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DESCRIPTION:Modern astronomy depends on a highly distributed ecosystem of d
 ata archives\, science platforms\, high-performance computing facilities\,
  observatories and international collaborations. Researchers routinely mov
 e between institutions\, projects and services\, while infrastructure prov
 iders must balance usability\, security\, accountability and interoperabil
 ity. As a result\, many astronomy communities face common challenges aroun
 d persistent researcher identity\, project-based access\, governance\, ser
 vice interoperability and cross-organisational trust. \n\nThis Birds of a 
 Feather session will explore how astronomy infrastructure can better suppo
 rt researchers operating across national and international environments. D
 rawing on recent Trust and Identity roadmap work undertaken within the Aus
 tralian astronomy community\, the session will examine recurring themes in
 cluding researcher mobility\, project and collaboration-based access model
 s\, federation\, identity lifecycle management\, and trust relationships b
 etween services and organisations.
DTSTAMP:20261015T123821Z
LOCATION:Seminar Room 3
SUMMARY:Trust\, Identity and Researcher Mobility in Astronomy Infrastructur
 e - Keith Brophy\, Simon O'Toole
URL:https://pretalx.adass.org/adass2026/talk/FGLTBR/
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DESCRIPTION:It seems that at every conference time is set aside for discuss
 ions on diversity and inclusion. Many departments have a diversity committ
 ee and a diversity policy.\nWhy are we still devoting time to this? Should
 n't we be discussing algorithms\, data transport\, AI\, and the current ro
 adblocks to technical and scientific progress?\n\nIf you've been silently 
 nodding\, this BoF is for you. \nIf you are horrified at what you've just 
 read\, this BoF is for you.\nIf you think much of the DEIB effort is box t
 icking and virtue signalling\, this BoF is for you.\nIf you believe that c
 ollaboration is the path to better science\, please join us. Because the r
 oadblocks to collaboration and diversity in our teams\, are roadblocks to 
 excellence in science and technology.
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LOCATION:Seminar Room 4
SUMMARY:Diversity\, Equity\, Inclusion\, and Belonging: why do we keep talk
 ing about this? - Simon O'Toole\, Nuria Lorente
URL:https://pretalx.adass.org/adass2026/talk/ECYL7J/
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UID:pretalx-adass2026-JBADXP@pretalx.adass.org
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DESCRIPTION:For a few years now\, some astronomical data centers have obser
 ved an increasing number of incoming requests. This usually indicates that
  a service is becoming more popular and useful. However\, the number and r
 ate of these requests is so high that the services are becoming increasing
 ly overwhelmed\, ending up by a saturation and complete unavailability. Wo
 rryingly\, this trend is speeding up. Consequently\, services are becoming
  unavailable more often and more quickly than before.\n\nThe recently obse
 rved growth in activity actually hides a different user profile. Until now
 \, humans and indexing crawlers were the only users of our services. Now\,
  there is a new category of users: AI bots. Unlike the other users\, they 
 are much more aggressive. There are two main reasons for this. First\, the
 y rely on cloud infrastructures. This allows them to massively parallelize
  the web scrapping operations and use an enormous number of different IP a
 ddresses\, making them impossible to block with the usual methods. Second\
 , they do not adhere to any best practices\, such as the well-known `robot
 s.txt`\, which indexing crawlers (search engines) read and follow.\n\nThro
 ugh this BoF\, CDS (France)\, ESAC (Spain)\, and Data Central (Australia) 
 aim to discuss beyond the negative impact of this recent practice on their
  infrastructures and explore strategies to maintain the high availability 
 and quality of their services while allowing AI to reasonably interact wit
 h them. Everyone is welcome to join the discussion and share experiences\,
  solutions (e.g. mirrors\, proxy\, authentication\, ban with well-identifi
 ed and shared IP ranges)\, and\, more generally\, ideas.
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LOCATION:Seminar Room 3
SUMMARY:How to cope with the rapidly increasing number of aggressive incomi
 ng requests? - Simon O'Toole\, Christophe Arviset\, MANTELET Gregory\, Gil
 les Landais
URL:https://pretalx.adass.org/adass2026/talk/JBADXP/
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