{ "jason": "clark" }
@jasonclark.bsky.social
librarian @msulibrary, professor, hacker, author, footballer, skateboarder, fly-fisher, dogwalker, coffee brewer - still trying to make fetch happen. www.jasonclark.info
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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...
Announcing the RDA-US 2026 Cohort: Apply Now – RDA-US
rda-us.org
January 30, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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...
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"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...
Wikipedia at 25: What the web can be - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
January 17, 2026 at 11:11 AM
"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...
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“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
Where CC Stands on Pay-to-Crawl - Creative Commons
Creative Commons proposes principles for responsible use of pay-to-crawl that prioritizes openness, reciprocity, and the commons.
creativecommons.org
January 9, 2026 at 10:03 PM
“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
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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
Intertapes — Main
Obscure tape finds and their stories
intertapes.net
December 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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
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First full moon of the year.
January 3, 2026 at 11:24 PM
First full moon of the year.
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"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."
Is ‘open science’ delivering benefits? Major study finds proof is sparse
It’s hard to measure social and economic impacts of making papers and data free, researchers say
www.science.org
December 31, 2025 at 10:34 PM
"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."
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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:
simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/...
This year it's divided into 26 sections! This is the table of contents:
December 31, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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:
simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/...
This year it's divided into 26 sections! This is the table of contents:
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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...
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...
December 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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...
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...
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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...
I argue that we need both, given that CS is increasingly about "claims," and not just constructing artifacts.
doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-empiri...
December 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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...
I argue that we need both, given that CS is increasingly about "claims," and not just constructing artifacts.
doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-empiri...
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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
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
IIIF Illustration Detector - a Hugging Face Space by small-models-for-glam
Find illustrated pages in digitized historical books
huggingface.co
December 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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
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
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‘Sam’s the biggest Cooke in town,’ New York City, 1964
December 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
‘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#...
Data is from the Cloudflare AI insights tool - radar.cloudflare.com/ai-insights#...
December 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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#...
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...
Slides:
docs.google.com/presentation...
Code:
github.com/jasonclark/a...
small-language-models-trust-clark-ff2025-shared
Reasoning with Small Language Models (SLM) to Create Trustworthy GenAI Jason A. Clark @jasonclark Montana State University Fantastic Futures 2025
docs.google.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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...
Slides:
docs.google.com/presentation...
Code:
github.com/jasonclark/a...
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The kind folks at The Walrus published this feature over the weekend! Thank you! #skaterlibrarian thewalrusca.substack.com/p/meet-the-l...
Meet the Librarian Resurrecting the Lost Women of Skateboarding
Female skateboarders have always been there. Someone just needed to prove it
thewalrusca.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The kind folks at The Walrus published this feature over the weekend! Thank you! #skaterlibrarian thewalrusca.substack.com/p/meet-the-l...
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“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!
Introducing the 'Software Paper': New ways to publish on research software in Computational Humanities Research
When Lauren Tilton first approached me about joining the Computational Humanities Research (CHR) journal’s Editorial Board as an Associate Editor, the thing that made the invitation so compelling and ...
www.cambridge.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“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!
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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...
November 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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...
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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...
A systematic examination of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) use guidelines in applied linguistics journals
The unannounced appearance of GenAI in 2022 and the speed of its adoption by researchers have left many questions unanswered about its accepted ethica…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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...
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Interesting. The evolution of conflict in literature / society
(by Instagram user: @grantdraws)
www.instagram.com/p/DBOlpAuRj9c/
(by Instagram user: @grantdraws)
www.instagram.com/p/DBOlpAuRj9c/
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Interesting. The evolution of conflict in literature / society
(by Instagram user: @grantdraws)
www.instagram.com/p/DBOlpAuRj9c/
(by Instagram user: @grantdraws)
www.instagram.com/p/DBOlpAuRj9c/
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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...
#3 De La Soul, 3 FEET HIGH AND RISING
vs.
#11 Fugazi, 13 SONGS
forms.gle/R6JGyPyp7DQ8...
The Best Album of 1989 Round 5 Match #124: De La Soul vs. Fugazi
This is the Best Album of 1989 match for Thursday, November 20th, 9am CST. It will be open for 24 hours, and the winner will move onto Round 6 (Semifinals) of the bracket. If you haven’t heard either ...
forms.gle
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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...
#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
Toolkit (interactive website): www.lib.montana.edu/responsible-...
Project info: www.lib.montana.edu/responsible-...
#DLFForum #DLF2025
Viewfinder: A toolkit for values-driven AI in libraries & archives
Viewfinder is an interactive toolkit designed to facilitate ethical reflection about AI implementation in libraries and archives from different stakeholder perspectives.
www.lib.montana.edu
November 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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
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
Slides: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
System Prompt: gist.github.com/jasonclark/1...
Model Context Protocol server:
gist.github.com/jasonclark/4...
#DLFForum #DLF2025
Example system prompt for a research agent
Example system prompt for a research agent. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
gist.github.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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
Slides: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
System Prompt: gist.github.com/jasonclark/1...
Model Context Protocol server:
gist.github.com/jasonclark/4...
#DLFForum #DLF2025
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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-...
Print-at-home PDF: osf.io/yue9s
Interactive website: www.lib.montana.edu/responsible-...
Responsible AI - MSU Library | Montana State University
www.lib.montana.edu
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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-...
Print-at-home PDF: osf.io/yue9s
Interactive website: www.lib.montana.edu/responsible-...
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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
October 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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
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Good morning to everyone except the sentient computer who locked me out of the space station
August 22, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Good morning to everyone except the sentient computer who locked me out of the space station