🔊Exciting grant opportunity! @conscience-network.bsky.social is looking to fund projects to scale #OpenHardware for Health 🇨🇦 🩺 Check out the details of their funding call here👇 conscience.ca/open-hardwar...

Open Hardware for Human Health (OH3) - Conscience

About the Call Conscience has seen a growing number of applications from researchers and companies developing open hardware technologies for therapeutic, diagnostic, and research purposes. This new fu...

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With the Bolson*ro coup letter I came to understand the trend where everybody now is claiming to be a leader in something, even when it's clearly not true. It's really annoying. Please stop.

After Brazil’s election, and ahead of the U.S. midterms, progressives and liberals around the world find cause to celebrate. www.newyorker.com/news/global-...

A Global Anti-Right Backlash

After Brazil’s election, and ahead of the U.S. midterms, progressives and liberals around the world find cause to celebrate.

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“Flees”, @nytimes.com it’s not “Leaves”, it’s FLEES. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/w...

Flávio Bolsonaro Leaves Brazil for the U.S. After Election Defeat

The U.S. plans to issue a visa to Mr. Bolsonaro, a U.S. official said. Brazilian police had asked him to hand over his passports because of his links to an investigation.

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If you live in Florida and that sketchy looking guy ordering a publix chicken tender sub has a Carioca accent keeps asking people if they have "o zapp to Donaldjjj Trumpee" please call your local FBI field office. www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2026/1...

Aliados de Flávio dizem que ele já foi para os EUA

Segundo pessoas próximas do candidato derrotado à Presidência, voo deverá chegar em algumas horas

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Eleitores relatam falta de transporte para votar, e Justiça prorroga votação até as 19 horas sumauma.com/liveblog/aco...

If you have a Brazilian friend, check in with them today. We’re not alright.

Trabalhadores e trabalhadoras do Brasil, uni-vos. Nós merecemos respeito.

Timely post as we’re choosing our next president this weekend. We’re risking going back to a government where levels of environmental destruction in the Amazon were the highest. People are considering to vote on a candidate that brings this back. Really hoping that love wins this time. #Lula13

UBC IRES@ires.ubc.ca · last mo.

Recent drops in Brazil’s deforestation are temporary relief, writes IRES PhD student Lucas Barros da Rosa. For lasting protection, Brazil need to extend effective enforcement to other biomes across the country. theconversation.com/brazil-has-m...

TWO new BLOGS on the the messy landscape of preprints. First, mapping out preprint servers and services seems easy... but it's not! What counts as a #preprint server? read our take w/ @mariomalicki.bsky.social and @nataschachtena.bsky.social www.scholcommlab.ca/2026/09/01/d...

Defining Preprints and Preprint Servers: Mapping an Inconsistent Landscape

A term without a settled definition The term “preprint” is widely used in scholarly communication, but it does not have an agreed-upon definition across disciplines, platforms, or professional role…

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What does it take to make statistical analyses and data reproducible? For #PeerReviewWeek, our companion post to “Writing replicable and reproducible methods” is on preparing statistical analyses and data for replication and reproduction 💡▶️ https://ow.ly/GL2850ZMJzT

the most interesting thing i worked on during my phd is now out as a preprint. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

#openaccess colors are BROKEN. Gold, Bronze, Green, Diamond, Hybrid... They are journal-centric, mix access and business models of journals, etc. We formed a working group to recommend how OpenAlex could implement a new classification system. Here's our report: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Period tracker: knows when you're ovulating, when you're stressed, when you might be pregnant. Also your period tracker: selling that to an analytics firm, allegedly. 👀Nothing Personal's recent report on period trackers now live mzl.la/4pF2WCA

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We’re testing out an algorithm to suggest #preprints for review based on your @orcid.org public profile. Take part in our second matchmaking experiment and help us with your valuable feedback! 🆕🚀 content.prereview.org/prereview-platform-news-4-september-2026/ #OpenScience #OpenInfrastructure

PREreview platform news, 4 September 2026

We’re testing out an algorithm to suggest preprints for review based on your ORCID public profile. Take part in our second matchmaking experiment and help us with your valuable feedback!

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finished a several years running wishlist project on climate change risks to healthcare and i have great news. the results are very bad

Mitacs Globalink 2027 opportunity in Montreal! My Urban Landscape Ecology Lab at Concordia is seeking eligible international undergrads for a summer research internship on urban biodiversity & ecosystem services. Travel/living support included. Apply by Sept. 16, 2026. www.mitacs.ca/our-programs...

🎉 We’re celebrating #PeerReviewWeek with a Review-a-thon! Gather your lab, classroom, department, or community to review preprints or datasets as a team, in any language or research field. You can win a prize to support your Club's activities! Learn more & register by Aug. 31: bit.ly/Review-a-thon

If you coordinate a PREreview Club, we’ve got news for you Now club leads can ask us to attach a review to their club’s page directly within the review workflow. No need to email us! Learn more about this and other optimizations for clubs in today’s Weeknote: content.prereview.org/prereview-pl...

PREreview platform news, 17 July 2026

We added a new optimization to our review workflow for PREreview Clubs. If you are a club lead, you can now let us know from within the review workflow itself that we should attach that review to your...

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Are interacting species showing more similar responses to environmental predictors than expected by chance? Is this similarity protecting species pairs from interaction disruption under climate change? If you want to find out, join us for a fully funded Ph.D. with @epic-biodiversity.org 🌎🧪

ÉPICBiodiversity@epic-biodiversity.org · 6mo ago

Join us! We are looking for a Ph.D. student to work on the response of ecological network structure to environmental drivers; this line of research can be adapted to questions on climate change, phylogenetic conservatism, and more! 🧪🌎 epic-biodiversity.org/opportunities/

Pesquisa aberta é matéria-prima gratuita pra IA generativa comercial? Quem se beneficia da abertura? Dia 2 de junho 14h BRT debato esse uso extrativista com Jennifer Zerkee e Monica Granados no painel "Extractive uses of openness and commercial generative AI". 🔗 sfu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Today is a wonderful day because @mozilla.org Festival Call for Proposals is officially OPEN! We are accepting proposals for consideration until Sun May 24th. How can we uplift community-led alternatives for a better tech future? We want to hear from you. 🔗➡️ mzl.la/48QUyZH #mozfest #mozfest2026

Always enjoy @philmoscovitch.bsky.social's clear-eyed reporting on AI and was inspired to revisit the public consultation survey on AI from October. There's a report out now! And I have Notes!

Halifax Examiner@halifaxexaminer.ca · 7mo ago

You get an AI! And you get an AI! Morning File by @philmoscovitch.bsky.social

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

📰 Inside PKP's community newsletter, "Archipelago" * Interview w/ new Managing Director, Teresa Lee * Demystifying #FOSS w/ Alec Smecher * Reflections - 3rd Global Summit on #DiamondOA w/ @markhusk.bsky.social * #OpenJournalSystems OJS 3.6 And more: lists.publicknowledgeproject.org/archive/arch...

Raffi Krikorian's piece in The Atlantic piece digs into what happens when automated systems lull us into trust, then fail in the split second when it matters most. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

My Tesla Was Driving Itself Perfectly—Until It Crashed

The danger of almost-perfect tech

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I've been coming across so many great open science initiatives in other fields that I wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the efforts happening in the Education Sciences. New blog post! 💡 cghlewis.com/blog/ed_open...

Follow the outputs of the PREreview + @continuous.foundation Modular Peer Review Working Group in real time 🙌 🧩 Session 2 was all about identifying reviewable components from multiple stages of research, and associating them with different signals or evaluation functions: bit.ly/3PG1stO

Modular Peer Review Working Group

A working group hosted by Continuous Science Foundation (CSF) and PREreview exploring how peer review can evolve in a modular publishing ecosystem.

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Curious about Open Education? We encourage you to register for 'Open Education Talks 2026', where ASAPbio Resident, Melissa Chim, will discuss Open Educational Resources and the Future of Open Science. oetalks.opened.ca

The Nebula #OpenScience training in collaboration with NASA is BACK! This 6 weeks program is directed to anyone interested in developing open research practices. Participation is free, and the registrations are open for the next cohort (April through May): lnkd.in/ecs_i8Cc