Colleagues from Harvard, Warwick, Cambridge and other universities want to understand how people cope with coronavirus. I just did the survey myself and it took me less than 10 minutes. It is available in many languages. covid19-survey.org

Grateful for this SPIEGEL ONLINE article: spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unt… — while I greet the enthusiasm for DIY solutions, developing medical devices is hard, for many reasons. We should not get carried away because an Arduino can -in principle- control a bag.

Dieses Semester aus der #Distanz Konfrontation meiner Studierenden mit 'real-world problems': Erste Einblicke in die #IoT-Welt dank der Keynote von Dr. Boris Adryan auf der @building_iot 2019. youtube.com/watch?v=VVcshA…

An approachable and informative thread on 'phylogenetic trees'.

Muddled thinking punctures plan for British ventilator ft.com/content/5f393d… via @ft < When “minimal viable product” meets medical req & reg needs. Listen to the scientists & experts when they say something is detailed, complex & nuance. Bluff & bluster does not cut it.

The Coronavirus Structural Taskforce now has a home page with infos for #compchem and #modelling, blog entries for #structuralbiology #drugdiscovery #biotechnology and other #SARSCoV2 scientists as well as for the general public #scicomm VISIT: insidecorona.net

In this time of uncertainty, it’s good to look back on how far we’ve come - here’s me & Simon Hettrick reminiscing on 10 years of Software Sustainability Institute 🎂🎉 Stay tuned for more birthday articles!

Great post by Tim Bray on why he’s leaving Amazon – TL;DR: AWS employees are treated very well, but treatment of warehouse workers sucks, and whistleblowing gets you fired tbray.org/ongoing/When/2…

I've really become a #Python fan over the past three years, especially for its great #datascience frameworks. But, whenever I need to wrangle big nasty text files, I'm still enjoying a few #Perl trick shots.

I'm officially starting in a new role tomorrow (in practice already have...), and wrote a thing: linkedin.com/pulse/closer-m…

Attending the 100th London Internet of Things Meetup Meetup tonight. Many thanks to Alexandra D-S (she/her) for years of service to the #IoT community in #London and worldwide.

Definitely an unusual setting for attending London Internet of Things Meetup, and it wouldn’t be juice if we were all in the same room. Stellar lineup with Kevin Ashton 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈, David Rose and usman haque. It’s true. Feeling a bit sentimental about this.

My compliments to EMBL Events on running such a great #EMBLInfectionResearch conference. I’ve been glued to my screen for the past eight hours. Stellar lineup of speakers, exciting talks, excellent chairing.

You know you have 1st world problems when your only worry is #garmindown/#garminhacked and you are afraid of missing your Strava challenge.

LEGO interface panels are beautiful, iconic, and great for learning interface design basics. I bought 52 of them from BrickLink and had a lot of fun last week analysing the design of them all. Here's what I learned: designedbycave.co.uk/2020/LEGO-Inte…

📖 💡 #DataLiteracy und #DataCreativity – Wege aus der digitalen Unmündigkeit? In unserer neuen #SoftwerkerCast-Folge zeigt Dr. Boris Adryan, warum man lernen sollte, in Daten zu denken – als Unternehmen und als mündiger Bürger. 🎧 cclnk.de/45DoGmM