Major shift in scientific infrastructure: arXiv is leaving university governance to become an independent organization.
While some see this as a gain in long-term stability, others point to a possible move toward commercialization.
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📢 Designing Trust: Why Visual Identity Matters for Citizen Science Infrastructure❗
✳️ Within the Horizon Europe-funded @RIECS_Concept project, Deliverable 6.2 introduces a comprehensive Digital and Visual Identity that turns communication into a strategic asset for infrastructure development.
🔗 More information can be found here: https://concept.riecs.eu/deliverables/
Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) has rejoined the mybinder.org federation, contributing a new node on OVH Cloud alongside 2i2c and GESIS.
When Hetzner object storage began failing, the BIDS node stepped in and handled 50% of global traffic: serving 64,000+ users without disruption. This is exactly why distributed infrastructure matters for open science tools.
Interested in joining the federation? Read more: #Jupyter #OpenSource #ResearchInfrastructure #OpenScience
Glad to have participated in this important discussion.
The report from @BarcelonaDORI brings together insights on funding, governance, community engagement, and long-term support.
The Working Group Sustaining Infrastructures of the Barcelona Declaration examines how open infrastructures for research information can be sustainably supported across the research ecosystem. As part of this work, the Working Group is exploring different governance approaches, sustainability models, and forms of community engagement that underpin existing infrastructures. In September and October 2025, the Working Group organized two knowledge-sharing sessions with open infrastructures (Session 1) and initiatives operating at the ecosystem level (Session 2) to discuss sustainability models and how these can be strengthened through community engagement, coordination, transparency, and strategic investment.The sessions aimed at knowledge sharing and identifying where the Barcelona Declaration community (and the Working Group in particular), can most effectively contribute in supporting signatories as they transition toward open research information.Additional materialsSession on Open Infrastructures🖥️ Presentations: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18187006🎬 Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf_5px0PjzsSession on Related Initiatives🖥️ Presentations: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18188254🎬 Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf_5px0Pjzs
Something that surfaced repeatedly in our MoCHI workshops but wasn't in our original 11 themes: resilience.
Not just survival — but adaptability. Financial, technical, political, organizational.
Past longevity ≠ future resilience. That distinction matters more than ever right now.
Read more: https://investinopen.org/blog/building-trust-through-values-what-we-learned-from-the-mochi-project/
We wrapped up the MoCHI project — a year-long study of how community health frameworks and metrics shape decisions about open research infrastructure.
Key finding: frameworks like CHAOSS, FOREST, and POSI are useful — but mainly for internal self-assessment, not external evaluation.
What stakeholders actually use? 11 recurring themes, shaped by trust and tension.
Full report + blog: https://investinopen.org/blog/building-trust-through-values-what-we-learned-from-the-mochi-project/
I’m hiring a Senior Research Infrastructure Engineer (Cybersecurity) to help secure the systems behind Baskerville, the UK’s new £18M National (High Performance) Compute Resource, being built at the University of Birmingham, supporting cutting-edge and crucial science.
#infosecjobs #infosec #jobs #highperformancecomputing #cybersecurity #cybersecurityjobs #cyberjobs #research #rse #researchinfrastructure
Help secure a national GPU supercomputing platform powering cutting-edge science! I’m hiring a Senior Research Infrastructure Engineer (Cybersecurity) to help secure the systems behind Baskerville, the UK’s new £18M National (High Performance) Compute Resource, being built at the University of Birmingham. Baskerville is a large-scale GPU supercomputing platform supporting researchers across the UK working on challenges such as: • Clean energy and energy storage • Environmental sustainability • Advanced materials and critical minerals • AI and data-intensive science • Medicine and medical technologies The interesting part of this role is solving the security challenges that come with large research computing platforms: • Securing multi-tenant Linux and GPU clusters running arbitrary research workloads • Protecting sensitive data while enabling open scientific collaboration • Applying pragmatic security controls in HPC environments designed for performance and scale You’ll help shape the security architecture of a national research computing platform, working closely with HPC engineers and researchers to design controls that work in real scientific environments. If you enjoy working at the intersection of cyber security, Linux systems engineering and high-performance computing, I’d love to hear from you. Happy to answer questions about the role or about Baskerville. Please share with anyone in HPC, research computing, Linux infrastructure, or security engineering who might be interested. 🔗 Find out more about this role and 3 others in Advanced Research Computing: https://lnkd.in/eEafPFve Apply here:👉https://lnkd.in/e8R_fzBW #Jobs #BaskervilleNCR #HPC #ResearchComputing #CyberSecurity #CareerOpportunities #CyberSecurityJobs #CyberJobs #LinuxJobs #RSE #Supercomputing
Yesterday at the #SciLake closing event, we explored how the #SciLake project is helping turn fragmented scientific knowledge into more connected, discoverable insights through Scientific Knowledge Graphs.
We’ll be sharing highlights from the discussion soon.
#SciLake #KnowledgeGraphs #OpenScience #EOSC #ResearchData #ResearchInfrastructure
CLARIN ERIC is looking for a software developer (Java, XML, Docker, Web). Read more and apply here: https://www.clarin.eu/news/job-opening-software-engineer
#ResearchInfrastructure #DigitalHumanities #ComputationLinguistics #Java #XML #Docker #Developer #Job #Vacancy #CLARIN #CLARINERIC
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