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Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca · 9d

JOB OPPORTUNITY: @pkp.sfu.ca is looking for a Managing Director! This is a rare opportunity to lead a highly impactful #scholcomm organization. Role works closely with me (Scientific Director) to provide strategic and operational leadership. Help us spread the word!

pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...

PKP is hiring a Managing Director - Public Knowledge Project

The Public Knowledge Project, a Core Research Facility of SFU, invites applications for the position of Managing Director

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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 17d

📣We're hosting a rainbowR conference, to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the #RStats community and to showcase examples of working with LGBTQ+ data 🌈🎉 To help us plan, if you'd be interested in attending or speaking, please fill in this very short form (1-2 mins) docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tx0...

Interested in a rainbowR Conference?

rainbowR (https://rainbowr.org) is hosting a virtual conference (tentative date: February 26, 2026). The aim of the conference is to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the R community, and to showca...

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Rede Brasileira de Reprodutibilidade @redebrrepro.bsky.social · 28d

Agora, nós contamos com quatro conselheiros externos que nos ajudarão a pensar o futuro da Rede! Brasileiros, mas morando em quatro países diferentes, eles vão trabalhar conosco em encontros semestrais e pensar novas estratégias e atuações para nossa comunidade!

#reprodutibilidade #ciênciaaberta

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Simon Fraser University @sfu.ca · 23d

Canada’s fastest academic supercomputer, Fir, is now online at SFU! As the only Canadian system ranked in the world’s top 100, it powers data-intensive computational tasks nationwide, all while protecting the country's data and running on clean energy.

Canada’s fastest academic supercomputer is now online at SFU after $80m upgrades

Simon Fraser University’s Burnaby campus is once again home to Canada’s most powerful academic supercomputer, following the installation of a new system, named Fir. The new Fir system replaces the Ced...

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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · Aug 15

The @force11.bsky.social team is organizing a PREreview Club to review #metascience #preprints.

They are currently looking for participants to commit at various levels to help start up the club.

If that sounds like something you'd be interested in, read more: force11.org/post/organiz...

Organizing a FORCE11 PREreview Club – FORCE11

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Gracielle Higino @gracielle.science · Aug 13

Ooohhh I suspected that would be the case!

I'll ALLOW DEPRECATION

a woman says " tell me everything 's gonna be okay " while looking at the camera

ALT: a woman says " tell me everything 's gonna be okay " while looking at the camera

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Le Neuro (Institut-Hôpital neurologique de Montréal) @theneuro.bsky.social · Jul 29

The Open Science in Action Symposium is happening on Oct 29 2025, at the @ucalgary.bsky.social. Hosted by the @hotchkissbrain.bsky.social, we’re thrilled to see proof of its growing national impact and relevance to advance practical #OpenScience in #neuroscience. www.tickettailor.com/events/hotch...

7th Annual Neuro Open Science in Action Symposium 2025

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Gracielle Higino @gracielle.science · Aug 8

Yes, that's what I'm referring to! I underestimated how attached I am to case_match 😂

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Ethan White @ethanwhite.weecology.org · Aug 8

Interested in helping out with one of the most innovative, grassroots, publishing efforts around? The Journal of Open Source Software (@joss-openjournals.bsky.social) is looking for editors. We conduct collaborative checklist-based peer review of research software using GitHub issues.

Call for editors | Journal of Open Source Software Blog

Blog for the Journal of Open Source Software • <a href='https://joss.theoj.org'>https://joss.theoj.org</a>

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Gracielle Higino @gracielle.science · Aug 8

Ooohhh 👀
At first I was like “I’m not attached to functions!”
But I’m not a fan of how the ‘from’ and ‘to’ arguments are designed. I think it’ll be more complex to write the relationships between the two by hand.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Aug 2

free drag name idea for a scientist: Phil Trans

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · Jul 28

🧪 What if we could share genetic sequences in a way that is equitable, and works for the greater good?

Now in @natgenet.nature.com, we establish a framework for the open sharing of digital sequence information 🧬, compatible with FAIR, and designed to support access and benefit-sharing. 🧵

The LISTEN principles for genetic sequence data governance and database engineering - Nature Genetics

This Perspective proposes a checklist of six database design considerations, LISTEN: licensed, identified, supervised, transparent, enforced and non-exclusive, aimed at ensuring access and benefit-sha...

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Open Science Office Hours @osoh-neuro.bsky.social · Jul 16

🗣️Help us plan our upcoming events!
✍️Complete this short online survey
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🏆Enter the draw to win one of two $50 gift cards. (Available only for people based in Canada)
👋We look forward to hearing from you!

OSOH Annual Feedback Survey

Thank you for being part of the Open Science Office Hours (OSOH) community this past year. Your insights will help us refine our events, resources, and outreach so they serve trainees even better in 2...

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Gracielle Higino @gracielle.science · Jul 21

@monsauce.bsky.social

Gracielle Higino @gracielle.science · Jul 16

I’m telling you, just call Reinecken rn

That’s the friendship we need.

Gracielle Higino @gracielle.science · Jul 16

Ok but… Does your husband vacuums every night?!

Your husband and mine are definitely meant to be best friends!

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David Keyes @dgkeyes.com · Jul 14

I'm doing my biannual donations from R for the Rest of Us to support organizations fighting for social justice (rfortherestofus.com/1percent). I'd like to support those impacted by ICE raids. Anyone have recommendations for organizations to donate to?

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · Jul 3

🧪 New paper: how can we turn decades of work to quantify the structure of species interaction networks into something relevant for biodiversity monitoring and management? @gabdans.bsky.social lays out the roadmap in a new paper in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Overcoming the disconnect between species interaction networks and biodiversity conservation

Decision-makers need to act now to halt biodiversity loss, and ecologists must provide them with relevant species interaction indicators to inform abo…

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Gracielle Higino @gracielle.science · Jul 3

“Do I really trust my checklist?” 😂 that’s me and my husband every single second until it’s too late to even bother.

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Gracielle Higino @gracielle.science · Jul 3

That's huge! I might FINALLY COME to this! GAWD

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · Jun 26

New paper from the lab: how do we make probabilistic species interaction networks more useful and robust? @francisbanville.bsky.social has some thoughts, and went through the literature to map mathematical definitions to ecological concepts.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Deciphering Probabilistic Species Interaction Networks

We review how probabilistic species interactions are defined at different spatial scales. These definitions are based on the distinction between the realisation of an interaction at a specific time a....

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Gracielle Higino @gracielle.science · Jun 25

AMG

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Gracielle Higino @gracielle.science · Jun 25

AAAHHH MEU CORASSAUUMMM 😍😍😍
Meu sonho cortar curtinho assim e ficar gata igual tu

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dame @dame.is · Jun 8

New web app ✨

It’s hard to understand the impact of personal AI usage on water & energy consumption, so I made an interactive + visual conversion tool! 🧮

See how many ChatGPT queries you could make for 1 hamburger.

🤖 🟰 🍔

My goal was to help people make informed decisions. Try it: context.supply

AI Water & Energy Converter | context.supply

Compare AI's environmental impact to everyday things for greater clarity

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Gracielle Higino @gracielle.science · Jun 13

Não trate como Tech Won’t Save Us quem te trata como Braincast. Feliz dia dos namorados.