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Daniel S. Katz
@danielskatz@fediscience.org
mastodon 4.6.9Chief Scientist @ NCSA, Research Professor @ CS & iSchool, @ U Illinois Urbana Champaign
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Works on: computational & data science & engineering #cyberinfrastructure: #software #foss #opensource #systems #tools #policy #practices #scholcomm #FAIR #RSEng #HPC
Orgs: #ReSA, #JOSS_TheOJ, #US_RSE
Also: #fedi22 #photography #birds
(formerly @danielskatz@fosstodon.org)
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A Coneflower Mining Bee on a Yellow Coneflower, Urbana, IL, USA
Given that Google is currently adding to messages to the top of Google Docs/sheets upselling their own services (I opened a sheet today and was asked if I wanted to use Gemini for phone calls, I think), I wonder how long it will be until we get third-party ads embedded there too, maybe specific to the content in the sheet/doc.
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Birds seen in Puerto Rico in mid June: Scaly-breasted Munia (14/x)
#Birds #BirdPhotography #PuertoRico
This made me laugh - Politician reads AI prompt during assembly
The Journal of Open Source Software (@joss@fosstodon.org) turns 10 today!
Ten years, 3,500+ papers, 11,000+ authors, 4000+ reviewers, and a community that built something remarkable together. Thank you to everyone who's reviewed, edited, authored, or cheered us on along the way 💚
A Gray Catbird and American Pokeweed on a cool and misty morning in Champaign, IL, USA
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Birds seen in Puerto Rico in mid June: Venezuelan Troupial (23/23)
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Birds seen in Puerto Rico in mid June: Western Cattle-Egret (20/23)
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Birds seen in Puerto Rico in mid June: Puerto Rican Tody (21/23)
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Yesterday/today might have been my worst work travel experience.
I drove from Champaign to O'Hare, which took 30 minutes longer than normal (2 hrs, 15 min) due to traffic problems caused by very heavy rain and water on the road, which caused severe problems at the airport too.
When I got to O'Hare, my 4 pm flight to Minneapolis was delayed to around 7 pm, along with all other flights, so I changed to the prior flight which was also delayed but only to 6, earlier than my original flight. This flight kept getting pushed back, until it was 8:45 pm, at which time, my original flight had been cancelled.
When we were ready to board around 8:15 pm, we continued being delayed because a flight attendant was missing, and then the captain and co-pilot had been on-duty their max time for the day and couldn't fly. So we were told that a new captain was identified, but wouldn't arrive until 11 pm, but no co-pilot had yet been identified.
Around 11 pm, this second flight was cancelled, and I switched to the last flight for the day, delayed to 12:45 am.
At 12:30 am, this third flight was cancelled.
If I wasn't giving an invited talk this afternoon at the #PEARC26 conference, I would have just driven home and given up on the conference, but since I was, I decided to drive 6 hours to Minneapolis overnight, and I got here about 6:30 this morning.
After a short nap, today I'll give my talk, and then tomorrow, I'll drive the 7 1/2 hours back to Champaign.
Sharing from Bluesky:
Today we're launching the Open Source for Science Fund, a new multi-donor philanthropic fund by Renaissance Philanthropy, seeded by Biohub and Wellcome Trust, with support from the Kavli Foundation and @researchsoft@fosstodon.org
https://os4science.org/news/open-source-for-science-fund-launch/
From imaging the universe to modeling life at the molecular scale, science is built on open source software maintained by scientific communities.
That infrastructure is systemically underfunded and not yet designed for AI-native use.
Our inaugural call, "Open Source for the Life Sciences," is seeking proposals from software maintainers whose work supports data-intensive research and AI-driven discovery in the life sciences.
Two tracks: up to $250K for domain-specific tools, up to $1M for foundational libraries.
If you build the tools science runs on, we want to hear from you. https://os4science.org
It's nice to get a very detailed, clearly human-written review of a paper, even if it means there's potentially a lot to change for the camera-ready version.
I need to keep remembering in my own reviews that I'm writing as much for the author as for the PC chairs and other reviewers.
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Birds seen in Puerto Rico in mid June: Loggerhead Kingbird (22/23)
#Birds #BirdPhotography #PuertoRico
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Birds seen in Puerto Rico in mid June: Puerto Rican Oriole (16/x)
#Birds #BirdPhotography #PuertoRico
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Looking at OpenReview.net, used by AAAI. What a good example of the failings of AI...
I can't update my name to how I prefer it, or to change the email address associated with a submission made by a collegue, as far as I can tell, nor can he.
Also, I see a submission to another conference associated with my record that's not actually mine, but likely a different Daniel Katz. But there's no way to manually make changes that I can find.
At #FOR2026 yesterday, I learned from Carole Goble that
Trust (in another person or organization) can be defined as their:
(Credibility + Reliability + Intimacy) / Self-Orientation
which is from Cathrin Stöver - Chief Communications Officer GÉANT (and in turn, is from Charles H. Green)
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Seen while walking around East Central Illinois on a nice afternoon today: Palm Warbler, Juvenile Bald Eagle, Red Admiral, Eastern Bluebird (2/2)
#Birds #BirdPhotography
I wonder if there are organizations that track the number of internal hits on their retirement webpage as a sign of employee sentiment?
I've had a good few days at #FOR2026 (https://opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-conference/), where I was on a panel, saw a bunch of people I know, and met even more people I didn't know, and then went to the bi-monthly meeting of the Munich RSE #RSEng chapter followed by a nice dinner, and am now ready to go home
Interested in helping out with one of the most innovative, grassroots, publishing efforts around? The Journal of Open Source Software (@joss@fosstodon.org) is looking for editors: https://blog.joss.theoj.org/2025/08/call-for-editors
We conduct collaborative checklist-based peer review of research software using GitHub issues.
JOSS is a positive, rewarding, community-based reviewing/editing effort. I'm happy to answer questions if anyone is interested.
Following the update of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI, https://openscholarlyinfrastructure.org) to v2.0, @joss@fosstodon.org has updated its commitment to the principles in https://blog.joss.theoj.org/2026/07/JOSS-POSI
Spring birds in Champaign, IL, USA today: Bobolink (my first ever), Dickcissel (my first for the year), and a Black Tern (that I saw in the same place 5 years ago at this time of year)
After 10 years, Arfon Smith is stepping down as Editor-in-Chief of @joss@fosstodon.org
A few thoughts from him on the decade: https://www.arfon.org/stepping-down-as-editor-in-chief-of-joss
The call for a new EiC: https://blog.joss.theoj.org/2026/05/call-for-editor-in-chief
It's interesting to me that no one yet (of the first 5 speakers at #FOR2026, a conference on open research) has provided a link to their slides. There's a bunch of interesting things here, but it's hard to follow-up on non-published (non-open?) slides
A new paper:
S. A. Besser, E. A. Jensen, D. S. Katz, "How generative AI is shaping research software development and maintenance at a research-intensive university [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]," Open Research Europe, 2026. https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.22009.1
During #FOR2026, I learned that I should read "Thinking like a business: Reconfiguring relationships to sustain open data infrastructures" by Kathleen Gregory and Dorothea Strecker (https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27580), which takes a political economy-based look at Dryad
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@khinsen @k9ox I mostly agree with your framing.
I went to a reproducibility workshop about 9 years ago (https://www.mrsec.harvard.edu/2017NSFReliability/cw/report.php) that had a bunch of examples where the lack of reproducibility of results led to new scientific understanding.
RE: @researchsoft@fosstodon.org
If you are interested in any aspect of #ResearchSoftware, including #RSEng, #funding, #publishing, #training, #metascience, #policy, etc., please consider submitting a proposal to and/or attending #IRSC26 (immediately before #RSECon26 in Sheffield, UK, in Sept). We're trying to bring all elements of the #ResearchSoftware community together
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@cameronneylon@hcommons.social Yes, thanks - I'm happy to be home now. I hope you are also safely back
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@cameronneylon@hcommons.social I'll be at the first two of those - see you in a week or so
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@chartgerink@akademienl.social Ok, thanks - My submission got moved to be part of a panel, so I don't get to present slides (and didn't get the slide instructions). But in any case, it would be useful to have these while the speakers are presenting, rather than having to try to take pictures of the screen before the speaker moves on to the next slide, or having to remember what was interesting to follow-up on. I don't see any reason that speakers couldn't do the upload to zenodo before they speak and provide the link to their slides on the first/last slide at least.
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I hope to see some of you at this event
Are there any Canadian institutions interested in research software within the Impact+ advanced digital technologies area?
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