Charles Pence

pence@scholar.social

🔬 philosopher & historian of biology • science and society🏫 PI, Pence Lab • director, CEFISES • UCLouvain, Belgium • Collegium, Royal Academy of Belgium📓 Exec. Editor, PTPBio • Assoc. Editor, Biology & Philosophy👨‍🦲 he/him • 🇧🇪+🇺🇸 • en/fr/nl (in aanbouw) • partner of <a href="https://wandering.shop/@juliapence" class="u-url mention">@juliapence</a> • posts deleted after 3mo🗳️ <a href="https://mastodon.world/@ecolobe" class="u-url mention">@ecolobe</a> • CSC-CNE UCLouvain (syndicat)🎈 music • sports (#rusg) • running • video games

Posts

Post #4504622
Hey Mastodon hivemind: Does anybody have experience starting up a US-based 501(c)(3) non-profit for a small organization (in my case, an academic journal)? No employees, very small board, only the need to have an entity that can legally hold copyrights and ownership that isn&#39;t any of the individuals involved, so that the entity could survive someone going rogue. Would appreciate being able to ask a couple of questions and/or see if there&#39;s any pitfalls I&#39;m not considerin...
Post #4504621
Me: Oh, hey, if they&#39;re discontinuing OSF projects, I should go finally delete my account, I won&#39;t need it anymore. OSF: We have disabled your account. Contact support to have it reopened. Me: Well, after having had my account closed *twice* already for being a &quot;potential spammer,&quot; I guess you guys can just have it now. Good riddance.
Post #4504620
I&#39;m not actually going to do it, because I have better stuff to do, but it would be *so* much fun to try to speedrun getting as many publications in as many widely diverse scam paper mill journals as possible. I get stuff from Journal of Soil Science. Surgery. Journal of Electrical Engineering and Semiconductor Design. Humanities Communications. You could have the *wildest* CV
Post #1109089
It&#39;s early, still, and things could turn around (he said with entirely unjustifiable optimism), but a graph like this is a signal of generational damage and an utter abdication of global scientific leadership. Let&#39;s get to work, Europe.
Post #993348
Blues Traveler&#39;s &quot;Hook&quot; really is simultaneously a great send-up of pop songs and a freaking *bop*
Post #993347
Oh my god, DNS can run DOOM. https://blog.rice.is/post/doom-over-dns/
Post #993346
Gent Marathon: 4:34:44. Slower by about 10 minutes than I was hoping for, but that&#39;s the race I had in me today. I maybe could have hit sub-4:30 if I had been a bit more conservative over the first 30k, but I was on an aggressive plan, and burned out my gears for the last 10k. Dropped to a Galloway-style run/walk from around 30k-39k, kicked at the end, and still got a clean finish with a time I&#39;m very proud of. And Gent is such a gorgeous town...! Next: push to sub-2h HM in June...
Post #993345
Finally set up Iocaine + NSoE on my homelab today. Claude is scraping me at 750 hits/minute. Apparently I now need to set up ratelimiting and/or fail2ban, but that&#39;s for future Pence. (Also worthy of note: this is a test deployment. I only deployed this on *parked domain endpoints without a real site.*)