My 1st contribution for #30DayMapChallenge in the wonderful GDSL lab. This map highlights key cities in Iraq during the period of the 8th–13th centuries linked to several influential thinkers of the era, with short notes on their contributions in mathematics, optics, chemistry, and medicine.

Reflecting on #OpenFest25, I'm grateful to the presenters (Almarzouq, Bowie, Sanders) who reminded us that openness is a social practice > we must not lose sight of this. E.g. open practices per se cannot dismantle the humanities' centrality in the ideological scaffolding of apartheid and genocide 👇

In our final online panel, a great paper from Batool Almarzouq, who shows how - if you follow the sources back - the same extractivist dynamics that transfer wealth from the global south to the global north in neocolonial projects play out in the open science funding landscape #OpenFest25

This was great from @batoolmm.bsky.social - not often you see discussion of open science explicitly referencing universities' harmful investment in fossil fuels and weapons #openfest25

Batool Almarzouq (@batoolmm.bsky.social) will be speaking at #csvconf about "Building data literacy in patient communities: Lessons from the AIM programme"! Register now: http://csvconfv9.eventbrite.com

Just took a 30-min break yesterday & put together some thoughts from those quick chats at #OpenScience conferences lately. Ended up with a short, 3-minute read on whether science and activism are actually at odds, or if maybe it only feels that way sometimes! batool664.medium.com/are-science-...

🔥 We are pleased to announce the The Turing Way Fireside Chat Series on Governance. This series brings together experts and community members to explore the many dimensions of governance in research and open science. Find out more about the events at: www.software.ac.uk/news/turing-...

‘I’m remembering Srebrenica while Srebrenica is happening in Gaza’

Expanding their policy beyond Gaza I see

Episode 204 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🍳 recipes 1.3.0 @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social 📊 Chart challenge @nrennie.bsky.social ➗ Rotation modulo @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy 📦Top 40 pkgs Joe Rickert h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @batoolmm.bsky.social 🙏

Thank you for the shout out on the R Weekly podcast ❤️ @rpodcast.bsky.social and @mike-thomas.bsky.social are always a great listen, and appreciate you @batoolmm.bsky.social for highlighting the Top 40 Packages post! Check out the other great highlights this week: rweekly.org #RStats

Launching #DWebFellowsFridays! From now on, we will be featuring a former #DWeb Fellow and their current work every Friday. If you were a fellow at one of the past DWeb Camps and you want to participate, get in touch! #DWebCamp #DWebFellow 🧵 1/3