Dan Valen
@danvalen.com
Evangelist of #OpenData, WFPB-ing, and Z-O Swing%/NPxGI/Corsi/all the advanced metrics… I like the Flyers, Phillies, and Arsenal Football Club very much
🚴PHL ➡️ NYC ➡️ NHV
🚴PHL ➡️ NYC ➡️ NHV
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Zenni, an online glasses store, is offering a coating for its lenses that the company says will protect people from facial recognition technology. Zenni calls it ID Guard.
Zenni, an online glasses store, is offering a coating for its lenses that the company says will protect people from facial recognition technology. Zenni calls it ID Guard.
Zenni’s Anti-Facial Recognition Glasses are Eyewear for Our Paranoid Age
These anti-facial recognition glasses technically work, but won’t save you from our surveillance dystopia.
www.404media.co
January 30, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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Before the Flyers game, NBCSP aired this tribute to @dhm.bsky.social
January 30, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Before the Flyers game, NBCSP aired this tribute to @dhm.bsky.social
Longest Running Study into Open Research Practices Shows Strong Researcher Adoption, yet Recognition Gaps and Regional Variations Remain | finance.yahoo.com/news/longest... Read the report here: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
Longest Running Study into Open Research Practices Shows Strong Researcher Adoption, yet Recognition Gaps and Regional Variations Remain
Digital Science, Figshare and Springer Nature publish the new results in The State of Open Data 2025: A Decade of Progress and ChallengesLondon, United Kingdom and New York, New York and Berlin, Germa...
finance.yahoo.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Longest Running Study into Open Research Practices Shows Strong Researcher Adoption, yet Recognition Gaps and Regional Variations Remain | finance.yahoo.com/news/longest... Read the report here: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
Please do not use TikTok, friends www.bbc.com/news/article...
TikTok US venture to collect precise user location data
Details on the expanded access to location information was published in a new privacy policy for the popular social media app.
www.bbc.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Please do not use TikTok, friends www.bbc.com/news/article...
Week-in and week-out, impressed by the bench. I say flip the starting 11 for Wed against the Mighty 🥕
⭕ Arsenal XI: Raya, Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Hincapié, Ødegaard, Zubimendi, Rice, Saka, Jesus, Trossard
Subs: Arrizabalaga, Mosquera, White, Lewis-Skelly, Eze, Merino, Martinelli, Gyökeres, Madueke
#ARSMUN
Subs: Arrizabalaga, Mosquera, White, Lewis-Skelly, Eze, Merino, Martinelli, Gyökeres, Madueke
#ARSMUN
January 25, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Week-in and week-out, impressed by the bench. I say flip the starting 11 for Wed against the Mighty 🥕
Great VAR check in the City match. I agree it’s not a pen, but I’m also not sure what a handball is anymore
January 24, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Great VAR check in the City match. I agree it’s not a pen, but I’m also not sure what a handball is anymore
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January 24, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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And just like that, the US has left the World Health Organization.
Link goes to the official announcement—lies pretending to justify a decision that will kill countless numbers—from people too stupid to even include a proper twittercard.
www.hhs.gov/press-room/u...
Link goes to the official announcement—lies pretending to justify a decision that will kill countless numbers—from people too stupid to even include a proper twittercard.
www.hhs.gov/press-room/u...
January 23, 2026 at 3:05 AM
And just like that, the US has left the World Health Organization.
Link goes to the official announcement—lies pretending to justify a decision that will kill countless numbers—from people too stupid to even include a proper twittercard.
www.hhs.gov/press-room/u...
Link goes to the official announcement—lies pretending to justify a decision that will kill countless numbers—from people too stupid to even include a proper twittercard.
www.hhs.gov/press-room/u...
Today I learned I have an h-index of 3. Oh, and I finally (FINALLY) published my website: danvalen.com
Dan Valen
Dan Valen - Research data management, open science, and FAIR principles
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January 14, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Today I learned I have an h-index of 3. Oh, and I finally (FINALLY) published my website: danvalen.com
The hangers on… a step above the Springsteen-blaring cover band in Wildwood, NJ
Grahame Lesh & Friends Announce West Coast Extension of Unbroken Chain: A Celebration of the Life and Music of Phil Lesh, with an Additional Emphasis on Bobby Weir
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Grahame Lesh & Friends Announce West Coast Extension of Unbroken Chain: A Celebration of the Life and Music of Phil Lesh, with an Additional Emphasis on Bobby Weir
Grahame Lesh & Friends is taking Unbroken Chain: A Celebration of the Life and Music of Phil Lesh to the West Coast. For three nights, March 20-23,
relix.com
January 14, 2026 at 6:26 PM
The hangers on… a step above the Springsteen-blaring cover band in Wildwood, NJ
Beautiful and worth your time
January 14, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Beautiful and worth your time
Playing around with some audio in ChatGPT and it just, uh... said this, "This is a great setlist, by the way — that China Cat → Rider placement is 🔥"
January 14, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Playing around with some audio in ChatGPT and it just, uh... said this, "This is a great setlist, by the way — that China Cat → Rider placement is 🔥"
Congress stepped in and swatted away the DOGE funding cuts. Should be bigger news
⚛️ The U.S. “has been investing in science for 80 years, and could tear a lot of that down with the stroke of one signature,” the CEO of @aaas.org told SciFri a year ago. Here’s what's happening with federal funding for science now.
One Year Into Trump’s Term, Where Does Science Funding Stand?
The CEO of AAAS is cautiously optimistic about federal funding for science, even as uncertainty makes research challenging.
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January 14, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Congress stepped in and swatted away the DOGE funding cuts. Should be bigger news
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Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a group of journalists grabbed it and are relaunching the food magazine as a worker-owned co-op. Love it. [gourmetmagazine.net]
Gourmet Magazine
Gourmet is a worker-owned publication about food and the people who make and consume it.
gourmetmagazine.net
January 13, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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it’s a wicked world in all meridians
January 8, 2026 at 11:47 AM
it’s a wicked world in all meridians
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The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Is Dissolved After 58 Years Of Service
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January 5, 2026 at 8:04 PM
The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.
This is so cool. I know where to place my next glasses order
Related:
Zenni, an online glasses store, is offering a coating for its lenses that the company says will protect people from facial recognition technology. Zenni calls it ID Guard.
Zenni, an online glasses store, is offering a coating for its lenses that the company says will protect people from facial recognition technology. Zenni calls it ID Guard.
Zenni’s Anti-Facial Recognition Glasses are Eyewear for Our Paranoid Age
These anti-facial recognition glasses technically work, but won’t save you from our surveillance dystopia.
www.404media.co
January 5, 2026 at 4:28 PM
This is so cool. I know where to place my next glasses order
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“I belong to myself”
December 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
“I belong to myself”
Are we on the verge of not only curing but reversing Alzheimer’s? www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Pharmacologic reversal of advanced Alzheimer’s disease in mice and identification of potential therapeutic nodes in human brain
Chaubey et al. demonstrate that restoration of brain resilience reverses advanced
disease in two different mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), challenging the
century-long dogma of AD irreversib...
www.cell.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Are we on the verge of not only curing but reversing Alzheimer’s? www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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A fired public-health official, a mosquito breeder and a baby with a smile seen around the world. These are just a few of the people who shaped science this year and were chosen for Nature’s 10. 🧪
Nature’s 10: Ten people who shaped science in 2025
A fired public-health official, a mosquito breeder and a baby with a smile seen around the world. These are just a few of the remarkable people chosen for Nature’s 10.
go.nature.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
A fired public-health official, a mosquito breeder and a baby with a smile seen around the world. These are just a few of the people who shaped science this year and were chosen for Nature’s 10. 🧪
I have listened to and listen to A LOT of podcasts... and this is the best series I can remember. Highly recommend it to Fela and non-Fela fans alike: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dol...
Also, the intro music has been haunting me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZah...
Also, the intro music has been haunting me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZah...
Jad Abumrad’s new show - Fela Kuti: Fear No Man | Dolly Parton's America | WNYC Studios
In a world that’s on fire, what do we do with art? Like, what can music actually do? Today, Jad Abumrad is back with his first major project since Dolly Parton’s America. Fela Kuti: F...
www.wnycstudios.org
December 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I have listened to and listen to A LOT of podcasts... and this is the best series I can remember. Highly recommend it to Fela and non-Fela fans alike: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dol...
Also, the intro music has been haunting me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZah...
Also, the intro music has been haunting me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZah...
With Saliba back, it very well could be m.youtube.com/watch?v=4hsw...
December 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
With Saliba back, it very well could be m.youtube.com/watch?v=4hsw...