Creating and supporting a sustainable software development environment for scientific research infrastructure.https://bsky.app/profile/chris.bric.digitalhttps://bsky.app/profile/chris.bric.digital/post/3lwcj3ojyzk26We wrote a post about the moderation infrastructure that we introduced last week at ISRII '25. In short, we created a voting system for various automated agents to moderate content originating from user-generated or large language model contexts. We're using this system to improve rule-based bots. https://bric.digital/newsletter/introducing-simple-moderation-real-time-moderation-for-llm-and-user-generated-content/13 Aug 2025 18:59 +0000at://did:plc:jrcarfdjg3bmasca4m5idzti/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwcj3ojyzk26https://bsky.app/profile/chris.bric.digital/post/3lndgfjgkdc2aGood to see this work from some of the folks @bric.digital has worked with in the past (not necessarily under the BRIC umbrella). Allcott, Gentzkow & Wojcieszak, to name a few. [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Apr 2025 14:57 +0000at://did:plc:jrcarfdjg3bmasca4m5idzti/app.bsky.feed.post/3lndgfjgkdc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/chris.bric.digital/post/3lmzfyrob3s2lWe've been having problems sending out our Ghost newsletter posts and finally tracked down the culprit: internal Mailgun limits on how many messages can be in an API batch call. We wrote up the details as another newsletter post (partially to test our fix). #GhostNewsletter #Mailgun #SelfHosting https://bric.digital/newsletter/leveling-up-the-newsletter/17 Apr 2025 15:23 +0000at://did:plc:jrcarfdjg3bmasca4m5idzti/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmzfyrob3s2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/chris.bric.digital/post/3lmxqp2sbss2lWe have a new post up on the BRIC newsletter about how we're using tools like Docker Desktop to solve some problems specific to science: sharing your work with other researchers to replicate, and navigating getting the software running in the first place when each institution is different. https://bric.digital/newsletter/containerized-science/16 Apr 2025 23:30 +0000at://did:plc:jrcarfdjg3bmasca4m5idzti/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmxqp2sbss2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/chris.bric.digital/post/3llytjkvgpc2hJust sent a ton of Baby Yoda images to some clients, demonstrating how we can use all the scheduling and transmission infrastructure developed for SMS text messaging projects in the context of iOS and Android native apps. It's effectively a cut-down version of OneSignal that you can host yourself.04 Apr 2025 16:28 +0000at://did:plc:jrcarfdjg3bmasca4m5idzti/app.bsky.feed.post/3llytjkvgpc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/chris.bric.digital/post/3llrdshvww22uBRIC is pleased to announce its first Interstellar Conference on Behavioral Research Infrastructure (ICBRI) to be held later this summer in HIP 4055. The deadline for abstract submissions is May 1st, 3311. #EliteDangerous #HIP4055 #BRIC #AprilFools https://bric.digital/newsletter/announcing-brics-first-conference-on-interstellar-behavioral-research-infrastructure/01 Apr 2025 16:58 +0000at://did:plc:jrcarfdjg3bmasca4m5idzti/app.bsky.feed.post/3llrdshvww22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/chris.bric.digital/post/3ljltbxtv7222I've finally finished a minor manifesto on how we're developing software infrastructure at BRIC, alongside with an announcement that the open-source tools and components that I've been developing for the past decade (and then some!) now lives under the BRIC non-profit umbrella. #ResearchSoftware https://bric.digital/newsletter/stone-soup-software-development/05 Mar 2025 01:28 +0000at://did:plc:jrcarfdjg3bmasca4m5idzti/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljltbxtv7222https://bsky.app/profile/chris.bric.digital/post/3lj6vh5jqj22nIf I'm a stickler for things like third-party continuous integration, one of the BIG reasons is that a lot of research code simply isn't build-able from scratch. Struggling with a inherited JS project that has dependencies that must be installed under Node v. 14, but requires Node 16+ to run.27 Feb 2025 22:02 +0000at://did:plc:jrcarfdjg3bmasca4m5idzti/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj6vh5jqj22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/chris.bric.digital/post/3lizp5zgqrs2gUntil I can get a proper mug shot, I figured that I'd use the ASCI Blue Mountain supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory as my avatar. It holds a special place in my heart, as one of my summer jobs (and introduction to scientific computing) was assisting LANL scientists learning to use it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCI_Blue_Mountain25 Feb 2025 20:27 +0000at://did:plc:jrcarfdjg3bmasca4m5idzti/app.bsky.feed.post/3lizp5zgqrs2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/chris.bric.digital/post/3liznspc3p226For the folks wondering about the banner image, it's the underground construction of the subway portion of Chicago's (now) Red Line running beneath the Chicago Loop. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ctaweb/3772951011625 Feb 2025 20:02 +0000at://did:plc:jrcarfdjg3bmasca4m5idzti/app.bsky.feed.post/3liznspc3p226