding cuts or delays?
@kffhealthnews.org we're looking to cover stories about programs that provided *direct* services to people.
Send me a DM or email amym@kff.org 🌈
@kffhealthnews.org we're looking to cover stories about programs that provided *direct* services to people.
Send me a DM or email amym@kff.org 🌈
April 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Do you know about health-related programs that have been cancelled due to federal funding cuts or delays?
@kffhealthnews.org we're looking to cover stories about programs that provided *direct* services to people.
Send me a DM or email amym@kff.org 🌈
@kffhealthnews.org we're looking to cover stories about programs that provided *direct* services to people.
Send me a DM or email amym@kff.org 🌈
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I am working on a "How (not) to present data" lecture for undergraduate policy students.
Please share your best examples of excellent & deplorable data slides, charts, tables etc. Thanks in advance! @academic-chatter.bsky.social
Please share your best examples of excellent & deplorable data slides, charts, tables etc. Thanks in advance! @academic-chatter.bsky.social
March 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I am working on a "How (not) to present data" lecture for undergraduate policy students.
Please share your best examples of excellent & deplorable data slides, charts, tables etc. Thanks in advance! @academic-chatter.bsky.social
Please share your best examples of excellent & deplorable data slides, charts, tables etc. Thanks in advance! @academic-chatter.bsky.social
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On Tuesday, 4th March during UCD Green Week we launched two new initiatives: The Library of Things and The Loop among staff and students from across UCD. These initiatives have two primary goals - reducing consumption and waste by UCD staff and students, and fostering a sense of community
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March 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
On Tuesday, 4th March during UCD Green Week we launched two new initiatives: The Library of Things and The Loop among staff and students from across UCD. These initiatives have two primary goals - reducing consumption and waste by UCD staff and students, and fostering a sense of community
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🔭 The latest calculations indicate that the asteroid known as #2024YR4 is much less likely to hit Earth than previously suggested. But with new asteroid-hunting telescopes coming online all the time, astronomers are likely to see many more close calls:
#astronomy #astro
#astronomy #astro
Asteroid 2024 YR4 now unlikely to hit Earth — but scientists are ready for future threats
Objects that could strike the planet will be spotted more regularly as new asteroid-hunting telescopes come online.
spklr.io
February 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
🔭 The latest calculations indicate that the asteroid known as #2024YR4 is much less likely to hit Earth than previously suggested. But with new asteroid-hunting telescopes coming online all the time, astronomers are likely to see many more close calls:
#astronomy #astro
#astronomy #astro
The adventure is not in arriving, it's the on-the-way experience. It is not the expected; it's the surprise. You are not choosing what you shall see in the world, but are giving the world an even chance to see you.
"Book of Humour" (2008) by Ruskin Bond
"Book of Humour" (2008) by Ruskin Bond
February 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The adventure is not in arriving, it's the on-the-way experience. It is not the expected; it's the surprise. You are not choosing what you shall see in the world, but are giving the world an even chance to see you.
"Book of Humour" (2008) by Ruskin Bond
"Book of Humour" (2008) by Ruskin Bond
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UCD @ucddublin.bsky.social are recruiting fifty early-career faculty through the Ad Astra Fellowship programme. In the School of Medicine there are two positions related to AI in Medicine that might be of particular interest. Deadline 21st February. Full details here: www.ucd.ie/adastrafello...
UCD Ad Astra Fellows
www.ucd.ie
February 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
UCD @ucddublin.bsky.social are recruiting fifty early-career faculty through the Ad Astra Fellowship programme. In the School of Medicine there are two positions related to AI in Medicine that might be of particular interest. Deadline 21st February. Full details here: www.ucd.ie/adastrafello...
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Say goodbye to the US as the best place in the world to be a scientist. 🧪
White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation
“This kind of cut would kill American science and boost China.”…
arstechnica.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Say goodbye to the US as the best place in the world to be a scientist. 🧪