CIRCLE WITH A DOT

A machine built from human language just learned to simulate a panic attack.A forest has been practicing cooperative economics for 300 million years.These are not separate stories.Heliox Season 6 Synthesis — "Synthetic Anxiety and the Mother Tree" 42 minutes. Four conceptual pillars. One quietly radical question.🧵 Thread follows.#SciencePodcast #AIanxiety #MotherTree #OpenScience #HelioxPodcast

@gunchleoc @Bibliothecaris It might be worth looking at https://shareopenly.org.Mastodon's share button only supports Mastodon servers, there are plenty of other fediverse platforms.@xinit @sandradejong

I’m glad to share my paper on publication activity and migration trends of Ukrainian SSH scholars during the first two years of the full-scale war. https://www.jscires.org/article/15/1/124The key finding: the most productive researchers have largely remained in #Ukraine and many have maintained or even increased their publication activity, despite the challenges.#Science #OpenScience #Bibliometrics #HigherEducation #Scientometrics #Research #Academia

New 'climate viz of the month' blog is out today, comparing two observational datasets to show the warmest decade on record across the wider #Arctic region: https://zacklabe.com/climate-viz-of-the-month/ #DataViz #SciComm #OpenData #OpenScience

New study on the results of asking authors of published articles to share their data.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2026.106693"Overall, only 52% of the requests received a reply, and only 29% contributed data or information that was relevant for the [proposed] meta-analysis. Obtaining a response was less likely if (i) the request was sent to the contact e-mail address provided in the publication, (ii) behavioral data was requested, (iii) reminders had to be sent, or (iv) there was no personal acquaintance with the contacted author." #Data #OpenData #OpenScience

As of 1 January 2027, our university will cancel its licence for the Web of #Science database. This decision follows careful consideration of rising costs, content overlap with other available databases, and a commitment to #OpenResearch information. https://www.rug.nl/library/news/20260420-end-web-of-science#database #OpenScience #information

RE: https://fediscience.org/@oatp/116438875358622213"Maximal transparency is almost certainly not ethically desirable."Desirable 'for whom'?For platforms facing regulatory scrutiny, opacity is a feature. For users discriminated against by biased recommendation engines, transparency is survival. For communities targeted by algorithmic manipulation, openness is a civil liberty.This paper usefully breaks transparency into dimensions and degrees—providing the "choice points" for an ethics of algorithmic openness. But let us be clear: the stakeholders who need transparency most are rarely the ones invited to design these systems.Our job as advocates for privacy, free software, and civil liberties is not to settle for the "ethically optimal" comfort zone of the powerful. It is to push the needle toward the maximum and let the burden of justification fall on those who demand secrecy.Let us use it to demand more.#DigitalJustice #AlgorithmicBias #PrivacyRights #OpenScience #AlgorithmicGovernance #DigitalDemocracy #InfoSec #TechPolicy

Thalamus, the GNU Health Federation message and authentication server 0.9.18 released! https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10882#Thalamus #GNUhealth #GNU #OpenScience #healthcare

All of my monthly climate visualization blogs from last year are now archived at: https://zacklabe.com/blog-archive-2025/ #OpenScience #OpenDataThe monthly Arctic statistics for 2025 are also at https://zacklabe.com/archive-2025/ #DataViz #SciComm

Gave a short online lecture on altmetrics today. Main point: altmetrics measure attention, not quality. Sometimes they capture real interest - sometimes just noise. Attention ≠ impact. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.30154.12488 #Altmetrics #ResearchImpact #OpenScience #ScholarlyCommunication #Scientometrics