Zack Batist

@zackbatist@archaeo.social
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Postdoc at McGill. I research collaborative research practices and the uptake of new tools that reconfigure knowledge production, especially in archaeology and the social sciences and humanities, and now also in epidemiology.

Specifically: data sharing, open source communities of practice, and the cultural and epistemic implications of open science infrastructures and policy.

Also interested in bad sci-fi, experimental and DIY tech stuff and point-and-click video games :)

Webhttps://zackbatist.info
Bloghttps://blog.zackbatist.info
GitHubhttps://github.com/zackbatist
CatsEllie & Bob
Zack Batist11h ago
Show threadMathieu Jacomy11h ago

I wish it was easier to capture more nuanced community structures. Because the real world is more complicated than two separated communities. It's does not boil down to "clusters". I wonder if we're obsessed with polarized structures because it's hard to see the more nuanced ones.

We may be in a computational social science conference, what I see is that design shapes the tools we use to think, and model the world.

I want to account for the nuance and ambiguity of the world!

5/5

Zack Batist5d ago
Samuel Moore5d ago

Transparency as a substitute for governance: on Nature’s open review process

https://wp.me/paGQY4-ps

Transparency as a substitute for governance: on Nature’s open review process

The highly prestigious journal Nature this week announced that it is going to be publishing all peer reviews alongside the articles it publishes. This means that the reviews attached to each public…

Samuel Moore
Zack Batist6d ago
Alain Queffelec6d ago
The DAFNEE database of academia-friendly journals is now using @OpenAlex instead of PubMed to find your papers for the author index.
That's great especially for #archaeology since most are not indexed in PubMed.
Go see the second tab on https://dafnee.isem-evolution.fr !
@GaltierNicolas
DAFNEE, a Database of Academia Friendly jourNals in Ecology and Evolution

Show threadZack BatistJun 13
Now attempting to circumvent the whole mess using machine learning to extract references from PDFs
Show threadZack BatistJun 13
Metadata is only useful if it exists
Show threadZack BatistJun 13

Open scholarly metadata is actually such a huge mess, especially for monographs, edited volumes, grey lit, i.e. anything that isn't an english STEM journal article.

Which actually explains so much about why the "metascience" scene is how it is....

#metascience #metaresearch #bibliometrics

Zack BatistJun 12
Having to extract lists of references from monographs and chapters and edited volumes, in norwegian 😖
Zack BatistJun 9
ellie
Zack BatistJun 6
Shawn GrahamJun 6

Personal Knowledge Management for JupyterLite and JupyterLab

I've spend a lot of time rubber ducking and cobbling together an extension for the Jupyter ecosystem that extends its interface for markdown such that JupyterLab (and its Desktop and Lite versions) can be used as a personal knowledge management system, linking ipynb files into that ecosystem, enabling code block and code output blocks to be embedded in md files, backlinks, wikilinks, etc.

http://electricarchaeology.ca/2025/06/06/personal-knowledge-management-for-jupyterlite-and-jupyterlab/

Personal Knowledge Management for JupyterLite and JupyterLab

I’ve spend a lot of time rubber ducking and cobbling together an extension for the Jupyter ecosystem that extends its interface for markdown such that JupyterLab (and its Desktop and Lite ver…

Electric Archaeology
Zack BatistJun 6
Show threadCAA SSLAJun 6

To all the new friendly faces that showed up today, please stick around! We hold monthly meetings where we talk about developments in scripting and other computer-related topics, we make resources to support the #DigitalArchaeology community, and organize workshops and conference sessions too!

We welcome anyone who wants to lead or contribute to our collective efforts to join us in our next session on July 4!

Or simply join our matrix chatroom to stay connected!
https://matrix.to/#/#caa-ssla:archaeo.social

You're invited to talk on Matrix

You're invited to talk on Matrix