Konrad Hinsen

What does it take for people to be able to adapt the computer systems they use? Under the term substrates, this workshop brings together past and present research directions that explore and realize the vision of systems people truly own. 2027.programmingconference.org/home/substra...

Journées Ouvertes en Bioinformatique, Mathématiques et informatique, du 6 au 9 juillet 2027 à Grenoble 🧪 jobim2027.sciencesconf.org 1ère date limite : soumissions pour les mini-symposia le 11 décembre 2026

@semble.so Is there a way to update the title of a card? Or even edit it arbitrarily?

👀 Florida attorney general to OpenAI: (www.myfloridalegal.com/sites/defaul...)

New blog post: "Knowledge refinement in the digital era" 🧪 How can computational knowledge move from research into education and general culture? blog.khinsen.net/posts/2026/0...

Lecture notes on "The Source Code of Science" 🧪, by Roberto di Cosmo. hal.science/hal-05734828 Its source code: github.com/rdicosmo/sou...

Today, the day of the 100th anniversary symposium for Jean-Pierre Serre in Paris, I'm thinking of this quote from another mathematician, A. Connes. I do think it's important we foster confidence in our own expertise - as a nonsense filter and departure point for creativity.

I wrote down my thoughts about the last several weeks of AI hell. aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...

Hey @ericlipton.nytimes.com 👋 AI is not “evolving” on its own. *People* are choosing how to build it. *People* are choosing how to train it. *People* are choosing how to run it. Maybe the problem is that they are the *wrong people* to make these choices.

Here is the evaluation for "an empirical assessment of the inferential reproducibility of linear regression analyses in health and biomedical research". It demonstrates "substantial violations of key modelling assumptions" that often went unnoticed by authors and reviewers. 👇 Read it on MetaROR

> Young people [...] coined this term ‘AI slop’ … There’s a sort of disdain for things AI. Where are all those who claimed the problem with AI adoption was because every new tech that young people use old people hate? Oh, did that parallel collapse because it's actually the kids who hate it?

Chess is a formal system. Language isn't. There's a huge difference between the rules of chess and language, which doesn't have a set of rules in the same way.

Just released an early preview of Zemble, a @zotero.org plugin for @semble.so! - Augment you Zotero library with all of the activity happening on Semble/Atmosphere. - Easily save and view items in Zotero on Semble. - Publish Zotero collections as Semble collections.

Wanted to take a peek at @semble.so and didn't knew where to start. I built this as a static explorer of all the links in there. sites.wisp.place/davidgasquez... Love AT Protocol for letting me build the UI I want! 😍

Copying manuscripts by hand must have been an incredibly deep learning experience. Working through the ideas of Plato or Aristotle or Augustine line by line. Swimming in author’s head for months.

Fastmail data can now live primarily in the EU, on servers our own engineers set up in Amsterdam. Current customers can switch in settings; new accounts pick a region at signup. 

 Our CEO Bron's post walks through exactly what lives where.
www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmai... #Fastmail #Email

I recommend this article about AI reasoning, where the author lets us in on his struggles w/ AI cognitive dissonance. Plus some priceless quotes from @rao2z.bsky.social. (My recommendation has *nothing* to do with the fact that I'm quoted in it too 😇) www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-reason...

See below for a preview of our Munich Manifesto for Equitable Open Research - if you care about #openscience for all, please consider signing too! We are gathering support for a formal launch in September #philsci #research #policy #equality #sts Thanks so much @alelazic.bsky.social for your insight

OK one of the greatest things IA've ever built. Bi-directional SVG source code editing. Drawing as programming with programmable drawings. *this* is how I want computers to collaborate with me. Ordinary SVG with a plurality of editable views. tomlarkworthy.github.io/lopebooks/no...

normally, as a metascientist, I should be elated to read about "establishing metascience units to institutionalize continuous improvement" as a government science priority but in this case it fills me with dread

This problem by the way with industry actors destroying open source projects and taking advantage of people who pour their hearts into things has been well-known for ages and their entryism is reaching new heights bsky.app/profile/khin...

Things like: Cooper, R. P., & Guest, O. (2014). Implementations are not specifications: Specification, replication and experimentation in computational cognitive modeling. Cognitive Systems Research, 27, 42-49. doi:10.1016/j.cogsys.2013.05.001. PDF: pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i...

"Conviviality can only happen if a majority of a community adopts it as a value. What small groups of people can do, however, is develop and use convivial tools at their modest scale, to demonstrate that it is possible, and to provide a model that others can learn from if they want to."

oh that's very related to @khinsen.net and co's rescience.github.io

anyway read the paper @khinsen.net links to as well: doi.org/10.4000/16954

> Conviviality can only happen if a majority of a community adopts it as a value. What small groups of people can do, however, is develop and use convivial tools at their modest scale, to [...] provide a model that others can learn from if they want to. — @khinsen.net

New blog post: "Conviviality in computational science" blog.khinsen.net/posts/2026/0... "Conviviality matters for science ... if you want to derive knowledge from your work, you need to know exactly what you are doing, and that includes a detailed understanding of your tools." 🧪 #metascience

Nothing says "we should probably do something about this" quite like an extreme heat conference being canceled because it's too hot. 🫠🌡️

"Open science is increasingly losing its liberating and democratizing potential, as it becomes entangled with the interconnected and mutually reinforcing logics of commercialization, political instrumentalization, and media-driven visibility of science."

@author-calnewport.bsky.social does a fantastic job writing about AI, and this one is his best yet. Gift link in quoted post.

Coordination technologies, in chronological order* 1. Religion 2. Art 3. Clothing/jewelry 4. Music 5. Language 6. Oral recitation 7. Written language 8. Law 9. Money 10. Bureaucracy 11. Printing 12. Markets 13. Software 14. Networks 15. AI *?

Under which conditions do AI tools save researchers’ time and effort? And at what cost? Alex Mussgnug and I just published a philosophical analysis of #Convenience in #AI #philsci Paywalled: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Preprint: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29890/

“What’s most problematic about many instances of hurried science is not the norm-violations as such, but the fact that these norm-violations were not tracked.” #PhilSci See also...

“Hurried Science” “Hurried science is when scientific research is sped up in such a way that reliability-enhancing norms get violated in the process.” New preprint by @dellsen.bsky.social philsci-archive.pitt.edu/30114/

AI for handling high-variance intents. UI for handling low-variance intents. DSL for handling medium-variance intents. 🤔 is this anything?

"Different science reformers have distinct core hypotheses about what has gone wrong and what is most tractable to fix." By @calebwatney.bsky.social and Jenn Gustetic

Shall we build a matrix intersecting the six camps of metascience with the five schools of open science? link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Join us as a postdoctoral researcher! "Invisible Knowledge Work in Open Science Practices", funded by OSNL #STS #metascience Come help us map and understand the invisible labour that enables, allows, supports and shapes #openscience, and lets it grow. Mostly #qual work, with small #quant pockets.

Read about @mu.social yesterday. Thought "why not?" and tried to connect. Age verification. Closed window, end of the story.

This, by @khinsen.net , is a very rewarding read. I've finally read it from the beginning to the end and found a lot to think about.

Today, we are launching the Semble API 🥳 🚀 Here's how to use it 👇️

We're excited to launch J·ROR, the Journal of Research on Research. A new open-access home for research on how research is funded, organised, conducted, communicated, and evaluated. Our first editorial: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #ResearchOnResearch #MetaScience #OpenScience #STS

Regretfully, I no longer believe that quality emerges as a straightforward byproduct of market competition. Quality requires a kind of virtue ethics, a Nietzschean “esteem” for quality which we no longer hold.

I wish more people would understand this...

It depends what the kinetic bottleneck in research is, and I don't think it's reading papers (most of which in your field you know intimately anyway) or having ideas. The bottleneck is getting job/funding, having very good ideas (not the same as just ideas), and, crucially, doing the actual work.

It surely depends on the area of biology, and in any case I do think LLMs can be v. useful for bibliographic research. But things have surprising consequences - e.g. if bibliography is easier, you might read less etc. - and the loss of confidence is probably in itself a huge underappreciated factor.

Thinking of this, but in biology. At least for now, 'AI' in the sense of LLMs has been nothing as fruitful as BLAST, HMMs, or AF, not to mention cloning or CRISPR. If anything, I'd wager AI has brought about a decrease in interesting papers, as if people lost confidence or were waiting for somethng.