Alexis Simon

We’re happy to announce that Mastodon 4.5 is now ready for prime time! Quote posts, async fetching of replies, server timeline visibility settings, more moderation tools, and lots and lots of other tweaks and improvements.

Announcement on our blog […]

Switzerland’s climate researchers reveal the emotional side of science Climate change not only has visible effects on ecosystems. It also has an emotional and psychological impact on those who study it.

Interesting overview of the optimism and pessimism among climate scientists in Switzerland https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/climate-solutions/the-emotional-side-of-climate-science/90250784 #ClimateChange #ClimateScience #AcademicChatter

Offre d'emploi : ARDoISE, l'atelier rennais de la donnée, recrute un ingénieur données
👉 https://scienceouverte.univ-rennes.fr/actualites/latelier-ardoise-recrute-0
#ARDoISE #recrutement

https://www.politico.eu/article/us-accused-threats-eu-diplomats-bid-to-kill-green-shipping-rules-negotiations-personal-intimidation/

> “Our negotiators had never seen this before in any international talks,” said one European official, who had spoken to negotiators. “People being summoned to […]

Great paper debunking the rapid adaptation story of the London underground mosquito.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4515

I have one much simpler rule:
don't use it
there you go

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.22254

image d'une main qui tient un coca cola

Kitoaka, en chemise rayée, comme il se doit

Juste pour le plaisir, un clin d'oeil à mon collègue japonais Akiyoshi Kitoaka, de l'université Ritsumeikan de Kyoto, qui met tout son matos en ligne, comme cette magnifique canette, qui n'est rouge que parce que notre cerveau nous la fait voir rouge, alors […]

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Hedgehog Research Virtual Symposium Explore the latest in hedgehog research with researcher presentations, live Q&A;, and a look at exciting studies on the horizon.

Hedgehog Research Virtual Symposium
4th November 2025
Online via Zoom
£30 for professionals or pay-what-you-can for volunteers and amateur enthusiasts.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hedgehog-research-virtual-symposium-tickets-1672786903659

#hedgehogs

New ‘Wolf Skull’ Tattoo Trend Exposed As Alpha Males Are Actually Getting Raccoon Tattoos iStockphoto / vora There is an incredibly popular new tattoo trend involving wolves and skulls but not wolf skulls. The designs are actually pretty great and feature a wolf’s face on one side and a skull on the other. A scientist and ‘anatomy propagandist’ on X by the name of Kairo took notice of the trend. They shared a now viral thread on X explaining what’s really going on here. Interestingly, the thread was actually posted on Tumblr many moons ago by this same author. The tattoo trend persists and is as popular as ever. The thread kicks off with “I love this tattoo design because the message behind it is just so unintentionally GREAT” and then they proceed to expose all of the tattoos as actually featuring a wolf’s face next to a raccoon skull that was mislabeled on Pinterest. Check it out… > So there’s this one tattoo design that’s pretty popular. > A wolf face on one side and a skull on the other side. > > I love this tattoo design because the message behind it is just so unintentionally GREAT….🧵 pic.twitter.com/Jxk1q2yKRD > > — Kairo (@Kairo_Anatomika) January 9, 2024 Yup, raccoon skulls. All of them. Every single one. How do we know that? We’ll get to that in a moment. But first, let’s stick with the thread: > Because… it’s not actually a wolf skull. It’s a raccoon skull. > > Yes, all these are ALL Raccoon Skulls. pic.twitter.com/yflicCrLXD > > — Kairo (@Kairo_Anatomika) January 9, 2024 Wolf skulls do look pretty awesome: > Wolves are chase predators. They identify a target, and then tag team chase it until it gets tired and then tear it apart. > > They have wide cheekbones to anchor large powerful jaw muscles so they can hang on to huge struggling prey animals like bison. pic.twitter.com/8U61fiMnjN > > — Kairo (@Kairo_Anatomika) January 9, 2024 Contrary to popular belief, raccoons are not rodents. > Raccoons are omnivores > They take whatever comes their way and make the best of it. > > Life is all resourcefulness and luck, and they have a bunch of different teeth types to handle different situations. pic.twitter.com/tS42FEDKKU > > — Kairo (@Kairo_Anatomika) January 9, 2024 ‘Ultimate Imposter Syndrome Tattoo’ has to be a new sentence, right? > In and of itself, this is a fun design, but the combo of outer wolf and inner raccoon makes this design truly brillant. > > IT'S THE ULTIMATE IMPOSTER SYNDROME TATTOO > > Majestic, Confident, Badass Apex Predators on the outside. No obstacle too big, no mountain too high. UNAFRAID. > > — Kairo (@Kairo_Anatomika) January 9, 2024 This is reminiscent of the late 90s and early 2000s when Chinese and Japanese character tattoos were very popular. Only nobody knew or could verify what they were getting tattooed in another language and a lot of people got a lot of weird things tattooed on themselves. > Bumbling around, making the best of life as it comes on the inside. > Does anyone REALLY and TRULY know what they're doing? > > I love it… it's so HONEST and REAL pic.twitter.com/DAEqOI8Jow > > — Kairo (@Kairo_Anatomika) January 9, 2024 How do we know this Wolf Skull Raccoon Tattoo is from Pinterest? Well, the next part of the thread ties it all together. Every single one of these alpha male raccoon tattoos is tied back to a mislabeled Pinterest post… > But wait there’s something else….. If you look carefully at all these raccoon skulls, they all seem to have this one tooth missing. > > Which means that they’re all based on the same individual skull….. pic.twitter.com/klo4LhJzCM > > — Kairo (@Kairo_Anatomika) January 9, 2024 > Somewhere out there, is a raccoon skull with one incisor missing that has served as the reference for all these designs. > > Oh wait…here it is. > > It’s from Pinterest. Somebody took a raccoon skull and labeled it “Wolf Skull”. pic.twitter.com/u54iXm8EOS > > — Kairo (@Kairo_Anatomika) January 9, 2024 Be careful what you tag things on the Internet… > Raccoon skulls DO look better than wolf skulls from the front, and the compounding popularity from multiple searches has pushed it to the top of Google search for “Wolf Skull Front View” > > A piece of misinformation can easily be accepted as fact if it looks appealing enough. pic.twitter.com/EUk8ywDAzu > > — Kairo (@Kairo_Anatomika) January 9, 2024 In case anyone had doubts: > So this is it then…. > The skull that launched thousands of unintentionally great tattoos. > > It's still being used in tattoos all the time. Take a look at https://t.co/0cPNiyNTUA on instagram to see how many you can spot pic.twitter.com/jHI5pN0B0v > > — Kairo (@Kairo_Anatomika) January 9, 2024 There is no shame whatsoever in getting a raccoon tattoo. Raccoons are objectively awesome. Rocket Raccoon was one of the best members of the Guardians of the Galaxy squad. It’s just hilarious that this tattoo trend exploded with guys thinking they’re getting ‘two wolves’ tattoos only for some scientist to come along and ‘well, actually!’ them on X. Do you know someone with the wolf skull tattoo? Do them a favor, send them this article. They deserve to know the truth. > pic.twitter.com/0AxG3GSMrE > > — Kairo (@Kairo_Anatomika) January 9, 2024 Raccoons = awesome. Wolves = awesome. But the wolf skull tattoo isn’t what it seems to be and that’s the main takeaway here.

The zoologist in me is laughing so hard at this 🤣

"New 'Wolf Skull' Tattoo Trend Exposed As Being Raccoon Tattoos"

https://brobible.com/culture/article/wolf-skull-tattoo-trend-exposed-raccoon/

#zoology #tattoos

Bonfire Open Science is now @ORCID_Org certified as a Manuscript Submission System provider 🎉

This opens new possibilities for turning conversations into citable, #FAIR and permanent research objects. But what should be archived? How does this affect scientific discourse?

More details […]

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/115343246885448739

Rumors that the fediverse can't do mobile identity have been greatly exaggerated: #FEP_1580 is now in draft status - https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/1580/fep-1580.md

This is a proposal for how to migrate all your […]

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Ça me fou en rogne. Ma compagne continue à se prendre des refus quand elle postule à des postes pour lesquels elle est largement qualifiée.
Genre ce matin (la deadline était hier hein !) "L'ensemble des candidatures a fait l'objet d'un examen attentif par un comité de sélection" […]

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch.

A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]

I have an offer to make: do you want to run an instance on the fediverse for a group that's underrepresented here?

I'll pay the bills. Period.

I'll do admin if needed (software updates and the like). But you decide what kind of community you want it to be, so you put together the mod team.

DM me.

From 2006. A younger and shell-shocked looking Catherine on a balcony holding a very tiny baby with the mountains of Vancouver in the background. The baby is so new, Catherine still has the pregnant bump.

Conventional wisdom says motherhood should wait for tenure as before you land a permanent post, #academia is just not that family friendly🙁

@carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩‍🔬🧪🔭⚛️

ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk

Queen

Join our colleagues in Plant molecular biology, with an exciting opportunity as tenure-track professor of Plant-organism interactions. This profile includes the study of plants interacting insects, bacteria, fungi, viruses or plants.
https://lnkd.in/epTuA_Ck
#AcademicJobs #PlantBiology […]

A scientific figure from the linked paper by Betancourt et al. It shows on the left, that most (70%) evolutionary biologists who switched to a career outside of academia felt prepared. The right panel is a graph showing what training individuals would like to have received more of during their academic career, with the top points being related to management skills.

"Overall, the message from this survey is positive– #evolutionary #biologists are readily employable outside of #academia, generally well-prepared for those jobs, and report high levels of satisfaction in their non-academic #careers"

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.19.671061v1

Proton Mail Falls Under U.S. Jurisdiction

If you read their Terms of Service, at first glance, they reference the laws of Switzerland. However, because they now have offices in the United States — along with registrations, trademarks, copyrights, and patents in the U.S. — they also cite U.S […]

I beg you fedizens, set the correct language on your posts! I'd love to be able to understand what you're saying in your native language by using the translation option.

This should have been big news!

Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in […]

📢 #FacultyHiring: OIST is hiring! We invite exceptional scientists to apply for faculty positions in:
- Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography
- Physics and Quantum Science (including related fields)
🔗: www.oist.jp/careers/facu...

African wild dog portrait

UK job opportunity - Head of Conservation permanent position with The Deep and The University of Hull, to contribute to our IUCN informed MSc Wildlife Conservation. #AcademicJobs #Zoology #Conservation #PhDJobs […]

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Screenshot of the Mastodon composer, showing a new visibility picker button with a "Public, anyone can quote" label

Coming soon on your Mastodon server… The long awaited quote posts, with user-control (you can chose if you want to be quoted on a per-post basis, change it later, and retract any quote of your post)

Amazing work by the team 🎉

Expect a blog post with all the […]

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#Gaza

La pétition d' #Amnesty publiée le 13 juin 2025, en est à 93 677 signatures sur un premier objectif de 100 000 signatures […]

#guix
Anyone has managed to run GuixSD on a raspberry pi 4B recently?
I've found those examples
- https://me.literatelisp.eu/guix-system-on-a-raspberry-pi-3b.html
- https://git.pantherx.org/development/hardware/raspberry/
- […]

I'm not very good at live posting (I tend to overthink my posts and then lose track of the talks). For #ESEB2025 live posts, I recommend following @marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy and @mrtnj.bsky.social, who have been good at it at every conference I've attended with them

Friends don’t let friends use X/Twitter. If you know people live-posting #ESEB2025 on the cursed network, kindly point them towards Mastodon or Bluesky. (I think there are good reasons to prefer Mastodon, but Bluesky is infinitely better than continuing to promote X by posting scientific content […]

J'ai 45 ans et 20 ans ans d'expérience dans l'humanitaire et la coopération internationale.

Je suis épuisée, bloquée ou mutée jusque parce que milite (trop) toute la journée contre le génocide à #Gaza.

J'ai urgemment besoin d'aide pour rentrer en contact avec un.e élu.e #EELV. Pour disucter de […]