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Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics in DIAS, member and former president of the Royal Irish Academy, former VP of ALLEA. Interested in open science and the […]
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<Heymans' current strategy to process the unbelievable and unconscionable conduct of the so-called "leader of the free world" is to bury her head in the night skies>
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And statement from Martin.
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@christof Yes, they should have provenance information attached, if only for verification and quality control purposes. But the whole idea seems to be to separate the abstract "idea" from its context so that it can escape copyright controls, including the moral rights of the originators.
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@christof Another issue it seems to me is that this effectively makes CC-BY equivalent to CC-0 and thereby undermines a fundamental principle of academia. We share our work on the understanding that our authorship will be properly recognised, but if anonymous “knowledge units” take off how is […]
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@christof It is certainly intriguing, but I’m sceptical about the claim of freeing scientific knowledge. Who will own and seek to monetise the “knowledge units”? We risk exchanging one set of rent seeking corporations for another. This is not freedom in the #OpenScience sense of free for any […]
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@Floppy I doubt that they will do so - firstly there are three alternative satellite positioning systems (European, Russian and Chinese) and secondly, President Musk probably needs it for his cars' navigation systems.
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7/ For example, I see many social-media posts on these topics but not much convergence in the #hashtags. #Trump, #USPol, and #USPolitics are common but they're not specific to these topics. We need to supplement them with tags that are more specific.
#DefendResearch is new with the Feb 13 […]
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Update. US space scientists have written an open letter to #NASA and #Congress.
https://sites.google.com/view/space-science-for-everyone
"Almost all of our work as space scientists is funded by U.S. taxpayers, and we have a responsibility to oppose actions that limit the reach of our work to […]
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Update. "Join academic workers across the country in fighting restrictions on research - Feb. 19th Rally."
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe53wTzsA1T6b6-QxZtt20Yq1k2IX23YnDgKCli4mcTMRwYLA/viewform
"For the last three weeks, we have seen unprecedented attacks on science that have […]