This Europe day one has to admit that while far from perfect, looking at the rest of the world, the EU seems pretty good. Happy to be able to say "Civis Europaeus sum".
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Luke Drury
@Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie
mastodon 4.7.3Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics in DIAS, member and former president of the Royal Irish Academy, former VP of ALLEA. Interested in open science and the future of scholarly communication. All views expressed here are personal. Languages are English, German and some French.
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RE: @asiny@mstdn.ca
Helium is an incredibly valuable resource that we manage very badly. Although the second most abundant element in the universe, on Earth it only occurs trapped in rocks as a result of alpha decay of radioactive elements. Once it enters the atmosphere it is so light that it diffuses out into space and is lost. We need to conserve it as much as possible.
I do wish the media would stop talking about the cost of energy when what they really mean is the cost of fossil fuel energy. Renewables are and remain cheap.
Lesson learnt — turning a research paper into a talk is easy, but the reverse, turning a talk into a research paper, is much harder and almost impossible!
An unintended but positive side effect of the rise of AI and LLMs is that it may accelerate the long overdue reform of research assessment. If the "journals" are flooded with slop academia will be forced to take DORA seriously.
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@knud@mastodon.social Excellent news. Although it always struck me how little wind there was in Heidelberg compared to Ireland!
RE: @kim_harding@mastodon.scot
Interesting! This should be possible in Ireland.
Sad to hear of the death of the mathematician David Wilkins from TCD - he did interesting work on the history of mathematics and was a talented amateur musician.
Is it conceivable that printed books and encyclopaedias from before AI may become quite sought after and valuable as reliable sources of information in the near future?
The presidents of Germany and Ireland agree - the war in the middle east is illegal.
https://www.tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveblog-iran-dienstag-102.html
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@LudoWaltman @stephenpinfield @cwts @RoRInstitute @ASAPbio An under-appreciated factor in the early adoption of preprints by the physical and mathematical sciences was I believe the introduction of TeX for typesetting the mathematics in preprints. Once scientists realised that they could do their own typesetting the journals lost one of their main selling points.
https://council.science/publications/normalization-preprints/
#Preprints #OpenScience
Good thread showing why the global cloud is basically what economists call a natural monopoly.
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@natural20@mastodon.ie @bert_hubert@fosstodon.org the expert here is @dwmalone@mastodon.ie - I had a weird problem with the time stamps on emails in the apple mail client which turned out to be due to this issue with official Irish time being summer time!
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@mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz @johannes_lehmann@fediscience.org The tide has most definitely turned and a clear consensus is forming - see commentary by @brembs@mastodon.social and myself on the International Science Council blog https://council.science/current/blog/the-open-access-rising-tide-gates-foundation-ends-support-to-article-processing-charges/
Open science friends and colleagues, please follow the Federation of European Academies of Sciences and Humanities (European to be interpreted broadly as in membership of the Council of Europe - more than the EU).
#OpenScience #SciencePolicy #ResearchIntegrity #IntellectualProperty #ScienceEducation
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@hfalcke @LudoWaltman @stephenpinfield @cwts @RoRInstitute @ASAPbio This data is from 2017, but even then astronomy papers using ESO data were being posted on the arXiv well over 90% of the time and I doubt that it has dropped since.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.03366
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@LudoWaltman @hfalcke @stephenpinfield @cwts @RoRInstitute @ASAPbio Fascinating! and would seem to support my suggestion of a correlation with the use of TeX/LaTeX?
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@hfalcke @LudoWaltman @stephenpinfield @cwts @RoRInstitute @ASAPbio It is certainly much higher in astrophysics and theoretical physics, but people working in material science for example do not have the same preprint culture - there are many different branches of physics with different traditions and norms.
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@msh@post.lurk.org @TeamMidwest@glammr.us @DIAS_Dublin@mastodon.dias.ie Agree about @DIAS_Dublin@mastodon.dias.ie of course! Check out @NdeFaoite@mastodon.ie for instance. The Royal Irish Academy library is also worth a visit. Not so much a library as an art institute the Chester Beatty library is fascinating if you like Asian art and manuscripts.
Taking the turkey out of the oven yesterday!
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@ASAPbio Astonishing how many people still think that posting a preprint risks being “scooped”. In reality it’s just the opposite; preprints are time stamped, public and citable, whereas in the traditional route a malicious referee can scoop you.
This is a persuasive and insightful analysis of the disaster that is British politics at the moment. Thanks @Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-britain-the-ungoverned-country/