My kid works at a library and found this note sticking out of a book. Dear Scarlett's parents, good job raising a rockstar. 😁
{ "jason": "clark" }
@jasonclark.bsky.social
librarian @msulibrary, professor, hacker, author, footballer, skateboarder, fly-fisher, dogwalker, coffee brewer - still trying to make fetch happen. www.jasonclark.info
20 Small Acts of #MediaLiteracy We Can Practice Every Day - recommend this newsletter cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/20-small-a...
20 Small Acts of Media Literacy We Can Practice Every Day
From checking the date to tracing the source: building a sharper eye for information.
cardcatalogforlife.substack.com
Updated every month: Access the raw datasets behind every #dataviz we've ever released online. The IIB Data Room. 500+ sheets, 1200+ datasets. Continually updated. informationisbeautiful.net/data/
I was just talking about this. AI in a robust social safety net is very different than AI in a scam economy without one.
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 3mo agoA key reason people in China are more receptive to AI than in America is that the courts there have ruled that you can't just lay people off because Claude can now do research and write code. You need a better reason than that. In America, CEOs can't wait to get rid of "low value human capital".
Read this useful set of tips on improving your use of YouTube in the light of the Google changes to force AI. Essentially you can do old style Google power searching in YouTube (for obvious reasons) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/youtube-is...
YouTube is a Research Library. Here's How to Search It Like One.
30 YouTube tools to find exactly what you need, and the verification framework underneath all of them.
cardcatalogforlife.substack.com
UNESCO is seeking feedback on a fact sheet about equity in scholarly communication & open science. It includes language calling for “non-commercial, academic, and scientific community-driven publishing models as a common good.” Join SPARC & submit comments by April 13. www.unesco.org/en/articles/...
Launch of global consultation: Equitable scholarly communication for
UNESCO is launching a consultation to explore fair, inclusive ways to create, share, and access academic knowledge, and to address challenges in building more equitable systems.
unesco.org
Recorded 45 years ago First demo tape, archive recordings of Minor Threat with the song "I Don't Wanna Hear It" Minor Threat – I Don't Wanna Hear It Notes: This is what hardcore punk should be! Brilliant! #punkrock #hardcorepunk #minorthreat #history #punkrockhistory
I made a tiny tool for quickly sharing small datasets (< ~1000 rows) without uploading any data to a server. 🔗 ziptbl.com It compresses the data into the link itself, so there’s no account, hosting, or storage layer involved. Here's Florence Nightingale's famous 📊 data: ziptbl.com#d=eNpdlE-LGz...
A broader vision of open research is needed to include the arts, humanities and social sciences. @jenniad.bsky.social @mirandab-oa.bsky.social @samuelmoore.org & @stephenpinfield.bsky.social for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social 👇
A broader vision of open research is needed to include the arts, humanities and social sciences - LSE Impact
Discussing the findings of a new report on open practices in the arts, humanities and social sciences, Jenni Adams, Miranda Barnes, Samuel Moore and Stephen Pinfield argue to support open research in…
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This is a dramatic update to the NIH Data Management and Sharing Plan template, effective for applications submitted for due dates on or after May 25, 2026. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-26-046: Updated Elements of an NIH Data Management and Sharing Plan
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Updated Elements of an NIH Data Management and Sharing Plan NOT-OD-26-046. NIH
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Props to @scott.hanselman.com for naming the elephant in the room in big tech. AI coding tools boost senior engineers but create challenges for juniors who lack context to judge outputs. Cutting junior hiring for near-term gains weakens the future pipeline. We’ll need apprenticeship-style paths.
Redefining the Software Engineering Profession for AI | Communications of the ACM
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What do LLMs see? I wrote a lil' tool that extracts the attention matrices out of open models and creates this typing visual, with each token's opacity changing according to its average attention score as the prompt progresses. Dimmer words are considered less important to the model.
Key to efficient learning is realizing how we ACTUALLY learn, not just what FEELS like learning. I wrote a Claude Skill for some friends to help them think about this and they've liked it -- see Principles for some directions you could explore github.com/DrCatHicks/l...
GitHub - DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities: A Claude Code skill for deliberate skill development during AI-assisted coding
A Claude Code skill for deliberate skill development during AI-assisted coding - DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities
github.com
RDA-US is launching a funded program for US-based professionals working in/with research infrastructure. Great professional development and networking opportunity...and great way for newcomers to engage with the Research Data Alliance (RDA)! rda-us.org/announcing-t...
Announcing the RDA-US 2026 Cohort: Apply Now – RDA-US
rda-us.org
"Whenever I worry about where the Internet is headed, I remember that this example of the collective generosity and goodness of people still exists." anildash.com/2026/01/15/w...
Wikipedia at 25: What the web can be - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
“Pay-to-crawl refers to emerging technical systems used by websites to automate compensation for when their digital content—such as text, images, and structured data—is accessed by machines.” @creativecommons.bsky.social
Where CC Stands on Pay-to-Crawl - Creative Commons
Creative Commons proposes principles for responsible use of pay-to-crawl that prioritizes openness, reciprocity, and the commons.
creativecommons.org
Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net
Intertapes — Main
Obscure tape finds and their stories
intertapes.net
"Does the open science movement—the push to make research outputs such as articles, data, and software free to read and reuse—produce the benefits its supporters claim, such as accelerating discovery and promoting science literacy? The answer is a qualified yes."
Is ‘open science’ delivering benefits? Major study finds proof is sparse
It’s hard to measure social and economic impacts of making papers and data free, researchers say
science.org
Here's my enormous round-up of everything we learned about LLMs in 2025 - the third in my annual series of reviews of the past twelve months simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/... This year it's divided into 26 sections! This is the table of contents:
Ok a translation is up. No matter what your take on these rules, it's hard not to admire China trying to get ahead of these pressing issues: data protection, dependency, labeling and reminders that you are talking to a machine, etc. Plenty to unpack here. www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/chatbot-m...
In a new blog post, I contrast two flavors of empiricism: the one practiced in the social sciences and the one practiced in ML/CS. I argue that we need both, given that CS is increasingly about "claims," and not just constructing artifacts. doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-empiri...
Paste any IIIF manifest → model classifies every page locally → see where illustrations appear. Part of small-models-for-glam: small, efficient models for cultural heritage work. Not everything needs GPT-4! Try it: huggingface.co/spaces/small-models-for-glam/iiif-illustration-detector
IIIF Illustration Detector - a Hugging Face Space by small-models-for-glam
Find illustrated pages in digitized historical books
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