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Post-doc at @MPIDRnews Department of Digital & Computational Demography

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oxl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
what in the ...?!

https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=11511
Screenshot of the linked blog post: "biologically-self-replicating poem: the Xenotext Experiment, which aspired to encode a poem into the genetic code of a bacterium. Not just a poem, either: a dialog. The DNA encoding one half of that exchange (“Orpheus” by name) was designed to function both as text and as a functional gene. The protein it coded for functioned as the other half (“Eurydice”), a sort of call-and-response between the gene and its product." Screenshot of the linked blog post: "It was fine when Art came to science in search of inspiration; that’s as it should be. I suppose it was okay— if a little iffy— when Science started going back to Art for solutions to scientific and technical problems. But this crosses a line: with The Xenotext, we have reached the point where Science is being used solely to assist in the creation of new art. Scientists are developing new techniques just to help Christian finish his bloody poem."
May 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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bert-hubert.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
This is great news not in the least for our American friends where the weather service is being sabotaged. Weather models are oddly enough always global - you can't predict the weather in Berlin a week ahead without also predicting the weather in Austin, Texas. ECMWF has excellent hurricane […]
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fosstodon.org
March 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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ryanmarcus.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy
Just a reminder that the names of your bibtex citations get included in the PDF (both as the link anchor name and in the metadata), so if you name a paper `morons_who_copied_us`, reviewers and readers will be able to see that...
March 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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hrbrmstr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Time to cause DOGE some pain!

Rep. Jamie Raskin has announced a campaign encouraging Americans to FOIA their personal data held by DOGE.

Recent court rulings mandate DOGE must comply.

PDF form letter: https://archive.ph/JYXXA

My Typst template […]

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Jamie Raskin Announces FOIA Demands for Personal Data Held by Doge and Elon Musk - Jamie Raskin for Congress U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin has announced a campaign encouraging Americans to file Freedom of Information Act requests to access their personal data held by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk, following a District Court ruling that DOGE must comply with such requests. Raskin is providing a fillable Privacy Act request form through his website and social media, asserting that since DOGE has claimed status as a legitimate government agency in court cases, it is now obligated to fulfill citizen demands for access to their personal information under federal privacy laws.
March 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy
We keep seeing this. With Helplines, journalism and other corporations. They roll out the AI and have to walk it back days later cause it's aggressively racist or plain false.

Why are we doing this? Why invest all that money in turning the digital sphere into a dump? […]
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tldr.nettime.org
March 5, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Propublica is hiring a deputy data editor

https://boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/jobs/4440737006

#journalism #getfedihired #jobs #propublica #data
Deputy Data Editor
New York, New York, United States
boards.greenhouse.io
March 4, 2025 at 7:37 PM
oxl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Apropos of nothing: got served this ad on Twitter and Twitter deemed it absolutely fine under both their rules about political ads and EU DSA rules. The account was suspended after the original account owner reported that it had been taken over by a third party.
Screenshot of a Twitter ad showing Scholz (and Pistorius?) pickpocketing an elderly man and passing the money to Zelensky. The ad caption is absolutely broken/incomprehensible German. URL: ⁨⁨https://x.com/townbookss/status/1881055941933842457⁩
January 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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bert-hubert.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
George #Orwell’s 1940 review of Mein Kampf is an astounding read. It is very educational to study primary literature from just before historical events. In here we read that up to 1939 Hitler was regarded rather favorably by many, for reasons we might recognize today. Frightening […]
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January 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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mxmehl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Germany-based #sovereingtechfund contributes 384.000 EUR to #openstreetmap over two years. And the best part: it's not for fancy features big sponsors think they need, but for technical debt removal, documentation, testing infrastructure, vandalism prevention, and two additional paid roles […]
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mastodon.social
December 21, 2024 at 10:06 PM
oxl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
😏
December 5, 2024 at 1:31 PM
oxl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Uyen Ninh on point as usual

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDH8x5FCr9J/
December 5, 2024 at 10:58 AM
oxl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Great example of combining interviews with survey data:

"Maternal Migration and Child Fostering Arrangements in Nairobi's Slums"

Cassandra Cotton (CassandraCPhD@x) & Clement Oduor

https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11680713

The Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System (NUHDSS) […]
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mastodon.social
December 5, 2024 at 10:20 AM
oxl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
TODAY: apply to Early-Career Review Board (ECRB) of Social Science Research (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/social-science-research/about/announcements/social-science-research-early-career-board-announcement).

Send CV and summary of research areas and methodological expertise to […]
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mastodon.social
November 20, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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mszll.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy
Yes please! Supporting nonlinear careers to diversify science https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002291
Academic trajectory comparisons to a model linear career
November 15, 2024 at 8:54 AM
oxl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
This arrived in my mailbox yesterday. My real world physical mailbox. A physical copy. This tickles me to no end.

Thank you @mwl I'm very much looking forward to reading this.

#runyourownmailserver #ryoms
Photo of the cover of "Run Your Own Mail Server" by MW Lucas
September 26, 2024 at 11:48 AM
oxl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Geez, things seem dire in security studies.
Screenshotted paragraph: "For the security studies crowd, academic writing was too often crafted like a terse but bold legal brief, with the key points presented in outline form, the argument simple, sharp, and often combative. “The long-held conventional wisdom about subject X, offered by the leading and misguided school of thought/methodology/paradigm, is embarrassingly wrong. My powerful, parsimonious theory upends what we thought we knew about war/conflict/street cleaning/circus clown management. The article will proceed in three parts. The first will demonstrate why the collective brainpower of the competing paradigm/methodology has been so breathtakingly mistaken for so long. Part two will lay out my all-powerful theory, mention canonical strawman texts that are oft cited but never read, while burying key caveats in long, discursive footnotes. Part three will provide an overly simplistic historical sketch based on a large data set that aggregates a disparate array of events that have little to do with each other but will be fitted neatly into a 2×2 matrix. I will conclude by emphasizing how embracing my one-size-fits-all conceptual lens and powerful, novel methodology/theory will transform the discipline and lead to smarter policy, less stupidity, and brighter teeth and fresher breath.""
July 25, 2024 at 11:48 AM
oxl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
The UN thanks Princeton University for letting the authors of a technical manual use its facilities, including "the electronic computer." Manual 4: methods of estimating basic demographic measures from incomplete data. 1967.
Scanned text: "In recognizing the important contribution of the two authors, the United Nations also wishes to mention the help rendered by Princeton University, whose facilities, including those of the electronic computer, were utilized in the work."
July 18, 2024 at 11:57 AM
oxl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
🥳🎆

RE: https://io.mwl.io/@mwl/112588911211372843
June 9, 2024 at 10:12 PM
oxl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
I have read two of mwl’s tech books and they are amazing. Clear, accessible, practical, and basted with generous amounts of spite and snark 😘👌

Treat yourself, and together we can get him to throw _two_ launch parties.

In the meanwhile: the author, contemplating his newfound wealth…
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June 9, 2024 at 9:36 PM