OK. Some (mostly negative) thoughts on Bill Gates.
With special shoutout to @timinclimate.bsky.social & @drkatemarvel.bsky.social for their wise words.
youtu.be/9MmqKEkOtwo
@pierre-epsilon.bsky.social
Curieux/curieuzeneus/curious. Scientist at the Belgian "met office" - this account is personal.
OK. Some (mostly negative) thoughts on Bill Gates.
With special shoutout to @timinclimate.bsky.social & @drkatemarvel.bsky.social for their wise words.
youtu.be/9MmqKEkOtwo
Le monde ne parvient toujours pas à infléchir la trajectoire du réchauffement, selon l'Unep. Si les politiques actuelles continuent, le réchauffement atteindra 2,8°C. Avec les promesses tenues, il resterait entre 2,3 et 2,5°C. #COP30 #climat #transition #planète www.lesoir.be/708966/artic...
04.11.2025 14:55 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2🏆Scientists affiliated with the RMI, VUB, UGent and FWO win the 2025 Annual Science Communication Award with their interactive and accessible workshop entitled “Instant urban climate model with AI”.
🔗 More info on our website:
[FR] www.meteo.be/fr/infos/act...
[NL] www.meteo.be/nl/info/nieu...
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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Thanks @olivia.science for sharing this article: apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
#AI #Education #Academia
She and others take position on the toxicity of #AI in academia.
@metoffice.gov.uk please know that the ad shown on youtube appears to be a scam electricity saving device. Check it and consider disabling monetization here.
24.10.2025 14:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
@apache.be you rule 🖤
Hello bsky-verse, I am looking for a reviewer for the article "HiMAP: Hidden Markov for Advanced Prognostics" for the Journal of Open Source Software.
The job: review the (short) article and the software. Pre-review issue: github.com/openjournals...
#OpenScience
Au bout du compte, deux légitimités se font face ce matin. La légitimité des urnes, et celle de la rue. Pourtant le deux font la démocratie. La rue sans les urnes, c’est la chienlit assurée ; les urnes sans la rue, c’est la dictature assurée. www.rtbf.be/article/la-r...
15.10.2025 07:56 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0X (l'Ecole Polytechnique) tourne le dos à Microsoft 365. Inspiration pour des centres de recherche et universités belges qui imposent toujours plus de contraintes de sécurité et confidentialité à leurs chercheurs en laissant la porte de derrière grande ouverte ?
www.lesnumeriques.com/informatique...
👩⚕️👨⚕️ INFIRMIERS, INFIRMIÈRES & AIDES-SOIGNANT·E·S RECHERCHÉ·E·S !
Sciensano lance la grande étude nationale BELPASS et est à la recherche d'infirmiers/ères et aides-soignant·e·s indépendant·e·s pour collecter des données de santé au domicile de participants en Wallonie et à Bruxelles.
Je me suis fait avoir aussi...
13.10.2025 08:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A speech about what drives me, how science and open source are bitter victories, unable to make improve the world if society does not embrace them for the better:
gael-varoquaux.info/personnal/a-...
🌡️ The global average temperature (Oct 2024–Sept 2025) is 1.51 °C above pre‑industrial levels. With 2025 so far the 2⃣️‑warmest on record, it’s very likely the year will end as the 2⃣️ or 3⃣️‑warmest ever.
climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-...
I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events.
Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment
jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...
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New publication: "Reviewing research software"
Unlike experimental or theoretical methods, software is almost never peer reviewed. Maybe this should change. But is it possible at all?
doi.org/10.1109/MCSE...
Preprint: hal.science/hal-05274018
🧪 #openscience #metascience
C'est tout simplement excellent, merci!
08.10.2025 16:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🕓 Avez-vous déjà rêvé de voyager dans le temps à Bruxelles ? Et de voir à quoi ressemblait votre maison, votre quartier, il y a 10, 50... ou presque 100 ans ?
Grâce à cet outil interactif, c'est possible !
amcaw.github.io/orthophotosw...
C'est super gentil, Amazon, mais on peut vivre avec des colis livrés à J+2 par BPost, vous savez. Si j'osais... Allez, on préférerait que vous donniez plutôt ces sous à Mme Degryse et Monsieur Dolimont qui semblent en avoir grand besoin. Bises.
08.10.2025 05:51 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Toute la Belgique est enfin d’accord sur le Plan énergie-climat. Tous les objectifs européens ne sont pas atteints. Et il y a une surprise sur le nucléaire. Les chiffres revus à la baisse #climat #transition #planète
06.10.2025 19:12 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"
I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.
We know exactly how LLMs work.
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
03.10.2025 16:14 — 👍 4001 🔁 2431 💬 41 📌 145Vanmorgen verscheen er een vrij zeldzame rode regenboog aan de hemel, vooral in Limburg, maar ook elders in België en Nederland.
Gebruikers van de KMI app deelden deze prachtige beelden!
I'd not seen this quote from Milgram before. Needs no further comment. (From Alan Jay's talk #TT75
02.10.2025 12:43 — 👍 18 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make"
01.10.2025 19:43 — 👍 361 🔁 101 💬 0 📌 4@ecmwf.int confirms its leadership in forecasting, science, AI, and #OpenData !
01.10.2025 18:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yesterday at our Climate Cookies & Coffee seminar, Joppe Massant (UGent) showed how AI + ESA/NASA satellites reconstruct 3D clouds in real time, sharpening climate modelling and extreme-weather monitoring.
#ClimateCookiesAndCoffee #ClimateScience #AI #Clouds
🔗 www.climatecentre.be/events-1/ai-...
📢 !!! Paper alert !!! 📢
It is my great pleasure to share with you this new article published in the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS), by Oisín Hamilton and myself, about auto-AUTO, a software that acts as an intermediate layer between
the user and the famous AUTO-07p continuation software. /1
Le pari était gagné d'avance non ? :-)
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