The research fairyHaving my email and legal name changed to my 
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for simplicity| Birdsite | yoyehudi |
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Yo Yehudi
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I like vegetables and open science 🏳️🌈🇳🇿🇮🇱🇬🇧🇪🇺
Montessori Space Programme 🛸Scholar One is making me die inside.
Joshua ChalifourOpen call for obsolete sounds! This project is really fascinating. They're requesting recordings of sounds from our environment, old tech, etc. that are no longer commonplace and then those will be reimagined by sound artists "to draw attention to the world’s disappearing soundscapes." https://citiesandmemory.com/2022/05/open-call-your-field-recordings-of-obsolete-sounds-wanted/
Or a toot thread 🙈
I'll wrap up my thread here, but leave a reminder: _planning_ and creating flexible data infrastructures and data champions is imperative. Millions have died, but with better information sharing we can create informed policy and put fewer people at risk.
The best time to plant that tree (appropriate pathogen data sharing infrastructure) was before the pandemic of course, but the next-best time to plant it is today. /End thread
Another thing. Pathogen spread is SO political! Multiple people from multiple countries told me about data that made the the government's grasp of the situation look bad that, ah, "disappeared". How can we follow the science if the governments are complicit in hiding information? /8
When a data scientist is modelling or explaining a spike or lull in pathogen spread, knowing the human mixing safety rules at the time is imperative! Ideally, laws would be machine-readible to feed automatically into computational models. /7
There's far more than I could possibly include in a tweet thread! One of the _most_ interesting findings I've had so far was that we need _temporal_ metadata, especially around geographical regions and mixing laws. I'll explain:
Lockdowns, masking, "no more than 6 in a group", etc. - usually it was possible to find out what rules were in place _today_, but it was MUCH harder to find out what the laws were, say, three months ago. BUT... /6
Digging into use barriers a little more, we note that they can include unreliable and untrustworthy data, disappearing or corrupt data, copy-pasting data from websites, PDFs, and even graphics (sob), and restrictive licence requirements.
Don't get me started on file formats! Apart from the notorious UK Excel bug https://bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54423988 - so so so many people talked about lack of compliance to data standards, hidden excel columns, downloading from databases and manually annotated files... /5
