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🐝🌼 Did you know pesticides can change how and what bees forage, which can affect pollination? A study by Megan Elizabeth Deeter, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Lucy A. Snyder & Charlotte A. D. Meador shows that some pesticides cause bees to lose fat faster, pushing them to collect fattier pollen to make up for it. More of their findings in their dataset and article at doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.2235 & doi.org/10.1242/jeb.245404. Image: Deeter et al. (2023). CC BY 4.0
#OpenData #OpenScience #HoneyBees #Pollination

🚀 Digitalpolitik ist Gesellschaftspolitik!

#Digitalminister Wildberger fordert eine positive Zukunftserzählung – wir sagen: Das #Gemeinwohl muss ins Zentrum der #Digitalisierung!

🔗 Öffentliche digitale Infrastruktur heißt auch: Open Source, Open Data, #Wikipedia, #OpenStreetMap, #Fediverse & #Mastodon.

🏢 Offene digitale Infrastrukturen helfen auch der #Verwaltung beim Modernisieren. Mehr dazu bald – stay tuned!

Nächste Woche bei „LiLi revisited: Digitale Schnittstellenforschung zwischen Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik“:

📅 20. Mai, 10-12: @nilsreiter (Universität Köln): More Open Science is not always the same as better science
👀: Hybrid! Raum X-E1-201 / Zoom: uni-bielefeld.zoom-x.de/j/6273

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In 2010, #AaronSwartz downloaded 70 GB of articles from JSTOR. He faced a $1 million fine and 35 years in prison
➡️ Aaron took his own life in 2013.

#Meta illegally downloaded over 80 terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train its #AI models
➡️ facing no consequences.

Information is power, knowledge is power.

Beware and fight against those who want to keep you ignorant, unaware, and misinformed.

US National Inventory Of Dams [NID] [open spatial data]
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H/T Data Is Plural data-is-plural.com/
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“The National Inventory of Dams [nid.sec.usace.army.mil/] [is a is a congressionally authorized] ‘document[ing] all known dams in the U.S. and its territories that meet certain criteria’ related [nid.sec.usace.army.mil/#/about] to the dam’s height, reservoir size, and likely impacts of its ‘failure or mis-operation.’..."
#GIS #spatial #mapping #fedscience #NationalInventoryofDams #NLDI #US #USA #dams #criteria #inventory #opendata #downloadable #risk #hazard #infrastructure #energy #HEP #waterresources #hydroelectric #webmap #USACE #operations #dataset #safety #inspection #uses
@USACE @FEMA @EPA

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The state of these systems, the systems that municipalities use to meet their mandated #opendata requirements, are rough to say the least. I quickly discovered that not only were most cities not using legistar, even the cities that were using legistar might not have it configured correctly.

I had to start chipping away at the problem. City by city. County by county. Brick by brick.

Everywhere I could find a common pattern, I coded it up and applied it against more municipalities

6/n

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At this point I had Alameda, Oakland, and Berkeley meeting minutes live and searchable. I didn't feel "done", but I had other concerns (an infant, a startup, a host of family medical issues), and so things sat for a couple years

But I couldn't stop thinking about the potential. I couldn't stop thinking about what it would mean for journalists and activists and hell just normal citizens to have access to all the meeting data as #opendata, for their local govts, searchable and linkable.

4/n

avec un petit peu d'#archives (#archivesnationales) dedans 😇
RT @datagouvfr - 💌 L'équipe de data.gouv.fr suit tous les jeux de données et réutilisations publiés sur la plateforme. Chaque mois, nous vous concoctons une liste de nos coups de coeur.

Découvrez notre sélection d'avril dans cet article : data.gouv.fr/fr/posts/suivi-de
#opendata #GLAMarchives @archivistodon

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