@m_gdula@IDEAS_NCBR Fortunately the founders of ISTA were wise enough to insist mostly keeping politicians out of any personal decisions. There are politicians on just one board, but even there scientists must be in the majority.
@m_gdula@IDEAS_NCBR Sad story, I was impressed how IDEAS created such a great institute on such a tiny (for AI standards) budget. My institution IST Austria is maybe a factor 10 bigger, but has a budget of 3.3bln Euro for a decade (around 1400 mln zloty per year). Noone expets us to generate income
BREAKING — Parliament refuses discharge of the Council budget until European Council decided to support Ukraine with additional Patriot anti-missile systems !
🧵 Over the past three decades, the transatlantic community has paid much more attention to Russia than to anyone else. Far too much. The world does not revolve around Russia, and we should finally stop acting as if Russia was the centre of the universe
The way we talk about ROAD SAFETY:
🪦 blames victims instead of addressing causes
🏎️ normalizes the underlying violence
‼️ reduces a sense of urgency
📈 might make matters worse
What if instead we talk about ROAD DANGER?
Open Access paper: https://t.co/CNkaO4aNB9
In today's #vatniksoup, I'll introduce an Australian hacker, publisher and activist, Julian Assange. He's best-known as the founder of WikiLeaks, leaking hacked and stolen data, cooperating with the Russian intelligence, and for being under criminal investigation in the US.
1/22
Overnight, Russians targeted a library in Kherson from 200km distance with a multi-million dollar missile, destroying over 1,000,000 books.
It's really the most Russian thing ever.
On November 13, Krzysztof Pietrzak @krzpie@ISTAustria@informatik_at will be presenting a talk on 'Sustainable Blockchains.' You are invited to join us at @tu_wien or participate online. For more details, please visit https://t.co/mt72togMji
The first public lecture on "Sustainability in Computer Science" is tomorrow (Monday, 5pm CEST) featuring Daniel Gruss (of Meltdown, Spectre fame) on "Sustainable Security"
https://t.co/CLMKxBOyz3
📣 Version 2.0.0 is now available for download!
This release brings pivotal upgrades from plot compression support and GPU plotting, farming, and harvesting, to soft and hard fork protocol updates.
Download 2.0.0: https://t.co/vT9BCaao3S 1/2
Are you eager to perform cutting-edge #research in an international environment? Apply for our fully funded, 2-year IST-BRIDGE #postdoc program, enhanced by flexible career-track training, tailored to individual needs. 👉 https://t.co/u3u9FlAsdf
Don't just get mad. Get busy.
1-Donate https://t.co/IpQdNW5VoD
2-Shop https://t.co/1dvZHrXTQv
3-Call your MP 1x/wk & demand more support for #Ukraine
4-Contact 🇺🇦 groups in your area & ask how you can help
5-MOBILIZE at least 5 ppl you know to do 1-5 💙💛
6-Keep going 😎💪