'Many individuals have jumped ship to smaller platforms such as Mastodon, Threads and Bluesky. In contrast, many research organisations remain on deck, playing to a diminishing audience. Until recently, I was one of them and before you read this as one of those melodramatic ‘I quit’ notices, this post is about what happens to these organisations.'

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2024/09/05/if-academic-x-is-sinking-where-are-research-organisations-going/

Welcome the latest addition to the tidyverse: duckplyr! 🎉

https://duckplyr.tidyverse.org/

The duckplyr package aims to be a fully compatible drop-in replacement for dplyr, using duckdb when it can for performance, and always giving the same results as plain dplyr. If you haven't seen it yet, give it a try and tell us how it works for you!

Have you ever given a presentation and wished you had an #rstats or #python console right there in your slides with you? Based on a great suggestion from a webR user, Quarto Drop is a #quarto extension that adds a fullscreen interactive console and code editor directly into a #quarto reveal.js presentation. The console is powered by #wasm, using #webR or #pyodide, and can be dropped down from above or hidden away with the click of a button or a shortcut key.

https://github.com/r-wasm/quarto-drop

Mapstodon.space is a Mastodon server for cartography & geospatial professionals and enthusiasts. Ask questions, share your maps, chat around, enjoy the emojis!

 https://mapstodon.space

You can find out more at https://mapstodon.space/about or contact the admin @jeremy

#FeaturedServer #Maps #Mapping #Cartography #Geospatial #GIS #Cartographers #Cartographer #Map #Mappers #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

🆕 blog! “Rebuilding FourSquare for ActivityPub using OpenStreetMap”

I used to like the original FourSquare. The "mayor" stuff was a bit silly, and my friends never left that many reviews, but I loved being able to signal to my friends "I am at this cool museum" or "We're at this pub if you want to meet" or "Spendi…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/rebuilding-foursquare-for-activitypub-using-openstreetmap/
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#ActivityPub #fediverse #FOURSQUARE #geolocation #OpenStreetMap

I usually love the work of Philip Ball, but what the hell is this:

"Is AI leading to a reproducibility crisis in science?"
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03817-6

I mean the first many labs project was published in 2012! We really don't need AI - we have been perfectly capable of creating a reproducibility crisis in science all by ourselves. Humans and GlamMagz like the rag where this article is published in, are all it took. This article just completely ignores all the data we already have.

#openscience