Victor Venema @VictorVenema@fediscience.org

We put much energy into creating interesting information feeds. Could we also jointly build something of lasting value?

Could we bookmark Toots together and put them into categories to create collections of quality information?

Such Toot collections will mostly link to resources and thus attract spammers. So we would have to do that as person or group of friends.

But above the collections we could write texts with everyone, just like Wikipedia does.

More detail:
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/bulding-information-sources-with-lasting-value/1847

I had not realized #OpenRepos2021 is also live streaming on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh4SPzHAl-N1dqPPlmHgEzw/videos

In 8 minutes a talk by the Confederation of Open Access Repositories on using #ActivityPub to connect manuscript repositories with peer review systems and journals. "

"Notify - The Repository and Services Interoperability Project"

The will exchange peer review status (not yet peer review reports). See also:
https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-updates/pubfair-version-2-now-available/

A few places left on this Ally Skills Workshop this Friday 11 June run by some friends. It's a full afternoon UK/Western Europe time.

From the organiser: "Being an ally is a learned skill that everyone can practice by self-education and structured training. An Ally Skills Workshop allows its participants to understand various concepts, explore social scenarios and practice simple everyday techniques they can use to make their workplace and communities more inclusive."

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ally-skills-training-by-open-life-science-tickets-150623610273

@VictorVenema @ashwinvis ICYMI, I've created a mastodon bot publishing info about new ao-phys pre-prints from arXiv. I hope you find it useful.

https://mastodon.social/web/accounts/106241432619580159

I propose 3 laws that will solve all issues we all have with corporations

A corporation may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

A corporation must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

A corporation must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

@bhaugen @codeberg I use Codeberg for my scientific code. Science is global and GitHub blocks several countries due to US trade sanctions.

Enlightening scientific article: The varying openness of digital open science tools https://f1000research.com/articles/9-1292/v2

German #Sustainability Science Summit 2021. Online event (8-9 July 2021) Call for contributions - open until 6 June 2021.

https://www.dkn-future-earth.org/activities/sustainability_science_summit_2021/index.php.en

26-5-2021: The Dutch court just ordered Royal Dutch Shell to reduce their net CO2e-emissions by 45% before the end of 2030.

The reference year is 2019, where they emitted ~70 million tonnes of CO2-equivalent (chart 1, https://reports.shell.com/sustainability-report/2019/our-performance-data/environmental-data.html).

This means Shell will have to reduce their emissions to ~31,5 million tonnes of CO2-equivalent before 2030 (chart 2).

Court ruling in English:
https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/inziendocument?id=ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2021:5339

Webpage 'milieudefensie' (English): https://en.milieudefensie.nl/climate-case-shell

#globalwarming

https://www.dw.com/en/how-norwegian-electricity-gets-into-the-german-power-grid/a-57658184

A new 623-kilometer (387-mile) cable connects Norwegian hydropower with German wind power. Such Direct Current cables are a relatively cheap way to deal with variations in supply and demand.

"NordLink is one of the world's longest subsea cables. It connects the energy grids of Norway and Germany, with a test run already completed successfully. It will provide some 3.6 million households with green power."

https://www.niemanlab.org/2011/10/the-contribution-conundrum-why-did-wikipedia-succeed-while-other-encyclopedias-failed/

Before Wikipedia was created there were seven attempts to create English-language online collaborative encyclopedia projects. Why did Wikipedia win?

1 Wikipedia modelled a familiar product (encyclopedia).

2 Low barriers to contribution.

3 It deemphasized attribution and social ownership of content.

4 Focused on content, not on technology.

These rules may also apply to collaborative efforts from the #Fediverse to #FOSS & @TranslateScience to @GrassrootsReview 1/2

1) Familiar product

We have many dreams what we could do with ActivityPub, but maybe rebuilding existing social media sites better is not a bad start.

2) Low barriers to contribution.

Server selection should be easier. Make servers for existing groups? Like the Discord servers of Twitch channels?

3) It deemphasized attribution and social ownership of content.

May generalize to other projects less.

4) Focused on content.

We have many apps. Focus more on inviting people? @Invite2Fedi 2/2

A position paper of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; German Research Foundation) expresses concern about the practice of data tracking in #scientific #publishing.

https://www.dfg.de/download/pdf/foerderung/programme/lis/datentracking_papier_de.pdf

Personal remark: Data tracking is a common tool in personalised marketing, and comprises risks to promote "unconciuos bias" in science in particular.

I would be delighted to hear a statement from non-profit publishers on the matter, such as professional associations with publishing activity.