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Jorge Saturno

💛 Please consider donating to the Open Science Network: opencollective.com/bonfire-n...

Your contribution will really be of help to the project.

#OpenScience #OpenAccess #Fediverse

Jorge Saturno

"It’s never been more evident that for-profit publishing simply does not align with the aims of scholarly inquiry."

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#OpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccess

#DiamondOpenAccess #OpenAccess

Open Science Network

The http://openscience.network project is more than a #federated digital space. It's a network to collectively discover, produce and participate to the most relevant #openscience discussions on the fediverse and beyond.

In the public homepage, the editorial team pins posts for anyone to read - as an alternative to the most recent activities (often meaningless to the general audience )

Imagine every university, collective and lab owning their federated digital space and radically transforming their usual social networking presence in powerful ways:

- Curate and organize discussions in topics, moving beyond feeds and toward structured journals composed of federated discussions and links

- Discover and read papers directly from the scientist social profile

- Collaborate on new ideas in the open, instead of being siloed inside centralized platforms, publish papers from the fediverse

And this is only the beginning! Support us building the next infrastructure for open science!

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Leibniz Open Science

Webinar announcing the Global Diamond Open Access Alliance https://www.coalition-s.org/webinar-announcing-the-global-diamond-open-access-alliance/

Open Science Network

Hello, Fediverse friends! 👋

We're excited to announce that from now on, we'll be sharing updates about the Open Science Network development from our own federated Bonfire instance.

The Open Science Network initiative, led by @bonfire@indieweb.social in collaboration with open science advocates and scientific communities, aims to address the challenges in modern scientific collaboration. We're developing a federated digital space that embodies and fosters open science and FAIR principles, governed by the scholarly community itself.

Our solution is an open-source, self-governed, and federated digital space that scientific organizations can autonomously set up and confidently use to streamline and empower their workflow. By leveraging ActivityPub, we connect with other scientific organizations in the wider network. Unlike existing centralized and siloed platforms, our solution provides a modular, open-source, and federated framework that allows organizations to cultivate collaboration while maintaining control over scientific data, relationships, governance, and work.

Open Code and Modular

Open-source code is the backbone of transparent and collaborative science. Combined with a modular architecture, it empowers community-driven improvements and adaptations, fosters trust through transparency, and reduces barriers to entry for new contributors. Open and Modular code fosters a vibrant ecosystem where ideas can flourish and scientific progress accelerates.

Open Protocol

ActivityPub, our chosen open protocol, is vital for true decentralization and for preventing Enshittification (as defined by @pluralistic@mamot.fr ), vendor lock-in, and data silos. It empowers users to choose their preferred instance or set up a new one and facilitates a global, interconnected scientific community.

Open Governance

Open governance ensures that our digital space evolves with its community, by giving voice to all stakeholders in decision-making and aligning platform development with user needs, cultivating accountability and transparency.

Our vision is to create a digital commons for science, where researchers can collaborate freely, share knowledge effectively, and advance scientific discovery in an open and transparent manner.

Follow us to stay updated on our progress. We welcome partnerships and collaborations – reach out to us here or at team@openscience.network to join our network and help shape the future of open science.

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Recent Activities

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Cristoffyr

@Cristoffyr@toot.wales yesterday

Helô bawb. Dw i'n newydd yma 😄

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Aegir

@aegir@toot.wales yesterday

Passion flowers are so ridiculous. #BloomScrolling

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A passion flower viewed mostly face-on. Regular looking petals in the back, a fringe of thin tubular ones, then in front of the purple centre five green T-shaped structures, and in front of those three purple horn shaped things.

The passion flower viewed side on, showing the green and purple structures held on a stalk in front of the rest of the flower.

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Anemone Nemorosa

@SensitiveSyl@beige.party yesterday

#flowers #bloomscrolling #wildflowers #macro #photography

Macro photograph of a whitish pink clover flower, open at the end of its stem, with two other green strands in the background, in soft late afternoon light.

Photographie macro d'une fleur de trèfle rose blanchâtre, ouverte et au bout de sa tige, avec deux autres brins verts en arrière-plan, dans une douce lumière de fin de journée. — Macro photograph of a whitish pink clover flower, open at the end of its stem, with two other green strands in the background, in soft late afternoon light. Photographie macro d'une fleur de trèfle rose blanchâtre, ouverte et au bout de sa tige, avec deux autres brins verts en arrière-plan, dans une douce lumière de fin de journée.

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the baywindowgirl

@thebaywindowgirl@toot.wales 15 hr. ago

Look, it’s a #TinyBalancingSheep

Colour photograph of a wooden gate post with a metal five bar gate there is a sheep in the field behind which has been photographed so to look as if it is balancing on top of the gate post.

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the baywindowgirl

@thebaywindowgirl@toot.wales 15 hr. ago

#FootpathFriday #northumberland

Colour photograph of a gravel path running away from the viewer between short grass and trees. There is a figure walking away from the viewer at the end of the path.

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@jaz@toot.wales 15 hr. ago

Check out my new Cute & Quirky Animals collection (and tell me if I'm missing some):

https://toot.wales/collections/117156503481759258

Tŵt Cymru | Toot Wales

Cute and Quirky Animals

Nation.Cymru

@NationCymru@toot.wales yesterday

Contractor appointed to replace damaged bridge on key Valleys route
#News

https://nation.cymru/news/contractor-appointed-to-replace-damaged-bridge-on-key-valleys-route/

Nation.Cymru

Contractor appointed to replace damaged bridge on key Valleys route

Nation.Cymru staff A contractor has been appointed to replace a deteriorating bridge on a key route after safety inspections uncovered significant cracks in its deck. Bridgend County Borough Council has appointed local company Centregreat Limited to carry out the replacement of the A4061 river bridge at Blackmill, the main route in and out of the […]

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@jaz@toot.wales yesterday

@NationCymru I'm no engineer, but that looks like a road.

Nation.Cymru

@NationCymru@toot.wales yesterday

Contractor appointed to replace damaged bridge on key Valleys route
#News

https://nation.cymru/news/contractor-appointed-to-replace-damaged-bridge-on-key-valleys-route/

Nation.Cymru

Contractor appointed to replace damaged bridge on key Valleys route

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@jaz@toot.wales yesterday

Check out my new #Photography collection:

https://toot.wales/collections/117156444129495798

Tŵt Cymru | Toot Wales

Photography

A mix of nature, landscape, and urban photography.

Cristoffyr

@Cristoffyr@toot.wales yesterday

Helô bawb. Dw i'n newydd yma 😄

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@jaz@toot.wales yesterday

@Cristoffyr Croeso!

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@jaz@toot.wales yesterday

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/sep/03/ig-nobel-prize-awards-2026-winners

the Guardian

Rich people more likely to steal children’s sweets, finds Ig Nobel prize-winning study

We round up the winners at awards for achievements that ‘first make people laugh and then make them think’

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@jaz@toot.wales 4 wk. ago

If you're attending #COSCUP2026 and want to talk about / learn about the Fediverse, talk about admin or moderating a service, or learn about @iftas that's why I'm here.

Look for the man with a bad haircut, no shave, and one of these tshirts:

( Or message me to arrange a meetup )

Two black tshirts, one says "toot.wales" the other has a bio from a bot account

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Michael Foster

@michael@backend.newsmast.org 4 wk. ago

#COSCUP here we go! Cc @newsmast

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pixelfed

@pixelfed@mastodon.social 4 wk. ago

We are aware of a spam campaign of accounts like "supportbot" that attempted to impersonate pixelfed.social staff and get users to click on a malicious link.

I (@dansup) was on the way home from FediCon when the reports came in, and I promptly suspended those accounts.

*Official communications from pixelfed.social admins/staff will only be sent via email, never DMs or comments.*

We are working on improved measures to prevent this type of abuse.

Please spread this message!

#Pixelfed

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IFTAS

@iftas@mastodon.iftas.org last wk.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/26/meta-social-media-addiction-trial-settlement

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