Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:

a wooly man without a face@jojororo.bsky.social · yesterday

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I'm incredibly honored to be one of the inaugural winners of the Ctrl-Z award. The sequence of events preceding and following this retraction were harrowing (and are honestly still stressful), but I hope this will be an opportunity for more open dialogue about mistakes + self-retraction in science.

Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com · yesterday

The Center for Scientific Integrity is proud to announce the inaugural winners of the 2026 Ctrl-Z Award. Named for the universal keyboard shortcut for “undo,” the Ctrl-Z Award this year honors @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social and @katelaskowski.bsky.social for choosing transparency over reputation.

Making this hackathon happen with @philchodrow.bsky.social and @nwlandry.bsky.social was an absolute delight, and I loved watching the delightful teamwork showcased by every team of hackers! Thank you so much to all our participants and speakers!! @netsciconf.bsky.social

Nicholas Landry@nwlandry.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Higher-order hackathon starting out strong!

very very grateful for the past 5 years I’ve spent building community and doing science with so many wonderful people ❤️

Network Science Institute@nunetsi.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Congratulations to Alyssa Smith, recipient of Northeastern’s Laurel and Scroll 100! Honored for outstanding research (7 publications, NSF GRFP, Oxford talk) and for building mentorship programs and open-science tools. A true leader in research and community. 👏 @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social

For people who are concerned about having their devices seized at US airports starting Monday when ICE "assists" the TSA, EFF has this guide: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

A Journalist Security Checklist: Preparing Devices for Travel Through a US Border

We wrote this checklist to help journalists prepare for transit through a U.S. port of entry while preserving the confidentiality of your most sensitive information, such as unpublished reporting mate...

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Solidarity with Emily Tucker and her open letter to students. Tucker writes, "But the great thing is, you don’t have to go along with this, and I urge you not to. You can refuse to use the chatbot. You can tell your professors that you don’t want them to use it or to require you to use it."

An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements about "Generative AI"

Image source: Bibliothèque nationale de France An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements by the University about “Generative AI” Dear students, As you know, in …

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Yesterday I successfully defended my dissertation, so I am now officially (ish) Dr. Alyssa. I'm so grateful for the support of my committee -- @michaelann.bsky.social, @kennyjoseph.bsky.social, @foucaultwelles.bsky.social, & @davidlazer.bsky.social -- as well as my family, friends, and labmates.

we were supposed to demonstrate understanding of foundational concepts in the ✨ canon of network science ✨ but unfortunately i am still not sure what that is 🤷‍♀️ i know so many centrality measures tho

Michael Ann, sociotechnical femme@michaelann.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Oh this is fun… Northwestern had a very practice-based qual structure so you can actually read two of mine: 1) Self presentation wp.me/p2O4Fr-aT 2) Folk theorization wp.me/p2O4Fr-aO 3) Design and solo teach a seminar for undergrads on social computing and research writing

Looking for something ✨network-y ✨ to do the Sunday before NetSci 2026 starts? How about 𝗔 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿-𝗢𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻? We'll explore the Bluesky starter pack dataset from 𝘼 𝘽𝙡𝙪𝙚 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩 (doi.org/10.3886/ICPS...). 🚨Fill out this form by March 13🚨 tinyurl.com/26warr3n tinyurl.com/ytzfhc74

excited that @wins-society.bsky.social once again will have a satellite at @netsciconf.bsky.social where our mentorship program is back by popular demand! you can submit at this link: forms.gle/nFivVAiE4gdE...

hi come join the highest-order hackathon ever! yay networks!!! www.philchodrow.prof/higher-order...

Nicholas Landry@nwlandry.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨🚨🚨 NetSci Hackathon PSA!!! Are you at NetSci this year? Wanna come a day early and hack on a cool new dataset? Join our hackathon which will take place on May 31. We have limited space, so please indicate your interest through our application form by Mar 13: www.philchodrow.prof/higher-order...

Hi all, I'm leading a study! We're looking to understand transfem experiences searching for information related to transitioning online, setting transition-related goals, and making decisions based on the information acquired in these searches.

NEW STUDY! @juliahusar.bsky.social and I have a grant to build trans health and wellbeing tech, and we need input from other trans women and transfems to make sure it serves us all well. This is research BY transfems FOR transfems and we're inviting y'all to be part of it. Also, we're paying!

Julia Husar@juliahusar.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Hi all, I'm leading a study! We're looking to understand transfem experiences searching for information related to transitioning online, setting transition-related goals, and making decisions based on the information acquired in these searches.

Two queer women with a 6 year old in school today stopped to film ICE and for their bravery ICE agents murdered one before the other’s eyes. The grief in the survivor’s voice is a knife to the gut. Destroying people and their bonds is what ICE has always done.

Christopher Wiggins@cwnewser.bsky.social · 7mo ago

NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do." “We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs. www.advocate.com/news/minneso...

It appears ICE murdered someone in cold blood today and their plan is — per usual — to create a fog of lies so the killer does not face justice. We simply can't let that happen. The shooter has to be arrested and so does Bovino. They can't just kill people on the street.

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Reading this piece by @sesmith.lol made my (Gen X) head spin. You, too, should definitely read it. "The concern arises when algospeak also reflects a larger softening of language, one driven by the desire to pursue safety over reality, dilution over strength."

Algospeak Will Be the Unaliving of Me

Maybe we want to bare our teeth.

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never a good sign when you’re on hold trying to get your specialty medication long enough that you figure out when the hold music loops

We didn’t spend free time on ERGs because we thought it would benefit shareholders, it was because it made our lives slightly less miserable as a cog in the machine and it let us consolidate what little power we had.

Queerhawk 🏳️‍🌈 | 🇺🇦 | 🇬🇱@alwaysadorecats.bsky.social · 7mo ago

What gets me most about the snide remarks about rainbow capitalism is that the most immediate beneficiaries were *workers* So many people could only imagine it from the perspective of being consumers, as if LGBT people working in those companies was an afterthought.

hi i’m a tiny crumb of peanut dust

Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️@spahn711.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Hi, I'm the center of a borderline EF-4 tornado. 🤷

more cozyposting: just knit a chunky mobius strip cowl

thinking about that time in college when i posted about my sleep schedule on the polyphasic sleep subreddit and someone was like “bestie that’s not polyphasic that’s a sleep disorder” and i went “haha couldn’t be me” then got diagnosed with narcolepsy like 6+ years later

made a practice quilt for the creature to get better at longarm quilting and quilt binding. i don’t think she’s impressed.

this thread will just be me doing a puzzle because it’s nice to do something you’re bad at

just found several interview transcripts for my undergrad thesis, along with an early draft of said thesis. past me did her qualitative coding with 3 highlighters and a lot of caffeine, near as i can tell. i need to go email my thesis advisor and thank her for putting up with me 🥺

A note on learning physics ⚛️ for starting PhD students: At the risk of saying something completely useless because everyone has it worked out There is no magic trick, your classmates *may* be faster than you, but they are still studying as long as they need to and you are quite capable of the same

An excellent thread on structural bullshit in academia, how to avoid mental traps, and encouragement to people from marginalized backgrounds. The system isn’t fair, but it can be gamed and it’s designed to intimidate people into failing. Don’t let them fool you.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 8mo ago

A note on learning physics ⚛️ for starting PhD students: At the risk of saying something completely useless because everyone has it worked out There is no magic trick, your classmates *may* be faster than you, but they are still studying as long as they need to and you are quite capable of the same

The United States welcomes human traffickers like Andrew Tate, but it defintely does not want you if you have ever worked to keep child pornography off the internet. A strong statement of what passes for American values, I guess.

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 8mo ago

The US State Department is now targeting anyone applying for an H-1b visa who has worked on "activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others." www.yahoo.com/news/article...

We need to be able to see that the line "accommodations have gone too far" is an expression of the ableist notion that disabled students do not belong in higher ed. Its fundamentally an anxiety about the fact that disabled students get an "advantage" over abled students.

It's that time of year again... time for #DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship applications! I'm so excited to be running this program for the sixth year and seeing the growth over the years! Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn... Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR... Applications due December 5th!

The #DisabledInSTEM Mentorship Program has almost an equal number of applicants for mentees and mentors! Just sad to see interest extremely low this year. I’m not sure how I could reach people better so please share within your networks! 💜