Laura J. Wilkinson @ljw@qoto.org

An early Random Password Generator 🦜​

A new blog post that I found important to write: “A guarantee of OAPEN’s independence: we cannot be sold or acquired” https://oapen.hypotheses.org/621 #openaccess #openinfra #trust #transparency

@jamesjefferies @SonOfSunTzu no credit to me - it was @ljw's suggestion

This week, @gbilder upgraded our Abstractonator game at Crossref to use GPT-4.

Can you tell the machine learning-generated abstracts apart from the published version?

https://abstractonator.labs.crossref.org/

What exactly is #metascience ?

https://markrubin.substack.com/p/whats-special-about-metascience

here @MarkRubin reports on Felipe Romero's argument that activism - the desire to change the structures of science - is the defining feature

#metaresearch

Image from Peterson and Panofsky (2023): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-023-09490-3

This is a 50p that was minted to celebrate the UK joining what became the EU. It was minted in my birth year, and my mum gave it to me shortly before she died of cancer in 2021. It is one of my most treasured possessions.

It has 12 hands linked in a circle to symbolise the then 12 countries of the European Community. One of them is smaller, representing the hand of Queen Elizabeth II.

I'm launching a new social media app. It's called BIRB. This is the logo. It's the only app that demands you crochet, knit or embroider your posts.
Posts are called 'Yarns', editing a Yarn is called Darning, threads are called Tapestries, pile-ons are Shag Piles, blocking is called Black-Sheeping.
#BIRB

Je recrute ! On recrute ! Nous recrutons ! Un très beau poste est ouvert pour m'accompagner dans la mise en oeuvre du Plan national pour la science ouverte. Nous recherchons l'adjoint(e) au coordinateur national de la science ouverte. Je publie l'annonce cette fois avec des hastag adaptés. https://choisirleservicepublic.gouv.fr/offre-emploi/c-esr-a---adjointe-au-coordinateur-de-la-science-ouverte-mad-hf-reference-2023-1273926/ #jerecrute #emploi

Where do the bad rainbows go?

Prism.

They get a light sentence.

It gives them time to reflect.

Internet Archive now has a menstruation information and history library, since we now live in a world with Florida bill 1069, which bans the mention of periods before sixth grade in Florida public schools.

Library is universally available:

https://archive.org/details/menstruation

Je recrute ! On recrute ! Nous recrutons ! Un très beau poste est ouvert pour m'accompagner dans la mise en oeuvre du Plan national pour la science ouverte. Nous recherchons l'adjoint(e) au coordinateur national de la science ouverte. https://choisirleservicepublic.gouv.fr/offre-emploi/c-esr-a---adjointe-au-coordinateur-de-la-science-ouverte-mad-hf-reference-2023-1273926/

If you ever wanted a visual to explain how binary in works.

Remember that while a picture tells a thousand words, it uses the same amount of storage as several million.

We're delighted to announce that 17 articles in the OAPEN OA Books Toolkit have been updated. A big thanks to the Editorial Advisory Board who keeps the Toolkit content in sync. Have a look! https://oabooks-toolkit.org #oabooks #oabookstoolkit

So, yesterday, when I said the answer was 'No', it turns out I was wrong....!

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/03/tweetdeck-twitter-verified-elon-musk