Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online. It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Chicagoland going for MVP: “This is beyond anyone’s wildest imagination in the best possible way,” Khan said. “It’s overwhelmingly amazing, and we just want to make sure we get food to people who need it the most.” www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/e...

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

Helicopter view of Chicago #NoKings in Grant Park via @cbschicago.bsky.social

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

Can’t make it to Chicago? We’ll bring the Obama Presidential Center to you. Join us at 6 p.m. Central Thursday (Oct. 9) for a virtual walk-through of the 19.3-acre campus opening next spring on the South Side. Save your spot: obama.org/stories/obam...

📢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

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