#safeguardingresearch — Public Fediverse posts

👩🏻‍💻 Checking the Day 2 Wed. 23Oct programme at #OpenEngaged #OAWeek:
🌟Lightning talks: #SafeguardingResearch #Datarescue #CARE #OpenGLAM #Accessibility
🌟Technology, Power, and Equitable Design session. #LocalContexts #OpenCitations #OpenMetadata
✅ Register https://openscholarship.gitbook.io/open-and-engaged-2025/day-2-wednesday-22-october

👩🏻‍💻 Checking the Day 2 Wed. 23Oct programme at #OpenEngaged #OAWeek:
🌟Lightning talks: #SafeguardingResearch #Datarescue #CARE #OpenGLAM #Accessibility
🌟Technology, Power, and Equitable Design session. #LocalContexts #OpenCitations #OpenMetadata
✅ Register https://openscholarship.gitbook.io/open-and-engaged-2025/day-2-wednesday-22-october

Join the Open Science Conference 2025 (#OSC2025) in Hamburg or online! Explore Open Science and AI with keynotes, discussion and solution sessions, poster and demos, and a panel on "The role of Open Science in safeguarding the research enterprise". #OpenScience #Research #SafeguardingResearch

👉 Register now: https://open-science-conference.eu

Join the Open Science Conference 2025 (#OSC2025) in Hamburg or online! Explore Open Science and AI with keynotes, discussion and solution sessions, poster and demos, and a panel on "The role of Open Science in safeguarding the research enterprise". #OpenScience #Research #SafeguardingResearch

👉 Register now: https://open-science-conference.eu

The slides of my talk at #WHY2025 "Safeguarding Research & Culture: Save public data from the digital bookburnings!" are now online:
https://hu.berlin/SRC-WHY2025

Recording here (27min):
https://media.ccc.de/v/why2025-238-safeguarding-research-culture-save-public-data-from-the-digital-bookburnings
(Wow, awesome work by @c3voc 💜)

More context: https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/B8DANE/

#SafeguardingResearch #SciOp @SafeguardingResearch

The slides of my talk at #WHY2025 "Safeguarding Research & Culture: Save public data from the digital bookburnings!" are now online:
https://hu.berlin/SRC-WHY2025

Recording here (27min):
https://media.ccc.de/v/why2025-238-safeguarding-research-culture-save-public-data-from-the-digital-bookburnings
(Wow, awesome work by @c3voc 💜)

More context: https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/B8DANE/

#SafeguardingResearch #SciOp @SafeguardingResearch

@nb @RenkeSiems

Au weia! Was soll man da noch sagen 🙄😬

Ich teile die Frustration! Ich persönlich habe seit mehr als 12 Jahren versucht, Bewusstsein für das was jetzt #safeguardingresearch heisst zu wecken, z.T explizit mit PubMed als Beispiel. Ich kann nur feststellen, dass ich damit vollständig versagt habe. Auch im Nachhinein fällt mir aber auch nichts ein, was ich ausser trommeln und schreien hätte machen können?

@nb @RenkeSiems

Au weia! Was soll man da noch sagen 🙄😬

Ich teile die Frustration! Ich persönlich habe seit mehr als 12 Jahren versucht, Bewusstsein für das was jetzt #safeguardingresearch heisst zu wecken, z.T explizit mit PubMed als Beispiel. Ich kann nur feststellen, dass ich damit vollständig versagt habe. Auch im Nachhinein fällt mir aber auch nichts ein, was ich ausser trommeln und schreien hätte machen können?

@ww super cool! Tagging this for more reach: #getfedihired #academicjobs #sciop #safeguardingresearch #scienceundersiege

@ww super cool! Tagging this for more reach: #getfedihired #academicjobs #sciop #safeguardingresearch #scienceundersiege

A group dealing with at-risk educational materials is looking for help:

"The Digital Public Goods Library is looking for librarian volunteers who have experience cataloging materials with education-related metadata in a digital library environment, to assist in identifying and making available public domain and openly licensed educational materials that are either at-risk or have lost their digital home."

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#SafeguardingResearch #DataRescue

A group dealing with at-risk educational materials is looking for help:

"The Digital Public Goods Library is looking for librarian volunteers who have experience cataloging materials with education-related metadata in a digital library environment, to assist in identifying and making available public domain and openly licensed educational materials that are either at-risk or have lost their digital home."

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#SafeguardingResearch #DataRescue

:crt_w_green_lines: Hackathon: Data Under Threat / Data Rescueing (Aug 7) in #München

The LMU Open Science Center (@lmu_osc) runs a hackathon to support the #SciOp #SafeguardingResearch initiative: Rescuing research data that is deleted by the Trump administration.

Bonus: @lavaeolus will give an ignition talk!

📅 Thursday, 2025-08-07, 16 – 19 (only in-person)
👉 Details and signup: https://github.com/lmu-osc/safeguar.de-hackathon

Become a data rescuer by turning your own laptop into a Research Data Rescue Node, scraping at-risk data sets, and breathing new life into your old HDD as part of a global, decentralised network.

#LMUMünchen #OpenScience #OpenData #DataRescue
CC @SafeguardingResearch @bitsUndBaeumeAuxMuc

:crt_w_green_lines: Hackathon: Data Under Threat / Data Rescueing (Aug 7) in #München

The LMU Open Science Center (@lmu_osc) runs a hackathon to support the #SciOp #SafeguardingResearch initiative: Rescuing research data that is deleted by the Trump administration.

Bonus: @lavaeolus will give an ignition talk!

📅 Thursday, 2025-08-07, 16 – 19 (only in-person)
👉 Details and signup: https://github.com/lmu-osc/safeguar.de-hackathon

Become a data rescuer by turning your own laptop into a Research Data Rescue Node, scraping at-risk data sets, and breathing new life into your old HDD as part of a global, decentralised network.

#LMUMünchen #OpenScience #OpenData #DataRescue
CC @SafeguardingResearch @bitsUndBaeumeAuxMuc

I revived an old HDD with a #RaspberryPi Zero W 2 for #DataRescue:ing:

It runs ...

(a) a Bittorrent client that seeds at-risk data sets from the #SciOp database
(b) the `sciop-scraper` script to get new datasets into the swarm

Setup instructions for the Pi Zero: https://codeberg.org/nicebread/HiveSeed/src/branch/main/L1-RDRN_RPi.md

Setup instructions for `sciop-scrape` (on macOS & RPi): https://codeberg.org/nicebread/HiveSeed/src/branch/main/L1-sciop-scrape.md

Let me know if the instructions work for you; happy to collaborate on the manual.

#safeguardingresearch

I revived an old HDD with a #RaspberryPi Zero W 2 for #DataRescue:ing:

It runs ...

(a) a Bittorrent client that seeds at-risk data sets from the #SciOp database
(b) the `sciop-scraper` script to get new datasets into the swarm

Setup instructions for the Pi Zero: https://codeberg.org/nicebread/HiveSeed/src/branch/main/L1-RDRN_RPi.md

Setup instructions for `sciop-scrape` (on macOS & RPi): https://codeberg.org/nicebread/HiveSeed/src/branch/main/L1-sciop-scrape.md

Let me know if the instructions work for you; happy to collaborate on the manual.

#safeguardingresearch

Added a 10 Terabyte seeding node to the #SciOp #SafeguardingResearch swarm; focusing on large (> 1 TB) data sets with 0 or 1 seeders.

Added a 10 Terabyte seeding node to the #SciOp #SafeguardingResearch swarm; focusing on large (> 1 TB) data sets with 0 or 1 seeders.

TIL about <https://sciop.net>, a wonderful science dataset archvial project that is getting more important by the day due to US happenings. Feel free to join and seed!

#safeguardingresearch #sciop

Very nice article about saving academic data, digital sovereignty, and some criticism re lack of transparency:
https://delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/saving-academic-data-is-easier-than-you-think-and-you-can-do-it-too

Featuring @frepa314 & @lavaeolus
#SafeguardingResearch

Very nice article about saving academic data, digital sovereignty, and some criticism re lack of transparency:
https://delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/saving-academic-data-is-easier-than-you-think-and-you-can-do-it-too

Featuring @frepa314 & @lavaeolus
#SafeguardingResearch

About US research data under threat and how everyone can contribute to saving it - @lavaeolus and me were interviewed in the TU Delft paper Delta: https://delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/saving-academic-data-is-easier-than-you-think-and-you-can-do-it-too mostly regarding our parts in the Safeguarding Research and Culture initiative at https://safeguar.de
#TUDelft #SafeguardingResearch #SciOp

About US research data under threat and how everyone can contribute to saving it - @lavaeolus and me were interviewed in the TU Delft paper Delta: https://delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/saving-academic-data-is-easier-than-you-think-and-you-can-do-it-too mostly regarding our parts in the Safeguarding Research and Culture initiative at https://safeguar.de
#TUDelft #SafeguardingResearch #SciOp

Data comes in many forms, but not every time there is a dataset ready to be saved:

We, together with @datarescueproject.org and partners need YOUR help in preserving American history – but this time, we need you to put on your ranger hat and boots, and trek to your local national park to #SaveOurSigns

https://saveoursigns.org

#NationalPark #NPS #SafeguardingResearch

Please share widely! <3

Data comes in many forms, but not every time there is a dataset ready to be saved:

We, together with @datarescueproject.org and partners need YOUR help in preserving American history – but this time, we need you to put on your ranger hat and boots, and trek to your local national park to #SaveOurSigns

https://saveoursigns.org

#NationalPark #NPS #SafeguardingResearch

Please share widely! <3

@jonny With the updated commands I got it to run now (with minor modifications) on macOS. On RPi I will try again tomorrow (currently no access to the machine).

I am currently scraping „rp_enchanter_ver02“ with 24 GB and counting. Three questions:

(1) Can I know how large the download will be?
(2) Can I stop the scraping, or will the download then be corrupted?
(3) I assume that after downloading it automatically starts seeding?

Should we keep this conversation on (a) Mastodon, (b) safeguar.de forum or (c) Codeberg issues? Where can most people profit from it?

#safeguardingresearch #SciOp

@jonny With the updated commands I got it to run now (with minor modifications) on macOS. On RPi I will try again tomorrow (currently no access to the machine).

I am currently scraping „rp_enchanter_ver02“ with 24 GB and counting. Three questions:

(1) Can I know how large the download will be?
(2) Can I stop the scraping, or will the download then be corrupted?
(3) I assume that after downloading it automatically starts seeding?

Should we keep this conversation on (a) Mastodon, (b) safeguar.de forum or (c) Codeberg issues? Where can most people profit from it?

#safeguardingresearch #SciOp

Hi @histodons
We (@SafeguardingResearch) have been working on creating a backup of Chronicling America.
(1 large pull + many smaller ones)
https://sciop.net/datasets/chronicling-america

Do you know of any similar activities?
Would be great to combine efforts :)

Boosts ✅
#SafeguardingResearch #histodons

Hi @histodons
We (@SafeguardingResearch) have been working on creating a backup of Chronicling America.
(1 large pull + many smaller ones)
https://sciop.net/datasets/chronicling-america

Do you know of any similar activities?
Would be great to combine efforts :)

Boosts ✅
#SafeguardingResearch #histodons

I am looking forward to our event "Data, Power, Control – Digital Science Between Resilience and Restriction" at the @ECDF this Thursday (July 3) at 4 p.m. tinyurl.com/yd8rd6fj

We will have some very interesting presentations on #Safeguardingresearch by @lavaeolus, feminist and queer data science, and narrative resilience for countering right-wing digital dominance.

There is still time to register for the event, if you want to come by: https://events.tu-berlin.de/e/10005186_GDN

@IBI_HU
@hu_rmz

@glynmoody

Even now, when people start #SafeguardingResearch we are making the same mistakes again! As you point out in your article, all our outputs are in danger, be it research data or papers. And GitHub is a single point of failure foir scholarly code, too!

All of our outputs are under threat. If we had to invent infrastructures for our outputs, nobody would invent different silos for each output, so linking code, data and text together would be made more difficult, rather than easier?

@glynmoody

Even now, when people start #SafeguardingResearch we are making the same mistakes again! As you point out in your article, all our outputs are in danger, be it research data or papers. And GitHub is a single point of failure foir scholarly code, too!

All of our outputs are under threat. If we had to invent infrastructures for our outputs, nobody would invent different silos for each output, so linking code, data and text together would be made more difficult, rather than easier?

@FlyBase

I can only repeat that our institution would offer support (in various ways) towards further decentralizing and hence safeguarding FlyBase and other crucial infrastructure.

#safeguardingresearch

@FlyBase

I can only repeat that our institution would offer support (in various ways) towards further decentralizing and hence safeguarding FlyBase and other crucial infrastructure.

#safeguardingresearch

Update: Got the right now 🎉
There will be things happening under #SaveOurSigns soon.

Is here someone experienced in setting up #WikimediaCommons Upload Campaigns?

If yes, I got a question re requesting the permission to create one :)
See: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_rights#Upload_Wizard_campaign_editors
(related to #SafeguardingResearch)

Boosts very welcome
#Wikimedia

Update: Got the right now 🎉
There will be things happening under #SaveOurSigns soon.

Is here someone experienced in setting up #WikimediaCommons Upload Campaigns?

If yes, I got a question re requesting the permission to create one :)
See: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_rights#Upload_Wizard_campaign_editors
(related to #SafeguardingResearch)

Boosts very welcome
#Wikimedia

"On the Value of Being Unorthodox: Resilience in a Time of Hostility against Arts and Sciences"
The slides of my ignition talk for #oscibar2025 can be found here:
https://hu.berlin/oscibar2025 and on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15688618

And also via BitTorrent^^
https://sciop.net/uploads/f4411cececdf1bc7b49146437e0fffdf2d862bced2f210e71ca4d3bdbeb2dbbe

#OpenScience #SafeguardingResearch

"On the Value of Being Unorthodox: Resilience in a Time of Hostility against Arts and Sciences"
The slides of my ignition talk for #oscibar2025 can be found here:
https://hu.berlin/oscibar2025 and on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15688618

And also via BitTorrent^^
https://sciop.net/uploads/f4411cececdf1bc7b49146437e0fffdf2d862bced2f210e71ca4d3bdbeb2dbbe

#OpenScience #SafeguardingResearch

"Over the past five months, more than 3,000 taxpayer-funded data sets—many congressionally mandated—collected by federal agencies including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Center for Education Statistics, and the Census Bureau, have been caught in the cross fire."

Also quoting me & mentioning @SafeguardingResearch, as well as @datarescueproject.org

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/06/10/preserving-federal-data-trump-trying-purge
#SafeguardingResearch

"Over the past five months, more than 3,000 taxpayer-funded data sets—many congressionally mandated—collected by federal agencies including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Center for Education Statistics, and the Census Bureau, have been caught in the cross fire."

Also quoting me & mentioning @SafeguardingResearch, as well as @datarescueproject.org

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/06/10/preserving-federal-data-trump-trying-purge
#SafeguardingResearch

Science, researchers and research communities increasingly need to be resilient to threats and actual incursions relating to budget, academic freedom, safety in the public arena, availability of science databases and infrastructures and more. We created this framework to inspire communities in their resilience. It is quite generic, so needs to be customised to specific contexts and threats. #safeguardingresearch #defendresearch #resilience #academicfreedom @RShetty

Science, researchers and research communities increasingly need to be resilient to threats and actual incursions relating to budget, academic freedom, safety in the public arena, availability of science databases and infrastructures and more. We created this framework to inspire communities in their resilience. It is quite generic, so needs to be customised to specific contexts and threats. #safeguardingresearch #defendresearch #resilience #academicfreedom @RShetty

Initiatives like @SafeguardingResearch work hard to rescue #researchData that are (about to be) deleted by the Trump administration, by using a Bittorrent network where many small nodes contribute.

This is a very #solarpunk way of doing science: community-driven, decentralized & resilient #SolarpunkScience.
Some tinker projects:

🎯1. Develop the most low-cost (in €, material resources, and CO2) p2p solution for data rescueing.

Maybe a #RaspberryPi + existing HDD? Reuse existing hardware. Compute costs in absolute and relative way (€ and CO2 per terabyte of data stored & shared). Is a bigger server plugged to a uni network more efficient in relative costs?

🎯2. Run a hackathon, help others to install the bittorrent clients on whatever machine they have.

🎯3 (Bonus): Build a purely solar powered, autonomous seeding node. E.g. the #LowTechMagazine went a long way in optimizing a web server that runs on solar + battery (achieving >95% uptime on a 50W solar setup)
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is-a-solar-powered-website/

Imagine little autonomous, solar powered seeding nodes standing in gardens, tirelessly sharing research data whenever the sun is shining. A project that regenerates our digital commons in a sustainable, community-led way 🌱.

Please share your thoughts - is this a feasible and worthwhile project?

#SafeguardingResearch #DataRescue #OpenScience #OpenData #DIY
CC @moritz_negwer @alxd @thorsi @BlumeEvolution @marieverdeil @pluralistic @lmu_osc @Lambo

(edit: Updated the mock-up image with an improved, non-AI version)

Diesen Donnerstag 19-21 Uhr im Technik Salon Hannover + Livestream:
"Wissenschaft unter Druck. Was tun gegen Trump & Co?" mit @fuzzyleapfrog und mir, moderiert von @Lambo
https://technik-salon.de/2025/06/05/safeguarding-research.html

Livestream via https://tib-eu.webex.com/tib-eu/j.php?MTID=m8ca3ec73dc5e35103ace4e22cb1ad5c1

#SafeguardingResearch