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Dealing with Disruptive Behaviors in Meetings

Learn what motivates any of the 10 personality types to better minimize distractions using gentle or firm intervention techniques.

Michael R. Crusoe 1d ago

Seth Larson 1d ago

The popular #Python library “Requests” needs your help! @nateprewitt plans to add type hints to the API and is requesting feedback:

https://sethmlarson.dev/python-library-requests-is-adding-type-hints-and-needs-your-help

#typing #http #typehints

Python library “Requests” needs you to test type hints

Requests is a popular HTTP client library available on the Python Package Index (PyPI). Sitting in the top 10 packages by downloads on PyPI, this library is used by many, many projects. This librar...

sethmlarson.dev

Michael R. Crusoe 4d ago

Ironski 5d ago

Geklaut für Alttext.

PSA:

Michael R. Crusoe Mar 12

SURF Mar 12

Every research group has one: the person who fixes the impossible, connects the dots, and helps everyone else succeed.

They probably won’t nominate themselves. So you should!

If someone came to mind while reading this, take 2 minutes and nominate them for the SURF Research Support Award. Many great nominees are put forward by colleagues like you.

https://www.surf.nl/en/events/surf-research-day/research-support-champion-awards?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-03-social&utm_kwd=research-support-champion-awards&utm_source=mastodon&utm_content=onderzoek

#ResearchSupport

Research Support Champion Awards

Every year, SURF presents the Research Support Champion Awards to give innovators of research support a platform to increase their impact and reach, as well as to inspire others.

SURF.nl

Michael R. Crusoe Mar 12

Court of Justice of the EU Mar 12

#ECJ: National legislation which does not allow a citizen who has exercised their right to free movement to change their gender data are contrary to #EUlaw 🇧🇬 #transgender 👉 https://curia.europa.eu/site/upload/docs/application/pdf/2026-03/cp260033en.pdf

Michael R. Crusoe Mar 11

Blake C. Stacey Mar 11

OK, I will say this later and perhaps more polished-ly on my blog, but here goes:

I will refuse to review any academic paper that credits a chatbot in the acknowledgements. Why? For much the same reason that I would refuse to review a paper that studied conflict diamonds just because they were convenient.

The human cost is unacceptable:

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/05/in-the-end-you-feel-blank-indias-female-workers-watching-hours-of-abusive-content-to-train-ai

The industry has no line against using the output of the Nazi CSAM generator and calling it "training data".

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/24/latest-chatgpt-model-uses-elon-musks-grokipedia-as-source-tests-reveal

https://www.theverge.com/report/870910/ai-chatbots-citing-grokipedia

Any marginal benefit that an individual scientist thinks they see is just saying, "Wow, the bus to the conference runs so much better on leaded gasoline."

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

The Guardian

Michael R. Crusoe Mar 5

Jan Lehnardt

Mar 5

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@maxine/116173491105609851

Yes and, if you put LLM generared code into your project, it is highly likely it contains licensable chunks of GPL code. To which I say: congratulations, you now have a GPL project.

Michael R. Crusoe Mar 5

DOAJ Mar 5

📊#DOAJ Survey
Are you involved in running or supporting a DFG-funded #DiamondOA journal or another Diamond OA journal in Germany that is not (yet) indexed in DOAJ? @dfg.de

We’d love to hear from you!

See our latest post for survey details: https://blog.doaj.org/2026/03/05/help-improve-support-for-diamond-open-access-journals-in-germany/