Eric Schares
@eschares.bsky.social
Collection Analysis Librarian, Iowa State University & Research Associate, #ScholCommLab. Views my own.
Data science, bibliometrics, python, Open Access, academic publishing, (applied) stats, causal inference, Learned League.
More at eschares.github.io
Data science, bibliometrics, python, Open Access, academic publishing, (applied) stats, causal inference, Learned League.
More at eschares.github.io
Wonder what she’d make of this.
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Wonder what she’d make of this.
I love a good metaphor.
Someone who was so engaged to hang this flag on a busy road in town, but now can’t be bothered to fix its frayed and tattered condition.
Someone who was so engaged to hang this flag on a busy road in town, but now can’t be bothered to fix its frayed and tattered condition.
November 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I love a good metaphor.
Someone who was so engaged to hang this flag on a busy road in town, but now can’t be bothered to fix its frayed and tattered condition.
Someone who was so engaged to hang this flag on a busy road in town, but now can’t be bothered to fix its frayed and tattered condition.
I say this with all the love I can, but I'm not sure it's actually possible to not feel left behind doing this as an 8-week course. There's too much.
I've been through 5-6 times by now and my goal is just to make it a bit farther each time. I can get to LKJ and Cholesky before I lose the plot now.
I've been through 5-6 times by now and my goal is just to make it a bit farther each time. I can get to LKJ and Cholesky before I lose the plot now.
November 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I say this with all the love I can, but I'm not sure it's actually possible to not feel left behind doing this as an 8-week course. There's too much.
I've been through 5-6 times by now and my goal is just to make it a bit farther each time. I can get to LKJ and Cholesky before I lose the plot now.
I've been through 5-6 times by now and my goal is just to make it a bit farther each time. I can get to LKJ and Cholesky before I lose the plot now.
Relevant desk magnet (okay, maybe not that relevant...)
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Relevant desk magnet (okay, maybe not that relevant...)
Mostly German, some Dutch and a little of the music course.
October 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Mostly German, some Dutch and a little of the music course.
It’s time for apple tasting!
October 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
It’s time for apple tasting!
This was a question in the just-completed season of the online "greatest web-based trivia league in all of civilized earth" I'm in, Learned League. A referral invite is yours if you want it!
October 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
This was a question in the just-completed season of the online "greatest web-based trivia league in all of civilized earth" I'm in, Learned League. A referral invite is yours if you want it!
I had a new experience last week - a journalist asked for my comment on a news story!
In this case it was AAAS's response to the NIH proposed APC cap scenarios. I agreed with some things in the release but disagreed with others.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-usa-...
In this case it was AAAS's response to the NIH proposed APC cap scenarios. I agreed with some things in the release but disagreed with others.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-usa-...
October 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I had a new experience last week - a journalist asked for my comment on a news story!
In this case it was AAAS's response to the NIH proposed APC cap scenarios. I agreed with some things in the release but disagreed with others.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-usa-...
In this case it was AAAS's response to the NIH proposed APC cap scenarios. I agreed with some things in the release but disagreed with others.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-usa-...
October 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Is each grid line 1% or 0.5%?
September 6, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Is each grid line 1% or 0.5%?
Proud to have played even a small role on this project! Great summary post and an excellent job by the entire IOI team.
After two years of intensive research, IOI's project “Investigating "reasonable costs" to achieve public access to federally funded research and scientific data” has concluded.
After two years of intensive research, IOI's project “Investigating "reasonable costs" to achieve public access to federally funded research and scientific data” has concluded.
September 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Proud to have played even a small role on this project! Great summary post and an excellent job by the entire IOI team.
After two years of intensive research, IOI's project “Investigating "reasonable costs" to achieve public access to federally funded research and scientific data” has concluded.
After two years of intensive research, IOI's project “Investigating "reasonable costs" to achieve public access to federally funded research and scientific data” has concluded.
Painful but necessary read about miss after miss at #INTC.
I was there 2006-2015 in NAND flash memory, a small unit that felt more like a startup and insulated from the overall "Mother Intel". Even then the cracks were starting to show.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/t...
I was there 2006-2015 in NAND flash memory, a small unit that felt more like a startup and insulated from the overall "Mother Intel". Even then the cracks were starting to show.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/t...
August 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Painful but necessary read about miss after miss at #INTC.
I was there 2006-2015 in NAND flash memory, a small unit that felt more like a startup and insulated from the overall "Mother Intel". Even then the cracks were starting to show.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/t...
I was there 2006-2015 in NAND flash memory, a small unit that felt more like a startup and insulated from the overall "Mother Intel". Even then the cracks were starting to show.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/t...
Your bravery inspired me during my trip to the store today.
August 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Your bravery inspired me during my trip to the store today.
Cinnamon says hello
August 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Cinnamon says hello
OpenAlex openalex.org can do all this. Free to use and open (CC0) data. Indexes thousands of servers, repositories, Crossref, etc.
Has the added benefit of not being a black box like GS, so we can actually answer questions like - how many things are inside it? What sources? How does the code work?
Has the added benefit of not being a black box like GS, so we can actually answer questions like - how many things are inside it? What sources? How does the code work?
August 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
OpenAlex openalex.org can do all this. Free to use and open (CC0) data. Indexes thousands of servers, repositories, Crossref, etc.
Has the added benefit of not being a black box like GS, so we can actually answer questions like - how many things are inside it? What sources? How does the code work?
Has the added benefit of not being a black box like GS, so we can actually answer questions like - how many things are inside it? What sources? How does the code work?
I've got bad news for you...
August 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I've got bad news for you...
Recent Nature News piece says Company of Biologists continues to pay reviewers in their journal Biology Open.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...
August 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Recent Nature News piece says Company of Biologists continues to pay reviewers in their journal Biology Open.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...
Perhaps a noob question, but...
{janitor} clean_names() changes column names to snake case, but tab completion returns the original column names, presumably b/c clean_names() runs each time but is not saved.
The video appears to have access to the cleaned names - how? Keyboard shortcut?
{janitor} clean_names() changes column names to snake case, but tab completion returns the original column names, presumably b/c clean_names() runs each time but is not saved.
The video appears to have access to the cleaned names - how? Keyboard shortcut?
August 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Perhaps a noob question, but...
{janitor} clean_names() changes column names to snake case, but tab completion returns the original column names, presumably b/c clean_names() runs each time but is not saved.
The video appears to have access to the cleaned names - how? Keyboard shortcut?
{janitor} clean_names() changes column names to snake case, but tab completion returns the original column names, presumably b/c clean_names() runs each time but is not saved.
The video appears to have access to the cleaned names - how? Keyboard shortcut?
Great show. Was a full house so had to split our seats, but cast was terrific and I’d say a star was born!
August 4, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Great show. Was a full house so had to split our seats, but cast was terrific and I’d say a star was born!
See @rmcelreath.bsky.social's "Science is like a Chicken Coop," www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Lq...
July 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
See @rmcelreath.bsky.social's "Science is like a Chicken Coop," www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Lq...
Interesting but puzzling paper. Study looks at University of Milan authors who do/not publish OA in a journal covered by an agreement.
Halfway through they refer to a "statistical analysis available in an online appendix" but provide no such appendix, just a dead footnote.
doi.org/10.1002/leap...
Halfway through they refer to a "statistical analysis available in an online appendix" but provide no such appendix, just a dead footnote.
doi.org/10.1002/leap...
July 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Interesting but puzzling paper. Study looks at University of Milan authors who do/not publish OA in a journal covered by an agreement.
Halfway through they refer to a "statistical analysis available in an online appendix" but provide no such appendix, just a dead footnote.
doi.org/10.1002/leap...
Halfway through they refer to a "statistical analysis available in an online appendix" but provide no such appendix, just a dead footnote.
doi.org/10.1002/leap...