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Kai Li

@nalsi.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at School of Information Sciences of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. #scientometrics and #metadata researcher. Former #librarian. #Cat person. ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-7264-365X

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
"unusually extensive collaboration networks [doing] straightforward analyses of public data...from a template, with formulaic titles and identical methods... Identifying [these] is essential to protect the literature from being flooded with low-quality research" www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Drastic changes in collaboration networks and publication patterns in research using the CDC WONDER dataset
The growth of generative AI and easily available Open Access health datasets has transformed researcher productivity, leading to an explosion in publications that has in part been attributed to paper ...
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ASIS&T SIG/MET @asistsigmet.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Join us for an online talk "How to Be a Scientific Superpower" by Cassidy Sugimoto. Drawing on cutting-edge metascience, she will discuss how countries and institutions can build scientific excellence, shape global influence, and organize research systems on a global scale.
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Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
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Yuerong Hu @yrhu.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Hi DH friends, join us on Nov 10, 10-11 am CT, for “New Book History Research with Internet Data”, a hybrid panel sponsored by SHAR, to explore challenges and opportunities of using Internet data and digital methods for book history research. More info in the poster attached and comments :)
This is a panel on “Book History with Internet Data”, with 8 panelists from different IMLS/iSchools, funded by SHARP.

Over the past two decades, a variety of internet-based datasets have emerged related to books, reading habits, and reader communities—ranging from crowd-sourced genre tags and online reviews to platforms like BookTok. These datasets are increasingly valuable for research in reading and readership, often complementing traditional book history approaches. However, they also raise new questions and challenges. To explore these opportunities and foster interdisciplinary collaboration, this panel will bring together eight panelists from diverse fields to discuss questions, such as:

How can we critically understand the relationship between Internet-based “book” data and traditional research materials?
What are the methodological challenges and potential pitfalls of using digital data in book history research?
How can interdisciplinary approaches enrich the analysis of Internet book and reader datasets?
Here are our amazing panelists:
- Micah Bateman, Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, The University of Iowa
- Melanie Walsh, Assistant Professor, an Assistant Professor in the Information School and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the English Department, University of Washington
- Wenyi Shang, Assistant Professor, School of Information Science & Learning Technologies, University of Missouri
- Cici Ling, Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington
- Kai Li, Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Andrew Zalot, Assistant Professor, College of Education, East Carolina University
- Alex Wingate, PhD Candidate, Department of Information and Library Science, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington
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Kai Li @nalsi.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Excited to join the “New Book History Research with Internet Data” panel at Indiana University Bloomington on Nov 10. We’ll discuss how online data (reviews, platforms, metrics) reshape book history & publishing studies. 🔗 events.iu.edu/siceiub/even... #BookHistory #DigitalHumanities
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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 21/05/2024
I am beyond thrilled to share that DATA BY DESIGN: AN INTERACTIVE HISTORY OF DATA VISUALIZATION, 1789-1900 is now open for community review at 💚 📊 dataxdesign.io 📊 💙. It's the work of 15+ people across 5 institutions, 2 continents, 2 babies, and a global pandemic. A 🧵 but first:
A screenshot of the front page of the Data by Design website, featuring a bunch of charts in a jumble and one, of a mountain and measurements by Francisco José de Caldas, featured at the top right.
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Applications are open for the Doctoral Consortium at the 2025 Summit on Responsible Computing, AI, and Society rcais.github.io. Taking place October 27, 2025. Applications received by September 15 will receive full consideration.
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2025 Summit on Responsible Computing, AI, and Society
2025 Summit on Responsible Computing, AI, and Society
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Rongqian Ma @rongqianma.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I'm glad to share the new data paper in the Journal of Open Humanities Data with my wonderful collaborator @nalsi.bsky.social and students!! 😇 Check out our work here: openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
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GraphEidos: A Dataset of Visual Rhetoric in Digital Humanities | Journal of Open Humanities Data
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Lucy Li @lucy3.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
AI & Society faculty opportunity posted just this month with a start date of Fall 2025 and beyond: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57734 ‼️🐂 For "interdisciplinary scholars whose research agenda connects the study of AI with humanistic and/or social scientific line(s) of study"
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Assistant, Associate or Full Professor, AI & Society
The Department of AI and Society (AIS) at the University at Buffalo (UB) invites candidates to apply for multiple positions as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor. The new AIS ...
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Kai Li @nalsi.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
And the paper is published here: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
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Gender disparities in the STEM research enterprise in China - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Gender disparities in the STEM research enterprise in China
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Kai Li @nalsi.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
🚨 Excited to share our latest study (forthcoming in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications) collaborated with Dr. Chaoqun Ni and Xiang Zheng:: Gender disparities in STEM research enterprise in China 👉 ssrn.com/abstract=523...
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Gender disparities in STEM research enterprise in China
Gender diversity is essential to the creation of high-quality research and scientific advances. This study provides a large-scale analysis of gender disparities
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Mengyi Sun @sunmengyi.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Really glad that this is out! Fantastic collaboration with @honglin-bao.bsky.social and @innovation.bsky.social! Key insight: Knowledge diffusion is nearly impossible to constrain—where there's a will, there's a way. From the atomic bomb to ChatGPT, determined minds always find a path. 1/3
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Where there’s a will there’s a way: ChatGPT is used more for science in countries where it is prohibited
Abstract. Regulating AI is a key societal challenge, but effective methods remain unclear. This study evaluates geographic restrictions on AI services, focusing on ChatGPT, which OpenAI blocks in seve...
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Kai Li @nalsi.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
🚀 New article out on @InformationMatters! I had the pleasure of collaborating with Dr. Jaihyun Park from NTU Singapore to rethink data reuse in the age of #LLMs. Check it out 👉 🔗 informationmatters.org/2025/04/reth... #DataLifecycle #OpenScience #AI
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Rethinking Reuse in Data Lifecycle in the Age of Large Language Models - Information Matters
In the world we are living in, a digital world, some data slips past our awareness, but very little data ever truly disappears. As we, information scientists, are concerned with reproducibility and re...
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Kai Li @nalsi.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
🎉 Excited to share that Scientific Data is launching a new collection: "Data on Science and Innovation Processes, Outputs and Outcomes." This special issue welcomes data descriptors of datasets that shed light on how science and innovation work—from inputs to outcomes. www.nature.com/collections/...
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About the Guest Editors | Data on Science and Innovation Processes, Outputs and Outcomes
This Scientific Data collection aims to gather data descriptors on high-quality, reusable datasets that illuminate the inputs, processes, and outputs of science and innovation.
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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Just published on the blog, Assistant Professor Kai Li gives new perspectives on challenges and opportunities for large-scale analyses on data use and data citations. makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/02/2025
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com
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INTRODUCTION
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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 20/12/2024
The more I read and think about generative AI and what its creators want us to do with if, the more I'm reminded of this quote from Victor Papanek's 'Design for the Real World'
The economic, psychological, spiritual, technological, and intellectual needs of a human being are usually more difficult and less profitable to satisfy than the carefully engineered and manipulated "wants" inculcated by fad and fashion
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Every government needs effective science advisers; not every scientist is a born adviser but schooling and practice can help to bridge the gap, as we argue in this week’s Nature’s editorial @natureportfolio.bsky.social 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Advising governments about science is essential but difficult. So train people to do it
A great scientist doesn’t necessarily make an effective science adviser — but schooling and practice can help to bridge the gap.
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 06/12/2024
Call for submissions: RESSH2025 Conference on research assessment reform in the humanities and social sciences. Held next May in Helsinki. vastuullinentiede.fi/en/events/re...
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RESSH2025 Conference
RESSH2025 conference of the international association ENRESSH (European Network for Research Evaluation in the SSH) is organized 19-21 May, 2024, in Helsinki, Finland. It brings together specialists o...
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Kyle Lo @ ICML2026 🇰🇷 @kylelo.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
how do researchers use LMs in their work & why? we surveyed 800 researchers across fields of study, race, gender, seniority asking their opinions on: 🐟 which research activities (eg coding, writing) 🐠 benefits vs risks 🦈 willingness to disclose findings in @simonaliao.bsky.social's thread 🧵
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Kai Li @nalsi.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
A poem about information organization and retrieval written by ChatGPT. Read it in the last session of my class. The students seem to like it.
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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Science is political in so many ways. One of them is reflected in #citation politics. And we all do it, willingly or not. This paper is a glimpse into how some strategies (e.g. decolonizing or diversifying citations) that aim to undermine existing hierarchies have limitations worth thinking about.
Pereira, M. do M. (2024). Rethinking power and positionality in debates about citation: Towards a recognition of complexity and opacity in academic hierarchies. The Sociological Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261241274872
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 18/11/2024
I will assign this in future classes—it nails one common argument I find unconvincing in regards to students, which is the idea of LLMss as interlocutors to help refine thinking—that only really works if you’re an expert who can spot the mistakes—students are typically not in a position to do that
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Kai Li @nalsi.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
A very personal thought: I really don't like how #StarterPack is designed in Bluesky. It creates a structure where the creators get all the power to manage the list and the credit for the list. So as useful as it is to share certain information, it is also a barrier to more equal communication.
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Ben Litterer @blitt.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Podcasts are a popular medium, but data for computational research is limited! We introduce the Structured Podcast Research Corpus (SPoRC - huggingface.co/datasets/bli...), a large, multimodal dataset of English podcasts 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2411.07892
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Mapping the Podcast Ecosystem with the Structured Podcast Research Corpus
Podcasts provide highly diverse content to a massive listener base through a unique on-demand modality. However, limited data has prevented large-scale computational analysis of the podcast ecosystem....
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Kai Li @nalsi.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Doing a research on books in the #REF2021 project. One weird finding is that political science has very high share of authored books among all books (vs. edited books and book chapters). #bibliographicdata #scisci #scientometrics
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Once again, millennials are the real greatest generation
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 07/11/2024
We’re going to hear lots of stories about which people, policies and rhetoric are to blame for the Democrats’ defeat. Some of those stories may even be true! But an underrated factor is that 2024 was an absolutely horrendous year for incumbents around the world 👇 
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Kai Li @nalsi.bsky.social · 15/06/2024
Glad to share our new papers published in Scientometrics, "How do official software citation formats evolve over time? A longitudinal analysis of R programming language packages," which can be viewed here: rdcu.be/dKR10.
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How do official software citation formats evolve over time? A longitudinal analysis of R programming language packages
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Isabelle Dorsch @idorsch.bsky.social · 16/04/2024
ASIS&T SIG MET is hosting a webinar about #Gender in Quantitative Science Studies! It is scheduled for May 1, 2024, from 9:30 to 10:30 AM (EST). Participation is open to all and free of charge via Zoom at tennessee.zoom.us/j/81706140596. The recording of the webinar will be made available.
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Sarah de Rijcke @sarahderijcke.nl · 01/02/2024
A wonderful opportunity at CWTS | Leiden University for a prospective PhD candidate who is interested in studying research assessment reform careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Leiden-P...
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Kai Li @nalsi.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Hello world!
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