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Birgit Schmidt

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Open Science enthusiast & head of Knowledge Commons at University of Göttingen (UGOE) / State and University Library | Also at @bschmid1@mastodon.social orcid.org/0000-0001-8036-5859

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Birgit Schmidt @bschmid1.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
On my way to Trondheim for #LIBER2026 and very much looking fwd to see you all! @libereurope.bsky.social
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LIBER Europe @libereurope.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
It's Conference Week! ⭐ Follow this week's conversations by using #LIBER2026 & get ready with these resources: 📌 Livestreaming: liberconference.eu/follow-liber2026-online/ 📌 Conference programme: liberconference.eu/programme/ 📌 Discover Norway: liberconference.eu/about-norway/
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Benjamin Angerer @benniangerer.eurosky.social · 29/06/2026
"A certain Mr M. in Göttingen boasts of having invented a poetic hand-mill by means of which odes of all kinds could be produced entirely mechanically. Several collections are said to already contain its products, (...)" (2/3)
"Allerhand.

Ein gewisser Her M. in Göttingen rühmt sich eine poetische Handmühle erfunden zu haben, durch welche man Oden von aller Gattung ganz mechanisch verfertigen könnte. Es sollen in verschiedenen poetischen Sammlungen schon Producten von derselben stehn, die kaum der Kenner von denen aus freyer Faust gemachten unterscheiden würde. Die Einrichtung der Maschine hat viele Aehnlichkeit mit einer großen Englischen Seidenzwirnmühle; die Kraft die sie in Bewegung, setzt, ist der Wind."

Hessen-Darmstädtische privilegirte Landzeitung. (1777). (61). https://doi.org/10.11588/DIGLIT.31922.15
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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Thank god, someone has noticed that "AI content" is generated by AI providers, duh 😂 say hello, DSA. Also consistent with ancient German autocomplete case law , remember Bettina Wulff? www.spiegel.de/internationa...
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Birgit Schmidt @bschmid1.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Great interview - Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) talked with Brewster Kahle, Founder & Director, Internet Archive www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ-R...
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Brewster Kahle Interview
YouTube video by Charleston Hub
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 06/03/2026
@kjhealy.co has a new version of his data visualization book coming out and 1) you’d be a fool not to get it especially if you do R stuff 2) it’s gonna be even more beautiful than the first one, which is truly lovely book 3) he put the ENTIRE content on his website for free, you lucky so-and-so
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Data Visualization
A Practical Introduction
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Birgit Schmidt @bschmid1.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Great! Note that COAR runs a directory of preprint servers, it would be great if you would reference it. doapr.coar-repositories.org/repositories/ @coar-repositories.bsky.social
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Directory of Open Access Preprint Repositories: Repositories
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Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
⏳ 2 weeks left to apply to the Making Replications Count Hackathon (Münster, 4–6 May 2026). Join us to build open tools that make replications impossible to ignore. Apply by 16 March: indico.uni-muenster.de/e/marco2
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Najko Jahn @najko.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Today we're starting ORION, an effort to coordinate making #openresearchinformation resources available, with an initial focus on Google BigQuery. We are keen to coordinate with all who are interested in supporting a community effort towards availability and reusability! doi.org/10.54900/2pn...
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Sharing the load: Building a collective to support open research information online
Can we share resources and burdens to make available key open research information resources in actionable and connectable form in the cloud? Through sharing processes and systems, is it possible, ove...
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Craig Nicholson @clanicholson.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The European Universities Initiative alliances ‘need a coherent overall funding model’, says @eua.eu www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...
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EUI alliances ‘need coherent overall funding model’ - Research Professional News
European Universities Initiative funding must reflect varied sources and institutional aims, EUA report says
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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 09/02/2026
💬 A must-read article by @draehernandez.bsky.social:
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DANS @dans-knaw-nwo.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
CESSDA's Monitoring Report shows a growing focus on dataset citation. Repositories like DANS now add recommended citations to dataset pages, simplifying user referencing + boosting data visibility in scholarly work. As CESSDA partner, DANS supports clear citation practices. Read more: edu.nl/xyyee
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CESSDA report on the importance of data citation - DANS
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Lie #1: Libraries indoctrinate. Truth: Censoring library books by removing them from libraries or prohibiting them from the shelves in the first place is indoctrination. www.oif.ala.org/lies-about-librarie…
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Lies About Libraries (Part One)
Welcome to the first in a series of posts dedicated to debunking false claims used to undermine trust in libraries and attack those who work in them.
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 17/12/2025
New editorial with John Carlisle: Detecting inconsistencies and fraud in research data: Time for authors to share the data underlying their summary statistics as a matter of course tl;dr Let's stop doing party tricks journals.lww.com/anesthesia-a... Final draft: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Leonid Schneider @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Schneider Shorts 19.12.2025 – Merry Christmas! forbetterscience.com/2025/12/19/s...
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Schneider Shorts 19.12.2025 – Merry Christmas!
Schneider Shorts 19.12.2025- sleuth wins reward in a lawsuit, an Italian cheater can’t stop lying, with retractions for failed and failing science elites, a Nature expert investigation, and U…
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Birgit Schmidt @bschmid1.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
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Ed Zitron Dispels the Myth of the AI Revolution
YouTube video by Newsweek
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Hello @springernature.com - you’ve just published another bit of nonsense in Scientific Reports 🙁
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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The inner workings of a paper mill: deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
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The inner workings of a paper mill:
My Norxin sting operation Guest post by Csaba Szabo Chair of Pharmacology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland   After the limited success ...
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 10/11/2025
According to an international survey conducted by Elsevier, 68 percent of scientists say that publication pressure has increased over the past two to three years. 3,200 researchers from 113 countries took part in the survey. www.elsevier.com/insights/con... @elsevierconnect.bsky.social
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Researcher of the Future: Confidence in Research
In this report, learn how researchers are adapting to rapid AI change, shifting funding landscapes, and new expectations for collaboration and impact.
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OAPEN Foundation @oapenbooks.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Still time to sign up for this webinar tomorrow hosted by @copim.bsky.social, @sparc-eu.bsky.social & @scossfunding.bsky.social The 75-minute workshop will feature presentations from SCOSS, @thoth-metadata.bsky.social & our very own Graham Stone. Find our more and register below 👇 #OAbooks
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"Beyond technical interoperability? The future of open infrastructures and open access" (11 November 2025, 3pm-4:15pm [GMT]) - Copim
Please register to attend the online webinar via this Zoom link. We will be recording the event, and will circulate speaker presentations & slides after the w…
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 05/11/2025
Newly released Stockholm Declaration recommends the following reforms to publishing: 1. Academia resumes control of publishing 2. Incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity 3. Independent fraud detection and prevention 4. Legislation and policies to protect science quality and integrity
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Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration | Royal Society Open Science
Science relies on integrity and trustworthiness. But scientists under career pressure are lured to purchase fake publications from ‘paper mills’ that use AI-generated data, text and image fabrication....
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Institute for Research Software @softwaresaved.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
📄 A reminder that we are seeking writers (£600) and reviewers (£210) to support the development of new guides on: - AI in research software - Green Computing - EDI in research software Application deadline: Friday 3 October 2025 Find out more at www.software.ac.uk/news/writers...
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 30/09/2025
Cory Doctorow (not on Bluesky) published IMHO one of the most compelling pieces about AI being a bubble pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
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Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 27/10/2025
Between @python.org and @carpentries.carpentries.org, the open-source ecosystem is rejecting the administration's inquisition against DEI. If you can support them with a donation please do. I just did! Does anyone know about others who have declined NIH or NSF grant funding over over these terms?
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Alastair Dunning @alastairdunning.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
"Crucially, students will need to develop sufficient expertise to identify when AI systems produce plausible but incorrect outputs — which poses a dilemma because this requires the very skills that AI is starting to replace." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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PhD training needs a reboot in an AI world
As machines get better at data analysis and writing tasks, doctoral training must evolve to make the most of artificial-intelligence outputs.
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Hugh Shanahan @hughshanahan.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Lynda points out that even though a relatively small number of data sources have been shut down by the US Federal government, many more are affected through letting go of staff - death by a thousand cuts.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
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Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 02/11/2025
It's easy for some of you to just never use LLMs and just criticize people who do. I would like to be in that situation. But here I am, with my moderator volunteers, assessing hundreds of papers submitted to @socarxiv.bsky.social, trying to decide how to fairly judge whether to accept them. /1
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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
DEPRESSING: This is a list of Federal Funding Cuts and Research Universities. The tracker documents the impacts of the cuts on the human infrastructure of the research enterprise airtable.com/appo02JOpIo2...
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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
News from the Evil Empire of Academic Publishing: In June Taylor & Francis acquired the back catalogue of Amsterdam University Press' film and media series. As a consequence the majority of the series editors publicly resigned and decided to move their series to / necsus-ejms.org/sale-of-the-...
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Sale of the Amsterdam University Press film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis - NECSUS
July 9, 2025
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 09/10/2025
Join us for #OAWeek! Webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond – Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures With @joedeville.bsky.social, @theblochian.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @rupertgatti.bsky.social, @joannaball.bsky.social & @paulaclemente.bsky.social 🗓️ 24/10 - 1:00 pm BST 🔗 shorturl.at/eFIvX
Webinar poster for “Mainstreaming Diamond: Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures,” dated 24 October 2025.
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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
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David Prosser @davidprosser.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The @doaj.bsky.social is consulting on whether to retire their Added/Withdrawn change logs. There is a short survey and feedback is very welcome: blog.doaj.org/2025/07/14/l...
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Let us know! Is it time to retire the Added/Withdrawn change log? – DOAJ Blog
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2025
There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with: “What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”
What could be more obvious than the fact that, whatever intelligence a computer can muster, however it may be acquired, it must always and necessarily be absolutely alien to any and all authentic human concerns?
The very asking of the question, "What does a judge (or a psychiatrist) know that we cannot tell a computer?" is a monstrous obscenity. That it has to be put into print at all, even for the purpose of exposing its morbidity, is a sign of the madness of our times.
Computers can make judicial decisions, computers can make psychiatric judgments. They can flip coins in much more sophisticated ways than can the most patient human being. The point is that they ought not be given such tasks. They may even be able to arrive at "correct" decisions in some cases-but always and necessarily on bases no human being should be willing to accept.
There have been many debates on "Computers and Mind." What I conclude here is that the relevant issues are neither technological nor even mathematical; they are ethical. They cannot be settled by asking questions beginning with "can." The limits of the applicability of computers are ultimately statable only in terms of oughts. What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/08/2025
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
One thing I don't get about this is wtf does AI "augmentation" mean? If students only use it to summarise texts rather than writing the final essay it's still not good. They're not reading, figuring out what's important & processing information themselves. That's an essential part of learning.
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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
New paper: Tackling paper mills requires us to prevent future contamination and clean up the past – the case of the journal Bioengineered With @deadneanderthals.bsky.social, @smutclyde.bsky.social, @mortenoxe.bsky.social, @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social, and me www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Tackling paper mills requires us to prevent future contamination and clean up the past – the case of the journal Bioengineered
Taylor & Francis journal Bioengineered has been targeted by paper mills. Our goal is to identify problematic articles published in Bioengineered during the period 2010 to 2024. Dimensions was used ...
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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
We are creating an academic journal and *you* can shape it! Make comments and suggest changes to replicationresearch.org 's - Constitution - TOP guidelines - article types - and reviewer guidelines until September 5 and be credited as a contributor: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Free plums and propaganda.
Cardboard box on a rock in a garden that says free plums & propaganda. Inside the box are French plums and postcards by Marc Fischer that say Losers Attack Our Libraries, Fight for Librarians
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nestor e.V. @nestornetzwerk.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Weiterführende Informationen über die Arbeitsgruppe sind hier zu finden: www.langzeitarchivierung.de/Webs/nestor/...
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infoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Documentary Explores Historic Struggles, Lasting Impact of Black #Librarians in America (via @wttw.bsky.social) news.wttw.com/2025/07/23/d... #libraries #publiclibraries
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Documentary Explores Historic Struggles, Lasting Impact of Black Librarians in America
“Are You a Librarian? The Untold Story of Librarians” connects the history of public libraries, civil rights and literacy to the current political attacks on the public library system.
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Birgit Schmidt @bschmid1.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
RIP Tom Lehrer - timeless gems tomlehrersongs.com/albums/
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An Evening (wasted) With Tom Lehrer: stream MP3s download RAR Revisited: stream MP3s download RAR That Was The Year That Was: stream MP3s download RAR The Remains of Tom Lehrer (disc 1): stream MP3...
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Posit @posit.co · 28/07/2025
Take a quick tour of Positron, Posit's next-generation data science IDE, built by the creators of RStudio. Read the blog to learn more: posit.co/blog/a-quick...
A screenshot of the Positron interface, labeled with its components: "Activity bar," "Primary side bar," "Editor," "Secondary side bar," and "Panel." The text "A quick tour of Positron" is on the left.
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pentathlos.bsky.social @pentathlos.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Dear #academicsky and #skybrarians.... Here are my notes and thoughts (whether you wanted them or not) for pages 1-16: 1) The weasel words gave me a headache before I finished reading the Executive Summary. 1/x
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Lorena A Barba @labarba.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Presentation slides for my talk yesterday at #SciPy2025 Barba, Lorena A. (2025). Embracing GenAI in Engineering Education: Lessons from the Trenches. figshare. Presentation. doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
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Embracing GenAI in Engineering Education: Lessons from the Trenches
Talk at the SciPy Conference, July 9, 2025. Tacoma, Washington.This talk presents a candid reflection on integrating generative AI into an Engineering Computations course, revealing unexpected challen...
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Joanna Coleman @joannacoleman.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
An attack on science is an attack on everyone. Excellent piece on the meaning of what is happening.
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infoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
COAR Announces Launch of the International #Repositories Directory (IRD) www.infodocket.com/2025/07/09/c... #scholcomm #libraries #scholcomm @coar-repositories.bsky.social
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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
After all these reports of authors adding language instructions for LLM reviews in their papers I wanted to check this myself and I downloaded the .tex source from one of these papers. Here is an example. (I will not share the identity of the paper)
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