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Embrace #open principles, safeguard #AcademicFreedom, and support #DataAutonomy: why academic institutions should consider a transition from Twitter to Mastodon
we had a great time with a record amount of sprinters, open space attendees AND i gave my first talk! I can't wait for next year! #python#openscience#opensource
Beide Gesellschaften schreiben dazu: „Wir teilen und fördern die Prinzipien von #OpenScience, Open Education und #OpenSource für die Hochschulbildung und wollen sie auch praktisch umsetzen. .... Darüber hinaus setzen wir uns damit für Konzepte wie digitale Souveränität und gemeinschaftlich organisierte Dienste im Sinne einer Kultur der Digitalität ein. Die Bereitstellung solcher Dienste im Fediverse (wie #Mastodon) ermöglicht uns als wissenschaftliche Fachgesellschaften, Gestaltungshoheit zu wahren und unabhängige, #datenschutzfreundliche Infrastrukturen zu fördern.“ #unisinsfediverse
There aren’t enough characters for us to tell you about all the incredible things that the sourmash package, a command-line tool and Python/Rust library for metagenome analysis and genome comparison using k-mers, does, but we promise that you’re going to want to check out this incredible package from Tessa Pierce-Ward, Titus Brown, and Luiz Irber!
😎 ZodiPy is a new Python tool for modeling the zodiacal emission seen by an arbitrary Solar System observer, which can be used for removal of both thermal emission and scattered sunlight from interplanetary dust in astrophysical data. One of the main goals with ZodiPy is to make zodiacal emission simulations more accessible by providing the community with a simple Python interface to existing models.
🗺️ Who doesn’t love a good map? And with EOMaps, from Raphael Quast, you have a Python package that makes it easy to visualize, analyze, and compare geographical datasets at your fingertips!
We don't even know where to start with all of the awesomeness in this week's newsletter, but here are the headlines:
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Office of the National Cyber Director told RSA Conference attendees the White House is developing legal clauses that shift software liability away from customers and more onto manufacturers.
"Another proposal on the table would be SHARED LIABILITY BETWEEN OPEN-SOURCE MAINTAINERS AND FOR-PROFIT FIRMS who integrate those open tools into their products, he added."
rdata, a package from Carlos Ramos Carreño, is a pure Python implementation that offers a lightweight way to import R datasets/objects stored in the “.rda” and “.rds” formats into Python!
🌟 Reminder to all #OpenScience enthusiasts! 🌟
Want to publish your work openly and freely?
Simply put your preprint online and submit it for open peer-review on our platform!
Early career researchers want Open Science, Farnham et al (2024) :
"Open #Science is encouraged by the European Union and many other political and scientific institutions. However, scientific practice is proving slow to change. We propose, as early career researchers, that it is our task to change scientific #research into open scientific research and commit to #OpenScience principles."
In its justification, it commits itself to the principles of the #Fediverse and #OpenScience:
"Freie Universität Berlin has been present on Mastodon since December 2022. #Mastodon is part of the decentralized Fediverse network. Compared to large commercial social networks, Mastodon relies on chronological feeds and reduces the algorithmic sorting of posts. This ensures that information is always openly available and reduces the likelihood of so-called filter bubbles forming."
You can wrestle with scientific-formatting yourself, or you can use the sciform package from Justin Gerber!
sciform is used to convert python numbers into strings according to a variety of user-selected scientific formatting options including decimal, binary, fixed-point, scientific and engineering formats, using documented standards wherever possible!