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👉 "The core issue is that open source contributors are not paid fairly. 60% of open-source maintainers are unpaid volunteers, and just 13% make a living as professional project maintainers, according to the 2023 State of the Open Source Maintainer Report."

Boosts appreciated 🚀

➡️ https://www.infoworld.com/article/3557846/how-do-we-fund-open-source.html

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #SoftwareLibre #Business #KDE #Research #Science #NLnet #softwareDevelopment


Using Twitter/X to promote research findings found to have little impact on number of citations https://phys.org/news/2024-03-twitterx-impact-citations.html #science


Gotta go? We’ve finally found out what makes urine yellow - Enlarge (credit: Science Photo Library)

There are many mysteri... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1999349 #biochemistry #genomics #science #biology #urine


Born in 1896, biochemist Gerty Theresa Cori became the 1st woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (and the 3rd to win a Nobel Prize).

Cori faced gender discrimination & was marginalized for years. But she never gave up.

With her husband Carl, she discovered how glycogen is broken down & eventually stored as an energy source (aka the “Cori cycle”). They also identified the Cori ester. http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/women/cori.htm #HistoryRemix #science #history


Former Stanford president retracts Nature paper as another gets expression of concern

"The two Nature papers – which have together been cited more than 1,000 times, according to Clarivate’s Web of Science – were among five the university investigation examined on which Tessier-Lavigne was the principal author. The other three have been retracted – two from Science and one from Cell."

@academicchatter #ResearchIntegrity #Science #AcademicChatter
https://retractionwatch.com/2023/12/18/former-stanford-president-retracts-nature-paper-as-another-gets-expression-of-concern/


*cough*, if you're looking for Christmas presents, do consider Blue Machine.

"An absolutely beautiful book, exquisitely written and opening up a whole new world of information about our oceans."

https://www.lovereading.co.uk/book/9781911709107/isbn/Blue-Machine-by-Helen-Czerski.html

Also an FT and Times science book of the year.

#books #ocean #science


"The real plague affecting #science? It isn’t fraud" https://www.statnews.com/2016/12/01/plague-science-research-fraud/ Fraud is just an instance of the general sloppiness due to the #publishOrPerish evaluation of research - which, scientifically could be called #publishAndPerish

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