Join us for an online talk & discussion on extractivist dynamics in #OpenScience with Batool Almarzouq, @rosalbaicaza.bsky.social, and Ana Parrón Cabañero, chaired by yours truly. Friday 19 June 2026, 15:00-16:15 CEST. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
Rethinking Open Science through dependency theory
Dependency theory explains how resources systematically flow from the “periphery
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📣 New research seminar: @batoolmm.bsky.social from @epcc.bsky.social will give a talk on 𝘙𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘺, followed by responses from Ana Parrón Cabañero and Rosalba Icaza. 🎧 Make sure to join! 📅 Friday, 19/6/2026 | 3:00-4:15 PM (CEST) 📌 Online only
Rethinking Open Science through dependency theory
Dependency theory explains how resources systematically flow from the “periphery
universiteitleiden.nl
Episode 230 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🚧 Caution after R updates @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy 🧹 Refactoring with Jarl @frick.ws @masalmon.eu 👃 Test smells @jakub-sobolewski.bsky.social h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @batoolmm.bsky.social 🙏 #rstats
Issue 2026-W24 Highlights
A friendly reminder on checking customization when upgrading R, how refactoring may not be so tedious when using the Jarl utility, and honest takes on…
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Very powerful article from @beenwrekt.bsky.social, thanks @nicholdav.bsky.social for sharing the article "The hardcore statistical wing of #metascience has strong, peculiar normative beliefs about what #science should be." www.argmin.net/p/devezers-u...
Devezer's Urn
LLMs make metascience easier, but that doesn't increase metascientific validity.
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My goal in life is to use the term " @devezer.bsky.social's urn" as often as possible Nice post from @beenwrekt.bsky.social on why automating metascience with LLMs won't make it any better Kind of the ying to the yang of the @batoolmm.bsky.social article on "Open Science" @olivia.science shared
Ben Recht@beenwrekt.bsky.social · 6mo agoLLMs make statistical metascience easier. LLMs don't increase the validity of statistical metascience. www.argmin.net/p/devezers-urn
"In its mainstream form, Open Science explains the Global South’s slower research pace as a matter of weak infrastructure, low capacity, or scarce resources. Diversity and inclusion shrink to questions of representation while systemic issues vanish from view." Excellent from @batoolmm.bsky.social
Rethinking Open Science • SftP Magazine
The Open Science movement promises inclusivity and better science but ignores the economic and political realities that shape research.
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In this sftp article, I ask some of the questions often left out of #OpenScience discourse, spaces, and events—especially how #inclusion can become depoliticised, and what true allyship really means. magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/vol27-2-poli...
Rethinking Open Science • SftP Magazine
The Open Science movement promises inclusivity and better science but ignores the economic and political realities that shape research.
magazine.scienceforthepeople.org
Looks like a good critical write-up of Big Open Science, from @batoolmm.bsky.social who I would imagine has plenty of first-hand experience. Adding to the To Read list
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 6mo ago"This article looks briefly at exclusive systems of knowledge production. I describe how the Open Science movement that was founded to reform science often recycles the same extractive dynamics of neoliberal capitalism described by dependency theory." magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/vol27-2-poli...
"How do we conceptualise equity, liberty, what counts as progress, what kind of economic growth, and whose knowledge counts as legitimate knowledge? These are not abstract. They are woven into the system. Into funding, journals, rankings, intellectual life, and scientific methods themselves."
Metascience for whom? A question as old as science.
Before we fix science, we need to ask who built it!
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New from @batoolmm.bsky.social, 'Metascience for whom?': "The system is not broken... It is designed to produce certain kinds of knowledge, funded in certain ways, published in certain journals, using certain vocabularies... That is the trap that metascience should avoid."
Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · 6mo ago“We should be careful not to marginalise questions of power, because in wearing that aura of clean objectivity, metascience risks becoming strangely depoliticised.” By @batoolmm.bsky.social
My 1st contribution for #30DayMapChallenge in the wonderful GDSL lab. This map highlights key cities in Iraq during the period of the 8th–13th centuries linked to several influential thinkers of the era, with short notes on their contributions in mathematics, optics, chemistry, and medicine.
Reflecting on #OpenFest25, I'm grateful to the presenters (Almarzouq, Bowie, Sanders) who reminded us that openness is a social practice > we must not lose sight of this. E.g. open practices per se cannot dismantle the humanities' centrality in the ideological scaffolding of apartheid and genocide 👇
(Mar)Chella Ward@luxmea.bsky.social · 11mo agoI have a new article out today in Public Humanities, where I try to find some words for how historicide is (and has always been) a project of European colonialism - and I try to find some words for the historians who continue to support it. 🇵🇸✊🏻 Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
In our final online panel, a great paper from Batool Almarzouq, who shows how - if you follow the sources back - the same extractivist dynamics that transfer wealth from the global south to the global north in neocolonial projects play out in the open science funding landscape #OpenFest25
This was great from @batoolmm.bsky.social - not often you see discussion of open science explicitly referencing universities' harmful investment in fossil fuels and weapons #openfest25
Holly Ranger@themauvedesert.bsky.social · 11mo agoIn our final online panel, a great paper from Batool Almarzouq, who shows how - if you follow the sources back - the same extractivist dynamics that transfer wealth from the global south to the global north in neocolonial projects play out in the open science funding landscape #OpenFest25
Batool Almarzouq (@batoolmm.bsky.social) will be speaking at #csvconf about "Building data literacy in patient communities: Lessons from the AIM programme"! Register now: http://csvconfv9.eventbrite.com
Just took a 30-min break yesterday & put together some thoughts from those quick chats at #OpenScience conferences lately. Ended up with a short, 3-minute read on whether science and activism are actually at odds, or if maybe it only feels that way sometimes! batool664.medium.com/are-science-...
Are Science and Activism Contradictory?
Some say scientists should stay out of politics. Power shapes science — so do we
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🔥 We are pleased to announce the The Turing Way Fireside Chat Series on Governance. This series brings together experts and community members to explore the many dimensions of governance in research and open science. Find out more about the events at: www.software.ac.uk/news/turing-...
‘I’m remembering Srebrenica while Srebrenica is happening in Gaza’
‘I’m remembering Srebrenica while Srebrenica is happening in Gaza’
More victims to be buried on Friday’s 30th anniversary of Serb massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims
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Episode 204 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🍳 recipes 1.3.0 @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social 📊 Chart challenge @nrennie.bsky.social ➗ Rotation modulo @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy 📦Top 40 pkgs Joe Rickert h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @batoolmm.bsky.social 🙏
Issue 2025-W19 Highlights
Episode 204 of R Weekly Highlights is jam-packed with four highlights! We discuss the recent improvements to the recipes package in the tidymodels suite,…
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Thank you for the shout out on the R Weekly podcast ❤️ @rpodcast.bsky.social and @mike-thomas.bsky.social are always a great listen, and appreciate you @batoolmm.bsky.social for highlighting the Top 40 Packages post! Check out the other great highlights this week: rweekly.org #RStats
R-Podcast (Eric)@rpodcast.bsky.social · last yr.Episode 204 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🍳 recipes 1.3.0 @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social 📊 Chart challenge @nrennie.bsky.social ➗ Rotation modulo @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy 📦Top 40 pkgs Joe Rickert h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @batoolmm.bsky.social 🙏
Launching #DWebFellowsFridays! From now on, we will be featuring a former #DWeb Fellow and their current work every Friday. If you were a fellow at one of the past DWeb Camps and you want to participate, get in touch! #DWebCamp #DWebFellow 🧵 1/3