bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Road Performance Analysis (Case Study: Jl. Kakialy Ambon City)
Authors: Metekohy Selly , Metekohy Juliet G.
Published: August 2023

The number of residents in Ambon City every year has increased, therefore the number of increases in vehicle volume is directly proportional to the number of population growth, and in line with the increasing problem of traffic congestion. One of the traffic jams that occur in Ambon City is on the Kakialy road, which is caused by side obstacles due to unattended vehicle parking on the road, especially during rush hour or peak hours (during school and after school or commuting and returning from work). The existence of community facilities such as shops, fast food areas, hotels, and residential areas is also one of the triggers for road body parking which causes congestion on the Kakialy road section. Therefore, this study was conducted to find out how the performance of the Kakialy road section during peak and normal hours. The method used is a descriptive survey that uses data collection techniques in the form of observation and documentation studies for the calculation of capacity and speed on urban roads using the Indonesian Road Capacity Manual (MKJI) method. The results of data analysis show that the capacity of peak hours at 12.00-13.00 WIT) is 18,721 junior high school/hour and normal hours at 16.00-17.00 WIT is 15,037.8 junior high school/hour, with a vehicle density value (DS) at peak hours of 0.59. The average side resistance data in peak hours has a weighted frequency of 366.6 SMP/hour so it belongs to the medium side resistance class (M), and the average side resistance in normal hours has a weighted frequency of 148.7 SMP/hour, including the low side resistance class (L). So that after going through the calculation analysis process, it is concluded that the vehicle density value (DS) at peak hours (12.00 – 13.00 WIT) is 0.59 and is categorized in Level Of Service (LOS) C which means medium performance. While the vehicle density value (DS) during normal hours (16.00 – 17.00 WIT) is 0.45 and is categorized in Level Of Service (LOS) B which means good performance.
¿Dónde estamos y qué objetivos debemos lograr?
Authors: Sáez Martín
Published: August 2023

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Hat die ökonomische Macht von Unternehmen in Österreich zugenommen? Teil 2
Authors: Reiner Christian , Bellak Christian
Published: August 2023

Dieser Beitrag thematisiert die ökonomische Macht von Unternehmen in Österreich und stellt die Frage, ob diese – wie auch in anderen OECD-Ländern – zugenommen hat. Auf Basis unterschiedlicher Methoden, Indikatoren und Daten werden empirische Schätzungen zu Markups diskutiert und damit die Grundlage für eine aktuelle Einschätzung der Entwicklung der Marktmacht österreichischer Unternehmen im internationalen Vergleich geschaffen. Die Evidenz über Markups wird durch weitere Indikatoren, wie Konzentrationsraten, Unternehmensdynamik oder Profitabilität ergänzt. Zusammengenommen lässt sich – mit entsprechender Vorsicht – schlussfolgern, dass die Macht von Unternehmen in Österreich in der jüngsten Vergangenheit gestiegen ist. Die Markups österreichischer Unternehmen sind nicht nur vergleichsweise hoch, sondern zeigen auch einen positiven Trend. Insbesondere die ebenfalls zunehmenden Profitindikatoren zeigen, dass die höheren Markups nicht nur wegen steigender Fixkosten zugenommen haben. Die Einbettung der heimischen Entwicklungen in die internationale Diskussion über Unternehmensmacht zeigt nicht nur viele Parallelen zu einigen anderen europäischen Ländern sowie den USA, sondern beweist auch die Notwendigkeit einer Debatte für Österreich.
Pesquisa Multidisciplinar em Saúde - Edição IV
Authors:   Guilherme Barroso Langoni de Freitas,   Ariádine Reder Custodio de Souza,   Egidia Maria Moura de Paulo Martins Vieira,   Igor Queiroz Franco
Published: August 2023

O atendimento, abordagem e pesquisa de equipes multidisciplinares é o modelo recomendado pela Organização Mundial de Saúde. Os cuidados são prestados por profissionais de habilidades diversas, os quais se complementam para elevar o conhecimento dos casos e aumentar a chance de resolução e prevenção de problemas. Essa união é conhecida como cuidados multidisciplinares, ou seja, profissionais de uma série de disciplinas trabalham juntos para oferecer cuidados abrangentes que atendam ao maior número possível de necessidades do paciente. Isso pode ser entre-gue por uma série de profissionais funcionando como uma equipe sob um guarda-chuva organizacional ou por profissionais de várias organizações. À medida que a condição de um paciente muda ao longo do tempo, a composição da equipe pode mudar para refletir as mudanças nas necessidades clínicas e psicossociais do paciente. Para acadêmicos e docentes, manter o elo da multidisciplinaridade abra a visão do conhecimento e permite que os indivíduos envolvidos saiam das suas zonas de confor-to e atinjam graus de conhecimento não adquiridos apenas nas emendas tradicionais de cada curso. Desta forma, a Editora Pasteur organizou este livro com trabalhos selecionados, com objetivo de proporcionar ao leitor um material de qualidade, com leitura agradável e que possa elevar o conteúdo dos amantes da inter-transmultidisciplinaridade.
A quote and some random thoughts on plagarism
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

-F. O. Matthiessen, American Renaissance 1941. Thanks to academhack for pointing me to this great quote. Given the spirit of the quote I don’t think he’ll mind me reposting it. I find this to be a particularly relevant in light of recent discussion about tracking down self-plagarism and how grave an offense it may be. I’m not saying that self, and regular, plagarism aren’t serious issues.
Please help with OpenCitations’ entry in Wikipedia
Authors: Shotton David M.
Published: August 2023

The Wikipedia entry for OpenCitations is woefully out of date, inaccurate and brief. As Directors of OpenCitations, Silvio and I are unable to improve this situation because of Wikipedia’s proper conflict-of-interest restriction on self-promotion. OpenCitations is actively seeking greater involvement from members of the global academic community, as explained in our Mission Statement.
Blogrolling Scientific Programming Blogs
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

I’ve recently started reading two scientific programming blogs that I think are well worth paying attention to, so I’m blogrolling them and offering a brief introduction here. Serendipity is Steve Easterbrook’s blog about the interface between software engineering and climate science. Steve has a realistic and balanced viewpoint regarding the reality of programming in scientific disciplines.
OpenCitations’ 2022: one year, numerous outcomes
Authors: Di Giambattista Chiara
Published: August 2023

2023 has arrived, and it’s the time to put aside the old agendas and to fill the freshly printed organizers with new tasks. However, it is also worth looking back over the achievements of the past year. So, before consigning 2022 to the archives, we want to take a moment to recall and celebrate all that OpenCitations has achieved over the past year, in terms of technical developments, community building, and our own internal organization.
Lazy reviewers and whiny AEs
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

Those of you who attend conferences will be familiar with the standard – walk up to someone you know, who is talking to someone you don’t, get introduced to new person – conference interaction.
Laying the Groundwork for Change [Quote]
Authors: Ethan Morgan &
Published: August 2023

This is just one of many brilliantly reasoned (and worded) arguments from  Saving Alma Mater  . If you are an academic, or an administrator at an academic institution, you really should read this book.
Learning to program like a professional using Software Carpentry
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

An increasingly large number of folks doing research in ecology and other biological disciplines spend a substantial portion of their time writing computer programs to analyze data and simulate the outcomes of biological models. However, most ecologists have little formal training in software development¹. A recent survey suggests that we are not only;
Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata 2023: apply now to participate!
Authors: Di Giambattista Chiara
Published: August 2023

We are pleased to announce that, after two online editions, the 2023 edition of the Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata will come back to Bologna, on 26-27 October 2023. – https://workshop-oc.github.io. During the two-day event, researchers, policy-makers and scholarly publishers will gather in the historical location of the University of Bologna to take part in the plenary
Here be ecologists blogging
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

It seems that it was just time for ecologists to start blogging. We have recently come across two other ecology blogs: Ecotone (the official ESA News & Views blog) which has been kicking out a respectable 4-5 posts/week on a combination of interesting papers and policy. and The EEB and flow which looks a fair bit like NCEAS circa 2007 and was started because I think EEB and flow has this one right.
Making choices when writing
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

Yesterday’s post made me think of this great scene between Michael Douglas and Katie Holmes’ characters in the movie Wonder Boys:  Hannah Green  : Grady, you know how in class you’re always telling us that writers make choices?  Grady Tripp  : Yeah.  Hannah Green  : And even though you’re book is really beautiful, I mean, amazingly beautiful, it’s… it’s at times… it’s… very detailed.
Burning books is a good thing?!?
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

Dave Parry over at academHacK (and more frequently at @academicdave) is generally pretty far out on the intellectual edge, but that means he often has some pretty interesting things to say. His most recent installment, Burn the Boats/Books, includes a bunch of interesting ideas about moving beyond the traditional limits of book and journal publishing in order to embrace the benefits (and realities) of the modern web.
[Quote] You can recognize a pioneer by…
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

You can recognize a pioneer by the arrows in his back
Frequency distributions for ecologists
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

This is a table of contents of sorts for five posts on the visualization, fitting, and comparison of frequency distributions. The goal of these posts is to expose ecologists to the ideas and language related to good statistical practices for addressing frequency distribution data. The focus is on simple distributions and likelihood methods.
Upcoming meetings on metabolic scaling and ecology
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

There are a couple of upcoming meetings (or sessions of meetings) related to metabolic scaling and it’s relationship with/to ecology that I thought might be of some interest. The first is  a symposium at the 2010 Society for Experimental Biology conference in Prague on the relationship between the scaling of metabolic rate with body size in organisms and the ecology of those organisms.
Macroecologists to rule the world… for a while
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

I saw the first two paragraphs of this quote from an interview of Hal Varian by The McKinsey Quarterly over at Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science.
Hurlbert’s unicorn
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

Over at EEB and Flow, Marc Cadotte suggests that we consider adding “aesthetically pleasing details” to our figures. I’m a big fan of visually pleasing figures and the examples that Marc gives show how a little extra effort can really improve communication. The post made me think of one of the earliest examples of adding… a little something extra… to one’s figures – Stuart Hurlbert’s unicorn (Hurlbert 1990).
Fighting the snake [Things you should read]
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

As I’ve mentioned before I’m not a big fan of the configuration of most comprehensive exams, but my post on the matter keeps languishing on my out of control To Do list.
Starting young: getting ecologists to blog
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

Within the small community of ecologist bloggers much has been of the lack of blogging (and other odd pursuits like twittering) among ecologists (this is, afterall, EEB & Flow‘s raison d’etre), and I recently read over at academHacK that “in the future [academics] can be online or be irrelevant”. So, this semester I did what I could to get some future ecologists blogging.
Discover POCI, the index of open citations from PubMed
Authors: Di Giambattista Chiara
Published: August 2023

We’re happy to announce POCI, the OpenCitations Index of PubMed open PMID-to-PMID citations, an RDF dataset containing details of all the citations from publications bearing PubMed Identifiers (PMIDs) to other PMID-identified publications, harvested from the National Institutes of Health Open Citations Collection (NIH-OCC). The citations available in POCI are treated as first-class data entities, with accompanying properties including the citations timespan, modelled according to the OpenCitations Data Model.
A message to journal editors/managers about RSS feeds
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

If you don’t have an easily accessible RSS feed available (and by easily accessible I mean in the browser’s address bar on your journal’s main page) for your journal’s Table of Contents (TOCs), there is a certain class of readers who will not keep track of you TOCs.
New Masters Program in Quantitative Biology at Imperial College London
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

Imperial College London is offering a new masters degree program in quantitative biology. It sounds like a great opportunity to get some good quantitative training via an intensive 1 year MS program. The best part of their pitch follows below. If you’d like to see the whole ad check out the flier that Dan Reuman sent me.
DFG: Regeln gegen Publikationsflut
Authors: Pampel Heinz
Published: August 2023

Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) hat heute auf einer Pressekonferenz in Berlin neue Regeln für Publikationsangaben in Förderanträgen und Abschlussberichten vorgestellt. „Sie sehen im Kern vor, dass Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler in ihren Anträgen und Berichten an die DFG künftig statt beliebig vieler Veröffentlichungen nur noch wenige, besonders aussagekräftige Publikationen als Referenz nennen dürfen. So soll die immer größere Bedeutung von Publikationsverzeichnissen und numerischen Indikatoren verringert werden.
[Postdoc and PhD positions] Danish Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate
Authors: Ernest Morgan
Published: August 2023

Positions available to work within an integrated terrestrial and marine research program addressing fundamental questions on the origin, maintenance, conservation and future of life and biological diversity on Earth. Candidates should have a strong publication record, relevant analytical and data handling skills, and an ability to communicate within a research team. Competitive salaries are offered.
American Naturalist Adds Online Forum
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

American Naturalist (one of the top journals in ecology and evolution) has just announced that they are rolling out a forum system to allow for online discussions about their published papers.
Things you should read
Authors: Ethan Morgan &
Published: August 2023

We’ve been thinking a lot recently about the idea that the social web can/should play an increasing role in filtering the large quantity of published information to allow the best and most important work to float to the top (see e.g., posts by The Scholarly Kitchen and Academhack). In its simplest form the idea is that folks like us will mention publications that we think are good/important and then people who think we’re worth listening to
Another opportunity to change the way we collaborate – G o o g l e W a v e I n v i t e s for ecologists
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

The current model of writing up collaborative research in science is that a single individual “takes the lead” and writes a complete draft of the manuscript, which is then sent on to coauthors for comments, corrections, etc.
Courting controversy & academic ponzi schemes [Things you should read]
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

Anyone who has been around the halls of academia for a while has heard some well meaning soul talk about how we produce too many PhD students for the number of faculty positions, that this is unfair, and that therefore we should take fewer students. The most recent version of this idea on the web goes so far as calling the academic enterprise a Ponzi scheme. I’ve never personally found this argument very convincing.
Tutorial: how to process COCI’s zipped CSV dump without decompressing it
Authors: Massari Arcangelo
Published: August 2023

Blog post by Ivan Heibi (Universiy of Bologna) and Arcangelo Massari (University of Bologna). OpenCitations publishes the COCI dataset after each new release in three main formats: CSV, N-Triples, and Scholix (see https://opencitations.net/download#coci). The CSV format is the most popular and downloaded one due to its comprehensive data organization (i.e. tabular format) and smaller size (compared to the other formats provided). Therefore, this is also the format we suggest using for a local process of the entire COCI dataset. The CSV dumps of COCI are uploaded on Figshare.
Beta Release of Database Toolkit
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

 The Ecological Database Toolkit  Large amounts of ecological and environmental data are becoming increasingly available due to initiatives sponsoring the collection of large-scale data and efforts to increase the publication of already collected datasets. As a result, ecology is entering an era where progress will be increasingly limited by the speed at which we can organize and analyze data.
Five reasons why 2021 has been a great year for OpenCitations
Authors: Di Giambattista Chiara
Published: August 2023

2021 is just behind us. Since January is “the Monday of the months”, as F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote[1], it’s a good time to take stock of what happened at OpenCitations during the past year.
Frequency distributions for ecologists I: Introduction
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

Dealing with frequency distribution data is something that we as ecologists haven’t typically done in a very sophisticated way. This isn’t really our fault. Proper methods aren’t typically taught in undergraduate statistics courses or in the graduate level classes targeted at biologists.
Journal Article 2.0
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

Cell Press has recently announced what I considered to be the most interesting advance in journal publishing since articles started being posted online. Basically they have started to harness the power of the web to aggregate the information present in in articles in more useful and efficient ways.
Survival of the newest? Sind wissenschaftliche Mailinglists vom Aussterben bedroht?
Authors: Puschmann Cornelius
Published: August 2023

Einen interessanten Beitrag zu diesem Thema hat Anita Bader vom Forschungsverbund Interactive Science gebloggt. Sie geht darin der Frage nach, ob neue Dienste wie Sciencefeed die altehrwürdige Mailinglist bald ablösen könnten: Was geschieht denn eigentlich wenn zwei oder mehrere Formate Ähnliches zu leisten versuchen? Welche Auswirkungen haben solche Konkurrenzfälle auf die „älteren” Formaten, die bisher für diese Zwecke genutzt wurden? Werden sie einfach von den neueren und innovativeren Formaten abgelöst und sterben aus?
BMBF-Thesenpapier zum zukünftigen Internet
Authors: Pampel Heinz
Published: August 2023

Das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) hat im Rahmen der Konferenz „Zukünftiges Internet“ (Berlin, 05.07 -06.07.2011) eine Thesenpapier (PDF) zum zukünftigen Internet veröffentlicht. Das Papier umfasst zehn Thesen, die aus Sicht des Ministeriums zentrale Punkte bei der Entwicklung des Internets aufgreifen. Einen Bericht zur Konferenz von Richard Sietmann findet sich auf heise online. Für mich etwas überraschend findet die Bedeutung des Internets für Forschung und Lehre keine eigenständige Betrachtung in den BMBF-Thesen.
Jabberwocky
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. “Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Why you should use a feed reader to monitor journal table of contents
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

A couple of weeks ago we made it possible for folks to subscribe to JE using email. We did this because we realized that many scientists, even those who are otherwise computationally savvy, really haven’t embraced feed readers as a method of tracking information.
Who are you calling Vermin?
Authors: Ernest Morgan
Published: August 2023

Last week, I enjoyed Marc Cadotte’s post over at EEB and Flow on learning that he had one of the worst jobs in science: Triage Biologist. I thought both the post was funny and also the fact that I would never have thought about the work he does as being one of the worst jobs in science. I mean, many of us can think of much much worse things to do with one’s time than to have Cadotte’s research career.
Rise of the neoFisherian statistical paradigm
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

I’ve been meaning to get around to posting about Stuart Hurlbert and Cecilia Lombardi’s recent paper (2009; Ann. Zool. Fennici 46: 311–349) on the use of p-values in drawing scientific conclusions… but thankfully Jarrett Byrnes over at i’m a chordata! urochordata! wrote such a great post about it that all I need to do is point you over to his place. Just so you know what you’re getting into, Hurlbert &
OpenCitations receives the Open Publishing Award in Open Data
Authors: Di Giambattista Chiara
Published: August 2023

“What role does ‘open’ play in making this project special?” This apparently easy, but not banal, question was asked in the Open Publishing Awards nomination form, and at OpenCitations we prefaced our answer to it by stating “For OpenCitations, ‘open’ is the crucial value and the final purpose.” We consider the free availability of bibliographic citation data to be a necessary condition for the establishment of an open knowledge graph, and believe that having citations open helps achieve a more transparent, accessible and comprehensive research practice.
Lawrence Slobodkin RIP
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

A nice piece in the New York Times (via Ecotone).
Rooted in revolution
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds” Samuel Adams
PhD opportunities in Theoretical Ecosystem Ecology with Ford Ballantyne [PhD Position]
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

I went to graduate school with Ford and would strongly recommend that those looking for PhD opportunities on the quantitative side of ecosystem ecology consider the opportunity below.
[Quote] Nilsson on credit for scientific work
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

Some years ago, someone wrote a book called “The Seven Laws of Money.” One of the “laws” went something like this: “Do good work and don’t worry about money;
these unified theories have arrived with relatively little fanfare… [Quote]
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

Earlier this year we featured this great paper by Brian McGill in our first  Things you should read  post. I was rereading it for a graduate seminar tomorrow and couldn’t help but post this great, beautifully dry, quote.
Drug Monkey on comprehensive exams
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

I have never been a big fan of comprehensive exams. In my opinion being able to perform on a test (of whatever form) has very little to do with what it takes to be successful as a scientist and most of the exam systems that I am familiar with have serious structural problems above and beyond this basic objection.
Explaining life as a graduate student
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

As a graduate student, explaining what your day to day life is like to your non-academic friends can sometimes be a little difficult. In this enjoyable piece from The Science Creative Quarterly Daven Tai takes a unique approach to this challenge: If you’re looking for five minutes of academically oriented fun go check out the whole article.
Follow OpenCitations on Mastodon
Authors: Di Giambattista Chiara
Published: August 2023

OpenCitations has happily joined the open-source social media platform joinmastodon.org. Mastodon is “a free and open-source software developed by a non-profit organization”, with the aim of favouring interoperability and bringing social media interaction “back in the hands of the people”. We look forward to recreating there our wide network of connections, and getting in touch with new people, projects and institutions in a different virtual environment. Follow us at https://scicomm.xyz/@opencitations !
Frequency distributions for ecologists III: Fitting model parameters
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

 Summary  Don’t bin you’re data and fit a regression. Don’t use the CDF and fit a regression. Use maximum likelihood or other statistically grounded approaches that can typically be looked up on Wikipedia.  A bit more detail  OK, so you’ve visualized your data and after playing around a bit you have an idea of what the basic functional form of the model is. Now you want to estimate the parameters.
The OpenCitations team is growing – announcing three new appointments!
Authors: Peroni Silvio
Published: August 2023

This is a summer of great news for OpenCitations. Thanks to the generous support received from the scholarly community during the first year of SCOSS adoption, we’re happy to announce the appointment of three new colleagues to work for OpenCitations at the Research Centre for Open Scholarly Metadata (University of Bologna). Here’s some information about their backgrounds, positions and roles at OpenCitations.
Post-doctoral fellowship in ecology and/or natural resource management
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

It’s probably not really to our benefit to be advertising competing positions when we’re currently looking for a post-doc ourselves, but this is a great opportunity so I thought I’d pass it along. The Department of Wildland Resources at Utah State has a post-doctoral fellowship available to work with one (or more) of it’s faculty.
Getting your own domain name: a recommendation, justification, and brief tutorial
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

 Introduction  I have been very encouraged of late to see more and more ecologists embracing the potential of the web for communication and interaction. I’ve recently blogrolled some graduate student blogs and in the last few weeks I’ve come across American Naturalist’s trial run of a forum system, Ecological Monographs’ blog, and a blog soliciting feedback on a new initiative to digitize existing biological collections.
Why PubCred is both easy to implement and better than real money [Guest post]
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

 After posting about PubCreds   I emailed the authors of the original article   to invite a response because: 1) it’s only fair if you’re going to criticize someone’s idea to give them a chance to defend it; and 2) I think that the blogosphere is actually the ideal place to have these kinds of discussions because unlike journals it is actually designed to allow for… well… discussions. 
OpenCitations Access Tokens: how they work and why they are important
Authors: Di Giambattista Chiara
Published: August 2023

Since its inauguration in 2010, OpenCitations has always granted free access to its services to users throughout the world, with no requirement for registration or sign-up. Programmatic access to OpenCitations data can be obtained either via our SPARQL endpoints and our REST APIs.
If we embrace the fact that no one can or should ever care about the health of our passions… [Quote]
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

A great quote from an interesting article about Future-Proofing Your Passion that includes lots of great advice for young and old scientists alike.
Some days…
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

Some days I really wonder whether the bureaucratic infrastructure at institutions of higher education has any idea whatsoever that their job is to  support  the research and teaching missions of the university.
The benefits of having a lab wiki
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

A few months ago Mike Kaspari over at Getting Things Done in Academia emailed me to ask “how do you use your Lab Wiki? Has it been worth it?”. I sent back much of what is included below and Mike asked if he could use some of my thoughts for a post on wikis. I of course said yes, but since GTDA has been silent for quite a while now I figured I’d go ahead and post on it myself.
Frequency distributions for ecologists IIb: CDFs and Kernel density estimates
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

Beyond simple histograms there are two basic methods for visualizing frequency distributions.  Kernel density estimation  is basically a generalization of the idea behind histograms. The basic idea is to put an miniature distribution (e.g., a normal distribution) at the position of each individual data point and then add up those distributions to get an estimate of the frequency distribution.
Frequency distributions for ecologists V: Don’t let the lack of a perfect tool prevent you from asking interesting questions
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

I had an interesting conversation with someone the other day that made me think I needed one last frequency distribution post in order to avoid causing some people to not move forward with addressing interesting questions. As a quantitative ecologist I spent a fair amount of time trying to figure out the best way to do things. In other words, I often want to know what the best method is available for answering a particular question.
MacArthur on generality in ecology
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

I just came across this great Robert MacArthur quote on Allen Hurlbert’s website: It seems to me that one of the real challenges for us as scientists is to make sure that even if we don’t understand what others see when they look at the ecological world, we need to consider the possibility that they simply have an alternative, and equally valid, perspective.
Ecological Samuri
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

Data is the sword of the 21st century, those who wield it well, the Samurai.
Why senior authorship is bad for ecology (and probably science in general)
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

I’ve been giving a fair bit of thought recently to the concept of “senior authorship”. Senior authorship is the practice whereby the last position on an author line is occupied by the leader of the lab in which the project was conducted (i.e., the P.I., the advisor, whatever terminology you prefer). Being the senior author on a paper is considered a sign of leadership on the project and is arguably at least as prestigious as being the first
Michael Nielsen on the importance and value of Open Science
Authors: Ethan Morgan &
Published: August 2023

We are pretty excited about what modern technology can do for science and in particular the potential for increasingly rapid sharing of, and collaboration on, data and ideas. It’s the big picture that explains why we like to blog, tweet, publish data and code, and we’ve benefited greatly from others who do the same. So, when we saw this great talk by Michael Nielsen about Open Science, we just had to share.
Discover DOCI, the index of open citations from DataCite
Authors: Di Giambattista Chiara
Published: August 2023

We’re excited to introduce DOCI, the OpenCitations Index of Datacite open DOI-to-DOI citations, a new tool containing citations derived from publications bearing DataCite DOIs to other DOI-identified publications, harvested from DataCite. The citations available in DOCI are treated as first-class data entities, with accompanying properties including the citations timespan, modelled according to the OpenCitations Data Model.
Distributed Ecology [Blogrolling]
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

I’ve been waiting for a while now for Ted Hart’s blog to get up enough steam to send folks over there, and since in the last two weeks he’s had three posts, revamped the mission of the blog, and engaged in the ongoing conversation about Lindenmayer & Likens, it seems like that time has arrived.
Some things just shouldn’t be hidden behind pay walls
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

I have nothing against journals charging for content. While I like the open access model I think that there are upsides to both systems. But seriously, there really are some things that should not be hidden behind a pay wall. Corrections of any kind: Errata, Corrigenda, etc.
Faculty position in experimental conservation ecology
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

The Community and Conservation Ecology group at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, has a job opening for a tenure track assistant professor in Experimental Conservation Ecology (details below). This is a very impressive group that is headed by Han Olff and includes Rampal Etienne and David Alonso.
Frequency distributions for ecologists IIa: Data Visualization: Histograms
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

Well, I guess that grant season was a bit of an optimistic time to try to do a 4 part series on frequency distributions, but I’ve got a few minutes before heading off to an all day child birth class so I thought I’d see if I could squeeze in part 2. OK, so you have some data and you’d like to get a rough visual idea of its frequency distribution. What do you do know? There are 3 basic approaches that I’ve seen used: Histograms.
How scientists see Climate “Gate”
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

Steve Easterbrook over at Serendipity has three recent posts that do a pretty solid job of capturing what I think when I see the ongoing coverage of the fallout from the CRU email hack (if you’ve been living under the proverbial rock for the last 6 months you can start here). Here’s one quick highlight from the most recent post but you really should head over to Serendipity and check out the following three posts: Academics always fight over
All truth passes through three stages [Quote]
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

Via Signal vs. Noise.
New documents that present OpenCitations’ mission, unique benefits, present status and future plans
Authors: Di Giambattista Chiara
Published: August 2023

Posted on August 10th 2022 by Chiara Di Giambattista More than a year ago, Ginny Hendricks, Director of Member & Community Outreach for Crossref, and a valued member of the OpenCitations International Advisory Board, published on the Crossref blog the post “The road ahead: our strategy through 2025”. In order to describe all Crossref’s principles and activities, Ginny presented the Crossref strategic planning framework as a diagram summarizing Crossref’s statements, key messages and truths.
RStudio [Things you should use]
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

If you use R (and it seems like everybody does these days) then you should check out RStudio – an easy to install, cross-platform IDE for R. Basically it’s a seamless integration of all of the aspects of R (including scripts, the console, figures, help, etc.) into a single easy to use package. For those of you are familiar with Matlab, it’s a very similar interface. It’s not a full blown IDE yet (no debugger;
Plädoyer für Open Access auf DRadio
Authors: Pampel Heinz
Published: August 2023

Marco Winkler vom Universitätsverlag Potsdam hat mich auf das hörenswerte Radiofeuilleton von Jörg Kantel zum Thema Open Access aufmerksam gemacht. Kantels Forderung „Wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse müssen im Internet frei verfügbar sein!“ wurde heute Morgen auf Deutschlandradio Kultur gesendet und ist als Podcast nachhörbar. Kantel bloggt als Schockwellenreiter und ist am Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte tätig. Das Institut hat Anfang des Jahres mit weiteren MPIs eine „Edition Open Access“ gestartet.
Beware of Reviewer based phishing scam
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

I’d recommend checking out this post by River Continua about an impressively sophisticated phishing scam targeted at academics. They’re going to catch a bunch of folks with this one. UPDATE: Apparently this is something that the EPA does that the EPA employee who wrote the original post was unaware of. They definitely need to rethink the composition of the email though as I would have been (and obviously was) equally suspicious.
[Postdoc position] Effects of elevated carbon dioxide on ecosystem C and N dynamics in the Mojave Desert
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

If you’re looking for a quantitatively oriented postdoc in ecology this position with Kiona Ogle is a great opportunity. I can’t vouch for her collaborator, but I’ve worked with Kiona and she is smart, has a good scientific philosophy, and is a patient & hard working collaborator – all goods signs for a postdoctoral mentor.
I think we make things that we like and… [Quote]
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

I think we make things that we like and that we think our friends would like, and we cross our fingers and hope that enough other people like it that we can earn a living.
Swiss Institutions pledge 89,250 Euros to OpenCitations
Authors: Di Giambattista Chiara
Published: August 2023

We want to express our gratitude to the 18 institutional members and customers of the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries which have now pledged 89,250 euros to support OpenCitations over the next three years. This generous donation is part of a total funding of 320,250 euros destined for the three services currently being promoted by SCOSS: DOAB and OAPEN, PKP, and OpenCitations.
Academia’s missing references
Authors: Shotton David M.
Published: August 2023

No-one is quite sure of the total number of scholarly publications within the global corpus. Indeed that number will be strongly influenced by the degree to which, in addition to books and journal articles, one includes within the definition of scholarly publications ‘grey literature’ such as reports published by official bodies, patents, etc. Consequentially, the total number of scholarly references within those publications is also unknown, and this number too will vary according to the inclusion criteria chosen.
Ars Technica zum Thema Forschungsdaten
Authors: Pampel Heinz
Published: August 2023

Auf Ars Technica hat John Timmer eine interessante Serie von Artikeln zur dauerhaften Zugänglichkeit von Forschungsdaten veröffentlicht: Teil 1: Preserving science: what to do with raw research material? Teil 2: Preserving science: what data do we keep? What do we discard? Teil 3: Jaz drives, spiral notebooks, and SCSI: how we lose scientific data Diese und weitere interessante Hinweise zum Thema können auf der DFN-Mailingliste „Umgang mit Forschungsdaten“ gefunden und diskutiert werden.
Views of Islamic Organizations on the Tradition of Not Slaughtering Cows in Kudus
Authors: Salma Andrea Amalia , Zakiyah Zahrotuz , Pazita Zeti
Published: August 2023

The purpose of this study was to examine how the views of the two largest Islamic organizations in Kudus, NU, and Muhammadiyah, on the tradition of not slaughtering cows in Kudus. The background of this research is marked by the tradition of not slaughtering cows in Kudus which has existed since the time of Sunan Kudus. This type of research is qualitative research with a descriptive qualitative approach. Primary data were obtained through interviews with PCNU and PDM Kudus administrators. The results showed that the two organizations saw this tradition as a form of tolerance taught by Sunan Kudus long ago. However, regarding the preservation of this tradition, these two organizations have differences of opinion. Regarding this tradition, the NU's representative said that they prioritize morals, in this case, tolerance, compared to fiqh which is mostly khilafiyah also in this tradition, there is a value of tolerance that should be known and upheld, especially by the Kudus community. Meanwhile, Muhammadiyah itself said that this tradition concerns Tadayyun and they think that the current situation of the Da'wah map is different.
Teatro negro
Authors: Turle Licko
Published: August 2023

O artigo busca relatar a experiência realizada como professor visitante do Programa de Pós-Graduação da Escola de Teatro da Universidade Federal da Bahia no período de 2017 a 2019 e seus desdobramentos em ações concretas e continuadas no campo dos Estudos em Teatro(s) Negro(s), que se estenderam até o ano de 2019, com a montagem teatral de Pele negra, máscaras brancas e a criação da Pele Negra – Escola de Teatro(s) Preto(s) – modalidade à distância – na cidade de Salvador, Bahia.
Dudu Iwoye: entre candomblé e teatro
Authors: Barbosa Fernanda Júlia
Published: August 2023

O presente artigo aborda o entrelaçamento entre os campos Candomblé e Teatro, por meio da investigação do que a autora chama de CENICIDADE DO AXÉ, termo cunhado pela pesquisadora, que estético-poeticamente traduz o processo de aprendizado e fruição artística que o Candomblé propicia. A compreensão da estética da religiosidade do axé, impulsionou a pesquisadora a desenvolver a pesquisa Ativação do Movimento Ancestral, que gerou assentamentos práticos e teóricos para a construção da poética do Teatro Preto de Candomblé. Neste artigo a autora expõe como a cenicidade do axé, a orientou na investigação de princípios e procedimentos para a criação cênica.
Sobre cenas de sujeição ou Indagações para uma cenanegra e suas urgências
Authors: De Santana Mônica Pereira
Published: August 2023

O artigo reflete sobre o desafio entre performar imagens de sujeição e sofrimento por performers negras, num compromisso com a denúncia e desmonte de situações recorrentes de opressão e por outro lado, como essas representações se integram a um conjunto de narrativas sobre o poder. A artista-pesquisadora articula o pensamento de outras artistas negras do corpo contemporâneas, apontando para reflexões que emergem de suas performances com o pensamento de intelectuais negros radicais como Fred Moten, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Saidiya Hartman. A permanência dessas imagens de sofrimento são encaradas como um tema recorrente da performance negra, dado ao compromisso político e ético dessas obras com a restauração da humanidade subtraída dos sujeitos negros pelas necropolíticas.
Empretecer o teatro
Authors: Santos Bárbara
Published: August 2023

No texto, a autora faz um relato histórico crítico do processo de empretecimento do método do Teatro do Oprimido – sistematizado pelo teatrólogo Augusto Boal – desde o núcleo de negros universitários (1993) até a formação e consolidação do grupo Cor do Brasil. As memórias da sua trajetória como mulher preta periférica e suas práticas artivistas dentro e fora do Centro de Teatro do Oprimido do Rio de Janeiro estão imbricadas na criação do Teatro das Oprimidas, Rede Ma(g)dalenas Internacional e nos ensaios, laboratórios e espetáculos do coletivo carioca.
Corpo-tambor
Authors: Santos Edileusa
Published: August 2023

O texto propõe revelar um novo olhar sobre o Tambor, na busca por novas possibilidades de diálogo e percepção por meio dos nossos cincos sentidos e, também, compreender a função do Tambor em aula de dança de expressão negra. Toma-se por base que esse instrumento musical possibilita estímulo necessário à construção voltada para a organização de movimento no corpo, somado a conteúdos e elementos da cultura negra baiana. A construção referida se faz durante o processo, no experimento, e na vivência enquanto se dança, no fazer do corpo em relação à cultura e à dança negra dentro de contexto teórico/ prático, seja através de ações de investigação e processo criativo, seja respaldado por bibliografia específica e análise crítica. A prática pedagógica se revela em uma nova relação entre Corpo-Tambor, na medida em que lança a possibilidade de investigar esse Corpo-Tambor como um elemento educativo e de criação.
brevíssimas considerações sobre sofrimento e teatro negro
Authors: Cerqueira Gustavo Melo
Published: August 2023

Este texto tece considerações sobre a relação entre sofrimento e teatro negro. Partindo da ideia de despertar proposta por Christina Sharpe (2016) enquanto conscientização de que vivemos em um mundo regido pela antinegritude, e trazendo uma breve análise bibliográfica, o autor argumenta que o sofrimento é o lamaçal de onde podem surgir interessantes proposições artísticas. Longe de defender a estetização, representação ou reprodução do sofrimento negro em cena, o autor propõe, na esteira de diversos outros autores que, sendo a antinegritude um elemento estrutural da modernidade, a ponto de a humanidade ganhar seus contornos modernos a partir de um conjunto de artifícios que vão inventar ou re-inventar corpos racializados, estabelecer hierarquia entre esses corpos e monumentalizar um dado corpo como o “paradigma do humano” (MARTINS, 1995, p. 144), é também verdade que esse mesmo corpo racializado possa confrontar, tensionar e desnaturalizar dimensões caras à modernidade, tais como as noções de tempo e espaço, linguagem, lógica, realidade e conhecimento, por exemplo, sem com isso querer disputar sua inclusão nos confins do humano.
Na guerra contra o corpo negro!
Authors: Mattos Cachalote
Published: August 2023

A percepção permanente de uma guerra em curso contra o corpo negro fica evidente a partir de números estáticos de morte de pessoas vítimas de ferimentos por arma de fogo no Estado do Rio de Janeiro. O texto brevemente analisa de que forma foi construída pelos meios dominantes de comunicação (televisão, arte, cinema e teatro) ao longo da história do Brasil a percepção imagética sobre o corpo negro. A narrativa também faz uma aproximação entre os mecanismos tecnológico de percepção utilizados na Segunda Guerra Mundial e o modo operante que a polícia militar do Rio de Janeiro age em operações nas favelas, (lugar onde a maioria dos moradores é negra) para essa construção utilizo como base teórica o livro de Paul Virilio, Guerra e cinema (1993) e o livro A estética do oprimido (2009), de Augusto Boal. Apresento alguns filmes e espetáculos de teatro negro que trabalhei como cenógrafo na cidade do Rio de Janeiro.
O ator, as tradições africanas e a artesania da palavra
Authors: Audi Sérgio
Published: August 2023

Este artigo aborda a relação das sociedades tradicionais africanas com a palavra e a oralidade, relacionando-a com sua própria sociabilidade e cosmovisão, para além do desastre da colonização, tendo como referências o escritor tradicionalista malinês Amadou Hampâté Bâ, e os narradores griots Sotigui Kouyaté e Hassane Kouyaté. Compara o trabalho do ator ocidental com o griot/dieli, artista cênico narrador das histórias tradicionais africanas em sua relação com a verdade, e problematiza a verdade cênica, a partir do trabalho de Stanislávski e o conceito de perejivanie , da experiência que transforma, aproximando-o do sentido iniciático dos tradicionalistas africanos.