Ignasi @ignasi@safareig.calbasi.net

Exploring the mechanisms behind #symbiosis requires an understanding of these interactions in a range of model systems.

This #PLOSBiology Perspective discusses how the ciliate #protist Paramecium bursaria offers insights into how endosymbiotic interactions have evolved.

https://plos.io/3U6FBLO

#ShortcutCitations: using citations instead of describing methods may compromise #reproducibility. Analysis of >800 papers shows that >90% use ≥1 shortcut citation; these significantly impair reconstruction of the original method @questBIH #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3VI4wa0

Rank hypocrisy – how universities betray their promises on responsible research assessment https://wonkhe.com/blogs/rank-hypocrisy-how-universities-betray-their-promises-on-responsible-research-assessment/

"We are currently in the crazy position where, as part of their DORA commitments, ancient universities make strong promises not to use any metric without being explicit about its limitations on one part of their website, while on another, they unreservedly boast about their performance in commercial rankings to prospective students"

People ask me, "Hey unfashionable Bayesian man, how can I fit those rad generative network models from your course?" Well with my colleagues Dan and Cody, I wrote a package to make it easy. Easier. Okay it's possible now. Open access and open source. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2656.14021

How can we fix academic publishing? I just wrote a new article outlining my thoughts on this based on all the attempts I've seen, what has worked and what has failed, and finishing with the strategy we developed for @ScholarNexus. I'd love to hear your feedback!

https://thesamovar.github.io/zavarka/how-do-we-fix-publishing/

Sci-Hub is in essence a global NGO helping to provide the basic needs of science. Should be supported by the UN.

"The German government has launched a new Open Source software project called openDesk, which aims to reduce the country’s dependency on proprietary software vendors and support transparency and interoperability.

openDesk is a collection of #OpenSource software modules that are important for day-to-day work in the public sector, such as text creation, file collaboration, project management, email, calendar and messaging."

#FOSS #government #overheid #DigitalSovereignty

https://opensource.net/governments-adopt-open-source-sovereignty/

Report on the new initiatives to bring the digital infrastructures back under the control of academia:
"A new wave of support musters in the push for #openaccess publishing"
https://sciencebusiness.net/news/open-science/new-wave-support-musters-push-open-access-publishing

@brembs @jpooley @johanrooryck @petersuber @curvenote my fear is that it all will have been for nothing unless we take this issue seriously from the beginning. How do we stop this from being an issue? We need a publicly funded, high quality service that is so good in terms of low friction UX and making work discoverable that it makes commercial equivalents irrelevant. This can be done but I don't see it as being part of the conversation and it's very much not the sort of thing that the EU does, so it won't happen naturally without a strong push for it. A separate strand is that we have to kill off existing toxic brands like Nature etc. While it still exists, people will read it. If we agree and mandate that not one single dollar from public or private funders will go towards these specific, existing commercial publishers we might be able to succeed in changing the relationship between academia and commercial entities. But they can't be part of the solution. If we think they can and allow them to be part of the conversation, if we acknowledge them as valid stakeholders, then we're setting ourselves up for failure.

Organisms use a range of defense systems against #parasites. Using a #bacteria-#phage model system, @drbridgetwatson @edzewestra &co ask what drives the transient evolution of different systems; implications for #HostEcology & #pathogenicity #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3LoFSoM

.@MartaShocket explores a #PLOSBiology study showing that, contrary to expectations, temperature fluctuations increased #parasite transmission, with implications for how #ClimateChange will impact infectious disease. Primer: https://plos.io/3r8zGud Paper: https://plos.io/3LhLykz

Definitely do not go to these websites to get free study books. Also, don't go to https://12ft.io/ to unlock paywalls.

libgen.is, pk1lib.org, ethos.bl.uk, sabaq.pk, sci-hub.se, archive.org, lej4learning.com.pk, pdfdrive.com, unpaywall.org

Public #OpenScience online lecture for #OSCSummerSchool23

🔥 Prof Richard McElreath @rlmcelreath
🎯 Science as amateur software development
📅 13.09 at 09:00 CEST

More info: https://malikaihle.github.io/OSC-Open-Research-Summer-School-2023/
Free registration: https://www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/lectures/

Celebrem els 30 anys de Debian, el nostre sistema operatiu preferit 🤩