new blog post: "Rescuing @wdscholia #2: getting closer" https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/12/31/rescuing-scholia-2-getting-close.html https://doi.org/10.59350/6t2qh-2f839 "But we are getting close. So, please give qlever.scholia.wiki a go, and let us know your observations. As […]

Who needs a village when you can have parking lots?

The slides for my talk this morning on how #urbanstudies are represented in the #wikimedia ecosystem are up on #zenodo at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17956551 . #openscience #oer

The slides for my #messel2025 talk "Connecting paleosciences and society: How Wikimedia platforms facilitate global engagement with the Messel Pit's scientific dimensions" are up on #zenodo under https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17764211 . #openscience #worldheritage

Today someone I know slightly was sentenced to 30 months in prison, and sent to a high security facility. Their crime was disrupting traffic - they and others climbed a gantry on the M25, the major orbital round London, to drop banners protesting at government inaction in climate change. If a […]

Der Berliner #waldzustandsbericht 2025 zeigt, dass nur drei Prozent der Berliner #Waldbäume gesund sind. 46 Prozent der Fläche weisen deutliche Schäden auf, vor allem durch anhaltende #trockenheit und #Spätfrost. Besonders stark betroffen sind #Kiefern, aber auch #eichen#Waldbäume#Spätfrostleiben geschwächt […]

I'm wondering: If a published paper mentions that a study was approved by the ethics committee of University X, number XXXX, is there a way to find (and read) this ethics approval? #metascience #ethics #academia

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Dass Bibliothekar:innen viele Voraussetzungen dafür mitbringen, gute Wikipedianer:innen zu sein, dürfte einleuchten. Ich bin mir aber nicht sicher, wie stark diese Berufsgruppe wirklich in der Wikipedia vertreten ist. Sind viele undercover aktiv? Nachdem es bei der #bibliocon23 eine […]

Perhaps we are at the point where universities should be making themselves much less dependent on microsoft.

What if dinner was public infrastructure - again? "food charity Nourish Scotland are pushing for the reintroduction of public diners to Scotland: diners subsidised by the state to provide affordable, nutritious, and filling meals that are accessible to everyone regardless of their financial […]

The difference between #theory (bottom) and #practice (top) of government shutdowns and their effects on #science. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37770664/ #governmentshutdown #shutdown #federalshutdown

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch. A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]

Do you know anyone using #janeway in conjunction with #LaTeX-based workflows (e.g. #overleaf)? If so, please share your use case. I am aware of one example but don't want to bias the responses here. If you are using #ojs (or anything else) for LaTeX-based workflows in #doa contexts, that would […]

@ddbkultur Was bedeutet „n.i.d.K.“ im Kontext der Namensnennung von Fotografen wie auf https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/NZMRP5CPM54CTSVQTX7PO3SWYON36MY5 ?

"Daniel Stenberg, Swedish Internet protocol expert and founder and lead developer of the #curl project, speaks with SE Radio host Gavin Henry about removing Rust from Curl. They discuss why #hyper was removed from curl, why the last five percent of making it a success was difficult" […]

If you'd like to work on the #reproducibility of #jupyter workflows, this open position at @fiz_karlsruhe might be of interest. It is part of the #base4nfdi project @jupyter4nfdi and builds on https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giad113 and https://doi.org/10.4230/TGDK.2.2.4 . While the job ad […]

#uniprot user benefits are estimates to be on the order of 20 times higher than operational costs https://www.sib.swiss/news/uniprot-user-benefits-up-to-39-times-higher-than-operational-costs #infrastructure #opendata #curation #fairdata #proteins

Interesting circumscription of the audience of a technical document: https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-canon/#how-to-read #standard #rdf #graphtheory #weekend

This should have been big news! Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals: FWF 🇦🇹 RCN 🇳🇴 Forte 🇸🇪 ARIS 🇸🇮 SRC 🇸🇪 FCT 🇵🇹 CSIC 🇪🇸 DFG 🇩🇪 Formas 🇸🇪 ANR 🇫🇷 Only two of them issued press releases in […]

Day 2 of #semanticsconf is starting with the official opening https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/programme

🇬🇧Public pressure works: Belgium, Finland & Czechia will NOT approve the #ChatControl mass surveillance law in October. But other governments whose vote is crucial are still on the fence. Urge them to protect our digital privacy and encryption now […] [Original post on digitalcourage.social]

Slides for first #dbpedia talk by Sebastian Hellmann at #semanticsconf sit at https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EDl3Yc3nicA_a9HYYqC1BEC7OTb8cXDmga0xRwwvI7c/edit?usp=drivesdk .

#semanticsconf is about to start https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/

Bacting 1.0.7 is out! https://github.com/egonw/bacting/releases/tag/bacting-1.0.7 "Major update release, fixing queries against Wikidata for the graph split, important updates including Apache HttpClient5, Oscar 5.3, NanoJava 2.0.5 and jQUDT 1.5.1." Bacting is the command line version of […]

Bundeswirtschaftsministerin Katherina Reiche (CDU) plant einen massiven Rückschritt bei den Erneuerbaren Energien: Die Förderung für neue private Photovoltaikanlagen soll gestrichen werden. (1) Dabei ist doch glasklar: Wir brauchen mehr Solarenergie auf unseren Dächern, nicht weniger. Wir […]

If you have thoughts about the role of #Wikimedia projects amidst current trends in the global information landscape, then the Wikimedia Futures Lab might be of interest for you. Metadata: Jan 30-Feb 1, 2026 in Frankfurt (Main), Germany Applications invited […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

An Open Source sustainability story in two slides. (for a coming talk of mine) Slide 1: car brands using #curl Slide 2: car brands sponsoring or paying for #curl support

#shitpost #meme #phone #Camera

Following our mapping party for OpenStreetMaps birthday, I've been thinking more about the diversity of OSM tools and how they help create and maintain a commons. https://tzovar.as/tool-diversity/ #openstreetmap

📣 Noch bis 31.07.: Gefahrenstellen melden & Schulwege sicherer machen! 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Eltern, Großeltern, Nachbar*innen – schaut nochmal genau hin: Kennt Ihr schlecht einsehbare Zebrastreifen, zugeparkte Gehwege oder gefährliche Kreuzungen? 📍 Tragt sie jetzt in die […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

“This could double current atmospheric CO₂ concentrations by releasing carbon that has been stored in the deep ocean for centuries,” the report said. Such a release would likely obliterate existing climate targets, as the additional emissions would overwhelm current carbon budgets and render […]

goldene Worte von @stk ! Ein toller Vortrag wider den KI-Hype #genai Chaos Computer Club - recent events feed (low quality): Entzaubert generative KI (#gpn23) Episode webpage […]

Attending #bibliocon25 in #bremen for the rest of the week. Happy to discuss #openscience #opendata #fairdata #knowledgegraphs #wikimedia #wikipedia #wikidata #scholia #nfdi #mardi #diamondoa #sedoa #nanopublications and related matters there. #bibliocon #libraries

"On the Value of Being Unorthodox: Resilience in a Time of Hostility against Arts and Sciences" The slides of my ignition talk for #oscibar2025 can be found here: https://hu.berlin/oscibar2025 #openscience #safeguardingresearch

Als Teenager in den 90ern habe ich meine Oma zum ersten Mal gefragt, wie das denn war, damals, Nazizeit. Ich hatte irgendwie Angst zu fragen, aber sie hat einfach angefangen zu erzählen, in einem Ernst, den ich bis dahin nicht von ihr kannte. Sie hat mir nicht alles erzählt, aber schon in diesem […]

The slides for my #lswt2025 talk "Knowledge graphs in the context of the National Research Data Initiative (NFDI)" are up at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15644994 . #knowledgegraphs #kgi4nfdi #openscience

Pendant le festival #rioloco à #Toulouse, il y aura un #kidicalmass (organisée par des assos vélos) ! #criticalmass #massecritique #enfants #velorution #samedi

For the "Wikidata and Research" conference, I experimented with a "digital first" style of a poster: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15591699 (LaTeX source included). Everything blue is linked to the source URL, thereby providing a #rabbithole experience that paper-first posters (or bitmap […]

My #WOOC2025 poster "Open Scholarly Metadata for Sharing the Nuances of Research Processes" sits at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15512071 . It highlights research as a process and encourages us to consider how more of the research process could be shared […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

125.000 in ganz Europa, davon 50.000 allein in Deutschland - so viele Menschen haben sich in den vergangenen Wochen an den Kidical-Mass-Aktionen beteiligt. Ihr Ziel: Schulstraßen, Tempo 30 und eine bessere Infrastruktur. Denn sichere Wege für Kindern sind sicher für alle. Und es gibt eine Menge […]

The slides for the talk "The current state of the Digital Botanical Gardens Initiative" @dbgi are up at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15420634 . #botany #metabolomics #datascience #botanicalgarden #biochemistry #naturalproducts

My slides for the #wikimedia workshop at the #OER-Konferenz sit at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15383133 . They outline the versatility of Wikimedia projects and how they fit with various educational contexts and pedagogical approaches. #wikipedia #wikicommons #wikidata #wikisource #wikinews […]

Map of stations served by #ice trains, as per @wikidata : https://w.wiki/E4Dd #wikidata #sparql #bahn #opendata

Ab heute erobern weltweit wieder tausende Kinder, Familien & Unterstützer*innen die Straßen. Für sichere Wege, auf denen Kinder eigenständig unterwegs sein können. 🚴‍♀️🌍 📍 Du willst bei einer Kidical Mass in deiner Nähe mitradeln? Alle Infos findest du unter […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

fourth weekend in a row with hacking on @wdscholia, following up from the hacking in autumn, addressing the @wikidata graph split. That then included a patch to Scholia-wide configure the SPARQL endpoint. But, last night, I made a proof-of-concept of a patch that brings this configuration to a […]

very exciting that the Journal of Cheminformatics ([email protected]) authors continue to submit CiTO annotation :) https://doi.org/10.1186/s13321-025-01009-0 That brings it to 24 journal articles and 35 preprints. I have updated the […] [Original post on social.edu.nl]

Critical Mass is on this Friday! Looks like a beautiful one ☀️ Meet at the Art Gallery at 6pm, ride at 6:30pm. A fun ride for all ages and abilities!

Fwd: "New Wikimedian in Residence at Maastricht University" https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2025/Contents/Netherlands_report#New_Wikimedian_in_Residence_at_Maastricht_University "Of every five projects that have been carried out with Wikimedia at universities in the […]