Victor Venema @VictorVenema@fediscience.org

Potholer54: How many 'Covid' deaths are really caused by Covid-19? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzh6HwN0gbw

My 3 favorite YouTube science channels are:
1. Potholer54 (spreading reliable science by debunking anti-science).

2. Mailab (In German; reliable current science discussions by your local chemist.)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyHDQ5C6z1NDmJ4g6SerW8g

3. In a Nutshell (Beautifully animated channel, spreading optimism about the future. The can do optimism America once had. From Germany, but in English)
https://www.youtube.com/user/Kurzgesagt

Scientific research that the public pays for must be made available to everyone, without a paywall, without an embargo period. Period. #OAWeek2020 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/open-access-must-be-rule-not-exception

On Reassembling Scholarly Communications: A book about the ethics and egalitarianism of open access. Themes: colonial influences; epistemologies; publics and politics; archives and preservation; infrastructures and platforms; and global communities.
https://eve.gd/2020/10/21/on-reassembling-scholarly-communications/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Open_Science/comments/jid8ei/on_reassembling_scholarly_communications_a_book/?utm_source=ifttt

@Cyborgneticz Note: Even if you sci-hub it, always also request it as an interlibrary loan if you are an academic.

The ILL program gets funding based on use, and if people don't use it it will go away, and it has gotten me a BUNCH of stuff that sci-hub doesn't have (obscure journals, books, technical reports)

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?