Laura J. Wilkinson @ljw@qoto.org

Today’s cartoon.

@rmi I created this meme forever ago to describe the devolution of information security, feel free to frame it

1970s & 1980s: Our mission is to achieve deterministic security and deductive, proof-based certainty of that security in our systems.

2010s & 2020s: Our hope rests in stopping laypeople from clicking on things on the thing-clicking machine.

Really excited to have a number of blog posts out today!

First of these is a brief recap on the Thoth Publishers' Workshop held on Nov 16, 2023

We're grateful for all participating publishers, and are looking forward to more workshops to discuss publishers' needs in the context of #OAbooks #metadata creation, management and dissemination, as well as archiving options for small and #scholarled presses and publishing initiatives that otherwise wouldn't have an option to cover these topics.

https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/thoth-publishers-workshop-2023/release/1

Private Eye have just made their Post Office Horizons report available online - for free.

https://www.private-eye.co.uk/special-reports/justice-lost-in-the-post

a sorry tale of the UK government’s consultation on metric/imperial units
https://kityates.substack.com/p/imperial-ruled-out

Sehr treffend:

Petition to require all spell checkers to replace "large language model" with "plausible sentence generator"
@pluralistic

Our article 'Open access research outputs receive more diverse citations' has been published in
#Scientometrics. Bottom line: OA = greater diversity* in researchers using and citing research. *countries, regions & disciplines. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-023-04894-0 #OpenScience

The Internet has a cat!

Meet Purrli, the online cat purr generator:
https://purrli.com/

#catsofmastodon #purr #generator

"The AI hype-cycle froth has come for scholarly publishing."

https://upstream.force11.org/large-language-publishing/

#scholcom #publishing

I will repeat my observation that many engineering organizations cannot tell the difference between someone who is indispensable because they’re a stellar engineer and someone who’s indispensable because they fail to build well-documented, sustainable engineering practices that work well in their absence.

To mark the 10th anniversary of Compound Interest, I'm counting down the most popular graphics I've produced over the past decade.

Coming in at #10 is a graphic that isn't even specific to chemistry but looks at things to look out for when reading scientific articles or studies, particularly when they make health or medical claims.

Le saviez-vous ? (moi pas, je découvre, and I think it's beautiful)

Le système libre de composition de documents #TeX ne suit pas une progression croissante dans sa numérotation de version.
En effet, depuis la version 3, les mises à jour sont indiquées en ajoutant une décimale supplémentaire, s'approchant ainsi toujours un peu plus de π, et donc de la stabilité absolue, à chaque itération.

La dernière version est la 3.141592653 et elle date de janvier 2021.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX

Happy Catmas friends. May you spend it surrounded by the ones you love, enjoying lots of mulled wine and mince flies 🐾