20 Small Acts of #MediaLiteracy We Can Practice Every Day - recommend this newsletter cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/20-small-a...

Great moments in U.S. History.

cracking open a cold one with the boys

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/

I was just talking about this. AI in a robust social safety net is very different than AI in a scam economy without one.

Read this useful set of tips on improving your use of YouTube in the light of the Google changes to force AI. Essentially you can do old style Google power searching in YouTube (for obvious reasons) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/youtube-is...

Only a fallen society needs this sign

UNESCO is seeking feedback on a fact sheet about equity in scholarly communication & open science. It includes language calling for “non-commercial, academic, and scientific community-driven publishing models as a common good.” Join SPARC & submit comments by April 13. www.unesco.org/en/articles/...

Recorded 45 years ago First demo tape, archive recordings of Minor Threat with the song "I Don't Wanna Hear It" Minor Threat – I Don't Wanna Hear It Notes: This is what hardcore punk should be! Brilliant! #punkrock #hardcorepunk #minorthreat #history #punkrockhistory

I made a tiny tool for quickly sharing small datasets (< ~1000 rows) without uploading any data to a server. 🔗 ziptbl.com It compresses the data into the link itself, so there’s no account, hosting, or storage layer involved. Here's Florence Nightingale's famous 📊 data: ziptbl.com#d=eNpdlE-LGz...

youtu.be/5AVYDHTOixU hell yeah

A broader vision of open research is needed to include the arts, humanities and social sciences. @jenniad.bsky.social @mirandab-oa.bsky.social @samuelmoore.org & @stephenpinfield.bsky.social for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social 👇

This is a dramatic update to the NIH Data Management and Sharing Plan template, effective for applications submitted for due dates on or after May 25, 2026. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Props to @scott.hanselman.com for naming the elephant in the room in big tech. AI coding tools boost senior engineers but create challenges for juniors who lack context to judge outputs. Cutting junior hiring for near-term gains weakens the future pipeline. We’ll need apprenticeship-style paths.

Happy Twin Peaks day to all who celebrate!

What do LLMs see? I wrote a lil' tool that extracts the attention matrices out of open models and creates this typing visual, with each token's opacity changing according to its average attention score as the prompt progresses. Dimmer words are considered less important to the model.

Key to efficient learning is realizing how we ACTUALLY learn, not just what FEELS like learning. I wrote a Claude Skill for some friends to help them think about this and they've liked it -- see Principles for some directions you could explore github.com/DrCatHicks/l...

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

"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...