Gleb Ebert

SNSF Data Portal The Swiss National Science Foundation's Data Portal presents interactive Key Figures, facts on funded projects and involved people in the Grant Search and the COVID-19 project registry, Dataset downloads as well as Data Stories on research funding activities.

Interesting @snsf_ch data on career interuptions (parenthood, care duties, illness, part-time work) for academic researchers by gender
https://data.snf.ch/stories/cv-deduction-en.html

Ownership of Digital Content Is an Illusion—Unless You Self‑Host Prices are rising across Netflix, Spotify, and their peers, and more people are quietly returning to the oldest playbook of the internet: piracy. Is the golden age of streaming over?

Just as a reminder, another good text about the virtues and necessities for self-hosting. Thanks Paul for the link!
https://itsfoss.com/news/digital-content-ownership-illusion/

Screenshot of podcast website

Folks been asking for a searchable catalogue for microbinfie podcast. With a 147 episodes, and 78+ guests its getting hard to find episodes of your interest.

anyway, i wrote a catalogue

https://www.happykhan.com/microbinfie

see all our lovely guests at https://www.happykhan.com/microbinfie/guests

Last year the Swiss government decided to triple tuition fees at the federal institutes of technology (ETH Zurich, @epfl) for students coming from outside of Switzerland. A further increase up to 4x the previous fees (together with a 2x increase for Swiss students) has been proposed this year […]

UpSet Plots in the Tidyverse – Gleb Ebert How to create the components of an UpSet plot and combine them

I’ve finally had time to write another blog post after a couple of busy months. It’s a tutorial on how to create UpSet plots using only tidyverse packages (and patchwork) in #RStats

https://www.gl-eb.me/blog/posts/2025-11-02_upset/

#DataViz #ggplot2

the fedex logo but the arrow is brute-forced backwards

Proud to share my latest work with FedEx to localize their iconic logo for RTL regions. This took a lot of hard work but really proud of how it came out 💜💜

Perspective Who gets the spotlight? Disparities in seabird research attention at scientific conferences Ingrid L. Pollet a b Alexander L. Bond b c Jennifer L. Lavers b c d Highlights • Decade-long review of >2,950 seabird conference abstracts. • Over 30% of seabird species are rarely or never featured at scientific conferences • Several seabirds listed as Critically Endangered have received little or no attention. • 16 seabird species are over-represented in conferences. • Southern Hemisphere seabirds require greater research attention.

Hey seabird folks - have you ever thought "*ANOTHER* talk about <species X>?!" So did we.

So we reviewed 3000 conference abstracts to see which species get the spotlight. Huge work from @ingridpollet.bsky.social with me and @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

a small petri dish with blue markings on the back and a bright yellow colony slightly off the markings. The colony appears to have real 3D structure, concentric circles and rays connecting the circles, resembling a tiny sun.

@ContamClub So the students were supposed to make smears of sterile water, to check their technique. This one 1. did something weird with the streak technique and 2. got a really nice contaminant slightly outside her own drawing?
Anybody knows where the sun like […]

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"Ornithologist in residence at a queer church built in 879" is one of the proudest lines on my CV

Reminder that I am the ornithologist-in-residence at the 8th(?) oldest church in England (which has a largely queer congregation) despite being atheist.

How cool is that?

It's super cool.

My next residency is THIS WEEKEND! Come for a parish bird walk!

Photo of a man in a suit jacket. The series name "Neu ernannt" is at the top, and the text below says "Christopher Kyba comes with a Heisenberg Professorship to the Ruhr University"

The @ruhr-uni-bochum.de has a news piece (in German) about my professorship and the research I will be doing in the coming years: https://news.rub.de/leute/2025-10-14-neu-ernannt-christopher-kyba-traeumt-von-einem-satelliten

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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 […]

5 Best VPN Services (2025), Tested and Reviewed Every VPN says it’s the best, but only some of them are telling the truth.

Virtual private networks have become standard tools for many journalists, as the services promise to enhance privacy, security, and freedom.

Jacob Roach tried to find a #VPN that really works.

(via @WIRED)

https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-vpn/

Stockton and Darlington Railway The first commercial use of the railways

https://www.theguardian.com/world/1825/sep/24/transport.uk

I love that info on the top:

THIS ARTICLE IS MORE THAN 200 YEARS OLD :)

#Railway200 #railway #trains #media

Podcast: Wann weinen Sie mal, Vassili Golod? (Live-Podcast) Für die Live-Folge von „Streitkräfte und Strategien“ ist ARD-Korrespondent Vassili Golod aus Kyjiw ins NDR Pop-Up-Studio nach Hamburg-Bergedorf gekommen. „Ich mache das, weil es wichtig ist, mit den Z...

Persönliches Highlight: Mit den „Streitkräfte und Strategien“-Hosts in einem Raum und dann auch noch vor interessierten Zuhörer:innen im NDR Pop-Up-Studio in Hamburg-Bergedorf. Herzlichen Dank für die Einladung! @kuestnerk.bsky.social

Migrating my Quarto site from GitHub to Codeberg – Eric R. Scott

I did it! I did a blog post! This one's about migrating my website source code from GitHub to #Codeberg

https://ericrscott.com/posts/2025-09-20-migrating-to-codeberg/

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

Just dropped: #MicroBinfie Pathoplexus Part 1!

Join Lee & guest Clint (and me) as we deep-dive with Emma Hodcroft, Theo Sanderson & Arthur Shem Kasambula about Pathoplexus […]

a cartoon canada goose standing in front of a circle of stars with a cartoon galaxy over its shoulder, and the acronym GEESE-ON over the top of the circle

This isn't my sub-field of astronomy, but someone needs to give this conference 1000 internet bonus points for the best, most geographically relevant acronym, plus their logo is ADORABLE

https://uwaterloo.ca/astrophysics-centre/geese-on-2025

GEESE-ON […]

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Springer now demand that your pre-acceptance version of a paper on the arXiv comes with a disclaimer:

“This preprint has not undergone peer review (when applicable) or any post-submission improvements or corrections. The Version of Record of this article is published in insert journal title] […]

Calling your boss a dickhead is not a sackable offence, tribunal rules Woman who was immediately sacked when she insulted her manager during a row wins unfair dismissal case

🥳

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/sep/04/calling-your-boss-a-dickhead-is-not-a-sackable-offence-tribunal-rules?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

An open door in a large yellow barn, which is nicely framing a large black goat with white droopy ears, who has a grey rooster perched on his back. The goat does not seem to mind this in the least. It's just starting to get dark so the picture is a little fuzzy.

A bunch of goats bouncing around on a pile of wood, with 2 of them starting to climb onto the back of a small brown horse who is purposefully standing next to the pile of wood so he can get back scritches from the goats. The are in a large grassy field with a tall wooden fence on one side.

Same scene as the previous picture, with one grey goat standing on the back of the small brown horse.

Same scene as the previous two pictures, with a black and white goat standing on the back of the small brown horse.

I am excited to announce that we are one step closer to the Bremen musicians thing (which I only learned about from many members of the European Fediverse sending me the wikipedia link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_Musicians_of_Bremen).

This young […]

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„Ist das euer Ernst?“ Eine ukrainische Friedensnobelpreisträgerin muss immer wieder Menschen im Ausland davon überzeugen, dass die Ukraine Frieden will. Was @avalaina.bsky.social hier eindrucksvoll beschreibt, ist eine Tragödie und zeigt, wie schief unser Diskurs ist.

A short regional train standing at a platform of the Mulhouse station. The upper half of the train is a deep blue while the lower half is gray

After speeding through France at up to 300 km/h for a few hours, I am changing to a small regional train to take me the last 30 or so km to Basel.
As much as I enjoyed #ESEB2025, I also look forward to getting home and getting a good nights sleep 😴

A French TGV arriving at the Valence train station as seen from the platform

The train journey along the Mediterranean between Perpignan and Montpellier is very scenic. I even saw Greater Flamingo’s feeding in the lagoons right beside the rail tracks.

After a 1 h stopover in Valence I get on another TGV, this time an older model, with […]

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A double-decker TGV at a subterranean platform of the Barcelona-Sants station

Since #ESEB2027 will be a hub meeting, which should reduce travel distances overall and thus be more environmentally friendly, I thought I’d get into the spirit early. My (not particularly impressive) train journey back home from #ESEB2025 starts with a TGV from Barcelona Sants to Valence, France.

@flodebarre.bsky.social And there’s already a website!

www.eseb2027.org

#ESEB2027

Wacholder: unannotated yeast ORFs (19k of them!) tend to be short and lowly expressed, yet 1/3rd can be localised by microscopy. Do they have a function under selection? Check for reading frame conservation between species -> two classes of ORFs, corresponding well to annotations. Only 11 […]

nice thing about summer holidays is getting the whole HPC to myself.