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Hope Shinn
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She/her. Interested in (almost) everything, including open access and librarianship.
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As we know I have Strong Feelings about academic journals expecting free peer review, charging people to publish, and charging people to read. This article framing that as part of a 'triple tax' on scientific research is really interesting!
The Triple Tax on U.S. Scientific Research
Opinion | The hidden economics behind federal research funding causes Americans to pay three times for the same body of research.
undark.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Our team developed an open-source WordPress plugin that lets you pull in items from your ORCID profile and display them on your site. Very cool!

Schopieray, S., & Eben, G. (2025). Linked Open Profiles - ORCID Global Participation Fund Final Report 2025 (p. 3). MSU Commons. doi.org/10.17613/ypc...
Linked Open Profiles - ORCID Global Participation Fund Final Report 2025
Our project, Linked Open Profiles, is a WordPress plugin designed to display ORCID profile data directly on websites. With ORCID Global Participation Fund (GPF) support, we moved the tool from a proto...
doi.org
October 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Yeah well whose fault is that??
September 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Find all the things NOAA does in your neck of the woods by visiting this page: www.noaa.gov/legislative-...

In Oklahoma, the list is quite long! www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...

Not as long in West Virginia, but there’s probably more than you think! www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...
February 19, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Good article on LLMs, including why their use for peer-review is wrong (LLM will tend to discard what's novel & concentrate on what's already known).
@himself.bsky.social is good reading but especially this on averaging in LLMs; next token prediction moves (basically) down the gradient of most likely: it is attracted to average; interesting LLM work (Janelle Shane, bsky's own Theophite) often uses old, broken models because they're worse at this
After software eats the world, what comes out the other end?
Malkovich. Malkovich. Malkovich?
www.programmablemutter.com
October 5, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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I honestly believe all LLM results should come with a disclaimer reminding people that the thing doesn’t (and absolutely cannot) know any facts or do any reasoning; it is simply designed to *sound* like it knows facts and frequently sweeps some up accidentally in the process.
I really think many if not most of the LLM fail cases are people trying to use it as a search engine. It is the opposite of a search engine.
December 4, 2024 at 12:53 PM
This is VERY COOL
A group of researchers have recreated the clothing of medieval Nubian royalty and clergy from the wall paintings in the cathedral of Faras, which sits at the border of modern Egypt and Sudan.
November 20, 2024 at 1:41 AM
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Coelacanths are pregnant for five years, the longest gestation of any known animal, and do not reach maturity until they are around 55 years old.
November 13, 2024 at 5:26 PM