@cshannon.bsky.social
A former health sciences informationist & cat lover
It snowed this morning. Not much, but before I'd gotten some geraniums out of the ground. Oops! But it is pretty. Pixie did get a MEOW #Hedgewatch in before curling up next to me for a DUVET shift
November 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
It snowed this morning. Not much, but before I'd gotten some geraniums out of the ground. Oops! But it is pretty. Pixie did get a MEOW #Hedgewatch in before curling up next to me for a DUVET shift
Happy #Caturday! Here's proof that, with lots of love, attention & 3 kinds of fairy juice Pixie has begun to sit on my lap. #Hedgewatch #catsofbluesky
November 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Happy #Caturday! Here's proof that, with lots of love, attention & 3 kinds of fairy juice Pixie has begun to sit on my lap. #Hedgewatch #catsofbluesky
Guess what Pixie did today? She slept on my lap! My phone wasn't available, so there was no documentation of the fact, but it was wonderful! #Hedgewatch #catsofbluesky
November 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Guess what Pixie did today? She slept on my lap! My phone wasn't available, so there was no documentation of the fact, but it was wonderful! #Hedgewatch #catsofbluesky
Happy #ThrowbackThursday! Here's Space Cadet, now Ladybug. She was my first foster cat from the Humane Society of Huron Valley. #adoptdontshop #Hedgewatch #catsofbluesky
November 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Happy #ThrowbackThursday! Here's Space Cadet, now Ladybug. She was my first foster cat from the Humane Society of Huron Valley. #adoptdontshop #Hedgewatch #catsofbluesky
Join us on 7 November at 14:00 UTC for our #OpenScience First Fridays webinar featuring Veronique Kiermer, Chief Scientific Officer of PLOS, discussing “Can we redefine publishing beyond the article and beyond the APC?”
Register using the QR code below, or at
globalyoungacademy.net/open-science...
Register using the QR code below, or at
globalyoungacademy.net/open-science...
November 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Happy World Digital Preservation Day 2025! 🎉
The #WDPD2025 theme this year asks the question #WhyPreserve ❔
Join the conversation online & watch the Why Preserve? video from @dpc-chat.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy 📽️
👉 www.dpconline.org/news/launch-...
The #WDPD2025 theme this year asks the question #WhyPreserve ❔
Join the conversation online & watch the Why Preserve? video from @dpc-chat.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy 📽️
👉 www.dpconline.org/news/launch-...
November 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Excited for this! 🎉
Join the WCRI Early Career Researchers & Professionals Network for the year-end webinar “Let’s Talk About Mentorship!” on 13 Nov 2025 | 10:30–12:00 UTC.
Let’s share, learn, and build a stronger mentoring culture together.
@lexbouter.bsky.social
Register below!
Join the WCRI Early Career Researchers & Professionals Network for the year-end webinar “Let’s Talk About Mentorship!” on 13 Nov 2025 | 10:30–12:00 UTC.
Let’s share, learn, and build a stronger mentoring culture together.
@lexbouter.bsky.social
Register below!
November 5, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Here's my official #WhiskersWednesday photo! I do love it when my human rubs my tummy. #catsofbluesky
November 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Here's my official #WhiskersWednesday photo! I do love it when my human rubs my tummy. #catsofbluesky
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has generously awarded us funding to secure our own storage. This critical processing space will be instrumental in ensuring that large datasets can be temporarily stored, curated, and described.
Thank you, MacArthur Foundation, for your support!
Thank you, MacArthur Foundation, for your support!
Data Rescue Projects receives support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to support data rescue efforts
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Since launching in February 2025, the Data Rescue Project has grown substantially. At this point, the DRP has enabled the rescue of more than 1,000 datasets from US Federal…
www.datarescueproject.org
November 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Settling into a DUVET #Hedgewatch this morning. Hoping that you all are having a wonderful day. #catsofbluesky
November 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Settling into a DUVET #Hedgewatch this morning. Hoping that you all are having a wonderful day. #catsofbluesky
Taking a break from my MEOW #Hedgewatch for a bit of a wash. It is lovely in my window today! I also have been staying on top of the bed (I dash to my hidey hole when my human gets up - she's big & she's scary still when she's upright - & then I pop back on the bed when she's gone. #catsofbluesky
November 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Taking a break from my MEOW #Hedgewatch for a bit of a wash. It is lovely in my window today! I also have been staying on top of the bed (I dash to my hidey hole when my human gets up - she's big & she's scary still when she's upright - & then I pop back on the bed when she's gone. #catsofbluesky
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What a great resource. Spread the word.
This is a great resource in precarious times.
Tried it for my city and it pulled up all the things I know about + more I didn’t. It finds food pantries, but also stuff like legal help and housing assistance.
For those of us more fortunate, great way to find volunteer and donation opportunities.
Tried it for my city and it pulled up all the things I know about + more I didn’t. It finds food pantries, but also stuff like legal help and housing assistance.
For those of us more fortunate, great way to find volunteer and donation opportunities.
findhelp.org by findhelp - Search and Connect to Social Care
Search and connect to support. Find financial assistance, food pantries, medical care, and other free or reduced-cost help in your area, anywhere in the US.
findhelp.org
November 2, 2025 at 1:59 PM
What a great resource. Spread the word.
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It took just 8 minutes for thieves to steal the Napoleonic-era crown jewels from the Louvre. There weren't enough cameras and the ones there were there were facing the wrong way.
Could a 50-year-old maths problem have foiled the heist?
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www.bbc.com/news/art...
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Could a 50-year-old maths problem have foiled the heist?
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www.bbc.com/news/art...
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Where are the Louvre jewels now and can France get them back?
Experts warn that whilst the criminals may yet be caught, the gemstones they stole may never be recovered.
www.bbc.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
It took just 8 minutes for thieves to steal the Napoleonic-era crown jewels from the Louvre. There weren't enough cameras and the ones there were there were facing the wrong way.
Could a 50-year-old maths problem have foiled the heist?
🧵
www.bbc.com/news/art...
1/9
Could a 50-year-old maths problem have foiled the heist?
🧵
www.bbc.com/news/art...
1/9
I'm enjoying a DUVET #Hedgewatch, right next to my human. And last night, I curled up on her feet. Maybe I'll get brave & sit on her lap some day? #catsofbluesky
October 31, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I'm enjoying a DUVET #Hedgewatch, right next to my human. And last night, I curled up on her feet. Maybe I'll get brave & sit on her lap some day? #catsofbluesky
How to ensure your research data is error-free & understandable by other users & your future self?🗂️ This tutorial by LMU OSC is on documenting & validating data in R to make it more reusable.
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Data Documentation & Validation using R📑 lmu-osc.github.io/data-documen...
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Data Documentation & Validation using R📑 lmu-osc.github.io/data-documen...
lmu-osc.github.io
October 31, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Has a librarian made a difference in your life? Nominate them for the #ILoveMyLibrarian Award for a chance to win $5,000 and the honor of a lifetime. Nominations close Dec. 15!
Submit your nomination: https://bit.ly/3uVK4V0
Submit your nomination: https://bit.ly/3uVK4V0
October 30, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Has a librarian made a difference in your life? Nominate them for the #ILoveMyLibrarian Award for a chance to win $5,000 and the honor of a lifetime. Nominations close Dec. 15!
Submit your nomination: https://bit.ly/3uVK4V0
Submit your nomination: https://bit.ly/3uVK4V0
On this #ThrowbackThursday, thinking of Lizzie (aka Merida), who lived with me for just over a year, until her organs failed, at the age of 15. Pixie is sometimes called "Lizzie Too" to try to transfer some of Lizzie's courage to Pixie.
October 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
On this #ThrowbackThursday, thinking of Lizzie (aka Merida), who lived with me for just over a year, until her organs failed, at the age of 15. Pixie is sometimes called "Lizzie Too" to try to transfer some of Lizzie's courage to Pixie.
It's #WhiskersWednesday! (We think that every day is a "whisker day" bc my whiskers are always quite fine.) We hope that your #Hedgewatch ING is going well (you can't see but I'm doing what I've decided is a WHEELBARROW shift as I'm scrunched up close to my human & she is petting me). #catsofbluesky
October 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
It's #WhiskersWednesday! (We think that every day is a "whisker day" bc my whiskers are always quite fine.) We hope that your #Hedgewatch ING is going well (you can't see but I'm doing what I've decided is a WHEELBARROW shift as I'm scrunched up close to my human & she is petting me). #catsofbluesky
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28.10.2025
'This is in Mandeville, Manchester in Jamaica at the moment. The flooding looks catastrophic and it's just the beginning!'
via Volcaholic [X] #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #Melissa
'This is in Mandeville, Manchester in Jamaica at the moment. The flooding looks catastrophic and it's just the beginning!'
via Volcaholic [X] #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #Melissa
October 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
28.10.2025
'This is in Mandeville, Manchester in Jamaica at the moment. The flooding looks catastrophic and it's just the beginning!'
via Volcaholic [X] #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #Melissa
'This is in Mandeville, Manchester in Jamaica at the moment. The flooding looks catastrophic and it's just the beginning!'
via Volcaholic [X] #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #Melissa
A sleepy #tongueouttuesday (& so just a tiny bit of pink tongue is visible). I'm going back to sleep, to continue my DUVET #Hedgewatch. #catsofbluesky
October 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A sleepy #tongueouttuesday (& so just a tiny bit of pink tongue is visible). I'm going back to sleep, to continue my DUVET #Hedgewatch. #catsofbluesky
It's chilly today, but my human opened the window bc I was having trouble jumping into the window when it was closed. So I'm doing a MEOW #Hedgewatch, really & truly.
October 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
It's chilly today, but my human opened the window bc I was having trouble jumping into the window when it was closed. So I'm doing a MEOW #Hedgewatch, really & truly.
I did something unusual w/my first briefing point this week b/c the UVA deal raises my hackles.
No fees? Assurances of academic freedom? Great. where’s the catch?
I think it’s really odd that UVA president is required to *personally attest* there’s “no DEI here!” every 3 months until 2028.
Why?
No fees? Assurances of academic freedom? Great. where’s the catch?
I think it’s really odd that UVA president is required to *personally attest* there’s “no DEI here!” every 3 months until 2028.
Why?
![10. UVA's president shall certify under penalty of perjury cach quarterly report as to the report's accuracy and UVA's full compliance with all the provisions in this Agreement.
Such certification will state:
→ [Interim President or President] of the University of
Virginia, hereby certify, to the best of my knowledge, and after reasonable review and investigation, that the accompanying quarterly report is accurate, and that the University of Virginia has maintained and implemented policies and procedures as well as training programs to ensure material compliance with the Agreement between the United States and the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia dated [Effective Date].
The United States may make such inquiries as it deems necessary to verify the accuracy of such certification. If the United States concludes that the certifications are accurate, at the end of this Agreement, it will close the remaining Investigations and shall pursue no enforcement actions, grant or funding terminations, or monetary fines for alleged violations of Civil Rights Laws that took place prior to the pendency of this Agreement, and shall treat UVA as eligible for further grants, contracts, and awards in the ordinary course, without disfavored treatment based on events that took place prior 10 the date of the last such certification.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ngiusdsidn6wf47skjyozjkt/bafkreieucqmbbehxauarnookksp3vas2ddf3ddpafk4pg2d4tg44qztrbm@jpeg)
October 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Taking a break in my DUVET #HedgewatchForDotty to think about Dotty & her family, who miss her so much. Sending soft purrs & gentle hugs.
October 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Taking a break in my DUVET #HedgewatchForDotty to think about Dotty & her family, who miss her so much. Sending soft purrs & gentle hugs.
Part of a longer tummy rub, courtesy of the magic fairy juice. #Hedgewatch #catsofbluesky
October 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Part of a longer tummy rub, courtesy of the magic fairy juice. #Hedgewatch #catsofbluesky
This week’s @AcademyHealth.bsky.social Situation Report looks at what happens what policy stalls: ACA subsidies in limbo, Medicaid work rules without guidance, and WIC funding on the brink as the shutdown continues. Read the
full update: academyhealth.org/blog/2025-10...
full update: academyhealth.org/blog/2025-10...
October 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM