Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.

It’s simply not possible to overstate how important NCAR is to US and world science. We need to fight this with everything we’ve got.

Great to see a position like this advertised

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

If you still think ICE is only after illegal immigrants, I present to you this story about a middle-aged American-born white woman who was tackled, cuffed, arrested, and had her wedding band cut off. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

#Zenodo now offers greater control over deposited records, with the option to modify or delete them yourself within 30 days. After that, requests are reviewed to protect citations and research reuse. 🔗 See what's new and how to use the new process: tinyurl.com/5x3c5dxd

“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

The agonizing long tail of disaster recovery is underexplored. I think a lot about this 2024 study finding that when a hurricane hits somewhere in the U.S., the people there are more likely to die *for the next 15 years*. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🏆 November Top Viewed Article 5️⃣ Why Can’t I Just Use Dropbox? A Comparison of Cloud File Storage Platforms Used for Research by @tobinmagle.bsky.social & Deb McCafferey #DataLibs #DataStorage #CloudFileStorage doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

In a sophomore meteo class the prof made clear our weather forecasts would be much more accurate with more upper-air observations, but we aren't willing to spend the $$$ to launch more weather balloons to do so. Many competing priorities in a government budget...

Nice to be noticed, though it was just a small part to play!

Play a little game and choose the right icon for each role in science. Play our CRediT Roles icon game/survey, and help make scientific authorship clearer and more accessible! creditsurvey.sciux.org #OpenScience #ScienceUX

No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?

A recent redesign of OSF by @cos.io led to widespread access failures. What began as a few broken download links became for me a total disappearance of eight years of DOI-registered work. What happened, how was it resolved, and what it reveals about trust and infrastructure in open science

I mean, this seems bad

They literally ruin everything they touch

Just answered a survey about the use of agentic AIs in research, and can boil down my responses to three bullet points: 1.) I'm interested where it relieves me of the burden of meeting formats/guidelines, but not at all when it would supplant me thinking (e.g. writing) (1/2)

Make America Great Again was always a lie. This is what our government is doing to children. apnews.com/article/chic...

6 AM Tuesday morning #HurricaneMelissa approaches Jamaica. Horrifying next 24 hours says Dr. Shepherd. Pray. Been at this a long-time one of the most horrific, well-formed hurricanes I have ever seen. 175 mph winds and a direct landfall looming

worth updating immediately to speed up Google Drive performance. "use as default" was checked for me too

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

Oh my god

"Data available upon request"

When you could code silly quizzes on Facebook, it was FULL of "what would you be in medieval times?!" etc. I made one that nearly always answered "died as a child", "died in childbirth", "lived and died as a servant" People got SUPER mad with it. Everyone assumes they'll be at the top of the tree

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Today on my blog: some thoughts on the best data management strategies for collaboration: dataabinitio.com?p=1204 What's your best data tip for collaborative research?

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

A leading Democrat in the Senate just released an important report documenting how NASA has been working to implement the president's proposed budget, not Congressionally approved funds, in slashing missions. Read more ⬇️

Coming soon! The Data Management Workbook by @kbriney.bsky.social 📖 Learn more and preorder your copy ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/3bkdjce6 #datamanagement #dataanalysis #statistics #researchdata

The key problem with what Ezra Klein says here is that he fails – or is unwilling – to grapple with the fundamental reality of the political conflict: The movement that dominates today’s Right fully rejects the very idea of “living here with each other” as equals. That’s their defining position.

The big story here is of an agency of dedicated statisticians and public servants working tirelessly to improve economic data in a climate of budgetary cuts to data collection. They have been very innovative in meeting that mandate. But we should also just fund our economic infrastructure.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

If Biden had said even one-tenth of this, he’d have been impeached and removed as a dictator. What is wrong with our elites? They’re paralyzed by their fear of looking unsavvy or biased against MAGA. They’re going to keep pretending everything is normal until the bullet passes through their face

Michelle Obama: kids should have healthier school lunches RFK Jr: maybe if we let the plague run wild we can build a master race Media: wow these are the same thing

I genuinely think one thing that trips up folks on the left is that they can't imagine not sharing certain core values. Lemme explain. Here's an intuition pump: Say you're in negotiations with counterparty X. And there are two possible deals on the table ...

New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...

I was the executive director of U.S. Open Data, a non-profit that I created at the behest of the Obama White House. I worked as one of the nation's leading experts in open data. Putting open data on the blockchain is a profoundly stupid idea that fails nearly every test of good open data.

Undermining the Fed to get lower rates now is like ripping the batteries out of your smoke alarm because it’s beeping. It’s quiet for a bit. Then your house burns down. Credibility anchors expectations; expectations anchor inflation.

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

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GPT-5 has been hyped for years as the next step towards AGI. Sam Altman promised a "PhD-level intelligence on any topic." It's not even close. On the terms OpenAI itself laid out for its own product, any fair assessment must conclude that GPT-5 is a failure. Now the question is: Will it matter?

It's a good thing that a significant portion of what we call "open science" isn't utterly and completely predicated on the continued existence of GitHub. haha we what?

About a year ago I was at a conference at which a speaker confidently said the US government would never exercise its Bayh-Dole Act march-in rights because it would destroy all licensees’ and investors’ confidence in licensing federal-funded research-based patents

this is simply extortion and theft of state monies

If you're affiliated with a university, check to see if your library has PBS. Mine does. I can watch all of NOVA etc through work. The subscription helps provide funding and your usage of your library helps them argue to maintain their budget