Paweł Lenartowicz @plenartowicz@qoto.org

A woman. An immigrant. A scientist.
A Nobel Prize winner. And thanks to her pioneering research, a #COVID19 vaccine.

Dr. Katalin Karikó. https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/10/the-story-of-mrna-how-a-once-dismissed-idea-became-a-leading-technology-in-the-covid-vaccine-race/ #HistoryRemix #science #history

@failedLyndonLaRouchite @kendmiller
Original tweet (link) and screen&link of that Onion article
https://x.com/mbeisen/status/1712947590294306976

https://www.theonion.com/dying-gazans-criticized-for-not-using-last-words-to-con-1850925657

Well, they did it. eLife fired Michael Eisen. Absolutely outrageous. The bounds of allowed thought tighten. Any criticism of Israel is out of bounds. A new McCarthyism, except instead of communists under the bed, it's people who think it matters both when Israelis are slaughtered AND when Palestinians are slaughtered. And many, many in the academic community, seeing this, are afraid to speak, especially those without tenure, & even w/ tenure especially those from Middle Eastern countries other than Israel. How easily they can be slandered as anti-semitic should they speak.

Please sign our petition calling for this *not* to happen, and to defend academic freedom: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfdJyIQzIsTypmmZXIi-RfSjbe4Psp1RIvjXz-DxWJKA5hHIQ/viewform

#neuroscience #israel #palestine #freespeech #biology

Scientists in life/neuro sciences: defend academic freedom. Sign our petition to eLife/HHMI saying Michael Eisen should not be censured for expressing his political opinions. Can be anonymous.

A chill is setting into academia. Many, especially without tenure, are afraid to express their opinions on the situation in Israel/Gaza. The leading edge of this chill has been the attacks on Eisen. Whatever your personal opinion, defend academic freedom by signing this petition.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfdJyIQzIsTypmmZXIi-RfSjbe4Psp1RIvjXz-DxWJKA5hHIQ/viewform

I've added some follow-up to my post on #Israel vs #Hamas

http://www.dcscience.net/2023/10/15/bloody-religion/#follow

I wrote a new post on my blog (the first for over a year). The events in Gaza and Israel are almost too much to bear. It's impossible to support Hamas, who are theocratic dictators, much like ISIS/Islamic State. It's equally impossible to support Israel's hard-right government's response. [The brilliant cartoon is
by Ben Jennings, for the Guardian]

http://www.dcscience.net/2023/10/15/bloody-religion/

🧵 Thread: "Building a Sustainable Public and Open IT Infrastructure for Science and Public Debate in Europe 🌍🔬"

1/ Science and public debate are vital for progress. Recent events, like the "Twitter Crisis," have highlighted the need for a sustainable IT infrastructure. Discover more in my blog post: https://www.gssr.edu.pl/gssr-blog/building-a-sustainable-public-and-open-it-infrastructure-for-science-and-public-debate-in-europe/

"I was not considered faculty quality, because I didn’t have a first author publication in Nature and didn’t have an Ivy League education."
Katalin Karikó (Nobel prize) -yet another example of the stupidity of metrics
https://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/leben/interview-top-scientist-katalin-kariko-women-should-have-a-career-and-a-happy-family-ld.2352504

PSA to all OSF users

Occasionally, make sure that all of your projects that are meant to be public are indeed still public. OSF doesn't notify users when their conent is marked as spam (& consequently made private). It can happen years since you originally posted it.

If your OSF content was marked as spam, go here: https://help.osf.io/article/411-spam-deactivation

#openscienceframework #openscience

Twitter has the highest prevalence of disinformation among six online platforms studied by the EU. Fake news comes primarily from Russia’s disinformation operation, a "weapon of mass manipulation."
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3235936/elon-musks-x-formerly-twitter-biggest-source-fake-news-primarily-russia-eu-official-says

I love #GitHub, but is the fact that it is a proprietry, trade-secret system that goes against Free and Open Source Software (#FOSS) principles an issue? Even if you think not, then surely their unpermitted use of #copyleft code to train for-profit #Copilot is an issue. Really interesting article from @conservancy diving into this issue here: https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/