I'm looking forward to an interesting debate tonight - I'll be making the case for the role of the University in an #OpenScience world :)
07.10.2025 14:48 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0I'm looking forward to an interesting debate tonight - I'll be making the case for the role of the University in an #OpenScience world :)
07.10.2025 14:48 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0It's been awhile since my Uni Debate Club days, so looking forward to being given a run for my money 😅
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Had the privilege of sitting down with the legend, John Willinsky at @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social, in Oxford to interview him for this.👇🏾 It was inspiring to hear the story of the enigma behind the man and the founding of @pkp.sfu.ca. Listen here 👂🏽🔉
#Community #ScholarlyCommunication
Two massive influencers in the menopause space, Dr. Haver, MD, and Dr. Sims, PhD, market turmeric supplements. I looked at their supporting science. Holy shit it’s bad. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...
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🎉 Congratulations to our Citizen Science Lab colleagues (@mobilemaggie.bsky.social, @anoukspelt.bsky.social, Jordy Janssen) at @unileiden.bsky.social for being part of 1 of 5 #CitizenScience hubs funded by @opensciencenl.bsky.social!
More info about the Hub for Impactful & Engaged Research (HIER).👇
"while it is one thing to disagree with the political views of a business leader, it is another to be mortally afraid of his products. In the Tesla Files, we found thousands of examples of why such fear may be justified"
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
For everyone at the #CS4Water conference asking me about the #OECD #CitizenScience Position Paper, there's a nice blog summary here: www.oecd.org/en/blogs/202... and the full report here: www.oecd.org/content/dam/...
04.06.2025 11:52 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Shout out to the founders of the #CitizenScience Lab at @unileiden.bsky.social on the occasion of our 450 Jubileum: top450.universiteitleiden.nl/en/items/cit... Do send some love their way!!
20.05.2025 15:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A new David Attenborough documentary is always an event, but I think that Ocean really is something innovative and different. I've seen some clips, and it tells a critical & unseen story (plus spectacular photography, of course). It'll be in cinemas from May 8th. Do go!
www.oceanfilm.net/
Wij zijn goed up gang met #ExpeditieStadsNatuurLeiden als je in #Leiden bent tel maar mee!! waarneming.nl/bioblitz/174...
25.04.2025 16:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It was a pleasure to host the @scivil.bsky.social team in Leiden and to go bee-spotting together during the #Bijentelling. We look forward to strengthening our Dutch-Flemish #CitizenScience partnership further!! @citizenscience.nl
23.04.2025 11:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ode aan de doe-het-zelvers van de wetenschap
www.mareonline.nl/wetenschap/o... in @mareonline.nl
So very hyped that @nature.com made a video about our study on microplastic in caddisfly casings! 😱🎥
Watch it preferably next to a creek... some of them might want to tune in too. 🍿🐛
Lead author Auke-Florian Hiemstra holds the oldest known caddisfly casing containing microplastic, dating to 1971. Photo: Liselotte Rambonnet.
A caddisfly casing with pieces of blue microplastic, dating 1986. Photo: Auke-Florian Hiemstra
NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀
Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯
A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
🚀🚀
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“As a child, I did not know how special libraries were—I thought it was just how society worked—I thought there always were and always would be public libraries.” Brewster Kahle Digital librarian, Internet Archive
This #NationalLibraryWeek, we're celebrating the power of libraries to endure—even in the face of unprecedented challenges.
In our latest Vanishing Culture essay, @brewster.kahle.org shares why preserving the library system matters now more than ever: blog.archive.org/2025/04/07/v...
Thank you to @juurd.bsky.social & @nrcnl.bsky.social for this interview about the @archive.org with @brewster.kahle.org "In history, libraries usually have not ended well. They are often destroyed by powerful institutions. It used to be the church and the state, now it's governments and companies."
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"How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To"
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-era-digital-expat/
"Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with #Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's […]
🚨 What happens if the Internet Archive goes dark?
From KQED's new podcast, Close All Tabs, digital librarian Brewster Kahle talks about the challenges of preserving digital history, and why the Internet Archive’s mission matters more than ever.
🎧 Listen now ⤵️
www.kqed.org/news/1203198...
Thanks! We get to do a properly co-creative path with Leiden residents in one of them!!
14.03.2025 18:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Woohoo! The Citizen Science Lab has two of the 60 innovative projects funded by NWO this round. www.nwo.nl/en/news/fund... #citizenscience
14.03.2025 16:25 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Really sad to report that our friend and colleague Richard Fortey passed away this morning after a short battle with cancer. We’ll all miss his wit and wisdom. Here he is checking out a dino footprint we found while filming together on the Isle of Wight
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#StandUpForScience #ScienceForAll #ScienceNotSilence
With @anoukspelt.bsky.social from the Netherlands.
@standupforscience.bsky.social
IMPORTANT:
Read Brent Toderian
NEVER listen to Trump
This one, from Fellowship of the Ring:
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
Three photos are shown. A) The Rokin nest, a colourful plastic-filled nest inside a metal pipe. B) The Eurasian coots swimming side by side through the Rokin canal, Amsterdam C) A whole list of vintage plastics ranging from 2022-1991. Photos: Auke-Florian Hiemstra
JUST OUT! 🚨 Time capsule birds' nests! 🪹
I'm proud to share our discovery of layers of vintage plastic in urban birds’ nests... going back decades in time! 👀
“You flip through these nests like through pages of a history book, uncovering the past.” 📚
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
#scicomm 🧪🪶
The work of the @archive.org is becoming increasingly vital (see: flowingdata.com/2025/02/05/d... for example). You can support their work here: archive.org/donate
16.02.2025 09:11 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0That point when you're yawning so loud you sound like a wookie ..
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🧐 Any questions about the final #IMPETUS4CS call for #CitizenScience?
👉 Join us the next explainer webinar and do not miss the opportunity to apply for the call!
🗳️ Europe's cities are giving people a direct say in policies that shape their lives.
🌍 The @citiobs.bsky.social project, involving Eurocities, empowers communities to monitor issues like air & noise pollution and urban heat - turning citizen data into action.
Learn more 👉 citiobs.eu
#100DaysEU