Paola Chiara Masuzzo 🦕

I don't use this space all that much anymore, but a lof of #OpenScience colleagues & friends are still here. So here it comes, the reason I've been off the radar in the last year. I've been diagnosed with breast #cancer. The heavy treatments are behind my back, but I'm far from>

The most surprising part is, The whole of next week is still January

It's the first 45 years of January that are the hardest.

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One obvious thing we **should** have done when moving to electronic publication was switch to rich citations that point directly to what you are citing in a paper - a data point, a figure, a method, a conclusion - and explain why you are citing it. Another thing publishers blocked.

Donald Trump is the worst president we've ever had.

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Pips #54 Easy 🟢 1:06

“Questa giornata rende onore al nostro Paese”. È il giorno dello sciopero generale in difesa di Flotilla per Gaza. Già dalle prime ore della mattinata cortei e manifestazioni stanno mobilitando l’Italia. Le piazze sono piene: Roma, Milano, Torino, Bari, Venezia, Firenze, Palermo, Bologna… “Questa giornata rende onore al nostro Paese”, ha detto il Segretario generale della #CGIL, Maurizio Landini. “Il governo dovrebbe essere orgoglioso di queste manifestazioni, che difendono l’umanità, la solidarietà e la nostra Costituzione. Che dicono basta al genocidio, alle guerre, e che è necessario investire non in armi, ma nella sanità e nella scuola. Vedo una grande novità: una partecipazione dei giovani senza precedenti”.

Holy shit the Italians are not fucking around about this

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🚨BREAKING 🇮🇹| In Italy, the general strike has shut down train lines, ports, highways, schools & shops. With a genocide ongoing, there can be NO business as usual. 🙏 Stay peaceful, everyone. Do not react to any provocation. Freedom for all allows no mistakes.

I dream of a world where department chairs send around congratulatory notes when people post a preprint, and where being on the cover of Nature gets you cancelled.

Closing session at @CSVConference is by Rahul Bhargava and it's a physical interactive session, building data art #csvconfv9

Was in a bookshop and asked a worker if he could recommend books to me. He said "Sure, they're great".

How on Earth can anyone look at this and think "this is why you shouldn't preprint" rather than "this is why you we should launch all journals into the caldera of a volcano"?

You: should I cite my paper? Maybe it's not related enough? Ok, screw it, I'll self-cite but only once. Other scientists: With AI, I can cite myself 1.3M times 😎