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Taha Ahmed

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Renewable solar chemistry researcher juggling photons and electrons. Now mostly working on digital research infrastructure and research data management […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ scholar.social/@solarchemist, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Taha Ahmed @solarchemist.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
"Frontier models have a place. They are tools for leverage, evaluation, and exploring the edge of what is possible. The mistake is letting them become the invisible policy engine inside a production system, where their price, their values, their refusals, and their availability are set by […]
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
Sweden has only rarely had a majority government. (From Forskning och Framsteg) #history #svpol #val2026
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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
NASA Boosts Open Science, Data Sharing with Artemis Accords - VibeWire Magazine www.vibewire.com.au/?p=536840
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NASA Boosts Open Science, Data Sharing with Artemis Accords
Poynting crater and Keeler crater are visible side by side in the lower right portion of this image of the Moon’s far side highlands. Poynting, positioned above, is a large impact crater with a well-defined rim and relatively smooth interior, indicative of material that has settled following the initial impact. Just below it, Keeler crater appears slightly smaller, with a sharply outlined rim and a more textured interior shaped by subsequent impacts and ejecta. Both features lie within the densely cratered far side highlands, preserving a record of ancient impacts that have shaped the lunar surface over billions of years. NASA The science from every Moon rock sample, lunar dataset, and discovery produced through NASA’s Artemis program will be shared by the agency with the global scientific community. That commitment is upheld by all 71 countries that have signed the Artemis Accords, a set of principles for safe and transparent civil space exploration. NASA put those principles into practice by hosting a two-part virtual workshop series that began July 28 and concluded Sept. 8, focusing on one key tenet of the Artemis Accords: the timely release of scientific data to the public and the international scientific community. “As we return humans to the Moon, our Artemis efforts will help us unlock the full potential of scientific discovery through transparency, collaboration, and accessibility,” said Jacob Bleacher, chief exploration scientist at NASA. “We are making data, tools, and results freely available, and inviting the Artemis Accords partners to innovate with us and share their data as well, accelerating our understanding of lunar processes and laying the groundwork for human space exploration for the Moon, Mars and beyond.” The two recent workshops added to discussions led by the ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) in May, when signatories first explored ways to advance open data practices and created common ground for deeper conversations on open data. NASA split its follow‑on discussion about data sharing into two virtual sessions, so technical experts around the world could take part. The agency hosted its first session on open science principles and implementation practices. It promoted interoperability and collaboration among signatories and advanced reproducibility, accessibility, and transparency in scientific work, including in NASA’s Artemis program. The second session focused on tools for open science, providing Artemis Accords signatories with a working model to reference as they build or refine their own data-sharing frameworks. “NASA is committed to leading by example when it comes to open science,” said Andrew Mitchell, deputy chief science data officer for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, whose office leads the agency’s open science efforts. “These workshops gave our Artemis Accords partners practical tools and a shared foundation to build on as we move forward together.” NASA presented the Planetary Data System, one of the agency’s primary archives for planetary science data, openly available lunar data, data visualization and analysis tools, and the system’s data information model standard, offering a real-world example of how NASA structures, curates, and shares scientific data with the world. Across both sessions, NASA shared practices developed over years of stewarding scientific data and opened the floor to technical experts across the Artemis Accords community, reflecting a deliberate effort to build alignment at the working level. “Advances in technology help enable open science, but technology alone is insufficient,” said Mitchell. “Open science requires a shift to a more transparent and collaborative scientific process, which will increase the pace and quality of scientific progress. Scientific processes and results should be as open and repeatable as possible to encourage further study.” In 2020, NASA and the State Department joined with seven other founding nations to establish the Artemis Accords in response to the growing interest in lunar activities by both governments and private companies. They introduced the first set of practical principles aimed at enhancing the safety and coordination between like-minded nations as they explore the Moon, Mars, and beyond, committing nations to: * explore peaceably and transparently * render aid to those in need * enable access to scientific data * ensure activities do not interfere with those of others * preserve historically significant sites and artifacts by developing best practices By signing the Artemis Accords, nations open the door to opportunities for future lunar exploration with NASA, advancing humanity’s return to the Moon, and shaping the Golden Age of space exploration and innovation. Learn more about the Artemis Accords at: **https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-accords** ## Share * * * * ## Details Last Updated Sep 11, 2026 Location NASA Headquarters ## Related Terms * Artemis Accords * Artemis * Missions * Open Science
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Taha Ahmed @solarchemist.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026
I'm preparing my talk "The libre way to do open science" for Open Science Community Uppsala this Friday. I look forward to a stimulating discussion! open-science-community-uppsala.gith… #OpenScience #Uppsala #OSCU
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alxd of the Story Seed Library @alxd.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2026
magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/vo… "This article looks briefly at exclusive systems of knowledge production. I describe how the Open Science movement that was founded to reform science often recycles the same extractive […]
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Taha Ahmed @solarchemist.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026
KTH will be hosting an in-person exercise group as part of the upcoming CodeRefinery workshop March 17-19 and 24-26 on tools and techniques for more reproducible research. Register (links below) to secure your spot if you're in Stockholm those days! Everything […] [Original post on scholar.social]
Illustration showing the CodeRefinery logo and the text: "Teaching good-enough practices for computational research. Git, Github, testing, Jupyter, documentation, modular code, social coding, and reproducible research".
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Taha Ahmed @solarchemist.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026
I like this quote: "COVID-19 was both a failure and a triumph of data reuse. Fear around the consequences of data sharing was a key cause of the epidemic. Rapid global sharing of viral sequence data was a key enabler of resolving the pandemic". Attributed to Lauren Maxwell, as part of her […]
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Taha Ahmed @solarchemist.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026
Love Data Week is coming! www.nordiclovedataweek.org #LoveDataWeek #ResearchData
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Kristine Willis @kristine-willis.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026
“The system of funding science is fundamentally broken. In some respects, it’s been an unmitigated disaster. It was a house of cards, and it’s not surprising that it’s now falling apart.” Happy to see Mike Lauer, former director of extramural research at #NIH, and I are on the same page here […]
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Taha Ahmed @solarchemist.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026
@SoftwareSaved Guys, please enable an RSS feed for your blog! And before anyone mentions it, no, the newsletter is not a substitute for RSS. For extra brownie points, add a link to the feed in your footer or something (I think Drupal will automatically add a link to the HTML header which helps […]
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Stefan Siegert @safest-integer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2025
Positron's (Rstudio successor) license prohibits making the software available to users as a managed service: github.com/posit-dev/positron?tab=L… Does that mean universities have to pay license fees if admins install Positron on student computers? Seeing how Rstudio […]
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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2025
Tobacco exposure killed more than 7m people in 2023, study finds "Some countries have experienced dramatic rises, the researchers said, with the highest jump in #Egypt where deaths in 2023 were 124.3% higher than in 1990." […]
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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2025
«DOGE has provided a template for complete political and cultural rollback, exploiting AI's brittle affordances to trash any pretence at social contract. What the so-called educational offers from AI companies are actually doing is a form of cyberattack, building in the pathways for the hacker […]
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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2025
The Royal Society of Chemistry (#RSC) just issued a vague and puzzling statement about its plans. www.rsc.org/news/our-evolving-appro… It once planned to convert all its journals to #OpenAccess by 2028. By which it apparently meant #APC-based OA. But after talking with […]
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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2025
New blog post: "Why computational reproducibility matters" blog.khinsen.net/posts/2025/06/20/c…
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Ryan Marcus @ryanmarcus.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2025
This is your yearly reminder that anyone who publishes CS papers should have a personal website that lists their current position, research interests, publications, and email address. If you don't, it's basically impossible for me to invite you to a PC […] [Original post on discuss.systems]
A meme featuring Bernie Sanders standing outdoors in a winter coat, speaking directly to the camera. The caption reads, “I am once again asking PhD students to make a damn website."
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Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 @lightweight.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2025
And it shows how 'open source' is 'corporate-friendly' rather than protecting the interests of the people. We need *copyleft* everywhere. If it can be made proprietary, it's is to society's detriment, not benefit. davelane.nz/proprieary
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Taha Ahmed @solarchemist.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2025
Do you know a better way to embed a table from a quarto notebook into a quarto manuscript? I came up with this hack that works for Markdown-formatted tables and renders normally in both HTML and PDF links.solarchemist.se/shaare/cYTC2g #quarto #rstats
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A way to "embed" table from manuscript notebook into main qmd file
I have a Quarto project of manuscript type with notebooks that generate tables and figures. And I would like to include specific tables from any notebook in the main manuscript index.qmd. In tackling this question I was constrained by the following factor: never {{< include ... >}} a notebook
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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2025
«We live in the future, and the future is cool. Or it would be cool, if it wasn’t for all these fucking bastards. Even for those of us too young to remember a less-algorithmic internet, we can all see the potential. We see what technology can do. […] We know what’s possible, but we see — whether […]
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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2025
Greta Thunberg @gretathunberg has been kidnapped by the IDF on international waters! They do not own the Gaza strip by any legal standard, they are not allowed to decide who gets to dock or what they can or cannot bring. They are not the legal representation of Gaza, unless it is run as an open […]
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Taha Ahmed @solarchemist.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2025
Last chance to register for Nordic-RSE 2025 conference 20-21 May in Gothenburg. nordic-rse.org/nrse2025 I plan to give a lightning talk presenting my periodicdata R package :-) #RSE #NordicRSE #ResearchSoftwareEngineering
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
It's a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history. Please share it as much as you can. #InducedDemand
Slide by @toderianUW.bsky.social saying “Adding car lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.“ – Lewis Mumford, 1955
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