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Time for an #introduction! #OpenByDefault is a company helping other to become more open. If you need help with anything around #OpenData, #OpenSource, #OpenKnowledge, #OpenScience, #OpenAccess, #OpenStandards or #FreeLicenses in general, we can help.
All from guiding about policies for your organization to methods for working with these in practice or training or inspirational talks.
In 2021, hundreds of citizen scientists walked a distance of 600 km, counting up and classifying all of the outdoor lights they could see while they did it. The results of their observations have just been published in the journal Nature Cities: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-025-00239-5
Find out why they did it, and what they found out in this thread đ
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#CitizenScience #LightPollution #OpenAccess #NighttimeLights #RemoteSensing #Nachtlichter
#Trumpâs war on knowledge requires re-inventing academic publishing as #diamond #openaccess - https://walledculture.org/trumps-war-on-knowledge-requires-re-inventing-academic-publishing-as-diamond-open-access/ time to fight back
i started wondering whether uv lamps (like blacklights) might be useful to dry dishes washed with unfiltered water here. our main danger in unfiltered water is angiostrongylus cantonensis (the cause of "rat lung worm", or angiostrongyliasis).
i searched "uv light for angiostrongylus" and got this excellent open access article from PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases - a journal that i used to be editorial manager of đ :https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6772140/
it's a very nice literature review on the effects of uv light on various helminths that negatively affect human health.
the article included the following info: "Similarly, larvae of the nematode A. cantonensis exposed for 15 minutes to UV-A light were unable to develop inside an animal host."
blacklights are UV-A and i am now considering treating washed dishes with the blacklight in addition to air-drying them for a minimum 24 hours (which i already do).
âŠi started wondering whether uv lamps (like blacklights) might be useful to dry dishes washed with unfiltered water here. our main danger in unfiltered water is angiostrongylus cantonensis (the cause of "rat lung worm", or angiostrongyliasis).
i searched "uv light for angiostrongylus" and got this excellent open access article from PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases - a journal that i used to be editorial manager of đ :https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6772140/
it's a very nice literature review on the effects of uv light on various helminths that negatively affect human health.
the article included the following info: "Similarly, larvae of the nematode A. cantonensis exposed for 15 minutes to UV-A light were unable to develop inside an animal host."
blacklights are UV-A and i am now considering treating washed dishes with the blacklight in addition to air-drying them for a minimum 24 hours (which i already do).
i am very happy to have found this info, thankful to the scientists who did the research, and thankful to everyone who makes open access work. it feels pretty neat to have been a small contributing part of this incredibly complex knowledge production line, and to now be a beneficiary of the open knowledge that was produced.
working at PLOS wasn't always a picnic, but the scientists i worked with were amazing people with integrity, who genuinely cared about the research and the people impacted by the subjects they were researching. i feel proud to have facilitated the publication and sharing of their research findings to anyone - without subscriptions!
Le tomes 4 et 5 de lâhistoire franco-allemande sont en ligne!
Dans le cadre de la rĂ©tronumĂ©risation de la collection en onze volumes de lâ»histoire franco-allemande«, la version allemande des tomes 4 et 5 vient de paraĂźtre en #OpenAccess.
âș t.4: https://doi.org/10.25360/01-2024-00019
âș t.5: https://doi.org/10.25360/01-2024-00020
Une nouvelle année (2022) de la Gazette des Archives en #OpenAccess sur #PerseeFr
n° 265 : Archives et engagement, coordonné
n° 266 : Les archives de l'enfance
n° 267 : Archives audiovisuelles, réinventer les métiers du patrimoine,
n° 268 : Autour de la guerre. Les archives, de précieuses alliées. #Archives #OpenGLAM @archivistodon
Une nouvelle année (2022) de la Gazette des Archives en #OpenAccess sur #PerseeFr
n° 265 : Archives et engagement, coordonné
n° 266 : Les archives de l'enfance
n° 267 : Archives audiovisuelles, réinventer les métiers du patrimoine,
n° 268 : Autour de la guerre. Les archives, de précieuses alliées. #Archives #OpenGLAM @archivistodon
So... I am considering eventually making my older books available for free to the general public, but I don't want to do that on the #InternetArchive because I don't want it to be mistaken for pirated works (which are rife over there).
Are there any #OpenAccess platforms suitable for submitting works on #folklore ?
So... I am considering eventually making my older books available for free to the general public, but I don't want to do that on the #InternetArchive because I don't want it to be mistaken for pirated works (which are rife over there).
Are there any #OpenAccess platforms suitable for submitting works on #folklore ?
Mit #Statistik đ zu besseren Informationen ĂŒber Kindergesundheit: Wissenschaftler:innen aus Innsbruck und ZĂŒrich konnten berechnen, wie stark Kinder in Subsahara-Afrika und SĂŒdasien von #AnĂ€mie (Blutarmut) betroffen sind. Solche Daten gab es bisher nur fĂŒr einzelne LĂ€nder. #PublicHealth #Ăkonometrie #DataScience #OpenAccess
Mit #Statistik đ zu besseren Informationen ĂŒber Kindergesundheit: Wissenschaftler:innen aus Innsbruck und ZĂŒrich konnten berechnen, wie stark Kinder in Subsahara-Afrika und SĂŒdasien von #AnĂ€mie (Blutarmut) betroffen sind. Solche Daten gab es bisher nur fĂŒr einzelne LĂ€nder. #PublicHealth #Ăkonometrie #DataScience #OpenAccess
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#foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe #openscience #opendata #openaccess #openhardware #oer
// foss.events is not just about software-related events. Open Science, Open Data, Open Access, Open Hardware, Open Educational Resources and many other related movements are just as important as FOSS is.
Let's add these events to // foss.events and start connecting!
#foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe #openscience #opendata #openaccess #openhardware #oer
For those just learning about LibGen because of the reporting on Meta and other companies training LLMs on pirated books, Iâd highly recommend the book Shadow Libraries (open access: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/3600/Shadow-LibrariesAccess-to-Knowledge-in-Global).
I just read it while working on the Wikipedia article about shadow libraries, and itâs a fascinating history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_library
I fear the already fraught conversations about shadow libraries will take a turn for the worse now that itâs overlapping with the incredibly fraught conversations about AI training.
đHi! Welcome to the #Dutch National #OpenScience Festival, taking place at the University of Groningen and UMCG on 24 October 2025.
We're Babette and Josca from @Bibliothecaris, taking over this account for this festival edition.
Follow us here for the latest #OSF2025NL updates on festival preparations, registration and programme developments, and of course during the event itself.
đ https://opensciencefestival.nl
#OpenAccess #OpenEducation #PublicEngagement #FAIRData #OpenResearch #introduction
đHi! Welcome to the #Dutch National #OpenScience Festival, taking place at the University of Groningen and UMCG on 24 October 2025.
We're Babette and Josca from @Bibliothecaris, taking over this account for this festival edition.
Follow us here for the latest #OSF2025NL updates on festival preparations, registration and programme developments, and of course during the event itself.
đ https://opensciencefestival.nl
#OpenAccess #OpenEducation #PublicEngagement #FAIRData #OpenResearch #introduction
I just finished a course about Climate Leadership in the Private Sector and published my course assignment about Houdini Sportswear as #OpenAccess.
https://ainali.com/2025/course-in-climate-leadership-in-the-private-sector/
#Agroforestry is on the rise in Germany, but its adoption is facing many legal & other hurdles. Here, we use a social-ecological traps perspective to explain how a complex legislation interacting with local processes disincentivizes farmers to implement agroforestry. Now out in "Sustainability Science" (#OpenAccess). A wonderful collaboration with Marina Klimke and Cathrin Zengerling. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01623-1
Adieu, X! â Endlich, Fediverse!
Wir sind der #Fachinformationsdienst fĂŒr die Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft, kurz: FID Media. Unter fid-media.de gibt es fĂŒr diese FĂ€cher das zentrale Portal zum Recherchieren und Publizieren im #OpenAccess. Wir unterstĂŒtzen Forschende aller Karrierestufen mit tollen und kostenfreien Services.
Hier teilen wir neue Angebote fĂŒr die Fachcommunity, tröten ausgewĂ€hlte #Neuerscheinungen und sonstige News.
Schön, jetzt hier zu sein!
