Can your analysis be reproduced by someone else? By you, in six months?

Reproducibility isn't just about publishing code — it's about documenting your environment, your data, and every decision along the way.

Small steps: use virtual environments, pin your dependencies, write a README.

👉 https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/reproducible-research/

#Reproducibility #OpenScience #ResearchData #DataLiteracy
— bos

The 3-2-1 backup rule for research data:

3️⃣ Keep 3 copies of your data
2️⃣ Store them on 2 different media types
1️⃣ Keep 1 copy off-site

Hard drives fail. Laptops get stolen. Cloud services go down. Your data is worth more than your equipment. Take care of it and spend some thoughts how to manage it.

👉 https://forschungsdaten.info/themen/organisieren-und-aufbereiten/speichern-und-sichern/

#DataBackup #RDM #ResearchData #DataSafety
— bos

Interested in learning how to use LaTeX but don't know where to start?
Want to see how to move away from MS Word and still make professional looking papers?

Join us in person in Cologne on April 9th and 10th for a FREE LaTeX workshop presented by DKZ.2R!

Additional Info and Registration here 👉 https://www.dkz2r.de/events/2026-04-09-latex-academic-publishing/

#TeXLaTeX #AcademicWriting #Research #Workshop

Still fighting with Word to format your thesis? LaTeX handles citations, cross-references, figures, and formatting automatically — so you can focus on writing, not fixing page breaks.

Our workshop covers everything from setup to submission-ready documents.

Have a look at the self-learn content we created in the style of @thecarpentries

👉 https://dkz2r.github.io/latex-novice-academic-publishing/01-introduction.html

#TeXLaTeX #AcademicWriting #Research #Workshop

/bos

Sometimes you just need to talk through a data problem with someone who gets it.

That's the idea behind our Data Cafés — informal drop-in sessions where researchers discuss data challenges over coffee. No registration, no slides, just conversation.

Have a look at our past events we had, for example at @rwthaachenuniversity

👉 https://blog.rwth-aachen.de/forschungsdaten/en/2025/07/31/data-cafe-aachen/

#DataCafe #DataLiteracy #Research #Networking

/bos

Excellent article, by Blain Smith (@blainsmith), on the need for a broader education, especially for computer programmers:

https://blainsmith.com/essays/humanities-in-the-machine/

Thanks to Sacha Chua (@sacha) for including this in her most recent weekly Emacs news post.

Edit: proper links for people mentioned.

#Emacs #Unix #C

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