Latest posts tagged with #SafeguardingResearch on Bluesky
Hier ist ein heute ausgestrahltes Interview, das ich Deutschlandfunk Kultur über mein neues (von der @dfg.de gefördertes) Projekt zur Rettung von US-Forschungsdaten gegeben habe: www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/warum-wir-fo... #DLFkultur #Bittorrent #SafeguardingResearch #Bibliotheken #Trump
👩🏻💻 Checking the Day 2 Wed. 23Oct programme at #OpenEngaged #OAWeek:
🌟Lightning talks: #SafeguardingResearch #Datarescue #CARE #OpenGLAM #Accessibility
🌟Technology, Power, and Equitable Design session. #LocalContexts #OpenCitations #OpenMetadata
✅ Register openscholarship.gitbook.io/open-and-eng...
The slides of my talk at #WHY2025 "Safeguarding Research & Culture: Save public data from the digital bookburnings!" are now online:
https://hu.berlin/SRC-WHY2025
More context: https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/B8DANE/
#SafeguardingResearch #SciOp
A group dealing with at-risk educational materials is looking for help:
"The Digital Public Goods Library is looking for librarian volunteers who have experience cataloging materials with education-related metadata in a digital library environment, to assist in identifying and making available […]
Hackathon: Data Under Threat/Data Rescuing in #München
The LMU OSC runs a hackathon to support the #SciOp #SafeguardingResearch initiative: Rescuing research data that is deleted by the Trump administration.
📅 07/08/25 from 16 – 19 (only in-person)
👉 Details and signup: github.com/lmu-osc/safe...
Very nice article about saving academic data, digital sovereignty, and some criticism re lack of transparency:
delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/saving-academ...
Featuring @frepa314 & @lavaeolus
#SafeguardingResearch
Data comes in many forms, but not every time there is a dataset ready to be saved:
We, together with @datarescueproject.org and partners need YOUR help in preserving American history – but this time, we need you to put on your ranger hat and boots, and trek to your local national park to […]
Hi @histodons
We (@SafeguardingResearch) have been working on creating a backup of Chronicling America.
(1 large pull + many smaller ones)
https://sciop.net/datasets/chronicling-america
Do you know of any similar activities?
Would be great to combine efforts :)
Boosts ✅
#SafeguardingResearch […]
Is here someone experienced in setting up #WikimediaCommons Upload Campaigns?
If yes, I got a question :)
Boosts very welcome
#Wikimedia
Slide with the title "Ignition Talk." The slide has a purple header with the title in white text. Below the header, the main title reads "On the Value of Being Unorthodox: Resilience in a Time of Hostility against Arts and Sciences." A quote by Kathy Reid is displayed: "As researchers, we often say, 'we need the data.' Today, the data needs us." The slide is attributed to Henrik Schönemann, with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, and the date is June 18th, 2025. The background of the slide is black, with white text for contrast.
"On the Value of Being Unorthodox: Resilience in a Time of Hostility against Arts and Sciences"
The slides of my ignition talk for #oscibar2025 can be found here:
https://hu.berlin/oscibar2025
#OpenScience #SafeguardingResearch
"Over the past five months, more than 3,000 taxpayer-funded data sets—many congressionally mandated—collected by federal agencies including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Center for Education Statistics, and the Census Bureau, have been caught in the cross fire." […]
Wissenschaft unter Druck. Was tun gegen Trump & Co? Wir diskutieren Lösungen Do. 5. Juni / 19-21 Uhr
Diesen Donnerstag 19-21 Uhr im Technik Salon Hannover + Livestream:
"Wissenschaft unter Druck. Was tun gegen Trump & Co?" mit @fuzzyleapfrog und mir, moderiert von @Lambo
technik-salon.de/2025/06/05/safeguarding-...
#SafeguardingResearch
For @SafeguardingResearch I'm currently looking for #autism related public material (US based).
If you know of any, please reply here.
Best would be a link + short explanation what it is/entails + why you consider it important.
🔁☑️
#SafeguardingResearch
Heya lovely people 👋
For #SciOp we (@SafeguardingResearch) are looking for dev contributions. There are a couple of bite-/morsel-sized tasks, e.g.:
- Make Publisher independent table https://codeberg.org/Safeguarding/sciop/issues/341
- Improve SearchableMixin to support full text search on […]
The outright wrecking of the scientific infrastructure in the US under the current administration chilled me to my bone. Kept me doomscrolling. But I finally found a way to do something positive, in a small way: I dedicated some storage space and a bit of my internet connection to a […]
In 5h I will be doing the first of semi-regular office hours / Q&A for @SafeguardingResearch
https://safeguar.de
https://sciop.net
Feel free to drop in!
More info:
fedihum.org/@SafeguardingResearch/11...
Both parts are now critical to the survival of our shared culture and information base."
"Patch the holes. Seed a torrent."
Specificly mentioning #SciOp ✊
sciop.net
#SafeguardingResearch @SafeguardingResearch
h/t @chartgerink
"Data hoarding is more important than ever"
www.spacebar.news/data-hoarding-more-impor...
"The hobby of data hoarding might be most closely associated with saving illegally-downloaded movies on mountains of hard drives, but archiving public media and information has always […]
Arbeitest du einem Max Planck Institut & hast Interesse / positive Gefühle re #SafeguardingResearch ?
Falls ja, bitte Direktnachricht :)
🔄☑️
“People have already tried to erase research [in the past]. We want to make sure that won’t happen again.”
Article on France24, featuring Data Rescue Project, PEDP, and @SafeguardingResearch.
I'm glad they let me point out the core ideas of our effort.
✊🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 […]
Screenshot of qbittorrent web interface showing 90 torrents that are currently downloading or seeding. Free space 12.5 TB, 9.5 MBit/s download speed, 1.6 TB total, 1.5 MBit/s upload speed, 115 GB total.
I joined the #safeguardingresearch #sciop torrent swarm to keep datasets from USA science institutions easily available.
Setup a qbittorrent Docker https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-qbittorrent/
Added dataset feeds by threat level (I went with […]
[Original post on social.luca.run]
Are there people here who rely directly on US-data that is being safeguarded either by @SafeguardingResearch or one of the other projects?
If yes, feel free to reply here (or via Signal, upon request) - we would love to hear your story/stories!
#SafeguardingResearch
PANGAEA & their data rescue in Nature:
"Pangaea’s decision to join the cause followed distress calls from members of the science community and from staff members inside NOAA — an agency that monitors Earth’s atmosphere and climate and provides weather-forecasting services." […]
A collaboration between @webrecorder and @SafeguardingResearch - a complete archive of covid-gov from April 11th 2025:
app.browsertrix.com/explore/usgov-archive/co...
#Covid #SafeguardingResearch
Crying some tears of joy and of released pressure/stress:
One of the large repositories in Germany started safeguarding datasets from #NOAA, officially.
www.linkedin.com/posts/gloeck...
pangaea.de
This is the culmination of weeks of work 💖
#SafeguardingResearch @safeguardingdata.bsky.social
Currently crying some tears of joy and of released pressure/stress:
One of the large repositories in Germany started safeguarding datasets from #NOAA, officially.
www.linkedin.com/posts/gloeckner_pangaea-... […]
Es bewegt sich hier auch etwas; auch wenn "hunderte Terabytes" schon naiv ist.
(Es geht mehrere hundert Petabytes)
Umweltdaten in Gefahr - Deutsche Forscher retten US-Datenbestände
Wegen der Umstrukturierungen in US-Behörden, die zentrale Plattformen für Umwelt- und Klimadaten bereitstellen […]
"While waiting for possible international initiatives, volunteers are acting to save what can be by archiving websites and not-too-large databases. [...] a data rescue group, Safeguarding Research and Culture. [...]"
We're getting coverage :) […]
This thread is going to be a bit of a whiny rant, so if you're not up for that kind of thing, best skip it.
A couple months ago a call went out on the interwebz from a researcher worried that the government data his research depended on, many terabytes, might be taken down. He asked people to […]
Archiving underway.
#SafeguardingResearch cc @SafeguardingResearch
https://weird.autos/@rootwyrm/114343301792346250
