De la défiance envers la science au refus de se soigner, la désinformation en santé a des conséquences très concrètes. Comment la combattre ? Un rapport récent propose 9 recommandations et plaide pour la valorisation de l’information de qualité plutôt que la seule lutte contre les fausses nouvelles.

It's a busy wiki day today - I wish people were sharing @theverge.com's article about the Enterprise API instead of the AP/TechCrunch coverage! www.theverge.com/news/862109/...

Today, @wikipedia.org turns 25 years old. It's never been more important — or under more attack from authoritarians. Here's what to know about how we got here, and what we can do to push for its future. There's no better example of the web we make together. www.anildash.com/2026/01/15/w...

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

This seems like a maliciously put headline to make people feel a certain way. Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.

Celebrating Wikipedia turning 25 with the kiddos today! Next year will be my ten year anniversary as a Wikipedian, and I am so incredibly grateful for that community as a person and as a parent. Here's to the next quarter century! 🎉

Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.

People who produce AI slop papers love to skip the boring research and get right to the dramatic discovery. The LLMs tell them their idea is awesome and original, and write it up as a "proposed framework" (with no data or evidence). That term increased 70% in Web of Science abstracts last year.

Not me reading scholarship about the development of drawing in young children because my 3 years old draws elaborate dinosaurs and landscapes but STILL NO TADPOLES. I should know better, but it still bothers my childhood-researcher-self that he's just skipping a pretty universal step 🙈

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

this, from @kevinbaker.bsky.social, is a better analysis of the intersection between LLMs and academic science than 98% of what's out there.

Good luck losing less than an hour to this: a huge archive of logos for government, non-profit, private, military, and even fictional space agencies and companies. [kottke.org]

"'baby-friendly hospitals' [promote] breastfeeding as best practice, [so] the new boxes include nursing supplies but no formula, bottles or pacifiers" really means "these hospitals would rather babies go hungry than providing accurate info about formula" In 2025!!! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

60% of those who speak French daily now live in Africa, and 80% of children studying in French are in Africa. There are as many French speakers in Kinshasa as in Paris. “French flourishes every day in Africa,” said Souleymane Bachir Diagne, professor of philosophy & French at Columbia U. Gift link

Really positive sign that open source projects are standing up to do the right thing. Kudos to the Python folks: www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/p...

"We must absorb the past out of each object, so it can turn into empty rubbish. This alchemy is deeply exhausting. Every clearing day, the same fog sets in." www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

For people who live with facial differences, the increasing reliance on facial recognition tech can create obstacles to accessing essential systems, as they find the stigma they have long experienced “now being echoed by the technology they are forced to interact with.” www.wired.com/story/when-f...

I apparently received my PhD seven years ago?? Where did time go. (Oh right, two years disappeared in a pandemic and two in having and raising a baby)

Children's perceptions that the environment supports their autonomy are correlated with higher reported well-being, and perceptions of autonomy being squelched are correlated with ill-being. Cultural variation in corr strength. Autonomy need support matters! #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

J’ai appris à nager dans une piscine Tournesol, j’apprends aujourd’hui leur signification architecturale et sociale : très chouette documentaire www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Just a few pages in and already loving Jillian Hess’s “How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information” — its relevance to content architecture and editorial affordances in web and content management tools is pinging around in the back of my mind.

I've been an active Wikipedia editor for 9 years, and it's an incredible source of pride. The current attacks, worldwide, on our work are disheartening, but they also bring out great overviews of what we do and why it matters www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Have you ever wondered how cycling pants wear? Now THERE'S SCIENCE dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

today in question headlines that answer themselves

I’ve complained before about how many ads for becoming a surrogate I get since having a kid, and how predatory that industry is worldwide - we need so many more of these stories out to alert people. TW *everything* www.wired.com/story/the-ba...

Used a summer trip to Paris to visit all the new children museums and galleries - inspired by the Cleveland’s children museum, the MoMA art lab, etc. Best museum according to the toddler: the 100+ years old Gallery of Paleontology 🧐 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery...

"Bringing life to a puppet is also a demystification of process made visible. We wanted to question how we render process, material and labor toward a genuine demystification of how technologies work." On @eryk.bsky.social's newsletter mail.cyberneticforests.com/the-audience...

I don't agree that making lists and goals are always about optimization (I use goals to help me notice when I'm not making time to read, which can very easily disappear between time at work and with kiddo), but this is a good read annehelen.substack.com/p/a-life-wit...

Once, Sesame Street was a lifeline for indie animators. It offered money and incredible freedom to create. This built an indie animation boom that powered MTV, Nickelodeon and much more. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-golden...

An update on this: avoid this variant if you can! Spent most of the last two weeks on sick leave… (Well, avoid all and every infections that you can, but this is the sickest I have been in my entire adult life - getting Covid is really like playing Russian roulette)

Some good suggestions of late summer reading 📚

Having lived most of my adult life outside of my birth country this resonated a lot. I've spent the last 17 years weighing on where to live, parenthood has not made it any easier, and I loathe how "moving to France" is becoming a grift online www.thecut.com/article/the-...

If you have a story about using the Wayback Machine, the @archive.org wants to hear from you docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Any recommendation for archival supplies for a family archive project? (I need document sleeves, boxes, and misc supplies to preserve scrap books and photo albums) Also taking recommendations or readings about family archives!

CBS Sunday morning feature on the work of @jillpelto.bsky.social and I www.cbsnews.com/video/captur...

I have covid for the first time despite masking extensively. Two months ago the study of long term health consequences of Covid infections I was in since 2021 stopped due to funding cuts. This all feels very ominous.

Stephanie Shirley is perhaps one of the lesser known tech pioneers, but she shouldn't be. Back in the 60s she saw the potential for women in tech, setting up a company for them to code from home, going by the name Steve because it was a man's world. RIP Dame Shirley www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The many people asking me why I’m not raising my kiddo in France since it’s “so much better” should be required to take a toddler on a French train and face the hate we experience every single time we dare existing in a French public space 😮‍💨

Holidays in #momademia is crocheting toddler sweaters between museum visits

New project! @yufeng.bsky.social analyzed all of the words found on NYC Streets. The data comes from from 8 million Google Street View images, which yielded 138 million snippets of text: 🔗: pudding.cool/2025/07/stre...

My toddler and his friend are on day 3 of a debate about whether dragons are lizards or dinosaurs (& are flying and sea dragons the same, or are the latter fishes?). Fascinating to see how they reason. Made me think of this project on how elephants were imagined 🐉 www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anth...

"a research platform and print publication that approaches the subject of the chair by asking deceptively obtuse questions: what makes a chair a chair? Ought a chair be defined as any object one can sit on? If so, isn’t a carpet a chair? What about a horse?" commondimensions.com/library/

hey #momademia, I was wondering if anyone has written about how becoming a parent changes one's engagement with the childhood research literature? I find myself seeing methodology and claims very differently now, and I'm probably not the only one...?

Ah, love this! I fell into a rabbit hole researching the history of French china cabinets when our grandparents were adapting their height, giving them away or throwing them out. It’s such a fascinating piece of furniture medium.com/vaisselle-ma...

Do you identify as queer? Have you had an experience of being in a hospital in the Northwest of England? We’re inviting members of the LGBTQIA+ community to share their experiences of hospitals. Contribute to this study via the link: lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

If there was a prize for wholesome internet community, I'd nominate @openstreetmap.bsky.social. On the Slack I'm on, discussions are about mapping playground equipment, streams and public art, hikers improving trail access... Strongly recommend: wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Join_th...

“Look at Mr. Frog! He’s so grumpy.” Wait, why are so many frogs boys? @mellymeldubs.bsky.social explores how we gender animals in kids’ stories—and why it matters. pudding.cool/2025/07/kids...

Delighted to have a story in Sci Phi Journal, an award-winning Brussels, Belgium-based magazine of speculative fiction. Art by Dustin Jacobus. Thanks to the editors Ádám Gerencsér and Mariano Martín. www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/20... #fiction #nearfuture #shortstory #speculativefiction

Knowledge Futures announced they are winding down the PubPub platform - it feels like the infrastructure that supported Digital Humanities in the 2010s is crumbling www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2025...

RIP Bill Atkinson. One of a kind www.wired.com/story/bill-a...