Notices by Vicky Steeves (vickysteeves@octodon.social)

OMFG A FEDERATED SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS PLATFORM!

I literally cannot wait to dig into this!! It's what I've been wanting!

https://olki.loria.fr/platform/

#GitHub is blocking users based on national origin, citing US trade controls law restrictions....

People from #Iran, #Syria, #Crimea, #Cuba, and North Korea woke up one day to lose access to all their public and private repositories. There's reporting that even people *who traveled* to any of those countries in the last 2 years are losing their data...

And #GitHub has not said ONE WORD ABOUT IT.

:blobangery:

Read more: https://medium.com/@hamed/github-blocked-my-account-and-they-think-im-developing-nuclear-weapons-e7e1fe62cb74

One of my student workers is revamping my libguide and made this infographic of LB (@remram44 's and my cat) trying to describe the concept of metadata

I just -- :blobheartcat:

@xldrkp I am a librarian, I work in NYU's Division of Libraries but the Center for Data Science at NYU buys half my time.

I'm teaching a for-credit course at a library school in NYC but teach a lot of workshops in NYU libraries one-off.

The hardest part about getting folks to engage with git and git hosting platforms is the confidence factor. Instilling that confidence is step 1

IF YOU USE OPEN SOURCE STUFF in the course of your day-to-day, consider sending the maintainer a thank you note: https://www.thankyouopensource.com/

OSS can be really thankless, and this tiny note can make a world of difference.

Know #python & #databases?

Apply to this sweet job with ImpactStory, a very cool nonprofit that works on open scholcomm.

The job is the lead dev on Unpaywall, the index of all the free-to-read scholarly papers in the world.

#Job ad: https://blog.impactstory.org/hiring-lead-dev/

@ted a lot of public libraries do this for a fee for the general public, and most academic libraries deliver to people's mailboxes on campus

Why can't I find a ruby virtual environment? Every time I try to get Ruby going locally I mess something up. I just want like Python's virtualenv but for Ruby.

I hope to see everyone over on Gitlab if Microsoft acquires GH (or, y'know, before that, because GL > GH)

GitLab open sourced push mirroring and added it core. This is a great win for #decentralization!!! You can now run your own canonical GitLab instance & easily mirror to GitHub for findability.

Read more here: https://about.gitlab.com/2018/05/22/gitlab-10-8-released/#push-mirroring-now-open-source

Another reason why GitLab is #1

#federation #fediverse #decentralize

THE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES RELEASED THEIR JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION COSTS 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘

46% of 80 million Canadian dollars go to Elsevier. F*cking A.

Link to article & data: http://www.carl-abrc.ca/news/carl-members-release-journal-subscription-cost-data/

I posted my weather blanket (knit 1 row per day every day of 2017, the color of the yarn depends on a temp range) on /r/dataisbeautiful and it was taken down for 'not being a data viz'

It's a knitted heat map of the year. How is that not a data viz?