The Computation Moonshot is a competition for HS students where they compete against other students/schools to donate computation cycles to medical research via [email protected] . There are thousands of dollars in prizes being given out to students and schools including science gear like microscopes, gift cards, and more.

For more info see https://computationmoonshot.org

BOINC is an open source server and protocol for volunteer computing. There are petaflops of free computational power to any scientist who wants it.

OSSCi (non-profit working on open source science tools) is working on a project that maps the OSS ecosystem, specifically tools that are used in science, and we're starting with generative AI, machine learning, and materials science. Here's a very very very minimal demo of the map:

https://map.opensource.science/

and here's a discourse forum we're collecting info on

https://community.opensource.science/t/mapping-the-oss-tool-landscape/28

geteilt von: https://feddit.de/post/2522760

> The original article is in German, here are a few sections translated: > "There are many tools to conduct online surveys, both for small simple surveys and for more complex surveys in a scientific setting. Some of them, such as Cryptpad Forms and LimeSurvey, are also open source - an overview. (...) > > Tools for simple surveys: > Cryptpad Forms, > Nextcloud Forms, > FramaForms > > Tools for more complex surveys: > But also for more complex surveys there are now a variety of different software offerings. Unipark and SosciSurvey are tried and tested here, but with FormR and LimeSurvey there are also open source alternatives. (...) > > Conclusion > With Cryptpad Forms or Nextcloud Forms for simple surveys and LimeSurvey or FormR for more complex surveys, there are now very good open source solutions for conducting online surveys that cover different requirements. > > Questions for you > What experience do you have with the online survey tools presented here? Which other tools have you already used and how can you recommend them?" > > (article by @[email protected])

If you missed the @FORRT webinar, hosted by the Center for Open Science, I highly recommend it!

@openscience #OpenScience #OpenScholarship #Education #Psychology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ2m4OZKLVY

The turmoil surrounding Elon Musk’s handling of his Twitter takeover has renewed concern over the perils of a public good in private hands (Nature 613, 19–21 (2023); see also Nature 614, 602; 2023). Another form of scholarly public discourse is also owned by profit-driven entities — academic publishers. We propose an answer to both problems.

The most-discussed solution for Twitter is migration to Mastodon (see Science 378, 583–584; 2022), a social-technology platform that communicates over a distributed network of servers (‘instances’ in the ‘Fediverse’), akin to e-mail, and is immune to private takeover. Similarly federated solutions exist for journal articles (B. Brembs et al. Preprint at Zenodo https://doi.org/gn6jjc; 2021), but free social interaction is still hampered by inertia in scholarly organizations — in particular, resistance by scholarly societies that rely heavily on publication income.

There is now a golden opportunity for every scholarly society to implement a Mastodon instance for anyone interested in their field. If the academic community can create a public resource protected from private interests, it could become a model for bringing the remaining scholarly record — encompassing text, data and code — into the Fediverse.

Nature 614, 624 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00486-3

> Hi, I'm currently working on an assignment regarding p-hacking. I want to make the point that p-hacking can have real-life consequences, as the data being put out there could be applied in the wrong way. I already have an example of how p-hacking led to the WHO canceling their distribution of malaria medication. > > But, I need a specific example from psychology, and I can't find anything. I find plenty of papers explaining that p-hacking is common and why it's a problem, but no concrete examples of studies where p-hacking was discovered. Does anyone have an example in mind? Or maybe a study whose results have been questioned? > > Thank you in advance!

Sign-ups to FediScience.org, the Mastodon server for publishing scientists, have exploded today. We probably had more sign-ups today than in 2022 before.

Like with email you have to pick a server to sign-up and then you can talk to (almost) everyone. Here is a list of options for people interested in science, academia, GLAM, etc. https://fediscience.org/server-list.html

Translated versions available in Spanish, French, Magyar, Portuguese and Chinese.

Lofi published this on Reddit asking:

> I came across this paper - https://doi.org/10.15252/embr.202255841 (through r/Open_Access_tracking) > > It made me think: Most of the discourse I know about research materials and open science is centered around the idea of public access. > > But maybe public access is not vital? What do you think about providing controlled, on-demand access? > I mean, public access is preferable, but in practice, public access deters some scientists (due to various reasons, not necessarily IP as the paper assumes), and so we are ending with no access at all. > Perhaps providing some access is better than nothing. > > What do you think - would society benefit from such on-demand access or should we insist on public access only?