If you get a sudden and overwhelming urge to write and read papers on taxonomic nomenclature, your brain has unfortunately probably learned that this is an acceptable procrastination technique. Do the other thing instead.

Life Saving Tip for Young Academics When searching for a job position, do not judge potential senior collaborator by the way he presents himself publicly among his peers. Ask how he treats people below him, behind the closed doors, especially women and minorities.

Daniel (@danielroe.dev) and Matias (@patak.cat) of npmx (npmx.dev) join host Richard (@richlitt.bsky.social) explores community, governance, inclusion, burnout, and sustainability beyond nonstop productivity. Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/293

I was told in a meeting of seabird luminaries in 2016 to "work on something that actually mattered" and that "plastic doesn't affect populations; stop wasting your time". Well guess what. Open access paper in PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #ornithology #PlasticPollution

Big new @adriftlab.bsky.social paper - we show for the first time that plastics affects seabirds at the POPULATION level. Plastic ingested as a chick reduces recruitment of birds to the breeding population. And the story is pretty grim. 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

EVERY STORY ABOUT BEAVERS FOR THE LAST DECADE READS LIKE: WE RELEASED A DOZEN PADDLE TAILED LITTLE FREAKS AND THEY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN A TERRAFORMING PROJECT THAT REVERSED A CENTURY OF ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN THREE WEEKS.

My god, what an image. Dead kings in a plastic box, carried off as the world burns.

Reuters@reuters.com · last mo.

Spain removes remains of 11th century kings from monastery as wildfire rages reut.rs/4zAAN4r

Okay, buckle up bsky, it's time for the Tale of the Bunny Paper. Here's the imported thread from twitter where the search all started: bsky.app/profile/bets... (1/n)

Betsy Sneller@betsysneller.bsky.social · 2y ago

Bill Labov died this morning. I'm not coherent enough to talk about how important and influential and brilliant he was. I am very sad. I was so lucky to know him, and I am grateful every day that he (and Gillian, and Walt, etc) built an academic field where kindness is expected.

It is wild to me that my most recent paper on open practices in Nature Human Behaviour has infinite more engagement than my previously published paper, "The Oregon Dark-Eyed Junco Should Be Called *Junco Hyemalis Oregana*" in Western Birds. Dark-eyed Juncos deserve more. #birds #research

Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.

Jørgen Heszlein@heszlein.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Erica Stamford, one of the main contenders for Luxon's job yesterday, and re-writer of school curriculums without the input from actual educators, has presided over the removal of climate change altogether from the new syllabus. Get these clowns out of here! #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/14/c...

Climate change omitted from new science and social science curriculums

The Ministry of Education drops all mentions of climate change and fossil fuels from new school curriculums, sparking alarm from an academic and educator

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Paywall you say? Read-only PDF: rdcu.be/fyYAb Summary: news.cornell.edu/stories/2026... #OpenScience

Open practices across science, software, education and other domains

Nature Human Behaviour - Open practices have grown in popularity across domains, such as open science and open-source software. However, these domains have remained siloed. Meluso et al. develop a...

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Richard Littauer@richlitt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today, our paper on open - how open source, open knowledge, open science etc. are related and what best practices are - came out in Nature Human Behaviour. The paywall is unfortunate and ironic. Happy to email it to anyone. Preprint: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're pleased to announce that the preliminary agenda for the first Open Technology Research Symposium is now live! We want to thank everyone who submitted. (more info ⬇️) Explore the agenda and register now: symposium.opentechresearch.org

Just a reminder that the FSU's attempted takeover of InternetNZ has been motivated entirely by anti-Māori racism InternetNZ has been moving in a more progressive direction in that respect lately, and the Racism and Transphobia Council simply won't stand for it

Let this remind you that what matters in democracy is. - enrolling to become eligible to vote - turning up to vote - casting a valid and effective vote

Sure enough, as expected we have one FSU person (Douglas Brown) and one non-FSU person (Bianca Grizhar) elected to the InternetNZ board The institutional takeover crept further along tonight. Dispiriting, yes, but let it be galvanising. We'll all be here next year, won't we ❤️

Next year, we need to organize more regular posts and messaging to our communities about the work that #InternetNZ does. Anyone want to start a timeline for this work with me?

You live any universe and on a planet where 4 billion years of adaptive evolution lead up to this happening today.

852dude@852dude.bsky.social · last mo.

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

Today I got an email that I have formally been suspended from my university for three months. Damn. I guess I am going to have to take this teaching fellowship job in Xiamen in Nov. and Dec. seriously now.

Today, our paper on open - how open source, open knowledge, open science etc. are related and what best practices are - came out in Nature Human Behaviour. The paywall is unfortunate and ironic. Happy to email it to anyone. Preprint: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Open practices across science, software, education and other domains - Nature Human Behaviour

Open practices have grown in popularity across domains, such as open science and open-source software. However, these domains have remained siloed. Meluso et al. develop a common definition and implem...

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Cool work.

CURIOSS@curiossorg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A fascinating read on how @gatech-ospo.bsky.social supports and advances #ResearchSoftware within #GeorgiaInstituteOfTechnology We can't wait to hear how it was received at @pearcconference.bsky.social. 📚 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #AcademicSky #AcademicOSPO #OpenSourceSoftware #RSE

Join us for the launch of the Software Stewardship Lab (stewardshiplab.org)! @vlad.website is on the podcast with hosts @richlitt.bsky.social, @abbycabs.dev & @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social to talk about promoting research for OSS maintainers and sustainers. Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/292.

New OSS sustainability research lab just dropped! 👀 Come see what we're all about!

Software Stewardship Lab@stewardshiplab.org · 2mo ago

Today, we're launching a world-class research lab dedicated to Open Source sustainability with a team of some of the most experienced people in the world.

This dude gets it @devonderaad.bsky.social #AOS26

Has some relevance in Aotearoa too

The Language of Freedom

English doesn’t need saving. Thousands of other languages do.

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@buttercupfestival.bsky.social haere rā, tuatara. Kind of proud of that one.

I've mentioned in the past that I sponsored a local female race car driver and put pro-library messages on the car. They did a "pit party" where kids could come through, see the cars, etc. Andrea got book stickers made so all the kids could sign her car. Truly some of my best library outreach work.

Next week I am doing my AI workshop, What is AI and Why Is It Happening To Me? for colleagues again, before I start opening it up to campus in the autumn Feel free to borrow/adopt; CC-BY hfroehli.ch/2026/03/24/w...

What is AI and why is it happening to me? a training

I continue to watch the rise of artificial intelligence in every corner of our lives with great interest … and realized very quickly that for lots of people, “AI” is one big scary…

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