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  It's nice to get a very detailed, clearly human-written review of a paper, even if it means there's potentially a lot to change for the camera-ready version. I need to keep remembering in my own reviews that I'm writing as much for the author as for the PC chairs and other reviewers. #eScience26

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  Following the update of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI, https://openscholarlyinfrastructure.org) to v2.0, @joss has updated its commitment to the principles in https://blog.joss.theoj.org/2026/07/JOSS-POSI

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  Looking at OpenReview.net, used by AAAI. What a good example of the failings of AI... I can't update my name to how I prefer it, or to change the email address associated with a submission made by a collegue, as far as I can tell, nor can he. Also, I see a submission to another conference associated with my record that's not actually mine, but likely a different Daniel Katz. But there's no way to manually make changes that I can find.

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  RE: https://fosstodon.org/@eosc_everse/116969077162192616 I hope to see some of you at this event

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  It's nice to see this article in #HPCWire about #RSE #RSEng at #PEARC26 - I'm looking forward to talking there on Tuesday next week https://www.hpcwire.com/2026/07/24/a-home-of-their-own-pearc26-debuts-a-dedicated-research-software-engineering-special-track/

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  This made me laugh - Politician reads AI prompt during assembly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlYa8NV5k-U

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  A Gray Catbird and American Pokeweed on a cool and misty morning in Champaign, IL, USA

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  A Coneflower Mining Bee on a Yellow Coneflower, Urbana, IL, USA

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  Yesterday/today might have been my worst work travel experience. I drove from Champaign to O'Hare, which took 30 minutes longer than normal (2 hrs, 15 min) due to traffic problems caused by very heavy rain and water on the road, which caused severe problems at the airport too. When I got to O'Hare, my 4 pm flight to Minneapolis was delayed to around 7 pm, along with all other flights, so I changed to the prior flight which was also delayed but only to 6, earlier than my origina...

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  https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18161

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  Given that Google is currently adding to messages to the top of Google Docs/sheets upselling their own services (I opened a sheet today and was asked if I wanted to use Gemini for phone calls, I think), I wonder how long it will be until we get third-party ads embedded there too, maybe specific to the content in the sheet/doc.

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  Birds seen in Puerto Rico in mid June: Caribbean Martin (13/x) #Birds #BirdPhotography #PuertoRico

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  During #FOR2026, I learned that I should read "Thinking like a business: Reconfiguring relationships to sustain open data infrastructures" by Kathleen Gregory and Dorothea Strecker (https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27580), which takes a political economy-based look at Dryad

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  Are there any Canadian institutions interested in research software within the Impact+ advanced digital technologies area?

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  I've had a good few days at #FOR2026 (https://opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-conference/), where I was on a panel, saw a bunch of people I know, and met even more people I didn't know, and then went to the bi-monthly meeting of the Munich RSE #RSEng chapter followed by a nice dinner, and am now ready to go home

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  It's interesting to me that no one yet (of the first 5 speakers at #FOR2026, a conference on open research) has provided a link to their slides. There's a bunch of interesting things here, but it's hard to follow-up on non-published (non-open?) slides

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  Spring birds in Champaign, IL, USA today: Bobolink (my first ever), Dickcissel (my first for the year), and a Black Tern (that I saw in the same place 5 years ago at this time of year) #Birds #BirdPhotography

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  A new paper: S. A. Besser, E. A. Jensen, D. S. Katz, "How generative AI is shaping research software development and maintenance at a research-intensive university [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]," Open Research Europe, 2026. https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.22009.1

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  Sharing from Bluesky: Today we're launching the Open Source for Science Fund, a new multi-donor philanthropic fund by Renaissance Philanthropy, seeded by Biohub and Wellcome Trust, with support from the Kavli Foundation and @researchsoft https://os4science.org/news/open-source-for-science-fund-launch/ From imaging the universe to modeling life at the molecular scale, science is built on open source software maintained by scientific communities. That infrastructure is systemically u...

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  At #FOR2026 yesterday, I learned from Carole Goble that Trust (in another person or organization) can be defined as their: (Credibility + Reliability + Intimacy) / Self-Orientation which is from Cathrin Stöver - Chief Communications Officer GÉANT (and in turn, is from Charles H. Green)

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  The Journal of Open Source Software (@joss) turns 10 today! Ten years, 3,500+ papers, 11,000+ authors, 4000+ reviewers, and a community that built something remarkable together. Thank you to everyone who's reviewed, edited, authored, or cheered us on along the way 💚 https://joss.theoj.org #openscience #opensource

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  After 10 years, Arfon Smith is stepping down as Editor-in-Chief of @joss A few thoughts from him on the decade: https://www.arfon.org/stepping-down-as-editor-in-chief-of-joss The call for a new EiC: https://blog.joss.theoj.org/2026/05/call-for-editor-in-chief #opensource #openscience

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  https://www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-de-poitrine-argument-for-ubi/

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  I wonder if there are organizations that track the number of internal hits on their retirement webpage as a sign of employee sentiment?

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  Interested in helping out with one of the most innovative, grassroots, publishing efforts around? The Journal of Open Source Software (@joss) is looking for editors: https://blog.joss.theoj.org/2025/08/call-for-editors We conduct collaborative checklist-based peer review of research software using GitHub issues. JOSS is a positive, rewarding, community-based reviewing/editing effort. I'm happy to answer questions if anyone is interested.

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  Seen while walking around East Central Illinois on a nice afternoon today: Bald Eagle and Eaglet, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Pond Slider, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (1/2) #Birds #BirdPhotography

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  RE: https://fosstodon.org/@researchsoft/116245545044086743 If you are interested in any aspect of #ResearchSoftware, including #RSEng, #funding, #publishing, #training, #metascience, #policy, etc., please consider submitting a proposal to and/or attending #IRSC26 (immediately before #RSECon26 in Sheffield, UK, in Sept). We're trying to bring all elements of the #ResearchSoftware community together

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  Every time I see "my substack", I read it as "my blog on a site that helps support Nazis"