Hugo Ledoux

Criminally funny, but also I'm crying inside Norway comes for the #TechBros www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree vimeo.com/1168468796?f...

Amazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors. The full requirements will end tourism in the United States. Below is the full, mind-blowing list. 🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨 1/

He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Analyse van de partijprogramma's van de verschillende politieke partijen aangaande hun plannen met het wetenschappelijk onderwijs. Maakt het wat makkelijker te besluiten wat te stemmen, wat mij betreft. #WOinActie

@thijszonneveld.bsky.social Ik kom uit Québec en woon in NL. Magdeleine Vallieres haar naam moet jij geen “s” zeggen, in het Nederlands: wa-lie-er

Thank god AI has finally solved the problem of there not being enough podcasts

Will the absence of public transport infrastructure in North America mark the moment its citizens notice how far their continent has fallen behind?

We’re offering a free bollard to anyone who can tell us what this superb little car is. #WorldBollardAssociation

I can’t wait until we try to replace doctors with AI.

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

In a world of Matts, be a Derek.

"AI will make 1000s of people redundant"

Rutte: 'Navalny had band met Poetin moeten herstellen'

🌶️ pixi.sh is the easiest and fastest way to install #QGIS on Ubuntu (maybe Mac too) right now if you need access to GeoParquet and DuckDb formats and python libraries for plugins 🧵 #gischat

One week left to apply for this fully-funded PhD position at TUDelft

The Department of Government Efficiency isn't interested in efficiency. Or transparency, or cutting costs. It's real goal is to destroy the federal civil service. In other words, regime change. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

🎉 The "Geocomputation with Python" book has been officially published today! Dive into the world of spatial analysis and geospatial data with Python. 📖🐍 Book's website: https://buff.ly/3NK2uBq #geocompx #geopython #spatialanalysis

The missing link for me to switch from LaTeX to Typst (typst.app) is now a reality: with muchpdf we can use PDF figures! github.com/frozolotl/mu... (I often have figures with several pages; converting them to different SVG file was just a no-no).

Scandinavian scientists seem to have some of the best work-life balance, Chinese scientists some of the worst, as measured by who submits their papers and peer reviews to the BMJ late at night, on weekends, and holidays😅 www.bmj.com/content/367/...

Write every day for 1 hour. If you miss a writing day add 1 hour to the next. It’s incredible! Tomorrow I’m writing for 7 years.

🚀 Fully-funded PhD position at TUDelft 🚀 3D reconstruction and modelling of roofs in European cities Deadline to apply: 2 March 2025 3d.bk.tudelft.nl/jobs/phdmult...

I think this is my favourite report cover of all time. Any others?

Un premier candidat sérieux au poste de tsar du fentanyl à la frontière canadienne.

This is so good.

Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment

This is the same guy who wants to annex Canada?

🚀 Fully-funded PhD position at TUDelft 🚀 3D reconstruction and modelling of roofs in European cities Deadline to apply: 2 March 2025 3d.bk.tudelft.nl/jobs/phdmult...

🚨In Nature🚨 Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias? We this test empirically & find that conservatives * ARE suspended more * BUT share more misinfo So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.

Me: The earth isn't flat. Fiat earther: Correct. Me: Huh? Fiat earther: It's the shape of an italian car. Me: What? Fiat earther: You read my name wrong didn't you?

Wikipedia is the only website in the top-ten most-visited websites to be run by a nonprofit organization. We are not funded by ads. We don’t charge subscription fees. We don’t sell your data. We operate primarily on donations from people like you. Read ➡️ wikimediafoundation.org/news/2024/11...

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

“Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown” github.com/microsoft/ma...

Just had an idea

I wrote some thoughts about why peer review matters It shapes scientific standards, maintains field coherence & trains new researchers Yes, it needs improvement—but it's the glue that holds scientific progress together briscoelab.org/2024/12/11/i...

We have two fully-funded PhD projects in spatial data science at @begin-standrews.bsky.social. Both are funded by the Iapetus Doctoral Training Programme: iapetus2.ac.uk/how-to-apply/ DL for international applicants: 9 Dec 2024. DL for UK applicants: 3 Jan 2025. See thread for project details. 👇

The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on? direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... A 🧵 1/n #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub

Big if true www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Developers, do you want to verify yourself here but don't have a personal domain? You can use your GitHub account! 🦋🐱 I temporarily renamed myself to @nicolo-ribaudo.github.io :)

I will not hide my inner convictions anymore. Be the change you want to see in the world ! #AcademicSky 🧪

Working on geospatial software? Let me know so I can add you to the Geospatial Developers starter pack: go.bsky.app/cnR8bN #gischat #leafletjs #geojson #maplibre #openlayers