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• Post #4462905

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@harrymccracken/117058069593490011 RIP. He seems to have been a very decent person to work for, too.

• Post #4067808

  Sometimes wish there were a “only show replies” option for mastodon profile pages so you could see whether the accounts of big organisations actually engage with people on here.

• Post #4033272

  My partner’s sibling has left a Commodore 128 in the garage for me to play with. What cool things can I do with it that won’t turn into an enormous time sink? (assuming it still turns on, that is - replacing capacitors isn’t something I have time for right now) #Commodore128 #Commodore64 #Commodore

• Post #3961868

  A lot of people like to lead with a financial justification for doing decent things, whether it be investing in green energy (“it’s cheaper in the long run”) or not working too much (“I am paid to work for hours per week, not more”). Please remember we can also do decent things because they are the decent thing to do – regardless of monetary considerations!

• Post #3780966

  TIL that Software Heritage properly renders Jupyter notebooks in archived repos, including math mode TeX, see for example: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/swh:1:cnt:9e6c00391e0bae6dcfa5d80e0f986e1e5d4a85f5;origin=https://github.com/davidjamesweir/2026-lecture-demos;visit=swh:1:snp:634ff513503296f71f8cddaa4435f90451d505da;anchor=swh:1:rev:fccaa8a9526a9a8f68f891d4a98e1a9f4e663b27;path=/nucleation.ipynb But… how can one properly archive the output of the notebooks for posterity? I’d rather no...

• Post #3780965

  It’s 12 o’clock on the first Monday of the month, time to find out how good your windows are for soundproofing. #WeeWooSuomi

• Post #3780964

  Thistle do nicely. (growing against the wall of Liikuntamylly, Myllypuro, Helsinki)

• Post #3780963

  Ryvoan bothy, a mountain shelter in the Cairngorms in Scotland, has displayed a copy of this poem for at least 80 years, written by a woman, AM Lawrence, from Cumbria. It came to mind tonight and as it combines trains and mountains, I wanted to share it here too: I Leave Tonight From Euston I shall leave tonight from Euston By the seven-thirty train, And from Perth in the early morning I shall see the hills again. From the top of Ben Macdhui I shall watch the gathering storm, And see the crisp...

• Post #3780962

  Puolison pyörä varastettiin talon pyörävarastosta Helsingin Latokartanossa noin viimeisen viikon aikana. En usko, että saadaan sitä koskaan takaisin, mutta ohessa on kuva pyörästä puskaradiolle. Merkki on ”Scott”. Lastenistuinta ei ollut kiinnitetty silloin, kun pyörä poistettiin. #helsinki #pyörä

• Post #3780961

  Meet one’s Digi-loo, idiom: to finally give in and listen to 80’s Swedish pop.

• Post #2337635

  #TunnistaPaikka vai onnistuuko paikantaminen aurinkokulman ansiosta? 🤓

• Post #2004498

  Sometimes I wish I were a birch tree so I could just stand in the gentle sun, slowly stretch out my green leaves as spring takes hold, and wait.

• Post #1803462

  🎶 On the roof’s the only place I know Where you just have to wish to make it so Let’s go Up on the roof Our students have a tradition of going up on the roof of our building (Physicum) for the day before Vappu (1.5.). I decided to take a break from grant writing to join them. Hauskaa vappua!

• Post #1073068

  Finally got a name for my Nordic neo-noir crime drama film.

• Post #1024729

  Hyvää suomen kielen päivää! Jos pelkäät, että englantia käytetään liikaa työpaikkallasi, niin pyri rohkaisemaan suomea toisena kielenä puhuvaa työkaveria käyttämään kieltä vielä matalammalla kynnyksellä. Käytää useampia kieliä rinnakkain. Laadi esimerkiksi diat esityksiä varten siten, että koko yleisö ymmärrä pointin lukemalla, ja pidä puhe suomeksi.

• Post #866342

  The real reason Finland is the happiest country in the world is we have secret extra ways of cooking rice the other Nordic countries don’t know about. 🤭

• Post #865169

  Writing physics posts on fedi to avoid doing the hard work of writing lectures. #AcademicChatter

• Post #826642

  Okay, help: what's a good compromise for a whiteboard for one-off use in a lecture? I want to collect student ideas, group them together and talk them through interactively while showing the whiteboard on a screen. Nothing more. For a long time I would have used Flinga Whiteboard (https://flinga.fi/) but my employer stopped paying for it. They do pay for Miro but it's horrendously complicated to use, and a steep learning curve for a one-off activation exercise in class. Is there someth...

• Post #696623

  The single biggest piece of growing up I’ve done as an adult was realising this: When someone tells me some news I can say “how do you feel about that?” or similar, rather than telling them what I think or making assumptions about how their news makes them feel. Simple really.

• Post #627983

  I’ve got the oven, you’ve got the rye flour Let’s make lots of mämmi

• Post #604433

  Suomi. Tuhansien pylväiden maa. #vantaa #DaBlirDuEnPanda

• Post #569372

  What was so obviously bad about it? The tell which meant I lost all ability to take it seriously wasn't em dashes or three-point lists or any crap like that, it was two sentences which had a perfect meter and rhyming scheme. I can't remember what they are now (and I don't want to call it out directly anyway) but it was totally unmissable when read aloud, even by a non-native English speaker. It broke the serious mood that the opening paragraph was trying to evoke, which was general...

• Post #525423

  Onneksi DVV estää minua tekemästä huonoja valintoja pikkutunneilla. (Olisin halunnut vain muokata ammattinimikettäni)

• Post #411617

  I’ve been asked to sign a declaration of solidarity with academics at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, in response to legislative measures in Georgia that will cut student admissions and limit academic freedom. Does anyone have any good English-language resources about what these changes entail and how they are being receive? #AcademicChatter #Georgia #ISU #IliaStateUniversity

• Post #274006

  My enjoyment of Fedi went way up when I started being very liberal with my use of the “mute” feature…

• Post #267272

  British public sector being perfectly normal: expecting me to be available 24/7 for a week to discuss my giving them more money voluntarily.

• Post #255109

  Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. It’s important to remember that actively working towards a welcoming safe environment for everyone in science isn’t just the decent thing to do (I’d argue it’s the bare minimum), it also means we do better science! Take, for example, this study showing underrepresented groups innovate more than their peers (but their work is not taken up by the wider community): https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915378117 #AcademicChatter #WomenInSTEM

• Post #249188

  Ahh, our new paper draft is coming nicely. ☺️ (I think I blame VSCodium’s built in PDF viewer for this) #TeXLaTeX

• Post #167045

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@vitaut/115974966972211601 Today I learned you can turn off clang-format inline in the code: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormatStyleOptions.html#:~:text=The%20code%20between%20a%20comment,will%20not%20be%20formatted