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#NewSpecies!
New frog from #ecuador just got in:
Hyloscirtus dispersus
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/43A76F83-26E6-5F84-81D2-F77878FB4876
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1231.124926
#ZooKeys #HyloscirtusDispersus
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #herpetology #herps #amphibia #frogfriday #frogs
#NewSpecies!
New cavefish from #china just swam in:
Claea scet
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DD63F2B6-96CD-5C12-BA14-55760FACDCB5
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.101.146469
#Zoosyst_Evo #ClaeaScet
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fish #TeamFish #fishofmastodon #fishfriday #ichthyology #caves #cavefish #loach
#NewSpecies!
New marine flatworm from #japan just crept in:
Prostheceraeus fragum
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F8378799-B22F-FF82-2C0E-FC27F930FA15
Publication: https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2439032
#JournalOfNaturalHistory #ProstheceraeusFragum
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #worms #flatworm
This presentation was developed for researchers and PhD students of Berdyansk University to promote the use of the open repository @zenodo_org as a key tool for preserving, publishing, and disseminating research outputs:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15089984
The presentation explains how to license research outputs properly, how to integrate Zenodo with services such as @ORCID_Org @GitHub and @OpenAIRE and how to align it with institutional and project-level DMPs.
ZenodoZenodo для дослідників: як зробити свої дані доступними та кориснимиЦя презентація створена для дослідників, викладачів і аспірантів Бердянського державного педагогічного університету з метою популяризації використання відкритого репозитарію Zenodo як ключового інструмента для збереження, публікації та поширення наукових результатів. У межах заходу розкрито значення принципів FAIR і CARE у контексті відкритої науки, а також представлено можливості, які надає Zenodo для публікації наукових статей, дослідницьких даних, програмного коду, навчальних матеріалів та інших результатів досліджень. Окрему увагу приділено університетській спільноті BDPU Open Science, що функціонує на платформі Zenodo та забезпечує централізовану підтримку політики відкритої науки в університеті. У презентації пояснюється, як правильно ліцензувати матеріали, як інтегрувати репозитарій із сервісами ORCID, GitHub, OpenAIRE, а також як включити Zenodo до плану управління дослідницькими даними (DMP). Демонструється, як використання Zenodo підвищує академічну видимість досліджень, забезпечує прозорість наукової діяльності та відповідає міжнародним стандартам управління даними.
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The full student mobility data and Python scripts used to produce the data are openly available in our #Zenodo:
https://zenodo.org/records/14332354
Read more in our blog post: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geography/2025/03/26/over-2-million-erasmus-student-mobility-flows-across-europe-geocoded-open-data-description-article-out/
ZenodoMobility of Erasmus+ students in Europe: Geolocated individual and aggregate mobility flows from 2014 to 2022General information This repository holds the spatially enriched Erasmus+ student mobility data from 2014 to 2022. It is based on the official Erasmus+ mobility raw data available from http://data.europa.eu/88u/dataset/erasmus-mobility-raw-data. The spatially enriched Erasmus+ student mobility data covers the period from 2014 to 2022, and is presented as four tabular files. For a detailed description on how these data were produced, please see the Scientific Data article of the same name. The files included are Erasmus_2014-2022_individual.csv The full individual-level student mobility dataset. Erasmus_2014-2022_individual.parquet.gzip The full individual-level student mobility dataset as a compressed parquet file. Erasmus_2014-2022_aggregate_LAU.csv The aggregated student mobility flows between LAU units. Erasmus_2014-2022_aggregate_NUTS.csv The aggregated student mobility flows between NUTS units. scripts.zip The analysis scripts used to produce this data, for most up-to-date scripts, remember to check out our GitHub repository README_DATA.md The README file describing each variable in the data. If you are using the data or scripts herein, please cite the Scientific Data article. Links related to the data publication: Mobi-Twin project official webpage Digital Geography Lab webpage
We have a new preprint out, which looks at the nonlinear response of summertime heat extremes across the United States in a collection of new overshoot scenario experiments using the 50-km GFDL SPEAR Large Ensemble: https://doi.org/10.31223/X5TX4P #OpenAccess #OpenScience
Takeaway story: Mitigating earlier has even greater benefits!
doi.orgLarge reductions in United States heat extremes found in overshoot simulations with SPEAR
#NewSpecies
A newly discovered fungus from #korea for #FungiFriday:
Hydnoporia subtabacina
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3512CF47-456B-5697-BB5F-FA39827A090F
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.111.137347
#MycoKeys #HydnoporiaSubtabacina
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #fungi #mushrooms #mycology
NEW PAPER OUT IN #PEDIATRICRESEARCH
We used quantitative susceptibility mapping (#QSM) to measure cerebral oxygenation in #preterm #neonates 
We explored whether isolating paramagnetic components improved the accuracy in major cerebral veins.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-025-03966-6
#openaccess #mri
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NatureThe application of magnetic susceptibility separation for measuring cerebral oxygenation in preterm neonates - Pediatric ResearchQuantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM), a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) modality sensitive to deoxyhemoglobin, is a promising method for measuring cerebral oxygenation in human neonates. Paramagnetic sources, like deoxyhemoglobin, however, can be obscured by diamagnetic sources such as water and myelin. This study evaluated whether QSM images, or isolated paramagnetic components, are more accurate for measuring oxygenation of cerebral veins of preterm neonates, and explored oxygenation differences between the major cerebral veins. 19 preterm neonates were scanned on at term equivalent age on a 3T MRI using a multi-echo susceptibility-weighted imaging sequence. Susceptibility values were calculated from QSM images to determine oxygen saturation (SvO2) in the superior sagittal sinus (SSS) and central cerebral veins (CCV). The paramagnetic components of QSM images were isolated, and SvO2 values were recalculated. The mean SvO2 values from QSM were 72.4% (SD, 3.4%) for the SSS and 68.7% (SD, 3.5%) for the CCV. SvO2 values for paramagnetic components were 58.1% (SD, 7.3%) for the SSS and 57.7% (SD, 7.0%) for the CCV. While paramagnetic component decomposition yielded SSS values closer to those found in the literature, it increased variability. No significant oxygenation differences were found between the SSS and CCV, contrasting with prior studies.
For those just learning about LibGen because of the reporting on Meta and other companies training LLMs on pirated books, I’d highly recommend the book Shadow Libraries (open access: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/3600/Shadow-LibrariesAccess-to-Knowledge-in-Global).
I just read it while working on the Wikipedia article about shadow libraries, and it’s a fascinating history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_library
I fear the already fraught conversations about shadow libraries will take a turn for the worse now that it’s overlapping with the incredibly fraught conversations about AI training.
Apparently, there is now a trend to pay publishers not once, not twice, but three times: the first time for subscription journals, the second time for publishing in open access journals, and now the third time for making articles in subscription journals available under an open-access license as part of transformative license agreements.
I mean, I'm very sympathetic to the ideas behind open access, but to me it looks more and more like the whole endeavor has been overrun by grifters.
Update. "#DOGE order leads to journal cancellations by U.S. agricultural library"
https://www.science.org/content/article/doge-order-leads-journal-cancellations-u-s-agricultural-library
"The #USDA on Friday told staff members it has canceled subscriptions carried by its National Agricultural Library as part of a drive by President Donald #Trump’s administration to cut federal spending. The move appears to drop nearly 400 of the library’s roughly 2000 journals, including many prominent in various agricultural subfields —but curiously none from the world’s three largest scientific publishers, all of which are #ForProfit. USDA staff members depicted the move as hasty, indiscriminate slashing…Studies of journal subscription fees indicate that on average, scientific #SocietyPublishers charge less than such for-profit companies."
PS: (1) Of course the best ag research should be #OpenAccess. But that's a goal, not the current reality, and while we work for that goal, policymaking agencies still need access the best research. (2) If efficiency requires budget cuts, why focus the cuts on journals from #nonprofit #publishers, which on average are lower in price and higher in quality?