HOWTO organise astro

• AstroPolitics - how can we organise astronomy research/education with as little power politics as possible?
  • reformy zamiast rewolucji: DoktoratANU - analyses of PhD education, quality of supervisors, resources etc at university including Mt Stromlo and Siding Springs Observatories (.au)
  • StudentFees
  • BolognaProcess
    • BolognaLearningOutcomes
  • Polish online education - some open acess aspects: https://uwolnijnauke.pl/archiwa/3374
  • EUPubliclyFundedResearch
    • The European Charter for Researchers: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/charter/european-charter
  • LikwidacjaHabilitacjiItd
  • HigherEducationLaws (e.g. brownie point list of the per-journal points system in Poland)
• AdminGranty - HealthSafetyBHP
• Bibliometry:
  • UpdateEgps - how to update your WFAiIS/UMK bibliometry databases
  • BibliometryCAUMK
  • WikipediaEn:SFDORA
    • Anti-bibliometry: The Commission signs the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment and endorses the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment 8 Nov 2022
      • Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment (pdf) (archive)
  • https://nofreeviewnoreview.org + https://freeourknowledge.org + https://www.opennessinitiative.org
• Open science
  • OpenScienceTeamUMKCosmo - publicity about the open science that we're doing
  • OpenAccessPublishing
    • UMK - a supposedly "open" project at NCU: https://open-ncu.github.io
• ClimateEmergencyAstro
  • As of late 2019, in the precovidian era, French, Canadian and Australian astronomers had already started planning how to handle the climate emergency

HOWTO organise cosmo

• mixes of non-free and free initiatives, including those supporting GAFAM and the Zoom/Slack prison
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Tz%5FsZ92khJZVtx4Ru%5F4DICAEvMS6EPHL3lobHBzvC3A/edit
  • https://www.youtube.com/c/CosmologyTalks/featured - Shaun Hotchkiss interviews cosmologists on their papers
• astroparticle physics communit: The European Consortium for Astroparticle Theory https://www.eucapt.org

HOWTO organise research

Specific

• InHom - newsletter

General

• France: RechercheEnDanger
  • la recherch reproductible - https://www.recherche-reproductible.fr/community/
• Polska:
  • KomitetKRNP http://krnp.ipipan.waw kropka pl/ - EwolucjaIPolityka
  • AuthoritarianBibliometryOfResearch

(fr)

• RechercheEnDanger
• InfoVisiteurs - t'es un chercheur qui souhaite nous visiter ? quelques conseils, FAQ
• Education d'astrophysique universitaire, apparemment en source libre:
  • http://media4.obspm.fr/index.html

HOWTO organise UMK

• UniversityRector2020To2024
• SINDBaD - Systemu Integrującą Naukę, Dydaktykę, Badania i Administrację
• Decidim
  • 2024: already used on a large scale in municipal councils and some universities: WikipediaEn:Decidim
  • software: AGPLv3; content: CC BY-SA; data: ODbL
  • ironically, the software is hosted on a Microsoft-owned server: https://github.com/decidim/decidim , but under the AGPLv3, forks on any git forge are necessarily allowed
  • GAFAM problems of some major instances
• voting Zeus@PIONIER: https://voting.pionier.net.pl/zeus/
• or other democracy software projects? https://democracy.foundation/similar-projects/ especially
  • Loomio - ironically, the software is hosted on a Microsoft-owned server: https://github.com/loomio/loomio
  • https://alternativeto.net/software/democracyos/?license=opensource - another list of projects
  • https://www.public-software-group.org/liquid_feedback
  • https://framagit.org/1000i100/csv-secret-ballot
  • https://consuldemocracy.org
• YUFE - https://www.yufe.eu/ - sounds a bit suspicious: UMK is now associated with the rather disreputable ETS = WikipediaEn:Educational_Testing_Service - see the Criticism section
  • YuferingOpenScience
  • Uni of Warsaw is in the 4EU+ European University Alliance, so UMK is not the only Polish university trying to set up this sort of EU-wide university consortium
• UMKTwoFactorAuthentication (2FA)

HOWTO dr + hab procedures

PhD

• TODO: copy over notes from elsewhere - though the procedure changes every few years

habilitation

• TODO: make some notes based on current experience
• https://www.rdn.gov.pl/dl/425/attachment/31a57a/Poradnik%20habilitacja..pdf