Yo Yehudi @yoyehudi@scholar.social

Are you a software engineer or researcher working with COVID data? I’m running a study about data sharing during pandemics and I’m looking for people who can share info about restrictive data sources and data access challenges.
Pls boost to help reach others! https://covid19-data-sharing-study.github.io

Data types I am especially interested in: Data that have no strong ethical reasons to keep private, such as virus omics data and infection/death/recovery rates by geographic region.

I'm extremely disappointed to find out that a face-to-face event I've been to twice before is still planning a face-to face conference later this year.

Wishing it'll be safe won't make it so, and we're scientists(!) and should know better.

Say no to face-to-face in 2020.
🙅

I do love that my university sends me "DO THIS TRAINING OR WE'LL FAIL YOU / DISABLE YOUR ACCOUNTS" as the first approach without a polite request beforehand. Not the first time it's happened!

Bear with me on this..... open science, but with leopards.

Well, you'll be pleased to know that my fabulous collaborator Manuel Spitschan helped to drive forward a beautiful response to the exclusionary video grant application idea article a couple of months ago. 👇👇

Revolutionising grant application processes? Sure, sounds cool. Making them more exclusionary and likely to exaggerate bias? No thanks!
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00862-x

All too often I hear "how can we justify funds to maintain research software?"

But really, we should be asking "How can we justify _not_ funding it?"

My colleagues and I wrote a thing: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-021-00048-5

Paper submitted. Flop. Ded.

📢 PLS BOOST: Help fund trans-led research into the trans healthcare issues - Clara is leading a study into neovaginal microbiome. They've already hit the minimum funding level and are working towards their stretch goal to enable sequencing of more samples.

Please donate if you can and share onwards so this amazing team can get to the full optimal finding target 💙💗🤍💗💙 🏳️‍🌈

https://en.goteo.org/project/transbiome

This is how we do research.

Why is LaTeX?

HTML, markdown, rst, heck, even word before latex.

Often when people want to make their research code open for others to re-use, they apply a creative commons licence.

Awesome, you're off to a great start!

🚨 One hitch: @creativecommons licences aren't designed for code - see https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-commons-license-to-software

If you used a CC licence for code, don't feel bad!

👉 It's easy to choose an OSI
approved licence - I like:
- https://choosealicense.com to figure out what type of licence I might need
- https://tldrlegal.com for easy-to-understand summaries

We're re-introducing! Hey cool kids. I'm Yo - they/she. Ex-research software engineer, EngD student at the University of Manchester, based in the UK but also Israeli and Kiwi. The day job is at the Wellcome Trust as open source technology lead, and openly shared research is my favourite thing, more than sliced bread. I most eat veggies and am usually tired. #introductions

and by "me" I mean probably "this journal" - it's so rarely the creator of the content who benefits from the paywall anyway 😭

You say "paywall", I hear "it's better no-one at all benefit from this research, rather than risk me losing the chance to eke out every cent"

Well I just watched Blinded by the light, expecting a feelgood film with lots of Springsteen songs, but apparently it's a documentary of my teens, only set 15 years earlier and in a different country, and with a happier ending. Ouch, I haven't lived with my parents for nearly 20 years and it still hit me right in the feels.