160 - SciOp.net feat. Jonny and Jez (part 1)

We’re talking with Jonny and Jez about SciOp, a torrent-focused data preservation project that encourages academics to help with the act of making data available. It’s distributed, it’s robust, and SciOp is working on making it easy to do.

contact@safeguar.de 

Contact Jonny: 

Fedi: https://elektrine.com/remote/jonny@neuromatch.social
Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/jo.nny.rip

Media mentioned

https://sciop.net/

https://forum.safeguar.de/about

https://blog.sciop.net/2025-08-29/webseeds 

https://punctumbooks.com/titles/warez-the-infrastructure-and-aesthetics-of-piracy/ 

Safeguarding/sciop: collecting at-risk data in torrent rss feeds - Codeberg.org

- https://codeberg.org/safeguarding/sciop
- the scraping code, such as it is: https://codeberg.org/Safeguarding/sciop-scraping

- sciop the blog, such as it is: https://blog.sciop.net/

https://programminghistorian.org/

https://book.the-turing-way.org/ 

last episodes on federation:

https://www.librarypunk.gay/e/101-mastodon-bluesky-and-bullshit-part-1-feat-jonny-saunders/

https://www.librarypunk.gay/e/102-mastodon-bluesky-and-bullshit-part-2-feat-jonny/ 

Tools mentioned

webrecorder, browser trix

https://webrecorder.net/ 

https://webrecorder.net/browsertrix/

academictorrents - academic data tracker https://academictorrents.com/

aggregor mauve https://agregore.mauve.moe/ 

DRP - lumos https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/sites/datalumos/home

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table 

https://torrentfreak.com/controversy-as-rookie-admin-aspires-to-bittorrent-domination-080730/ 

ddos secrets https://ddosecrets.org/ 

Archive Team Warrior https://tracker.archiveteam.org/ 

How to contribute to sciop 

https://sciop.net/docs/quickstart/ 

Create account.

Create a torrent. [find how to link for how to create a torrent]

Upload. 

Get permission so they are visible to others. 

Seed.

Transcripts: https://podscripts.co/podcasts/librarypunk 

Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/qWPTurTnkT