We're excited to announce that the website and registration for IC2S2 2026 (July 28-31) will launch in early December! The Vermont Complex Systems Institute @vcsi.bsky.social at the University of Vermont will be hosting IC2S2 in 2026: youtube.com/watch?v=p412S4GnPkc&feature=youtu.be

IC2S2 2026 | Burlington, Vermont

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Yet another great example for the "Information Organization" class: Scientists are instructed to enter the '*sex' of an organism for NCBI BioSample database. Oh, if only it were that simple.

OSTP Memo on “Gold Standard Science” encourages publication of “negative results as positive outcomes.” www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u... Seems non-partisan?

Name the social theories in this EDM song. Considering doing this instead of quizzes for InfoSci courses.

Postdoc opp! University of Arizona school of sociology is seeking Quantitative/string communication skills and tech transfer /IP research interests. A great chance to work with the inimitable Erin Leahey! Apply here: arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

The WildCat Memory lab at University of Arizona libraries is pretty fab: infosci.arizona.edu/news/mlis-st...

MLIS Students Help Build Wildcats Memory Lab

Opening March 24 on the third floor of the Main Library, the do-it-yourself digitization space called Wildcats Memory Lab, run by University Libraries, provides the equipment, guidance and resources n...

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The current administration is straight up censoring the scientific record by requiring authors to alter an already-accepted research paper because it uses banned words such as "gender" and "equitable" and presents data broken down by sexual orientation.

Center for Critical Public Health@criticalpublichealth.org · last yr.

We were asked to change language and delete data from a paper that already been through peer review successfully - "in order to comply with the Executive Order." This is from the official journal of the US Surgeon General and the US Public Health Service. criticalpublichealth.org/blog/2025/03...

✨New research presentation! ✨Check out our new preso work on fine-tuning deBERTa to classify humility in the full-text of scientific articles: youtu.be/9nQsguKaFm4?... supported by the Templeton Foundation #humilityininquiry w/ @classiter.bsky.social

Register now! Women in Data Science conf at @uarizona.bsky.social on March 28 (hybrid, UA campus). Our keynote speaker this year will be Dr. Catherine D'Ignazio @kanarinka.bsky.social (co-author of Data Feminism w/ Dr. @laurenfklein.bsky.social). Join us! wids-tucson.github.io/conf2025.html

“Data rescue” - backing up and preserving govt data (eg 2016 climate data, 2025 census.gov) when open data websites go dark. Great ep from Slate Money Talks podcast on the matter: open.spotify.com/episode/1Isy...

Money Talks: The Disappearing Databases

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Some scientists who use ChatGPT for coding have... odd beliefs about how it works arxiv.org/abs/2502.17348

@classiter.bsky.social welcome to bsky, classy Lassiter! *jazz hands*

where might one get data on the guerrila tactics academics doing DEI are taking to fly under the silly regex radar…? 🤔 (euphemistic word changes on academics’ websites using Wayback Machine plus git version control / diff n’ diffs?) … not that I need a new #ScienceofScience research project 😭😹

The number of people surprised by the long list of words NSF is targeting makes me think many of you all have not seen this: www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

Hello Bluesky! We are ICSSI: The 2025 International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation Save the date! 🗓️ JUNE 16-18, 2025 ✍️ in beautiful Copenhagen, Denmark www.icssi.org

CFP! Submit an abstract to our open panel on "Reverberations in the Archive" 4S 2025 @4sweb.bsky.social Due: Jan 31, 2025. www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...

Dr. Adele E. Clarke, a distinguished sociologist and trailblazing figure in women's health and STS, passed away on January 19. As we bid farewell to her, we honour a pioneering scholar, mentor, and activist whose legacy will continue to shape the field. 4sonline.org/news_manager...

CFP! Join us at NetSci 2025! Submissions to "Networks in the Science of Science" the 3rd annual satellite workshop due Feb 7, 2025. netscisci.github.io/cfp @netscisociety.bsky.social #scienceofscience #CFP