Egon Willigh☮gen 🟥

Chem/Bio/Stats/SemWeb, the CDK, WikiPathways, TGX @ Maastricht University (these posts are personal) (he/him). Here particularly #opensource #openstandards and #opendata

For my research (field), follow Egon Willighagen (npub1h9t…re6l)

Web: https://egonw.github.io/
Blog: https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/
ORCID: https://encyclia.pub/0000-0001-7542-0286
OWL:SAMEAS: https://social.edu.nl/@egonw

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egonw_at_mastodon.social@momostr.pink

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2026-06-12 10:29:48 UTC

hi inline #openscience community! I have a favor to ask...
We have an open science festival and we have a large #fediwall ... it would just be awesome if you can send a "hi, waving from ... to the # osflimburg community" post!
(the hashtag with a space here; remove that, but did not want to spoil the fun.)
Our Lunch is about the start and we have the wall on a large screen in the lunch area!
Looking forward to your post!

2026-06-02 11:19:02 UTC

there is a significant number of scholars/scientists who (still) blog. A lot of early semantic web and #openscience discussions happened on this open "platform".
Rogue Scholar ([@rogue_scholar](https://wisskomm.social/@rogue_scholar )) is archiving new and old blogs, and just passed the 50 thousand blog posts. All citable by @npub1fp3…3wzf DOIs, all archived in the @npub1umd…wfr7, all under an open license. https://blog.front-matter.de/posts/rogue-scholar-50-000/
I still hope to see more 2005-2015 science blogs archived.

2026-05-02 21:10:13 UTC

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please @npub1e5g…hkaj too

2026-04-24 16:50:57 UTC

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good point.
I guess this is similar as the putting a cat in a microwave case

2026-04-24 16:48:06 UTC

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I am leaning towards, in the absense of a driver, to charge with person that sits in the car. May be difficult with current law, but someone in that car said "start driving"

2026-04-24 15:48:16 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.green/@ronanmcd/116459198153461110
Dutch cyclists, you are warned. Self-driving cars are a new risk.
#note1l76…hrmr

2026-04-03 20:33:31 UTC

anyone here using Chem4Word? https://www.chem4word.co.uk/
#cheminformatics #chemistry #microsoft #word
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/342/674/001/249/002/original/3e23e94d6e5be1a8.png

2026-02-08 10:43:23 UTC

hi @npub1ncy…3x0q, a very long time ago, I was quite interested in the semantic desktop, you know, things like Strigi
What is the state of this? Can I still do semantic searches on my KDE desktop?

2025-11-29 12:38:30 UTC

oh, wow... https://sunders.uber.space/#how
Dank @npub1520…wm9k: https://mastodon.social/@janvlug/115632964937085875
#privacy #eindhoven
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/633/018/590/401/880/original/0dfb44205c700ea5.png

2025-10-12 07:33:01 UTC

"Getting a DOI on personal blog posts is technically challenging, but possible using services such as The Rogue Scholar (https://docs.rogue-scholar.org/)." https://doi.org/10.1007/s44186-024-00287-w

2025-10-05 07:24:01 UTC

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yes, sorry, did not intend to question that

2025-10-05 07:21:57 UTC

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oh, yes. multiple times. never quite sure if it is laziness, ignorance, or purpose. whatever the reason, I never got used to be ignored blatantly. #AcademicChatter

2025-09-27 09:48:50 UTC

can someone remind me where to find a #mastodon and/or #fediverse starters guide aimed at scholars?

2025-09-15 18:12:10 UTC

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and the journal article is here: https://jcheminf.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1758-2946-4-17 (open and free access)

2025-08-14 07:07:10 UTC

I guess my bubble knows this, but if we are CO₂ polution neutral in 2050, it means we want to get the #climateChange problems worse every year for the next 25 years (at least)
Compare the weather of the past 3 years with that of 25 years ago.
Sometimes I wonder why I am not freaking out more about this.

2025-06-21 04:00:16 UTC

the many ways AI is making humans less productive #1:
- I have to proof I am human when visiting website
- websites are generally slower because they need to check if my browser is an AI bot
- I spent time every week now, restarting services affected by AI scraping bots
And I am not even using AI
#openscience

2025-05-31 06:04:33 UTC

the only reason to collect and keep personal information is to influence those people. To get them to buy stuff they do not need, to get them to vote for parties that have no interest in them. Etc.
is this obvious to everyone?

2025-05-04 20:22:47 UTC

Fwd: "How Early Career Researchers are Advancing an African Approach to Open Science | Katina Magazine"
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/early-career-researchers-african-approach-open-science
#openscience

2025-04-21 05:54:56 UTC

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yeah, I know (and use) that bridge. but the yield has been minimal, and to the requests I made, I never got an answer :(

2025-04-21 05:21:14 UTC

is there any chemist left here? or did everyone move over to Bluesky? #chemistry

2025-04-01 16:41:24 UTC

petition at Maastricht University for more digital independence (and all the benefits of that): https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/tCrx6XpRvVWSEypeb7hlsEyvbPX0EbVMPc5DwyzCx4w/
Can also be signed by UM alumni!

2025-03-12 08:56:48 UTC

#chemsky, anyone knows the exact rules around DEI for ACS talks at #ACSSpring2025 ?
I guess I may not be able to give my support to DEI at my ACS talk in two weeks, despite it being so important particularly these days. the whole session is about #openscience which has inclusiveness as a core value

2025-02-12 09:23:38 UTC

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no, that's not what I mean... not locally, but on the codeberg.org website

2025-02-12 09:19:24 UTC

@npub1fh7…ee83, in the instructions for "Pushing an existing repository from the command line", is there a setting where I can change the 'origin' default in those instructions to 'codeberg'? would save me a lot of time

2025-02-08 06:11:08 UTC

I honestly wonder when @npub1enq…ycu8 and @npub1e5g…hkaj go offline. I understood their servers are running on USA soil, and surely both contains plenty of content that violates USA law (under the new admin). This is a very significant risk to projects like @npub1wxv…3sx0 and many, many more
What is the @npub1hdk…eh5e exit strategy?
@npub187f…en06, is there a Phabricator ticket for that already?
#wikidata #openscience

2025-01-27 10:21:52 UTC

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do you know if someone tried to bring the website online on a different domain? the souce code is safe, but it would be nice if people can "do" the course again too

2025-01-26 05:54:47 UTC

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the source code is on https://github.com/nasa/Transform-to-Open-Science/ and that has multiple copies

2024-12-27 10:06:40 UTC

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I love it. thanks for posting!

2024-11-17 04:52:25 UTC

in about a week since my post on bridging #bluesky and #mastodon and me creating bridges for my two accounts (see https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2024/11/10/mastodon-bridge-to-bluesky.html) I got many new followers. Many collaborators and old friends.
Please. if you are on Bluesky, please turn on federation with Mastodon so that I can follow you too. See https://fed.brid.gy/docs
And when you did, plz let me know so that I can follow you back. I don't get pings when you followed me before you closed the bridge

2024-10-12 09:18:46 UTC

with people posting online that the AlphaFold Nobel Prize would not be possible with #openscience (very true, e.g. see https://newsie.social/@brittanytrang/113289695636472073, and this will become the norm; actually, did people actually look at how many Nobel Prizes in the past 20 years had an essential dependency on Open Science?), it may be nice to revisit this post from two years ago:
"Is your research cited by a Nobel prize winner?" https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2022/10/08/is-your-research-cited-by-nobel-prize.html
#openscience #nobel #chemistry

2024-09-03 17:40:20 UTC

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let me rephrase that: "More than one Musk company involved in battle with Brazil"