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.[email protected] Contact Jonny: Fedi: https://elektrine.com/remote/[email protected] Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/jo.nny.ripMedia mentionedhttps://sciop.net/https://forum.safeguar.de/abouthttps://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 mentionedwebrecorder, browser trixhttps://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/homehttps://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