I am beyond thrilled to share that DATA BY DESIGN: AN INTERACTIVE HISTORY OF DATA VISUALIZATION, 1789-1900 is now open for community review at 💚 📊 dataxdesign.io 📊 💙. It's the work of 15+ people across 5 institutions, 2 continents, 2 babies, and a global pandemic. A 🧵 but first:

Applications are open for the Doctoral Consortium at the 2025 Summit on Responsible Computing, AI, and Society rcais.github.io. Taking place October 27, 2025. Applications received by September 15 will receive full consideration.

I'm glad to share the new data paper in the Journal of Open Humanities Data with my wonderful collaborator @nalsi.bsky.social and students!! 😇 Check out our work here: openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

AI & Society faculty opportunity posted just this month with a start date of Fall 2025 and beyond: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57734 ‼️🐂 For "interdisciplinary scholars whose research agenda connects the study of AI with humanistic and/or social scientific line(s) of study"

And the paper is published here: www.nature.com/articles/s41....

🚨 Excited to share our latest study (forthcoming in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications) collaborated with Dr. Chaoqun Ni and Xiang Zheng:: Gender disparities in STEM research enterprise in China 👉 ssrn.com/abstract=523...

Really glad that this is out! Fantastic collaboration with @honglin-bao.bsky.social and @innovation.bsky.social! Key insight: Knowledge diffusion is nearly impossible to constrain—where there's a will, there's a way. From the atomic bomb to ChatGPT, determined minds always find a path. 1/3

🚀 New article out on @InformationMatters! I had the pleasure of collaborating with Dr. Jaihyun Park from NTU Singapore to rethink data reuse in the age of #LLMs. Check it out 👉 🔗 informationmatters.org/2025/04/reth... #DataLifecycle #OpenScience #AI

🎉 Excited to share that Scientific Data is launching a new collection: "Data on Science and Innovation Processes, Outputs and Outcomes." This special issue welcomes data descriptors of datasets that shed light on how science and innovation work—from inputs to outcomes. www.nature.com/collections/...

Just published on the blog, Assistant Professor Kai Li gives new perspectives on challenges and opportunities for large-scale analyses on data use and data citations. makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

The more I read and think about generative AI and what its creators want us to do with if, the more I'm reminded of this quote from Victor Papanek's 'Design for the Real World'

Every government needs effective science advisers; not every scientist is a born adviser but schooling and practice can help to bridge the gap, as we argue in this week’s Nature’s editorial @natureportfolio.bsky.social 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Call for submissions: RESSH2025 Conference on research assessment reform in the humanities and social sciences. Held next May in Helsinki. vastuullinentiede.fi/en/events/re...

how do researchers use LMs in their work & why? we surveyed 800 researchers across fields of study, race, gender, seniority asking their opinions on: 🐟 which research activities (eg coding, writing) 🐠 benefits vs risks 🦈 willingness to disclose findings in @simonaliao.bsky.social's thread 🧵

A poem about information organization and retrieval written by ChatGPT. Read it in the last session of my class. The students seem to like it.

Science is political in so many ways. One of them is reflected in #citation politics. And we all do it, willingly or not. This paper is a glimpse into how some strategies (e.g. decolonizing or diversifying citations) that aim to undermine existing hierarchies have limitations worth thinking about.

I will assign this in future classes—it nails one common argument I find unconvincing in regards to students, which is the idea of LLMss as interlocutors to help refine thinking—that only really works if you’re an expert who can spot the mistakes—students are typically not in a position to do that

A very personal thought: I really don't like how #StarterPack is designed in Bluesky. It creates a structure where the creators get all the power to manage the list and the credit for the list. So as useful as it is to share certain information, it is also a barrier to more equal communication.

Podcasts are a popular medium, but data for computational research is limited! We introduce the Structured Podcast Research Corpus (SPoRC - huggingface.co/datasets/bli...), a large, multimodal dataset of English podcasts 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2411.07892

Doing a research on books in the #REF2021 project. One weird finding is that political science has very high share of authored books among all books (vs. edited books and book chapters). #bibliographicdata #scisci #scientometrics

Once again, millennials are the real greatest generation

We’re going to hear lots of stories about which people, policies and rhetoric are to blame for the Democrats’ defeat. Some of those stories may even be true! But an underrated factor is that 2024 was an absolutely horrendous year for incumbents around the world 👇 

Glad to share our new papers published in Scientometrics, "How do official software citation formats evolve over time? A longitudinal analysis of R programming language packages," which can be viewed here: rdcu.be/dKR10.

ASIS&T SIG MET is hosting a webinar about #Gender in Quantitative Science Studies! It is scheduled for May 1, 2024, from 9:30 to 10:30 AM (EST). Participation is open to all and free of charge via Zoom at tennessee.zoom.us/j/81706140596. The recording of the webinar will be made available.

A wonderful opportunity at CWTS | Leiden University for a prospective PhD candidate who is interested in studying research assessment reform careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Leiden-P...

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