RDA-US is launching a funded program for US-based professionals working in/with research infrastructure. Great professional development and networking opportunity...and great way for newcomers to engage with the Research Data Alliance (RDA)! rda-us.org/announcing-t...

"Whenever I worry about where the Internet is headed, I remember that this example of the collective generosity and goodness of people still exists." anildash.com/2026/01/15/w...

“Pay-to-crawl refers to emerging technical systems used by websites to automate compensation for when their digital content—such as text, images, and structured data—is accessed by machines.” @creativecommons.bsky.social

Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net

First full moon of the year.

"Does the open science movement—the push to make research outputs such as articles, data, and software free to read and reuse—produce the benefits its supporters claim, such as accelerating discovery and promoting science literacy? The answer is a qualified yes."

Here's my enormous round-up of everything we learned about LLMs in 2025 - the third in my annual series of reviews of the past twelve months simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/... This year it's divided into 26 sections! This is the table of contents:

Ok a translation is up. No matter what your take on these rules, it's hard not to admire China trying to get ahead of these pressing issues: data protection, dependency, labeling and reminders that you are talking to a machine, etc. Plenty to unpack here. www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/chatbot-m...

In a new blog post, I contrast two flavors of empiricism: the one practiced in the social sciences and the one practiced in ML/CS. I argue that we need both, given that CS is increasingly about "claims," and not just constructing artifacts. doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-empiri...

Paste any IIIF manifest → model classifies every page locally → see where illustrations appear. Part of small-models-for-glam: small, efficient models for cultural heritage work. Not everything needs GPT-4! Try it: huggingface.co/spaces/small-models-for-glam/iiif-illustration-detector

‘Sam’s the biggest Cooke in town,’ New York City, 1964

If you are interested in the crawl to referral stats I mentioned, here's the Cloudflare blog post - blog.cloudflare.com/ai-search-cr... Data is from the Cloudflare AI insights tool - radar.cloudflare.com/ai-insights#...

Slides and code from my #ff2025 talk, "Reasoning with Small Language Models (SLM) for Trustworthy Generative AI (GenAI)." Slides: docs.google.com/presentation... Code: github.com/jasonclark/a...

The kind folks at The Walrus published this feature over the weekend! Thank you! #skaterlibrarian thewalrusca.substack.com/p/meet-the-l...

“The Software Paper fills a gap for the computational and digital humanities communities...” Thank you to research software engineer extraordinaire @suttonkoeser.bsky.social for leading this initiative for Computational Humanities Research journal. Please share!

Thinking of Anne-Wil Harzing 12 guidelines for good academic referencing & how Generative AI engines even RAG/Deep Research often breaks many/most of them (1) harzing.com/blog/2016/04...

For academic writers, editors, and publishers looking for a systematic overview of emerging GenAI policies in an academic field, please see Yin and Chapelle's (2025) excellent paper which provides this for the field of applied linguistics: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interesting. The evolution of conflict in literature / society (by Instagram user: @grantdraws) www.instagram.com/p/DBOlpAuRj9c/

The Best Album of 1989 Round 5 Match #124 #3 De La Soul, 3 FEET HIGH AND RISING vs. #11 Fugazi, 13 SONGS forms.gle/R6JGyPyp7DQ8...

Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives team has released our interactive Viewfinder toolkit. Toolkit (interactive website): www.lib.montana.edu/responsible-... Project info: www.lib.montana.edu/responsible-... #DLFForum #DLF2025

Reasoning with Small Language Models (SLM) to Create Trustworthy GenAI Slides: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... System Prompt: gist.github.com/jasonclark/1... Model Context Protocol server: gist.github.com/jasonclark/4... #DLFForum #DLF2025

The Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives team has released Viewfinder: A toolkit for values-driven AI in libraries and archives that was created by librarians and tech ethicists at four universities. Print-at-home PDF: osf.io/yue9s Interactive website: www.lib.montana.edu/responsible-...

Design of Future Scholarly Communication | Proceedings of the 43rd ACM International Conference on Design of Communication https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3711670.3764636

Good morning to everyone except the sentient computer who locked me out of the space station

@crossref.bsky.social is a crucial source of open bibliographic metadata for articles published in scientific journals, but how complete is its metadata on preprints? In our latest blog post, @neesjanvaneck.bsky.social and @ludowaltman.bsky.social investigate 👇 Read it now on Leiden Madtrics

Baseball really is the best sport because all it takes is one little bobble and suddenly a game built on routine and order devolves into panic and chaos

📣 New preprint! We know humans are biased against AI-creativity. But what about LLMs, now often judging creativity in various contexts? Do they replicate, transform, or amplify this bias? We tested it. Turns out: AI is 2.5X more biased against its own work than humans. arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08831 🧵

Everyone uses Wikipedia. Few people understand how it works. The policies, rules, systems, and ways of working that have guided Wikipedia's growth into one of the internet's most iconic platforms serve as lessons in building trust in a changing information environment ➡️ medium.com/freely-shari...

We are thrilled to announce that @aadl.org plans to acquire the Ann Arbor Observer! Public ownership of local news media is more important than ever, and this acquisition builds on years of partnership and archival work to ensure the future of this priceless community asset. aadl.org/node/647334

Why I 🧡 the web. This #WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet is amazing. Smooth animation. Peaceful vibes (and i didn't even play, I wondered around). messenger.abeto.co #JavaScript #chillvibe #game

And new paper out: Pleias 1.0: the First Family of Language Models Trained on Fully Open Data How we train an open everything model on a new pretraining environment with releasable data (Common Corpus) with an open source framework (Nanotron from HuggingFace). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Catch up with @lselibrary.bsky.social's latest Wikidata project here journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an... This time we've been focusing on a unique set of oral history interviews about the British Suffrage Movement.

I've recently took the time to read a blog post by @abbycabs.dev about who will maintain the future of open source (github.blog/open-source...) 1/🧵

Check out the full concert. It is the BEST EVER. youtu.be/XWMEKcwBpUo?...

This is a start... arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Today I learned that the French term for hacker is "pirate informatique," which is just fantastic news

This is a good post on how to get better at using AI. It's the product of pretty intensive research on what consistently works although I don't surface that research directly in it. Bluesky and AI, so obviously comments on this are off. mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/is-the-llm...

I neither endorse nor criticize the original preprint, I haven't really spent the time with it But my overall thought is, stay safe out there if you're a tech researcher right now touching any of these topics, because hype headlines and marketing cycles are not interested in your reputation

Updated every month: Access the raw datasets behind every #dataviz we've ever released online. The IIB Data Room. 500+ sheets, 1200+ datasets. Continually updated. informationisbeautiful.net/data/

It’s wonderful that this video from Milwaukee’s Public Library system features a nod to a book on Prince, because he loved libraries. In 2001, he donated $12k to save the Louisville Free Public Library’s Western Branch — the first to serve Black patrons. www.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...

Keep up to speed on new federal publication sharing requirements. We've organized details of polices by agency - NIH, CDC, NASA, Dept of Ed., NSF & more. Download & compare here: researchsharing.sparcopen.org/publications/ sparcopen.org

Data come in many different formats and are used in many different ways, but in many cases, a checklist like this (along with good data documentation) can help you verify if a dataset is in a usable format for most general purposes. osf.io/t8upr

Every country has its hangover cure. Glad we're not Romanian.

pay very close attention to Wikipedia to find a way out of the AI slop internet www.404media.co/wikipedia-ed...

The key is, can we teach students to relate to AI as an informed co-producer and not purely as a consumer? Where we can’t, students and instructors alike will be in a weak position vis-a-vis the companies that produce intellectual capital. But fingers crossed that we can.

If you haven't already, do fill in the State of HTML survey, especially if you are a member of an underrepresented group so they get a diverse range of responses. Apparently browser vendors use this to inform what they do next 👀 survey.devographics.com/survey/state...

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Updated every month: Access the raw datasets behind every #dataviz we've ever released online. The IIB Data Room. 500+ sheets, 1200+ datasets. Continually updated. informationisbeautiful.net/data/

This post tries to explain why I find language models exciting. But it doesn't try to persuade skeptics that they should agree. It's aimed more at people already working with AI, and its goal is to sharpen our collective sense of what the upside potential might be. #MLSky 🤖 🧪