tl;dr: You can turn your Puck.js into a one-button tracker with this open source website I made Open Humans community member James Littlejohn highlighted the Espruino family of open source hardware boards and devices during one of our community calls some weeks ago.

While preparing a workshop I was looking for journal ratings & rankings in the Social Sciences & Humanities and would like to share my information here. At the same time, I would like to encourage readers to make additions to the comments. Social Sciences: Journal ratings & rankings GESIS List (Mostly German):

Karin Lackner, Lisa Schilhan, Christian Kaier (Hg.): Publikationsberatung an Universitäten. Eine Praxisleitfaden zum Aufbau publikationsunterstützender Services . Bielefeld: transcript, 2020. ISBN: 978-3-8376-5072-3. 39,00 € Online unter: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5072-3/publikationsberatung-an-universitaeten/ Begleitmaterialien: https://doi.org/10.25364/publikationsberatung-materialien

Download PDF of the slides directly. Yesterday I presented what I learned from all of my passive data collection as a Show & Tell at the first European online Quantified Self meet-up. I already showed some of my insights here on the blog, but I added some more data analyses for the presentation, including my movement patterns from the GPS data and details on phone usage.

The COVID-19 confinement in Paris and France at large lasted from March 17th to May 11th, with comparatively strict measures on when you could leave your house, where you could go and for how long & when you could be outside. As a result a lot of folks, including me were forced to drastically change their daily routines, shifting to a home office approach.

Der LIBREAS-Verein hatte auch für das Jahr 2020 ein Stipendium ausgeschrieben. Wie jedes Jahr wollten wir damit die Reise zu und die Teilnahme an Konferenzen oder Weiterbildungen unterstützen. (https://libreas.wordpress.com/2019/12/16/stipendium-des-libreas-vereins-ausschreibung-2020/) Und wunderbarer Weise erreichten uns auch spannende Bewerbungen. Allein sie wurden von den aktuellen Ereignissen überholt.

Paris came out on 2020-06-06 for local #blacklivesmatter protests today. A part of it took place in front of the US embassy at Place de la Concorde, with the police fencing off the area widely. Another group gathered at the Champs de Mars facing the Eiffel Tower. The full image set can be found on Flickr.

Heute erschien mein Interview mit Leonid Schneider über Paper Mills, die gegen Geld scheinwissenschaftliche Publikationen inklusive gefälschter Forschungsdaten erstellen und so das Publikationssystem korrumpieren. Diese Publikationen schaffen es in schöner Regelmäßigkeit in Peer-Review-geprüfte Journale. Betroffen sind aber nicht vorrangig die bekannten Predatory Publishers, sondern anerkannte Journale arrivierter Verlage.

Just as 2016, 2015 and 2014 I produced an Open Access Heatmap 2020. It shows how many Open Access journals are published per country using data provided by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The heatmap can be found here or embedded some lines below.

The Forschungszentrum Jülich and Frontiers signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a German Consortium with the Open Access publisher Frontiers.