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Anne Bergen
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Helping transform knowledge into action. Relationships, research, evaluation, and design. She/her. https://knowledgetoaction.ca/
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ukdsimpact.bsky.social
🎉New on the Data Impact blog🎉

@michaelapawley.bsky.social, a UK Data Service Data Impact Fellow, reflects on the emotional challenges of working with sensitive secondary data and shares practical steps for researcher wellbeing.

blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/sensitive-da...
November 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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neorsd.org
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.

remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
. @audreywatters.bsky.social on AI+grief: 'In response to a radical outpouring of love, loss, life, grief—expressed together, embodied, on the streets—we were forced to use a tech that severs us from creative expression, dignity, truth. There is no choice, we're told. "Get over it." "Move on."'
AI Grief Observed
These remarks were delivered this evening at the Creatively Critical Tech Speaker Series at Illinois State University. "There is no good way to say this." These are the opening words of Yiyun Li’s l...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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ivacheung.com
Friends! With 2 weeks till 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving, I'm asking for your help to get my FREE cookbook #AfterTheFeast to as many people as possible.

Please share here and elsewhere, and let your local food pantries know about it so they can give out the URL during turkey drives! ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...
After the Feast: A Turkey Leftovers Cookbooklet - Iva Cheung
After a couple decades of editing and indexing cookbooks, I took a stab at writing (a small!) one. After the Feast brings together 25-ish of my favourite ways to use up the leftovers from big turkey d...
ivacheung.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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pengzell.bsky.social
Pushing for open access is not enough. We need a push to end profit.
hansonmark.bsky.social Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 10d
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

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Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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dgbassani.bsky.social
A masterful essay worth everyone’s time.
eric-reinhart.com Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 12d
I have a feature essay for The Guardian today on the mirage of AI medicine, why care cannot be automated, and how overwhelming uptake of AI by American health capitalism threatens to undermine the very possibility of democracy.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart
A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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anildash.com
There is so much opportunity in the new alt media! There is so much potential in those who do not want to be prisoner to a Substack platform that is actively fighting their social goals. www.anildash.com/2024/06/14/t...
November 7, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
Data physicalization!
quinnanya.me Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 22d
It is done! I knit a budget sweater for the first 7 years of the Textile Makerspace. One row in bright red, full circumference is $2k. Black lines are year dividers. The sleeves are paid student labor, with hours worked in brown. Sleeve on left is color coded by pronouns, right by gender. #DHmakes
A maroon, red, brown and other striped hand knit sweater
October 31, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
Super interesting
brynnsherman.bsky.social Brynn Sherman @brynnsherman.bsky.social · 23d
Our experience of time is powerfully shaped by boundaries between events (i.e., going from one meeting to the next). But what about time *within an event*? In new work, we find reliable distortions of time based on internal event structure (e.g., beginnings, middles, and ends)! tinyurl.com/n8mn2sn7
Unfolding event structure distorts subjective time
Our experience of time is often distorted in striking ways. Although prior work has shown that boundaries between events can shape temporal perception…
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October 30, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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julieslalonde.bsky.social
The federal government is currently making an announcement about new funding for women and 2SLGBTQIA+ organizations. This pre-budget announcement (and the new funding) is happening *entirely* because of all the public outcry and pressure we've mounted over the last few months re: cutting WAGE by 81%
October 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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eiui.bsky.social
As science is key to finding solutions to many issues today, #science #communication has been “catapulted” into prominence globally. Fischer et al. propose a framework consisting of 4 ideal-types for cross-county comparative study of science communication @jscicom.bsky.social doi.org/10.22323/148...
Title, authors’ names, abstract, and key words from a paper about a framework for comparing science communication across countries
October 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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julieslalonde.bsky.social
"Lalonde criticized the lack of attention to women’s issues more generally during the federal election.

“That was a huge red flag that we saw in the election season, and we’ve seen it played out since women are not part of the conversation,” Lalonde said."
Gender-based violence support groups criticize planned federal funding cuts - Capital Current
Organizations combating gender-based violence may face significant challenges because of a proposed 80 per cent federal funding budget cut.
capitalcurrent.ca
October 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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nonprofitaf.bsky.social
“Of all the crappy funding practices funders sometimes pull, requiring nonprofits to justify line items variances on their financial reports is one of the most archaic, inane, insipid, ludicrous, and banal of them all.”
Funders, stop requiring line-item budget reports and variance explanations
Hi everyone. Halloween is coming up, which means it’s time for scary stories. Grab a stuffie and wrap yourself in a blanket as I tell a terrifying tale that will leave you with chills down your spine....
www.nonprofitaf.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
. @mikevdsanden.bsky.social: "What melodies can be found in typography?" Uses Processing+VCV Rack to treat digital font characters as piano rolls, generate viz+sound files from "playing" over them:
mikevdsanden on Instagram: "What melodies can be found in typography? (🔊 SOUND ON)The question popped into my head while I was experimenting with audio in VCV…"
What melodies can be found in typography? (🔊 SOUND ON)The question popped into my head while I was experimenting with audio in VCV Rack. I imagined characters becoming a piano roll. Could I connect Processing? Once I had a proof of concept, I was hooked. Over the past few weeks, I built it out, adding features as I went.Processing sends MIDI note data — pitch, velocity, and gate — to VCV Rack. The tool is built on layered tracks: each track can be routed to its own channel and has tweakable options. You can change the character sequence, typeface, and clock speed. I’ve added multiple scales. Currently all in C, but I can imagine the system could grow into a full instrument. To prevent floods of notes, each track has a range control on the right: drag the top or bottom rows to set the active band.I had a lot of fun building this tool. It gave me a chance to combine my love for music with coding. For context, I’m a beginner in VCV Rack: most of my patches came from tutorials. If you’re experienced with VCV Rack, I’d love to see what you can make with it. There’s a download link on my website.➡️ I added a small tutorial in the last slide to get you started.Typefaces from the The font starter pack by @pangram.pangram. #vcvrack #processing #graphicdesign #creativecoding #genartclub #procedual #coding #motiongraphics #newmedia #new_media_art #digitalart #modernart #computerart #processing #contemporarytype #type01 #modularsynth #webgl #typespire #posterdesign #typedesign #typedaily #showusyourtype #kinetictypography #interactiondesign
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October 12, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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thenarwhal.ca
Water-hungry data centres are planned for drought-stricken regions across Canada. What will the AI data centre boom mean for communities? By @savannahridley.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/ai-data-cent...
What will the AI data centre boom mean for Canada? | The Narwhal
Sprawling AI data centres — hungry for land, water and power — are coming. Plans the world’s largest, called Wonder Valley, are underway in Alberta
thenarwhal.ca
October 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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404media.co
The Trump administration’s tariff regime and the elimination of fee exemptions for items under $800 is limiting resource sharing between university libraries, trapping some books in foreign countries, and reversing long-held standards in academic cooperation.

🔗 www.404media.co/libraries-ca...
Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs
Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’
www.404media.co
October 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
. @sararribas.bsky.social's String Data Art exhibit represents ~2 years of work, starting w/physical archival research; noticing patterns of social artistic relationships around a major Flamenco event in Spain in 1922. Towards public humanities, how to make sense of large amount of people+info? +
September 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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julieslalonde.bsky.social
Ottawa! Please spread the word!

We need to show our elected officials that "We'll get to equality once we figure out tariffs, balance the budget, etc." is all kinds of BS.

Ottawa's "Take Back the Night" march starts at Minto Park at 6pm that night and will meet up with this event on the Hill.
Protect Women, Protect All. End the violence. Take back the budget! Join anti-violence groups from the Ottawa area as the Take Back the Night march ends with a gathering at Parliament Hill. Thursday, September 18 @ 7:30 PM Femicide is an epidemic. Every two days in Canada, a woman or girl is killed, most often by someone she knows. 2SLGBTQI+ and marginalized women face even greater risks. In uncertain times, women and gender-diverse communities are too often not prioritized. Survivors rely on programs, shelters, and services that must be sustained and strengthened. WE MARCH BECAUSE: Survivors must come first Femicide is an epidemic Our safety is non-negotiable The federal government and WAGE must maintain and increase support for survivor-led programs WE ARE CALLING FOR ACTION. JOIN US!
September 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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eiui.bsky.social
Not everything on the Internet is real & the growing use of #AI compounds the problem. Guerrero-Casado et al. highlight 3 issues: pervasive social media use, anthropomorphizing animal behaviour, & disconnection from #nature. #Ocean #literacy is key! @conbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
Title, authors’ names, article impact statement, and first paragraph from a paper about fake wildlife images created with artificial intelligence and their impact on public perceptions about conservation
September 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
On the security envelope and art inspired by it :)
A Close Look at Security Envelope Patterns
These classically inconspicuous designs, which are hiding in plain sight, have inspired collectors, artists, and at least one architect.
www.inconspicuous.info
August 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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implementsci.bsky.social
The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research #CFIR User Guide: a five-step guide for conducting implementation research using the framework #impsci

implementationscience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) User Guide: a five-step guide for conducting implementation research using the framework - Implementation Science
Background The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) is a determinant framework that includes constructs from many implementation theories, models, and frameworks; it is used to pr...
implementationscience.biomedcentral.com
August 18, 2025 at 8:11 AM
annebergen.bsky.social
Good #i2S post on social mechanisms leading to fake interdisciplinary collaborations: Irresponsible project management, cognitive oversights, and disciplinary self-promotion in the name of interdisciplinarity #collaboration i2insights.org/2025/08/12/f...
August 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
annebergen.bsky.social
Helpful framework for youth knowledge mobilization, including factors that influence the diversity of approaches #KMb #CER
Youth knowledge mobilization: Reflections on theory and practice | Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement
epress.lib.uts.edu.au
July 31, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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lseimpactblog.bsky.social
💥New: What makes research truly #transdisciplinary?

While there’s no single definition of “transdisciplinary research,” Helen Buckley Woods @rorinstitute.bsky.social identifies three core elements: partnerships, values & impact. How these are understood depends on each research community & funder.
What do we mean by “transdisciplinary research”? - Impact of Social Sciences
Like most complex concepts, there is no one single definition of “transdisciplinary research”. But, Helen Buckley Woods writes, all definitions share three common elements: partnerships, values and…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
July 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM