Stefano Zacchiroli @zacchiro@mastodon.xyz

My team is hiring: #Paris-based #postdoc researcher wanted to analyze the #SoftwareHeritage archive at scale, for several use cases revolving around software provenance tracking. Learn more at: https://www.softwareheritage.org/jobs/postdoc-provenance/
#research #jobs

I'm glad to announce that the @swheritage Graph Dataset has been selected as topic for the upcoming @msrconf Mining Challenge. CFP to appear soon at https://2020.msrconf.org/track/msr-2020-msr-challenge
Meanwhile, you can learn more about the dataset from this preprint https://upsilon.cc/~zack/research/publications/msr-2019-swh.pdf #msr2020

New #halfmarathon personal best @semiparis: 1h45m51s. Amazing weather, if not for the heavy contrary wind in the last 5k... Thanks #Paris. #running

#Lyon cc: @LucianoChessa

tfw you read cool stuff in a scientific paper and only at the end you realize the author is working next-door

Non c’è lotta al negazionismo climatico senza lotta alle «grandi opere» https://jacobinitalia.it/non-ce-lotta-al-negazionismo-climatico-senza-lotta-alle-grandi-opere/

era inevitabile, ora cominciano pure a prenderci per il culo su @lemondefr (e giustamente!) per gli effetti perversi dell'#ASN
« Recherche scientifique : le faux miracle italien » https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/huet/2019/09/25/recherche-scientifique-le-faux-miracle-italien/ cc: @redazione_roars

« Google refuses to pay publishers in #France » https://www.politico.eu/article/licensing-agreements-with-press-publishers-france-google/
Who could've guessed, right?

Scott’s Supreme #QuantumSupremacy FAQ! https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4317

this message by dkg on #rms' resignation is just perfect: https://lwn.net/Articles/800042/

« “Move fast and break things” is an abomination if your goal is to create a healthy society. »
Facing the Great Reckoning Head-On by @zephoria https://medium.com/p/facing-the-great-reckoning-head-on-8fe434e10630

J'ai voté pour le Budget Participatif de Paris ! https://budgetparticipatif.paris.fr

one of the best summary/reflection on the #cancelstallman gate « A reflection on the departure of #RMS » by Thomas Bushnell, BSG https://link.medium.com/NnFVcxCr5Z

this is a good day for Free Software; tough one too, but good

« A radically open approach to developing infrastructure for #OpenScience » https://about.hindawi.com/blog/a-radically-open-approach-to-developing-infrastructure-for-open-science/ via @Hindawi

« What if We Stopped Pretending the Climate Apocalypse Can Be Stopped? » https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-if-we-stopped-pretending

«Italy became the European country with the highest inwardness. […] observed trends are strongly suggestive of a generalized strategic use of citations, […] self-citations and citation clubs» Who would've guessed, right? #bibliometrics #asn https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04708

My team is hiring: #Paris-based #postdoc researcher wanted to analyze the #SoftwareHeritage archive at scale, for several use cases revolving around software provenance tracking. Learn more at: https://www.softwareheritage.org/jobs/postdoc-provenance/
#research #jobs

This is the logical and unavoidable consequence of forcing academia to live on raised private funds. « The MIT Media Lab has long been academia’s fanciest glue trap for morally vacuous rich people—people like Jeffrey Epstein. » https://slate.com/technology/2019/09/mit-media-lab-jeffrey-epstein-joi-ito-moral-rot.html via @slate

Well, this happened.
« Free software advocate Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this week » https://zd.net/2HNDE1g via @ZDNet & @maryjofoley

« #MissItalia alla #Rai, un errore tornare al passato » https://www.corriere.it/opinioni/19_agosto_27/miss-italia-rai-aab61f2e-c8d9-11e9-b39f-233f79d70722.shtml

@mazzetam: mi stai per diventare #Babau anche in Francia… Sei qua: https://www.lci.fr/international/le-futur-depute-europeen-larem-sandro-gozi-a-t-il-appartenu-a-msi-un-parti-neofasciste-italien-2130120.html# via @LCI