Victor Venema @VictorVenema@fediscience.org

Hello, #academicFederation

My new university job really, really values giving talks and lectures.

So, I'm going to offer my services as a speaker or lecturer.

I've given talks at universities like Oregon, Texas, Calgary, and Alberta.

I'd be happy to talk about my research about the #darkweb, #socialengineering, or #alternativeSocialMedia (including Mastodon), among other topics.

Obviously, I'm happy to do these via videoconference. DM me or email (robertwgehl at protonmail)

Today I was reminded that Trunk exists.

If you're looking for more people on the fediverse with whom you share common interests, this is a good resource. The only names on here are of people who opted in and requested it.

https://communitywiki.org/trunk

#FluidDyn is an educational / research project to advance the field of #FluidMechanics through computational, experimental and data processing methods. The motivation behind this project is given here:

https://fluiddyn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro-motivations.html

We develop primarily in #Python. We are also proponents of #OpenScience philosophy. This account is managed by @ashwinvis (for now). Follow us for updates about our project and in extension exciting developments in the scientific stack of Python.

#introduction #introductions #OpenSource

The Creative Commons Summit is this week: https://summit.creativecommons.org

Did you know that for biomedical literature, Europe PMC has a handy website that shows you how Open Access your work is? Just use this link and replace the ORCID: https://europepmc.org/authors/0000-0001-7542-0286

This new Youtube channel features over 50 free presentation videos from the 2019 Metascience / Open Science Symposium in Stanford
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkYUZ-NJHR9yTEiF_4jn6vwF54DTuT-za
https://www.reddit.com/r/Open_Science/comments/jb7e7r/this_new_youtube_channel_features_over_50_free/?utm_source=ifttt

New #ClimateServices2020 report on #DRRDay
#Climatechange has led to more extreme weather. Yet 1 in 3 people are not covered by #EarlyWarning systems.
Being prepared and able to react at the right time, in the right place, saves lives and livelihoods.
https://bit.ly/3lJGCps

[ https://tweets.newsbots.eu/WMO/status/1316000767581523970 — #bot]

If we would make such a feasibility study would you be willing to participate?

You would get a mail when Climate Feedback starts a review & when it is finished, have that time to grade the article, maybe add how confident you are or a classification on the topic.

#ClimateFeedback is a group of climate scientist reviewing press articles on climate change, but there is only so much a few scientists can do & by the time the reviews are in & summarized the article is mostly old news.

With a larger group we could review more articles & have results while people are still reading it.

We could test how well such a larger group does (& how to statistically combine their grades) by comparing their assessments with the ones later published by Climate Feedback.

In 1990 63% of published studies claimed to have produced positive results. By 2007 this was more than 85%. "in my view, it’s the scientists who report negative results who are more likely to move a field forward."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02960-3
https://www.reddit.com/r/Open_Science/comments/j8kyhh/in_1990_63_of_published_studies_claimed_to_have/?utm_source=ifttt

Great to see the paper “Building an open community: a new opportunity for scholarly projects” showcases the creation of open #communities with #OpenStreetMap: https://books.openedition.org/inha/4935.

It identifies 4 principles to successful open communities:
- open invitation
- onboarding contributors
- focusing the community
- building a commons

Probably, 2nd and 3rd are most difficult, and the paper gives good tips, but it’s worth sharing even more.

What’s working best in your experience?

Wikipedia Signpost: "Wikipedia and the End of Open Collaboration?" Open Peer Production projects seem to have a life cycle. With success comes abuse and a reduction in openness leading to less new contributors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-08-02/Special_report
https://www.reddit.com/r/Open_Science/comments/j39z4x/wikipedia_signpost_wikipedia_and_the_end_of_open/?utm_source=ifttt

#MASTODON POST PRIVACY - who can see your post?

PUBLIC 🌏
Anyone can see and boost your post everywhere.

UNLISTED 🔓
✅ Tagged people
✅ Followers
✅ On your profile
❌ Local and federated timelines
✅ Boostable
✅ Visible to admins

FOLLOWERS ONLY 🔐
✅ Tagged people
✅ Followers
❌ On your profile
❌ Local and federated timelines
❌ Boostable
✅ Visible to admins

DIRECT MESSAGE ✉️
✅ Tagged people
❌ Followers
❌ On your profile
❌ Local and federated timelines
❌ Boostable
✅ Visible to admins

#FAQ

I made a flow chart of which #Mastodon posts end up in which timelines!

So, you can see how each instance will have a different local timeline, and even a slightly different federated timeline - and you can see why the federated timeline moves so much faster than the local one, too.

#FAQ

Do you already know WikiCite? A community that curates citation data using the WikiData database, a database everyone can edit, just like Wikipedia.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite#About_WikiCite
https://www.reddit.com/r/Open_Science/comments/izi5cl/do_you_already_know_wikicite_a_community_that/?utm_source=ifttt