Kudos to the #MIT Graduate Student Council for adopting "a resolution expressing support for campus libraries to exit big deal journal packages and calling for changes to promotion and tenure processes to move away from journal-based metrics."
https://www.heliosopen.org/campus-rpt-reform-case-studies/mit-graduate-student-council

Here's the resolution itself.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KLbj4UEGR8c_TT9sxt5D68JEIwDl7nof/view

#Assessment #BigDeals #Cancellations #ECR #JIF #Libraries #Metrics #Students

MIT Graduate Student Council β€” Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship

Graduate Student Voices Support for Scholarly Communication Reform The MIT Graduate Student Council recently passed a resolution expressing support for campus libraries to exit big deal journal packages and calling for changes to promotion and tenure processes to move away from journal-based me

Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship
#Bitnami has removed their container images and #Helm charts from 'main' registries like #Docker hub and whatnot for a while now, thanks to fucking #Broadcom - in order to lock them behind some enterprise contract or some shit. But. They've always been 'secretly' available still on some other registries like #Amazon 's #AWS #ECR Public Gallery (public.ecr.aws). Not anymore, they're planning to remove them on June 10. These fucking bitches.

πŸ”— https://community.broadcom.com/tanzu/blogs/beltran-rueda-borrego/2026/05/20/important-update-transitioning-bitnami-offerings-o

Everyone in the
#homelab/#DevOps community, please, mirror the shit out of their stuffs please before they're gone forever (June 10):

πŸ”— https://gallery.ecr.aws/bitnami

#Zot is one good OCI registry mirroring tool you could self-host to make this a lil easier:

πŸ”— https://github.com/project-zot/zot
Important Update: Transitioning Bitnami Offerings on AWS

RE: https://fediscience.org/@alexh/116518145538497476

This was really interesting πŸ‘

Some slides from the event have been posted here:
https://zenodo.org/communities/muecos/records?q=&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=newest

And some of the resources and topics that came up πŸ‘‡

The #ECR reviewer's platform aims to empower junior reviewers and equip #ECRs with the necessary skills to conduct methodologically rigorous reviews
ecr-reviewers.gitlab.io/guide/
#PostGraduate #PGR

#AcademicPublishing #NightshiftEditor #PeerReview #ResearchIntegrity

Exploring the differences between Azure Container Registry and AWS Elastic Container Registry in my latest blog post! Thoughts? 🌐 https://www.funkysi1701.com/posts/2026/acr-vs-ecr/ #Azure #AWS #Docker #Containers #DevOps #ACR #ECR #Cloud

We are looking for #PhDs and #Postdocs, who want to share their exciting #ChemBio research with a broad audience!

If you are interested, apply with a short abstract for a Flash Talk at the 6th Virtual ChemBioTalks on September 29th.

https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/14397633/chembio-flash

#Chemistry #FlashTalk #Talk #Presenting #Award #ECR

Fancy #Antarctic mini-doco on our 2024 #RossSea voyage with the Italian team aboard their Laura Bassi icebreaker who have worked the region for decades. The younger scientists aboard built collaborations that will last years -IF- we can support these young researchers and all their energy and ideas. See if you can spot who was interviewed after nearly 2 months at sea vs those back on shore πŸ€” #climate #science #ECR The majority of the vid was by the wonderful #LanaYoung who is now in the UK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oWvETTeWSQ

Voyage to the Ross Sea, Antarctica - monitoring a rapidly changing environment

YouTube
One of my fears of homelabbing is the reliance on (3rd party) #Docker/#container images that could just be gone someday. I've already had it happen once, with #Bitnami images (fuck #Broadcom).

One way I previously thought to combat this is to manually pull the image bundle and host it in your own container registry. This works, but obviously not a reasonable effort to do and reproduce for more than ~1-2 images.

Then, the moment I discovered
#Amazon/#AWS has such a thing that addresses this - pull through cache for their #ECR, I looked up on how I can have the same kind of setup on my #homelab, and sure enough, there are already several options. I went with #Zot, and it's working pretty freaking well. Now, anytime I pull any images from registries I've configured Zot to sync like #GitHub's ghcr.io, docker.io, public.ecr.aws, they'll all be pulled/cached first on my own Zot instance and stored for good there.

Man, I wish I looked into this much earlier - but better late than never.

πŸ”— https://github.com/project-zot/zot

πŸ”— https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECR/latest/userguide/pull-through-cache-creating-rule.html
GitHub - project-zot/zot: zot - A scale-out production-ready vendor-neutral OCI-native container image/artifact registry (purely based on OCI Distribution Specification)

zot - A scale-out production-ready vendor-neutral OCI-native container image/artifact registry (purely based on OCI Distribution Specification) - project-zot/zot

GitHub

#ECR save these dates!πŸ—“οΈ In the #PROSPECTS series, our team "Research Careers" will continue to provide information about the various DFG funding opportunities.
As the series is so popular, dates have already been set for the rest of the year. πŸ‘‡

Participation without registration - simply bookmark this link to the overview and find the access there shortly before the start:
➑️ https://www.dfg.de/en/research-funding/funding-opportunities/research-careers/info-talks