this whole "professors indoctrinate our youth" nonsense needs to stop. That line of argument infantilizes grown adults. The reality is that if we faculty could successfully indoctrinate students, they'd all know the syllabus for each course chapter and verse. Good luck with that, I always say.

Yes, there was a static version with manually validated code

The visualization in my book are based on the static precursors from earlier versions of the book. So, I made the code that does the calculations, and I validated these are correct. Making that code dynamic does not feel like vibe-coding to me. It feels like automation, if that makes sense.

In terms of recent years, Bangladesh, Kenia, and Serbia are pretty nice examples. The No King's demonstrations are a good start but protests should last, and have a large impact on society. See France last week. Maybe we should also increase protests against the USA, BTW.

You are right. Thanks for pointing this out. I should not judt complain (being frustrated about unreasonable API limits when I try to query files to download as little as possible to actually reduvlce the load on their server) and email them about it. (Zenodo is still a better repo, but OK)

Dear Americans, the Trump government statements about the ICC, combined with the Diesel deal with Russia, are massive for Europeans. It is increasingly difficult for me to see what you need to more actively resist your government. Take a lesson from countries that know how to protest.

All Trump’s overseas assets should be frozen. Hotels. Golf courses. Offshore accounts. Should not be permitted to enter the territories of the countries that are parties to ICC.

For a metascience project I am trying to download files from Dryad (a popular data sharing platform in ecology). The platform has such strict API limitations that it is unusable for anything else than a single manual download. Please use Zenodo instead. Dryad is horrible.

Now Laura Caquelin is talking at the Paul Meehl Graduate School symposium talking about computational reproducibility, with the results of a randomized controlled trial of reproducibility review.

Now Simon Nolte talking about automated extraction. He is discussing how accuracy, scalability, and transparency should be principles, but difficult to achieve all 3 at the same time.

Now Joeri Tijdink is talking about wellbeing and research waste in academia. You can jump in the live feed to follow along!

The Paul Meehl Graduate School Symposium is kicking off with a keynote by the Best Thesis Award winner Charlotte Rulkens on the role of replications in the Humanities, studying the repetition of art attribution.

Local repositories willing to have data sharing agreements for personal data, or making data fully anonimous. There are indeed new regulations in the GDPR being developed, but they are at the proposal stage. I expect it will become easier soon.

Dear academics, if you want your book to be read, you publish it open access online for free (e.g. a quarto book). If you write a book no one needs to read and that you are writing purely to get tenure, send it to a publishers who sells prestige (without adding any value).