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US Research Software Engineer Association (US-RSE) @us-rse.bsky.social · 1d

US-RSE is heading to #SC25! 🎉

📍 Booth #3911 | Nov 16–21 | St. Louis, MO
Stop by, meet fellow RSEs! Join our #RSE-HPC Workshop (Nov 16) and Topgolf Focus Group + Social Hour (Nov 18)! More at us-rse.org/rse-hpc-2025/

🎯Email [email protected] to sign up for the workshops!

Research Software Engineers in HPC (RSE-HPC-2025)

us-rse.org

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 22h

Unprecedented corruption - not just monetizing the presidency by selling branded products, but selling those products directly to government employees and having the Department of Homeland Security promote them to the media

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Daniel S. Katz @danielskatz.org · 3d

Attending #SC25 and interested in Research Software Engineering #RSEng and #AI? Come to our panel Thursday, 20 Nov 2025, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm, rooms 240-241-242

Research Software Engineering in the Age of AI

sc25.conference-program.com/presentation...

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Rackslab @rackslab.io · 4d

🚀 Slurm-web v5.2.0 is here! 🎉

Discover the new advanced core allocation visualization, direct URLs for fullscreen cluster views, and failed job filtering—plus, we’ve adopted the MIT License for more flexibility!

🔗 rackslab.io/en/blog/slur...

#HPC #AI #Slurm #OpenSource #WebUI

Release of Slurm-web v5.2.0

Enhanced core allocation visualization, direct cluster graph routes, failed job filtering, and MIT license adoption.

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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 3d

I thoroughly believe in celebrating the small victories, so here is a tiny one.

The percentage of humanity's energy system that is derived from fossil fuels, ticked down again in 2024 and is now technically at the lowest level since the 1960s, though fossil fuels still dominate.

Stacked time series showing the share of humanity's energy system (in input-equivalent primary energy) derived from various sources.

In 2024, the share due to fossil fuels ticked down slightly to 76%, the lowest level since the 1960s.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

The US has abdicated any role in fighting the most urgent threat to human welfare in history, so other countries need to step up and figure out how to do it without us.

How to fight climate change without the US: a guide to global action

With the US government absent from the COP30 global climate summit, it will be up to others to avert catastrophe.

www.nature.com

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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 4d

Good morning with good news: Global solar deployment keeps smashing records!

About 3X more solar was built in H1 2025 than in all of 2021 and nearly 2X more than in all of 2022!

2025 global new solar (more than 700 GW) will smash the record set in 2024!
www.semafor.com/article/10/3... #energysky

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 4d

a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 5d

Forrest Smith, the only National Park Service engineer cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells, lost his contract, leaving 93 orphaned wells on park lands unmanaged. These leaking wells release methane and toxins, threatening human health and the environment.

He Alone Tracked Leaky Oil Wells in National Parks. He Was Let Go.

www.nytimes.com

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 8d

"Electricity is the ultimate perishable good"

No longer. Batteries will change the solar harvest, in the same way silos and refrigeration changed the food harvest... but over years, not decades 🔋🍏

"Silos for Sunshine": a great new thoughtpiece💡

ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 7d

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 7d

Per Danny Kemp via press pool

Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL

“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 7d

Project Gutenberg CEO Greg Newby helped put a trove of literature online

by John Last

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

You are deeply missed @gbnewby. Thanks for keeping us together!

#ebooks #publicdomain

Project Gutenberg CEO Greg Newby helped put a trove of literature online

A professor and a fixture of the hacker community, he was also ‘undoubtedly the most consequential volunteer’ to the project, a massive library of free, public domain texts on the internet

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 9d

So many own goals.
Once again: higher ed is one of our most successful exports. We export more higher ed to China than soybeans. And yet Trump and the mini-Trumps are deliberately destroying the quality of our product

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11d

The electricity system in the US that most closely resembles an actual, open market ... is stampeding toward solar, wind, and batteries. Conservative TX lawmakers have tried & failed to stop it because ultimately money talks.

www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

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OGAWA, Tadashi @ogawa-tadashi.bsky.social · 12d

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"Unlocking Tensor Core Performance with Floating Point Emulation in cuBLAS", Oct 24, 2025 developer.nvidia.com/blog/unlocki...
NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 13.0 Update 2
FP64 emulation with Blackwell INT8 tensor cores

Sep 16 bsky.app/profile/ogaw...
Jul 1 bsky.app/profile/ogaw...
K. Ozaki, Jul 2

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Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 14d

If only everyone could have predicted this

www.thegamer.com/ea-generativ...

EA's AI Game Development Tools Are Apparently So Bad That It's Costing More Money To Fix Their Mistakes

A new report suggests that EA's pivot to AI is just causing costly mistakes, and the developers hate it.

www.thegamer.com

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 15d

SCOOP from me:

I uncovered that the Interior Department just quietly defunded *two* multimillion dollar research programs studying how whales move and behave near U.S. wind farms actively being built.

Trump blames wind turbines for whale deaths, then cuts vital research on the topic. 🧵

Trump claims ‘wind mills’ kill whales but quietly torpedoes the…

The Interior Department defunds two vital research programs that track North Atlantic right whales near active offshore wind construction sites.

www.canarymedia.com

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Alan Sill @alansill.bsky.social · 17d

I have known Greg Newby for nearly 20 years and benefitted enormously from his contributions to OGF and other community activities he worked on. He was always ready to provide his technical and organizational abilities to benefit things he thought would help others. mast.hpc.social/@OpenGridFor...

Open Grid Forum (@[email protected])

We mourn the passing of our long-time editor Greg Newby, and thank @[email protected] for posting several remembrances and materials regarding his absence. Greg led the document preparat...

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 17d

The Project Gutenberg community mourns the passing of our CEO, Dr. Greg Newby (@gbnewby).

Without his years of leadership, Project Gutenberg wouldn't be what it is today. Learn more about him and his contributions at

www.gutenberg.org/about/newby....

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg is a library of free eBooks.

www.gutenberg.org

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 17d

n Memoriam/gbnewby

www.pgdp.net/wiki/In_Memo...

via @[email protected]

In Memoriam/gbnewby - DPWiki

www.pgdp.net

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 17d

Celebrating Greg Newby's Life

app.memento.com/DE1g_N-r59/g...

Celebrating Greg Newby's Life

app.memento.com

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OpenMP ARB @openmp-arb.bsky.social · 21d

Join us at SC25!

Talk to us about OpenMP API version 6.0, OpenMP with Python, and more! We have a full line-up of activities planned.

Learn more about what we have planned: www.openmp.org/events/sc25/
#HPC #SC25 #OpenMP #parallelcomputing #pyomp #gpu

Supercomputing 2025 - OpenMP

Visit us in booth 911 at SC25 in St. Louis to win a book and meet OpenMP Experts. Attend our BOF, and attend our two tutorials and much more.

www.openmp.org

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Climate.us @climate.us · 21d

Hey climate community! We wanted to let you know that Climate.us is now active across multiple social media platforms — and we’d love for you to join us wherever you’re already hanging out online.

Thank you for being part of our community, let's expand the climate conversation.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 21d

For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Trump commutes former Rep. George Santos' prison sentence

The former New York congressman had been sentenced to seven years in prison. In a social media post, Trump said his commutation would release Santos from prison "immediately."

www.nbcnews.com

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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 23d

Contrast this rhetoric with the GOP stance on the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23d

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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