Dario Taraborelli
Tending the commons 🌱 Open science at @cziscience. Formerly @wikimedia • @wikiresearch • @i4oc_org • citizen science • Opinions mine • 📷 credits @7StellarJays
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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…
Encouraging Preprint Curation and Review: A Design Sprint
November 13 & December 3, 2020 | Online Community feedback on preprints makes rapid science more robust. Review and commentary can help authors improve their articles; curation can provide readers with helpful context and enhance discoverability....
First Lady Melania Trump: “My personal experience with COVID-19.” | The White House
I am happy to report that I have tested negative and hope to resume my duties as soon as I can. Along with this good news, I want people to know that I understand just how fortunate my family is to have received the kind of care that we did. If you...
We passed 300,000 species observed on iNaturalist!!
It’s interesting to compare this number with the total numbers of species that we think are out there. Most agree that there are around 2 million species with names and that many more species exist that haven’t yet been named. We use IUCN’s numbers...
Dario Taraborelli
Attn: #TeamArachnids 🕷️🦂
inaturalist.org/blog/42626-we-… pic.twitter.com/2PjCkwTddF
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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...
Save the date! JROST is back Dec. 14-16
Two years ago, over 85 participants from 50+ organizations got together in person and online to discuss a collaborative, sustainable future for open research tools.
This December, we’re excited to bring you the second JROST conference ...