Kostas Tsampourakis
@kostastsampourakis.bsky.social
PhD student at Edinburgh University. Interested in probabilistic models and machine learning. kostastsa.github.io
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🚨BREAKING: A pregnant woman and many children are among at least 23 Palestinians Israel has killed in a series of attacks on Gaza City & Khan Younis, Al Jazeera English reports citing hospital sources.
According to reports:
▪️ A family of 5, including a pregnant woman & her children, were killed...
According to reports:
▪️ A family of 5, including a pregnant woman & her children, were killed...
November 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
🚨BREAKING: A pregnant woman and many children are among at least 23 Palestinians Israel has killed in a series of attacks on Gaza City & Khan Younis, Al Jazeera English reports citing hospital sources.
According to reports:
▪️ A family of 5, including a pregnant woman & her children, were killed...
According to reports:
▪️ A family of 5, including a pregnant woman & her children, were killed...
Reposted by Kostas Tsampourakis
Thinking of patenting my favorite method for ranking researchers: reading their papers and deciding whether they are good.
Hilariously bad idea. In my subfield author lists are almost always alphabetical!
🧪For those of us who do complex collaborations with multiple corresponding authors this is terrible . I suspect it will also hit female authors disproportionately as they tend to have more collaborations across fields…https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03281-4
October 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Thinking of patenting my favorite method for ranking researchers: reading their papers and deciding whether they are good.
Reposted by Kostas Tsampourakis
Hilariously bad idea. In my subfield author lists are almost always alphabetical!
🧪For those of us who do complex collaborations with multiple corresponding authors this is terrible . I suspect it will also hit female authors disproportionately as they tend to have more collaborations across fields…https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03281-4
Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors
Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.
www.nature.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Hilariously bad idea. In my subfield author lists are almost always alphabetical!