How‘s your #MushroomMonday going? It’s the first day of the „vorlesungsfreie“ period for me (which means no regular teaching until after Easter) and I‘ve enjoyed discussing term paper projects with students, rehearsing a joint #LDW2026 presentation, an online […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

📊 Open Science in Action: the Université de Lorraine Shifts to #OpenAlex for Bibliometric Reports! The Bibliometrics team at the Université de Lorraine has taken a major step in its open science commitment by using OpenAlex for the first time in the annual bibliometric report for the A2F […]

RE: https://fediscience.org/@ElenLeFoll/116007475170995042 My students and I just rehearsed our presentation and it is going to be really fun! Come and join us to find out about current challenges in the #reproducibility of #linguistics studies as part of Love Data Week! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🩷 Wed 11 Feb […]

Maybe a good time for this as well with norovirus making headlines. I made this for our bathroom and a few “lucky” friends also got one as a gift. As I’ve said before, it’s astonishing that I even have any friends at all.

Check out @UniKoeln's exciting ❤️ Love Data Week ❤️ programme with on-site and online events in German and English open to all: https://fdm.uni-koeln.de/en/news-events/international-love-data-week/ldw2026! The ❤️ Love Data Week ❤️ will take place again from […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

#mosstodon 💚

#fensterfreitag in Köln-Ehrenfeld #koeln

The Journal of Open Humanities Data charges 915 GBP to publish a single paper! I think this is excessive and personally don't find the breakdown of costs that they publish convincing (see below). Hence I will not be submitting a paper that would have been an […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Today is my last teaching day of the semester and the students of my seminar "Open Science practices in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition" will be showcasing their seminar projects and giving each other feedback. Any format is allowed and creativity is encouraged. This semester […]

These Syrian manakish are well worth a trip to #duisburg! 🤩 Minimum order is four, but this delicious freshly baked vegetarian selection cost me 6€ (tea is on the house) and I had no trouble clearing my tray! 😉 https://maps.app.goo.gl/UtPYFgnSg9DGM5YW7

Freight belongs on rail and the contents of my suitcase on my folding bike! 🙂

I‘m in a hotel that encourages its guests that use the stairs 💪

Check out @UniKoeln's exciting ❤️ Love Data Week ❤️ programme with on-site and online events in German and English open to all: https://fdm.uni-koeln.de/en/news-events/international-love-data-week/ldw2026! The ❤️ Love Data Week ❤️ will take place again from […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

I'm delighted to have been accepted as a participant at the Winter Academy of the Musikhochschule in Bremen and am now looking for an affordable place to stay 16-20 February, preferably where I can do some minimal cooking whilst avoiding AirBnB. Any tips? 🎵 #earlymusic #bremen

This morning I get to prepare my classes and work on my textbook to the sound of a friend, a professional viola da gamba and baroque cello player, practicing French baroque music in the living room. ☀️ #MondayMood #earlymusic

Not so #silentsunday 😄

It turns out that "Elen" can be a surname! Had I married the right person, I could have become "Elen Elen". Seems like a missed opportunity somehow! 😂

Because it's a feature that is less known or less appreciated on Mastodon: Hide Boosts Have a person you like to follow, but they boost a ton of stuff you don't like? Click their profile, go into their menu (like where you would block them) and there's a hide Boosts button. It's legit made it […]

I see lots of people are going to #fosdem, which is very cool. I won't be myself, but you can say hi to my brother and hear all about his vastly over-engineered recycled office chair if you like […]

Is anyone working on a German ParlaMint corpus? Or are there any other large corpora of Bundestag debates out there in open access? #corpuslinguistics #linguistics

🎉 ¡Abrió el nuevo llamado al Programa de Campeones de rOpenSci! Francisco nos cuenta cómo es acompañar proyectos como mentor y por qué el programa es una oportunidad única para fortalecer comunidades de software científico abierto. 📅 Postulaciones abiertas […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Am #holocaustgedenktag habe ich eine Podcastempfehlung: https://lager-gremberg.de/podcast. Es geht um die wenig bekannte Geschichte des Krankenlagers für Zwangsarbeiter:innen im Kölner Gremberger Wäldchen. #Köln #koeln #podcast #geschichte

Den #doas (Diamond Open Access Standard) gibt es jetzt auf deutsch 🎉 - Danke an alle Mitwirkende und vor allem Sona Arasteh-Roodsary! Hier der Link zur Veröffentlichung: https://zenodo.org/records/18335454 - ein schönes Ergebnis der Zusammenarbeit zwisen dem European Diamond Capacity Hub […]

Die heutige Führung im Gremberger Wäldchen war sehr interessant. Dieser trauriger Teil der Kölner Lokalgeschichte ist weitgehend unbekannt, aber jetzt gibt es verschiedene Tafel im Wald sowie ein Podcast, den ich mir auf jeden Fall ganz anhören werde und Euch […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

RE: https://fediscience.org/@ElenLeFoll/115923445062939007 Registration is closed, but you can e-mail me if you spontaneously want to join us via Zoom for one or both of these #Quarto workshops today! Or come in person to the University Library where tea and biscuits will also be served.

RE: https://mamot.fr/@ploum/115923251561577968 Inspiring post-breakfast read! Highly recommended!

That's why I'm still on #bluesky, and why I post there every other week 😅 #blueskyice #icebluesky

Ich bin immer noch verwirrt, im welchen Jahr wir sind und die Website der Deutschen Post hilft mir nicht gerade...

Oh no, another abstract for a special issue has been accepted... Now I actually have write this up properly... and apparently the deadline is a hard one... 😱

🫖 Our tea-infused discussions on good research practices, Open Science, research ethics, and reproducibility continue TOMORROW (Thursday 15 Jan)! 🫖 We are delighted to welcome Prof. Stephan Rixen, a law professor from the University of Cologne for a special […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

I'm preparing a list of #MachineLearning papers with subtle and not-so-subtle errors (e.g., data leakage, non-independent training/testing set, lack of both internal and external validation, ...) to share with students. Does anyone have any favourite of their to share? Any must have? #ml #ai#ml#machinelearning…]

International postdocs: Come to Bochum for a two-week stay to plan a research project and learn how to apply for funding for it in Germany. I'm available as a host for any topic related to my research interests: digital forensic linguistics, experimental semantics/pragmatics, emojis […]

Okay, full disclosure: yes, I absolutely did choose that question because I knew it'd get it wrong. But... I didn't know it'd get it *this* wrong. (This was its second attempt; on the first it gave the response "Rs. $16," then when I clicked "explain" it […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Es ist jetzt sehr kurzfristig, aber am kommenden Freitag, dem 16.01., gebe ich von 9:15 bis 10:45 Uhr eine kurze Online-Fortbildung mit dem Titel „Die Anwendung von R für die Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften: Warum und wie?”. Die Fortbildung wird von der Universität Leipzig organisiert und […]

Is your lab doing code reviews? I'd like to hear about your experiences and practices! In our teams, we'd like to establish internal peer-reviews of our research software. Our focus is on the correctness of our "one-off" analysis scripts underlying manuscripts. Because of that, the usual […]

To publishers interested by what is happening in Iran: I’ve an unpublished but finished and polished manuscript of a 100% verified true story: a young French man, emprisoned for one year in Iran with his Iranian lover. How he was liberated and organized the incredible escape of his soul mate […]

I just did my first review for #joss https://joss.theoj.org/ Extremely positive experience (summarized in Mastodon https://mstdn.science/@ChristosArgyrop/115879839460272337). If you are developing research open source software, strongly consider submitting to JOSS!

I'm really pleased Ive managed to do something in #Quarto that I've been putting off for ages today. It took me a while, but I got there in the end and now I'm realising that it wasn't even on this week's to-do list so, even after several hours of debugging, I don't even get the satisfaction of […]

Ich weiß wirklich nicht, was ich davon halten sollten, dass mein Arbeitgeber eine Fortbildung zum Thema "Ruhig Auffallen" speziell für Frauen anbietet... Ich werde mich jedenfalls nicht anmelden!

Crickey, getting answers to #statistics questions on the internet is getting really, really difficult... This evening I gave up on my web search queries that returned vast quantities of #genai slop and not much else... I ended up a) reading from a print textbook that I happen to have to hand and […]

RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@Kudusch/115843194087173145 Deep down, I know I shouldn't be surprised or shocked by these results and yet I am... #metascience #OpenScience

It's 2026 and I'm still seeing: "The raw data supporting the conclusions of this article will be made available by the authors on request." in new papers. :(

A back-to-work cartoon for @newscientist.com

As I somewhat reluctantly replied to a distant relative's e-mail about how to translate two German legal terms, I remembered that - just this evening - I sent a friend with a PhD in mathematics a high-school-level maths question that I am hoping she will reply to no matter how much eye-rolling […]