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Dark Data Project @darkdataproject.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Despite the existence of all our advanced observatories, there are still parts of the electromagnetic spectrum (and beyond) that we're not seeing," writes @philplait.bsky.social in @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-... #darkdata
scientificamerican.com
Astronomers can’t see everything—but not for lack of trying
There are parts of the universe, and of the electromagnetic spectrum, that we’re not covering with our telescopes—but not as many as you might think!
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Dark Data Project @darkdataproject.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"The true number of insect species is at least 14 to 20 million—two to three times higher than current estimates," report Robert K Colwell, Laura Melissa Guzman et al in @pnas.org 🌍 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Dark Data Project @darkdataproject.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Oceanographers discover "24 new deep-sea creatures and a whole new evolutionary branch" reports @insideclimatenews.org as @noaa.gov moves forward with streamlining the regulatory process for commercial seabed mineral extraction insideclimatenews.org/news/2603202... 🌎 www.noaa.gov/news-release...
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Dark Data Project @darkdataproject.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
"Because the supply chain is opaque... [companies] are unlikely to know the precise origins of the lead they use," writes Peter S Goodman, Will Fitzgibbon and Samuel Granados in @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/interactive/... #darkdata
nytimes.com
Recycling Lead for U.S. Car Batteries Is Poisoning People
We documented the toxic fallout of a green technology.
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Dark Data Project @darkdataproject.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
"Many organisms important to human health... haven't even been named, let alone studied," reports Ewen Callaway in @nature.com, citing Nicola Segata of @cibiocm.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41... #darkdata
nature.com
These are the 20 most-studied bacteria — the majority have been ignored
Model microbes such as Escherichia coli hog scientists’ attention, leaving most known bacteria with few publications devoted to them.
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Dark Data Project @darkdataproject.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Current climate data "don’t reflect recent changes such as newer pollution controls, volcanic eruptions or even the effects of Covid," writes @climateofgavin.bsky.social and @hausfath.bsky.social in @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/o... #darkdata
nytimes.com
Opinion | We Study Climate Change. We Can’t Explain What We’re Seeing.
We need more timely updates in response to the rapid changes to the climate.
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Dark Data Project @darkdataproject.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
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 Amanda Aronczyk on planetmoney.bsky.social www.npr.org/2024/10/11/1... #darkdata
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NPR's Planet Money (@planetmoney.bsky.social)
Don't just understand the economy – understand the world.
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Dark Data Project @darkdataproject.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
"Hidden debts accumulate when economies are booming, and are more likely to be exposed when growth slows," reports the Economist, citing the World Bank, the University of Duisburg-Essen and the University of Notre Dame www.economist.com/finance-and-... #darkdata
economist.com
A tonne of public debt is never made public
New research suggests governments routinely hide their borrowing
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Dark Data Project @darkdataproject.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
"We cannot calculate with missing data, just as we can't divide by zero,” says Stef van Buuren and reported by Matt von Hippel in @quantamagazine.bsky.social www.quantamagazine.org/when-data-is... #darkdata
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When Data Is Missing, Scientists Guess. Then Guess Again. | Quanta Magazine
Across the social and biological sciences, statisticians use a technique that leverages randomness to deal with the unknown.
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Dark Data Project @darkdataproject.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
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" www.unmc.edu/healthsecuri... #darkdata
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Dark Data Project @darkdataproject.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
"A common strategy to neutralize a social problem is to make it difficult to know about," write Marianne Cooper & @drmaximvoronov.bsky.social in Scientific American. "If we don’t monitor or mention it, then things can feel back to normal." www.scientificamerican.com/article/weve... #darkdata
scientificamerican.com
We’ve Hit Peak Denial. Here’s Why We Can’t Turn Away From Reality
We are living through a terrible time in humanity. Here’s why we tend to stick our head in the sand and why we need to pull it out, fast
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Dark Data Project @darkdataproject.bsky.social · 17/08/2024
Most data breaches don't result from zero-days or Ocean's Eleven-style heists
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Dark Data Project @darkdataproject.bsky.social · 03/01/2024
"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 www.nature.com/articles/d41... #darkdata
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Dark Data Project @darkdataproject.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
Uncounted vertically migrating fish may play an important role in stabilizing the climate, writes Moira Donovan in Wired www.wired.com/story/all-th... #darkdata
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Dark Data Project @darkdataproject.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Since 1990, FEMA "no longer publishes countrywide assessments of risks from nuclear attacks," thereby underappreciating alarming impacts of fallout, writes Sébastien Philippe in Scientific American www.scientificamerican.com/article/who-... #darkdata
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