Dario Taraborelli
Tending the commons 🌱 Open science at @cziscience. Formerly @wikimedia • @wikiresearch • @i4oc_org • citizen science • Opinions mine • 📷 credits @7StellarJays
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Incentivizing More Representative Research
Supporting Tissue Diversity for the Human Cell Atlas
Credibility of preprints: an interdisciplinary survey of researchers | Royal Society Open Science
Dario Taraborelli
"Credibility of #preprints: an interdisciplinary survey of researchers" – Soderberg et al. (2020) doi.org/10.1098/rsos.2… with somewhat surprising results. (ht @OyaRieger) pic.twitter.com/qVGj1BWNOd
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A new kind of life list
We’re announcing a new way to explore your life list on iNaturalist. To explore the new tool, navigate to your lists and click on 'View My Life List' in the banner. When you first open the Life List tool, the left panel has a list of all the taxa...
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Dario Taraborelli
Full blog post: inaturalist.org/blog/42454-a-n… Congrats on the launch, @inaturalist team!
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How do researchers evaluate research? - The Official PLOS Blog
We're studying how researchers evaluate both the credibility and impact of research outputs
Amy Coney Barrett’s First Votes Could Throw the Election to Trump
A sinister argument from Bush v. Gore returns with a vengeance.
Trump Administration Races to Meet Border-Wall Goal
Building a border wall was one of President Trump’s signature policies. His administration is constructing new sections of wall as quickly as it can to try to meet his goal of building 450 miles by the end of this year.
Observations
Observations by Dario
Dario Taraborelli
Lucky to have nature as therapy on weekends to alleviate remote work and online school. We scored 175 🐦 species and 54 lifers; bobcats, gray foxes, lizards and arachnids; 0 snakes and 🌵 aplenty; and a totally treatable ankle sprain 💁🏻♂️ @inaturalist log: inaturalist.org/observations?d… pic.twitter.com/VEUe907TH3
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Militias, MAGA activists and one border town’s complicated resistance
How Arivaca, Arizona, became a magnet for anti-immigrant activists – and what locals did next.
Standing Together: Our Fight for Quitobaquito
Border wall construction is destroying the Sonoran Desert’s most sacred spring
Arizona Border Recon - Wikipedia
Dario Taraborelli
Arizona Border Recon “continue to detain and hold civilians along the border without any prosecutors bringing charges against them.” Arizona Daily Star via Wikipedia.
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WikiCite 2020
Dario Taraborelli
If you're a librarian, a linked data practitioner or developer, an advocate or researcher of scholarly open data, a member of the GLAM community, or a Wikimedia and Wikidata volunteer contributor, there's a lot to learn from this series of sessions.
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WikiCite awards 23 grants & eScholarships to improve open citations
A pre-1941 lontar of Bali. Now in the Netherlands Tropenmuseum collection. Palm-leaf manuscripts from Bali; Legislation from Brazil; and Newspapers from Nigeria. These are just three of 23 groups a…
Wikipedia and W.H.O. Join to Combat Covid Misinformation
The health agency will license much of its material to the online encyclopedia, allowing the information to be reposted widely into almost 200 languages.
Land-grab universities
Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.
Dario Taraborelli
An excellent piece by Robert Lee and Tristan Ahtone on the history of the Morrill Act—the bill that turned land expropriated from tribal nations into seed money for higher education. hcn.org/issues/52.4/in… pic.twitter.com/wBC6GwDGBW
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Prepare my talks for October 26-28, 2020 · Issue #1371 · Daniel-Mietchen/ideas
I don't normally have bulk tickets for talks, but next week has them packed more than usual, so need to keep things a bit more coordinated than on a per-talk basis. Thankfully, all of them revo...
San Francisco's 'Caren Act' makes placing racist 911 calls a hate crime
City signs legislation giving people right to sue callers after high-profile incidents target people of color for barbecuing, birdwatching and more
Dario Taraborelli
“City signs legislation giving people right to sue callers after high-profile incidents target people of color for barbecuing, birdwatching and more.“
The CAREN act: long overdue and peculiarly named legislation.
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COVID-19 Preprints and Their Publishing Rate: An Improved Method
Abstract Context: As the COVID-19 pandemic persists around the world, the scientific community continues to produce and circulate knowledge on the deadly disease at an unprecedented rate. During the early stage of the pandemic, preprints represented...
December 18, 2019 — San Pedro River
Eight months ago we planted a cross, near the San Pedro River, for an unidentified man whose remains were found on January 24, 2019. Just recently we realized that the name of this unidentified pe…