Mark your calendars with this #openscience workshop:
Empower Your Research with Openness and Transparency - PANERIS
https://paneris.eu/events/empower-your-research-with-openness-and-transparency/
"Discover the latest advancements, best practices, and inspiring initiatives in Open Science through a series of expert talks from leading researchers and activists across the globe."
Register until Sep 7.
Symposium: Opportunities, risks, and #AcademicFreedom in the age of #BigTech & #AI
🔗https://www.rug.nl/library/calendar/250925-academia-at-the-digital-crossroads
📍 Groningen, NL
🗓️ 25 September
Opening:
@universityofgroningen Rector Jacquelien Scherpen
Lectures:
Tamar Sharon & Juliette Schaafsma
Panel with:
Michiel Kolman (Elsevier)
@FleurZeldenrust (Young Academy NL)
David Cheruiyot ( @YAGroningen)
Nolda Tipping-Griffioen ( @CIT_RUG)
Marijke Folgering ( @Bibliothecaris)
Host: Titus Stahl ( @tstahl)
Symposium: Opportunities, risks, and #AcademicFreedom in the age of #BigTech & #AI
🔗https://www.rug.nl/library/calendar/250925-academia-at-the-digital-crossroads
📍 Groningen, NL
🗓️ 25 September
Opening:
@universityofgroningen Rector Jacquelien Scherpen
Lectures:
Tamar Sharon & Juliette Schaafsma
Panel with:
Michiel Kolman (Elsevier)
@FleurZeldenrust (Young Academy NL)
David Cheruiyot ( @YAGroningen)
Nolda Tipping-Griffioen ( @CIT_RUG)
Marijke Folgering ( @Bibliothecaris)
Host: Titus Stahl ( @tstahl)
🆕 The Principles of Open Science Monitoring, developed as a result of consultations led by @osmi and @unesco, are now available online:
🔗 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15807480
The principles focus on three key pillars: 1) relevance & significance, 2) transparency & reproducibility, 3) self-assessment & responsible use.
💡 They are not intended for assessing individual researchers. Instead, they are to serve as the framework of past and upcoming OS monitoring systems worldwide.
Was looking for something on Open Access publishing in Latin America (leaders in nonprofit OA journals!), in English AND reusable (not easy, please add Creative Commons licences). Found this recent article:
González, S. C., & Becerril-Garcia, A. (2025). Open Access and Open Science in Latin America Today: Bridges and Barriers. 027.7, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.21428/1bfadeb6.65514eb7
Was looking for something on Open Access publishing in Latin America (leaders in nonprofit OA journals!), in English AND reusable (not easy, please add Creative Commons licences). Found this recent article:
González, S. C., & Becerril-Garcia, A. (2025). Open Access and Open Science in Latin America Today: Bridges and Barriers. 027.7, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.21428/1bfadeb6.65514eb7
new blog post: "AI Technologies in Academia" https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/08/18/ai-technologies-in-academia.htmlhttps://doi.org/10.59350/hr4y6-kwq16
About the "Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia" (https://openletter.earth/open-letter-stop-the-uncritical-adoption-of-ai-technologies-in-academia-b65bba1e) and why it took me two months before I could sign it (sorry!)
replies to this post will show up as comments in my blog
📚 Metcalfe’s law says that the value of a network grows with each new node. But what happens when some of those nodes are fake?
Nathan T. Camp and colleagues applied this law to citation databases, while Leo Van Hove showed that if even a third of the references are counterfeit, 🤢 the database loses its scientific value and turns harmful.
📄 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103065
📚 Metcalfe’s law says that the value of a network grows with each new node. But what happens when some of those nodes are fake?
Nathan T. Camp and colleagues applied this law to citation databases, while Leo Van Hove showed that if even a third of the references are counterfeit, 🤢 the database loses its scientific value and turns harmful.
📄 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103065
Episciences links article code through Software Heritage https://www.softwareheritage.org/2025/08/21/episciences-links-article-code-software-heritage/#OpenScience
Episciences links article code through Software Heritage https://www.softwareheritage.org/2025/08/21/episciences-links-article-code-software-heritage/#OpenScience
👋 Hello Mastodon!
We are KISHIB – Digital Corpus of Ancient West Asian Seals and Sealings.
Our project documents thousands of Mesopotamian seals and sealings in digital form, making them accessible for research and the public.
Expect insights into archaeology, digital methods, and the fascinating world of cylinder seals!
🇨🇭 Switzerland strengthens its commitment to the Barcelona Declaration
We’re glad to welcome the @uzh as a new signatory, joining CERN and the Swiss Reproducibility Network. Together, they highlight Switzerland’s growing commitment to making research information open and transparent.
Join us ⋅ Rejoignez-nous ⋅ Unisciti a noi ⋅ Schließen Sie sich uns an ⋅ As da vegnir cun nus 🤝
Get involved: https://barcelona-declaration.org/
🇨🇭 Switzerland strengthens its commitment to the Barcelona Declaration
We’re glad to welcome the @uzh as a new signatory, joining CERN and the Swiss Reproducibility Network. Together, they highlight Switzerland’s growing commitment to making research information open and transparent.
Join us ⋅ Rejoignez-nous ⋅ Unisciti a noi ⋅ Schließen Sie sich uns an ⋅ As da vegnir cun nus 🤝
Get involved: https://barcelona-declaration.org/
Just out!
We, researchers and open science practitioners from developing countries, share a step-by-step guide to adopting open science in resource-constrained contexts.
Alongside it: a toolkit with repositories, FOSS tools, training, funding, checklists, community-building resources... We highlight both barriers and unique strengths from our regions.
🔓 Paper: https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459251357565
🛠 Toolkit: https://osf.io/gu7v4
Just out!
We, researchers and open science practitioners from developing countries, share a step-by-step guide to adopting open science in resource-constrained contexts.
Alongside it: a toolkit with repositories, FOSS tools, training, funding, checklists, community-building resources... We highlight both barriers and unique strengths from our regions.
🔓 Paper: https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459251357565
🛠 Toolkit: https://osf.io/gu7v4
👋 Hello Mastodon!
We are KISHIB – Digital Corpus of Ancient West Asian Seals and Sealings.
Our project documents thousands of Mesopotamian seals and sealings in digital form, making them accessible for research and the public.
Expect insights into archaeology, digital methods, and the fascinating world of cylinder seals!
How can an alternative to Google & Co. be created? With your own open web index, such as the one developed in the @openwebsearcheu research project. @Golemde asked project manager Michael Granitzer from the University of Passau and coordinator Stefan Vogt from the @osf how the open web index OWI can now become a #European #search engine. Exciting – because we all want to emancipate ourselves from #USA #serviceshttps://besserwissen.podigee.io/136-openwebsearch (in German).
How can an alternative to Google & Co. be created? With your own open web index, such as the one developed in the @openwebsearcheu research project. @Golemde asked project manager Michael Granitzer from the University of Passau and coordinator Stefan Vogt from the @osf how the open web index OWI can now become a #European #search engine. Exciting – because we all want to emancipate ourselves from #USA #serviceshttps://besserwissen.podigee.io/136-openwebsearch (in German).
In a library somewhere...
Arpix: "This is where the next secrets will be found."
Livira: "Tell me there is an index"
Meelan: "There are lots of them"
Livira: "What? Why?"
Arpix: "... each new librarian who gets control knows that in order to keep it they need to change the index so that their knowledge becomes indispensible"
M. Lawrence, isbn:9780593437919
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