Research assessment approaches evolve towards evaluating your performance on the basis of a wide range of activities rather than merely relying on the traditional impact factor and citation count metrics. For this, existing efforts focus on the low hanging fruit, typically tracking contributions that have a DOI. But what about the rest? What about blogs, newspaper articles, podcasts, conference attendances, teaching activities? Obviously, as a researcher, you know when you made a new contribution. But manually adding it to your profile page is not realistic because you contribute so much. How about a solution that allows you to toot the URL of a contribution to automatically add it to your profile page? And, while you are at it, restart the informal scholarly conversation, lost when Twitter became X, on Mastodon?

If that all sounds appealing, join this session that introduces SURF’s “Toot It to Claim It” prototype:
• Get an insight in the prototype’s overall set-up and future plans
• Be among the first to compile a profile page by tooting about open science contributions
• Challenge the prototype by tooting different types of contributions and detect for which cases automation causes problems
• Learn about the prototype’s success rate in controlled experiments
• Learn about aspects of trust provided by the prototype, including reliable attribution of toots to researchers, public logging of the claim process, archiving contribution snapshots, and profile page versioning