Telegram has full access to all of the content of group chats and regular one-to-one chats due to lack of end-to-end encryption. Their opt-in secret chats use homegrown end-to-end encryption with weaknesses. Deleting the content from the app likely won't remove all copies of it.

PSA: Calling Telegram an 'encrypted messaging app' is like calling OnlyFans a podcast site. Its not how its used. In Telegram, unlike Signal/WhatApp/iMessage: * Group chats can't be encrypted * 1-on-1s aren't encrypted by default keep it in mind when writing about Durov's arrest.

Apropos Pavel Durov’s arrest, I wrote a short post about whether Telegram is an “encrypted messaging app”. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/08/25/tel…

Telegram isn’t a censorship-resistant platform (like Signal or Zcash), it’s a weapon. Because tricking people into thinking they have privacy while you spy upon them is taking power over them. Power that nation states will then want. 🔚

We are immensely proud! Join us in congratulating our own Quentin Ramasse in receiving the European Microscopy Society Physical Sciences award at emc2024 🎉

Free to read: Austria plans more permanent postdoc positions researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe…

This is an image from a scanning electron microscope. The banner along the bottom is the image metadata. That banner might be useful for detecting fraudulent research 🧵

JUST PUBLISHED: our vision for the future of Open Research Europe just published, a collaboration with many European funders!

In response to some misunderstandings about CoARA’s position on the role of metrics, we’ve written a clarification. We hope this will pave the way for the whole community to work together to define how qual & quant methods can be combined to form robust assessments.

End of the gold run for Frontiers and MDPI. 1/2

A recent article discussion provides important context to Commitment 2 of the Agreement: “Base research assessment primarily on qualitative evaluation for which peer review is central, supported by responsible use of quantitative indicators.” Collaboration is key! (1/3)

It is an honour to serve on the Scientific Advisory Board of Open Research Europe, and to be an author of an open-science software article – fast become one my most cited and actually used outputs. Their mission and this initiative should have the support of all researchers.

Congratulations, Philipp Pelz!

Lampel Lab European Research Council (ERC) Tel Aviv University Congratulations !!! And since you now know how great is this program, please support our mission to protect fundamental research in Europe and join the Association of ERC Grantees we are waiting for you!!! 🙂

Between 800,000 and 900,000 years ago, the population of human ancestors crashed, a 2023 Science study finds. The results suggest there were only ~1280 breeding individuals during the transition between the early and middle Pleistocene. scim.ag/8hk #ScienceMagArchives

I am very happy to receive funding on a 5-year ERC Starting Grant project to enable scale-bridging hyperspectral 3D atomic resolution imaging! I am hiring a Postdoc (2+3y) and a PhD student (4 y) for the project. Please share widely and check out the posts below!

Pleased to be here in person!

Blick aus meinem Fenster im Klinikum Bad Gastein heute Nachmittag, vorgestern hatten wir noch 24 Grad plus