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Solal Pirelli

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Scala compiler engineer @ EPFL. Scientific integrity, and random rants. Previously: PhD in automated software verification.

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Everybody gets as many votes as there are seats, though you don't have to use all your votes and can only vote for any given person once.

11.03.2026 22:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Cortez speaking like a real bilingual person instead of cartoonishly adding "amigo" to sentences is a nice example

11.03.2026 21:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Iran Air Flight 655 - Wikipedia

Il y a de la compΓ©tition, on a juste oubliΓ©. :(

"I will never apologize for the United States - I don't care what the facts are"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Ai...

11.03.2026 17:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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COSIG The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides

Pseudoreplication is the practice of treating non-independent observations as if they were independent replicates. This can dramatically increase the rate of false positives.

COSIG's newest entry covers how to spot them. Read it at osf.io/hyxvr

COSIG πŸŽ‰now with 34 guides πŸŽ‰is available at cosig.net.

09.03.2026 20:18 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Justement c'est pas mal qu'ils pleurnichent IMHO, Γ§a renforce la sΓ©paration droite / extrΓͺme-droite vu qu'ils traitent une bonne partie de l'Γ©lectorat entre eux et la gauche de mΓ©chants gauchistes, je doute que les Γ©lecteurs apprΓ©cient.

08.03.2026 17:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Fun election math: you can get an absolute majority and still not be elected in a multi-seat constituency!

08.03.2026 16:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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few know this, but in Switzerland we use yogurt for all road markings

08.03.2026 10:45 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The tech influencer's father?

06.03.2026 15:08 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Indeed, je suis de retour à l'EPFL donc pas trop loin 😁

04.03.2026 20:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Better outputs than a lot of existing paper mills πŸ™ƒ

04.03.2026 06:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Switzerland is all about importing words from the other linguistic region in a way that doesn't quite make sense πŸ˜…

01.03.2026 10:45 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I would not have guessed the singer's aesthetic even with 1000 guesses 😳

28.02.2026 11:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't get why people stay in relationships where they are the "adult"...

27.02.2026 20:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hopefully CS can follow suit, it's a little ironic that biologists are beating us to this milestone πŸ™ƒ

27.02.2026 19:11 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Their name is a typo, they're actually Complimentary medicine.

26.02.2026 19:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How Ten Publishers Retract Research Retractions are the primary mechanism for correcting the scholarly record, yet publishers differ markedly in how they use them. We present a bibliometric analysis of 46,087 retractions across 10 major...

In which we learn @acm.org is exceptionally bad at retracting articles that need retracting:

arxiv.org/abs/2602.191...

24.02.2026 12:54 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You're probably thinking of Louis XVI

(or, why we should stop using Roman numerals...)

22.02.2026 17:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Seems adapted to the main target country...is it also teaching you how to buy homeopathy? πŸ™ƒ

22.02.2026 12:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Clearly being single prevents Alzheimer's

22.02.2026 12:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Some confs have switched to publishing proceedings in a "journal", which only publishes their proceedings and really only exists to make bean counters who only know journals happy. But still fixed deadlines, program committees (*ahem* "editors", sorry), etc.

22.02.2026 11:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Coming from one of the many subfields of CS that primarily uses conferences, I wish the rest of the scientific world would notice us sometimes :)
E.g. re: the comment about needing 4-5 reviews, there are some conferences where this is normal. And reviewer matching + workload mgmt is much easier.

22.02.2026 11:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The Verge going with the pseudojournalist version of "actually she was asking for it even though she said no"

21.02.2026 16:08 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The sky is blue, the grass is green, the @acm.org is undermining trust in science through terrible publishing practices... Just another day!

20.02.2026 12:02 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

the only place this should happen is academic conferences

19.02.2026 18:14 πŸ‘ 2950 πŸ” 410 πŸ’¬ 94 πŸ“Œ 9
"Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?" meme

"Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?" meme

15.02.2026 12:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

See also: "right" to a trial by jury.

15.02.2026 11:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Fun fact: le drapeau du canton de St Gall reprΓ©sente l'arme Γ  l'origine du mot "fascisme".

15.02.2026 11:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The president role rotates every year and it was a woman last year, Trump is just insecure

11.02.2026 09:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Ministry of Ed.: universities shouldn't partner with companies that guarantee paper acceptance and other such dubious things

🏭 One such company: that's unfair and defamatory :(

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ court: no no that's fair, get lost

Yay for good govt! h/t @abalkina.bsky.social

opendatabot.ua/court/133906...

10.02.2026 20:35 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Even with quality checks from PC chairs there will occasionally be bad actors who go undetected until publication, right now dealing with that in reasonable time is effectively impossible because the incentives for publishers to act aren't there.

10.02.2026 09:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0