Yup. I've been raising this alarm bell for a while, with OpenAlex our best next bet for an alternative of an inclusive index for discovery and source of data for bibliometrics/assessment.

Some of the best reporting on #NSF lately is by @dangaristo.bsky.social . Read this thread and the article on the state of the budget. And please, please keep the current budget conditions in mind when writing tenure letters and such. Science & people matter; $ is a tool for science 🧪 #AcademicSky

Does anyone have any favorite histories (articles, books, etc.) of professional associations (generally, or in their profession, specifically)? Thanks for any suggestions!

If you’re going to Jazz Fest, I made this map of unmarked music heritage sites near the Fair Grounds, including Alex Chilton’s apartment and Eddie Bo’s base of operations when he cut “Hook and Sling” (which was then a seafood depot but was razed for a Walgreens). acloserwalknola.com/tours/jazz-f...

Good news @whitehouse-47.bsky.social is unlikely to post on @bsky.app: the Department of Justice is “rescheduling FDA-approved marijuana & state-licensed marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule IIl” & will hold “a new, expedited hearing with set deadlines, to fully reschedule marijuana.” Long overdue.

MIKE VRABEL DESPERATELY TRYING TO CHECK HIS PHONE WITHOUT LOOKING LIKE HE’S CHECKING HIS PHONE DURING ROUND 6 OF THE DRAFT: You know I never really thought about what makes me feel safe, that’s such a good question. Hmm. I guess. Hmmm. I just. Wow. Mmm. Safety, yeah, it’s important. Yeah. Safety.

"de-identified participant data made available to researchers at three institutions were for sale on a consumer website in China...[UK Biobank] taking steps to enhance our systems to prevent this from happening again" As open as possible, as closed as necessary.. www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/news/a-messa...

Anyone who mocks Ocasio-Cortez for being a bartender - rather than seeing those skills are a significant part of her arsenal - is the sort of person who's never in their life gotten a free drink.

Perhaps the ribosomes are really in charge and everything else is just along for the ride?

the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

good teams win......great teams COVER

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if you DON'T have a rooting interest and would like @edsbs.bsky.social and @hollyanderson.bsky.social to help you pick one LIVE, come on down & announce yourself in the comments

“I think it presents a dangerous threat to employment and individual economic security” yes, true “it doesn’t work” you are wrong but you are experimentally wrong, you should maybe consider why others report differently “infrasound is endangering people but only from datacenters” mm. no, actually

OK fine I'll set up my own bsky domain and server on a raspberry pi so it's less chaotic, FINE

hi EDSBSCharityBowl.com

A lot about the world is very heavy right now but if a college football podcast that got jettisoned by Vox during the pandemic for not having a marketable audience can raise this much money for refugees in Atlanta in two days then just think of all the stuff we can all do together

and see NOW it looks like

"The properties that make AT Protocol compelling for social networking are the same properties the research community has been asking for" Exciting vision for the future of science publishing on ATProto @row1.ca @opensci.dev @nokome.bsky.social #ATScience

whew www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBm3...

The Prego listening machine: “We detected elevated voices at the dinner table.” Dad: “Can you NOT use your AI cannabis vape at the table?” Son: “I’m optimizing my experience.” Dad: “You’re 17!” Son: “You’re tanking my crypto momentum right now.” Dad: "And take off those Snapchat glasses!"

I love the idea that LLMs may wind up forcing people to structure data in more considered, more usable ways because they're more motivated to do that work so they can *feed it to a machine* rather than caring enough about the humans who were the consumers of the same datasets in the past.

I've been reading a lot of papers on making data AI-ready and what I'm finding is that most of them report practices that were best practices before AI. Good documentation, standardization, interoperable formats, clear naming conventions, etc. Is there something new we should be doing though?

Patriots' Day. North Bridge, Concord Massachusetts.

GOOD MORNING. The 2026 EDSBS Charity Bowl is now live. #CharitibundiBowl www.edsbscharitybowl.com

Tomorrow is Patriots' Day in Massachusetts, which means it's a good time to roll out this all-timer from our archives.

the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?

there is little more powerful than the look of parent solidarity that says, I’ve been there, let me help you or at least offer some sympathy

There are definitely moments when I feel very Bostonian, but perhaps the most Bostonian I have felt was in the big crowd outside the Paul Revere House last year on the 250th anniversary of the midnight ride while everyone chanted "Paul! Paul! Paul!" in unison.

Grateful for Today in Tabs because otherwise I never would have seen the sentence "laufey presents the custom electric miles davis centennial lexus."

*pounds table* tree law Tree Law TREE LAW

All right, I’ll say it: I wish I could hear what Dad would say about this. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

you can work out a lot of the problems with LLMs just from sort of intuition and a rough familiarity with how to run a PCA

You know that saying, "it's turtles all the way down?" It's true

Would you like to know more? channel-6.ghost.io/the-2026-eds...

if you're new here, time to hop off while you still can, we're about to get unbearable (no, like more unbearable than usual) bsky.app/profile/holl...

y'all don't make me regret this

I still think Wikipedia should be on the UNESCO world heritage list(s). You can’t think about it seriously for long without a sense of awe. (I have waffled back and forth between world heritage and intangible cultural heritage, but this morning’s idea is porquenolosdos.gif)

Brief fun survey from Jessica, Andrew & myself: If you are a faculty member, research scientist, postdoc, or senior Ph.D. student in any area of science, please take five minutes and fill it out. We’ll share the results widely along with some reflections. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Herring run brings these critters in numbahs

People keep talking about culture wars but it’s wild that NINE YEARS ago I said it’s not a “war” It’s that multiple vantage points view it as a PROBLEM and only one side is trying to solve the problem in a coordinated way in alignment with their stated values The GOP

Had an intrusive thought and everyone gets to pay the price.

I lent my kid my 35mm point and shoot for a camping trip and they accidentally created some shoegaze album covers.

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

i appreciate Hungary setting the vance rejection record. gives us something here in the US to strive for. i know we can reject him even harder

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Reminder: All the amazing high quality video you’re seeing from the Artemis II mission is being transmitted back to Earth using a laser communications system first tested with a video of a cat named Taters youtu.be/GvJtVOmFs5Q?...