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"Many organisms important to human health... haven't even been named, let alone studied," reports Ewen Callaway in @nature, citing @nsegata of @CIBIO_UniTrento nature.com/articles/d41586-0… #darkdata

Current climate data "don’t reflect recent changes such as newer pollution controls, volcanic eruptions or even the effects of Covid," writes @ClimateOfGavin and @hausfath in @nytimes nytimes.com/2024/11/13/opini… #darkdata

Data on items transiting US ports is ostensibly public, but "it's not free, and it's unusable in the format that it comes in," according to Michael Kanko at @importgenius, interviewed by @aronczyk on @planetmoney npr.org/2024/10/11/121093826… #darkdata

"Hidden debts accumulate when economies are booming, and are more likely to be exposed when growth slows," reports @TheEconomist, citing @WorldBank (@davidmihalyi), @unidue (@NickolPhilipp) and @nd_econ (@cesarspa1) economist.com/finance-and-ec… #darkdata

"We cannot calculate with missing data, just as we can't divide by zero,” says Stef van Buuren and reported by @4gravitons in @QuantaMagazine quantamagazine.org/when-data… #darkdata

As reported in Nature, no bird flu outbreak has been found on Missouri dairy farms, arguably because the state "does not require farmers to test their cows" unmc.edu/healthsecurity/tran… #darkdata

"A common strategy to neutralize a social problem is to make it difficult to know about," write @coopermarianne & @DrMaximVoronov in @sciam. "If we don’t monitor or mention it, then things can feel back to normal." scientificamerican.com/artic… #darkdata

Most data breaches don't result from zero-days or Ocean's Eleven-style heists

"Data on mine production, waste, pollution and consumption of water and energy are widely lacking," which can obscure illegal extraction, writes @victor_maus & Tim Werner in @Nature nature.com/articles/d41586-0… #darkdata

Uncounted vertically migrating fish may play "an important role in stabilizing the climate" writes @MoiraDonovan in @WIRED wired.com/story/all-the-fish… #darkdata

Since 1990, FEMA "no longer publishes countrywide assessments of risks from nuclear attacks," thereby underappreciating alarming impacts of fallout, writes @seb6philippe in @sciam scientificamerican.com/artic… #darkdata

Worried about sensitive data stewardship? Download our latest one-pager, "Security Essentials for Humanitarian Organizations" darkdataproject.org/publicat…

If you missed our IAC talk earlier this month about non-user experiences, you can still read or download the white paper at darkdataproject.org/nux #darkdata #ux #uxdesign #ia

2B people have no birth certificates & 30M deaths go unrecorded every year, resulting in (a) lack of access to services, (b) uninformed health policies, (c) identity fraud, writes @JInterlandi in @nytimes nytimes.com/2023/03/29/magaz… #darkdata

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. Happy birthday, @AlbertEinstein. #PhotosWithAlbert

Our data-rich world is increasingly populated by individuals whose needs we can't infer, explains @darkdataproject's @timothyquinn at @theiaconf on 1-Apr-2023 in New Orleans theiaconference.com/iac23-pr… #IAC #darkdata

Simply no legitimate reason in a democracy "for people to have secret bank accounts or own property secretly or own companies secretly," @anneapplebaum tells @jonstewart on @TheProblem podcast: theproblem.com/podcast/anne-… #darkdata