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I was reading about #cypherpunk today and I got inspired to use this all AI tools to help me create a clip connecting my beloved #biomechanics with encrypted solutions. Maybe someone want to watch silly graphics with some short massage.
#DataPrivacy
#OpenScience
https://youtu.be/ZmVVYfumdwk

Fwd: "How Early Career Researchers are Advancing an African Approach to Open Science | Katina Magazine"
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/early-career-researchers-african-approach-open-science

#openscience

The Open Source Definition enabled a modern religion, the Open Source Initiative becomes the church. The meaning of open source is based more on belief than reason.

How people behave around words is pure madness and a real source of concern for me, not to mention those who impose conformism in the name of freedom.

The notion of copyleft has been absurdly perverted instead of being used purely as a philosophical weapon against copyright.

Everywhere we must be wary of our collective beliefs, no spirit is truly free.

We need wiser philosophers to shape the digital world! Everything is an illusion.

#opensource #openeducation #openscience #digitalcommons

Tomorrow (Monday) 4-5:30 pm CEST, we are delighted to welcome a representative of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at #ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas: Dr. Angela Holzer will be with us to discuss the funders' role in promoting and supporting #OpenScience.

The recommended reading is: "Open Science as Part of Research Culture. Positioning of the German Research Foundation" which is co-authored by Angela Holzer: https://zenodo.org/records/7194537.

Join us in person @unibibkoeln to enjoy a cuppa and some biscuits with us or brew your own and join us online (please sign up to our mailing list to get the Zoom link: https://ub.uni-koeln.de/en/courses-consultations/reproducibilitea-in-the-humaniteas).

ReproducibiliTea
in the HumaniTeas
WHEN?
Selected Mondays 4:00–5:30 p.m.
WHERE?
Room 4.006, University and City Library
(USB Köln) and on Zoom.
WHO?
Anyone interested in humanities research.
JOIN US
Come and discuss Open Science practices
over a cup of tea and biscuits!

SUMMER 2025 SCHEDULE
4 April Opening Night 5:30 p.m. Research Dilemma Game with
Bettina Bock (IDSL II) & Sebastian Barsch (History Education) &
Open Science Games Night. USB Main Building.
14 April Accessible Research: Fair, diamond, open, free.
Martine Grice (Institute for Linguistics – Phonetics)
5 May Open Science at DFG: Position Paper, Funding and
Framework Conditions. Angela Holzer (Programme Director, DFG)
12 May Beyond the gold standard: Transparency in qualitative corpus analysis. Nathan Dykes (Department Digital Humanities and Social Studies, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
26 May Reproducibility when working with large language models: A hallucination? Nils Reiter (Institute for Digital Humanities)
16 June Let’s talk about language - and its role for replicability. Xenia Schmalz, Anna Yi Leung (Self Learning Systems Lab) & Johannes Breuer (GESIS — Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)
23 June 5:45 p.m. Reproducibility in the teaching of digital
humanities: Lessons from Programming Historian. Marie Flesch
(Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Université Paris Cité)

The first couple of blog posts by my students about #ReproducibiliTea in the Humaniteas are now online!

Julia reported on the Library Night with the motto "Gaming", as part of which we played a collaborative discussion game on tackling research-related ethical dilemma and Kathrin reported (in German) about Martine Grice's session on diamond #OpenAcces publishing: https://elenlefoll.quarto.pub/os-linguistics2025/posts.html. #OpenScience

Screenshot of blog page (see link in toot) showing three blog posts.

📣 Natural Product Occurrence of the Day

🧪 Juncin H [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105245803] is a molecule
found in an 🐛 animal, Junceella juncea [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3319178]
📚 according to: [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47954118]

✏️ This occurrence is available for curation on Wikidata [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105245803#P703]. If you spot an error, feel free to improve it!

#DailyNP #OpenScience

Chemical structure of Juncin H displaying atoms and bonds.

Image of Junceella juncea, the taxon in which the compound is found.

Lancement du projet d'archive ouverte eirXiv [emerging investigator archive] pour permettre la publication de travaux de recherche de jeunes (~14-18ans, plutôt niveau lycée).

Ils prétendent être le premier preprint à destination du secondaire, une archive non pas spécifique à un sujet mais à un public.

Un espace pour partager les créations d'étudiants/de jeunes permettant alors de mieux comprendre la construction de la science. Pour mieux comprendre une science ouverte, de la publication à l'évaluation par les pairs.

La publication de Josie mentionne aussi l'intérêt pour des jeunes chercheurs (plus universitaires) de pouvoir apprendre à faire des évaluations par les pairs par ce biais, la pratique pouvant être intimidante. Un type d'espace d'interaction propice pour débuter dans ses pratiques de recherche (ouverte).

On pourrait avoir un intérêt pédagogique à différents niveaux avec une relation entre plusieurs degrés d'expertise, le mentorat et l'apprentissage par les pairs n'étant pas bien loin. De là à parler d'éducation ouverte.

Cela semble une démarche intéressante pour former à la recherche, aux sciences, aux modèles ouverts et aux communs numériques 🤨 Et pourquoi pas aboutir à quelques pépites de jeunes savants fous ?

On a grand besoin aujourd'hui de mieux apprendre à mobiliser les connaissances scientifiques, et l'exercice est bien complexe. Notre culture scientifique reste encore bien à construire.

https://eirxiv.org/eirxiv

#openmodels #openscience #openeducation #communsnumeriques

Who really wrote it—you or the AI?
I just published a new paper on Zenodo proposing a live tagging system ([A][M][P][W]) for AI–human authorship.
Transparent, traceable, and built for journals.

Read it here: https://zenodo.org/records/15333227
#AIethics #authorship #GPT4 #openscience #transparency

🔒 #OpenScience Backlash: U.S. Limits Data Access
New rules restrict foreign researchers—especially from China—from accessing databases. Meanwhile, Nature reports China has overtaken the U.S. in cancer research output.
https://www.fiercebiotech.com/research/nih-bans-researchers-china-russia-and-other-countries-multiple-databases
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01154-4

We’re excited to announce the 𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗔𝟮𝟱 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽.

This initiative is designed to encourage individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, have low vision, or have other disabilities to join us as we prepare for RSAA25 - helping to ensure our online event is as accessible and inclusive as possible.

Given that some members of our organising committee are blind or have low vision, we will prioritise applicants who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have other types of disabilities, to help bring even greater diversity of experience to our accessibility work.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗔𝟮𝟱 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹:
- Attend RSAA25 with a free ticket
- Share their insights by posting during #RSAA25 on Mastodon (if they wish)
- Create a short, open-access blog or report after the event

The successful fellow will receive an initial payment before the event and a final payment once the report is published.

📅 Deadline for applications is 2am UTC Thursday the 12th June 2025
🗓️ Results of the application will be provided on the 27th of June 2025

You can find the RSAA25 Accessibility form here.

Questions, concerns, or feedback? Please email: info@rseaa.org
(We also welcome feedback if you feel the language we have used could be improved.)
#Accessibility #RSAA25 #Inclusion #ResearchSoftware #OpenScience

@kevinmoerman welcome!

I found Mastodon a treasure trove for #foss, #rse and #OpenScience related stuff. Hope you have a good time here, too.

@sennoma I can give some hope here. There is an International Network of Open Science & Scholarship Communities, organizing like-minded people, a vibrant inclusive environment. See https://osc-international.com/ and several are online on Mastodon, like our local @oscmaastricht

There are emerging activities in North America too

#openscience

📣 Natural Product Occurrence of the Day

🧪 methylamine [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q409304] is a molecule
found in an 🐛 animal, Homo sapiens [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15978631]
📚 according to: A community-driven global reconstruction of human metabolism. [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29614690]

✏️ This occurrence is available for curation on Wikidata [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q409304#P703]. If you spot an error, feel free to improve it!

#DailyNP #OpenScience

Chemical structure of methylamine displaying atoms and bonds.

Image of Homo sapiens, the taxon in which the compound is found.

Week 2 at Gödel’s Therapy Room: 103 models tested, phi-4-reasoning-plus leads (50.8%). Transparency remains high, but models stumble on tradeoffs, metacognition, creativity. ChatGPT-4o scores just 30.5%—great for casual use but limited in ethical paradox. Benchmarks matter: ours challenge ethics, not facts.

https://gtr.dev

#gtr #AIethics #OpenScience

📢 VISSOFT 2025 submission deadlines are approaching!

Research, NIER, and Tools tracks close on May 23rd.

💡 Submissions have already started arriving—join the conversation in software visualization and maintenance!

🔗 More info: https://vissoft.io/2025/submission.html
#SoftwareEngineering #AcademicChatter #OpenScience

#introduction I am a lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Galway, Ireland.

I enjoy inventing (and teaching) methods for computational (bio)mechanics and computational design.

I am the developer of:
* GIBBON https://www.gibboncode.org/
* Comodo https://github.com/COMODO-research/Comodo.jl

I am an advocate for #openscience #opensource and a co-founder and editor for JOSS, the Journal of Open Source Software.
https://joss.theoj.org/

https://kevinmoerman.org/

🌿🌧️ Predicting the extent of invasive Buffelgrass is important for its management. Travis Matlock, a runner-up in the @uazlibraries 2024 #DataVisualization Challenge, in collaboration with the USA NPN, created an informative map that tracks rainfall "events" over a 30-day period to forecast buffelgrass green-up 1–2 weeks in advance. Check out the map here: https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.25705419
Travis Matlock (2024). CC-BY 4.0. #OpenData #OpenScience #DataViz #buffelgrass #climatedata #UniversityofArizona

#openScience

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