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Egon Willighagen
@egonw.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy
This account is used for tooting conferences and about the Dutch academic system. Sometimes Dutch. Toots are personal and searchable. he/him

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"A noteworthy finding is that the identities of many chemicals remain publicly unknown because they are claimed as confidential (over 50 000) or ambiguously described (up to 70 000)." https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.9b06379
December 8, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Reposted by Egon Willighagen
PCI Statistics and Machine Learning (@PCI_StatML) is now open for submissions!! https://statml.peercommunityin.org/
For an updated list of all the thematic PCIs, visit https://peercommunityin.org/current-pcis/
December 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
new blog: "Rescuing Scholia: will we make it in time?" https://doi.org/10.59350/yh369-rr787 https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/12/08/rescuing-scholia.html

"What started out in 2016 on Twitter became a (small) award winning decade long collaborative project. Unfortunately, the future […]
Original post on social.edu.nl
social.edu.nl
December 8, 2025 at 7:28 AM
"The first rule of research integrity is always cite your sources."

From "Reference checks in Oversight" https://doi.org/10.59350/7ax4r-hk815

Nice blog post about citation practices, retractions, and citation networks.
December 8, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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got GPML files on @github? Validate them with this action:

jobs:
test:
name: "Validate XSD files"
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v6

- name: Validate XSD files conform to the specs
uses: phpcsstandards/xmllint-validate@v1
with:
pattern: "pathways/*.gpml" […]
Original post on fosstodon.org
fosstodon.org
December 7, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Surf zoekt zo’n tweeduizend docenten, onderzoekers en andere medewerkers die Nextcloud willen uitproberen, een serieus Europees alternatief voor Microsoft. dub.uu.nl/nl/nieuws/su...
Surf zoekt proefkonijnen om alternatief Microsoft te testen
Surf zoekt zo’n tweeduizend docenten, onderzoekers en andere medewerkers die Nextcloud willen uitproberen, een serieus Europees alternatief voor Microsoft.
dub.uu.nl
November 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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@egonw a few days ago, I updated bumped the #bioconda package of r-wikipathways to v1.30 . Thank you for this wonderful package!

Today, after quite some tinkering, I managed to overly differential expression results. This is not stable code, yet. The […]

[Original post on fediscience.org]
December 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Don’t forget to register for this month’s LIPID MAPS #webinar with James Olzmann, titled ‘Cellular lipid homeostasis: From lipid droplets to ferroptosis’. Register now: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
December 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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RE: https://social.edu.nl/@tgx_um/115645028833529913

on Monday we have a go/no-go and we really want to go

So, are you considering sign up before Sunday evening!

#ontologies #linkeddata #sparql
🚀 BioSB course "Knowledge Graphs in the Life Sciences” 🚀
Don't miss this exciting opportunity for Life Sciences researchers and data enthusiasts. In just 9 weeks, BioSB will host this course: https://www.dtls.nl/courses/knowledge-graphs-in-the-life-sciences-2026/
📅 January 5–9, 2025
🗺️ […]
Original post on social.edu.nl
social.edu.nl
December 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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There’s still time to register for TODAY’s FREE online #beilsteintalk “The value of data-sharing for reaction discovery and development” with Simon Coles and Sally Bloodworth, University of Southampton.

📅 Dec 4, 2025 🕒 3–4 pm CET
🔗 […]

[Original post on hessen.social]
December 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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‼️ La invasión de satélites como Starlink también arruinará las imágenes del Hubble y otros telescopios espaciales www.eldiario.es/1_c38a03?utm...
La invasión de satélites como Starlink también arruinará las imágenes del Hubble y otros telescopios espaciales
Algunos telescopios en órbita baja verán más del 96% de sus imágenes dañadas por la superpoblación de satélites, que ha aumentado de 2.000 a 15.000 desde 2019
www.eldiario.es
December 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
getting ready for (already) the 7th #vhp4safety #hackathon!

VHP4Safety is NWO-funded research project, co-creating a virtual human (platform) to host digital twins, to support toxicology research and risk assessment. Why? to replace as much as possible, if not all, animal testing.

And the […]
Original post on social.edu.nl
social.edu.nl
December 2, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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NUTRIM Open Science: "In our series on open science, this edition features Mireille Sthijns and Cynthia Ly, highlighting their contributions to our community and their dedication to transparency and accessibility—not only for fellow researchers but for society at large." […]
Original post on social.edu.nl
social.edu.nl
December 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Reposted by Egon Willighagen
🚀 BioSB course "Knowledge Graphs in the Life Sciences” 🚀
Don't miss this exciting opportunity for Life Sciences researchers and data enthusiasts. In just 9 weeks, BioSB will host this course: https://www.dtls.nl/courses/knowledge-graphs-in-the-life-sciences-2026/
📅 January 5–9, 2025
🗺️ […]
Original post on social.edu.nl
social.edu.nl
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Reposted by Egon Willighagen
Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability
https://www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-fungus-appears-to-have-evolved-an-incredible-ability
That fungus is called Cladosporium sphaerospermum, and some scientists think its dark pigment – melanin – may allow it to harness ionizing […]
Original post on mastodon.scot
mastodon.scot
November 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
@wikipathways still has a good number (200 to 250) pathways that do not have a single reference (which does not mean no references were used): https://www.wikipathways.org/wikipathways-collection/index2#at-least-one-reference

I think we need some gamification here... a few tools that take the […]
Original post on social.edu.nl
social.edu.nl
November 30, 2025 at 8:35 AM
oh, nice to see the eNanoMapper database paper (https://doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.6.165) got a mention in Wikipedia :) https://acs.altmetric.com/details/4332183/wikipedia
The eNanoMapper database for nanomaterial safety information
Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology
www.beilstein-journals.org
November 29, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Reposted by Egon Willighagen
The submission deadline for the ICCS Collection in the Journal of Cheminformatics will be extended to March 1. We currently have four papers under review and expect at 2 more submissions.

https://link.springer.com/collections/jcfcedbfda

#cheminformatics #iccs2025
Research from the 13th International Conference on Chemical Structures
The 13th International Conference on Chemical Structures (ICCS 2025) will take place on June 1-5, 2025, in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, where it has been ...
link.springer.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Reposted by Egon Willighagen
I'm wondering: If a published paper mentions that a study was approved by the ethics committee of University X, number XXXX, is there a way to find (and read) this ethics approval?

#metascience #ethics #academia
November 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Reposted by Egon Willighagen
"‘This is censorship.’ Conference requires abstracts to comply with Trump anti-DEI order."
https://www.science.org/content/article/censorship-conference-requires-abstracts-comply-trump-anti-dei-order

"Planetary scientists planning to attend a prominent conference may soon face a difficult […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Reposted by Egon Willighagen
On 15 December 2025, the Open Science Community Maastricht (OSCM) is hosting a hands-on workshop by Roman Briker:
“Pre-registration: Why, How, and Where?”

Pre-registration is one of the key steps toward making research more transparent, trustworthy, and […]

[Original post on social.edu.nl]
November 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM