Batool Almarzouq | بتول المرزوق 🍉

Devezer's Urn LLMs make metascience easier, but that doesn't increase metascientific validity.

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...

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

Rethinking Open Science • SftP Magazine The Open Science movement promises inclusivity and better science but ignores the economic and political realities that shape research.

"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.

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...

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

Metascience for whom? A question as old as science. Before we fix science, we need to ask who built it!

"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."

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."

Thank you @markrubin.bsky.social for sharing the article.

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 👇

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

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

Are Science and Activism Contradictory? Some say scientists should stay out of politics. Power shapes science — so do we

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-...

Learning from Each Other's Journeys: case studies from Open Initiatives

🔥 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’ More victims to be buried on Friday’s 30th anniversary of Serb massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims

‘I’m remembering Srebrenica while Srebrenica is happening in Gaza’

Expanding their policy beyond Gaza I see

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,…

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 🙏

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

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

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