OSTP has issued a request for information, please share with them your ideas for how to improve government functions related to science funding and policy www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

What defines research impact? New research shows that many of the most influential papers appear in lower-tier journals, highlighting why article-level metrics matter for recognizing individual contributions. Read more in @plosbiology.org: plos.io/4p5jRfH

It's Christmas Eve Eve. This morning's start in Old Town, Chicago.

I had fun reading to some Burke Elementary students at the Chicago Public Library today. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, we’ll have a new branch of the library for the community to enjoy.

I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic. It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.

💥New: Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science ✍️ @danbrockington.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca #AcademicSky #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing

The adventures of a precocious 6-year-old and his stuffed tiger debuted on November 18, 1985. NPR's Renee Montagne spoke with the comic strip's editor, Lee Salem, in 2005.

From @csoneson.bsky.social , @markrobinsonca.bsky.social & colleagues in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Building a continuous #benchmarking ecosystem in #bioinformatics | #Education 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓   ⬇️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk 🎤 If you’ve read this far and still need convincing, please check out our preprint arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 and this infographic: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 10/10

A Perspective in Nature Medicine outlines an agenda for urban health research that promotes a virtuous cycle by which population health and environmental sustainability support and reinforce each other. go.nature.com/49g7kC3 #healthpolicy #publichealth 🧪

WHO ASKED FOR THIS?!?!

As the mother of a thoroughly interesting 13 year old, I absolutely love this. ❤️

A review of health records from more than 130,000 adults found that people who used melatonin for a year or longer were significantly more likely to develop heart failure, be hospitalized for it, or die from any cause within five years.

Even chimpanzees think rationally and weigh the evidence when making a choice ;-) @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

No SNAP in November? If you have the means, donate to your local food pantries. Kids shouldn’t go hungry!

Friday's Flow. This morning along Chicago's lakefront.

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

Thanks to @scedmunds.bsky.social for sharing your expert perspectives during your talk today, "Integrating Machine Learning Standards in Disseminating ML Research" #IDW2025

Vaccines are safe and effective. Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support. When you want information, ask your doctor. It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

Californian Morning' (mid 20thc) by US artist and printmaker Emmy Lou Packard (1914-1998) #WomensArt

Next Friday! Join Galter Special Collections at Graceland Cemetery for a tour through history as we explore the final resting places of renowned Feinberg faculty and graduates. 🔗Register: galter.northwestern.edu/course_info/...

NEW RESOURCE available from the Make Data Count and HELIOS Open ‘Implementing data evaluation in academia’ Working Group. This implementation guide provides practical guidance for integrating data and other open outputs in institutional review processes. Download the guide: tinyurl.com/y77e73n8

📢Join the upcoming webinar to explore how monitoring & evidence gathering can support #OpenScience, research assessment reform, and systemic change, featuring discussions on key international initiatives. 🕓 20 Oct, 16:00 CEST 📍Online 👉Register: bit.ly/4305IIn

Join us this October for our virtual classes! Register here: galter.northwestern.edu/classes

Tim-Berners Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, is now building tools that aim to resist big-tech platforms, give users control over their own data, and prevent A.I. from hollowing out the open web.

Changing the Way We Talk: How Science Communications Brings Research to the Masses — bit.ly/4mCl7WB

JOB OPPORTUNITY: @pkp.sfu.ca is looking for a Managing Director! This is a rare opportunity to lead a highly impactful #scholcomm organization. Role works closely with me (Scientific Director) to provide strategic and operational leadership. Help us spread the word! pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...

HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Excited for Medical Education Day!! 💜@nufeinbergmed.bsky.social Hope you get a chance to visit us and grab some library swag and candy!

Announcing our fall seminar speakers! Starting September 24th, with talks by leading researchers from Northwestern, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon University, Midjourney, and Google. Join us each Wednesday at 12pm US Central: bit.ly/WedatNICO #WedatNICO #ComplexSystems #DataScience #AI

“Summer is never Fall is again Winter is forever Spring is when” From “Elegy as the Four Seasons” by Katie Peterson. buff.ly/T5tjtwN

In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit. So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.

Welsh born textile artist and knitwear designer Kate Jenkins creates fun crochet/knit creations #WomensArt

Excited about this collaborative effort! Thrilled to share that our team has been named a finalist in the NIH S-index Challenge to incentivize excellence in data sharing across biomedical research to develop a user-driven model for measuring the impact of data sharing. @nuresearch.bsky.social

A groundbreaking paper published @nature.com today—the first large health language model—predicts >1,000 diseases for a person and when. Implications here: erictopol.substack.com/p/dawn-of-a-...

Which takes longest? 1️⃣ IRB approval 2️⃣ Travel reimbursement 3️⃣ The sun expanding to a red giant & engulfing Earth 4️⃣ Peer review 📊 Show results

Funding info in preprints isn’t just a formality. It’s part of the research record. 🔍 Builds trust through transparency 📑 Meets funder requirements 📈 Boosts discoverability & impact bioRxiv now has an easy way to add standardized funder info at the time of submission. openrxiv.org/funder-metad...

If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.

#code_plagiarism is REAL & #AI is negatively affecting the #integrity of code/software. Dan Katz, @scedmunds.bsky.social & I discuss involved issues & their impacts on #research_integrity & #publication_ethics in a @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social post: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/28/g...

Join us this September for our virtual classes! Register here: galter.northwestern.edu/classes

Amid the political upheaval of 1967, a group of bureaucratic innovators within the federal government released a manifesto. Their message: “Invention and innovation lie at the heart of the process by which America has grown and renewed itself.” Read the story: issues.org/nation-of-in...

Datasets are fundamental to research: recognizing it, along with outputs like code & protocols, is essential for a comprehensive assessment of researchers' impact & rigor. Read on how @makedatacount.bsky.social is developing infrastructure & standards for data evaluation 👉 sfdora.org/2025/08/26/r...

Our CEO, Jack Dorsey, is really good at vibe coding! Here's some lessons we learned from watching one of his sessions. https://engineering.block.xyz/blog/jack-dorseys-vibe-coding-tips

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

So many untold stories of women's innovation in electronic music still to be brought to light, including this key figure who developed Casio backing tracks that enabled a revolution in reggae. Great profile!

Do you work in #dataviz? Consider submitting your innovative idea to the @digital-science.com Catalyst Grant program - deadline is Oct 6. www.digital-science.com/blog/2025/08...

Feedback requested by end of day August 18 on the Institutional Data Evaluation & Assessment (IDEA) maturity model! The IDEA maturity model is a flexible framework to help research institutions assess data evaluation practices, set goals, evolve, & track progress. (1/4)

NEW resources are now available from the Make Data Count and HELIOS Open ‘Implementing data evaluation in academia’ Working Group. Michael Dougherty's case study: tinyurl.com/576yy4km Patrick Charbonneau’s case study: tinyurl.com/bdudyz57 Resources: makedatacount.org/explore-reso...

The book “Our Moon” explores how our natural satellite has transformed life on Earth—and how our relationship with it is changing. 🌕🌗🌘🌑

Decoding inner speech. A volunteer who cannot speak imagines saying the sentence on the screen. A computer decodes the signals from an implant in her brain and correctly guesses what she's saying to herself. Here's my story (gift link): nyti.ms/3UpEiat