Last weekend I received the Troland Research Award from the @nationalacademies.org. I’m so grateful to the communities who made this work possible. It's strange to receive this award at a time when much of the work being recognized is not eligible for federal funding. My remarks 👇 and a 🧵>>
NAS 163rd Annual Meeting - Awards Ceremony
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NAS 163rd Annual Meeting - Awards Ceremony
Elena Rossini 🌈 (@_elena@mastodon.social)
Two pieces of good news for W Social: 1) I may have found the problem that has bricked their network for the past week. 2) This may very well be the LAST article I ever write about them. It's exhausting and stressful and I want to retire from this beat and go back to promoting the Fediverse. Thank you all for your support and encouragement. And to my trusted source (a Fedi friend) who found and shared with me brilliant gems: THANK YOU! It's been a real honor collaborating with you ❤️
Cosmik awarded $1M grant from Open Philanthropy and Astera Institute for new social knowledge network for researchers - Cosmik Labs
The grants will support the development of Semble, a new knowledge sharing and discovery network for researchers
TechAccess: AI-Ready America
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Open Social Awards | New_ Public
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Facelift, Semble integration by govi218 · Pull Request #66 · DataXResearch/rabbithole
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National Science Foundation Fostering Interdisciplinary Networks to Develop Emergent and Responsive Solutions Foundry (NSF FINDERS FOUNDRY)
NSF Financial Assistance awards (grants and cooperative agreements) made on or after October 1, 2024, will be subject to the applicable set of award conditions, dated October 1, 2024, available on the NSF website. These terms and conditions are consistent with the revised guidance specified in the OMB Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance published in the Federal Register on April 22, 2024.
Trove
Australia’s free online research portal. Trove is a collaboration between the National Library of Australia and hundreds of Partner organisations around Australia.
Want to do something? Scholars: get organized. Join @aaup.org. Everyone: call your congresspeople. Tell them to defend science. Tell them to regulate the AI industry. Support @standupforscience.net I’m not giving up and neither should you. /end
Today we're launching the Open Source for Science Fund, a new multi-donor philanthropic fund by Renaissance Philanthropy, seeded by @biohub.org and @wellcometrust.bsky.social, with support from @kavlifoundation.org and @researchsoftware.bsky.social 🧵 os4science.org/news/open-source-for-science-…
Open Source for Science Fund Launches to Power AI-Driven Discovery
os4science.orgHoly shit. ITS ALIVE! Meet #Lanyards v0.1 → 'Linktree for Researchers', built in the #ATmosphere 🌀 - Signup with @bsky.app - Link scholarly profiles #ORCID, #ResearchGate, #GoogleScholar etc. - Add research (by DOI) - Add conference talks - and more! #ATproto rules 🙌 #ATscience #AcademicSky
Some good news: the team at @bsky.app just awarded Gifthood a $2,000 AT Protocol grant. Thank you, sincerely. It means a lot that the people building the open network believe in what we're trying to do to build stronger connections among neighbors.
My boiling hot take on this is that, if tech companies are going to fund this kind of research (looking at Schmidt too), then the money needs to be given *no strings* to an independent arm's length research body, pooled with other funding, and treated as a donation not as direct funding.
Hetan Shah
Anthropic AI research fund offers $5m - $30m for social science research on themes of AI impact on workers; transition initiatives; income support; building worker stakes; and wider evidence on public investments. Total fund of $200m available anthropic.com/news/economic-futures-researc…
Tried building on Mastodon, wasn't financially viable. There's extremely little will to pay people for work in the fediverse, and Mastodon couldn't even give credit to contributors to help them raise their own profile. The only Fediverse orgs that have paid me are IFTAS and Nivenly.
Pedro Vezza
Why did you decide to bet on atproto over Mastodon or similar?
