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

Quality conference need quality audience @EASE #easeevents #scholarlyPublishing #CatsOfMastodon

The famous Istanbul cats have joined the EASE conference.
🇹🇷 🐱 🐈 😍

via https://twitter.com/EASEeditors/status/1664178541141819392 and
https://twitter.com/pippasmart/status/1664178140065718274

#CatsOfMastodon #Kedi #EASEevents

Some personal news: I'm really excited to share that as of today, and after having served @copim as Project Manager for more than three years, I'm now joining @Thoth_metadata as COO (apparently that is a thing?) & Product Manager 👋

In the coming months and years, we'll be working to bring fully open, #CC0-licensed #metadata for #OAbooks to more publishers, including those involved with the lovely folks over at Open Book Collective (@openbookcollect@twitter.com, who will also soon be joining the #fediverse, I hear), while also expanding our range of open #metadata output formats, further developing the Thoth Archiving Network (#archiving & #preservation), and working to further improve #accessibility and #bibliodiversity aspects of Thoth via our participation in the Open Book Futures project (aka. our next phase of COPIM) ... it's definitely not going to be boring! 😄

Shhh. You'll wake the kitty

We just joined Mastodon, please follow us. Still more posts to come soon.

LLMs are modeling outputs, not replicating a process, as a result the output looks the same but it isn't made of the same stuff.

It is a plastic banana.

There is nothing inherently wrong with a plastic banana but as soon as you claim you can use it to solve world hunger people are going to be upset and it doesn't matter how much it looks right.

UKRI has published its latest open access policy implementation update https://www.ukri.org/news/ukri-updates-guidance-for-open-access-policy/ #openaccess #UKRI

Have happened upon a wonderful website of Bayeux museum, where you can see the whole tapestry scene by scene, and zoom in to see details of stitching. There’s a translation if the Latin too, in a sidebar. Wonderful ! #tapestry #history
https://www.bayeuxmuseum.com/en/the-bayeux-tapestry/discover-the-bayeux-tapestry/explore-online/

English has two different terms for words that come into English from other languages. A 'calque' is translated from the source language. (E.g., flea market, beer garden, paper tiger) A 'loanword' is ported in its original form. (E.g., cafe, bazaar, kindergarten) Perhaps ironically, the word 'calque' is a loanword, while 'loanword' is a calque (from Ger. 'lehnwort').

DIY how to make a zen garden
#catsofmastadon
#Caturday

I'm looking for someone with experience corresponding with US prison inmates.

I'm in such a correspondence. I know that prison staffers read all his messages and mine, and sometimes censor them. I'm looking for advice on what I can ask and say in my messages without getting him in trouble.

If you don't want your advice to be public, please DM me or send me an email at <peter.suber [at] gmail.com>. Thanks.

Excited to join in the conversation on Mastodon!
We're sparcopen.org.
We believe everyone should be able to access and contribute to the knowledge that shapes our world. SPARC supports systems for #openaccess #opendata #OER #openscience that are open by default and equitable by design.