Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org

New preprint spotted (via Bluesky):

"TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing"

(and make your code Transferable, Accessible, Documented, and Annotated)

https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/9806/

#opencode #opensoftware #openresearch #openscience

🥳 It's a beautiful announcement to celebrate: Meta is ending political advertisement in 🇪🇺 in October 2025!!
https://about.fb.com/news/2025/07/ending-political-electoral-and-social-issue-advertising-in-the-eu/
These were already illegal in several #EU countries, and my team had found many illegal ones in 🇫🇷 back in 2019. Many ads were paid for by foreign actors. Micro-targeting within social media for political influence will still be abused, but that is a victory against #FIMI and for electoral integrity.

Remember how everyone freaked out about Microsoft’s Recall feature (spyware) in Windows 11? And Microsoft said it would be fine because it’s all processed locally?

Guess what’s not processed locally anymore. https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/23/microsoft_copilot_vision/

#introduction #science #climate #clouds #modelling #geosciences

bonjour le fediverse ! je suis français mais je tooterai majoritairement en anglais (^c^) !

hi fediverse. I'm Lucas, a PhD student at IGE (CNRS, Grenoble, France) whose work focuses on studying the interaction between aerosols and clouds in the Arctic. I'm using climate models and collaborate closely with satellitary observers to improve our understanding of clouds.

I'm counting on mastodon to share about my work and raise awereness around my main scientific concern : climate change (big surprise, is this even a thing anymore ?).

More generally, I wish my academic work could go on being more interdisciplinary and more focused on helping societies and citizens understand and adapt to climate change.

Finally, I'm engaged in climate struggles and love to learn new stuff and share about it. All contents not related to my work will be showed with the appropriate CW.

happy to meet you all c:

This is a Magic Eye. I love it.

Hello world! 👋

This is Encyclia, a new project to bridge ORCID records into the Fediverse. Our software platform is a work in progress and we'd love to hear your feedback!

Project website: https://encyclia.pub

via Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16eDx3zoA2/

NPR - The year red-blooded patriotic American high-school jocks replaced migrant farm workers!

The year was 1965. On Cinco de Mayo, newspapers across the country reported that Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz wanted to recruit 20,000 high schoolers to replace the hundreds of thousands of Mexican agricultural workers who had labored in the United States under the so-called Bracero Program.

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#ArteConcert is so amazing! I don't remember who on Mastodon first pointed me to it but it's *so good*. Thanks to whoever you are.

If you don't know it, Arte is a a European public service channel and Arte Concert is their live music. The live concert performances are top quality and it's all free to watch, with *no ads* (thanks EU!).

This evening I've been watching a jazz concert by Hiromi's Sonicwonder. Earlier in the week I watched Moderat live at the Grand Palais in Paris. I've discovered fantastic African blues musician Fatoumata Diawara and Cuban funk musician Cimafunk and singer song-writer Asaf Avidan. There's everything from metal to electronic to jazz to classical.

While a lot of the internet has been turning to ad-filled spyware goop, Arte Concert is a wonderful exception.

This is me feeling grateful.

https://www.arte.tv/en/arte-concert/

#music #concerts

This was a brave project with an ambitious goal and I think it kicks the legs out from some shaky, simplistic assumptions about cycle time, and how we use software metrics in general. We've also got a huge bank of code, statistical approaches, and methodology along with our preprint so others can replicate our work or use it as a learning example.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05040