Outreachy’s Dec 2025 internship cohort is now open!

We call on FOSS mentoring communities to join us.

Who can be a mentoring community?
• Open source software projects
• Open science initiatives
• Non‑profit orgs with open workflows
If your work is public, collaborative, and impact‑driven, you’re welcome.

Join us to mentor diverse intern talent in open source.
Sign up by Sept 10, 2025
https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/

Kindly read our latest blog post for more information about the application, learn more about our financial situation, and what this means for applicants, interns, and communities.

https://www.outreachy.org/blog/2025-08-14/december-2025-call-for-mentoring-organizations/

#OpenSource#FOSS#Outreachy #OpenScience

Outreachy’s Dec 2025 internship cohort is now open!

We call on FOSS mentoring communities to join us.

Who can be a mentoring community?
• Open source software projects
• Open science initiatives
• Non‑profit orgs with open workflows
If your work is public, collaborative, and impact‑driven, you’re welcome.

Join us to mentor diverse intern talent in open source.
Sign up by Sept 10, 2025
https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/

Kindly read our latest blog post for more information about the application, learn more about our financial situation, and what this means for applicants, interns, and communities.

https://www.outreachy.org/blog/2025-08-14/december-2025-call-for-mentoring-organizations/

#OpenSource#FOSS#Outreachy #OpenScience

I have a new 'climate viz of the month' blog posted, which looks at the regional differences in days with open water across the #Arctic: https://zacklabe.com/climate-viz-of-the-month/

#SciComm#DataViz #OpenScience#OpenData#ClimateChange

I have a new 'climate viz of the month' blog posted, which looks at the regional differences in days with open water across the #Arctic: https://zacklabe.com/climate-viz-of-the-month/

#SciComm#DataViz #OpenScience#OpenData#ClimateChange

More info here: https://blog.joss.theoj.org/2025/08/call-for-editors

Let me know if you have any questions.

#opensource #openaccess #OpenScience

More info here: https://blog.joss.theoj.org/2025/08/call-for-editors

Let me know if you have any questions.

#opensource #openaccess #OpenScience

A new national guide to support Early Career Researchers in Ireland is launching soon.
Webinar on Sep 4, 12–1.30PM IST.

Great to see @norfireland.bsky.social leading on this.

#OpenScience #OpenResearch #EarlyCareerResearchers #ResearchMatters #Ireland

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:np4nwymjsbbwnhvyk36m4dyz/post/3lvsezpokyk24

Will there be a possibility to migrate from a Mastodon account to Bonfire, or OSN, as it is possible between Mastodon instances ?

It might be needed to lower the migration barrier and foster Bonfire OSN uptake.

Of course, it comes along with the possibility to migrate between Bonfire, or OSN, instances as smoothly as possible.

Any plans of thoughts on that ?

#OpenAlex#Bonfire #OpenScience

In this blog post, I share my recent experiences with #Bluesky as a platform for scientific exchange. I see both advantages and risks: #Bluesky offers new opportunities, but I also miss key aspects of #Mastodon that have grown important to me ( #privacy, #sustainability, #community, #opensource). For now, I use both. In the post, I reflect on what each platform gets right (and wrong) for science.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/blog/2025-07-23-mastodon_vs_bluesky/

#OpenScience

In this blog post, I share my recent experiences with #Bluesky as a platform for scientific exchange. I see both advantages and risks: #Bluesky offers new opportunities, but I also miss key aspects of #Mastodon that have grown important to me ( #privacy, #sustainability, #community, #opensource). For now, I use both. In the post, I reflect on what each platform gets right (and wrong) for science.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/blog/2025-07-23-mastodon_vs_bluesky/

#OpenScience

I was awarded a grant by @BerlinUAlliance - this grant will allow me to visit Stefanie Haustein, associate professor at the School of Information Studies at the University of Ottawa and co-director of the ScholCommLab.
During my stay, I will investigate metadata flows in the context of research data. In particular, I will examine the transfer of metadata from local to global contexts.

Read more about the project and why it matters here:

👉 https://doi.org/10.59350/wwwj7-4cm07

#openscience
#researchdata
#metadata
#fdm
@IBI_HU

Are you interested in monitoring the output of research data for your institution? This preprint might be for you:

Gee, B. M. (2025). The hunt for research data: Development of an open-source workflow for tracking institutionally-affiliated research data publications. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.01228

In > 50 pages, the preprint outlines a workflow for identifying datasets published by authors affiliated with a specific institution. The workflow uses open data sources and multiple search strategies to compensate for missing affiliation information. It also discusses data monitoring and data cleaning issues.

https://github.com/utlibraries/research-data-discovery

#researchdata #OpenScience

🧠💻 A team from the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC, cimcyc.bsky.social) published a #programming guide aimed at students in #psychology and #cognitive #neuroscience. This evolving set of #tutorials offers a curated collection of conceptual reflections, practical examples, and methodological recommendations. The material is available in #Python, #RStats, and #MATLAB.

🌍 https://wobc.github.io/programming_book/
#CognitiveScience #OpenScience

🧠💻 A team from the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC, cimcyc.bsky.social) published a #programming guide aimed at students in #psychology and #cognitive #neuroscience. This evolving set of #tutorials offers a curated collection of conceptual reflections, practical examples, and methodological recommendations. The material is available in #Python, #RStats, and #MATLAB.

🌍 https://wobc.github.io/programming_book/
#CognitiveScience #OpenScience

The Journal of Trial and Error is hosting its second Trial & Error Award ceremony this year and nominations are still open!

The aim is to celebrate researchers who have explored scientific failure in any scientific article published between April 1, 2024 and March 31, 2025. The scope is considerably wide, so if you think something might fit, send along your nomination!

The winning article will be selected via live lottery from the pool of nominees at the Trial and Error Symposium on October 7, to which all nominees are welcome to join (and others, of course).

The Journal of Trial and Error feels strongly that our community is strengthened through the recognition of failed research as invaluable to the scientific process. This award was designed to explicitly celebrate this research and to disrupt the culture of stigma surrounding failure in our community.

Help us to redefine how we value failure in the pursuit of knowledge, and in doing so shed some light on the contributions of your colleagues.

You can follow this link to the nomination form: https://trialanderror.org/awards-2025-form

#academia #OpenScience

The Journal of Trial and Error is hosting its second Trial & Error Award ceremony this year and nominations are still open!

The aim is to celebrate researchers who have explored scientific failure in any scientific article published between April 1, 2024 and March 31, 2025. The scope is considerably wide, so if you think something might fit, send along your nomination!

The winning article will be selected via live lottery from the pool of nominees at the Trial and Error Symposium on October 7, to which all nominees are welcome to join (and others, of course).

The Journal of Trial and Error feels strongly that our community is strengthened through the recognition of failed research as invaluable to the scientific process. This award was designed to explicitly celebrate this research and to disrupt the culture of stigma surrounding failure in our community.

Help us to redefine how we value failure in the pursuit of knowledge, and in doing so shed some light on the contributions of your colleagues.

You can follow this link to the nomination form: https://trialanderror.org/awards-2025-form

#academia #OpenScience

Is time ripe to suggest the #inosc tag?

#fediverse #fediwall#openscience

Update. Another good example of reusing older #data for a new purpose. Aerial mapping photos of Antarctica taken by the Navy in the 1960s, and then lost, help reconstruct the collapse of glaciers.

* primary source
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59293-1
* summary
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-just-turned-dusty-navy-photos-into-a-climate-time-bomb/

#Climate#OpenData #OpenScience

Are you interested in monitoring the output of research data for your institution? This preprint might be for you:

Gee, B. M. (2025). The hunt for research data: Development of an open-source workflow for tracking institutionally-affiliated research data publications. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.01228

In > 50 pages, the preprint outlines a workflow for identifying datasets published by authors affiliated with a specific institution. The workflow uses open data sources and multiple search strategies to compensate for missing affiliation information. It also discusses data monitoring and data cleaning issues.

https://github.com/utlibraries/research-data-discovery

#researchdata #OpenScience