Gerasimos Chourdakis

@makis
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120 Posts
Still figuring things out

🚆 One journey. One ticket. Full rights.

We’re making cross-border train journeys simpler:

🎫 One booking across rail operators
Find, compare and book trains from different operators in one transaction.

🛡️ Full passenger rights for the whole journey
If you miss a connection on a single ticket, you’ll get assistance, including rerouting, reimbursement and compensation.

📲 Clearer pricing info
Travel options shown fairly and clearly, so you can easily compare and choose.

https://link.europa.eu/jMThrK

This website reveals what your browser shares immediately on arrival, without being asked. #privacy #DataPrivacy #surveillance #browser

https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken

taken.

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.

Since You Arrived
Paraphrasing @danielskatz: if we keep investing in open infrastructure but not in research we will end up with software no one is using. FOR 2026 plenary panel on the future of open research #FOR2026 #openscience

I have often said that LLM-based pull requests are a denial of service attack on mentoring in open-source communities. This post explains the rationale behind Zig's prohibition and offers much-needed reflection on the human surfaces of open source.

https://kristoff.it/blog/contributor-poker-and-ai/

Contributor Poker and Zig's AI Ban

Loris Cro's Blog

The faculty of science at Lund University is hiring two assistant professors in computational science. You can select which institution such as biology, maths or physics you want to be employed at.

Computational science is broadly defined as research that applies and develops methods for advanced computation with the aim of addressing research problems in the natural sciences, engineering, or medicine. This may include, for example, the integration and development of models, as well as advanced computational and data‑analysis methods and software, including simulation, modelling, and data management.

So check it out and consider working with me in maths!

https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:915058/type:job/where:4/apply:1

#getfedihired
#LundUniversity
#ComputationalScience

Two positions as Associate Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Computational Science

We are looking for an up-and-coming researcher who wants to conduct pioneering research to take up a position as Assistant Professor in Computational Science. Computational science research is conduct

Oh look, call for contribution of RSE collaboration workshop 2026 in Germany.

https://events.hifis.net/event/3249/page/1042-call-for-contributions

That's you chance to work with others on common problems and issues. Great for building bridges and joining forces.

de-RSE Collaboration Workshop in Germany 2026

Collaborating for the Future of Research Software Engineerig The workshop will take place from 23–25 September 2026 in Göttingen. The Collaborations Workshop 2026 is not organized like a traditional scientific conference, that mainly features talks or other forms of one-to-many communication. Instead, we shift the focus towards interactive, collaborative formats that give the participants room for discussion, action planning and the production of tangible outputs. In other words, we create a...

HIFIS and Helmholtz Events (Indico)

Munich Research Software Engineering Meetup today, 18:00 – 19:30, at Max Planck Information and Technology (MaxIT) in Laim

Afterwards: Joint dinner

https://de-rse.org/chapter/muc/

#RSEng #OpenSource

Munich RSE Community

de-RSE e.V. - Gesellschaft fĂĽr Forschungssoftware (Society for Research Software) website for local and regional chapters.

de-RSE chapters

Do we have to stop using big tech solutions, like GitHub for #digitalsovereignty? She says: no.

Software Heritage provides a way of using GitHub and still ensure long term preservation and security.

@makis making the case, that software interfaces require documentation interfaces. Goal: take parts of documentation of your dependencies or social network to build a more concise documentation of a particular research software. #derse26
Control over source code isn't just a technical thing—it’s about who owns the science.
Morane Gruenpeter is in Stuttgart tomorrow for #deRSE2026. She’ll talk about her 9 years at Software Heritage and why RSEs and #OSPOs make sure research software doesn't just disappear. Catch the keynote March 4 & look out for the slides after...https://events.hifis.net/event/2945/contributions/21199