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hughshanahan.bsky.social
Professor of Open Science at Royal Holloway, University of London. He/Him/Hugh. Co-chair of CODATA-RDA schools. Dad. Irish agus ó Chiarraí. More details at orcid.org/0000-0003-1374-6015. Also at @[email protected] I am very much under renovation.
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Nearly ugly cried my way through the first ten minutes of the latest (last?) Bridget Jones as much as Up…

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"e pur non si muove" - galileo, if he lived in america in 2025 and wanted funding

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Spring is just starting to stick its head out here in deepest darkest Surrey, UK but I still wish I could be at IDCC in Amsterdam... 😭

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Please, please, HEC, go back to reality. The consultative ballot had 27% turnout. That's not enough. Meanwhile, we have actual jobs at risk on a local level at many institutions. We need to act within the legal framework. And soon! #ucu

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Two years ago I wrote a 3 part blog post on Data Cleaning for Data Sharing for #LoveDataWeek that I think is still relevant for #LoveData25. 1. cghlewis.com/blog/data_cl... 2. cghlewis.com/blog/data_cl... 3. cghlewis.com/blog/data_cl... #rstats #databs #edusky

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

The World Data System is launching a Delphi study to identify the top value-added benefits of data repositories! We are looking for five stakeholder categories: funders, researchers, digital infrastructure and service providers, policy-makers, and journal publishers. Take the survey: bit.ly/drivr-1

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Well over 600 signatories now. Please keep the momentum going. Sign and share to show how much the wider scientific community is concerned by the Royal Society's silence over Musk's FRS. Members of the UK and international scientific community are all welcome to sign.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

The ruling temporarily halts a policy slashing research overhead costs in 22 states, which filed a lawsuit against the biomedical agency. 🧪 #AcademicSky @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Uhm. Yeah. Can all my friends just not fly in US airspace for a bit, maybe, please?

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Just overheard: VERY SMALL KID, ON BIKE: *Why* can’t I ride on the road? HIS DAD: Because it’s busy and you could be hit by a car. VERY SMALL KID, ON BIKE: Well why don’t we just try and see what happens.

submitted 23 days ago • 19 comments

nearly always better to do the thing than not do the thing, and also its cousin: people probably can't guess what's going on inside your head, so tell them if it's something that matters to you

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

- Learn to tell the difference between someone who is kind and someone who selectively acts nice - Professionally, practice crafting stories from the things you've done that demonstrate your value - Your "fun" friend who consistently crosses lines is not harmless or someone else's problem

submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

This is such an important milestone for professionalising data stewardship in the Netherlands (and beyond). Congratulations to @dans-knaw-nwo.bsky.social @4turesearchdata.bsky.social, SURF, Health-RI and all the colleagues involved 🎉

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REAL, NOT AI: “Human Authored”—a first-of-its-kind official certification system that writers and publishers can use for books - supported by a registration system that will create a verifiable chain of trust. authorsguild.org/news/ag-laun...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve decided that explicitly teaching about how science funding works needs to be a part of my neurobiology lab course — it’s something I haven’t included before, and that was an oversight. Please send any teaching resources you might find helpful. I’ll share what I end up developing.

submitted 24 days ago • 27 comments

How do you signal that you've organised a meeting because folks are not talking to each other and they need to get things done but you are not there to run the meeting becuase it's their f***ing problem?

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Terrific thread on the AI news today - a hard rethink on assumptions it needs huge power consumption and ever more massive data centres

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

Researchers paid $9 billion over 5 years for their findings to be freely accessible. This is based on a study of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Every time. I forget the syntax to write a function in R. Every time I look at the correction form and think "yes - that makes sense". Every time I forget 🤦

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As recently as January 2, 2025, #NASA had five modules for teaching #OpenScience on its web site. The #Trump administration has taken them down. science.nasa.gov/open-science... Thank goodness for the @archive.org Wayback Machine. web.archive.org/web/20250102... #TrumpAntiScience #USPolitics

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment