iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 02/10/2026

early-career academics, if you don't have a website, make yourself one. yes it's annoying but just do it it can be plain text on a white background, or google sites, or even a free Wix one with ads. nobody cares we just need to be able to look you up, quickly, bc there's like 100 other apps here

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm not crying, you're crying. 🥹 So grateful to have received this from the POWER (Providing Opportunities for Women in Education Research) leadership team.

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Same. I spent 3 years writing my book (on my own time). The financial pay off is small, partly because my book is OA, but I'm still glad I did it. It let me synthesize and document my knowledge and experiences and I feel like it's making a difference. Takeaway: Write for you, not for the money.

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Issue 64 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬 It includes: ➡️ Applied Data Skills @psyteachr.bsky.social ➡️ Excel Now Supports Multiple Values in a Single Cell ➡️ NIH Details $170 Million Biomedical Research Reproducibility Effort @science.org and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

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RDM Weekly - Issue 064

A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Changing measure items midway during a project.

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

23 subscribers away from 1k! Help #rdmweekly meet that milestone! 🎉 rdmweekly.substack.com

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I saw this yesterday, and I thought, yes it violates tidy data. But also I see the benefit for some people who are working in Excel only. And you can do similar things in R (nested list columns). But yeah, I'm sure it will ultimately just create more headaches in the research world. :/

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

AI: Getting more and more advanced, things progressing quickly Me helping researchers: Let's talk about the benefits of documenting any work that you do, or naming things so that you understand them later.

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The Simpsons: Marge Simpson Go-Karting

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Heather Urry @heatherurry.io · 24/09/2026

holy fucking shit - see Claude Code (Opus 5.5) rip through a survey eligility test I was really proud of... It requires tracing a route through designated points on a map with server-side Javascript applying eligibility criteria. (1.5 min video)

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's still in the works, but it's looking like I'll be giving my second keynote address, for one of my favorite events....Love Data Week. More to come.

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Homer Simpson Says Woo Hoo Excited

ALT: Homer Simpson Says Woo Hoo Excited

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Issue 63 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬 ➡️ @datadryad.bsky.social Gives Researchers due CRediT ➡️ Shared Research Materials in Psychology are Widely Downloaded but Often Difficult to Reuse @dsquintana.bsky.social ➡️ Intro to Vibe Coding in R & RStudio and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

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RDM Weekly - Issue 063

A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I was recently given a raw data file. I needed to recreate a cleaning process that was originally done manually several years ago. That team had written a very thorough README about that cleaning process. While it was tedious, I was able to recreate that process. Documentation pays off people.

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hey you. The one working with data right now. This is your periodic reminder to check to make sure you don't have duplicates in your data. Did someone submit 2 surveys when they should have only submitted one? Did someone's data get duplicated during a merge? Shit happens. Check your data.

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Oooof, as if I wasn't already bummed enough that I couldn't make it this year. Now I'm really feeling it. 😅

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I love overly honest READMEs

Screenshot of GitHub README saying known issues: coding style only a mother could love

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Collecting longitudinal data? Know when you should start cleaning it? ❌ Not at the end of your project. ✔️ After every wave of collection See reasons why below. 👇

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Issue 62 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬 ➡️ On the Prevalence of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in the Social Sciences @i4replication.bsky.social ➡️ sdcMicro - #rstats package for anonymization ➡️ @rdapassociation.bsky.social Kaffee Klatsch Meetup and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

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RDM Weekly - Issue 062

A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 15/09/2026

Update: Beginning Monday Sept 14, OSF systems have been strained by significant access & download activity from automated bot traffic & crawlers. This resulted in degraded performance or inaccessibility of the platform or content, including the appearance of empty or nonfunctioning dashboards (🧵1/3)

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One thing I've learned about myself as a data manager over the last 15 years, is if you want something done quickly without much consideration, I am NOT your person lol.

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm not at posit conf this year but I'm just over here liking literally every person's posit::conf post I come across because I am so excited for them to be there. 😅 It's an awesome community.

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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RDM Weekly - Issue 062

A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Anytime someone sends me an Excel file and the rows are all different heights, the text isn't aligned to the top, and the header row is not frozen: a) It makes my brain hurt b) I feel compelled to do all of those things before reviewing it.

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Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 10/09/2026

Today we are officially (re)launching @ratiopbc.com's blog... along with a revamped website! I have the honor of publishing the first blog post, which is in fact the first of a whole series about how to build your organization's first #dbt project. ratiopbc.com/blog/2026-09...

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Ratio PBC | Intro: How to build your organization’s first dbt project

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

There are many data management decisions that are made when planning out a research project. Need guidance when thinking through those decision making processes? I've got a resource for that: datamgmtinedresearch.com/plan#plan-ch...

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

1/ What is the prevalence of personally identifiable information (PII) in author-collected data publicly shared in the social sciences? We audited 327 replication packages from 11 leading journals in economics, political science, and psychology Answer: surprisingly high 🧵

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Issue 61 of #rdmweekly! ➡️ Open Research in the Arts, Humanities and Qualitative Social Sciences @jenniad.bsky.social ➡️ CODECHECK: An Open Science Initiative for the Independent Execution of Computations ➡️ Intro to Synthetic Data @ukdataservice.bsky.social rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

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RDM Weekly - Issue 061

A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

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Collin Schwantes @collin-schwantes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

data curators are going to have a similar reckoning with AI being promoted as a good data manager

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Jennifer Tackett @jnfrltackett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Anyone moving (or keeping) their preregistrations on Zenodo? I'm thinking it makes more sense to move them over so projects will ultimately be on the same platform, but it looks like you can't actually blind them for peer review (even if posted as restricted, identity is still attached)?

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Why have I been using \\ all these years to escape regex patterns, rather than just wrapping text in fixed()? 😜 #rstats

$library(tidyverse) # A tibble: 5 × 2 name pizza_toppings <chr> <chr> 1 Bear pepperoni, cheese 2 Rosie cheese 3 Frank pepperoni, onion 4 Rudy sausage (ground) 5 Baloo pineapple, with ham # I want to replace the words in the "select all" variable, with numeric values from a key codes <- c("pepperoni" = "1", "cheese" = "2", "onion" = "3", "sausage (ground)" = "4", "pineapple, with ham" = "5") # Can't just replace because of () issue # A tibble: 5 × 2 name pizza_toppings <chr> <chr> 1 Bear 1, 2 2 Rosie 2 3 Frank 1, 3 4 Rudy sausage (ground) 5 Baloo 5 # (01) Using \\ to escape () in sausage (ground) codes_escape <- c("pepperoni" = "1", "cheese" = "2", "onion" = "3", "sausage \$ground\$" = "4", "pineapple, with ham" = "5") df |> mutate(pizza_toppings = str_replace_all(pizza_toppings, codes_escape)) # (02) Using fixed() codes <- c("pepperoni" = "1", "cheese" = "2", "onion" = "3", "sausage (ground)" = "4", "pineapple, with ham" = "5") df |> mutate(pizza_toppings = str_replace_all(pizza_toppings, fixed(codes))) # A tibble: 5 × 2 name pizza_toppings <chr> <chr> 1 Bear 1, 2 2 Rosie 2 3 Frank 1, 3 4 Rudy 4 5 Baloo 5$

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Abigail Goben @hedgielib.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I've met with several dozen researchers about the NIH DMS 2026 changes in the past few weeks. It's been a great opportunity to connect and discuss a variety of resources available. If you are a researcher who hasn't gotten updated on the new format -- call your librarian.

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Issue 60 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬 ➡️ @lmu-osc.bsky.social Summer School Free Lectures ➡️ ManyScale Repository for Self-Report Measures @datingdecisions.bsky.social ➡️ Ten Simple Rules to Enable Multi-site Collaborations through Data Sharing and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

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RDM Weekly - Issue 060

A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Do you want to collect higher quality, more usable research data from your survey and other assessment tools? Then you need to build your tools and workflows with quality assurance and control practices in mind. Get tips here: datamgmtinedresearch.com/collect#coll...

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Chapter 11 Data Collection | Data Management in Large-Scale Education Research

Figure 11.1: Data collection in the research project life cycle. When collecting original data as part of your study (i.e., you are administering a survey or assessment as opposed to using an...

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Steven R. Shaw, PhD @shawpsych.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

For Canadians looking to move away from using Google docs, I recommend cdox.ca. Quality small tech. Simple and easy to share with co-authors. I've used it for several months and found it to be a solid platform.

cdox.ca

cDox | A Google Docs alternative with no AI training.

A private alternative to Google Docs and Sheets. Hosted on independent bare metal servers in Canada. No AI training, no data extraction.

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Issue 59 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬 ➡️ AsCollected Platform ➡️ Enacting Open Science Values in Qualitative Leadership Research @cnsyoung.com ➡️ For a Decade CRediT has Quietly Reshaped Academic Authorship – What Comes Next? @drachiarelli.bsky.social and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

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RDM Weekly - Issue 059

A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If you create one-off datasets from a larger dataset for an analysis, it's important to keep record of how that new dataset was created. You may only be sharing that smaller dataset for the publication but you never know when you will need to go back to the original data. No record = not possible.

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Confused Penguin: Huh?

ALT: Confused Penguin: Huh?

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ABCD-ReproNim @abcd-repronim.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Registration is now open for a four-part workshop series on R programming and Statistics, supported by the ABCD Professional Development Workgroup and ABCD-ReproNim.📊 Registration closes on Sunday, August 30, 2026. (1/3) forms.gle/PnVJ1hC6pQRz...

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Okay, I'm feeling very grateful for the team who shared RDM Weekly in the WashU Becker Medical Library Data Management and Sharing Newsletter today. 🌟 rdmweekly.substack.com

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Issue 58 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬 ➡️ OSF is Changing @cos.io ➡️ Agentic Workflows with Claude Code @jhelvy.bsky.social ➡️ Who Will Keep Research Data Infrastructure Open and Running? @issuesinst.bsky.social and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

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RDM Weekly - Issue 058

A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

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RDM Weekly - Issue 058

A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 14/08/2026

As part of our guidance for the upcoming changes to OSF Projects, we developed a help guide on choosing a repository and a list of repository options to help researchers identify potential places to store their research outputs. ℹ️ Guidance on choosing a repository:

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Where should I share my Data, Materials, Code now? - OSF Support

This Article Is Licensed Under CCO For Maximum Reuse. The following is a Table of Contents that links directly to specific sections within the guide: Table of R

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Thanks for the laugh @hadley.nz 😂 tidydesign.substack.com/p/ai-outside...

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The Metacheck Shiny app to download all private OSF Repositories is done. The manual is updated, and everything is in the dev branch on GitHub. As a bonus, we explain how you can run repo_check, data_check, code_check, and codebook_check on your repository with 1 line of code. Launch next week.

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Issue 57 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬 ➡️ TOP 2025: An Update to the Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines @cos.io ➡️ Why ‘Provable Data Erasure’ Is Really Hard ➡️ Ten Quick Tips to SNIFF out Sustainable and Secure Scientific Software and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

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RDM Weekly - Issue 057

A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

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Hope Sparks @hope-sparks.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Big news for people in the data management / open science / science in general world!! Get ready to make a shift. If you are in the learning research & #childdevelopment world consider LDbase (ldbase.org)! But check out re3data for all your options (www.re3data.org)

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LDbase: A Learning & Development Data Repository

LDbase is an open science resource for the educational and developmental science scientific communities, providing a secure place to store and access data, as well access materials about aspects of da...

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