Great interview - Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) talked with Brewster Kahle, Founder & Director, Internet Archive www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ-R...
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@kjhealy.co has a new version of his data visualization book coming out and 1) you’d be a fool not to get it especially if you do R stuff 2) it’s gonna be even more beautiful than the first one, which is truly lovely book 3) he put the ENTIRE content on his website for free, you lucky so-and-so
tomorrow's the first anniversary of the Pivot to AI youtube!
here's the very first one, from 6 March 2025. it's the potato quality every guy yells at phone podcast should be
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Great! Note that COAR runs a directory of preprint servers, it would be great if you would reference it. doapr.coar-repositories.org/repositories/ @coar-repositories.bsky.social
⏳ 2 weeks left to apply to the Making Replications Count Hackathon (Münster, 4–6 May 2026). Join us to build open tools that make replications impossible to ignore. Apply by 16 March: indico.uni-muenster.de/e/marco2
Today we're starting ORION, an effort to coordinate making #openresearchinformation resources available, with an initial focus on Google BigQuery. We are keen to coordinate with all who are interested in supporting a community effort towards availability and reusability!
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The European Universities Initiative alliances ‘need a coherent overall funding model’, says @eua.eu
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💬 A must-read article by @draehernandez.bsky.social:
CESSDA's Monitoring Report shows a growing focus on dataset citation. Repositories like DANS now add recommended citations to dataset pages, simplifying user referencing + boosting data visibility in scholarly work. As CESSDA partner, DANS supports clear citation practices. Read more: edu.nl/xyyee
Lie #1: Libraries indoctrinate. Truth: Censoring library books by removing them from libraries or prohibiting them from the shelves in the first place is indoctrination. https://www.oif.ala.org/lies-about-libraries-part-one/
New editorial with John Carlisle:
Detecting inconsistencies and fraud in research data: Time for authors to share the data underlying their summary statistics as a matter of course
tl;dr Let's stop doing party tricks
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Final draft: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Hello @springernature.com - you’ve just published another bit of nonsense in Scientific Reports 🙁
According to an international survey conducted by Elsevier, 68 percent of scientists say that publication pressure has increased over the past two to three years. 3,200 researchers from 113 countries took part in the survey. www.elsevier.com/insights/con... @elsevierconnect.bsky.social
Still time to sign up for this webinar tomorrow hosted by @copim.bsky.social, @sparc-eu.bsky.social & @scossfunding.bsky.social
The 75-minute workshop will feature presentations from SCOSS, @thoth-metadata.bsky.social & our very own Graham Stone.
Find our more and register below 👇 #OAbooks
Newly released Stockholm Declaration recommends the following reforms to publishing:
1. Academia resumes control of publishing
2. Incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity
3. Independent fraud detection and prevention
4. Legislation and policies to protect science quality and integrity
📄 A reminder that we are seeking writers (£600) and reviewers (£210) to support the development of new guides on:
- AI in research software
- Green Computing
- EDI in research software
Application deadline: Friday 3 October 2025
Find out more at www.software.ac.uk/news/writers...
Cory Doctorow (not on Bluesky) published IMHO one of the most compelling pieces about AI being a bubble pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
Between @python.org and @carpentries.carpentries.org, the open-source ecosystem is rejecting the administration's inquisition against DEI. If you can support them with a donation please do. I just did!
Does anyone know about others who have declined NIH or NSF grant funding over over these terms?
"Crucially, students will need to develop sufficient expertise to identify when AI systems produce plausible but incorrect outputs — which poses a dilemma because this requires the very skills that AI is starting to replace."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Lynda points out that even though a relatively small number of data sources have been shut down by the US Federal government, many more are affected through letting go of staff - death by a thousand cuts.
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
It's easy for some of you to just never use LLMs and just criticize people who do. I would like to be in that situation. But here I am, with my moderator volunteers, assessing hundreds of papers submitted to @socarxiv.bsky.social, trying to decide how to fairly judge whether to accept them. /1
DEPRESSING: This is a list of Federal Funding Cuts and Research Universities. The tracker documents the impacts of the cuts on the human infrastructure of the research enterprise airtable.com/appo02JOpIo2...
News from the Evil Empire of Academic Publishing: In June Taylor & Francis acquired the back catalogue of Amsterdam University Press' film and media series. As a consequence the majority of the series editors publicly resigned and decided to move their series to /
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Webinar poster for “Mainstreaming Diamond: Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures,” dated 24 October 2025.
Join us for #OAWeek!
Webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond – Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures
With @joedeville.bsky.social, @theblochian.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @rupertgatti.bsky.social, @joannaball.bsky.social & @paulaclemente.bsky.social
🗓️ 24/10 - 1:00 pm BST
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I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.