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  1. The Small-Area Global #Elections (#SAGE) #Dataset

    #OpenAccess
    Journal: #ScientificData

    The Small-Area Global Elections (SAGE) dataset collects, geocodes, and harmonizes lower-house #parliamentary and #presidential returns for 110 countries and territories from 1948 to 2025, at the smallest unit each electoral authority publishes. It spans 585 country-elections and roughly ten billion votes cast across more than eight million units, and is at the polling station level in more than two-thirds of cases. Returns are released in a single long-format schema with standardized party identifiers that link to major comparative datasets, and every unit carries coordinates and, where available, boundary polygons.

    nature.com/articles/s41597-026

  2. The Small-Area Global #Elections (#SAGE) #Dataset

    #OpenAccess
    Journal: #ScientificData

    The Small-Area Global Elections (SAGE) dataset collects, geocodes, and harmonizes lower-house #parliamentary and #presidential returns for 110 countries and territories from 1948 to 2025, at the smallest unit each electoral authority publishes. It spans 585 country-elections and roughly ten billion votes cast across more than eight million units, and is at the polling station level in more than two-thirds of cases. Returns are released in a single long-format schema with standardized party identifiers that link to major comparative datasets, and every unit carries coordinates and, where available, boundary polygons.

    nature.com/articles/s41597-026

  3. US's Climate.gov Site, Taken Down by Trump, Relaunched by Nonprofit as Climate.us
    arstechnica.com/science/2026/0
    Climate.us has restored everything the Trump administration pulled when it took down climate.gov — decades of scientific resources now available again.
    #climatechange #scientificdata #openscience

  4. US's Climate.gov Site, Taken Down by Trump, Relaunched by Nonprofit as Climate.us
    arstechnica.com/science/2026/0
    Climate.us has restored everything the Trump administration pulled when it took down climate.gov — decades of scientific resources now available again.
    #climatechange #scientificdata #openscience

  5. When it comes to key scientific data, being open isn’t enough — they need to be FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable).

    Watch the full walkthrough on what FAIR data are and how to publish them here:
    youtube.com/watch?v=RC14Ty0D4w0

    #scientificdata
    #openscience
    #fairdata
    #datamanagement
    #opendata

  6. A new preprint on @arxiv_cs argues that centralized scientific databases are too vulnerable to politics, funding cuts, and cyberattacks. The authors propose a Global Federated Architecture (GFA) — a hybrid model that combines the resilience of federated systems with the transparency of decentralized technologies to safeguard open science data as a global public good.

    👉 arxiv.org/abs/2509.19206

    #openaccess #database #datasharing #scientificdata #accessibility #openscience

  7. A new preprint on @arxiv_cs argues that centralized scientific databases are too vulnerable to politics, funding cuts, and cyberattacks. The authors propose a Global Federated Architecture (GFA) — a hybrid model that combines the resilience of federated systems with the transparency of decentralized technologies to safeguard open science data as a global public good.

    👉 arxiv.org/abs/2509.19206

    #openaccess #database #datasharing #scientificdata #accessibility #openscience

  8. 🚨🌍 NEW ARTICLE 🌍🚨

    We geocoded the #mobility of over 2 million #Erasmus students across #Europe from 2014 to 2022 with @miladmzdh Oula Inkeröinen & Olle Järv. The data descriptor article is published in #ScientificData, and is an output from the #MobiTwin project.

    doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-047

    @digigeolab

    #GIScience #Geospatial #GIS #MobiTwin #OpenData #OpenScience

  9. 🚨🌍 NEW ARTICLE 🌍🚨

    We geocoded the #mobility of over 2 million #Erasmus students across #Europe from 2014 to 2022 with @miladmzdh Oula Inkeröinen & Olle Järv. The data descriptor article is published in #ScientificData, and is an output from the #MobiTwin project.

    doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-047

    @digigeolab

    #GIScience #Geospatial #GIS #MobiTwin #OpenData #OpenScience

  10. Long Fridays at work have become all too common, but at least this time, we overcame a data issue with Social Connectedness Index data, and I managed to review and accept proofs for an upcoming #ScientificData article.

  11. Long Fridays at work have become all too common, but at least this time, we overcame a data issue with Social Connectedness Index data, and I managed to review and accept proofs for an upcoming #ScientificData article.

  12. Trump’s War on Science: How His Policies Affect Canadian Research.... "directly harm(ing) hundreds of ongoing #Canadian #climate #research projects, as well as #Canada’s efforts to monitor #climatechange and safeguard the public from climate disasters."
    evidencefordemocracy.ca/trumps

    #Science #ScientificData #Uspol #cdnpoli #climateBreakdown

  13. Trump’s War on Science: How His Policies Affect Canadian Research.... "directly harm(ing) hundreds of ongoing #Canadian #climate #research projects, as well as #Canada’s efforts to monitor #climatechange and safeguard the public from climate disasters."
    evidencefordemocracy.ca/trumps

    #Science #ScientificData #Uspol #cdnpoli #climateBreakdown

  14. #NASA Partners With #Microsoft to Open Up Valuable Space Data to the Public

    Through a new partnership with #Microsoft, #NASA wants to "democratize" access to its #scientificdata with the help of #AI.

    observer.com/2024/11/nasa-micr

  15. #NASA Partners With #Microsoft to Open Up Valuable Space Data to the Public

    Through a new partnership with #Microsoft, #NASA wants to "democratize" access to its #scientificdata with the help of #AI.

    observer.com/2024/11/nasa-micr

  16. Excited to share that I'm now a member of the CF Conventions Committee! 🎉

    CF (Climate and Forecast) conventions standardise how scientific data and metadata are stored in NetCDF files, ensuring consistency and machine readability. Looking forward to contributing and collaborating with the community to shape its future! 🌍

    #CFConventions #NetCDF #FAIRData #ScientificData #DataScience

  17. Hello. My colleague Luke just joined Mastodon !

    Give him a follow (here and on YouTube) for recipes, tips and tricks handling #FAIR #ScientificData with #Python and R (among other things).

    @LukeDataManager

    #OpenData #OpenScience #OpenSource

  18. Hello. My colleague Luke just joined Mastodon !

    Give him a follow (here and on YouTube) for recipes, tips and tricks handling #FAIR #ScientificData with #Python and R (among other things).

    @LukeDataManager

    #OpenData #OpenScience #OpenSource

  19. A Gentle Introduction to GDAL Part 8 - Reading Scientific Data Formats
    --
    medium.com/@robsimmon/a-gentle <-- shared technical article / tutorial
    --
    “Among its many well-known capabilities, GDAL has a hidden superpower — the ability to read scientific data formats like Hierarchical Data Format (HDF), Network Common Data Form (NetCDF), and Gridded Binary (GRIB). Many essential climate and satellite datasets created by the likes of NASA, NOAA, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and the European Space Agency (ESA) are stored and distributed in one of these formats. They contain records of everything from global temperatures to land cover to ocean salinity. Unfortunately, many people who’d be interested in using these data don’t even know they exist…”
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earth #global #gdal #opensource #opendata #tutorial #learning #onlinelearning #introduction #scientificdata #HDF #NetCDF #GRIB #NASA #NOAA #WMO #ESA

  20. A Gentle Introduction to GDAL Part 8 - Reading Scientific Data Formats
    --
    medium.com/@robsimmon/a-gentle <-- shared technical article / tutorial
    --
    “Among its many well-known capabilities, GDAL has a hidden superpower — the ability to read scientific data formats like Hierarchical Data Format (HDF), Network Common Data Form (NetCDF), and Gridded Binary (GRIB). Many essential climate and satellite datasets created by the likes of NASA, NOAA, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and the European Space Agency (ESA) are stored and distributed in one of these formats. They contain records of everything from global temperatures to land cover to ocean salinity. Unfortunately, many people who’d be interested in using these data don’t even know they exist…”

  21. Long-term data collection + high resolution + alpine habitats + #OpenAccess = GREAT! 🥳

    Our colleagues from #Eurac #AlpineEnvironment published a #DataPaper in #ScientificData with a bunch of climatic data along an elevational gradient.

    The data come from an LT(S)ER area in #Vinschgau, #SouthTyrol, #italy

    👉 nature.com/articles/s41597-024

    #LTER #LTSER #LTSERMatsch #LTERItaly #LTEREurope #LongTermData #MeteoStations #OpenData

  22. Long-term data collection + high resolution + alpine habitats + #OpenAccess = GREAT! 🥳

    Our colleagues from #Eurac #AlpineEnvironment published a #DataPaper in #ScientificData with a bunch of climatic data along an elevational gradient.

    The data come from an LT(S)ER area in #Vinschgau, #SouthTyrol, #italy

    👉 nature.com/articles/s41597-024

    #LTER #LTSER #LTSERMatsch #LTERItaly #LTEREurope #LongTermData #MeteoStations #OpenData

  23. "Helicopter science" and datasets: Sarah Bratt and colleagues studied the use of Global South (GS) data by Global North researchers (in 3200 Scientific Data papers) , using OpenAlex and an LLM, ReFinEd, to identify entities in Geonames.

    The % of GS authors on GS data papers has risen, but on papers using GS data only 35% have a GS researcher as 1st or last author.

    p.s. Saying "ding" instead of "next slide" was new to me!

    #ICSSI #ScienceofScience #HelicopterScience #ScientificData #GlobalSouth

  24. "Helicopter science" and datasets: Sarah Bratt and colleagues studied the use of Global South (GS) data by Global North researchers (in 3200 Scientific Data papers) , using OpenAlex and an LLM, ReFinEd, to identify entities in Geonames.

    The % of GS authors on GS data papers has risen, but on papers using GS data only 35% have a GS researcher as 1st or last author.

    p.s. Saying "ding" instead of "next slide" was new to me!

    #ICSSI #ScienceofScience #HelicopterScience #ScientificData #GlobalSouth

  25. Ireland et al. reviewed the reproducibility of geophysical research and found, despite requirements to make data available, that most of the time data used in studies were not accessible, limiting the opportunity to verify their findings.

    Read now: doi.org/10.26443/seismica.v2i1

    #DiamondOpenAccess #OpenAccess
    #OpenScience #opendata #scientificjournal #scientificdata

  26. #academic #scientificdata We have loads of data around the lab. It's challenging knowing who has what where. Is there some (#freesoftware, #Python preferred) tool so that we can organise this? Should allow listing and querying metadata and hopefully, retrieving stuff via web. Chaos of formats including geospatial as well as CSV etc @pybonacci

  27. #academic #scientificdata We have loads of data around the lab. It's challenging knowing who has what where. Is there some (#freesoftware, #Python preferred) tool so that we can organise this? Should allow listing and querying metadata and hopefully, retrieving stuff via web. Chaos of formats including geospatial as well as CSV etc @pybonacci

  28. FAIR principles go-fair.org/fair-principles/ are a guide for making more useable. Some sites that aspire to these goals for data include:

    Planetary Data System pds.nasa.gov/

    SPASE spase-group.org/

    Heliophysics Data Portal heliophysicsdata.gsfc.nasa.gov/

    Coordinated Data Analysis Web cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/

    NASA Open Data Portal data.nasa.gov/

    There are hundreds of sites with tools, standards references, and repositories. What are your favorites?

  29. New #research paper led by Heather Chamberlain at WorldPop - High-resolution estimates of social distancing feasibility, mapped for #urban areas in sub-Saharan #Africa - in #ScientificData #Covid19 #NPIs #socialdistancing
    Mapped index data: wopr.worldpop.org/?/SocialDist
    Visualised on the #GRID3 data hub: data.grid3.org/search?categori.
    The work is part of the #Grid3 project, funded by #gatesfoundation and #FCDOGovUK
    Project summary: worldpop.org/current-projects/
    Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-017

  30. 📢 Paper & Data alert:
    "A comprehensive suite of #earthquake catalogues for the 2016–2017 Central #Italy seismic sequence"
    nature.com/articles/s41597-022

    We provide and document a #dataset of six catalogs for this sequence, which were developed with a variety of methods ranging from real-time to advanced #MachineLearning procedures.

    I'm proud to be co-author among so many #seismologist-s.

    #ScientificData #SpringerNature
    #Seismology #OpenAccess

  31. 📢 Paper & Data alert:
    "A comprehensive suite of #earthquake catalogues for the 2016–2017 Central #Italy seismic sequence"
    nature.com/articles/s41597-022

    We provide and document a #dataset of six catalogs for this sequence, which were developed with a variety of methods ranging from real-time to advanced #MachineLearning procedures.

    I'm proud to be co-author among so many #seismologist-s.

    #ScientificData #SpringerNature
    #Seismology #OpenAccess

  32. US government to make all research it funds open access on publication - Enlarge / Alondra Nelson, President Joe Biden's pick for OSTP Deputy Di... - arstechnica.com/?p=1876279 #scientificpublishing #scientificdata #openaccess #science #policy