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Igalia @igalia.com · 6d

Igalia is honored to have been awarded a commission from the Sovereign Tech Fund to advance the @servo.org web engine. STF’s support will advance a multi-pronged effort focused on improving Servo’s accessibility, WebView API support, and project maintenance. Details: www.igalia.com/2025/10/09/I...

Igalia, Servo, and the Sovereign Tech Fund | Igalia

Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and cl...

www.igalia.com

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Deyan Ginev @dginev.bsky.social · 2d

Indeed, you can and you should.

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 2d

do i have any enterprising followers who know perl (i've never touched it) and how latex compilation works (i've only used latex as an end user) who i could bribe (say pretty please with a cherry on top) to write latexml bindings for some packages not included in the project i want for pghrt.diy?

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Daniel van Strien @danielvanstrien.bsky.social · 3d

Another week, another VLM-based OCR model!

Nanonets just released OCR2 - a 3B parameter vision-language model for document OCR 📄

You can run it with one command on @hf.co Jobs (no local GPU needed)

screenshot of the hf jobs command to run the model.

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you to our users and supporters for your high expectations of COS and the OSF. We are a service organization producing public goods to support research transparency, rigor, and credibility.

We are grateful for your support and work hard every day to earn your trust.

Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 5d

Positive counterprogramming to recent science news

**The OSF is back online with a new interface**

This key milestone makes OSF faster and cleaner. Also, now we can deliver more improvements efficiently and effectively.

Please check it out and send feedback to [email protected]

osf.io

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Deyan Ginev @dginev.bsky.social · 6d

Our annual opportunity to request

interoperability across web browsers is here. This time there is a fun new interface (made by the Firefox team):

interop-rank.jakearchibald.com

and you can also upvote 👍 the issue directly:

github.com/web-platform...

Interop Feature Ranking

Rank the web platform features you care most about

interop-rank.jakearchibald.com

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Deyan Ginev @dginev.bsky.social · 6d

Our annual opportunity to request

interoperability across web browsers is here. This time there is a fun new interface (made by the Firefox team):

interop-rank.jakearchibald.com

and you can also upvote 👍 the issue directly:

github.com/web-platform...

Interop Feature Ranking

Rank the web platform features you care most about

interop-rank.jakearchibald.com

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 6d

Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 7d

Oh, come on, English. I wasted HOURS trying to find a proof, because of you.

Do you even realize how close *unprovable* and *improvable* sound to me?

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Deyan Ginev @dginev.bsky.social · 8d

Excellent resource!

I am looking forward to <math> inclusion as well.

TetraLogical @tetralogical.com · 8d

We've created a tool called the "Screen reader support look up tables" designed to help people quickly check how screen readers interpret HTML elements and attributes across multiple combinations of browser and screen reader.

HTML/SR Support lookup

tetralogical.github.io

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Deyan Ginev @dginev.bsky.social · 9d

🗓️ The September 2025 arXiv articles are now in ar5iv.

Deyan Ginev @dginev.bsky.social · Sep 5

🗓️ The August 2025 arXiv articles are now in ar5iv.

Lots of pots are brewing in September...

Deyan Ginev @dginev.bsky.social · Aug 6

🗓️ The July 2025 arXiv articles are now in ar5iv.

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Deyan Ginev @dginev.bsky.social · 11d

🗓️ ar5iv update is slightly delayed this month, expect it Oct 6-7.

Travel days overlapped.

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robinhouston @robinhouston.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 13d

I enjoyed this talk from Kevin Buzzard, _Where is Mathematics Going?_

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5w7VS2sxD0

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Corca @corca.io · Aug 18

Typing math in Corca is usually much faster than in LaTeX

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Corca @corca.io · 14d

Big update! 🚀
Now, Corca not only lets you type math — it actively helps you with it. Just type an equation, and it will suggest the solution. It can solve equations, simplify expressions, and even tackle integrals. And this is just the beginning — more is coming soon.

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arXiv @arxiv.bsky.social · 14d

Well, September was fun. 🤯

26,646 new submissions in a single month - a new record for arXiv!

#openaccess #preprints

a bar chart showing a steep increase in submissions per month to arXiv. September 2025 shows 26,646 submissions.

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Ana Tudor @anatudor.bsky.social · 16d

"tailwind is more efficient"
... than really bad #CSS I would never write.

Seriously, I want stuff on a page to be consistent. I'm setting color and background once and then modify it on a few types of elements if needed. That's fewer bytes than setting a color-white class on over a dozen elements.

DevTools screenshot of a page using Tailwind.

DevTools screenshot of the same page, focusing on another element.

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theHigherGeometer @highergeometer.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 16d

The opening sentence of an abstract on the arXiv today:
"A core goal in modern science is to harness recent advances in AI and computer processing to automate and accelerate the scientific method."

Two-panel meme with Thor asking "Is it really though?" (top pane) and Daenerys Targaryen asking "Are ya sure?" (bottom pane), both with highly skeptical looks on their faces.

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 27d

Hey just saw that the SVG Working Group is back together! Congrats!

Note: The MathML Working Group is still going! We meet once a month, and would love to have all the browser vendors join and participate in our discussions.

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Deyan Ginev @dginev.bsky.social · 18d

This could be a way... We need to complete the cloud migration first to have some sanity in the login subsystem. The reason you're seeing the logouts has to do with some legacy reorganization work.

Maybe in a year or two?

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Richard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · 18d

Another awesome video from Numberphile. I’m not going to spoil it, but I will say it is very relevant if you teach research methods (it not just statistical in a narrow sense) youtu.be/VwIKKBL4ldQ?...

We have statistical evidence that people are mildly psychic

YouTube video by Stand-up Maths

youtu.be

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Deyan Ginev @dginev.bsky.social · 19d

Manhattan projects related to TeX are a Good Thing.

a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · Sep 16

"we need a manhattan project for AI" no what we really need is a manhattan project for porting every math TeX package to Typst (and please start with mathpartir)

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Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social · 21d

Quite sad to see several pioneers of open data in AI nearly giving up. But not surprised: there is zero support for that space

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 21d

Link to HHMI preprint mandate hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/policies/Imm...

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Deyan Ginev @dginev.bsky.social · 23d

Yeah, they will have to be specified to exist.

Your idea is quite clear and... not really enticing. It's an old VC acquisition model in fact, take over a site with volume, introduce ads, profit. Feels like giving up to me.

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