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Gracielle Higino
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Ecology + Evolution | Open Science Community Manager @sfu.ca | Educator | ASAPbio Fellow '23 | MozFest wrangler '19 - '21 | @mozilla.org '19 alumni | DRAC-EDIA Champion ‘24 | UBC Postdoc '21 - '25 | CIRTL Associate | OLS Senior Resident Fellow '25
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juancommander.scholcommlab.ca
TWO new BLOGS on the the messy landscape of preprints. First, mapping out preprint servers and services seems easy... but it's not! What counts as a #preprint server? read our take w/ @mariomalicki.bsky.social and @nataschachtena.bsky.social
www.scholcommlab.ca/2026/09/01/d...
Defining Preprints and Preprint Servers: Mapping an Inconsistent Landscape
A term without a settled definition The term “preprint” is widely used in scholarly communication, but it does not have an agreed-upon definition across disciplines, platforms, or professional role…
scholcommlab.ca
September 16, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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cdnsciencepub.com
What does it take to make statistical analyses and data reproducible?

For #PeerReviewWeek, our companion post to “Writing replicable and reproducible methods” is on preparing statistical analyses and data for replication and reproduction 💡▶️ https://ow.ly/GL2850ZMJzT
Wooden blocks forming a pie chart against a blue background with text about writing replicable and reproducible methods in statistical analyses.
September 15, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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mdcatchen.bsky.social
the most interesting thing i worked on during my phd is now out as a preprint. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Designing optimal biodiversity observation networks
ecoevorxiv.org
September 15, 2026 at 3:30 AM
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juancommander.scholcommlab.ca
#openaccess colors are BROKEN. Gold, Bronze, Green, Diamond, Hybrid... They are journal-centric, mix access and business models of journals, etc. We formed a working group to recommend how OpenAlex could implement a new classification system. Here's our report: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Recommendations for Revising the Open Access Classification System in OpenAlex
The open access (OA) color classification system used by Unpaywall (i.e., Gold, Green, Hybrid, Bronze, and closed) was introduced in 2018 and has since become widely used across the ecosystem, includi...
doi.org
September 9, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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mozilla.org
Period tracker: knows when you're ovulating, when you're stressed, when you might be pregnant.

Also your period tracker: selling that to an analytics firm, allegedly.

👀Nothing Personal's recent report on period trackers now live
mzl.la/4pF2WCA
mzl.la
September 4, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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prereview.bsky.social
We’re testing out an algorithm to suggest #preprints for review based on your @orcid.org public profile.
Take part in our second matchmaking experiment and help us with your valuable feedback!

🆕🚀 content.prereview.org/prereview-platform-news-4-september-2026/

#OpenScience #OpenInfrastructure
PREreview platform news, 4 September 2026
We’re testing out an algorithm to suggest preprints for review based on your ORCID public profile. Take part in our second matchmaking experiment and help us with your valuable feedback!
content.prereview.org
September 4, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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colincarlson.bsky.social
finished a several years running wishlist project on climate change risks to healthcare and i have great news. the results are very bad
August 26, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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carlyziter.bsky.social
Mitacs Globalink 2027 opportunity in Montreal! My Urban Landscape Ecology Lab at Concordia is seeking eligible international undergrads for a summer research internship on urban biodiversity & ecosystem services. Travel/living support included. Apply by Sept. 16, 2026.

www.mitacs.ca/our-programs...
August 18, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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prereview.bsky.social
🎉 We’re celebrating #PeerReviewWeek with a Review-a-thon!

Gather your lab, classroom, department, or community to review preprints or datasets as a team, in any language or research field. You can win a prize to support your Club's activities!

Learn more & register by Aug. 31: bit.ly/Review-a-thon
Review-a-thon flyer with the Peer Review Week logo on the top-right corner. Celebrate #PeerReviewWeek by reviewing together. 14-18 September, 2026. Three icons with numbers signaling the three steps to participate: 1° Register a PREreview Club or create your own. 2° Publish at least 1 collaborative review. 3° Win a prize for your Club. A QR code leads to the Review-a-thon website and reads “Register by August 31”. PREreview logo on the bottom-left corner.
July 21, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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prereview.bsky.social
If you coordinate a PREreview Club, we’ve got news for you

Now club leads can ask us to attach a review to their club’s page directly within the review workflow. No need to email us!

Learn more about this and other optimizations for clubs in today’s Weeknote: content.prereview.org/prereview-pl...
PREreview platform news, 17 July 2026
We added a new optimization to our review workflow for PREreview Clubs. If you are a club lead, you can now let us know from within the review workflow itself that we should attach that review to your...
content.prereview.org
July 17, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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ctrlalttim.com
Are interacting species showing more similar responses to environmental predictors than expected by chance? Is this similarity protecting species pairs from interaction disruption under climate change? If you want to find out, join us for a fully funded Ph.D. with @epic-biodiversity.org

🌎🧪
epic-biodiversity.org ÉPICBiodiversity @epic-biodiversity.org · May 19
Join us! We are looking for a Ph.D. student to work on the response of ecological network structure to environmental drivers; this line of research can be adapted to questions on climate change, phylogenetic conservatism, and more! 🧪🌎

epic-biodiversity.org/opportunities/
Join us! | ÉPICBiodiversity
epic-biodiversity.org
May 19, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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prenass.bsky.social
Pesquisa aberta é matéria-prima gratuita pra IA generativa comercial? Quem se beneficia da abertura?

Dia 2 de junho 14h BRT debato esse uso extrativista com Jennifer Zerkee e Monica Granados no painel "Extractive uses of openness and commercial generative AI".

🔗 sfu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Um infográfico de divulgação detalhado para uma mesa redonda virtual. No topo, o título principal diz: "EXTRACTIVE USES OF OPENNESS AND COMMERCIAL GENERATIVE AI", com o subtítulo: "VIRTUAL PANEL DISCUSSION: EXAMINING POWER IMBALANCES AND UNRECIPROCATED REUSE". A metade esquerda apresenta uma ilustração complexa. Um grupo de cientistas e acadêmicos acorrentados representa a comunidade de "Open Scholarship" (Bolsa Aberta), conectada a livros e documentos com tags de licença como "CC-BY" e "CCO". Uma mão mecânica central agarra um livro rotulado "OPEN SCHOLARSHIP" e o transforma em um livro com a tag "PROPRIETARY" (PROPRIETÁRIO). Esse processo de transformação leva a um processador central rotulado "COMMERCIAL GEN AI" (IA GEN COMERCIAL), que por sua vez transforma o conteúdo em pilhas de sacos de dinheiro com símbolos de dólar ($), ilustrando o conceito de "uso extrativista". A metade direita lista os palestrantes e suas afiliações em três painéis separados. O primeiro é Jennifer Zerkee, "Copyright Specialist @ SFU", com um ícone de martelo de juiz sobre um livro aberto e o logo da SFU. O segundo é Monica Granados, "Director of Open Science @ Creative Commons", com o logo do CC apontando para um microscópio. O terceiro é Paulo Rená, "Ph.D. in Law, State, and Constitution @ Universidade de Brasília (UnB)", com um ícone da fachada da UnB e um pergaminho da "CONSTITUTION" (CONSTITUIÇÃO). Na parte inferior, os detalhes do evento são fornecidos. À esquerda, um ícone de calendário e relógio com o texto "2 JUN. 2026, 14:00 BRT (GMT-3)". Abaixo disso, o texto "Hosted by Simon Fraser University's Open Scholarship Initiative". O logo da SFU com "SFU Open Scholarship" está no canto inferior direito. No centro, um botão azul com "REGISTER NOW: [Link Fictício]" e a tag "FREE VIRTUAL EVENT".
May 9, 2026 at 5:57 AM
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heyitsseher.bsky.social
Today is a wonderful day because @mozilla.org Festival Call for Proposals is officially OPEN! We are accepting proposals for consideration until Sun May 24th.

How can we uplift community-led alternatives for a better tech future? We want to hear from you.

🔗➡️ mzl.la/48QUyZH

#mozfest #mozfest2026
May 8, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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sciencebanshee.bsky.social
Always enjoy @philmoscovitch.bsky.social's clear-eyed reporting on AI and was inspired to revisit the public consultation survey on AI from October.

There's a report out now!

And I have Notes!
April 13, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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astrokatie.com
More context on this #Artemis II image:

* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right

* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕
A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)
April 3, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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pkp.sfu.ca
📰 Inside PKP's community newsletter, "Archipelago"

* Interview w/ new Managing Director, Teresa Lee
* Demystifying #FOSS w/ Alec Smecher
* Reflections - 3rd Global Summit on #DiamondOA w/ @markhusk.bsky.social
* #OpenJournalSystems OJS 3.6

And more: lists.publicknowledgeproject.org/archive/arch...
The Stockholm archipelago in Sweden is lit up in a golden bath of sunlight, with a mysterious mist hanging low in front of the silhouetted island. The water shimmers like a glowing, rippling mirror. The use of archipelago photography in PKP's newsletter represents the distributed yet connected nature of free and open source software as well as open access communities. The photo was taken by PKP's Jason Nugent on his travels.
March 31, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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mozilla.org
Raffi Krikorian's piece in The Atlantic piece digs into what happens when automated systems lull us into trust, then fail in the split second when it matters most.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
My Tesla Was Driving Itself Perfectly—Until It Crashed
The danger of almost-perfect tech
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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cghlewis.bsky.social
I've been coming across so many great open science initiatives in other fields that I wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the efforts happening in the Education Sciences.
New blog post! 💡

cghlewis.com/blog/ed_open...
Grassroots Efforts to Bring Open Science to the Field of Education Research | Crystal Lewis
A brief history of efforts by various individuals, groups, and organizations to bring open science to the field of education and developmental science. Image from Open Social Work.
cghlewis.com
March 23, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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prereview.bsky.social
Follow the outputs of the PREreview + @continuous.foundation Modular Peer Review Working Group in real time 🙌

🧩 Session 2 was all about identifying reviewable components from multiple stages of research, and associating them with different signals or evaluation functions:
bit.ly/3PG1stO
Modular Peer Review Working Group
A working group hosted by Continuous Science Foundation (CSF) and PREreview exploring how peer review can evolve in a modular publishing ecosystem.
bit.ly
March 17, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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asapbio.bsky.social
Curious about Open Education?
We encourage you to register for 'Open Education Talks 2026', where ASAPbio Resident, Melissa Chim, will discuss Open Educational Resources and the Future of Open Science.
oetalks.opened.ca
Open Education Talks
oetalks.opened.ca
March 17, 2026 at 3:44 PM
gracielle.science
The Nebula #OpenScience training in collaboration with NASA is BACK!

This 6 weeks program is directed to anyone interested in developing open research practices.

Participation is free, and the registrations are open for the next cohort (April through May): lnkd.in/ecs_i8Cc
March 7, 2026 at 1:46 AM
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ok.org.br
⏳ Hora de conhecer tudo sobre os eventos de celebração do Dia dos Dados Abertos no Brasil! Afinal, eles já começam no final desta semana!

✨ O #ODD2026 no Brasil tem patrocínio do AppCívico, do Jusbrasil, da ASK-AR e da Linked Data.

👉 Acesse os links de inscrição: ok.org.br/noticia/tudo...
March 2, 2026 at 8:00 PM
gracielle.science
Mixed feelings of loving Mozilla for implementing a quick toggle on and off for AI on Firefox, but also hating that they've put AI on the browser in the first place.
February 27, 2026 at 7:55 AM
gracielle.science
I'm reviewing a PhD candidate's comprehensive exam manuscript for tomorrow (I'm late! I know!) and
1. I can't believe people delegate that to LLMs nowadays - it's so much fun!
2. It feels outdated to ask students to go through qualifying exams and hand over a PDF for evaluation in 2026.
February 27, 2026 at 1:22 AM
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pkp.sfu.ca
Open Education Week 2026 is coming the first week of March! #OEWeek26

In 2024 and 2025 we featured communities around the world using PKP's scholar-led, community developed #OpenMonographPress for open education.

Are you using OMP to share knowledge openly? Tag us!

pkp.sfu.ca/2024/03/06/o...
Open Monograph Press (OMP) for Open Education - Public Knowledge Project
PKP celebrates Open Education Week by sharing open monographs and textbooks published using its free Open Monograph Press (OMP).
pkp.sfu.ca
February 24, 2026 at 12:14 AM