Dan Stowell

@danstowell
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I'm a scientist of sound. I apply machine learning to birdsong.

Associate Professor of AI & Biodiversity, at Tilburg University and Naturalis (the Netherlands).

I also post food+drink here: https://hostux.social/@nomnomdan
and music here: https://ravenation.club/@mcldnowplaying

My websitehttps://mcld.co.uk/
Coucou jeunesse et hybridation. Samedi prochain Choucroute et poésie (26.04) puis festival du Vogelklang à Mulhouse le 3 mai...
https://p-node.org/actions/vogelklang-2025
VOGELKLANG SOUNDCAMP 2025

ART | SON | NATURE | FESTIVAL www.vogelklang.deSOUNDCAMP 8 les 3 et 4 Mai 2025 Amie-s organisateurs-trices des 7 précédentes éditions : Global...

Great map by @jurgentje at https://jurgen.gaeremyn.be/map.html showing that municipalities in Benelux rely on Microsoft or Google for email much more than in France or Germany

More info in Jurgen's blogpost https://jurgen.gaeremyn.be/2025/03/08/european-critical-dependencies and his interview on the situation in Brussels https://www.bruzz.be/actua/column/data-analist-brussel-te-sterk-afhankelijk-van-microsoft-en-google-2025-03-19

There will be on-premise MS Outlook behind some - many? most? - of the blue and green, so dependency on Microsoft will be higher than these colors suggest

After a year of working on and off on my MacPaint geisha cross-stitch, it’s done!
32,475 stitches. Nearly 1,000 feet of black thread. The final art is about 19” x 12”- 22 stitches per inch is as small as I can work 🙂

#NerdStitch #classicmac

arXiv is in the process of migrating "all" its services off Cornell University servers to Google Cloud. I'm concerned about what implications this could have for its long term independence and fitness for mission https://info.arxiv.org/hiring/index.html
Careers at arXiv - arXiv info

Given they have a year to go at best, they'll be trying to raise money again.

DO NOT INVEST IN THE W3W CROWDCUBE. They've done it three times now, and I expect they'll do it again out of desperation. You will lose all of your money.

Recommendations for where one might buy cool, techy, nerdy t-shirts created by non-cis folk, please? :D
just heard about this very cool biodiversity data conference "Living Data" (October, Bogotá) https://www.livingdata2025.com/ #biodiversity
Living Data 2025 - Information that together, transforms

Join us in Bogotá for Living Data 2025, exploring biodiversity data standards, integration, and community engagement.

In December 2024, I took part in the 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing ( #LOCO2024 ). The recorded talks are now up on YouTube including mine which is on teaching sustainability in new media art:

https://youtube.com/@loco-workshop?si=AsAcr_0dQOL-RMMx

#lowcarboncomputing #newmediaart #sustainability

Before you continue to YouTube

"This is what a digital coup looks like"

https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_this_is_what_a_digital_coup_looks_like

Finally got around to watching this and hoo boy is it timely, accurate, and terrifying

Carole Cadwalladr: This is what a digital coup looks like

TED