The University of Utrecht is canceling the #WebOfScience and offering training sessions on #OpenAlex.
https://www.uu.nl/en/news/access-to-web-of-science-will-end-on-1-january-2026

"Discontinuing Web of Science is a logical step that fits in with the UU vision on #OpenScience. Closed commercial databases, such as Web of Science, are not in line with our desire to work with open research information as much as possible. The UU signed the #BarcelonaDeclaration in 2024 to this effect. The use of Journal Impact Factors [#JIFs] is also not in line with our vision of Open Science…With the funds freed up by not renewing the licence, we will continue to invest in open source research and infrastructure."

🎉 GNU MPFR 🎉
(multiple-precision floating-point computations with correct rounding)

French #OpenScience Award!

https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/remise-des-prix-science-ouverte-du-logiciel-libre-de-recherche-edition-2025/

Jupyter notebooks are fine to use in production as long as their outputs aren't considered "official" unless they are run in batch mode, e.g., with nbconvert or papermill. That is, you should never deliver any result from a notebook you ran interactively.

#reproducibility #openscience

Just a minute ago, I accidentally discovered Workflowhub (https://about.workflowhub.eu/) when browsing through a few Nanopubs. I was not aware of this repository.

A first thought: "Yet another repository to register #FAIR materials? Seriously?" Then again, I am all in favour of #reproducibleComputing and want to see more of it.

On the other hand: transparency in our work is central to the #OpenScience idea. NOT cluttering a file space so that we can be transparent in our work is paramount.

Lately, we have seen #nanopub, #ROcrates, and apparently WorkflowHub, too. (This is by no means a comprehensive list.) I wonder: Are we getting too many solutions to keep up-to-date? Are we risking frightening young researchers with the high standards we are setting? We are by no means where we want to be in terms of #transparency and #reproducibility in research, or are we?

Note, that I understand how competing systems and tool sets arise. Still, my nonrhetorical questions (1 & 2) stand.

October 2025 was the warmest October on record for the #Arctic. Arctic sea-ice extent is currently the lowest on record for late November. My newest 'climate viz of the month' summarizes some of this latest data: https://zacklabe.com/climate-viz-of-the-month/

#ClimateChange #SciComm #OpenScience #OpenData #DataViz

Jupyter notebooks are fine to use in production as long as their outputs aren't considered "official" unless they are run in batch mode, e.g., with nbconvert or papermill. That is, you should never deliver any result from a notebook you ran interactively.

#reproducibility #openscience

🎉 GNU MPFR 🎉
(multiple-precision floating-point computations with correct rounding)

French #OpenScience Award!

https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/remise-des-prix-science-ouverte-du-logiciel-libre-de-recherche-edition-2025/

"A Blueprint for Open Science: How Transatlantic Teams Built and Deployed Knowledge Graphs to Enable Biological (AI) Models" https://doi.org/10.37044/osf.io/g4rk2_v1

"these projects and pipelines showcase methods for constructing KGs from existing biomedical datasets andexemplify the practical deployment of GraphRAG in real-world biomedical context, thereby advancing the biomedical sciences [..]" https://index.biohackrxiv.org/2025/11/26/g4rk2.html

#biohackathon #KGhack25 #KGhack #openscience #AWSOpen

Asking for a friend: Do you know any scientific evidence that #OpenSource and #OpenResearchSoftware lead to more software innovation and/or scientific evidence than #ClosedSource?

Common sense (transparency, reproducibility..) is clear. But there are certainly studies that have also dealt with this scientifically. Recommendations?

Boosts are welcome!

#Academic #Science #FediHelp #OpenScience #ResearchSoftware #FAIR

October 2025 was the warmest October on record for the #Arctic. Arctic sea-ice extent is currently the lowest on record for late November. My newest 'climate viz of the month' summarizes some of this latest data: https://zacklabe.com/climate-viz-of-the-month/

#ClimateChange #SciComm #OpenScience #OpenData #DataViz

We have an amazing opportunity for Early-Career Researchers to join our Board of Directors!

We're looking for someone with experience in leading #OpenScience projects to support and lead eLife in our mission to change research communication.

🔗 https://elifesciences.org/jobs/4ae0d5ee/non-executive-director-early-career-scientific?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

"A Blueprint for Open Science: How Transatlantic Teams Built and Deployed Knowledge Graphs to Enable Biological (AI) Models" https://doi.org/10.37044/osf.io/g4rk2_v1

"these projects and pipelines showcase methods for constructing KGs from existing biomedical datasets andexemplify the practical deployment of GraphRAG in real-world biomedical context, thereby advancing the biomedical sciences [..]" https://index.biohackrxiv.org/2025/11/26/g4rk2.html

#biohackathon #KGhack25 #KGhack #openscience #AWSOpen

This is the list of rOpenSci's members talks:

🎙️ Spanish

- Herramientas para usar LLMs en R by @LuisDVerde

- R-multiverse by @landau, @maelle and @yabellini

- Mejor código, sin esfuerzos, sin siquiera IA by @maelle, Hugo Gruson and Etienne Bacher

- Estrategias de divulgación para proyectos de software e infraestructuras abiertas by @alejandrabellini and @yabellini

- Comunidades de líderes de código abierto by @yabellini and @noamross

- Datos públicos y Software Libre by @pablote

- rcdo para analizar datos climáticos con R by @eliocamp

- ICC para evaluar confiabilidad entre evaluadores by Francisco Cardozo

- Integrando listas taxonómicas en Quarto y R Markdown: Un caso para taxnames by Miguel Alvarez

- Metasurvey by Mauro Loprete.

📌 English

- R-universe Q&A @jeroenooms and @maelle

The complete list of talks: https://latinr.org/en/

#RStats #RStatsES #RStatsPT #OpenData #OpenScience #RSE #FOSS #analytics

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rOpenSci will be participating in @latinr_conf!

Here is the key data for your participation:

🎙️ Keynotes

- Heather Turner: Lowering Barriers to Contributing to R.

- Stephanie Zimmer: Transforming a team to open-source first.

- TRACE-LAC Team. Lo invisible del código abierto: Lecciones desde el proyecto TRACE-LAC / Epiverso para conectar el desarrollo de software con la salud pública

🎓 Tutorials by rOpenSci members:

📌 ¡Miércoles, Git! Manejo de errores en Git y no morir en el intento — @maelle , @yabellini. Registration: https://www.eventbrite.cl/e/miercoles-git-manejo-de-errores-en-git-y-no-morir-en-el-intento-tickets-1937068908249

📌 Introducción a #Tidymodels — Francisco Cardozo & Edgar Ruiz. Registration: https://www.eventbrite.cl/e/introducion-a-tidymodels-tickets-1962543491413

📌 Automatización de workflows en R y Python con #targets y #Snakemake — Diana García. Registration: https://www.eventbrite.cl/e/automatizacion-de-workflows-en-r-y-python-con-targets-y-snakemake-tickets-1936131664929

📌 ¿Qué historia vas a contar hoy Herramientas para una comunicación eficaz — Alejandra Bellini. Registration: https://www.eventbrite.cl/e/que-historia-vas-a-contar-hoy-herramientas-para-una-comunicacion-eficaz-tickets-1891497192019

📌 Coding with #AI in RStudio — Juan Cruz Rodríguez & @LuisDVerde. Registration: https://www.eventbrite.cl/e/coding-with-ai-in-rstudio-tickets-1962817615325

List with all tutorials here: https://latinr.org/en/

#RStats #RStatsES #openScience #RSE #OpenData #FOSS #DataScience #Analytics

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@pierre

@bonfire @unif

👏👍

Coincidence, j'ai montré ce jeu de planches au consortium datacite France, aujourd'hui, à l'Inist à Nancy : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17691551

On y voit à peu près la même image : @bonfire est le premier réseau social certifié par @ORCID_Org

#Mastodon #OpenSocialNetwork #openscience #orcid #doi #bonfire

Asking for a friend: Do you know any scientific evidence that #OpenSource and #OpenResearchSoftware lead to more software innovation and/or scientific evidence than #ClosedSource?

Common sense (transparency, reproducibility..) is clear. But there are certainly studies that have also dealt with this scientifically. Recommendations?

Boosts are welcome!

#Academic #Science #FediHelp #OpenScience #ResearchSoftware #FAIR

🧠 Just came across #BeyondPDF by #TMLR. It introduces a new submission format for #ScientificPublishing based on #Markdown and #HTML, supporting interactive figures, videos, and other rich media. This enables direct interaction with content beyond what static PDFs allow. Awesome idea!

🌍 https://tmlr-beyond-pdf.org/about

#OpenScience

This is the list of rOpenSci's members talks:

🎙️ Spanish

- Herramientas para usar LLMs en R by @LuisDVerde

- R-multiverse by @landau, @maelle and @yabellini

- Mejor código, sin esfuerzos, sin siquiera IA by @maelle, Hugo Gruson and Etienne Bacher

- Estrategias de divulgación para proyectos de software e infraestructuras abiertas by @alejandrabellini and @yabellini

- Comunidades de líderes de código abierto by @yabellini and @noamross

- Datos públicos y Software Libre by @pablote

- rcdo para analizar datos climáticos con R by @eliocamp

- ICC para evaluar confiabilidad entre evaluadores by Francisco Cardozo

- Integrando listas taxonómicas en Quarto y R Markdown: Un caso para taxnames by Miguel Alvarez

- Metasurvey by Mauro Loprete.

📌 English

- R-universe Q&A @jeroenooms and @maelle

The complete list of talks: https://latinr.org/en/

#RStats #RStatsES #RStatsPT #OpenData #OpenScience #RSE #FOSS #analytics

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