Hey #OpenScience advocates! Ever had the feeling that you wanted to download all of your open science / research software #RSE#RSEng thoughts into a collaborator/grad student's brain, but your regular coffee catchups aren't cutting it??? Just point them to this new #SummerSchool from the awesome @madicken!
Is there a comprehensive archive, with references, of Elsevier's many sins against scientific progress? @albertcardona@brembs The lead authors of a paper I played a small role in want to submit to Cell 🤢 and I would like to dissuade them.
Follow-up Q: I have a vague vibe that, although the entire traditional publishing system needs to die in a fire, NPG are not quite as scummy as Elsie. Is that vibe justified or not really?
@jni
You know the situation better than anyone else does, ofc, but if that was the choice ya id do what you can to not pay RELX. I dont even know what to say to folks still skeptical of preprints aside from "literally why" so u are on ur own there lol
If given the amount of data out there on #RELX (and Springer Nature) the authors remain intent on submitting to their journals, there’s not much you can do. At this point throwing data at such authors doesn’t work anymore. Instead, you could try telling them about Robert Maxwell https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science , about how journals don’t have to be expensive to be respectable https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/03/06/an-efficient-journal/ and drop some shade, with comments like “do you think your grant funder will be happy to see the work published there?”. It’s not like they don’t know – they can’t not know –, it’s that they are still calculating impact towards career advancement as a function of journal impact factor. And sadly, for many institutions, they aren’t wrong.
At least try to get them to send to Science or PNAS, which are meant to be societies for scientists rather than an unapologetically exploitative business.
“I haven’t been bitten by Google killing an app or service since Google Reader, because I never again trusted them.”
👆 this.
(Also note: I am aware of Gruber’s terrible takes on the EU, and Threads, and a bunch of other stuff. But on this he is spot on. The Google Graveyard is so damaging to Google’s brand, it’s astonishing to me that (a) anyone still uses Google products, and (b) the execs still kill stuff rather than keeping it on life support just for reputation.) https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/112204358739653554
@albertcardona@ashinonyx Those are things that will be coming soon (claiming author profiles, tighter ORCID integration). In the meantime, we are taking requests for corrections to author data via this form: https://openalex.org/author-change-request
“With limited funding, incentivizing ‘promise inflation’ can be harmful to the ‘honest scientists who . . . propos[e] to [make] an important contribution to the solution of an important problem. They risk being dismissed as small-timers with no vision’ ”
One I think underrated aspect of #mastodon is that links go to where they say they go. Not to t.co/bullshit, not to analytics.twitter.com/ayfkm, not anywhere other than the exact link that was posted. You can right-click -> copy link and get the exact link the author shared. ❤️
This also means I must finally share the 3D scan of The Claw from last year's @scipy2023 lightning talks! You can download it in DICOM or ome-@zarr format from FigShare at https://dx.doi.org/10.26180/25264588! 😂🦀
@simon ok I'm finally trying out your llm library and it's neat. I am intentionally limiting myself to open source and local models. Could you write a post about these? Specifically:
strengths/weaknesses of each model?
strategies for getting around context length limits? I'm currently interested in text summarisation and immediately hit this with mistral-7b-instruct-v0*
yes I did ask mistral itself to suggest strategies but they were distressingly manual and brittle/non-generalisable. 😂
As we are gearing up for the @napari 0.4.19 release (it's coming!!!), @melissawm has pointed me to Astropy’s “Feature freeze frenzy" playlist to play when preparing a release. Pure gold. 😂
The @pypi Trusted Publishers mechanism feels like magic. 🧙 Thank you to everyone who worked on it! 🤩 This page is slightly scary re the nitty gritty details but click on the quickstarts: so. Friggin. Simple. ❤️
@protonmail wow I have just logged in to my account after briefly playing with it back in 2015, and you guys have come a long way. 😍
I have a couple of Qs:
Is snooze coming to the mobile apps in the near future? I tend to snooze more when on mobile, not less.
Is there an API one could hook into to snooze emails? I basically want to snooze all emails in my inbox to random times in the next three months, so I don't get them all at once again.
@protonmail don't have or don't yet have a public-facing API? 😭🙏 I just noticed that you have a Python client so having a snooze API accessible from the Python client would immediately move me to Proton. 😊
This is great. I'm not that harsh on people that still post on X — loss is hard to accept. But please just prioritise posting here, even if it feels like you're not getting replies. It's a low-cost way to ensure that we don't give X (or any other corp that doesn't give a shit about us) a monopoly on our thoughts and discussion. Over time, we will build a community here.
Hi #pixelfed users! My Flickr Pro subscription came up for renewal, and now I know I can do better! 😃 Any tips for choosing a server? I see most servers have a per-photo storage size limit (15MB), but are there limits on bandwidth/total number of photos? Can pixelfed be used for private/semi-private photos ("Anyone with the link can view" kind of situations)?