Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org

This is what pull requests used to look like.

(The last sentence is particularly remarkable!)

YES! Thank you...

Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants".

- seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.

https://northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politics/silencing-the-drumbeat-again-seeking-asylum-is-legal/

More evidence (this time from the public sector in Scotland) that the four day week not only improves workers' wellbeing, it also improves productivity. Moreover, this is a proper four day week - rescued hours but no loss of pay - making it a powerful example, both for the Scottish government's management of its civil service & more widely.

The momentum is building for the four day week & its social benefits....

#workers #politics #FourDayWeek

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/27/scottish-government-trial-of-four-day-week-improves-productivity-and-staff-wellbeing

Must-read from @taylorlorenz

So-called "age verification" laws are spreading.

They will not protect kids.

They are grossly insecure.

They will be tools of censorship, surveillance, and oppression.

They amount to requiring a license to speak -- and to read.

We have to stop this.

https://www.usermag.co/p/we-must-fight-age-verification-with

Windows 10 support ends in 2 months, potentially making a lot of computers obsolete and dangerous to use. https://endof10.org/ is a great resource to avoid that by installing Linux - aided by experts and with simple to follow guides.

We just published a new Python package for the single-cell analysis of morphological profiles! If you do microscopy of cells and wish there were better solutions than averaging cell populations, now is the time! Built on the scverse, we bring analysis of imaging data into the single-cell era. Check it out now 👇

Paper: https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08324

Documentation: https://scmorph.readthedocs.io/

After a 13-year immunization campaign, Nepal is declared to have eradicated rubella. https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/08/1165672

Remember when the common wisdom was to not pirate commercial software because downloading random executables was likely to infect you with malware that would steal your data or worse?

Now we pay for legitimate, signed copies of software from vendors who load their applications with AI "features" that exfiltrate your data to remote servers and no way to disable that.

I feel old. When I started out, we got our malware for free and were doing something wrong when we did.

Maybe this is payback for all those C64 games I pirated when I was 16.

@GottaLaff

Many people say they couldn't understand why the Italians and the Germans didn't stand up to their respective fascist leaders in the 1930s.

Modern America, IMO, is showing us EXACTLY how it happened then, and how it's happening again.

I don't even want to CONSIDER/PONDER how all this is going to end

great blogpost about an incendiary report on research #fraud in PNAS
https://reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a-do-or-die-moment-for-the-scientific-enterprise/

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.