Joris Meys
@jorismeys.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Statistics/Data Science/#rstats instructor at
Ghent University (BE 🇧🇪).
Toots in English and Dutch. And on a saxophone once in a while.
Donate to help girls […]
[bridged from https://mstdn.social/@JorisMeys on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Ghent University (BE 🇧🇪).
Toots in English and Dutch. And on a saxophone once in a while.
Donate to help girls […]
[bridged from https://mstdn.social/@JorisMeys on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/115790791860009762
What's the chance someone got lazy and quickly #AI generated an image 🙂
What's the chance someone got lazy and quickly #AI generated an image 🙂
lgbtqia.space
December 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/115790791860009762
What's the chance someone got lazy and quickly #AI generated an image 🙂
What's the chance someone got lazy and quickly #AI generated an image 🙂
You'd almost think it's yhe specific goal of the US to trigger a civil war in the region so they have an excuse to enter this oil rich region...
Fear and confusion in Nigerian village hit in US strike, as locals say no history of ISIS in area | CNN […]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
Fear and confusion in Nigerian village hit in US strike, as locals say no history of ISIS in area | CNN […]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
December 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
You'd almost think it's yhe specific goal of the US to trigger a civil war in the region so they have an excuse to enter this oil rich region...
Fear and confusion in Nigerian village hit in US strike, as locals say no history of ISIS in area | CNN […]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
Fear and confusion in Nigerian village hit in US strike, as locals say no history of ISIS in area | CNN […]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
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Finally got the shot that's been eluding me before the year's end!”
u/akogcak869 (Reddit)
#Moon #Photography
u/akogcak869 (Reddit)
#Moon #Photography
December 27, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Finally got the shot that's been eluding me before the year's end!”
u/akogcak869 (Reddit)
#Moon #Photography
u/akogcak869 (Reddit)
#Moon #Photography
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apparently BuyMeACoffee is suspending accounts if the account owner merely posts adult content that's unrelated to their BMAC on another platform - even if they're not taking money for it.
for those of you out there who use BMAC for survival crowdfunding, it might be wise to move to other […]
for those of you out there who use BMAC for survival crowdfunding, it might be wise to move to other […]
Original post on social.treehouse.systems
social.treehouse.systems
December 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
apparently BuyMeACoffee is suspending accounts if the account owner merely posts adult content that's unrelated to their BMAC on another platform - even if they're not taking money for it.
for those of you out there who use BMAC for survival crowdfunding, it might be wise to move to other […]
for those of you out there who use BMAC for survival crowdfunding, it might be wise to move to other […]
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🥳 Guinea and Kenya eliminated sleeping sickness.
🥳 Niger became the first African country to eliminate river blindness.
🥳 Georgia, Suriname and Timor-Leste were certified malaria-free.
🥳 Brazil eliminated mother-to-child transmission of #HIV.
🔗 bit.ly/49wdcpl
🥳 Niger became the first African country to eliminate river blindness.
🥳 Georgia, Suriname and Timor-Leste were certified malaria-free.
🥳 Brazil eliminated mother-to-child transmission of #HIV.
🔗 bit.ly/49wdcpl
Stronger together - milestones that mattered in 2025
Each year WHO takes stock of key moments in health and science over the past 12 months. Here is our review of a 2025 marked by immense achievements and profound challenges for global health.
bit.ly
December 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
🥳 Guinea and Kenya eliminated sleeping sickness.
🥳 Niger became the first African country to eliminate river blindness.
🥳 Georgia, Suriname and Timor-Leste were certified malaria-free.
🥳 Brazil eliminated mother-to-child transmission of #HIV.
🔗 bit.ly/49wdcpl
🥳 Niger became the first African country to eliminate river blindness.
🥳 Georgia, Suriname and Timor-Leste were certified malaria-free.
🥳 Brazil eliminated mother-to-child transmission of #HIV.
🔗 bit.ly/49wdcpl
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Fediverse heads up!
Try not to put hashtags in the middle of sentences, maybe one or two hashtags, but not more than that
Reasoning: Screen readers.
For you, that's just a small character and some colored text, for a blind person using a screen reader, that is the word "HASHTAG" being […]
Try not to put hashtags in the middle of sentences, maybe one or two hashtags, but not more than that
Reasoning: Screen readers.
For you, that's just a small character and some colored text, for a blind person using a screen reader, that is the word "HASHTAG" being […]
Original post on wetdry.world
wetdry.world
December 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Fediverse heads up!
Try not to put hashtags in the middle of sentences, maybe one or two hashtags, but not more than that
Reasoning: Screen readers.
For you, that's just a small character and some colored text, for a blind person using a screen reader, that is the word "HASHTAG" being […]
Try not to put hashtags in the middle of sentences, maybe one or two hashtags, but not more than that
Reasoning: Screen readers.
For you, that's just a small character and some colored text, for a blind person using a screen reader, that is the word "HASHTAG" being […]
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Everything you love, made even better. OS 8.1 improves the Secure Session and Dock, enhances accessibility, improves support for your devices, and addresses your feedback with over 1,100 issue reports fixed
https://blog.elementary.io/os-8-1-available-now/
#elementaryos #opensource #linux
https://blog.elementary.io/os-8-1-available-now/
#elementaryos #opensource #linux
elementary OS 8.1 Available Now
Everything you love, made even better
blog.elementary.io
December 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Everything you love, made even better. OS 8.1 improves the Secure Session and Dock, enhances accessibility, improves support for your devices, and addresses your feedback with over 1,100 issue reports fixed
https://blog.elementary.io/os-8-1-available-now/
#elementaryos #opensource #linux
https://blog.elementary.io/os-8-1-available-now/
#elementaryos #opensource #linux
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What do you mean you don't obsessively count the number of chocolates in a tub of Celebrations every year and put the results into an Excel spreadsheet!?
Anyway, the 2025 results are in:
Bounty x5
Galaxy x5
Galaxy Caramel x5
Maltesers x5
Mars x9
Milky Way x9
Snickers […]
[Original post on mas.to]
Anyway, the 2025 results are in:
Bounty x5
Galaxy x5
Galaxy Caramel x5
Maltesers x5
Mars x9
Milky Way x9
Snickers […]
[Original post on mas.to]
December 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
What do you mean you don't obsessively count the number of chocolates in a tub of Celebrations every year and put the results into an Excel spreadsheet!?
Anyway, the 2025 results are in:
Bounty x5
Galaxy x5
Galaxy Caramel x5
Maltesers x5
Mars x9
Milky Way x9
Snickers […]
[Original post on mas.to]
Anyway, the 2025 results are in:
Bounty x5
Galaxy x5
Galaxy Caramel x5
Maltesers x5
Mars x9
Milky Way x9
Snickers […]
[Original post on mas.to]
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#Rstats gurus is there a way to declare a package linux only ? I know the OS_type unix specification but I need to restrict to linux. Because i use linux specific things and can't/don't want to put up with macos nonsense. Plus the packages are for genomics ETL I.e going to be on linux servers
December 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
#Rstats gurus is there a way to declare a package linux only ? I know the OS_type unix specification but I need to restrict to linux. Because i use linux specific things and can't/don't want to put up with macos nonsense. Plus the packages are for genomics ETL I.e going to be on linux servers
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Read this from Ben Santer (very famous climate scientist for those who don’t know) about what NCAR means and what dismantling it will do.
https://thebulletin.org/2025/12/threatening-ncar-trump-administration-seeks-to-extinguish-a-beacon-of-climate-science/
https://thebulletin.org/2025/12/threatening-ncar-trump-administration-seeks-to-extinguish-a-beacon-of-climate-science/
December 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Read this from Ben Santer (very famous climate scientist for those who don’t know) about what NCAR means and what dismantling it will do.
https://thebulletin.org/2025/12/threatening-ncar-trump-administration-seeks-to-extinguish-a-beacon-of-climate-science/
https://thebulletin.org/2025/12/threatening-ncar-trump-administration-seeks-to-extinguish-a-beacon-of-climate-science/
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Ghent university is looking for a Linux sysadmin responsible for maintaining, developing and optimising the storage environment for our high performance cluster.
Knowledge of Dutch is kind of required
https://jobs.ugent.be/job/Gent-Systeembeheerder-HPC-9000/1348130357/
Knowledge of Dutch is kind of required
https://jobs.ugent.be/job/Gent-Systeembeheerder-HPC-9000/1348130357/
Systeembeheerder HPC
Systeembeheerder HPC
jobs.ugent.be
December 19, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Ghent university is looking for a Linux sysadmin responsible for maintaining, developing and optimising the storage environment for our high performance cluster.
Knowledge of Dutch is kind of required
https://jobs.ugent.be/job/Gent-Systeembeheerder-HPC-9000/1348130357/
Knowledge of Dutch is kind of required
https://jobs.ugent.be/job/Gent-Systeembeheerder-HPC-9000/1348130357/
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🌲Goede doelen idee; #gazanen
In een prachtige samenwerking (te volgen via Mastodon) zie ik Italianen samen met mensen in Gaza, iets doen dat BigTech niet toestaat; Mensen helpen met €.
Maar welke mensen dan? De facebook, x, instagram enz accounts van mensen in Gaza worden weggefilterd.
Op […]
In een prachtige samenwerking (te volgen via Mastodon) zie ik Italianen samen met mensen in Gaza, iets doen dat BigTech niet toestaat; Mensen helpen met €.
Maar welke mensen dan? De facebook, x, instagram enz accounts van mensen in Gaza worden weggefilterd.
Op […]
Original post on waag.social
waag.social
December 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🌲Goede doelen idee; #gazanen
In een prachtige samenwerking (te volgen via Mastodon) zie ik Italianen samen met mensen in Gaza, iets doen dat BigTech niet toestaat; Mensen helpen met €.
Maar welke mensen dan? De facebook, x, instagram enz accounts van mensen in Gaza worden weggefilterd.
Op […]
In een prachtige samenwerking (te volgen via Mastodon) zie ik Italianen samen met mensen in Gaza, iets doen dat BigTech niet toestaat; Mensen helpen met €.
Maar welke mensen dan? De facebook, x, instagram enz accounts van mensen in Gaza worden weggefilterd.
Op […]
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@Daojoan "Some of the best intellectual work of that period happened on blogs, often by people who would never have been published by traditional venues."
The blog of Aaron Swartz is an example of this. It was posthumously published, in part, by Lawrence Lessig […]
The blog of Aaron Swartz is an example of this. It was posthumously published, in part, by Lawrence Lessig […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM
@Daojoan "Some of the best intellectual work of that period happened on blogs, often by people who would never have been published by traditional venues."
The blog of Aaron Swartz is an example of this. It was posthumously published, in part, by Lawrence Lessig […]
The blog of Aaron Swartz is an example of this. It was posthumously published, in part, by Lawrence Lessig […]
Ghent university is looking for a Linux sysadmin responsible for maintaining, developing and optimising the storage environment for our high performance cluster.
Knowledge of Dutch is kind of required
https://jobs.ugent.be/job/Gent-Systeembeheerder-HPC-9000/1348130357/
Knowledge of Dutch is kind of required
https://jobs.ugent.be/job/Gent-Systeembeheerder-HPC-9000/1348130357/
Systeembeheerder HPC
Systeembeheerder HPC
jobs.ugent.be
December 19, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Ghent university is looking for a Linux sysadmin responsible for maintaining, developing and optimising the storage environment for our high performance cluster.
Knowledge of Dutch is kind of required
https://jobs.ugent.be/job/Gent-Systeembeheerder-HPC-9000/1348130357/
Knowledge of Dutch is kind of required
https://jobs.ugent.be/job/Gent-Systeembeheerder-HPC-9000/1348130357/
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I've mostly been talking about the Trump regime's plan to dismantle NCAR, but you might be asking yourself, wtf is NCAR and why should I care? @drshepherd2013.bsky.social has got you covered here.
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
December 19, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I've mostly been talking about the Trump regime's plan to dismantle NCAR, but you might be asking yourself, wtf is NCAR and why should I care? @drshepherd2013.bsky.social has got you covered here.
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
Look, here we took some measures that improved health and comfort for people living in the city. Let's see if we want to keep doing that, now that some oil executive's puppets decided we shouldn't be too strict on emissions.
Fuck dees, Gent […]
Fuck dees, Gent […]
Original post on mstdn.social
mstdn.social
December 18, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Look, here we took some measures that improved health and comfort for people living in the city. Let's see if we want to keep doing that, now that some oil executive's puppets decided we shouldn't be too strict on emissions.
Fuck dees, Gent […]
Fuck dees, Gent […]
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I’m not a confrontational person but if I saw him in person, I would absolutely tell him to go fuck himself.
December 17, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I’m not a confrontational person but if I saw him in person, I would absolutely tell him to go fuck himself.
RE: https://bots.defencegeeks.net/@vrtnws/115728746041027231
Het is ongelofelijk jammer -pijnlijk zelfs- om de teloorgang en uitverkoop te zien van een maatschappij waar ik deel van uitmaak.
Dit was ooit allemaal betaalbaar. Er is zelfs een periode geweest dat we begrotingsoverschotten hadden […]
Het is ongelofelijk jammer -pijnlijk zelfs- om de teloorgang en uitverkoop te zien van een maatschappij waar ik deel van uitmaak.
Dit was ooit allemaal betaalbaar. Er is zelfs een periode geweest dat we begrotingsoverschotten hadden […]
Original post on mstdn.social
mstdn.social
December 16, 2025 at 10:40 AM
RE: https://bots.defencegeeks.net/@vrtnws/115728746041027231
Het is ongelofelijk jammer -pijnlijk zelfs- om de teloorgang en uitverkoop te zien van een maatschappij waar ik deel van uitmaak.
Dit was ooit allemaal betaalbaar. Er is zelfs een periode geweest dat we begrotingsoverschotten hadden […]
Het is ongelofelijk jammer -pijnlijk zelfs- om de teloorgang en uitverkoop te zien van een maatschappij waar ik deel van uitmaak.
Dit was ooit allemaal betaalbaar. Er is zelfs een periode geweest dat we begrotingsoverschotten hadden […]
To make people tell how much they like something (like a cookie), we often use a "ruler scale". The test person points on an unmarked piece of paper of 15cm how much they like something. Left is "totally not" and right is "totally".
Now this student accidently […]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
Now this student accidently […]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
December 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
To make people tell how much they like something (like a cookie), we often use a "ruler scale". The test person points on an unmarked piece of paper of 15cm how much they like something. Left is "totally not" and right is "totally".
Now this student accidently […]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
Now this student accidently […]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
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Reposting for those not bridged to BlueSky, and to add alt-text, because this is important!
Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social posted this morning: "The number of active satellites in orbit has now passed the 14000 mark according to my estimates"
Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social posted this morning: "The number of active satellites in orbit has now passed the 14000 mark according to my estimates"
December 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Reposting for those not bridged to BlueSky, and to add alt-text, because this is important!
Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social posted this morning: "The number of active satellites in orbit has now passed the 14000 mark according to my estimates"
Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social posted this morning: "The number of active satellites in orbit has now passed the 14000 mark according to my estimates"
This is a marvellous example of how a #LLM converges to a certain point. #chatgpt was asked "to create an exact replica of this image, don't change a thing", and this 200 times.
The end result shows clearly how model convergion happens in #AI . Enlightening.
I […]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
The end result shows clearly how model convergion happens in #AI . Enlightening.
I […]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
December 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
This is a marvellous example of how a #LLM converges to a certain point. #chatgpt was asked "to create an exact replica of this image, don't change a thing", and this 200 times.
The end result shows clearly how model convergion happens in #AI . Enlightening.
I […]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
The end result shows clearly how model convergion happens in #AI . Enlightening.
I […]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
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Folx, I don't do this often, but one of my favorite projects has now gone online again and I wish to share it! Feel free to check out @HowTheyVoteEU at:
🔗 https://howtheyvote.eu/
I believe this project is the best tool to hold MEPs accountable, as it portrays how they actually voted on motions […]
🔗 https://howtheyvote.eu/
I believe this project is the best tool to hold MEPs accountable, as it portrays how they actually voted on motions […]
Original post on mastodon.de
mastodon.de
December 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Folx, I don't do this often, but one of my favorite projects has now gone online again and I wish to share it! Feel free to check out @HowTheyVoteEU at:
🔗 https://howtheyvote.eu/
I believe this project is the best tool to hold MEPs accountable, as it portrays how they actually voted on motions […]
🔗 https://howtheyvote.eu/
I believe this project is the best tool to hold MEPs accountable, as it portrays how they actually voted on motions […]
Reposted by Joris Meys
Important news for all #rstats developers like myself. R grows in popularity especially where strong domain expertise is required.
"... R has carved out a solid and enduring niche, excelling at rapid experimentation, statistical modeling, and exploratory data analysis." […]
"... R has carved out a solid and enduring niche, excelling at rapid experimentation, statistical modeling, and exploratory data analysis." […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Important news for all #rstats developers like myself. R grows in popularity especially where strong domain expertise is required.
"... R has carved out a solid and enduring niche, excelling at rapid experimentation, statistical modeling, and exploratory data analysis." […]
"... R has carved out a solid and enduring niche, excelling at rapid experimentation, statistical modeling, and exploratory data analysis." […]
Reposted by Joris Meys
Liefste Mastodon: help. Ik zoek een organisatie in de buurt van Stekene / Sint Gillis Waas waar oude laptops worden gewist en met een nieuw (Linux) besturingssysteem ter beschikking worden gesteld van mensen of organisaties die ze nodig hebben. Ik heb zelf wel een laptop te geef, maar vooral: ik […]
Original post on mas.to
mas.to
December 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Liefste Mastodon: help. Ik zoek een organisatie in de buurt van Stekene / Sint Gillis Waas waar oude laptops worden gewist en met een nieuw (Linux) besturingssysteem ter beschikking worden gesteld van mensen of organisaties die ze nodig hebben. Ik heb zelf wel een laptop te geef, maar vooral: ik […]
Reposted by Joris Meys
December 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM