Martijn van den Ende

Screenshot of an AI-generated summary of a Zoom meeting: Summary Delayed Train Journey Anecdote Martijn shared his delayed train journey back to the Netherlands, which was delayed by 2 hours due to a train collision. He mentioned that the train driver was delayed due to cooking a beef stew for Christmas. Marco expressed concern and noted that trains in the Netherlands are often delayed.

AI is coming for our jobs...

(for the record: the train driver was not, in fact, delaying the international high-speed train to cook a beef stew for Christmas)

@rocksandfaults.bsky.social

Using fibre-optic sensing for non-invasive, continuous dendrometry of mature tree trunks Abstract. Dendrometry is the main non-invasive macroscopic technique commonly used in plant physiology and ecophysysiology studies. Over the years several

Other fascinating DAS-ecology papers:

- Weevils eating palm trees: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Whales in the arctic: www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
- Trees growing: academic.oup.com/treephys/art...
- Cattle grazing: esurf.copernicus.org/articles/13/...

Distributed acoustic sensing reveals urban rat dynamics through environmental intelligence of dark fiber - Communications Earth & Environment Rat nightlife in cities is shaped by the weather, with wind, heat, and cloud cover keeping them underground, according to a study that used distributed acoustic sensing on a 20-kilometer dark fiber in...

I think I've seen it all now... Using Distributed Acoustic Sensing to monitor rats chasing one another in the sewers: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

And no, I cannot get internet from my phone hotspot, because I cannot connect to both my phone and the target network simultaneously to perform the authentication.

Props to the designers!

1) In order to connect my laptop to a wireless network I need to install an app.
2) In order for the app to authenticate with the network, it needs an active internet connection.
3) In order to have internet, I need to be authenticated on the network.

See the problem here? 🤔

Wow, you're right; arXiv enforces a file size limit of 10 MB (not 3, though...). arXiv hosts close to 3 million manuscripts, which at 10 MB each still represents a manageable 30 TB, though I can imagine that they're more concerned about bandwidth (30 million manuscripts/month)

hal.science proudly claims it hosts about 1.5 million papers, which could all fit on a single USB-SSD drive. I would personally send them another USB stick if they lack storage, as long as my manuscript file can be a healthy 5-10 MB.

Why do manuscript repositories pretend like it's 1998? For hal.science, the maximum file size is 3 MB, and if you cannot stick to that they will remove your submission within 5 months. Nowadays a single HDD has a capacity approaching 30 TB, which could store 10 MILLION documents.

⚠️ Faults don’t slip evenly!!
Varying slip rates along faults drive complex earthquake cycle patterns, yet they are overlooked in seismic hazard assessments.
Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

Submission day is approaching, and already 24 hours before the submission deadline this ancient-looking platform buckles under the strain of at least 100 scientists trying to submit their projects. Stress testing clearly wasn't part of the development objectives...

Thanks for the summary. Familiar scenes from the previous platform

I'm out of the loop. What did Leadership day/do?

What is particularly annoying about this particular platform, is that it will log you out after a set amount of time (instead of a set amount of inactivity). Did you just write out an entire author list for this publication? How about I log you out first so you can do it again?

XKCD comic with stick figures. Title says "How standards proliferate". Panel one says "Situation: there are 14 competing standards". Character in panel two says "14?! Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone's use cases". Panel three says "Soon: Situation: there are 15 competing standards"

Spending half my day filling out forms on yet another CV platform mandated by a particular funding agency. Can't we just export/import a simple XML/JSON from one platform into another?

See also: xkcd.com/927/

I'd consider the impact factor to represent the journal's ability to generate citations. Whether that correlates with a positive author experience is anybody's guess. I'd rather see some kind of "social impact factor" that measures the wellbeing of authors, reviewers, and editors.

scirev.org 👈
"SciRev.org is [...] offering researchers the opportunity to share their experiences and select an efficient journal to submit their work." And guess what: "The website is owned and maintained by [...] a non-profit organization located in The Netherlands."

Exactly that! We need to make it more popular amongst our community. And they need to index Seismica!

I'm sure that there are many other journals out there that can act with complacency and negligence, knowing that their reputation is mostly derived from the Impact Factor. We need more push-back from the community to ensure they are meeting their "high quality standard" that we are paying $$$ for.

I just had a manuscript returned to me and my co-authors after almost 3 months since submission. The main reason: we declared funding in the acknowledgements but not in the metadata. I could fill out an "author satisfaction survey", but this will not change anything, and the world deserves to know

We need a rating/review site for academic journals. Something like Yelp, but for academia. As far as I can tell, there is currently no mechanism to hold journals accountable for editorial malpractice, or to provide feedback that is transparent and visible to the public.

I was just asked to review a paper, but I had to look up several words from the title in a dictionary. I took that as a sign that I'm not qualified for this assignment.

I haven't seen those in a long while, but had I filled them out truthfully, half my family and friends could get into my user account at any time. They should have asked more private questions, like "Business address of your drug dealer" or "Name of your second mistress"

Release SeisBench v0.10 - SkyNet, SeisDAE and a more powerful model API · seisbench/seisbench Major updates The SkyNet model is now available in SeisBench. SkyNet is specifically designed to pick phase arrivals at regional distances (up to 20 degree) and also comes with a set of weights to...

SeisBench v.10 is out and it's time for some new models:
- SkyNet allows picking regional phases and can even distinguish Pn, Pg, Sn, Sg (beware of the Terminator though)
- SeisDAE brings easily retrainable seismic waveform denoising

Check out all changes here:
github.com/seisbench/se...

This PSA was prompted by an email from Sapienza's IT to renew my password that looked suspiciously like a phishing attempt. When you do notify users, never say "Click here to learn more"...

NIST Recommends New Rules for Password Security The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released updated guidelines for password security, marking a significant shift from traditional password practices.

PSA to all IT departments out there: mandatory periodic password changes are no longer recommended (cybersecuritynews.com/nist-rules-p...).

And requiring at least one capital letter, a number, and a special character has a 50% chance of resulting in "P@ssword123". Offer MFA instead.

I indeed suspect an overly-zealous find-replace tool. I initially feared that Overleaf had enabled an AI language tool that automatically "corrected" my writing, but fortunately that was not the case. But given how many scientific terms end with -or, I anticipate more victims of this macro...

Using fibre-optic sensing for non-invasive, continuous dendrometry of mature tree trunks Abstract. Dendrometry is the main non-invasive macroscopic technique commonly used in plant physiology and ecophysysiology studies. Over the years several

I could understand how this could happen for a non-specialist journal, but this journal supposedly specialises in trees. They should have known how to typeset Latin species names.

Want to see for yourself? academic.oup.com/treephys/art.... I will gladly send you a copy if you don't have access.

Yet another strike for the Tree Physiology journal: I noticed (too late) that the copy-editors rewrote Latin species names into EN-GB spelling: Brachychiton discolor became Brachychiton discolour everywhere in my manuscript!

Fortunately I didn't pay anything for this "high quality typesetting"...

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Measuring rock slides is cool, but modelling rock slides is cool too. So why not do both? Come join us at the beautiful Côte d'Azur! We have a fully-funded PhD opportunity available in the framework of the ERC UNREST project. Application window is open until 25 August: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...