📣 New funding opportunity. Today, we're launching our inaugural call for proposals for open source software that underpins data-intensive research and AI-driven discovery in the life sciences. 1/ os4science.org/funding_oppo...

Request for Applications: Open Source for the Life Sciences

We seek proposals from open source software that underpins data-intensive research and AI-driven discovery in the life sciences.

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Open Source for Science Fund@os4science.org · 3mo ago

Today we're launching the Open Source for Science Fund, a new multi-donor philanthropic fund by Renaissance Philanthropy, seeded by @biohub.org and @wellcometrust.bsky.social, with support from @kavlifoundation.org and @researchsoftware.bsky.social 🧵 os4science.org/news/open-so...

Did you all feel it? We totally needed an earthquake on the night of the biggest blackout in SF history. 😳

M 4.6 - 2 km ESE of Berkeley, CA Link: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75240492

God that was a big one. #quake

Fun to see my photo of this extraordinary mountain chicken from Peru featured on iNat 😍

iNaturalist@inaturalist.bsky.social · last yr.

This spectacular little bird was ID'd as a subspecies of tinamou: Nothoprocta pentlandii niethammeri. And currently, this is the only observation of the subspecies on iNaturalist! 📷 radrat on iNaturalist 📍 Peru 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

New funding opportunity for Wikimedia-related research! Grants up to $150K available. Apply by April 16th: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:...

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

Today marks the beginning of OpenRxiv, which replaces bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world's largest preprint platform for life and medical science openrxiv.org/introducing-... @openrxiv.bsky.social

We did a thing

openRxiv@openrxiv.bsky.social · last yr.

openRxiv has arrived! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences. openrxiv.org/introducing-... #openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv

I wish there was a citation for this stat - this is mind blowing to me - "Already, a mere 10 percent of reviewers are responsible for 50 percent of all reviews." Not only is this not sustainable but has to lead to a very narrow perspective on the research. Wow.

We’re witnessing a Brexit-level instance of completely unnecessary economic destruction. A country that’s not hit by any shock, but simply chooses policy self-harm.

Kevin Elliott@kjephd.bsky.social · last yr.

JFC. The US Economic Policy Uncertainty Index is at its highest level since 2000, higher than during the Financial Crisis, higher than during COVID

18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was just demolished by Musk’s team. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 million. A thread about 18F:

Waldo Jaquith@waldo.net · last yr.

18F is *precisely* what Musk and team claim should exist within government. But when his team found it, they destroyed it, because it is evidence that government works well (can’t have that!), and because like Zelensky, 18F didn’t bend the knee.

18f were a bunch of badasses who actually *did* make government more efficient in a way that actually worked. And they did it while also being good people who cared deeply for the work, for each other, and for the people that used it.

Ryan Mac 🙃@rmac.bsky.social · last yr.

18F, a digital services unit inside the General Services Administration, has been completely laid off, according to an email I’ve seen. The email says that 18F was deemed “non-critical” and the decision was made with the “explicit” direction of the administration and GSA leadership.

This hit so hard today. These are jobs the private sector just can’t replace, these are people whose intimate knowledge of places and ecosystems, accumulated through years and years of service, just can’t be rebuilt. We’re collectively losing so much when they’re gone.

Shah Selbe@shahselbe.bsky.social · last yr.

The stories of Park Rangers that lost their dream jobs are heartbreaking. This administration is so full of incompetence and cruelty that it almost feels not real. The damage to this country and its institutions is already irreversible, even if we start doing everything correctly from tomorrow.

lovely

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2y ago

The Trump administration’s anti-DEI snitching plan is getting flooded with fake reports after it tried to strong-arm federal workers into ratting out their colleagues.

Great day today: uploading Data on Commons for one of the most iconic books in @biodivlibrary.bsky.social : The Birds of America! commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor... + a selection of nice birds 1/7 - green dots show images with species reconciled to Wikidata (via Flickr tags)

Southern Crag-Martin (Ptyonoprogne fuligula fuligula). Western Cape, South Africa

Duolingo right now:

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive. Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!

SciScore and @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social Launch New Key Resource Tables for Preprints, Pioneering a New Era of Reproducibility and Transparency in Life Science Research world.einnews.com/article/7829... cc @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social

SciScore and bioRxiv Launch New Key Resource Tables for Preprints, Pioneering New Era of Reproducibility & Transparency

Surfacing reagents and resources

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Some sunbirds for these darker times. Amethyst sunbird (Chalcomitra amethystina)

⭐ Funding opportunity ⭐ ORCA is offering grants for future-looking projects promoting open scholarship, open science, inclusivity, and innovation. 📌 Details: Award Amt: Up to $15k USD Eligibility: U.S. non-R1 and under-resourced institutions Deadline: 3/15/25 Apply here: www.orcaopen.org/work/cap

Open Scholarship Catalytic Awards Program — Open Research Community Accelerator

The Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA), with generous support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, is pleased to launch the Open Scholarship Catalytic Awards Program.  The program aims to...

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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

This: x.com/yishan/statu... (via @timoreilly.bsky.social)

ORCID is the only thing that works properly and doesn’t make life worse. Bonus to be able to use it as a login for some things!

ORCID@orcid.org · 2y ago

Thank you @grahamkendall.bsky.social! We think of ORCID not as just a number, but as a persistent anchor point by which researchers can curate data related to their research (funding, affiliation) or outputs, and share it with external systems in a trustworthy way that reduces their burden.

AI is transforming science. But can it be leveraged to also expand the adoption of open research practices? Excited to announce eight new grants to answer that question, as a partnership between CZI and Sloan Foundation led by @k8hert.bsky.social. Read more: cziscience.medium.com/pathways-to-...

Pathways to AI-enabled research

CZI and Sloan Foundation announce eight new grants to transform scientific research practices through AI applications

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