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Vanessa Crosby
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I once lost all my fieldwork data on an external drive that got computer coolant spilled on it. Now I help scientists to...not do that. I will talk to you all day about PIDs.
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levostregc.bsky.social
People reallye ynto Gen AI summaryes seeme to thynke of bookes as annoyinge litel labyrinths whose onlye benefit ys that thei leade to a tastye magical glowing orb called "informacioun" that when consumed doth turne you into a man wyth a bow tie and the righte to talke over everyone else.
June 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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royalsociety.org
We are reviewing the current state of scientific publishing, and we want to hear from researchers on their perceptions of publishing in the current context and how it might develop in future. Complete our short survey now:
The Future of Scientific Publishing - survey
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June 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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zacklabe.com
This is horrible. I don't even know what to say. Some of our most key polar data.

"As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported."

nsidc.org/data/user-re...
Effective May 5, 2025, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) will decommission its snow and ice data products from the Coasts, Oceans, and Geophysics Science Division (COGS). As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported. This includes Sea Ice Index, Snow Data Assimilation System (SNODAS) Data Products, Glacier Photograph Collection, U.S. National Ice Center Arctic Sea Ice Charts and Climatologies in Gridded Format Gridded Monthly Sea Ice Extent and Concentration, 1850 Onward World Glacier Inventory. If you rely on these products in your work, research, education, or planning, we invite you to share your story at nsidc@nsidc.org. Your input can help us demonstrate the importance of these data sets and advocate for future support.
May 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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archive.org
🧶💾 Punch cards aren’t just relics of computing—they’re still powering knitting machines today! Discover how hobbyists & archivists are preserving this blend of tech + textile. ⁠

🔗 https://blog.archive.org/2025/02/12/vanishing-culture-punch-card-knitting/
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🕳️ #VanishingCulture⁠
Quote tile with white text on an orange background: “[Knitting punch cards] are also, in the age of seemingly-endless proprietary software and terms and conditions, refreshingly punk, in a minimal computing, open-source sort of way…” Nichole Misako Nomura Digital humanities scholar
February 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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mylee.bsky.social
Guidance on privacy and developing and training generative AI models www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/priv...
Guidance on privacy and developing and training generative AI models
This new guidance is intended for developers of generative artificial intelligence (AI) models or systems who are subject to the Privacy Act
www.oaic.gov.au
February 4, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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librarycolleen.bsky.social
The (U.K.) National Archives launches guidance for archivists working in fast response situations 📜
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/t...
The National Archives launches guidance for archivists working in fast response situations - The National Archives
Today The National Archives has launched new guidance for archivists about rapid response collecting. It’s designed to support archivists collecting material in situations like the aftermath of accide...
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
February 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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orcid.org
🗣️ Arts and Humanities Scholars: Are you ready? 🗣️

We are 👏 thrilled 👏 to announce that ORCID now supports an expanded range of work types, such as 🎼 musical compositions, 🎨 still and 🎞️ moving images, and even 📝 teaching materials!!

Learn more: https://info.orcid.org/new-work-types/
January 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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miriamposner.com
In other words, what the tech evangelists got wrong, and what Golumbia got right, was that this new chaotic infrastructure, this new anarchy of flesh and ferrite, did not signal a generalized relaxation of order and organization, but in fact constituted a new system of management just as robust as any of the old hierarchies.
December 11, 2024 at 6:14 PM
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daxkellie.bsky.social
If you missed my talk but still want to learn how to make your R code more reproducible, my slides are here 🙂:

daxkellie.quarto.pub/will-your-co...

All the links to packages and resources I mentioned are there, so hopefully this can be a nice reference, too!

#ESAus2024 #rstats #quartopub 🧪🌏
Title slide: Will your code run again? Tips for making code reproducible in R
December 9, 2024 at 6:06 AM
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asanchez-tojar.bsky.social
Indeed, the reproducibility potential of ecological findings in journals WITHOUT a code-sharing policy is 2.5% at most!

That’s 8 times lower than in journals WITH a code-sharing policy.

📰 doi.org/10.32942/X21...
December 10, 2024 at 7:42 AM