Is Wikipedia Biased? Later this week, I'm speaking to the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science in a project to link Wikimedia movement leaders with scientists to imagine studies together. This talk introduces questions of gender/cultural representation www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5GM...

Is Wikipedia Biased? Studying Representation on Wikipedia

YouTube video by Citizens and Technology Lab

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Everyday design appreciation post: the new French high speed trains seats are very nicely designed (though im unsure how these glass holders will stand the test of time). Didn’t find much context anout the redesign except: saguez-and-partners.com/en/projets/t...

De passage à l’Institut du Monde Arabe pour montrer des inscriptions phéniciennes au petit passionné de l’alphabet, impressionnée à nouveau par l’ambition de leurs expositions et leur refus de cacher l’impact des guerres menées par Israël.

Male brains and female brains are all just human brains.

Brain’s sex differences are subtle and contradictory, large MRI study finds

Sex-based behavioral differences do not match with variations in brain activation or structure in a study of almost 1,000 people.

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I was harassed in the restrooms of a museum in London two weeks ago for… having short hair and loose clothing. I was with my toddler, who’s still asking about it. And a lot of signs have been swapped, from men/women to male/female. The UK isn’t just going back, it’s inventing a whole new hell.

ændra.@aendra.com · 4w ago

I really question whether I'll still live in the UK a year from now.

Il y a une expo chouette sur les portraits d’artistes à Petit Palais, une histoire visuelle d’artistes voulant asseoir leur réputation (par ex en se peignant plus âgé) et témoigner des liens avec leurs pairs, contrastée avec des artistes femmes qui se représentent fragmentées ou doubles, comme ici

Taking myself on an encyclopedia history tour of Paris ahead of Wikimania. First stop: BNF Richelieu. Voltaire was a minor contributor but also wrote extensively about encyclopedic principles. (Did you know they also kept his mummified heart in the pedestal)

As he should be. A distinctive characteristic of Wikipedians is that they engage in good faith, even in heated arguments. This type of behaviors threatens the culture that made wikipedia possible!

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · last mo.

Larry Sanger, one of Wikipedia’s cofounders, was banned from editing the site indefinitely after other editors determined he was canvassing, or in other words, calling on his followers off platform in order to influence Wikipedia’s content. www.404media.co/wikipedia-co...

Haven’t seen a good font post in a while.

Matthew Segal@segalmr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

c'mon First Circuit be serious www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...

I fell in love with Wikipedia because where else will you be having discussions about whether interpunct would be better described by an article about medial point en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:In...

Realized today I’ve drawn my kiddo over several thousand times by now. Entire notebooks worth, yet I notice something new everyday. Little humans are awesome.

Well, I guess now is a good time to say I’ve left Sussex (and academia, though you wouldn’t know that by the amount of volunteer work I’ve accepted to keep doing…). It’s mostly unrelated to this; I had been at Sussex for 8 years, and was amazingly supported there. I’m sad for my colleagues.

21 Group@21group.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Bonfire of the Universities continues 600 staff at Sussex Uni will receive notification that their positions are “at risk” & asked to volunteer for redundancy If 200 volunteers don't come forward, compulsory redundancies will follow Grim & upsetting www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fellowship: Unlocking the National Trust Sound Archive (placement from September 2026 onwards, 3 month awards) www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/r...

Doctoral fellowships at the National Trust

Find out more about the doctoral fellowships available through the partnership between the National Trust and the British Library.

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Did you know Wikimedia is building a translation tool and abstract model of its encyclopedic knowledge? (or trying to) I summarized Michael Falk's investigation into this attempt at creating perfect languages: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

This - baby.inc - gives some strong "baby in a box" vibes, Skinner style media.pluto.psy.uconn.edu/babyinabox.h...

Baby Inc.

Designed around parents and caregivers.

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With the caveat that test scores should be taken very critically, this is concerning because it reflects what we're seeing in higher education. +I wish that alongside the hot takes on the effects of screens, we talk about growing inequalities that likely are a factor. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...

Why U.S. Test Scores Are in a ‘Generation-Long Decline’

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Sad they had to do this - but glad that they saved these archives. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

The secret mission to rescue the UN’s vital Palestinian refugee archive

Millions of documents chronicling generations of trauma saved from Gaza and East Jerusalem in 10-month Unrwa operation

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"What I miss is the cultural confidence that wandering meant something. That the encounter with the unfamiliar was a moral education [...]. I miss living in a culture that believed the wider world was something we owed our attention to." fugitivemargins.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

The End Of Elsewhere: The Endangered Species of the Global Citizen

From Rousseau to Bourdain, the West spent 300 years searching for meaning by leaving. That search is ending.

fugitivemargins.substack.com

I just want to say we’ve had good non petroleum alternatives for everything from laundry detergent to fertilizer forever, but not the political oomph to subsidize their scale out, unlike solar and batteries

Anton Hur@antonhur.com · 3mo ago

WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."

UGH this struck a chord. Even as a childhood researcher well aware of the gender bullshit adults project on kids, it was a shock to be constantly told it must be horrible to have a boy. And to see how badly toddlers are stereotyped. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

A moment that changed me: I was wary of men – then I found out I was having a baby boy

When I became pregnant, all I wanted was a healthy baby. Discovering I would be having a son gave me a new perspective on the narratives around masculinity

theguardian.com

Toddler question today: do objects still have colors when there's no light? They should tell you at uni that philosophy classes will pay out tenfold when you have a kid.

Meanwhile the ACM Digital Library is creating AI “podcasts” of papers with no author approval that of course contain inaccuracies (including e.g. misgendering authors) I don’t care about copyright. Legal /= ethical & academic institutions are embarrassing themselves www.404media.co/asu-atomic-a...

University Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned Into AI Slop

ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.

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Wrote the Wikipedia biography of Elizabeth Allen, a 'naive' artist who made beautiful patchwork tapestries of her daily life and folk and religious subjects. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabe...

Careful what you wish for, 3yo wanted a dinosaurs and trains birthday, and asked for the cake to be a tar pit with fossils you can eat. (We ended up 3d printing fossils buried in a tiramisu)

Rob Sheridan@rob-sheridan.com · 4mo ago

Me to 3yo: What do you want for your birthday party theme? 3yo: “Poopoo & peepee theme! We can get apple juice for the pee, so a skeleton pees and you drink the skeleton pee but it’s okay because it’s juice” Me: ..K I was thinking like “dinosaurs” but let’s put a pin in “piss fountain of the dead”

I am concerned so few people can/are willing to name more than 5 dinosaurs! Half of the kids books section is about dinosaurs!

David H. Montgomery@dhmontgomery.com · 4mo ago

A shocking new poll result: Many Americans somehow don't have a favorite dinosaur. And only 6% give the correct answer (triceratops). Check out YouGov's new polling on Americans and dinosaurs: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/whats-your...

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

wired.com

Two years baby and I won the #wikipedia Halloween contest for our disambiguation page costume: Orion (child) riding the Orion (spacecraft) above the Orion (nebula) I saved it for #Artemis2 and I’m now the Earth and a launch/crash pas for the toddler powered spacecraft. How time flies. 🚀

Toddler at bedtime wanted to know: - how we have different hair color - why we have DNA - how atoms know they should be DNA and not other things - how atoms make things that are hard and also soft - how we know about atoms - how there are atoms How did parents manage before Wikipedia??

As @wikipedia.org turns 25, what do we learn from Wikipedians about our potential to organize for the common good? Yesterday @sarahagilbert.bsky.social & I gave a main stage talk at Wikipedia’s 25th birthday in NYC on the science of cooperation. The talk is here: citizensandtech.org/2026/03/disc...

Discovering our Collective Potential with the Science of Wikipedia

Wikipedia demonstrates the power of about focusing on unique perspectives, managing conflict, leadership through care, and the power of gratitude.

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The #WCCWiki meet-up for March is happening online on Tues 24 March, 13.00-15.00 GMT. All warmly welcome. Editing session on Zoom, with training if needed. Join Zoom Meeting us06web.zoom.us/j/85192010168. Email womensclassicalcommittee@gmail.com for more info. @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social