Kathryn Weber-Boer
@kowb.bsky.social
Enjoys digging into data about science, a good principled argument, and human dignity. Super annoyed by disinformation and anything that hurts researchers or knowledge. Sometime archaeologist (I like animal bones...)
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Still my favourite "What is GIS" video explainer. 60 seconds long, great animation and interesting narrative. Perfect as a class starter or refresher #geographyteacher #GIS
November 11, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Still my favourite "What is GIS" video explainer. 60 seconds long, great animation and interesting narrative. Perfect as a class starter or refresher #geographyteacher #GIS
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Haha yesss. Japanese copyright law doesn't fuck around.
Since I get challenged on this a lot: U.S. and Japan are both Berne Convention signatories, meaning the copyright is recognized between countries. They CAN go after American companies. And they are. And I love it.
variety.com/2025/digital...
Since I get challenged on this a lot: U.S. and Japan are both Berne Convention signatories, meaning the copyright is recognized between countries. They CAN go after American companies. And they are. And I love it.
variety.com/2025/digital...
Trade Group Representing Studio Ghibli, Other Japanese Companies Tells OpenAI to Stop Using Their Content to Train Sora 2 Video Generator
Japanese content trade group CODA, whose members include Studio Ghibli, issued a letter to OpenAI demanding the AI company stop using their content to train Sora 2.
variety.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Haha yesss. Japanese copyright law doesn't fuck around.
Since I get challenged on this a lot: U.S. and Japan are both Berne Convention signatories, meaning the copyright is recognized between countries. They CAN go after American companies. And they are. And I love it.
variety.com/2025/digital...
Since I get challenged on this a lot: U.S. and Japan are both Berne Convention signatories, meaning the copyright is recognized between countries. They CAN go after American companies. And they are. And I love it.
variety.com/2025/digital...
In "why I don't buy in-house estimates of energy expenditure". It's like trusting tobacco companies to report on lung cancer.
Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows
Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows
Executives at world’s biggest datacenter owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities
Amazon strategised about keeping the public in the dark over the true extent of its datacentres’ water use, a leaked internal document reveals.
The biggest owner of datacentres in the world, Amazon dwarfs competitors Microsoft and Google and is planning a huge increase in capacity as part of a push into artificial intelligence. The Seattle firm operates hundreds of active facilities, with many more in development despite concerns over how much water is being used to cool their vast arrays of circuitry. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
In "why I don't buy in-house estimates of energy expenditure". It's like trusting tobacco companies to report on lung cancer.
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I recently reflected on the Royal Society Conference on the Future of Scientific Publishing and summarized my thoughts in an ISSP blog post: www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...
#OpenAccess #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky
#OpenAccess #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky
Why the Economics of Scientific Publishing Need Urgent Reform | Research and innovation
www.uottawa.ca
October 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I recently reflected on the Royal Society Conference on the Future of Scientific Publishing and summarized my thoughts in an ISSP blog post: www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...
#OpenAccess #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky
#OpenAccess #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky
I did say that! 😁
Kathryn Weber-Boer @kowb.bsky.social:
“It shows how varied the quality of discussion around research can be, and how important it is to dig into the details when studying public attention to science.”
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“It shows how varied the quality of discussion around research can be, and how important it is to dig into the details when studying public attention to science.”
6/8
October 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I did say that! 😁
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Altmetric data in action: A new public dashboard highlights misinformation in #SocialMedia about #COVID19 & scientific research.
Using @altmetric.com data for 400 million+ X/Twitter posts, the UnMiSSeD dashboard has assigned a “misinformation score” to various elements in the X posts.
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Using @altmetric.com data for 400 million+ X/Twitter posts, the UnMiSSeD dashboard has assigned a “misinformation score” to various elements in the X posts.
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October 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Altmetric data in action: A new public dashboard highlights misinformation in #SocialMedia about #COVID19 & scientific research.
Using @altmetric.com data for 400 million+ X/Twitter posts, the UnMiSSeD dashboard has assigned a “misinformation score” to various elements in the X posts.
1/8
Using @altmetric.com data for 400 million+ X/Twitter posts, the UnMiSSeD dashboard has assigned a “misinformation score” to various elements in the X posts.
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PODCASTS
Altmetric now tracks podcasts mentioning research
In 2018 there were roughly 500,000 podcasts in existence. Just 3 years later that number was 2 million. Today it's around 4 million.
Amid all the Squarespace ads there's citations to research.
Let's go
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Altmetric now tracks podcasts mentioning research
In 2018 there were roughly 500,000 podcasts in existence. Just 3 years later that number was 2 million. Today it's around 4 million.
Amid all the Squarespace ads there's citations to research.
Let's go
1/7
October 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
PODCASTS
Altmetric now tracks podcasts mentioning research
In 2018 there were roughly 500,000 podcasts in existence. Just 3 years later that number was 2 million. Today it's around 4 million.
Amid all the Squarespace ads there's citations to research.
Let's go
1/7
Altmetric now tracks podcasts mentioning research
In 2018 there were roughly 500,000 podcasts in existence. Just 3 years later that number was 2 million. Today it's around 4 million.
Amid all the Squarespace ads there's citations to research.
Let's go
1/7
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It's good to see the @altmetric.com Podcast tracking working well. I just searched for a podcast I hosted & recorded with my ex-Sheffield colleague Diana Papaioannou on a paper she lead on recording harms in randomised controlled trials, and hey presto! It's in the🍩
bmj.altmetric.com/details/1688...
bmj.altmetric.com/details/1688...
Report for: Recommendations on recording harms in randomised controlled trials of behaviour change interventions
In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
bmj.altmetric.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
It's good to see the @altmetric.com Podcast tracking working well. I just searched for a podcast I hosted & recorded with my ex-Sheffield colleague Diana Papaioannou on a paper she lead on recording harms in randomised controlled trials, and hey presto! It's in the🍩
bmj.altmetric.com/details/1688...
bmj.altmetric.com/details/1688...
So basically this is how the rest of the world figures out the visceral reaction data scientists have to "garbage in/garbage out"
"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades
October 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
So basically this is how the rest of the world figures out the visceral reaction data scientists have to "garbage in/garbage out"
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📣 NEWS: Digital Science has made a series of recommendations for Australia’s research future in a report published today into the use of persistent identifiers #PIDs in research.
The report was commissioned by @ardc.edu.au.
🔗 See our announcement: ow.ly/GTSN50X8XjO
The report was commissioned by @ardc.edu.au.
🔗 See our announcement: ow.ly/GTSN50X8XjO
October 9, 2025 at 8:20 AM
📣 NEWS: Digital Science has made a series of recommendations for Australia’s research future in a report published today into the use of persistent identifiers #PIDs in research.
The report was commissioned by @ardc.edu.au.
🔗 See our announcement: ow.ly/GTSN50X8XjO
The report was commissioned by @ardc.edu.au.
🔗 See our announcement: ow.ly/GTSN50X8XjO
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Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life
Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life
Plant inventories dating back to 1884 and nearly thrown away enable unique time-lapse study of biodiversity in Swiss meadows
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life
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Digital Science CEO Dr Daniel Hook @dwh.bsky.social says: “We’re excited to see Professor Wang leveraging both Dimensions and Altmetric to deliver a high-quality “multifaceted impact analysis framework”.
@dimensions.ai @altmetric.com
4/10
@dimensions.ai @altmetric.com
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October 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Digital Science CEO Dr Daniel Hook @dwh.bsky.social says: “We’re excited to see Professor Wang leveraging both Dimensions and Altmetric to deliver a high-quality “multifaceted impact analysis framework”.
@dimensions.ai @altmetric.com
4/10
@dimensions.ai @altmetric.com
4/10
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Can we just admire Jane Fonda, please? She is a true patriot, inspiration, and role model.
"When I feel scared, I look to history. I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers — but there never has been. The only thing that has ever worked — time and time again — is solidarity."
"When I feel scared, I look to history. I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers — but there never has been. The only thing that has ever worked — time and time again — is solidarity."
October 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Can we just admire Jane Fonda, please? She is a true patriot, inspiration, and role model.
"When I feel scared, I look to history. I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers — but there never has been. The only thing that has ever worked — time and time again — is solidarity."
"When I feel scared, I look to history. I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers — but there never has been. The only thing that has ever worked — time and time again — is solidarity."
RIP Jane Goodall 😔
October 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
RIP Jane Goodall 😔
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There's still a couple of hours left if you have a free hour this lunch time to come and hear how we're doing research communications and knowledge mobilisation differently as part of a piece of @nihr.bsky.social funded work with our @know-ph.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thinking-l...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thinking-l...
Thinking Long Term - Creating Sustainable Knowledge Mobilisation Outputs
In this webinar, we’ll share how the KNOW-PH team has tried to approach how we collaborate, communicate and share outputs differently.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
There's still a couple of hours left if you have a free hour this lunch time to come and hear how we're doing research communications and knowledge mobilisation differently as part of a piece of @nihr.bsky.social funded work with our @know-ph.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thinking-l...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thinking-l...
I have a proposal for a new diagnostic technique for ADHD (can also be used to measure effectiveness of medication and non-pharmaceutical interventions): Google Photos takeout with 63 files of 2 GB each.
Is it physically painful? Yes.
At what number did I interrupt the process? 47... I think 🤔
Is it physically painful? Yes.
At what number did I interrupt the process? 47... I think 🤔
September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I have a proposal for a new diagnostic technique for ADHD (can also be used to measure effectiveness of medication and non-pharmaceutical interventions): Google Photos takeout with 63 files of 2 GB each.
Is it physically painful? Yes.
At what number did I interrupt the process? 47... I think 🤔
Is it physically painful? Yes.
At what number did I interrupt the process? 47... I think 🤔
Reposted by Kathryn Weber-Boer
"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭
anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...
anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...
How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog
“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!) and I like working with ...
anniemueller.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:57 AM
"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭
anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...
anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...
Ooooh, new infographics!
spatialreserves.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/i... Innovative use of infographics on a #gis #data portal.
Innovative use of infographics on a data portal
The Washington County, Wisconsin USA GIS team ( has, using Esri Business Analyst, created an amazing set of resources so that their staff and communities can visualize situations and patterns and m…
spatialreserves.wordpress.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Ooooh, new infographics!
Playing "whose notification is going to remind me of this task I need to do" with colleagues. 😉
Why can't Gemini do *this* part?
Why can't Gemini do *this* part?
September 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Playing "whose notification is going to remind me of this task I need to do" with colleagues. 😉
Why can't Gemini do *this* part?
Why can't Gemini do *this* part?
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If you're a journal or publisher using institutional email addresses to verify the identity of authors or reviewers, you'll want to read this story by @joelving.bsky.social.
University email addresses no longer effective bulwark against fake peer review
To guard against identity theft, academic publishers have been using institutional email addresses to verify authors and reviewers are who they say they are. Now, however, findings appearing in a p…
retractionwatch.com
September 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Hey, psst, France... what's the hold up?
The UK, Portugal, Australia, Canada have joined the 151 nations who recognise a Palestinian state (78% of all countries)
September 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Hey, psst, France... what's the hold up?
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"And so when we’re thinking about how important these resources are for improving child outcomes, we need to remember that if we don’t have equal inputs, we cannot expect equal outcomes."
A good interview between @rcobooth.bsky.social and @christinajcross.bsky.social. Read on.
A good interview between @rcobooth.bsky.social and @christinajcross.bsky.social. Read on.
"when it comes to income, Black two-parent families had about 60 percent of the income of white two-parent families and only 25 percent of the wealth"
www.vox.com/policy/46177...
www.vox.com/policy/46177...
The big myth about why Black kids can’t get ahead
How ignoring two-parent families has warped the narrative.
www.vox.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
"And so when we’re thinking about how important these resources are for improving child outcomes, we need to remember that if we don’t have equal inputs, we cannot expect equal outcomes."
A good interview between @rcobooth.bsky.social and @christinajcross.bsky.social. Read on.
A good interview between @rcobooth.bsky.social and @christinajcross.bsky.social. Read on.
Reposted by Kathryn Weber-Boer
A poem for the first day of autumn. From Good Bones by @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social.
Published by @tupelopress.bsky.social. Get it here: bit.ly/goodbonesBK
#poem #books #writing
Published by @tupelopress.bsky.social. Get it here: bit.ly/goodbonesBK
#poem #books #writing
September 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
A poem for the first day of autumn. From Good Bones by @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social.
Published by @tupelopress.bsky.social. Get it here: bit.ly/goodbonesBK
#poem #books #writing
Published by @tupelopress.bsky.social. Get it here: bit.ly/goodbonesBK
#poem #books #writing
Ohhhh
same thing as elite means to them.
someone with power, real or perceived or ephemeral doesn't matter, that they view as illegitimate. its why a she/they barista with a septum peircing becomes an elite to them simply by making them feel awkward ordering
someone with power, real or perceived or ephemeral doesn't matter, that they view as illegitimate. its why a she/they barista with a septum peircing becomes an elite to them simply by making them feel awkward ordering
what does “establishment” mean to these people?
September 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Ohhhh