Jon Johnson
spuddybike.bsky.social
Jon Johnson
@spuddybike.bsky.social
Metadata and Data specialist, Advocate for transparency in science and data management using Open Standards. Works at CLOSER. Executive Board Chair of DDI Alliance, co-chair of @european-ddi.bsky.social
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🌟 Exciting news from the #DDIAlliance! We extend a warm welcome to our newest Associate Members: CONSTANCES Cohort, France Cohortes/FReSH, and Making Sense.

We look forward to advancing metadata standards together and growing our collaborative community! ddialliance.org
October 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
From today’s Guardian, unhelpfully conflating ethnicity and nationality. “the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) and the College of Policing have backed plans to release details of nationality”.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK police should consider revealing ethnicity of suspects, says new guidance
Disclosure of migration status, and ethnicity, could help keep peace ‘where there are high levels of disinformation’
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Citizen Science in a nutshell

xkcd.com/3118/
iNaturalist Animals and Plants
xkcd.com
July 22, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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#ESRA25 two excellent hours of metadata and infrastructure discussions on Thursday “New Developments in Using, Sharing, and Re-using Metadata” co-organised by @kwoid.de from a great set of organisations who oil the wheels for European social science to make everyones lives easier.
July 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Today, the Science and Technology Secretary confirmed how UKRI's budget will be allocated to all our councils and key programmes.

Find out more and read our budget explainer: www.ukri.org/news/ukri-bu...
UKRI budget allocations confirmed for 2025 to 2026
Today, the Science and Technology Secretary, Peter Kyle, confirmed how UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) budget will be allocated to all UKRI’s councils and key programmes.
www.ukri.org
April 4, 2025 at 9:26 AM
@gruber.foo
Dear sir
Regarding your recent post daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...

Desert island is a “national treasure” and I demand an immediate retraction of the use of “gimmick” unless you wish the full force of good minded people of the UK to be unleashed upon your veritable publication!
Jony Ive on ‘Desert Island Discs’
Link to: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00289vf
daringfireball.net
February 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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The @cdsp-sciencespo.bsky.social is organising with the Finnish Data Archive and HUN-REN and online free webinar on NLP data curation and FAIR data.
Registration, free but mandatory, here : docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#LoveData25
#LoveData25 : AI and social sciences data (a CDSP, FSD, HUN-REN webinar)
The French Center for Social Political Data, the Finnish Social Science Data Archive and the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences are organising an online webinar on February 10, 13:00-14:00 CET. This e...
docs.google.com
January 31, 2025 at 10:53 AM
@closer-uk.bsky.social away day, mixing it up with Duplo & Lego.
December 12, 2024 at 11:44 AM
It's gonna be a good one.
Our favourite week of the year is fast approaching. Starting on Monday 2nd December, we will be gathering in Chur, nestled in the Swiss Alps with the promise of great presentations, workshops, tutorials, fruitful discussions and fondue.!

The program is up at bit.ly/eddi-2024. #EDDI2024
16th European DDI Users Conference, Chur
bit.ly
November 28, 2024 at 4:33 PM