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Christian Meesters
@Christian Meesters

PhD in Biophysics, Postdoc in Genetic Epidemiology, Detour in Industry, Currently: Computational Scientist (Life Science Support) HPC (NHR, University of Mainz (on leave), University of Frankfurt (current), Germany), Open Science and Science Communication Enthusiast (with little time)

Board member of FediScience e.V.
Snakemake Co-Developer

I also have a less science oriented account: https://mastodon.m1234.de/@rupdecat

May post in German, English, Dutch.

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Recent Notes

Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD) · 6w
I hate preparing talks, but I've realized I hate it less when slide prep involves writing my own functions for how I want things formatted and then knowing they will be applied uniformly. Typst has so...
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Using LaTeX for talks & teaching only for many years now. Has its challenges. Particularly in envs full of Windows devotees. 😊

Looked at Typst and found myself in lock-in situation. Converting complex slide sets and layouts seems hard. (Impossible with the free version which I tried, actually.) For fear of getting into a vendor lock-in - once I start paying for the essential features which seem essential to me - I rather stick with LaTeX/beamer.
Michael Blume · 50w
Auch der #Labour - MP #KeirStarmer versuchte in #Grossbritannien den Rechtspopulisten Nigel #Farage rechts zu überholen - und auch er ist dabei zu scheitern. Auch mit ihm sind ca. 70 Prozent der brit...
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@nprofile1q... Nathanael Liminski (CDU), Staatskanzleichef in NRW, hat dieser Tage ein sehr lesenswertes Interview in der ZEIT gegeben (https://www.zeit.de/2025/42/nathanael-liminski-cdu-kulturkaempfe-rechtspopulismus-usa - leider hinter Paywall).

Man würde sich wünschen, diese Einsichten zum Umgang mit politischen Kontrahenten würden innerhalb der CDU Schule machen. Auch er ist bei weitem kein unbeschriebenes Blatt in „Sachen Kulturkampf“: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathanael_Liminski#Kontroversen - es gab Zeiten, da konnte man ihm so wenig zuhören, wie heute Farage oder Weidel. Zumindest dieses Interview kann man lesen, ohne den Blutdruck zu treiben.
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KarlE · 50w
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I didn't know about Framasoft's crowdfunding campaign for Peertube. Or if I did, I probably didn't notice because the milestones were too convoluted to matter to me in my stress.

However, that changed by an article from @nprofile1q... about @nprofile1q... and its pursuits!

Many in my bubble are all for #FOSS. And still all too often resort to Google docs and Co.

Did you know Framasoft provides alternatives?

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@nprofile1q... Ich habe dies auch schon häufig vernommen.

„Für mich reicht es noch. Für Ihre Kinder tut es mir Leid.“

Und zumindest für Leute mittleren Alters ist das schon falsch. Denn die Klimakrise manifestiert sich in atemberaubendem Tempo. Aber auch die älteren Entscheidungsträger, die in anderen Berufszweigen längst in Rente wären: Hassen die ihre Kinder und Enkel etwa?

Was geht in diesen Köpfen vor?

Und: Sollte man diese Frage nicht mal laut stellen, sodass Umstehende sie hören?
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@nprofile1q... nun, wir wissen auch, dass Putins Russland bewusst Zwietracht in westlichen Gesellschaften säen will. Zu den Methoden gehört auch, B-Politiker/Influencer einzuladen, sie zu umgarnen, auf dass sie hier überzeugt erzählen, dass unter anderem lupenreine Demokraten keine Gefahr darstellen und Nord Stream selbstredend notwendig und keinerlei Bedrohung für Osteuropa darstellend ist.

Gespielt wird hier auf der Klaviatur der Eitelkeit. Und man darf darauf hinweisen, dass es lächerlich oder schlimmer ist, bei über Leichen gehenden Autokraten Egoboosts zu suchen.
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As it seems, using Lego aesthetics is legally doubtful: https://www.lego.com/en-de/legal/notices-and-policies/fair-play?locale=en-de

How do I know? Well, some here might remember the wonderful image collection of Lego minifigures for research data management on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/11147887 - the access is now restricted, and I asked for the reason. So, yes, you may use such images for non-commercial, educational purposes - with a note. Yet, be careful. I will certainly change my chapter cover slides.

#RDM #Zenodo #Lego

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Once again, Germany will get a minister of research without the slightest clue of
- how research is done
- how research is organized
- what the current issues are
- etc.

However, she has the right party membership and has already demonstrated eloquently being able to combine having no idea with a strong opinion (#blockchain).

That and the fact that we are still in an #aihype let me fear the worst. Mark my words!
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I have been approach by an editor of #JOSS (https://fediscience.org/@[email protected]) who told me about #JOSE (https://jose.theoj.org/ - for which I could not find a Mastodon handle).

The idea is to provide a low-hurdle academic reward for open access educational material -- with a particular computational emphasis.

Thing is, that you hardly get an academic “paper” if you develop teaching material. So, this might be appealing for some folk here. 😉

#Teaching #AcademicCareer #AcademiCChatter #OpenScience
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When we founded Fediscience e.V. (the German association behind fediscience.org and its sister blog platform), it was also about legal protection of the server.

Never did we think that it might become so important to provide a small tessera for #FreeSpeech (the real one, not the MAGA abomination) via the Fediverse.