“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

Between 1899 and her death, in 1962, the photographer Lora Webb Nichols created and collected some 24,000 negatives documenting life in her small Wyoming town, whose fortunes boomed and then busted along with the region’s copper mines.

Loved this bit from Against the Grain: A Carpentry Manual for Women by Dale McCormick so much that I typed it up and pinned it over my desk (h/t Michelle Millar Fisher on insta www.instagram.com/p/DM2S05bOKk...)

Finally, I could not love this more: "How can we decide where to invest our limited time and energy?" "Find something you love to do. It shouldn't feel heavy. Then look for new things you can LEARN or new things you can TEACH." - @yabellini.bsky.social #user2025 🙌🥰

From a fresh take on Stephen King’s The Stand to a new novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky set on a poisoned world, August has a bumper crop of new science fiction novels.

From the classroom to the lab and clinic, @nufeinbergmed.bsky.social is making an impact! We're training the next generation of researchers, advancing life-saving clinical trials, and boosting the economy. Read more at bit.ly/NUimpact @nucatsinstitute.bsky.social @nuresearch.bsky.social

Researchers have registered more than 120 clinical trials to date evaluating the potential of mRNA-based approaches for treating many types of cancer, including lung, breast, and prostate, pancreatic, and brain tumors.

Calling all #pediatric clinicians, researchers, engineers, #medtech industry partners, #innovators, investors & more! Register today for the 2025 CTIP Symposium that starts August 15, 2025, at 11 am CT: bit.ly/ctip2025

Summer Reflections, Chicago

Exciting news: version 13.0 InvenioRDM repository software out now! 🤩 Teamwork really does make the dream work - great job, everyone! 🙌👏 @inveniordm.bsky.social @galterlibrary.bsky.social @nucatsinstitute.bsky.social #datalibs #repositories #opendata #metadata #RDM #FAIR #GREI

it's true - @inveniordm.bsky.social is the best! 👇🤩 Thanks for sharing this photo, it was wonderful to join the @NIH cyberinfrastructure session at #ISMBECCB2025

from now on this is what i'm calling all techbros

FYI for those who don't know: NBA players have in their contract that the players (ie LABOR) gets 50% of all basketball related income. WNBA players get ~9%.

Featuring an endangered toad as its figurehead, Bad Bunny’s new project—an album accompanied by a short film—captures the pain of culture loss, Valerie Trapp writes:

New on the blog, John Chodacki @chodacki.bsky.social, Adam Buttrick, and Maria Praetzellis @mariapraetzellis.bsky.social share why California Digital Library @caldiglib.bsky.social is invested in COMET, explaining their alignment with our principles. #metadata www.cometadata.org/blog/cdls-co...

Powerful story about NIH and cancer to start Sunday Morning on CBS Here is one of the two cases they examined: pancreatic cancer. Part 1 of 4

Excited to share a new paper in Research Ethics: Disclosing generative AI use for writing assistance should be voluntary. We support voluntary, rather than mandatory, disclosure. Read the paper to learn more! Thanks @mhmdhsini.bsky.social #BertGordijn, #GregoryKaebnick! doi.org/10.1177/1747...

New CNN story about clinical trials damaged by the funding freeze at Northwestern. www.cnn.com/2025/06/23/h... 1/n

💥New: #Collaboration with non-academic partners boosts citation #impact, especially for scientists with strong academic reputations, survey of Spanish scientists shows. By Carolin Nast, @ollop.bsky.social‬, @dima-yankova.bsky.social‬ & Pablo D’Este👇 #Research

i'm going live with @mistwire.com @sixfoot.dad www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbZ1...

What are the African values and ethical theories that can inform responsible data science practices in Africa?...We conduct a thematic analysis [and]...derived an ethical framework consisting of six major principles rooted in the realities of data science work in Africa arxiv.org/html/2502.16...

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

Really grateful @cidrap.bsky.social covered our volunteer project reviewing vaccine RCTs. We're up to 335 trials with >5.8 M participants and counting. "Essentially every childhood vaccine has been tested in placebo-controlled trials of some sort." cidrap.umn.edu/adult-non-fl...

Terrific thread, with receipts

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

In just two weeks, #ADRCon2025 will be in full swing. Join us to share research findings, discuss methodologies and learn about technologies for using admin data. The Administrative Data Research Conference (ADRCon) is June 24-25 in Washington, DC. mdi.georgetown.edu/adrcon2025/

🗓️ Register for our next COMET Community Meeting: July 15 - 11am EST / 4pm GMT: datacite.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Attend and receive updates from the COMET team, give feedback on the roadmap, and view demonstrations by COMET community members. @chodacki.bsky.social @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca

Why don’t job classification systems recognize what skills today’s occupations really require? A group of researchers, social scientists and statisticians argues that the current skilled technical workforce definition is out of step:

Eye-opening analysis of WNBA players’ pay relative to the NBA, adjusting for the leagues’ relative sizes and season lengths, by Nobel Prize-winning economist Claudia Goldin: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/o...

Out now in @nathumbehav.nature.com: Cuts to NIH funding will impact the economy and employment nationwide. We visualize these losses and advocate for a theory-driven approach to communicating local, self-relevant impact. w/ @joshuasweitz.bsky.social + SCIMaP team: www.nature.com/articles/s41...