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librarian @msulibrary, professor, hacker, author, footballer, skateboarder, fly-fisher, dogwalker, coffee brewer - still trying to make fetch happen. www.jasonclark.info

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
You know what you might need? To spend five minutes to choose your favorite baby capybara pic from this gallery www.gettyimages.com/photos/baby-...
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86 Baby Capybara Stock Photos, High-Res Pictures, and Images - Getty Images
Explore Authentic Baby Capybara Stock Photos & Images For Your Project Or Campaign. Less Searching, More Finding With Getty Images.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That ys great! The starte ys an Earthe Quake -- Foweles, Serpentes, An Aeroplane -- And Lenny Bruce nys not afrayde
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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you've got some time in the next few days, the September #Wikipedia editathon to show solidarity with the new Wikimedia union is behind its goal of editing 10,000 articles. You can help by registering, finding a relevant article, & making it a little better! 📚 meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:W...
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Event:WikiProject Organized Labour Month Online Campaign - Meta-Wiki
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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
“The ranking was Google’s judgment, but the sources remained legible as sources. An AI Overview suppresses all that. It takes the labor of dozens of writers, editors, researchers, and institutions, blends it into a single fluent voice with no discernible author” www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...
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What Was the Internet?
As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next.
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Kim Mannix @kimmannix.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
My kid works at a library and found this note sticking out of a book. Dear Scarlett's parents, good job raising a rockstar. 😁
A small paper note with child's writing in pencil. It reads 'Hello. My name is Scarlett. If you come across this note know I will haunt you forever.'
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Jane Cowell @janecowell.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
20 Small Acts of #MediaLiteracy We Can Practice Every Day - recommend this newsletter cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/20-small-a...
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20 Small Acts of Media Literacy We Can Practice Every Day
From checking the date to tracing the source: building a sharper eye for information.
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Retroist @retroist.com · 04/07/2026
Great moments in U.S. History.
Comic panel showing the Kool Aid Man walking past children with Benjamin Franklin. A child asks, “Excuse me sir, aren’t you Benjamin Franklin?” Franklin answers, “Yes I am. I’m also hot and thirsty.”
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erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
cracking open a cold one with the boys
a variety of flavor ice
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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Updated every month: Access the raw datasets behind every #dataviz we've ever released online. The IIB Data Room. 500+ sheets, 1200+ datasets. Continually updated. informationisbeautiful.net/data/
A table listing various article titles and their corresponding bit.ly links, sorted by publication date from August 2024 to May 2023. The table has four columns: Title, bit.ly link, Published date, and Updated (empty). Topics include 'Per Second', 'WaterWorld', several articles about plastics, 'Two Years of the Russia-Ukraine War', among others. Most links are either geni.us or Google Docs spreadsheet URLs. Dates range from most recent (01 Aug 2024) to oldest (24 May 2023)
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I was just talking about this. AI in a robust social safety net is very different than AI in a scam economy without one.
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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Read this useful set of tips on improving your use of YouTube in the light of the Google changes to force AI. Essentially you can do old style Google power searching in YouTube (for obvious reasons) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/youtube-is...
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YouTube is a Research Library. Here's How to Search It Like One.
30 YouTube tools to find exactly what you need, and the verification framework underneath all of them.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Only a fallen society needs this sign
Please don't use speaker phone while in library.
Ask for headphones at the front desk.
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SPARC @sparcopen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
UNESCO is seeking feedback on a fact sheet about equity in scholarly communication & open science. It includes language calling for “non-commercial, academic, and scientific community-driven publishing models as a common good.” Join SPARC & submit comments by April 13. www.unesco.org/en/articles/...
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Launch of global consultation: Equitable scholarly communication for
UNESCO is launching a consultation to explore fair, inclusive ways to create, share, and access academic knowledge, and to address challenges in building more equitable systems.
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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Recorded 45 years ago First demo tape, archive recordings of Minor Threat with the song "I Don't Wanna Hear It" Minor Threat – I Don't Wanna Hear It Notes: This is what hardcore punk should be! Brilliant! #punkrock #hardcorepunk #minorthreat #history #punkrockhistory
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Evan Peck @peck.phd · 18/03/2026
I made a tiny tool for quickly sharing small datasets (< ~1000 rows) without uploading any data to a server. 🔗 ziptbl.com It compresses the data into the link itself, so there’s no account, hosting, or storage layer involved. Here's Florence Nightingale's famous 📊 data: ziptbl.com#d=eNpdlE-LGz...
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 04/03/2026
youtu.be/5AVYDHTOixU hell yeah
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De La Soul: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
A broader vision of open research is needed to include the arts, humanities and social sciences. @jenniad.bsky.social @mirandab-oa.bsky.social @samuelmoore.org & @stephenpinfield.bsky.social for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social 👇
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A broader vision of open research is needed to include the arts, humanities and social sciences - LSE Impact
Discussing the findings of a new report on open practices in the arts, humanities and social sciences, Jenni Adams, Miranda Barnes, Samuel Moore and Stephen Pinfield argue to support open research in…
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
This is a dramatic update to the NIH Data Management and Sharing Plan template, effective for applications submitted for due dates on or after May 25, 2026. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-26-046: Updated Elements of an NIH Data Management and Sharing Plan
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Updated Elements of an NIH Data Management and Sharing Plan NOT-OD-26-046. NIH
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Props to @scott.hanselman.com for naming the elephant in the room in big tech. AI coding tools boost senior engineers but create challenges for juniors who lack context to judge outputs. Cutting junior hiring for near-term gains weakens the future pipeline. We’ll need apprenticeship-style paths.
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Redefining the Software Engineering Profession for AI | Communications of the ACM
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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Happy Twin Peaks day to all who celebrate!
Image of a man (Agent Cooper) driving and talking into a voice recorder. Closed caption reads: “Diane, 11:30 AM, February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks.”
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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 19/02/2026
What do LLMs see? I wrote a lil' tool that extracts the attention matrices out of open models and creates this typing visual, with each token's opacity changing according to its average attention score as the prompt progresses. Dimmer words are considered less important to the model.
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Key to efficient learning is realizing how we ACTUALLY learn, not just what FEELS like learning. I wrote a Claude Skill for some friends to help them think about this and they've liked it -- see Principles for some directions you could explore github.com/DrCatHicks/l...
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GitHub - DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities: A Claude Code skill for deliberate skill development during AI-assisted coding
A Claude Code skill for deliberate skill development during AI-assisted coding - DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities
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John Chodacki @chodacki.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
RDA-US is launching a funded program for US-based professionals working in/with research infrastructure. Great professional development and networking opportunity...and great way for newcomers to engage with the Research Data Alliance (RDA)! rda-us.org/announcing-t...
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Announcing the RDA-US 2026 Cohort: Apply Now – RDA-US
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
"Whenever I worry about where the Internet is headed, I remember that this example of the collective generosity and goodness of people still exists." anildash.com/2026/01/15/w...
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Wikipedia at 25: What the web can be - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Mylee Joseph @mylee.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
“Pay-to-crawl refers to emerging technical systems used by websites to automate compensation for when their digital content—such as text, images, and structured data—is accessed by machines.” @creativecommons.bsky.social
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Where CC Stands on Pay-to-Crawl - Creative Commons
Creative Commons proposes principles for responsible use of pay-to-crawl that prioritizes openness, reciprocity, and the commons.
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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net
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Intertapes — Main
Obscure tape finds and their stories
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 31/12/2025
"Does the open science movement—the push to make research outputs such as articles, data, and software free to read and reuse—produce the benefits its supporters claim, such as accelerating discovery and promoting science literacy? The answer is a qualified yes."
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Is ‘open science’ delivering benefits? Major study finds proof is sparse
It’s hard to measure social and economic impacts of making papers and data free, researchers say
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 31/12/2025
Here's my enormous round-up of everything we learned about LLMs in 2025 - the third in my annual series of reviews of the past twelve months simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/... This year it's divided into 26 sections! This is the table of contents:

    The year of “reasoning”
    The year of agents
    The year of coding agents and Claude Code
    The year of LLMs on the command-line
    The year of YOLO and the Normalization of Deviance
    The year of $200/month subscriptions
    The year of top-ranked Chinese open weight models
    The year of long tasks
    The year of prompt-driven image editing
    The year models won gold in academic competitions
    The year that Llama lost its way
    The year that OpenAI lost their lead
    The year of Gemini
    The year of pelicans riding bicycles
    The year I built 110 tools
    The year of the snitch!
    The year of vibe coding
    The (only?) year of MCP
    The year of alarmingly AI-enabled browsers
    The year of the lethal trifecta
    The year of programming on my phone
    The year of conformance suites
    The year local models got good, but cloud models got even better
    The year of slop
    The year that data centers got extremely unpopular
    My own words of the year
    That’s a wrap for 2025
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China Law Translate / Jeremy Daum @chinalawtranslate.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Ok a translation is up. No matter what your take on these rules, it's hard not to admire China trying to get ahead of these pressing issues: data protection, dependency, labeling and reminders that you are talking to a machine, etc. Plenty to unpack here. www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/chatbot-m...
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Manoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
In a new blog post, I contrast two flavors of empiricism: the one practiced in the social sciences and the one practiced in ML/CS. I argue that we need both, given that CS is increasingly about "claims," and not just constructing artifacts. doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-empiri...
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Daniel van Strien @danielvanstrien.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Paste any IIIF manifest → model classifies every page locally → see where illustrations appear. Part of small-models-for-glam: small, efficient models for cultural heritage work. Not everything needs GPT-4! Try it: huggingface.co/spaces/small-models-for-glam/iiif-illustration-detector
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IIIF Illustration Detector - a Hugging Face Space by small-models-for-glam
Find illustrated pages in digitized historical books
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CDAllusion @npfo.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
‘Sam’s the biggest Cooke in town,’ New York City, 1964
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{ "jason": "clark" } @jasonclark.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
If you are interested in the crawl to referral stats I mentioned, here's the Cloudflare blog post - blog.cloudflare.com/ai-search-cr... Data is from the Cloudflare AI insights tool - radar.cloudflare.com/ai-insights#...
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The crawl before the fall… of referrals: understanding AI’s impact on content providers
Cloudflare Radar now shows how often a given AI model sends traffic to a site relative to how often it crawls that site. This information can help site owners make decisions about which AI bots to all...
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{ "jason": "clark" } @jasonclark.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Slides and code from my #ff2025 talk, "Reasoning with Small Language Models (SLM) for Trustworthy Generative AI (GenAI)." Slides: docs.google.com/presentation... Code: github.com/jasonclark/a...
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Reasoning with Small Language Models (SLM) to Create Trustworthy GenAI Jason A. Clark @jasonclark Montana State University Fantastic Futures 2025
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Natalie Porter @natalieporter.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The kind folks at The Walrus published this feature over the weekend! Thank you! #skaterlibrarian thewalrusca.substack.com/p/meet-the-l...
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Meet the Librarian Resurrecting the Lost Women of Skateboarding
Female skateboarders have always been there. Someone just needed to prove it
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Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
“The Software Paper fills a gap for the computational and digital humanities communities...” Thank you to research software engineer extraordinaire @suttonkoeser.bsky.social for leading this initiative for Computational Humanities Research journal. Please share!
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Introducing the 'Software Paper': New ways to publish on research software in Computational Humanities Research
When Lauren Tilton first approached me about joining the Computational Humanities Research (CHR) journal’s Editorial Board as an Associate Editor, the thing that made the invitation so compelling and ...
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Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Thinking of Anne-Wil Harzing 12 guidelines for good academic referencing & how Generative AI engines even RAG/Deep Research often breaks many/most of them (1) harzing.com/blog/2016/04...
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Anuj Gupta @mettalrose.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
For academic writers, editors, and publishers looking for a systematic overview of emerging GenAI policies in an academic field, please see Yin and Chapelle's (2025) excellent paper which provides this for the field of applied linguistics: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A systematic examination of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) use guidelines in applied linguistics journals
The unannounced appearance of GenAI in 2022 and the speed of its adoption by researchers have left many questions unanswered about its accepted ethica…
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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Interesting. The evolution of conflict in literature / society (by Instagram user: @grantdraws) www.instagram.com/p/DBOlpAuRj9c/
A nine-panel cartoon grid titled "CONFLICT IN LITERATURE" depicts different types of conflict, categorized into "CLASSICAL," "MODERN," and "POSTMODERN" literary periods. Under "CLASSICAL," panels show "MAN vs. NATURE" (a person with a pitchfork against a pack of wolves), "MAN vs. MAN" (two people in a sword fight), and "MAN vs. GOD" (a person pointing a stick at a giant hand from the sky). The "MODERN" column shows "MAN vs. SOCIETY" (a person standing alone against a crowd with protest signs), "MAN vs. SELF" (a person facing a mirror image of themselves), and "MAN vs. NO GOD" (a person pointing a stick at an empty sky). The "POSTMODERN" column depicts "MAN vs. TECHNOLOGY" (a person with a baseball bat facing an array of computer screens), "MAN vs. REALITY" (a person standing in a surreal landscape of melting colors and shapes), and "MAN vs. AUTHOR" (a person standing on an open book, looking up at a giant hand holding a pen). The artist's signature, Grant Snider, is at the bottom right.
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The Best Album of 2001 @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The Best Album of 1989 Round 5 Match #124 #3 De La Soul, 3 FEET HIGH AND RISING vs. #11 Fugazi, 13 SONGS forms.gle/R6JGyPyp7DQ8...
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The Best Album of 1989 Round 5 Match #124: De La Soul vs. Fugazi
This is the Best Album of 1989 match for Thursday, November 20th, 9am CST. It will be open for 24 hours, and the winner will move onto Round 6 (Semifinals) of the bracket. If you haven’t heard either ...
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{ "jason": "clark" } @jasonclark.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives team has released our interactive Viewfinder toolkit. Toolkit (interactive website): www.lib.montana.edu/responsible-... Project info: www.lib.montana.edu/responsible-... #DLFForum #DLF2025
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Viewfinder: A toolkit for values-driven AI in libraries & archives
Viewfinder is an interactive toolkit designed to facilitate ethical reflection about AI implementation in libraries and archives from different stakeholder perspectives.
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{ "jason": "clark" } @jasonclark.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Reasoning with Small Language Models (SLM) to Create Trustworthy GenAI Slides: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... System Prompt: gist.github.com/jasonclark/1... Model Context Protocol server: gist.github.com/jasonclark/4... #DLFForum #DLF2025
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Example system prompt for a research agent
Example system prompt for a research agent. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
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Coalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives team has released Viewfinder: A toolkit for values-driven AI in libraries and archives that was created by librarians and tech ethicists at four universities. Print-at-home PDF: osf.io/yue9s Interactive website: www.lib.montana.edu/responsible-...
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Responsible AI - MSU Library | Montana State University
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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025
Design of Future Scholarly Communication | Proceedings of the 43rd ACM International Conference on Design of Communication dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3711670…
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
Good morning to everyone except the sentient computer who locked me out of the space station
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Leiden Madtrics @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
@crossref.bsky.social is a crucial source of open bibliographic metadata for articles published in scientific journals, but how complete is its metadata on preprints? In our latest blog post, @neesjanvaneck.bsky.social and @ludowaltman.bsky.social investigate 👇 Read it now on Leiden Madtrics
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Crossref as a source of open bibliographic metadata for preprints
Crossref is a crucial source of open bibliographic metadata for articles published in scientific journals. Importantly, however, Crossref can also serve as a source of bibliographic metadata for prepr...
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local blogger @fergoe.blacksky.app · 14/10/2025
Baseball really is the best sport because all it takes is one little bobble and suddenly a game built on routine and order devolves into panic and chaos
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