Pia Polsa

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TOPIC 2: Pia Polsa

The webinar with Terese MacKinnon (24.3.2026) was slightly confusing as in the beginning I was enthusiastic about sharing teaching material. So I started to plan how to share mine and at the end of the webinar learning that most of the places where Terese had shared hers were now behind paywall. However, some ideas can be taken:

  • Opensharing
  • Slideshare
  • Padlet (also in the other course)
  • Creative Commons lisences
  • There is a book about Enshittification where open sharing is scrutinized where most places like FB, Amazon, iphone and X (former Twitter) first are good to users, then good to business customers and finally none of that but not useful
  • Mastodon (what was that)?
  • From the chat by Isabel Duarte: https://github.com/instructr and https://instructr.github.io/rnaseq.counts2bio/

Webinar tips for us: 1) use your personal email but I am wondering how safe is that since gmail, microsoft outlook etc are all US based, not EU based), 2) always keep your own copies (do not only store in open space), 3) MAKE KINDNESS AND GENEROSITY central (I so love this), 4) Do not tolerate trolls, and 5) be aware of risks.