Calendars have always felt like a slightly underdeveloped software space. Many unsolved problems left. But the one that annoys me most is that events are too definite. I want possible/speculative event types. maggieappleton.com/speculative-ev…

Happy birthday to Don Knuth! Knuth received the 1974 #ACMTuring Award for his contributions to the analysis of #algorithms & the design of #programming languages. Watch Knuth tell the origin of his lifetime project, The Art of Computer Programming: youtube.com/watch?v=St1wgm…

A new year brings a new solution from Altmetric. We’re delighted to announce the launch of #AltmetricOnGBQ! 🎉 Explore unseen connections and insights and supercharge your #DataAnalysis. Learn more 👉 ow.ly/Vtkb50Ql5qr #GBQ

Exactly 22 years ago to the day, #MurderOnTheDancefloor hit #2 on the UK charts and now, it’s back! It’s just a wild and glorious adventure to see another generation embrace the song and show off their dance moves. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Bug Thread xkcd.com/2881

To get the biggest ROI from research funding dollars, we need to get as much research data into the high quality metadata, high level of openness quadrant of this chart #OpenScience #OpenData #OpenResearch #AI

It's here!! The first Digital Science TL;DR Short of 2024! These have been a phenomenal amount of work for Dr Suze Kundu: find FunSizeSuze on other platforms & @huwmjames, and I'm so pleased that amy_brand is our first video in the series!😊 digital-science.com/tldr/article/w… #ai #artificialintelligence #hype #tldrshorts

🤩 NEW video! We’re excited to share with you comments from The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Director amy_brand on the impact of #AI. It's the first in our new weekly series of #TLDRShorts - short, snappy insights from across the #research community. 🙌 Find out more: ow.ly/Sz1E50QrjYi #TLDR

Things Brits will say sorry for: -Being hit with a shopping trolley -Bumping into a cupboard -The mess in a clean house -Being ill -Someone being in their reserved seat -Having to squeeze by -Asking for the bill -Sneezing -Being short changed -Being insulted -Walking into a

"We are in the ‘low hanging fruit’ phase of research powered by algorithms, compute and #FAIR data." digital-science.com/tldr/article/f…

As we anticipate milestones for Falling Walls Female Science Talents this year, including the reveal of the #IntensiveTrack 2024 Champions, let's look back at the International Fall Gathering in Berlin: bit.ly/3O7Ci3E 🌍 Bayer Foundation The Elsevier Foundation DFG public | @[email protected] Studienstiftung Foundation Medicine

‘How it started and how it’s going: Figshare as an institutional repository.’ This webinar focuses on the evolution of Figshare and how we’re supporting a global community of institutions looking to share, showcase and manage their research. Sign up: ow.ly/THpN50QrB3F

So about a year ago, I was putting my little guy to bed in his crib and I noticed a strange detail on the solar system poster up on his wall …

Introducing NERDS On the occasion of CERN’s 70th anniversary, the Organization will change its name to ‘Network of Experiments for Research and Development in Society (NERDS). The name change comes as a result of reflecting our new role in society and encapsulates the nature of

Google DeepMind have produced a program that in a certain sense has achieved a silver-medal peformance at this year's International Mathematical Olympiad. 🧵 deepmind.google/discover/blog/…

What's really going on in machine learning? Just finished a deep dive using (new) minimal models. Seems like ML is basically about fitting together lumps of computational irreducibility ... with important potential implications for science of ML, and future tech...

Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!

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