Corran

A graph showing the amount of energy generated by different means from 2000 to 2025 with solar energy surpassing coal and natural gas in 2023-2024.

From @science.org Breakthrough of the Year: Solar Energy

Citations needed

A large (maybe 3 feet wide by 5 feet tall) sign on the end of a row of bookshelves that tells the “address” of books that have sensitive content.

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

Burns me up that we have to keep saying this to #AcademicSky #ScienceSky #Polisky #SciSky and anyone else who will listen: We are along way from a truly equitable scientific enterprise. Full stop. Dr. Armenteras nails it. tinyurl.com/4y8yt3nx

@yourparty.scot A wee branding idea of mine for the Scottish branch, in this example using a Your Party red RGB(216,81,75) and the Holiday School Font

The 2025 Catalyst Grant is now live. Our theme this year, Data Visualization, relates to any technique that helps automate the way people interrogate, interpret and act on research-related data. If you have an idea, or an early prototype, we want to hear about it.

Please share!

Who's writing about interface design from first principles? I'm looking for designers who blog about going beyond just making things look good and explore interaction logic and the conceptual model behind UI.

This sounds great! The link here seems to be broken, but the one shared in the step-up post works www.tickettailor.com/events/stepu...

"Elsevier’s median pay gap for 2024 is 32.8%, maintaining its position as worst performer among peers over all eight years of mandatory reporting, and tracking only a slight improvement of seven percentage points over time. "

"Every science publisher pays men more than women. In 2024, the lowest median pay gap favouring men was 9.5% (Springer-Nature), followed by Sage (13.3%), Wiley (17.7%), and Informa (formerly Taylor & Francis) (22.7%)."

Generative AI runs on gambling addiction — just one more prompt, bro! You’ll have noticed how previously normal people start acting like addicts to their favourite generative AI and shouting at you like you’re trying to take their cocaine away. Matthias D…

Generative AI runs on gambling addiction — just one more prompt, bro!

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Does ChatGPT help with students' learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking? We re-analyzed a recently published meta-analysis and found that the original conclusion is almost entirely driven by publication bias.

Thats an amazing coverage of issues. Great to hear there was a good response from the students.

How I'm (mostly) beating ChatGPT in my Quant 2 MA course:

1. online videos lectures - no textbook or in-person lectures
2. open-handwritten note quiz to start class
3. group work: replicating results from readings, assisted by lecture notes videos given out after quiz
4. final: Replication Games
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Back in early march I was lucky enough to share the #fossbackstage stage with Christoph (github.com/GBKS) of bitcoin.design to speak about contributing to the opendesign.guide

#opensource #oss #opensourcedesign #designersinfoss #foss #floss #usercentereddesign #design

⏳ 2 weeks to go! ⏳
Don’t miss the #ENVRIHubNEXT & @eosc-everse.bsky.social webinar:
🛠️ Research Software Quality Assessment
📅 21 May | 11:00 CEST
🔗 go.egi.eu/qblxA

Key details:
First hour: Open to all!
Hands-on session: Limited seats 🪑
GitLab CI pipelines + expert trainers

Amazing, that seems reasonable, thanks for all the info. I'm very interested so Ill give daniel a message on worthy areas of work.

Funding for Open-Source Development to Advance OSF Integrations The Center for Open Science (COS) is seeking proposals for open-source development projects that will improve usability, interoperability, and research workflows on the Open Science Framework (OSF)—a free, open-source platform maintained by COS to support researchers throughout the entire research lifecycle.

🛠️ Calling all open source developers!

COS is looking to fund small dev projects that help improve the Open Science Framework (OSF).

Python, Django, Angular.js devs—this one’s for you.

Proposals due: May 14th, 2025.

🔗 http://cos.io/pose

#DevGrants #OpenSource #OpenScience

The availability of funding for this is fantastic.

Just to give a rough idea of the funding available and the number of work hours that could be funded in any area of contribution, are you able to give any examples of acceptable indicative costs?

The movies have trained us to think of criminals as smart and refined but the Tech Bosses are instead so brazenly dumb that it feels almost unreal to watch.

How could any researcher think that an LLM would be an appropriate tool to *peer* review a paper? As Carl says in the great 🧵, the very things that the author wants to short cut are the most valuable to the process and LLMs do not have the ability to do them

Quick #oss #design #ossdesign poll

Do open source design tools that aim to 'empower' developers in the design processes give you the confidence that those tools are not angling to replace human designers with automated and software based design assertions?

This sounds like a great role! Any chance I could send you a dm with a couple questions about it? 🙂

It seems like a lot of people still opt to use Mastodon more than or rather than Bluesky so Id love to be able to follow some mutuals and get started over there too.

You can find me at @CorranMcCallum@mastodon.social 🙂

Dear #OpenSource folks, I'd like to offer #UX help to your teams. I've tried "making a small PR" on projects and it turns out that's TERRIBLE advice for a UX designer. The PR is usually misunderstood or ignored. I don't fault the teams for this! It's just the wrong tool for the job.

Re-upping this, as I would keen to develop something on AI empathy & construct validity with someone who is interested in the nexus between AI and empathy research. Deadline is April 10
#psychscisky #socialpsychology
@affectscience.bsky.social
@spspnews.bsky.social
@psychscience.bsky.social

Thanks for sharing @caitlin91.bsky.social @mikemorrison.bsky.social 🙂. Ill hopefully have a proper live demo site to share soon

Looking for entry level research based roles in metascience and scholarly data processing available for UK citizens. Me: First Class BSc in Environmental Science, experience scraping and processing academic data, finetuning models for scholarly tasks and working with academic data apis. #MetaScience

Cosmik looks amazing and just what I was thinking! Ive joined the waitlist