Björn Brembs
@brembs@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago
@glynmoody

Thank you for this!

It is deeply disturbing thatit always needs a catastrophe to get people to act. People have warned about the fickleness of databases for decades, see, e.g., slides 19-22 from 2013:

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/the-three-infrastructure-crises-in-science/15079538#19

or with explicit PubMed mention on slide 6 in 2014:

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/making-science-open-by-default/31885784#6

We have known that this was a problem for many, many years, I was not the only one pointing this out, of course.

And yet, nothing happened.
Björn Brembs
@brembs@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago
@glynmoody

Even now, when people start #SafeguardingResearch we are making the same mistakes again! As you point out in your article, all our outputs are in danger, be it research data or papers. And GitHub is a single point of failure foir scholarly code, too!

All of our outputs are under threat. If we had to invent infrastructures for our outputs, nobody would invent different silos for each output, so linking code, data and text together would be made more difficult, rather than easier?
Henrik Schönemann
@lavaeolus@fedihum.org  ·  activity timestamp last week

"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

#OpenScience#SafeguardingResearch

Slide with the title "Ignition Talk." The slide has a purple header with the title in white text. Below the header, the main title reads "On the Value of Being Unorthodox: Resilience in a Time of Hostility against Arts and Sciences." A quote by Kathy Reid is displayed: "As researchers, we often say, 'we need the data.' Today, the data needs us." The slide is attributed to Henrik Schönemann, with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, and the date is June 18th, 2025. The background of the slide is black, with white text for contrast.
Slide with the title "Ignition Talk." The slide has a purple header with the title in white text. Below the header, the main title reads "On the Value of Being Unorthodox: Resilience in a Time of Hostility against Arts and Sciences." A quote by Kathy Reid is displayed: "As researchers, we often say, 'we need the data.' Today, the data needs us." The slide is attributed to Henrik Schönemann, with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, and the date is June 18th, 2025. The background of the slide is black, with white text for contrast.
Slide with the title "Ignition Talk." The slide has a purple header with the title in white text. Below the header, the main title reads "On the Value of Being Unorthodox: Resilience in a Time of Hostility against Arts and Sciences." A quote by Kathy Reid is displayed: "As researchers, we often say, 'we need the data.' Today, the data needs us." The slide is attributed to Henrik Schönemann, with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, and the date is June 18th, 2025. The background of the slide is black, with white text for contrast.
Jeroen Bosman
@jeroenbosman@akademienl.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Science, researchers and research communities increasingly need to be resilient to threats and actual incursions relating to budget, academic freedom, safety in the public arena, availability of science databases and infrastructures and more. We created this framework to inspire communities in their resilience. It is quite generic, so needs to be customised to specific contexts and threats. #safeguardingresearch #defendresearch #resilience #academnicfreedom @RShetty

A visualization of resilience strategies connecting prevention to potential threats, protection to actual threats, resistance to encounters/attacks, withstanding to incursions and repair to destruction. For the prevention strategy we suggest mutual interest and agreements/contracts. For protection we suggest (double) walls and sovereignty/control. For resistance we suggest action/fighting back and in/external solidarity. For withstanding we suggest elasticity and redundancy. For repair we suggest jugaad (=hindi for 'make do') and resources. The are generic strategies that need to be customised to specific contexts and threats.
A visualization of resilience strategies connecting prevention to potential threats, protection to actual threats, resistance to encounters/attacks, withstanding to incursions and repair to destruction. For the prevention strategy we suggest mutual interest and agreements/contracts. For protection we suggest (double) walls and sovereignty/control. For resistance we suggest action/fighting back and in/external solidarity. For withstanding we suggest elasticity and redundancy. For repair we suggest jugaad (=hindi for 'make do') and resources. The are generic strategies that need to be customised to specific contexts and threats.
A visualization of resilience strategies connecting prevention to potential threats, protection to actual threats, resistance to encounters/attacks, withstanding to incursions and repair to destruction. For the prevention strategy we suggest mutual interest and agreements/contracts. For protection we suggest (double) walls and sovereignty/control. For resistance we suggest action/fighting back and in/external solidarity. For withstanding we suggest elasticity and redundancy. For repair we suggest jugaad (=hindi for 'make do') and resources. The are generic strategies that need to be customised to specific contexts and threats.
Moritz Negwer
@moritz_negwer@mstdn.science  ·  activity timestamp last month

The outright wrecking of the scientific infrastructure in the US under the current administration chilled me to my bone. Kept me doomscrolling. But I finally found a way to do something positive, in a small way: I dedicated some storage space and a bit of my internet connection to a decentralized backup of deleted research data.
I am happy to report that @SafeguardingResearch 's torrent swarm now has ca 14 TB storage and a Gbit connection more.
#sciop #safeguardingresearch #academicchatter
Leibniz Open Science
@leibnizopenscience@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

We are exited that this year’s Ignition Talk at #oscibar is given by @lavaeolus on the very timely topic "On the Value of Being Unorthodox: Resilience in a Time of Hostility against Arts and Sciences" #SafeguardingResearch
👉 Register here: https://www.barcamp-open-science.eu/
👉 Don't hesitate to already propose sessions