📢 Save the Date!
The next Munin Conference at UiT The Arctic University of Norway takes place April 20–22, 2027 in Tromsø, Norway ❄️
📝 Call for submissions coming soon — stay tuned!
🔗 site.uit.no/muninconf/
#MuninConference #OpenScience #SaveTheDate
It’s all about #FAIR data.
The presentation "Developing Towards the Ideal FAIR Research Data Management Environment," given by Johannes Soltwedel, @tom-bssnnt.bsky.social, and @sweidtkamp.bsky.social at the @gerbi-gmb.de community meeting #GerBIMeeting2026 on March 17, clearly demonstrates this.
Nerd hobby excitement (someone up for a journal club?): two back-to-back articles on canine genetics and evolution in the current issue of Nature, claiming that dogs were living with humans already 15.000 years ago. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
All episodes are independent and do not require knowledge from last week, so you can still register and join us for the second part of the CodeRefinery workshop!
More info and links to materials etc: coderefinery.github.io/2026-03-17-w...
🚀 Today we kick off our 13th CodeRefinery workshop!
We’re diving into tools and techniques for researchers who code - everything you need to make your work more reproducible!
With 600+ registrations and 10+ local classrooms, this is our biggest workshop ever.
Let’s get started!
The CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide (DMEG) and Data Archiving Guide (DAG) have been revised for greater clarity and relevance. For early-career researchers, data stewards, and archive staff: guidance on FAIR principles, research data management, and archiving practices. edu.nl/6ufqr
Human-only licenses have been proposed but I am somewhat sceptical to which degree they would be respected, given the known copyright infringements in LLM training data: www.humanscommons.org
There is a white paper by the Research Data Alliance that takes up AI Governance in a short paragraph: zenodo.org/records/1635...
"As closed as necessary"-reasons will apply to both humans and machines.
Use real-world data to build real-world research skills. Secondary data is a powerful tool for education and methods development.
How can secondary data be used in education and methods development? Existing clinical trials data can be used for: Teaching statistical and research methods using real-world datasets Developing and testing new statistical models Informing machine learning and AI approaches
Dr Kristy Robledo reused well-known datasets to test and demonstrate a new statistical method. By applying secondary data, her team proved the method was flexible, reliable and useful across different scenarios. “For researchers to be able to use our new methods, they need to see that it works on real data, not just simulated data!” – Dr Kristy Robledo
Find out how you can use secondary data to enhance your education and methods development today. Read the Secondary Use of Clinical Trials Data in Health Research: Practical Guide. bit.ly/science-scenarios
How can secondary data be used in education and methods development?
📘 Explore our practical guide to discover 4 key secondary research scenarios, including education & methods development: https://ow.ly/IHuz50YlH1R
ANZUP Cancer Trials Group TOGA MISCH hub
#TipTuesday #HealthData
🎓✨ Last year, Munin Conference celebrated its 20th edition! After two decades, we’re moving to a biennial schedule 🌱💡 Next Munin: spring 2027 in Tromsø 🌌 Still by the community, for the community – just sunnier ☀️ #Munin2027 #OpenScience #Tromsø site.uit.no/muninconf/mu...
Check out my substack on weird zombie AI cartoons and the deeper meaning of creating art.
open.substack.com/pub/redpenbl...
Docs is an open-source alternative to Google Docs for collaborative writing, developed by a French-German government collaboration: impress-preprod.beta.numerique.gouv.fr/home/
Rethink what’s possible with existing data.
What is secondary analysis? Reusing existing clinical trial datasets to answer new research questions, saving time, money and resources.
What are the benefits? Enables the use of pre-existing data at little additional cost Can inform sample size calculations to assist planning of new trials
Learn how to apply secondary analysis in your own research. Read the ARDC’s Secondary Use of Clinical Trials Data in Health Research Practical Guide. bit.ly/science-scenarios
What is secondary analysis? 💬
It allows researchers to answer new research questions using existing data.
📘 Explore our practical guide to discover the steps, advantages and considerations of secondary analysis: https://ow.ly/z1e450YbpMC
ANZUP Cancer Trials Group TOGA MISCH hub
#HealthData
📊✨ When research data gets a second life, new knowledge follows.
Join the Data Reuse Workshop(s) on Feb 25 💻 (virtual). Explore cultural, legal & technical aspects of data reuse with international experts.
🔗 eden-fidelis.eu/events/data-...
#OpenScience #DataReuse #FIDELIS
We are looking forward to welcoming you to the next online CodeRefinery workshop March 17-19 & 24-26 on tools and techniques for more reproducible research!
More info, possibilities for classroom learning and registration at coderefinery.github.io/2026-03-17-w...
#RSEng #OpenScience #FAIR4RS
In case you missed it: my full, free, open course on accessibility and visualization is out!
A few weeks ago my university (University of Bergen) finally made it possible to opt out of Copilot. Most of my colleagues don't know about this, so I'm reposting here! You have to apply for specific permissions in the IT system. hjelp.uib.no/solutions/op...
The Nordic Love Data Week is just around the corner!
The aim is to promote awareness and best practices about research data management, data sharing, FAIR data and data literacy across the Nordic region.
💗💾 nordiclovedataweek.org
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
Illustration zweier in einer Ecke stehender zueinander gewander Personen das selbe, von ihnen links ausserhalb des Bildes befindliche Ziel fixierend: einer in Uniform der Faschisten und einer im Anzug mit Brille, schütterem Haar und einer dünnen Haarinsel auf der Stirne. Textzeile: Es gibt nur zwei Sorten Menschen, die ein Problem mit Antifaschismus haben: Nazis und Mitläufer.
Wäre Merz Antifaschist, er müsste heute nicht kritisieren, dass sich in Gießen Menschen den Faschisten entgegenstellten - Es hätte Gießen nicht gegeben, weil er die Union und mit ihr das Land von der Nazipartei systematisch abgegrenzt hätte, anstatt sie durch Legitimation systematisch aufzublähen.
Presentation available on #zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
If you still believe that a nature-url and a significant APC-pricetag has something to do with peer reviewed scientific quality. #Megajournals
Save the date: The next CodeRefinery workshop is coming 17.-19. and 24.-26. of March 2026 !
We are now updating materials, gathering interest for instructors, helpers and local classroom hosts:
Wanna join? -> e-mail support@coderefinery.org
Til våren tilbyr vi emnet Forskningsdatahåndtering som del av masterstudiet i arkiv-, bibliotek- og informasjonsvitenskap @oslomet Det er også mulig å ta det som enkeltemne student.oslomet.no/studier/-/st...
Driven by requirements to share #FAIRdata, the amount of scientific #datasets is ever increasing. In our next @unibergen.bsky.social #OpenScience webinar 28.11 we explore strategies to take advantage of existing datasets, data from the public sector or in digital archives: www.uib.no/en/ub/178967...
Mer om kunnskapsfesten på @unibergen.bsky.social #Realfagshøyden: www.uib.no/realfaghoyde...
Bilde av to opphengte plakat: Barnebøker øverst og informasjon om Bibliotek for naturvitenskap og teknologi under.
Bilde av barnebøker på biblioteket for naturvitenskap og teknologi. En blå bok med tittel "Havet" ligger i midten.
Open Day @unibergen.bsky.social #Realfagshøyden - velkommen til Biblioteket for naturvitenskap og teknologi!
