Clemens Schmid

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 […]

Postdoc in the Spatial Data Science and GeoCommunication group at @univienna
https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/University-Assistant-postdoctoral/1251977001/

#GISChat #GIScience #gisjobs

Construct objects with idiomatic R code Use the constructive package instead of dput() to construct R objects with idiomatic R code for human-readable reproducible examples

TIL you can use the constructive package instead of dput() to construct R objects with idiomatic R code for human-readable reproducible examples blog.stephenturner.us/p/construct-... #Rstats

A pretty cool thing about the Fediverse:

It will still be around in a decade. Even two decades.

Usenet still exists. IRC still exists. Email still exists. When you build platforms on open protocols and standards, it doesn't actually matter what corporations try and do to enshittify it. So long […]

Can anyone point me to literature on static websites in open science/open data? I feel like the advantages are obvious and I'm sure I've read bits here and there, but I'm struggling to find a good reference for a grant application...

#staticweb #OpenData #OpenScience

A poster for the 2025 community meeting from 30 September til 2 October. An image of Bochum at night.

On my way to the #NFDI4Objects Community meeting to Bochum. Looking forward to discussing research data infrastructure and how to improve FAIRness of archaeological and archaeogenetic data! #N4OCM2025

📢📢 Our next meeting takes place 3rd October at the usual time 16:00–17:00 CEST (15:00–16:00 BST / 14:00–15:00 UTC). Germany will celebrate its reunification (🎉) , we will celebrate that we have Gabriele Gattiglia give a talk on #AI in #Archaeology: implications for scripting practices […]

Is there some way I can make "paste as plain text" my default at all times in all applications on all devices forever and ever until the end of time?

A screenshot of Miniflux feed reader showing articles sorted by similarity.

Wrote some JavaScript code to customize #Miniflux #feedReader to automatically sort articles by similarity. Now I can read similar articles one after another easily.

Frustrated by markdown checklists. Markdown translators should not produce seemingly-editable checkboxes for `- [ ] / `- [x]` because in most cases checking or un-checking the box does not actually effect the base document.

plot showing a PCA and the spatial distribution of the c1global1nfd_public dataset

A recent preprint by Shastry, Musiani & Novembre 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.10.637386) includes a neat human genomic dataset: c1global1nfd_public. I was originally compiled for Peter, Petkova & Novembre 2020 (https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msz280) […]

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pga processors full of cat fur with a cat sitting behind them and looking at the camera

OpenAI Has a Fix For Hallucinations, But You Really Won't Like It OpenAI's latest research paper diagnoses exactly why ChatGPT and other large language models can make things up – known in the world of artificial intelligence as "hallucination".

#OpenAI Has a Fix For Hallucinations, But You Really Won't Like It. Via @sciencealert #AI #ArtificialIntelligence 💻 🤖 🧠 #LLM #ChatGPT

Today, we’re ready to show you the upcoming quote posts feature in more detail. We’ve put together a blog post with examples of how quote posts will work on Mastodon, ahead of early access on our own servers next week 💬 Full launch to come, in Mastodon v4.5 […]

Nächste Woche ist mein Workshop "Historische Karten mit #QGIS referenzieren" im Rahmen des #Praxislabor2025 auf dem #histag25 in Bonn. Anmeldung gerne an mich via Mastodon oder Mail auf meiner Mitarbeiterseite 👇
https://hil.hessen.de/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen-und-mitarbeiter/niklas-alt-ma
Infos […]

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] […]

R plot showing the position re-assignment done by geom_pointgrid. The black points are mapped to the red grid positions, completely avoiding overplotting.

I finally managed to fulfill my dream of using #futhark-lang (https://futhark-lang.org) in an #rstats package. v1.4.0 of my ggpointgrid package (https://github.com/nevrome/ggpointgrid) uses a futhark implementation of the core arrangement algorithm, transpiled […]

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Excited to share our new preprint "High resolution analysis of population structure using rare variants" https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.18.665597v1 where we investigate and formalise using rare allele sharing to quantify population structure, with application and examples in […]

Two papers to which I contributed came out back to back in Antiquity recently, which discuss African ancestry in early medieval individuals from England. Even though the data has been available since 2023, we now dedicated more space to these two special samples, and highlight this unusual […]

These days I see many website #feeds becoming inaccessible with a 403 forbidden error. I think it's because people are (mis)configuring their servers to forbid scrapping by bots. However, #RSS feeds are meant to be accessible by bots (feedreaders) on behalf of their users. I've been reaching out […]

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 […]

I was just thinking to myself "It would be good if #Mastodon let you follow someone's original posts without seeing all the stuff they boost, which is not relevant to me".

Then it occurred to me to look and see if it does ... and it does! Click on the person's username, then click the […]

Every once in a while, someone says something like:

“I do this, and that makes me safe from Facebook’s prying eyes!”

It’s all complete nonsense.

If you use our Meta products or services in any manner, we know who you are, where you are, what you’re doing, who your friends are, and so much […]

Great that data availability sections are becoming the norm in #scientificpublishing, but maybe authors need more guidance on what should go in there?

In the past few weeks I've seen:

- "Not applicable" on a paper describing a dataset
- "No data was generated or analysed for this study" – then […]

Andrew Kadel @DrewKadel@social.coop My daughter, who's had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen. Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT, which gets lost over and over again: When you enter text into it, you're asking "What would a response to this sound like?" If you put in a scientific question, and it comes back with a response citing a non-existent paper with a plausible title, using a real journal name and an author name who's written things related to your question, it's not being tricky or telling lies or doing anything at all surprising! This is what a response to that question would sound like! It did the thing! But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it *is* doing something else. It's good at generating things that sound like responses to being told it was wrong, so people think that it's engaging in introspection or looking up more information or something, but it's not, it's only, ever, saying something that sounds like the next bit of the conversation.

The only thing ChatGPT ever does.

GitHub - cysouw/count-para: Add paragraph counter to text via a Pandoc Lua filter Add paragraph counter to text via a Pandoc Lua filter - cysouw/count-para

Finally found a solid lua filter for adding paragraph numbers to my documents: https://github.com/cysouw/count-para

Our next meeting is scheduled for this Friday, August 1st at 4PM CEST / 10AM EST/ 7 AM PST. Depending on attendance, we may cover these topics:

- Planning a session for the CAA 2026 in Vienna, Austria
- Project updates (TFQA, open-archaeo, etc)
- SIG plans for the new academic session
- General […]

In today's #gleo news: wind data!

Or, more technically: a 2-band raster covering the globe and properly warped (EPSG:4326→EPSG:3857) containing UV speed data, visualised as a particle trail simulation.

Thanks to the #FOSS4GE2025 for providing the […]

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Still waiting for journal proofs so I decided to make the paper available on my site. Now with some animated gifs too --- a preprint exclusive! https://zackbatist.info/fuzzy-concrete/#learning-to-see-like-an-archaeologist