This is why I cancelled my Microsoft subscription. (Publishers love Word .docx files; they also love contracts that require the author to warrant that the manuscript is 100% their own work. If I use Word today my compliance with my book contracts could be open to question.)
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Moritz Negwer
Neuroscientist by training, tinkerer by nature. Now scanning transparent mouse brains with light-sheet microscopes. Microscopy, clearing, data crunching, tinkering.
Working as postdoc at @radboudumc with Nael Nadif Kasri and Corette Wierenga, looking at neuron-distribution differences in mouse models of ASD.
Married, father of two. Toots in English, German, Dutch. Boosts a lot.
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#Gletscher in der #Schweiz, den #USA und #Kanada haben zwischen 2021 und 2024 rund 12 % ihrer #Eismasse verloren.
Ursachen sind #Hitze, #Trockenheit und dunkle Partikel wie #Waldbrandasche und #Saharastaub.
Besonders stark war der #Eisverlust im Rekordjahr 2023. Das tatsächliche Abschmelzen könnte schneller verlaufen als aktuelle Modelle vorhersagen.
#Lesetipp: Grundwissen für Erwachsene findet Ihr im Buch "Der #Klimawandel für Einsteiger", ISBN: 978-3-738-63782-3
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-glaciers-track-unprecedented-ice-loss.html
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Reputation ohne Paywall?
Wissenschaftliches Publizieren im digitalen Wandel
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Let's talk about open science, doing research projects that serve developers, and money
that's right
🙀 MONEY 🙀
Right up top I am going to tell you: this is a "capitalism is bad"-free thread. You know, I know, we all know. Please do not reply with "capitalism is bad"
@CharlesGWaldman @johncarlosbaez
Check out @SafeguardingResearch , they are doing exactly that! Decentralized backups of rescued data in a torrent swarm. Also including arxiv, if I'm not mistaken.
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kind of abstract question, but i'm curious to hear about how anxiety feels to someone who does not have an "inner monologue" style of thinking in words. like when my thoughts race, i hear them in fast sentences, haha. do you experience something different? would you like to share that?
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Late night prototyping
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Diese Grafik zu kennen ist sehr wichtig, wenn eine Ministerin einer schwarz-roten Regierung irgendetwas zum Thema #Netzausbau sagt. #Reiche
Das Versagen begann 2011. Dann wurde es schlimmer. Unter schwarz-gelb und schwarz-rot wurden nur ca 20% des geplanten Ausbaus realisiert.
@f4grx @johncarlosbaez @SafeguardingResearch all good, turns out they have one: https://sciop.net/datasets/arxiv-ia-repack
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After 8 months at this job I have become the sort of person who says random marine facts (‘did you know some southern sea otters eat so much purple sea urchin that their skulls turn purple’) at parties
After 8 years..?
https://dailyotter.org/posts/2024/4/29/lining-up-those-urchins-for-noms
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🔒 Die TIB im NDR!
Wie wir mit einem Dark Archive die wertvollen #arXiv-Daten für die Wissenschaft sichern, erklären @mickylindlar und @Lambo Heller dem Team vom NDR.
@f4grx @johncarlosbaez see also the stuff that @SafeguardingResearch does under #sciop : decentralized backups of datasets in danger via BitTorrent. There's a ton of stuff to seed there too, sorted by threat level: https://sciop.net/datasets/?sort=-threat
@f4grx @johncarlosbaez Academic Torrents has one, but it's suspiciously small so I think it's not complete, may just be a catalogue or so: https://academictorrents.com/collection/arxiv
There is also one for biorxiv that seems to be more in the right ballpark: https://academictorrents.com/collection/biorxiv
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More madness in the US government - we're being led by a bunch of idiots. I hope you know the National Science Foundation (NSF) is the main organization that funds science research. Now it's getting kicked out of its main building, with nowhere to go!
"The Department of Housing and Urban Development is expected to announce Wednesday that it’s moving into the headquarters of the National Science Foundation in Alexandria, Virginia, according to the union representing NSF employees.
But as of Tuesday evening, staff at the science foundation hadn’t been informed by management about their building's incoming occupants, leaving them feeling blindsided and unsure about where they’re expected to work.
[...]
It’s unclear what happens to the staff at NSF, where more than 1,833 employees work in the building, according to the employee union.
[...]
The union said in a press release Tuesday that it was told that plans for NSF headquarters include a dedicated executive suite for the HUD secretary on the 19th floor, the construction of an executive dining room, reserved parking spaces for the secretary’s cars, exclusive use of an elevator for the secretary and a space dedicated to hosting the secretary’s executive assistants on the 18th floor."
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Great! A bunch of us here wanted it. Now it exists. 👍
It's a "dark archive" of the arXiv - a non-public backup to save the data in case of attack by hackers or the US government. The arXiv, I hope you know, is the biggest source of modern math and physics papers.
Who got the job done? The TIB: the Technische Informationsbibliothek, run by the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, in Hannover, Germany.
They write:
"The TIB has now set up a so-called dark archive for the arXiv content in order to be able to make the backed-up data accessible if the data stored in the USA is lost. The archive functions as a silent reserve: the complete copy of the content is stored decentrally at the TIB, but is not publicly accessible. This means that the data stock – almost 10 terabytes – is protected against potential outages and can be activated in an emergency.
The TIB is currently working on processes to keep the archive up to date: new submissions and updated versions must be backed up regularly in order to preserve the state of research as completely as possible.
“Building a Dark Archive is an expression of our longstanding commitment for a reliable, international academic provision, and as a partner of arXiv. Even though the Dark Archive today only works in the background, it is a key element in safeguarding digital research contents in the long term, because in case of a crisis, we could open the archive,” explains Dr Irina Sens, Deputy Director of the TIB."
We should call it the darXiv.
More details here:
https://blog.tib.eu/2025/05/14/protecting-science-tib-builds-dark-archive-for-arxiv/
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"On the Value of Being Unorthodox: Resilience in a Time of Hostility against Arts and Sciences"
The slides of my ignition talk for #oscibar2025 can be found here:
https://hu.berlin/oscibar2025 and on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15688618
And also via BitTorrent^^
https://sciop.net/uploads/f4411cececdf1bc7b49146437e0fffdf2d862bced2f210e71ca4d3bdbeb2dbbe
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I have some minor revisions but they accepted my dissertation
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Im letzten Jahr meiner Tätigkeit an der #RUB durfte ich die universitätsübergreifende Projektgruppe #GenoMobil in der Projektkoordination begleiten. Aus den Erkenntnissen der Jahre wurde in mühevoller Arbeit ein Buch geschnürt, welches jetzt bei #Springer im #OpenAccess frei verfügbar ist:
"Genossenschaftliche Organisation von nachhaltiger Mobilität" (Hrsg. Michael Roos, Marcel Hunecke, Matthias Weiss, Nicola Werbeck, Dirk Wittowsky)
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I am recruiting!
If you have a background in plant mol cell bio, a keen interest in sustainability and planetary health and are looking to move away from the bench, this may be for you!
Have a 👀 and please reach out if Qs
1yr FTC, remote in the UK
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