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Kathryn Weber-Boer

@kowb.bsky.social

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Enjoys digging into data about science, a good principled argument, and human dignity. Super annoyed by disinformation and anything that hurts researchers or knowledge. Sometime archaeologist (I like animal bones...)

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1h

Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life

Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life

Plant inventories dating back to 1884 and nearly thrown away enable unique time-lapse study of biodiversity in Swiss meadows

www.theguardian.com

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Digital Science @digital-science.com · 18h

Digital Science CEO Dr Daniel Hook @dwh.bsky.social says: “We’re excited to see Professor Wang leveraging both Dimensions and Altmetric to deliver a high-quality “multifaceted impact analysis framework”.

@dimensions.ai @altmetric.com

4/10

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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 7d

Can we just admire Jane Fonda, please? She is a true patriot, inspiration, and role model.

"When I feel scared, I look to history. I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers — but there never has been. The only thing that has ever worked — time and time again — is solidarity."

Text from the Variety article on the sub quoted piece:

In a letter inviting her peers to join the re-established group, Fonda writes: "I'm 87 years old. I've seen war, repression, protest, and backlash. I've been celebrated, and I've been branded an enemy of the state. But I can tell you this: this is the most frightening moment of my life. When I feel scared, I look to history. I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers — but there never has been. The only thing that has ever worked — time and time again — is solidarity: binding together, finding bravery in numbers too big to ignore, and standing up for one another."

Kathryn Weber-Boer @kowb.bsky.social · 7d

I know... so sad. I had hoped the first post I saw was fake 😔

Kathryn Weber-Boer @kowb.bsky.social · 7d

RIP Jane Goodall 😔

Kathryn Weber-Boer @kowb.bsky.social · 7d

Mine is subject-meets-quality organized.

Kathryn Weber-Boer @kowb.bsky.social · 7d

Blergh

Kathryn Weber-Boer @kowb.bsky.social · 7d

Tell me that was the AI session I missed.

Kathryn Weber-Boer @kowb.bsky.social · 7d

Same! My phone is also behaving SO slowly. But yes, pages taking forever to load, links not working...

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Andy Tattersall @andytattersall.bsky.social · 7d

There's still a couple of hours left if you have a free hour this lunch time to come and hear how we're doing research communications and knowledge mobilisation differently as part of a piece of @nihr.bsky.social funded work with our @know-ph.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thinking-l...

Thinking Long Term - Creating Sustainable Knowledge Mobilisation Outputs

In this webinar, we’ll share how the KNOW-PH team has tried to approach how we collaborate, communicate and share outputs differently.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

Kathryn Weber-Boer @kowb.bsky.social · 10d

To answer my own question: by including links in the metadata?

Kathryn Weber-Boer @kowb.bsky.social · 10d

But how do you track these distinct events without a unique identifier?

Kathryn Weber-Boer @kowb.bsky.social · 10d

I feel I should cite @carolegoble.bsky.social, @evomri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy (because isn't this also a bit about nano-publications?), and Michael Goedike on that last post 😅

Kathryn Weber-Boer @kowb.bsky.social · 10d

I've been learning a lot recently about object bundles (RO-Crates, RDM Containers, etc), and perhaps we need to start thinking of even the textual output as an assembly of recordable documents? It's conceptually satisfying, and a "top-level" identifier could be interesting.

Kathryn Weber-Boer @kowb.bsky.social · 10d

That said, there are a lot of stakeholders with widely varying data literacy, and given the confusion around things like patent families or dataset versioning, I think it's important to consider the other work this might oblige us to do. 3/3

Kathryn Weber-Boer @kowb.bsky.social · 10d

What makes this (or the datasets question) different is that the same form of identifier--DOI--would be multiple. In principle, I think this is a manageable challenge, as long as "we" adjust our expectations of the data and keep clean metadata linking related IDs (or ID packages). 2/n

Kathryn Weber-Boer @kowb.bsky.social · 10d

I was thinking about this with datasets a week ago (with no conclusion reached in my own mind there either): *is* there an existential problem with multiple identifiers pointing to the same object? In many ways, we already do this (Dimensions, PubMed, Crossref/DataCite all have unique IDs). 1/n

Kathryn Weber-Boer @kowb.bsky.social · 10d

🤔 musing here, so it's just a thought, but... if the publication is edited/revised in light of reviewer/editor comments, and hosted on MetaROR, then it would be appropriate to register a new DOI? (with metadata indicating the preprint DOI registered on preprint server, of course!)

Kathryn Weber-Boer @kowb.bsky.social · 11d

Well... probably not all of them are entirely fake. That's *sort of* what the research suggested...

Kathryn Weber-Boer @kowb.bsky.social · 11d

I don't think there's a need to mint a new DOI in MetaROR. The enrichment is seen in the appearance of the new DOIs associated with the reviews and editorial comment. Those presumably link to the original preprint in their metadata, right?

Not all publications of type 'article' are peer reviewed.

Kathryn Weber-Boer @kowb.bsky.social · 14d

Will Google require me to log in again once I wait for the pending files to finish downloading so I can check which file number I was on? (Because counting tells me I was at 52, which I'm pretty sure is wrong.)

Absolutely.

Kathryn Weber-Boer @kowb.bsky.social · 14d

I have a proposal for a new diagnostic technique for ADHD (can also be used to measure effectiveness of medication and non-pharmaceutical interventions): Google Photos takeout with 63 files of 2 GB each.

Is it physically painful? Yes.
At what number did I interrupt the process? 47... I think 🤔

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Maëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · 15d

"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭

anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...

How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog

“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!)  and I like working with ...

anniemueller.com

Kathryn Weber-Boer @kowb.bsky.social · 15d

Ooooh, new infographics!

Joseph Kerski @josephkerski.bsky.social · 15d

spatialreserves.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/i... Innovative use of infographics on a #gis #data portal.

Innovative use of infographics on a data portal

The Washington County, Wisconsin USA GIS team ( has, using Esri Business Analyst, created an amazing set of resources so that their staff and communities can visualize situations and patterns and m…

spatialreserves.wordpress.com

Kathryn Weber-Boer @kowb.bsky.social · 15d

Playing "whose notification is going to remind me of this task I need to do" with colleagues. 😉

Why can't Gemini do *this* part?