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Tending the commons 🌱 open source + open science at CZI • naturalist 🐦 • he/him • mugshot by Ian Mulvany • Q21562060 Trying to rebuild a home here and prepare for the winter. nitens.org czi.co/OpenScience instagram.com/dariobirds .. more

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Dario Taraborelli @dartar.bsky.social · Dec 4

Hello, world! 👋

For folks who don't know me: I am a recovering behavioral x computational scientist who spent 15 years or so working on initiatives to accelerate the adoption of open practices in science. This STAT piece is a good summary of some of our recent work (thanks @joshmoore.bsky.social!)

Josh Moore @joshmoore.bsky.social · Dec 4

"Scientists collaborate — funders must, too"

@dartar.bsky.social & @k8hert.bsky.social

www.statnews.com/sponsor/2024...

New report highlights the scientific impact of open source software

Two of the scientists who won this year’s Nobel Prize for cracking the code of proteins’ intricate structures relied, in part, on a series of computing

www.statnews.com

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San Francisco QuakeBot @earthquakebotsf.bsky.social · 17d

M 4.6 - 2 km ESE of Berkeley, CA Link: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75240492

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75240492

earthquake.usgs.gov

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Dario Taraborelli @dartar.bsky.social · 17d

God that was a big one. #quake

Reposted by Shelia R. Cotten, Dario Taraborelli

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Feb 3

The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive.

Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!

CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025
by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Topics cdc, government, united states, dataset, archive
Language English
Item Size 98.5G
An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.

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Dario Taraborelli @dartar.bsky.social · May 24

You spell Sicilian food like a local 💯

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Dario Taraborelli @dartar.bsky.social · May 8

Fun to see my photo of this extraordinary mountain chicken from Peru featured on iNat 😍

iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · May 8

This spectacular little bird was ID'd as a subspecies of tinamou: Nothoprocta pentlandii niethammeri. And currently, this is the only observation of the subspecies on iNaturalist!

📷 radrat on iNaturalist
📍 Peru
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay

A brown, black, and cream colored bird. It has a mid-length, slightly curved beak and what looks like a little fan of feathers on its head.

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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · May 8

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Tiziano Piccardi @tiziano.bsky.social · Mar 16

New funding opportunity for Wikimedia-related research! Grants up to $150K available. Apply by April 16th:
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:...

Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Research & Technology Fund/Wikimedia Research Fund - Meta

meta.wikimedia.org

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Dario Taraborelli @dartar.bsky.social · Mar 11

No, this is a new, independent non-profit organization with expanded leadership, a governing board, and funding. The servers are now run by this organization but they continue to operate with the same brand and nothing is changing for authors or readers. See the FAQs see: openrxiv.org/about/

Dario Taraborelli @dartar.bsky.social · Mar 11

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Preprint sites bioRxiv and medRxiv launch new era of independence

www.nature.com

Dario Taraborelli @dartar.bsky.social · Mar 11

We did a thing

openRxiv @openrxiv.bsky.social · Mar 11

openRxiv has arrived!

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences.
openrxiv.org/introducing-...

#openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Mar 11

Today marks the beginning of OpenRxiv, which replaces bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world's largest preprint platform for life and medical science
openrxiv.org/introducing-...
@openrxiv.bsky.social

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · Mar 11

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

Homepage - openRxiv

openRxiv is an independent non-profit, the new organizational home for bioRxiv and medRxiv, enabling researchers to instantly share groundbreaking findings with the global scientific community.

openrxiv.org

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openRxiv @openrxiv.bsky.social · Mar 11

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Ashley Farley @openaccessmaven.bsky.social · Mar 4

I wish there was a citation for this stat - this is mind blowing to me - "Already, a mere 10 percent of reviewers are responsible for 50 percent of all reviews." Not only is this not sustainable but has to lead to a very narrow perspective on the research. Wow.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · Mar 1

18F is *precisely* what Musk and team claim should exist within government. But when his team found it, they destroyed it, because it is evidence that government works well (can’t have that!), and because like Zelensky, 18F didn’t bend the knee.

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · Mar 1

18F, a digital services unit inside the General Services Administration, has been completely laid off, according to an email I’ve seen. The email says that 18F was deemed “non-critical” and the decision was made with the “explicit” direction of the administration and GSA leadership.

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Dario Taraborelli @dartar.bsky.social · Feb 27

💯

Reposted by Nathan Nunn, Karin Wahl‐Jorgensen, Dario Taraborelli

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · Feb 26

JFC. The US Economic Policy Uncertainty Index is at its highest level since 2000, higher than during the Financial Crisis, higher than during COVID

The US Economic Policy Uncertainty Index is at its highest level ever recorded, higher than during the Financial Crisis, higher than during COVID

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Dario Taraborelli @dartar.bsky.social · Feb 25

Same genus as this Diaphania from Colombia? www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Genus Diaphania

Diaphania from Pueblo Rico, Pueblo Rico, Risaralda, CO on December 27, 2022 at 08:07 PM by Dario Taraborelli

www.inaturalist.org

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Dario Taraborelli @dartar.bsky.social · Feb 17

This hit so hard today.

These are jobs the private sector just can’t replace, these are people whose intimate knowledge of places and ecosystems, accumulated through years and years of service, just can’t be rebuilt. We’re collectively losing so much when they’re gone.

Shah Selbe @shahselbe.bsky.social · Feb 17

The stories of Park Rangers that lost their dream jobs are heartbreaking. This administration is so full of incompetence and cruelty that it almost feels not real. The damage to this country and its institutions is already irreversible, even if we start doing everything correctly from tomorrow.

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Shah Selbe @shahselbe.bsky.social · Feb 17

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Tiago Lubiana @tiagolubiana.bsky.social · Feb 11

Great day today: uploading Data on Commons for one of the most iconic books in @biodivlibrary.bsky.social :

The Birds of America!
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor...

+ a selection of nice birds

1/7 - green dots show images with species reconciled to Wikidata (via Flickr tags)

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Dario Taraborelli @dartar.bsky.social · Feb 8

Southern Crag-Martin (Ptyonoprogne fuligula fuligula). Western Cape, South Africa

Dario Taraborelli @dartar.bsky.social · Feb 8

Duolingo right now:

A screenshot from Duolingo asking to translate the sentence “the government caused some crises”

Reposted by Scott F. Kiesling, Dario Taraborelli

JAMES HEATHERS @jamesheathers.bsky.social · Feb 8

I have a piece half-done on the entire world of indirect costs. It's too big an endeavor to finish now, in the middle of the night, when this problem *that was always a live grenade with a half-pulled pin* is suddenly a topic du jour. Shit of a thing.

Here are some highlights.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 8

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD

grants.nih.gov

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SciScore @sciscore.com · Feb 4

SciScore and @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social Launch New Key Resource Tables for Preprints, Pioneering a New Era of Reproducibility and Transparency in Life Science Research world.einnews.com/article/7829... cc @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social

SciScore and bioRxiv Launch New Key Resource Tables for Preprints, Pioneering New Era of Reproducibility & Transparency

Surfacing reagents and resources

world.einnews.com

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Dario Taraborelli @dartar.bsky.social · Feb 4

Stunning

Dario Taraborelli @dartar.bsky.social · Feb 4

Orange-breasted Sunbird (Anthobaphes violacea)

Dario Taraborelli @dartar.bsky.social · Feb 4

Malachite Sunbird (Nectarinia famosa)