Tootfinder

Just caught wind of this initiative: Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA) https://www.orcaopen.org/
Happy to see that it does seem to have a broader vision of open science, recognizes plurality in epistemic practices, & folds in a concern for equity. Nonetheless, the adoption of the cute & cuddly orc…

So glad our #Dagstuhl seminar paper on #MobilityDataScience is finally published and open access 🎉
Mobility Data Science: Perspectives and Challenges

"Daten visualisieren: #OpenScience mit #Scholia"
https://osl.hypotheses.org/11706

Andrew Porter of @CR_UK Manchester Institute shares lessons from his open research journey, full of practical tips and great insights from colleagues.
https://zurl.co/5jxt
@LHughesNoehrer @naubertbonn @Ben_Bleasdale

Xiaojing Li, Senior Director of Data Science & Threat Research at Akamai, hosts an AMA discussing her research and techniques for real-time bot detection. She underscored data science's role in cybersecurity, and is open to discuss her career and Akamai's research process. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1bdy3t8/

So many things came out of the Open Science Retreat this year! 🤩
A bot that shares learning resources, a guidance document for staff assessment, and speculative fiction are just a few examples.
Read this week's newsletter post to dive in 💌
#osr24nl #OpenScience

Check out what happened at the Open Science Retreat 2024! 🤩

Another day and another server outage. The team in charge don't run _ANY_ monitoring software from what we can see as our team or the clients will notice required files are not in the INBOX. When that happens we send them an email.
There are open source packages out there and I have a Q&D bash script that runs every day from 13:00 to 15:00 checking for the status of multiple files and it screams loudly via email if one is not found.
This Is Not Rocket Science!

Now starting @…'s seminar, "Towards equitable and cross-disciplinary open science: a philosophical analysis": https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/41416/. I will tr…

Open faculty position:
W3 Substitute Professorship for Data Science
at the School of Business Informatics and Mathematics at the University of Mannheim,
(8/9 W3 professorship, limited for three years, no tenure track)
more info: https://www.uni-mannhei…

On the Consideration of AI Openness: Can Good Intent Be Abused?
Yeeun Kim, Eunkyung Choi, Hyunjun Kim, Hongseok Oh, Hyunseo Shin, Wonseok Hwang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06537

On the Consideration of AI Openness: Can Good Intent Be Abused?
Openness is critical for the advancement of science. In particular, recent rapid progress in AI has been made possible only by various open-source models, datasets, and libraries. However, this openness also means that technologies can be freely used for socially harmful purposes. Can open-source models or datasets be used for malicious purposes? If so, how easy is it to adapt technology for such goals? Here, we conduct a case study in the legal domain, a realm where individual decisions can ha…

Andrew Porter of @CR_UK Manchester Institute shares lessons from his open research journey, full of practical tips and great insights from colleagues.
https://zurl.co/5jxt
@LHughesNoehrer @naubertbonn @Ben_Bleasdale

The music industry has some thinking to do about how to use AI and at the same time protect copyrights, promote "original" work.
#AI

musiclang/musiclang-v2 · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Something is missing in "Mars Express", but I can't really put my finger on it. The ending is quite open, but that's not (all of) it.
In any case it is worth a watch if you like #SciFi - especially because it is some (seen less and less) actual science fiction and not fantasy in space or some such.

💗 An analysis of the effects of sharing research data, code, and preprints on citations
#science

An analysis of the effects of sharing research data, code, and preprints on citations
Calls to make scientific research more open have gained traction with a range of societal stakeholders. Open Science practices include but are not limited to the early sharing of results via preprints and openly sharing outputs such as data and code to make research more reproducible and extensible. Existing evidence shows that adopting Open Science practices has effects in several domains. In this study, we investigate whether adopting one or more Open Science practices leads to significantly …

This probably explains that little thrill I get every time I (increasingly rarely sadly) open my Linux terminal up to write some code...
https://toot.community/@Galehawk/112065055494555667
Galehawk@toot.community -

Evaluating Large Language Models for Structured Science Summarization in the Open Research Knowledge Graph
Vladyslav Nechakhin, Jennifer D'Souza, Steffen Eger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02105

Evaluating Large Language Models for Structured Science Summarization in the Open Research Knowledge Graph
Structured science summaries or research contributions using properties or dimensions beyond traditional keywords enhances science findability. Current methods, such as those used by the Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG), involve manually curating properties to describe research papers' contributions in a structured manner, but this is labor-intensive and inconsistent between the domain expert human curators. We propose using Large Language Models (LLMs) to automatically suggest these proper…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheFirstTimeWith
Less Than Jake:
🎵 The Science of Selling Yourself Short
#LessThanJake
https://open.spotify.com/track/1iD0a0plhO55cWEJa5UGcZ

"Broadly, open research principles aim to foster openness, transparency, replicability and accountability”
Researchers should adhere to core principles of transparency, collaboration, and inclusivity in open research. This involves openly sharing data, methods, and findings, fostering partnerships across disciplines and institutions, and ensuring accessibility and equity in research practices.
Read Steven U. Vidovic article on Open Research below

SD: The future will be found at the fringe – The fringe is where we see the most diverse thinking. E.g. thinking of the open science innovations and data governance innovations. CS itself was at the fringes once, some parts of CS still are (environmental justice, open science). #ecsa2024

Recommendations for accelerating open #preprint #PeerReview to improve the culture of #science: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002502 - "Preprints are enabling new forms of peer review that have the potential to be more thorough, inclusive, and collegial than traditional journal peer review, and to thus fundamentally shift the culture of peer review toward constructive collaboration."

Research Artifacts in Software Engineering Publications: Status and Trends
Mugeng Liu, Xiaolong Huang, Wei He, Yibing Xie, Jie M. Zhang, Xiang Jing, Zhenpeng Chen, Yun Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06852

Research Artifacts in Software Engineering Publications: Status and Trends
The Software Engineering (SE) community has been embracing the open science policy and encouraging researchers to disclose artifacts in their publications. However, the status and trends of artifact practice and quality remain unclear, lacking insights on further improvement. In this paper, we present an empirical study to characterize the research artifacts in SE publications. Specifically, we manually collect 1,487 artifacts from all 2,196 papers published in top-tier SE conferences (ASE, FSE…

science advances one death at a time. and open source programming languages advance one burned out queer person at a time

Orangutan seen treating wound with medicinal herb in first for wild animals;
Sumatran ape applied sap and leaves to open cut after suspected fight with another male, say scientists
https://www.th…

Together with Joost-Pieter Katoen and Raul Pardo we have put together a fantastic PhD school in Copenhagen in October.
The school targets computer science and maths students broadly. The topic is different uses of probability theory in different areas of computer science. The lineup of speakers is amazing, and I will be spamming you about it regularly over the next few months, to secure some boosts :)
The registration is now open:
#pics #fopps #etaps2024

Loving the ruler used in this photo of leaves an Orangutan was observed rubbing into an open wound as reported in @…

"The point I’m attempting to make is that when a company, built on Open-Source, tries to lock it down, almost always in defence of falling margins and a perceived “ripping off” by others, it fails to re-invigorate the community"
https://freshbrewed.science/2024/04/09

Start the week well with an easy pledge to make.
Increase the value of diamond open access venues to the community by pledging to submit work to such a venue in the next 5 years.
Supporting a collective action for #CognitiveScience, #psychology,

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12000 has been replaced.
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Thinking Outside the Black Box: Insights from a Digital Exhibition in the Humanities
One of the main goals of Open Science is to make research more reproducible. There is no consensus, however, on what exactly "reproducibility" is, as opposed for example to "replicability", and how it applies to different research fields. After a short review of the literature on reproducibility/replicability with a focus on the humanities, we describe how the creation of the digital twin of the temporary exhibition "The Other Renaissance" has been documented throughout, with different methods,…

❝“…he began chewing the leaves without swallowing them and using his fingers to apply the plant juice from his mouth directly on to his facial wound,” the researchers write.
Not only did Rakus repeat the actions, but shortly afterwards he smeared the entire wound with the chewed leaves until it was fully covered. Five days later the facial wound was closed, while within a few weeks it had healed, leaving only a small scar.❞

"Broadly, open research principles aim to foster openness, transparency, replicability and accountability”
Researchers should adhere to core principles of transparency, collaboration, and inclusivity in open research. This involves openly sharing data, methods, and findings, fostering partnerships across disciplines and institutions, and ensuring accessibility and equity in research practices.
Read Steven U. Vidovic article on Open Research below

Nominations open for the 2024 Harry Smith Prize, recognizing early career research published in the journals Molecular Ecology and Molecular Ecology Resources
#science #genetics #genomics

Jetzt Marcel Ackermanns Vortrag "Datenintegration aus offenen Quellen in der dblp computer science bibliography" beim #kimws24. Ich kriege einen kleinen Flashback zu meiner Aktivität in der Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data der OKFN, in deren Rahmen wir 2011 Marcels Gastbeitrag zur Freigabe der DBLP-Daten veröffentlicht haben:

"The findings demonstrate that repository shutdown does happen and can result in permanent data loss… Data #reuse & #citation are increasingly promoted by journals, funders and other stakeholders. If these practices become more common, data loss might pose a threat to the permanence of the scholarly…

Do disappearing data repositories pose a threat to open science and the scholarly record?
Research data repositories play a vital role in ensuring research is reproducible, replicable and reusable. Yet, the infrastructure supporting them can be impermanent. Drawing on a new dataset Doro…

Zwei Open Source Legenden angeschrieben, um zu fragen, ob ein halb-erinnertes Zitat von vor 27 Jahren von ihnen sein könnte. The things you do for science. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Mit dem Rad zur Schule aus (einer) Sicht der Wissenschaft
#MitDemRadZurSchule

Immense dataset of english books for training AI. This dataset contains more than 650,000 English public domain books (~ 61 billion words).
https://huggingface.co/datasets/storytracer/internet_archive_books_en

storytracer/internet_archive_books_en · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

👉 3 simple rules for creating #OpenScience Policies 👈
1. Develop output policies first and combine them into an Open Science policy later.
2. Policies are about the "what" and "why". The "how" belongs elsewhere (e.g. guidelines).
3. Don't start with the policy, start with the guidelines.
Read more in this week's newsletter post!

3 simple rues for creating Open Science Policies

A must read for me: the weekly #Fediverse report from @…:
https://

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15721 has been replaced.
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Design and Implementation of an Analysis Pipeline for Heterogeneous Data
Managing and preparing complex data for deep learning, a prevalent approach in large-scale data science can be challenging. Data transfer for model training also presents difficulties, impacting scientific fields like genomics, climate modeling, and astronomy. A large-scale solution like Google Pathways with a distributed execution environment for deep learning models exists but is proprietary. Integrating existing open-source, scalable runtime tools and data frameworks on high-performance comp…

I'm going to need to give Gemma a try at some point, I guess.
#AI #Gemma

Welcome Gemma - Google’s new open LLM
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

DON’T FUCKING OPEN IT! JFC have you people never seen a movie!? 🤣 https://mastodon.cloud/@DamnInteresting/112372777860124724

Damn Interesting (@DamnInteresting@mastodon.cloud)
Attached: 1 image Archaeologists Discovered a Haunting Grave That Was Built to Contain Zombies https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a60649902/zombie-grave-discovered/?utm_source=DamnInteresting

A guide for social science journal editors on easing into open science is now published! #OpenScience #ScholComm

Rechtzeitig für die diesjährige #LoveDataWeek ♥️ erscheint der Bericht zum Beitrag von @lozross@post.lurk.org & @… von @… im Rahmen des internationalen Workshops

Since the hard/soft science dichotomy reared its head in the chat of the open science symposium today, I'll just leave this here for those actually interested in where this moralizing pair comes from (and where it should be headed):
https://doi.org/10.1177/00732753221094739

Love this! (of course I'm biased):
«[Members] possessed different tools, goals, data literacies, and data ontologies, and yet their shared imaginary for open science practices motivated, generated, and deepened their communication. Their shared data imaginary did not homogenize the practices and values that functioned within their data activism. This community's approach to communication may be particularly useful for communities that organize around personal data and health conditions.»

🥖 Run out of butter or eggs? Here's the science behind substitute ingredients
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-butter-eggs-science-substitute-ingredients.html

Run out of butter or eggs? Here's the science behind substitute ingredients
It's an all too common situation—you're busy cooking or baking to a recipe when you open the cupboard and suddenly realize you are missing an ingredient.

Citizen Science in European Research Infrastructures
Stephen Serjeant, James Pearson, Hugh Dickinson, Johanna Jarvis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18635 https…

Citizen Science in European Research Infrastructures
Major European Union-funded research infrastructure and open science projects have traditionally included dissemination work, for mostly one-way communication of the research activities. Here we present and review our radical re-envisioning of this work, by directly engaging citizen science volunteers into the research. We summarise the citizen science in the Horizon-funded projects ASTERICS (Astronomy ESFRI and Research Infrastructure Clusters) and ESCAPE (European Science Cluster of Astronomy…

This is why in EU funded (#HorizoneEurope) projects, the commission demands that a copy of every publications is *ALSO* archived in a repository like #Zenodo - and they have full guidelines as to preserving open access to science via their

Decentralized Peer Review in Open Science: A Mechanism Proposal
Andreas Finke, Thomas Hensel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18148 https://

Decentralized Peer Review in Open Science: A Mechanism Proposal
Peer review is a laborious, yet essential, part of academic publishing with crucial impact on the scientific endeavor. The current lack of incentives and transparency harms the credibility of this process. Researchers are neither rewarded for superior nor penalized for bad reviews. Additionally, confidential reports cause a loss of insights and make the review process vulnerable to scientific misconduct. We propose a community-owned and -governed system that 1) remunerates reviewers for their e…

There's a funny thing you see in many scientific papers - especially #AI papers: The paper will prominently include a link to a GitHub repository with claims of code availability "soon" but when you go there (months after the paper was released) there's either just a placeholder or the paper text.
People use GitHub links to score browny points for "doing open science&quo…

Man konnte es leicht überlesen: die #KI -Ära ist in die nächste Phase eingetreten. Diese starken (teilw.) #opensource Modelle sind nun verfügbar:
🦙 #Lama3 (seit 45 Min.): llama.meta.com/llama3/

mistralai/Mixtral-8x22B-Instruct-v0.1 · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Decade-long Utilization Patterns of ICSE Technical Papers and Associated Artifacts
Sharif Ahmed, Rey Ortiz, Nasir U. Eisty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05826

Decade-long Utilization Patterns of ICSE Technical Papers and Associated Artifacts
Context: Annually, ICSE acknowledges a range of papers, a subset of which are paired with research artifacts such as source code, datasets, and supplementary materials, adhering to the Open Science Policy. However, no prior systematic inquiry dives into gauging the influence of ICSE papers using artifact attributes. Objective: We explore the mutual impact between artifacts and their associated papers presented at ICSE over ten years. Method: We collect data on usage attributes from papers an…

Quantum Science and Technologies in K-12: Supporting Teachers to Integrate Quantum in STEM Classrooms
Nancy Holincheck, Jessica L. Rosenberg, Xiaolu Zhang, Tiffany Butler, Michele Colandene, Benjamin W. Dreyfus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03538

Quantum Science and Technologies in K-12: Supporting Teachers to Integrate Quantum in STEM Classrooms
Quantum science and computing represent a vital intersection between science and technology, gaining increasing importance in modern society. There is a pressing need to incorporate these concepts into the K-12 curriculum, equipping new generations with the tools to navigate and thrive in an evolving technological landscape. This study explores the professional learning of K-12 teachers (n = 49) related to quantum concepts and pedagogy. We used open-ended surveys, field notes, workshop artifact…

"Passion for Provenance (data): On collection data, museum systems and open collaboration via wikis" @… https://

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of presenting to the #UKRI Science and Technology Facilities Council about #OpenAccess for #books.

CACTUS: Chemistry Agent Connecting Tool-Usage to Science
Andrew D. McNaughton, Gautham Ramalaxmi, Agustin Kruel, Carter R. Knutson, Rohith A. Varikoti, Neeraj Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00972

CACTUS: Chemistry Agent Connecting Tool-Usage to Science
Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable potential in various domains, but they often lack the ability to access and reason over domain-specific knowledge and tools. In this paper, we introduced CACTUS (Chemistry Agent Connecting Tool-Usage to Science), an LLM-based agent that integrates cheminformatics tools to enable advanced reasoning and problem-solving in chemistry and molecular discovery. We evaluate the performance of CACTUS using a diverse set of open-source LLMs, including Ge…

Spin high-harmonic generation through terahertz laser-driven phonons
Negin Moharrami Allafi, Michael H. Kolodrubetz, Marin Bukov, Vadim Oganesyan, Mohsen Yarmohammadi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05830

Spin high-harmonic generation through terahertz laser-driven phonons
In the realm of open quantum systems, steady states and high-harmonic generation (HHG) existing far from equilibrium have become core pillars of ultrafast science. Most solid-state research explores charge HHG with limited investigations into spin degrees of freedom. In this study, we theoretically address spin HHG in the steady state resulting from the terahertz laser-driven spin-phonon coupling in a dissipative dimerized spin-1/2 chain. Instead of directly driving spins using time-dependent m…

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I am so happy that so many people are interested 🫶
To celebrate, I am preparing a very special issue this week:
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Come and work with us!
The CSE department in Gothenburg has a few nice AssProf positions open in "basic science", "ICT" and "Cybersecurity".
Application deadline: 2024-03-15
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Assistant Professor in Basic Science: Pushing the boundaries of knowledge
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The open access coverage of OpenAlex, Scopus and Web of Science
Marc-Andre Simard, Isabel Basson, Madelaine Hare, Vincent Lariviere, Philippe Mongeon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01985

The open access coverage of OpenAlex, Scopus and Web of Science
Diamond open access (OA) journals offer a publishing model that is free for both authors and readers, but their lack of indexing in major bibliographic databases presents challenges in assessing the uptake of these journals. Furthermore, OA characteristics such as publication language and country of publication have often been used to support the argument that OA journals are more diverse and aim to serve a local community, but there is a current lack of empirical evidence related to the geogra…

«Quantifying the self with others» looks at the particular #CitizenScience community that is #PersonalScience / #quantifiedself.
«This community cultivated useful conversations about personal health data, the sorts of participatory “reflection and dialogue” needed to achieve “a shared vision” for these technologies, through specific communication techniques that integrated personal and community goals or transcended them by marshalling an open science data imaginary.»
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517241247831

"All eyes are opened or opening to the rights of man. The general
spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the
palpable truth, that [alluding to a speech given by Leveller Richard
Rumbold as he was to be hanged] the mass of mankind has not been born
with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few, booted and spurred,
ready to ride them legitimately by the grace of God."
Last letter of Thomas Jefferson, June 24, 1826

🔊 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Oingo Boingo:
🎵 Weird Science
#OingoBoingo
#Bandcamp

The past week at the Open Science Retreat was incredibly inspiring and helped me clear my mind.
Such great conversations, walks in the dunes, workshops, bar evenings, science karaoke, ...
#OSR24NL

Year of Open Science Conference recordings
and:
- #OpenScience Plumbing: Infrastructure Enabling and Catalyzing Policy Implementation, particularly where Tim Vines shows us how only icing of the cake is currently visible (~25 min in) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Npl0ZB5F-0&list=PLChfyH8TVDGnB_zDCm8d9oonMomfk8v9X&index=5
- The Critical Roles of Grassroots Initiatives and Communities in Increasing Adoption of Open Science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWkCStJHrwY&list=PLChfyH8TVDGnB_zDCm8d9oonMomfk8v9X&index=2
3/4

EndToEndML: An Open-Source End-to-End Pipeline for Machine Learning Applications
Nisha Pillai, Athish Ram Das, Moses Ayoola, Ganga Gireesan, Bindu Nanduri, Mahalingam Ramkumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18203

EndToEndML: An Open-Source End-to-End Pipeline for Machine Learning Applications
Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques are widely applied in the life sciences. However, applying innovative AI techniques to understand and deconvolute biological complexity is hindered by the learning curve for life science scientists to understand and use computing languages. An open-source, user-friendly interface for AI models, that does not require programming skills to analyze complex biological data will be extremely valuable to the bioinformatics community. With easy access to differe…

I have just published one of my latest datasets on huggingface. "Kleiner Astronaut" contains 30k german child adventure stories which were synthetically generated. Variations were encouraged by injecting inspiration sentences.
https://huggingface.co/datasets/Jotsch

Jotschi/kleiner-astronaut · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Dflow, a Python framework for constructing cloud-native AI-for-Science workflows
Xinzijian Liu, Yanbo Han, Zhuoyuan Li, Jiahao Fan, Chengqian Zhang, Jinzhe Zeng, Yifan Shan, Yannan Yuan, Wei-Hong Xu, Yun-Pei Liu, Yuzhi Zhang, Tongqi Wen, Darrin M. York, Zhicheng Zhong, Hang Zheng, Jun Cheng, Linfeng Zhang, Han Wang
https://arxiv…

Dflow, a Python framework for constructing cloud-native AI-for-Science workflows
In the AI-for-science era, scientific computing scenarios such as concurrent learning and high-throughput computing demand a new generation of infrastructure that supports scalable computing resources and automated workflow management on both cloud and high-performance supercomputers. Here we introduce Dflow, an open-source Python toolkit designed for scientists to construct workflows with simple programming interfaces. It enables complex process control and task scheduling across a distributed…

On the Counting Complexity of the Skolem Problem
Gorav Jindal, Jo\"el Ouaknine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00098 https://arxiv.or…

On the Counting Complexity of the Skolem Problem
The Skolem Problem asks, given an integer linear recurrence sequence (LRS), to determine whether the sequence contains a zero term or not. Its decidability is a longstanding open problem in theoretical computer science and automata theory. Currently, decidability is only known for LRS of order at most 4. On the other hand, the sole known complexity result is NP-hardness, due to Blondel and Portier. A fundamental result in this area is the celebrated Skolem-Mahler-Lech theorem, which asserts t…

The release of GEMMA by Google seems a play to pull people in their eco-system and not bothering with opensource models or am i too cynical ?
#AI

Welcome Gemma - Google’s new open LLM
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Funder: "Sanctions is something that we don't like" - best way to say your Open Science rules are mere suggestions.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06484 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_…

Public-private funding models in open source software development: A case study on scikit-learn
Governments are increasingly funding open source software (OSS) development to support software security, digital sovereignty, and national competitiveness in science and innovation, amongst others. However, little is known about how OSS developers evaluate the relative benefits and drawbacks of emergent governmental funding for OSS. This paper explores this question through a case study on scikit-learn, a popular Python library for machine learning, which has been funded by public research gra…

Reproducibility, Replicability, and Transparency in Research: What 430 Professors Think in Universities across the USA and India
Tatiana Chakravorti, Sai Dileep Koneru, Sarah Rajtmajer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08796

Reproducibility, Replicability, and Transparency in Research: What 430 Professors Think in Universities across the USA and India
In the past decade, open science and science of science communities have initiated innovative efforts to address concerns about the reproducibility and replicability of published scientific research. In some respects, these efforts have been successful, yet there are still many pockets of researchers with little to no familiarity with these concerns, subsequent responses, or best practices for engaging in reproducible, replicable, and reliable scholarship. In this work, we survey 430 professors…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13734 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Prompting and Fine-Tuning Open-Sourced Large Language Models for Stance Classification
Stance classification, the task of predicting the viewpoint of an author on a subject of interest, has long been a focal point of research in domains ranging from social science to machine learning. Current stance detection methods rely predominantly on manual annotation of sentences, followed by training a supervised machine learning model. However, this manual annotation process requires laborious annotation effort, and thus hampers its potential to generalize across different contexts. In th…

Optimal Control of Underdamped Systems: An Analytic Approach
Julia Sanders, Marco Baldovin, Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00679 htt…

Optimal Control of Underdamped Systems: An Analytic Approach
Optimal control theory deals with finding protocols to steer a system between assigned initial and final states, such that a trajectory-dependent cost function is minimized. The application of optimal control to stochastic systems is an open and challenging research frontier, with a spectrum of applications ranging from stochastic thermodynamics, to biophysics and data science. Among these, the design of nanoscale electronic components motivates the study of underdamped dynamics, leading to pra…

Meridional Circulation Streamlined
Deepayan Banik, Kristen Menou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16988 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.16988

Meridional Circulation Streamlined
Time-dependent meridional circulation and differential rotation in radiative zones are central open issues in stellar evolution theory. We streamline this challenging problem using the 'downward control principle' of atmospheric science, under a geostrophic f-plane approximation. New insights emerge from this simplified approach, using pressure as the vertical coordinate. We recover the known stellar physics result that the steady-state meridional circulation decays on the length scale (N/f sqr…

Year of Open Science Conference recordings
and:
- #OpenScience Plumbing: Infrastructure Enabling and Catalyzing Policy Implementation, particularly where Tim Vines shows us how only icing of the cake is currently visible (~25 min in) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Npl0ZB5F-0&list=PLChfyH8TVDGnB_zDCm8d9oonMomfk8v9X&index=5
- The Critical Roles of Grassroots Initiatives and Communities in Increasing Adoption of Open Science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWkCStJHrwY&list=PLChfyH8TVDGnB_zDCm8d9oonMomfk8v9X&index=2
3/4

Noch ein sehr schönes Projekt, dass u.a. kuratierte wissenschaftliche Informationen für die öffentliche Debatte aufbereitet, aber die Debatte auf der Plattform auch sucht. #WissKon
Mich sorg…

An analysis of the effects of sharing research data, code, and preprints on citations
Giovanni Colavizza, Lauren Cadwallader, Marcel LaFlamme, Gr\'egory Dozot, St\'ephane Lecorney, Daniel Rappo, Iain Hrynaszkiewicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16171

An analysis of the effects of sharing research data, code, and preprints on citations
Calls to make scientific research more open have gained traction with a range of societal stakeholders. Open Science practices include but are not limited to the early sharing of results via preprints and openly sharing outputs such as data and code to make research more reproducible and extensible. Existing evidence shows that adopting Open Science practices has effects in several domains. In this study, we investigate whether adopting one or more Open Science practices leads to significantly …

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Automated grading workflows for providing personalized feedback to open-ended data science assignments
Open-ended assignments - such as lab reports and semester-long projects - provide data science and statistics students with opportunities for developing communication, critical thinking, and creativity skills. However, providing grades and formative feedback to open-ended assignments can be very time consuming and difficult to do consistently across students. In this paper, we discuss the steps of a typical grading workflow and highlight which steps can be automated in an approach that we call …

Nice article about Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and how you can evaluate it. It also helped me to better understand RAG in a general sense.
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLM

RAG Evaluation - Hugging Face Open-Source AI Cookbook
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Year of Open Science Conference recordings
Other sessions that I particularly enjoyed:
- Reflections on a #YearOfOpenScience: Initiatives and Achievements Realized and Where to Next: #OpenScience Policy: Security of Open Science Software & Data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bXostEGS4k&list=PLChfyH8TVDGnB_zDCm8d9oonMomfk8v9X&index=6
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Year of Open Science Conference recordings
Other sessions that I particularly enjoyed:
- Reflections on a #YearOfOpenScience: Initiatives and Achievements Realized and Where to Next: #OpenScience Policy: Security of Open Science Software & Data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bXostEGS4k&list=PLChfyH8TVDGnB_zDCm8d9oonMomfk8v9X&index=6
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Public-private funding models in open source software development: A case study on scikit-learn
Governments are increasingly funding open source software (OSS) development to support software security, digital sovereignty, and national competitiveness in science and innovation, amongst others. However, little is known about how OSS developers evaluate the relative benefits and drawbacks of emergent governmental funding for OSS. This paper explores this question through a case study on scikit-learn, a popular Python library for machine learning, which has been funded by public research gra…

When this is your way to breakfast, life is good. Every morning at the Open Science Retreat... #OSR24NL

Year of Open Science Conference recordings
And particularly these two sessions/presentations:
- Evidencing the Prevalence and Impact of #OpenScience Practices #Equity, Training, and Norms), particularly the presentation by Sam Teplitzky on Research Community Outreach with the Open Science Team Agreement (at the end!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJUxwOd29uI&list=PLChfyH8TVDGnB_zDCm8d9oonMomfk8v9X&index=35

Interesting to see another example of a European social science organization transitioning its journal to diamond open access: this time, its the European Sociology Association. In 2021, the European Association of Social Anthropologists flipped their flagship by becoming part of the Berghahn OpenAnthro collection.
Meanwhile, the American associations twiddle their thumbs, in the face of disgruntled members.

Change narrative workshop at the Open Science Retreat #osr24nl

Year of Open Science Conference recordings
And particularly these two sessions/presentations:
- Evidencing the Prevalence and Impact of #OpenScience Practices #Equity, Training, and Norms), particularly the presentation by Sam Teplitzky on Research Community Outreach with the Open Science Team Agreement (at the end!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJUxwOd29uI&list=PLChfyH8TVDGnB_zDCm8d9oonMomfk8v9X&index=35

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Radical-Cylon: A Heterogeneous Data Pipeline for Scientific Computing
Managing and preparing complex data for deep learning, a prevalent approach in large-scale data science can be challenging. Data transfer for model training also presents difficulties, impacting scientific fields like genomics, climate modeling, and astronomy. A large-scale solution like Google Pathways with a distributed execution environment for deep learning models exists but is proprietary. Integrating existing open-source, scalable runtime tools and data frameworks on high-performance comp…

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Watch the Moon, Learn the Moon: Lunar Geology Research at School Level with Telescope and Open Source Data
Science-AI Symbiotic Group at Seven Square Academy, Naigaon was formed in 2023 with the purpose of bringing school students to the forefronts of science research by involving them in hands on research. In October 2023 a new project was started with the goal of studying the lunar surface by real-time observations and open source data. Twelve students/members from grades 8, 9, 10 participated in this research attempt wherein each student filled an observation metric by observing the Moon on vario…

After 1.5 days of travel 🚄🕑🚄🕑🚍🚲🕑🚍🚲🚗🛌🚄🚄🚄🚲 we finally made it to Schoorl for the Open Science Retreat
#OSR24NL 🥳😅

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Reference Coverage Analysis of OpenAlex compared to Web of Science and Scopus
OpenAlex is a promising open source of scholarly metadata, and competitor to the established proprietary sources, the Web of Science and Scopus. As OpenAlex provides its data freely and openly, it permits researchers to perform bibliometric studies that can be reproduced in the community without licensing barriers. However, as OpenAlex is a rapidly evolving source and the data contained within is expanding and also quickly changing, the question naturally arises as to the trustworthiness of its…

The Year of Open Science, Culminating Conference recordings are out!
You can hear me, and fantastic other panelists!, speak in the session on: The Turing Way: Aligning Professional Roles and Incentives with Open Research session: #OpenScience
#YearOfOpenScience
#TIR @…
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The Year of Open Science, Culminating Conference recordings are out!
You can hear me, and fantastic other panelists!, speak in the session on: The Turing Way: Aligning Professional Roles and Incentives with Open Research session: #OpenScience
#YearOfOpenScience
#TIR @…
1/n

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01856 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Watch the Moon, Learn the Moon: Lunar Geology Research at School Level with Telescope and Open Source Data
Science-AI Symbiotic Group at Seven Square Academy, Naigaon was formed in 2023 with the purpose of bringing school students to the forefronts of science research by involving them in hands on research. In October 2023 a new project was started with the goal of studying the lunar surface by real-time observations and open source data. Twelve students/members from grades 8, 9, 10 participated in this research attempt wherein each student filled an observation metric by observing the Moon on vario…

Together with @… I'm facilitating a panel on #OpenScience in #BioAnth on 10 April!
We will hear from Dr. Siân Halcrow, Dr. Sam Leggett, Dr. Krystal Tsosie and Dr. Trudy Turner and their vision (and challenges) regarding Open Science!
Registration: https://bioanth.org/meetings-and-webinars/aabas-monthly-webinar-series/

I'm proud to share the output that I contributed to during the #OSR24NL last week!
Recognising Open Science practices in higher education staff assessment #OpenScience retreat: can't wait!
#RecognitionRewards #ResearchAssessment