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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Does anyone remember the Reinhart-Rogoff affair? The paper that was widely used to justify austerity policies, but where the main result was only an artifact due to the researchers screwing up their Excel formulas?

So yeah, can't see how putting the random number generator called "AI" in Excel […]

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Pascal @pascaliensis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Aujourd'hui c'est la Saint Zotero (qui fêtera ses 20 ans ce même jour l'an prochain).

2 billets utilisant l'extension Cita par Diego de la Hera pour enrichir ses données, repérer de nouvelles références et contribuer à Wikidata :
https://zotero.hypotheses.org/5740 […]

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Yvan Dutil @yvandutil.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Iran’s Water Crisis Is Its Greatest Threat
https://time.com/7321571/iran-water-crisis-greatest-threat/

Iran's Water Crisis Is Its Greatest Threat

The collapse of water security in Iran has been decades in the making and is rooted in a mania for mega projects.

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Pascal @pascaliensis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11d

@egonw @opencitations @wikidata That's awesome! Batch contributing citations into WD is out of my league right now so I am only contributing manually. That's great you got this colossal task covered !

(+ Congratulations for your CiTO works! I remember it impressed me when I read it some years ago)

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Pascal @pascaliensis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11d

@egonw Thanks for your feedback and your interest. It seems the code is not robust enough for big networks (or cross citations inside the network). I will investigate further.

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Pascal @pascaliensis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d

Another in-browser JavaScript code that retrieve data from Qlever (Wikidata) and display the network on a timeline !!

Great for history of science by tracing backward citations of renown academic works (Qlever has an un-divided graph so we can retrive easily […]

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Pascal @pascaliensis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d

Another in-browser JavaScript code that retrieve data from Qlever (Wikidata) and display the network on a timeline !!

Great for history of science by tracing backward citations of renown academic works (Qlever has an un-divided graph so we can retrive easily […]

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Pascal @pascaliensis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15d

«More troubling is how AI discovery interfaces bypass cataloging work entirely.Aaron Tay’s investigation exposed how Clarivate’s Summon Research Assistant and Primo Research Assis. refuse to search terms like “Tulsa race riot,” “Gaza War,” or anything containing “massacre,”returning zero results […]

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Sara Teinturier @teinturs.social.sciences.re.ap.brid.gy · 18d

🇨🇵🏴‍☠️ Le drapeau pirate #onepiece se retrouve dans beaucoup des manifestations actuelles... de quoi ajouter de l'eau au moulin de l'ouvrage d'Anne Besson, Les Pouvoirs de l'enchantement. Usages politiques de la fantasy et de la science-fiction (2020).

🇬🇧 🏴‍☠️ The #OnePiece pirate flag can be […]

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Laetitia Bracco @braccolaetitia.social.sciences.re.ap.brid.gy · 20d

🚀 Mieux valoriser la recherche à l’Université de Lorraine grâce à #OpenAlex

Entre février et juillet 2025, l’équipe Bibliométrie de l’Université de Lorraine a mené un vaste chantier d’alignement des publications scientifiques dans la base ouverte OpenAlex. Résultat : un référencement enrichi […]

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Irène Langlet @ilangle.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gy · 22d

En 2026, on fêtera les 40 ans de #startrek

"Peu de travaux prennent pour objet principal la construction de son monde fictionnel en tant que telle — sa logique interne, sa narrativité transmédiatique, sa plasticité ontologique. (...) Pourtant, (..) Star Trek est envisagé par certains, comme […]

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 22d

From John Unsworth, just-retired dean of libraries at U of Virginia:
https://www.arl.org/blog/john-unsworth-on-libraries-higher-education-and-anti-facism/

"21st-century fascism is not just about governing through force. It’s also about surveillance. It’s about AI in the service of fascism, as a […]

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Pascal @pascaliensis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 8

I’ve finally managed to build an in-browser #javascript tool that pulls #wikidata elements, explores their relationships through a chosen property (such as cites, inspired by, student of, etc.), and visualizes the resulting network on a timeline!

Here’s an […]

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Pascal @pascaliensis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 30

J'ai créé un petit programme en JavaScript qui interroge Wikidata directement dans le navigateur (sans serveur) et qui présente les informations dans un tableau avec des filtres basés sur une liste d'autorité de propriétés P921 sélectionnées.

https://pmartinolli.github.io/code/revuesdhistoire/ […]

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Pascal @pascaliensis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 28

Quickstatements 3.0 fonctionne bien, surtout pour les versements de 130.000-150.000 QIDs (avec deux colonnes). Peut être plus encore, à voir. C'est pour le moment ce que j'apprécie le plus car QS 2 était limité à environ 10 fois moins. Possibilité de télécharger le rapport des versements en csv […]

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@frueheneuzeit @stefan-hessbrueggen.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · Aug 22

I think people from the @TEIConsortium or @adho.org would help us enormously if they found the time to intervene here and describe use cases from our field for a modern XSLT in the browser: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11578

Should the web platform adopt XSLT 3.0? · Issue #11578 · whatwg/html

What is the issue with the HTML Standard? Background This is a follow-up to #11523. That issue raises concerns regarding security issues, code maintainability, and the complexity of aging browser c...

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Hendrik Weimer @hweimer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · May 13

Great news! While Trump is busy dismantling the Library of Congress, the German National Library of Science and Technology (@tibhannover) is preparing for more to come: they've downloaded the entire 10 TB of the arXiv preprint server and safeguarded more than 2.6 million scientific articles […]

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Yvan Dutil @yvandutil.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · Aug 14

Après quelques accrochages sur Wikipédia, je comprends.
La double difficulté des femmes québécoises sur Wikipédia
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2161501/femmes-wikipedia-compte-contenu

Elle militait pour les femmes sur Wikipédia, son compte fermé

Chassée puis réintégrée à Wikipédia, une écrivaine invite à « une prise de conscience collective» concernant la place des femmes sur l'encyclopédie libre.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 7

XSLT *should* be part of the web platform.

https://aramzs.xyz/noteworthy/xslt-is-still-important/

XSLT is still important

Microblog and feed from Aram Zucker-Scharff.

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 29

Martin Fenner (@mfenner) has been on a mission to capture and preserve science blogs at Rogue Scholar.
https://rogue-scholar.org/

I'm very happy to announce that he's now captured my old blog, Open Access News -- more than 16.3k posts, 2002-2010 […]

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Yvan Dutil @yvandutil.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · Jul 29

Néandertal, «miroir déformant» de l’humanité https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idees/904321/idees-neandertal-miroir-deformant-humanite

Néandertal, «miroir déformant» de l’humanité

Comprendre une autre humanité, c’est aussi apprendre à mieux habiter la nôtre.

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Christof Schöch @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 29

My own talk, which is coming up / just happened, is on #multilingual #stylometry.

Based on our work for #chr2024, we've moved on from the influence of language and translation on stylometric attribution accuracy to the influence of corpus composition. I'll be […]

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A three-tired scatterplot with blue and orange dots. Y-Axis: metadata distance. X-Axis: textual distance. There is a weak correlation, with larger metadata distance correlating with larger textual distance.

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Egon Willighagen @egonw.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy · Jul 25

fwd: 'Wikidata for botanists: benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data" https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaf062

#wikidata #linkeddata #botany

Screenshot of the linked page, showing the title of the paper, the authors (Sabine von Mering, Siobhan Leachman, Joaquim Santos, and Heidi M Meudt), and the Background and Scope sections of the abstract (see linked page). In the last, the Scholia (@wdscholia@wikis.world) tool (highlighted with a hand drawn red annotation).

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 17

"#Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of #ai that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket."
https://fortune.com/2025/07/16/delta-moves-toward-eliminating-set-prices-in-favor-of-ai-that-determines-how-much-you-personally-will-pay-for-a-ticket/

PS: Lots to hate […]

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Harald Klinke @hxxxkxxx.det.social.ap.brid.gy · Apr 17

Open Access book edited by Silke Schwandt: Digital Methods in the Humanities.
Explore interdisciplinary challenges, case studies, and innovative perspectives on digital tools in textual research.
Includes: From Serial Sources to Modeled Data, OCR, text mining & more […]

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