leonhard volz @levolz@qoto.org

New preprint on data citations in OpenAlex:

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2308.04379

What I find most interesting about this study is that it investigates who produces and who cites datasets. The production of cited datasets is concentrated in a few countries, whereas data reuse is distributed more evenly. Still, it appears that the reuse and citation of datasets produced in another region is common in all regions.

DO YOU WORK ON AN IRB OR OTHER ETHICS APPROVAL BOARD! I want to talk to you!!

(1) I run a website (childrenhelpingscience.com) where over 100 research labs provide studies that children and families can participate in from home

(2) Participants consent individually to each study

(3) We provide template consent forms that researchers can use, as well as automatic tools for implementing other best practices for informed consent

(4) Most IRBs asks for *some* changes to the consent form, especially around how data will be used after collection

(5) This creates a bad situation for families that lowers their ability to consent with full information - every single form is slightly different and the differences that really matter are hard to spot.

(6) As an infrastructure provider, I'd like to solve this!

every damn time

Finally, a solution to the unfairness of authorship ordering in scientific papers! 😂

"Every Author as First Author"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01393

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Here is your must-read article for the day, a profile of @emilymbender, and her efforts to deflate the ridiculous hype around large language models such as ChatGPT.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html

@adam42smith @petersuber @mike @alexh

I was surprised to learn some onths ago, that the expertise at the European Commission on the academic publishing sector is excellent. Every time there is a market analysis they routinely come to the same conclusion, for more than 20 years now, namely that it is a monopolistic sector:

http://bjoern.brembs.net/2022/04/eu-academic-publishers-are-monopolists/

This is fascinating! The Braille Institute has developed a font - free to download - that's designed to be clearer for readers with lower vision.

An example of one of the aspects of low legibility that they tackled attached.

It's named Atkinson Hyperlegible. Atkinson was the Institute's founder - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Atkinson

Here's where you can read about the font and download it: https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont

#Accessibility

Via @tombofnull

The lack of fast, reliable, and cheap train network in Croatia is horrible. Our governments, for the past 30 years, invested massive amounts of public resources into state of the art highways that serve millions of tourists streaming from continental Europe to the Adriatic coast every summer, while the train network is dying a slow death of neglect.