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Gitea and federation of repositories

Gitea is great. So is Codeberg. The ability to share repos, issues, and users across Gitea instances, would be awesome.

Git itself is already federated and decentralised, but there is still a need for federation of the remote repo and its facilities.

The idea of some sort of federation between Gitea instances has been around since 2016.

git digital_commons federation collection_post

What is an electron?

In this video produced by the American Chemical Society, George Zaidan does a great job presenting a short but fundamental explanation of what an electron is and why that matters (pun intended).

I can really recommend!

Via Physics World.

chemistry science videos

The Academic Family Tree

There's a chemistry tree.

Looks like good fun, and the data that makes up the genealogy is shared under a CC-BY license (bulk data export requires contacting the site admin), but I have found no mention of the license for the code of the website/project.

Their FAQ is very informative.

chemistry science leisure

Window managers (Linux)

i3wm, tiling window manager for X11.
sway, drop-in replacement for i3wm on Wayland.
enlightenment, window manager, compositor and minimal desktop. Not tiling. Supports X11, experimental Wayland support.

There are many more window managers. Add more as I (re)discover them.

Linux window_manager software_project

Citation File Format (CFF)

Citation File Format (CFF), a YAML 1.2-based format for providing citation metadata for (research/scientific) software.

CFF github repo
Guide to the CFF v1.2 schema, including such niceties as credit redirection
One of many CFF file generators (here is a table of other tools).
Making software citation easi(er) - The Citation File Format and its integrations, slides for a presentation by Stephan Druskat (one of the CFF maintainers).
There are, of course, R-based CFF generators. cffr is backed by rOpenSci.
Stephan Druskat's cfftracker answers the question: how many repos on Github contain CITATION.cff files? At the moment just north of 1000 repos (less than I thought, to be honest). Keep adding CFF to your scientific repos, people :-)

Via Martin Fenner (twice over).

scholarship software_project software_development

RefractiveIndex.info

Refractive index database

open_science open_data optics

قاموس ومعجم المعاني متعدد اللغات والمجالات

قاموس عربي عربي و قاموس عربي انجليزي ثنائي

dictionary Arabic English

SOLVE Solforskningscentrum i Sverige 2022-2026

Huvudsökande: Uppsala universitet.
Medsökande lärosäten och forskningsinstitut: Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB, Högskolan dalarna, Mälardalens högskola och Karlstads universitet.
Koordinator: professor Marika Edoff

Exciting news! No website or similar yet, but here are some news snippets.
This project involves six universities and 50 companies and organisations, and has a budget of 110 MSEK over five years.

Several research themes:

advanced technology
building integration
enhanced PV systems
land sharing
planning for large-scale expansion
and others

Theme 1: advanced technology
Solar cell devices with higher power, lower resource consumption.
For example, perovskite solar cells and tandem cells.

solar_cell research_institute