@mrundkvist Whether or not we're actually "early career" there seems to be a bias against the future. Maybe a bad analogy: playing poker with rules established 100 years ago, each year the dealer removes a card from the deck, but recent years they've been removing 3-5 cards or more, making it more difficult to get a useful hand. As job seekers we gotta make do with the cards dealt, be friends with the dealer or bring our own cards to supplement the missing ones. Or leave the table entirely.

@mrundkvist Yep, this is the experience of being an early career researcher in the 21st century! The system does not align with actual modern reality, so embrace serendipity if you can hold out long enough (that's how I got my current position, in a field that I never had any real intention of participating in before)

@mrundkvist Sorry to hear! I had similar mixed experiences during my ~1 year looking for work, often piled onto the same day or week. It can be really disorienting, so just celebrate the wins and treat the rejections as "to be continued..."

@sarae Sorry you had to go through that!

@sarae Yes, I definitely agree it's a dick move. However, for people who aren't researchers and don't know proper decorum I can kinda see their perspective on this. The situation I'm referring to was someone working outside N. America and in health sciences, and it was easier to simply reject the request (they were asking for granular participant records) with a note to get in touch with the PI.

Yesterday a colleague told me that someone once requested her research data through FOI-like government transparency request and now I'm curious if this can be considered one way of doing open data. Has anyone here had a similar experience?

Open Letter to @organicmaps Shareholders:

https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareholders-a0bf770c

#openstreetmap #organicmaps #foss

"But the most highly cited papers generally aren’t the most famous scientific discoveries. Rather, these works tend to describe scientific methods or software, the workhorses on which scientists depend."

From https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-01125-9

#ResearchSoftware

@danielskatz kinda reminiscent of my finding that git repositories with most collaborations are those that compile lists, document policies or present values to the community, ie work that tends to most closely resemble academic service and community-making

#QualCoder #open #qualitative #research #curriculum is now available in beta at https://ndporter.github.io/open-qualitative-research-qualcoder/. If you use it, or have suggestions to improve, please mesage me here or open an issue on GitHub.#cc-by

@amanjeev This question is the root of why there is essentially no publicly-funded open science infrastructure in Canada at all. I'd love it if I were wrong, but you're probably gonna have a hard time achieving this goal.

New on Epoiesen, A Journal for Creative Engagement in History and Archaeology

Gareth Beale, Lizzie Robertson, Nicole Smith, "What Next for Archaeological Representation?: Towards a creative practice of digital archaeology".

https://epoiesen.carleton.ca/2025/03/17/what-next-for-archaeological-representation/

Another grant rejection

A decade building platforms for this or that and it's all just sandcastles.

Open data, open science, and reproducibility crisis discourse is quaint when there is literal information war at your doorstep and none of the loudest voices are to be found

Dear community,
my friend is thinking about joining Mastodon and/or the fediverse. Specifically, she is looking for the #spanish speaking #archeology community!
As we all know it is notoriously difficult to find a server that matches our preferences (language, region, interests, moderation policies...)
Aggregators like www.joinmastodon.org or #fedigarden rely on server #admins to register their instances (*cough I would not have found fedihum there)
edit: thank you! You helped a lot!

@sebastienmaret Yes, see: https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/, https://forgejo.org/2023-01-10-answering-forgejo-federation-questions/

Seeking an #OER introduction to #archaeology textbook for #highered undergraduate class.

Suggestions and boosts very welcome.

Examples of what I'm trying to replace. Textbook info in link. Table of contents in image.

https://faculty.cengage.com/works/9781133608646

Thanks!

cc #academicchatter #academia #anthropology

@textfiles Are you working with or supporting any of the existing and long-established digital heritage initiatives based in Europe? Or just doing your own thing?

@europeana, @nfdi4culture, @nfdi4objects, Ariadne (https://ariadne-infrastructure.eu) (among others)

@NikaShilobod It happens! Do whatever brings you joy in the meantime :)