Jenny Ostrop

Today's article on the bus on code as valuable research output: doi.org/10.1038/d415..., pointing to the CODE beyond #FAIR preprint: hal.science/hal-04930405v1

Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a day Investigation shows extent of green land lost across UK and mainland Europe to development from 2018 to 2023

Nature in Europe is being lost piece by piece. Using our method, journalists from 11 countries have uncovered the extent of the nature loss. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The #greentogrey project was coordinated by @journalismarena.eu in collaboration with NRK.

Stay in control: Research Data Management in active projects Good data management in the active phase of a research project facilitates your future research, eases collaborations, enables advanced analysis methods, and is a prerequisite for archiving high-quali...

Are you easily able to provide details on any #data point and processing steps if you get a mean question by reviewer 2? Do you plan to publish #FAIR data? Let's talk about #DataManagement tips & tricks in active projects! @unibergen.bsky.social library webinar Sept 26th: www.uib.no/en/ub/178969...

CESSDA is looking for a new technical officer to join our team in Bergen, Norway! 🇧🇻
We need someone who can help our head of IT with:
💻 Maintaining the CESSDA technical Guidelines
🌩️ Cloud-based Infrastructure Provision and Management
💰 Cost Optimisation
Apply today at:
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Photography of a rocky ridge with the ocean and some islands in the background and a black dog with curly tail in the foreground. This is my neighbourhood.

Just realized that I moved to Norway ten years ago today. Feels like a very long and a very short time simultaneously.

A scatterplot on a cream white background with the title "The chicken 🐓 or the egg 🥚?". The square grid is split by four reddish arrows pointing outwards north/south/east/west. A textbox in the top left reads "Based on 2,218 recipes categorized by the cuisine (country, region, culture), this graph shows the proportional frequency of the ingredients chicken vs. egg (x-axis) & butter vs. oil (y-axis) mentioned across recipes of each cuisine". Each point and text in the plot indicates where on a scale from chicken (left) to egg (right) and butter (top) to oil (bottom) the cuisine is located. Turkish is found at the very center of the plot, Chinese and Thai in the bottom left (chicken & oil), whereas Austrian/German/Swiss and particularly Scandinavian are in the top right (egg & butter). An arrow points at the top right data point saying "Scandinavian cuisine is a clear outlier". Visualization: C. Börstell; Data: allrecipes.com via {tastyR} & TidyTuesday; Packages: {ggarrow, ggrepel, ggtext, tidyverse}

The 🍗 or the 🍳? #TidyTuesday

Looking at the ingredients of over 2000 recipes online, where are different cuisines found on the chicken vs. egg (x-axis) and butter vs. oil (y-axis) scales?

As a Scandinavian, I guess I'm part of the egg+butter outlier!

Code: github.com/borstell/tid...

#R4DS

By coincidence, this years Parasite Award winner will be guesting the Norwegian #OAWeek2025 collaboration: www.openscience.no/fair-data-fr...

Co-teaching a day of #ResearchDataManagement as part of our @unibergen.bsky.social #SoftwareCarpentry course is definitely one of my favourite course settings. Interactive + engaged learners. Bonus: gathering the learner feedback for the whole course week. Today's material: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Research Parasite Award - Wikipedia

Thanks to @jennyostrop.bsky.social for pointing this one out: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Researc...: "... to recognize scientists who study previously published data in ways not anticipated by the researchers who first generated it" ;)

Program for #nwb2025 is now out - only a few places left! www.nifu.no/nwb2025/prog... @nwb2025.bsky.social

Love to see #PIDs as part of the framework!

Cartoon timeline titled 'Typical Timeline for a Scientific Paper by @redpenblackpen'. Start. Outline. Rough draft. v1. FINAL draft! (all clustered at the left). On top of the timeline: when you thought you'd have it submitted, Original submission deadlin, Original publication deadline. Then a space and 'Preprint? Sure, why not?' '*Really* FINAL DRAFT. (on top of timeline) Project Ends. (underneath timeline) draft_v5_final_reallyfinal_thistimeImeanit.docx. (on top) weeping. gnashing of teeth. (on bottom) Holy crap guys. Then 'what the hell is this?' - pointing to a break in the timeline. Then 'submitted'. (on top) a sign pointing off the end of the timeline into the future "Accepted for Publication. 6 months-10 years"

I won't say this is *every* paper, but I have trouble remembering any that weren't like this

🚨 Registration is open for the 19th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing! 🚨
📅 18 – 20 Nov 2024, Tromsø ❄️
👉 Deadline: 29 Oct
🏨 Book hotels early – limited rooms!
🔗 site.uit.no/muninconf/re...

#MuninConference #OpenScience #Tromsø

NO-RDA Research Data Insider too is starting into a new semester. Tomorrow, August 29th at 9:00, with an update on the European Health Data Space #EHDS: www.rd-alliance.org/groups/rda-n...

@carolinearmitage.bsky.social is first out tomorrow with the webiniar "Making your research visible using researcher profiles" - including tips on how to make your Open Science outputs visible: www.uib.no/en/ub/178459...

Journal hijacking – the story of the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems - University of Oslo Library In early 2023, the editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (SJIS) became aware that a fake clone of the journal had started to operate, tricking authors into paying article processin...

På torsdag er det gratis online seminar (Open Science Lunch) hvor jeg skal snakke om da tidskriftet "vårt" ble kapret og det ble produsert falske artikler i mitt navn. Kom og hør en ekte røverhistorie fra akademia! www.ub.uio.no/english/cour...

Can't wait to update this cartoon in 2030.

CodeRefinery workshop September/October 2025 Free workshop on git, testing, documentation, and more in a workshop - for researchers and scientists.

📣 Registration for the CodeRefinery workshop starting September 9th is still open.

🤝 Dive into Git and other tools for more reproducible research, with setup support and a shell crash course in the mix - designed for researchers, by researchers.

More info: coderefinery.github.io/2025-09-09-w...

Kildekritikk: se på hvordan partiene har stemt i stedet for å kun basere seg på valgkampløfter. Betryggende at resultatet stemmer godt overens med valget mitt.

I know that I shouldn't have a folder on my computer that is the equivalent of a mouldy dumpster, full of random data. But I do 🗑️

5 ECT PhD course in Open and Credible Science. Many hands on sessions on transparent and reproducible science. @dsquintana.bsky.social and I are two of the lecturers. Come and join us in person or online!
www.hiof.no/english/stud...

Det er faktisk det verste jeg har hørt. Skattelette til milliardærer finansiert av flat skatt på folkeopplysning.

Would you like to analyze your data in a smarter way, but need some help to get started? Join our next Software Carpentry @carpentries.carpentries.org course at @unibergen.bsky.social! Sign-up deadline is this Friday, Aug 22nd: www.uib.no/en/ub/178263...

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Omfatter datakilden en oversikt over hvor pengene kommer fra, altså hvor mye bedrifter eller enkeltpersoner bidrar?

Open Science webinars The University Library offers open webinars on the principles of Open Science.

Glad to announce a new round of the popular @unibergen.bsky.social #OpenScience webinars for the autumn semester: www.uib.no/en/ub/172314...

Did you know that you also can invite experts from the library to give a tailored seminar at your department/unit?

Taking advantage of existing research data Building on existing data can inspire new avenues of research and avoids duplication of efforts

Highlighting the potential of building on existing #ResearchData is one of my favorite seminar topics - just scheduled the next @unibergen.bsky.social #OpenScience webinar: www.uib.no/en/ub/178967...

I'm not surprised. Increase of questionable articles on publicly available data written with LLM-assistance: doi.org/10.1038/d415...
Let's hope this undesired dataset exploitation will make more researchers aware of all the interesting data out there - and inspire dataset reuse in sound research!

Registration now open to join us in Bergen for the Nordic Workshop on Bibliometrics and Research Policy in October! www.nifu.no/nwb2025/ #nwb2025 #bibliosky

Software Carpentry course in research computing skills Tired of manually moving files? You want to be able to efficiently analyze data and create fancy plots? You want to learn programming but you do not know where to start? You would like to make your da...

In September, we are hosting another iteration of the Software Carpentry course in Bergen: www.uib.no/en/ub/178263...

If you are a researcher who is looking into an introduction to programming, this is the course for you! The course is over 5 days and we cover: Python, R, Unix, Git, SQL, ++