Cosmology Researcher Talks database app
I started this project because there are thousands of cosmology research talks and academic lectures hosted at hundreds of sites, but no one site comprehensively tried to collect all this data into a searchable app. So I decided to create one out of personal interest as a service to the cosmology community. Currently, the database has links to over 6,400 talks and lectures from 198 sites. The scope is for cosmology-related research talks publicly available online that are at least at a colloquium level, or academic course lectures. More info at its github repository.
Other useful cosmology resource sites:
A couple people I follow decided to host their own personal Mastodon server so they can be in full control of their instance. Here are their notes about it:
This info is now deprecated. See Twitter API access levels and versions
I had been using self-programmed apps with Twitter API v1.1 to backup and provide search capability for my tweets, likes, and RTs.
But then I found out about the twitter-to-sqlite and sqlite-utils apps created by Simon Willison. These provide a much easier and very powerful way to backup, analyze, and search the full range of one's twitter data, including timeline, followers, following, lists, mentions, etc. Data is saved in a sqlite3 database for easy searching and analysis with sql querying.
It can also be used with the Twitter archive .zip download of one's data. Both twitter-to-sqlite and sqlite-utils are Python modules and are part of the Datasette suite of apps created by Simon.
Note: since this post was created on a Writefreely federated blog (via ActivityPub), it could be directly added to my Mastodon instance timeline by boosting it's federated link.
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