Notices by Djoerd Hiemstra (djoerd@idf.social)

Fridays for Future! Friday 31 May will be another "Universitetsstrejk för klimatet"

https://klimaatmars.nl/en/home/

There will be a "Science block":

https://klimaatmars.nl/de-mars/#blok24

Motivated by the KNAW/NWO code of conduct, universities should decide that collaborations with fossil fuel companies are fundamentally opposed to scientific integrity.

https://www.knaw.nl/en/publications/netherlands-code-conduct-research-integrity

There are plenty good reasons for universities to break the ties with companies that do not credibly act on the goals of the Paris Agreement.

https://gerritschaafsma.medium.com/reasons-for-leiden-university-to-cut-ties-to-the-fossil-fuel-industry-247afe2cfd28

Fossil fuel companies use their partnerships with universities for greenwashing of their reputation.

https://www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fossil_fuel_report1.pdf

Fossil fuel companies try to undermine the credibility of researchers that research climatic change.

https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2022/10/19/oil-money-undermines-academic-autonomy-opinion

Research funding from fossil fuel companies leads to biased research results and delays development of technologies that reduce the use of fossil fuels.

https://drilled.media/news/hearingdocs-universities

Learn more about the fossil ties at your university: Visit https://www.mappingfossilties.org and join with others at your institution to take action.

Awesome lists about all kinds of interesting topics, curated by the community.

https://github.com/topics/awesome

Search engines with their own indexes (posted by Rohan "Seirdy" Kumar in March 2021 but updated in Sept. 2023)

https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/

Viktor Lofgren of Marginala asks today's most important question:

Why does the web look like a shopping maill?

(through the eyes of search engines, social media platforms, forums, ...)

Not on Marginalia: https://search.marginalia.nu/

#ossym2023

@aral @osf
Touché ... I really don't want those foundations, no... but I do want to break up companies that control search and advertisements, though. What would you propose?

Random thought: We need an "Open Advertisement Foundation" next to the Open Search Foundation @osf ... #ossym2023