Thoughts on slowing the fuck down Thoughts on slowing the fuck down

This blog post is brilliant and summarizes pretty well how I feel about the new agentic AI wave. mariozechner.at/posts/2026-0...

We are significantly expanding to accelerate our ambitious plans for AI-driven materials discovery at @msftresearch.bsky.social AI for Science. Looking for a Data Engineer, ML Engineer and Applied Scientist (UK/NL/DE).

⬇️ See job postings below ⬇️

Spain denies US permission to use jointly operated bases to attack Iran Refusal to allow use of bases in Rota and Morón follows Pedro Sánchez’s condemnation of US-Israeli action

Damn right. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

El Gobierno pacta con Podemos aprobar este martes una regularización extraordinaria de migrantes El Consejo de Ministros dará luz verde a la medida que beneficiará a más de 500.000 personas. Podrán acogerse aquellas que acrediten estar en España antes del 31 de diciembre de 2025, carezcan de ante...

Spain to regularize about half a million (!) migrants with no criminal record soon. Very happy that there are still political parties that are able to correctly diagnose the causes of societal issues instead of blaming them on the weakest. elpais.com/espana/2026-...

The Free Software Media System | Jellyfin The volunteer-built media solution that puts you in control of your media. Stream to any device from your own server, with no strings attached.

Took the plunge and bought ourselves some decent storage for the home media server I set up over the holidays. Cannot recommend jellyfin.org enough. Specially if you have an old computer lying around it's an amazing value proposition. Ours is sitting under the stairs and is aptly named Harry.

This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner

Just admit that Handbrake uses ffmpeg under the hood, Gemini.

Illustration showing the EU flag and the United Kingdom flag painted side by side. Text reads: “The United Kingdom is coming back to Erasmus+.” An EU flag appears in the bottom right corner.

The United Kingdom is coming back to Erasmus+ 🇪🇺🇬🇧

We have concluded negotiations for the United Kingdom’s association to Erasmus+ in 2027, making further steps in our renewed EU-UK Strategic Partnership.

More ↓
link.europa.eu/vf3vJk

Une mère et son garçonnet, dans la rue. Un SDF leur demande : « une petite pièce… ». La maman, sans un regard pour le pauvre hère, déclare à son fils : « Tu vois Thomas, il faut bien travailler à l’école ». Sans un regard non plus, le SDF répond : « J’ai un doctorat de sociologie ». Ce à quoi la mère lui re-répond : « taisez-vous ». Puis elle lui donne une pièce (non je déconne). [fin]

une petite pièce

Join us @msftresearch.bsky.social AI for Science - only open this week: aka.ms/bioemu-applied

Lead a collaboration with drug discoverers. Orchestrate experimental data generation. Deploy BioEmu and other tools to understand biology at scale.
#Biology #Bioinformatics #CompBio #MachineLearning

Investment of £80m could see 150 homes torn down in Cambridge - BBC News The city council says many of the flats are too costly to repair, and residents will be supported.

"One of the most deprived areas" also turns out to contain the only local greengrocers and butchers for kilometers around. Invest in improving the existing council housing!!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Do you want to invent the future of Chemistry with us? We‘re looking for a "Digital Native” Organic Chemist to join our team at Microsoft Research AI for Science. We offer an amazing environment where you can do deep research with passionate and talented colleagues to solve problems that matter! 1/2

Apparently the AUR is being heavily DDOS'ed right now. What a time to be alive. Support the core Arch developers and remain wary of recent package uploads.

Do better.

Join our BioEmu project @msftresearch.bsky.social AI for Science. In Berlin DE or Cambridge UK:

aka.ms/bioemu-ml - #MachineLearning Researcher
aka.ms/bioemu-data - Data Engineer
aka.ms/bioemu-applied - Applied Researcher
aka.ms/bioemu-principal - Principal Applied Researcher

Also note this is on top of the previously advertised internship and fixed term postdoc openings :)

bsky.app/profile/jjim...

Senior research data engineer:
jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

Principal applied researcher (fairly senior position):
jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

Senior applied researcher:
jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

Senior machine learning researcher: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

Want to help us train the next generation of BioEmu models? We have 4-5 FTE research and engineering openings across different seniority levels in my team. Positions in Berlin (DE) or Cambridge (UK). Send me a message for any questions and please share with interested candidates! Links below

This is one of the things I was the most shocked about when I moved to the UK. The chaos! In Spain we have a mandatory ID number since we’re 14 and use it for absolutely everything

Want to join the BioEmu team at MSR AI for Science? We have multiple intern (jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...) and one fixed-term postdoc (jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo... positions available! Please share with potential candidates :)

Microsoft Research AI for Science - Microsoft Research “Over the coming decade, deep learning looks set to have a transformational impact on the natural sciences. The consequences are potentially far-reaching and could dramatically improve our ability to ...

We have multiple senior scientist / engineer positions available across several geos in MSR AI for Science. Ping me or any of my colleagues if you have any questions!
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

well you don't hit the cover of a journal like this often

"Solar panels are useless in Britain"

Want to join our efforts @msftresearch.bsky.social AI for Science to push the frontier of AI for materials? We are the team behind MatterGen & MatterSim and we have 2 job openings! Each can be in Amsterdam, NL, Berlin, DE, or Cambridge, UK.

yas to the Ribera! 🇪🇸

Precious Stones Mastodon · Emperor of Sand · Song · 2017

To whomever decided to include this track into the new Tony Hawk's 3+4 remake... I salute you. open.spotify.com/track/4GPne3...

Summer's behaving beautifully 😍