Laura J. Wilkinson @ljw@social.cleverlibre.org

All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten, 12 years of primary and secondary education, a four-year baccalaureate degree program, a multiyear terminal degree program, a variety of both on-the-job and informal educational experiences, and personal continuing education efforts.

A friend attending #ICML just sent me a photo of this front runner for best poster award.

"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation."

I miss written tutorials. I hate how every tutorial is a YouTube now. I don’t want to watch 15 minutes and forget to pay attention for the second that has the detail that I am missing or it just doesn’t show. Even short tutorials are 3 minutes when it could have been a ten second read. I want to skim a page and go directly to the point. Has writing really become that hard to do?

📢 We are recruiting a Metadata & Publisher Outreach specialist!

Come join us and the broader @copim community in pushing forward & creating an open, non-profit and community-led infrastructure for #OAbooks to support our small team as part of the recently-launched Open Book Futures project.

#openinfra

This is a 2.5-year 1.0 FTE fully remote role with a salary bracket of £30-40k (depending on experience) and potential start date of Oct 1, 2023 (or as soon as possible) through end-April 2026.

Do send us your applications by Aug 27, 2023 😃

https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/metadata-publisher-outreach-specialist-thoth/release/1

DOAB celebrates its 10th anniversary!

This year, the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), led by OpenEdition and OAPEN Foundation, celebrates its 10th anniversary. Since its inception, DOAB has evolved from an idea for indexing high quality peer-reviewed open access books and chapters to a globally used and open directory serving not only researchers and the wider scholarly community, but also the public.

https://doabooks.org/blog/?link=https%3A%2F%2Foapen.hypotheses.org%2F633

#OpenAccess #OABooks #books #DOAB #ScholComm

An early Random Password Generator 🦜​

A new blog post that I found important to write: “A guarantee of OAPEN’s independence: we cannot be sold or acquired” https://oapen.hypotheses.org/621 #openaccess #openinfra #trust #transparency

@jamesjefferies @SonOfSunTzu no credit to me - it was @ljw's suggestion

This week, @gbilder upgraded our Abstractonator game at Crossref to use GPT-4.

Can you tell the machine learning-generated abstracts apart from the published version?

https://abstractonator.labs.crossref.org/

What exactly is #metascience ?

https://markrubin.substack.com/p/whats-special-about-metascience

here @MarkRubin reports on Felipe Romero's argument that activism - the desire to change the structures of science - is the defining feature

#metaresearch

Image from Peterson and Panofsky (2023): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-023-09490-3

This is a 50p that was minted to celebrate the UK joining what became the EU. It was minted in my birth year, and my mum gave it to me shortly before she died of cancer in 2021. It is one of my most treasured possessions.

It has 12 hands linked in a circle to symbolise the then 12 countries of the European Community. One of them is smaller, representing the hand of Queen Elizabeth II.

I'm launching a new social media app. It's called BIRB. This is the logo. It's the only app that demands you crochet, knit or embroider your posts.
Posts are called 'Yarns', editing a Yarn is called Darning, threads are called Tapestries, pile-ons are Shag Piles, blocking is called Black-Sheeping.
#BIRB

Je recrute ! On recrute ! Nous recrutons ! Un très beau poste est ouvert pour m'accompagner dans la mise en oeuvre du Plan national pour la science ouverte. Nous recherchons l'adjoint(e) au coordinateur national de la science ouverte. Je publie l'annonce cette fois avec des hastag adaptés. https://choisirleservicepublic.gouv.fr/offre-emploi/c-esr-a---adjointe-au-coordinateur-de-la-science-ouverte-mad-hf-reference-2023-1273926/ #jerecrute #emploi