Talking data, knowledge, communication, science, enlightenment.

Joined June 2009
Trying to get more responses to our survey about the value of legacy research data. If you worked with old/historical/legacy data as a researcher, manager, or librarian or care about its preservation, fill out our survey (15 min) fsu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/S… #DataManagement
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All ongoing and future grants were cancelled, program officers sent on leave and now @US_IMLS is launching an AI Challenge? How does that work?
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“The Trump administration has absolutely devastated my life.” This is the reality for many civil servants like Shioban who lost everything after Trump gutted USAID.
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It really does not bode well for our society that politicians and corporations keep trying to destroy both entire repositories of knowledge and culture and our access to them while also championing AI tools that consistently plagiarize and provide incorrect information
BREAKING: The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the long-running, closely watched copyright case over the scanning and lending of print library books. Full story to follow.
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This applies to many more industries than law
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Our paper is finally published! Cyber security data is challenging, but the issues go beyond sharing - it's processing, reporting, citation, provenance, etc.
New in CODATA Data Science Journal: Inna Kouper, Stacy Stone Title: Data Sharing and Use in Cybersecurity Research doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2024-003 #codata #FAIRdata #OpenScience #datascience #opendata #datasciencej
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New essay: I argue that misinformation is often better viewed as a symptom of deep societal problems rather than their cause. When that’s true, interventions like debunking and censorship are unlikely to help – and might make things worse. (1/15) iai.tv/articles/misinformati…
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New cohort of @Ostrom_Workshop fellows - great group of PhD students, including @Dalyapraz from @IULuddy ostromworkshop.indiana.edu/a… Congrats!
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Publishing both papers and reviews could be a positive change. But we need to change papers too - remove intro and background, start with problem/questions, then short method and findings. 1 para for what it means instead of long discussion.
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Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub is looking for Science Communications Interns for Fall 2023 (hourly paid position for students on the Midwest) midwestbigdatahub.org/scienc…
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Worth examining and thinking about now...
What is ignored or neglected by the media -- but will be studied by historians? Here's the full list of 25 examples:
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Interdisciplinary data primer at @WeAreDCN - a major result of our @US_IMLS funded project on interdisciplinary data curation github.com/DataCurationNetwo… Thanks to all my collaborators from IU, UC Boulder, Virginia Tech. Read, use, improve! @ashley247 @jon_petters @lutefisk812
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The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Listening Sessions With Early Career Researcher Communities on Open Science in May-June 2023 whitehouse.gov/ostp/events-w… @rdaeceig @RDA_US #openscience #earlycareer
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⚡️Breaking news from the EU & #GDPR land: the Italian Data Protection Authority #GarantePrivacy issued an order today against OpenAI, effectively blocking #ChatGPT in Italy (ordering it not to use personal data of Italians). Here is a deep dive into the short order - 1/
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Inna Kouper retweeted
When Googling for political information, people beat algorithmic filtering and ranking by twisting the searches so that the results bolster their preconceived views. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs…
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Richard Alexander on the ubiquity of self-serving myths that people push to promote and justify their interests and the interests of their groups and communities:
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“Open Governments, Open Data” by @AngRaymond & @inkouper applies the GKC framework, its concepts, and guiding questions to understand the actions around the portal and their patterns and outcomes. #DigitalCommons #CommunalOwnership #CoCreation
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A thread on the protests in Iran. On 16th September 2022, a 22-year-old Iranian woman named Mahsa Amini died in Tehran, Iran. Mahsa had three days earlier been arrested by the ‘Guidance Patrol’, also known as the ‘morality police’, who oversee the implementation of... 1
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