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Kara C. Hoover

@karachoover.bsky.social
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Expired academic into science of science, research analytics solutions, puzzles, cooking, making, and nature. 🇮🇪 🇺🇸

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Kara C. Hoover @karachoover.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The eclipse through a Roman aquaduct in Segovia Spain last week.
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Kara C. Hoover @karachoover.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
@capitalone.bsky.social is the absolute worst. It took 3 minutes and 40 seconds to reach a human. The AI kept saying it could help. It can't. It is a language model, not a human.
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Nadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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Kara C. Hoover @karachoover.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Wild and remote west coast of Mayo...
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Digital Science @digital-science.com · 22/07/2025
🎉 NEWS: We’re excited to relaunch the Scientometric Researcher Access to Data (SRAD) program! SRAD supports the global scientometric research community by providing advanced access to @altmetric.com & @dimensions.ai data - and now Dimensions via BigQuery! 🔗 www.digital-science.com/blog/2025/07...
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Kara C. Hoover @karachoover.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I think this might be a young third year Heerman's Gull.
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Kara C. Hoover @karachoover.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I added 9 birds to my life list after one visit to Baylands Park on my trip to Mountain View for #SciFoo, including American Avocets and black-necked Stilts. No good photos of them bc no SLR but here's some pelicans.
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Thought it was supposed to be women who are ruining science 🤨 “male first authors have higher retraction rates, particularly for scientific misconduct such as plagiarism, authorship disputes, ethical issues, duplication, and fabrication/falsification”
sciencedirect.com
Do male leading authors retract more articles than female leading authors?
Scientific retractions reflect issues within the scientific record, arising from human error or misconduct. Although gender differences in retraction …
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Kara C. Hoover @karachoover.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Celebrating with my first ever Gaja! Worth the money and the wait!!
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
"Chimpanzees and children preferred to watch videos of social interactions compared with videos of a single conspecific, and young children and male chimpanzees even paid a material cost to gain social information" royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
royalsocietypublishing.org
Chimpanzees and children are curious about social interactions | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Curiosity is adaptive, enhances learning, and reduces uncertainty. Social curiosity is defined as the motivation to gain information about the actions, relationships, and psychology of others. Little is known about the developmental and evolutionary roots ...
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Kara C. Hoover @karachoover.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
The consequences of the attack on S&T is clear. NSF cuts are the most impactful bc we are the major funder for discovery science in the US. Social sciences are the most at risk and the most critical bc you can't advance anything without knowing people.
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Kara C. Hoover @karachoover.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
In other news, my BlueSky is now in Finnish and I don't know why...
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Kara C. Hoover @karachoover.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Just got my hotel reservation for #SciFoo at #GoogleX. Can't wait for July 18. By coincidence coincidence, it will also be my first day post NSF with no job on the horizon. Looking for research analytics job tips!
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Kara C. Hoover @karachoover.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
On a more positive note, the red-winged blackbirds are back at my favorite birding spot. I heard blue teals peeping and spotted a handsome Northern Pintail with some lovely lady friends.
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Kara C. Hoover @karachoover.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The guy who plays golf during work hours, remote works, and outsourced his work to a tech bro claims: “Nobody is gonna work from home,” Trump said Monday. “They are gonna be going out, they’re gonna play tennis, they’re gonna play golf, they’re gonna do a lot of things. They’re not working.”
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Kara C. Hoover @karachoover.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Pintails Thursday morning. Consider a weekend gliding through food.
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Kara C. Hoover @karachoover.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Hello Bluesky. My favorite woodpecker from Friday morning's walk in the woods.
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