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• Post #4276098

  Who else will be at EUSIPCO 2026? https://eusipco2026.org/ (The European Signal Processing conference) Looking forward to it. #EUSIPCO #EUSIPCO2026 #Bruges

• Post #4276097

  I take it that McDonalds, Burger King etc are having crisis meetings about Ozempic? They must be. Looks like it could dent their earnings by at least 5% in rich countries. (This toot inspired by the very informative #Kurzgesagt video about #Ozempic)

• Post #4276096

  Watching the launch for Open Climate Fix new Netherlands solar energy forecast! ML-powered renewable energy forecasting that's been working in the UK already, now following me to NL :) Congrats folks! https://www.openclimatefix.org/ #renewables #forecasting

• Post #4097795

  NL: het film "Azart Come Make Art" is het mooiste filmpje over her leven, art, en een gekke art captain met een gekke boot https://bioscopenleiden.nl/films/azart-come-make-art/

• Post #4097613

  Learnt a lovely Dutch word: "natafelen". Literally "after-table-ing": sitting around chatting after your dinner, perhaps with a drink but maybe just sitting. A good phenomenon yet no word in English. #Dutch #words

• Post #3917146

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@danstowell/116940768490006541 There's a joyous thread of absurd free-thinking artists in the Netherlands (especially Amsterdam?), and I think often gets forgotten. For me it includes Theo Jansen's Strandbeest, The Ex's music, Jaap Blonk's vocal extremes, and now August Dirk's "Azart" boat voyages! -- And... what else? #dutch #art

• Post #3694964

  20 wind turbines in the Netherlands ordered to shut down in daylight hours, after a young sea eagle’s death https://nltimes.nl/2026/07/07/zeeland-shuts-20-wind-turbines-overday-young-sea-eagles-death - notable here that the issue seems to be over the operator's decision not to install a bird detection system.

• Post #2347973

  International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing (LOCO) (Lancaster, UK & online), 10--11 Sep 2026 (abstracts deadline: May 29th) https://lancaster-university.github.io/loco2026/

• Post #2347972

  "Can we talk to the animals? The ethics of using machine learning to decode animal communication" https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-026-10409-2 - I'm pleased that someone finally wrote a clear and complete ethical consideration of this emerging topic! #bioacoustics

• Post #2347970

  This was a fabulous Bioacoustic AI week (@bioacousticai) here in the Netherlands! We welcomed our Doctoral Candidates and researchers to meet Dutch researchers for discussions, research planning, plus a desert hike, and a bat walk! #bioacoustics

• Post #2347969

  Call for papers: DCASE 2026 (28-29 Oct, Boston, USA) https://dcase.community/workshop2026/call-for-papers -- #DCASE is the workshop for audio intelligence R&D #audio

• Post #2347968

  Dutch friends: This is the BEST worst auto-translate I've encountered. Please read this history of the lekkerbek! #Dutch #funny Original and translated:

• Post #2347967

  I cannot stop thinking about this film I watched 6 months ago. "Neptune Frost", the most amazing imaginative scifi strangeness I could have wished for. Trailer: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=acfBNIXovww When will I ever be able to watch it again??? #scifi #film

• Post #2347965

  Thinking about traditional moorish art, and the distinction between "geometric pattern" versus "algorithmic pattern". These visual designs are geometric. But definitely not algorithmic: humans make these by heuristically matching/filling the pattern, not by rule-following. In computer art we often conflate the two, since most programs to make these would proceed algorithmically. #computerart #MoorishArchitecture

• Post #1735682

  Learning some Clifford Algebra (aka Geometric Algebra) - it's beautiful. You can use the same algebra method for 2D, 3D, more - & among other things, it leads to a VERY intuitive way to understand complex numbers! These 2 videos explain it delightfully: (1) Freya Holmér. "Why can't you multiply vectors?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFzoltaLESs (2) "A swift Introduction to Geometric Algebra" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60z_hpEAtD...

• Post #1623129

  New from me: "Torus embeddings" - a topological exploration in deep learning and CPUs https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03135 #preprint #deeplearning #topology

• Post #1085672

  The Dutch are tying themselves in knots trying to police the craze for "fat bikes", a type of e-bike trendy with teenagers. The problem is that it's not really the fatbikes they want to regulate - it's the teenagers. (More precisely: their fast, social and risky biking.) There's no category of vehicle for that. #nlpol #fatbike

• Post #1061126

  #kitchendiary: Haggis flatbread (still working on my technique for this!) served with beetroot borani (a lively middle Eastern dip). #nom #vegan

• Post #1028002

  RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@millerdl/116022869413448061 Bandcamp Friday - let's do this! If you want GENTLE then check this beautiful sumptuous album from Loma https://lomamusic.bandcamp.com/album/how-will-i-live-without-a-body If you want UNGENTLE then this astonishing track from Manuja https://marujaofficial.bandcamp.com/track/kakistocracy #nowplaying #bandcampfriday

• Post #1027998

  Got to say CONGRATULATIONS TO MY GREEN FRIENDS IN MANCHESTER! Happy news! Always remember that good parties do win! (even when the press gets obsessed with the xenophobes) The first ever Green MP in Northern England, hurrah! https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/27/green-party-wins-gorton-and-denton-byelection-in-blow-to-keir-starmer #ukpol

• Post #910532

  I gave an invited class to ecologists in Göttingen this week. In return I was given honey from the university orchard, harvested by ecology students!

• Post #910531

  New paper from us: "A dataset of insect sounds from 459 species for bioacoustic machine learning", published in Scientific Data, led by Marius Faiß https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-07123-4 #bioacoustics #datasets

• Post #910528

  Currently submitting a journal article with 22 co-authors. The best decision I made was to BEGIN the writing process by demanding they each fill in a form with their ORCID, email, and institution details! A simple afternoon of copy-paste ahead... (Instead of a week of pestering co-authors) #academicchatter #academicpublishing

• Post #817033

  I'm super pleased that #xenocanto has launched this new feature: detailed annotations for its animal sound data! https://xeno-canto.org/article/318 Xeno-canto is the most valuable #birdsong/#animalsound archive. This will help even more!