"La Bibliotheque, un espace en libre-acces"

I know basically zero French, but this poster immediately resonated with me while visiting the Geneva botanical garden on a trip for #OpenScience

#Libraries

Great first day at the #OSFair2025 at CERN in Geneva.

First a tour of the antimatter factory. I entered France on the way over without even knowing. Then a minute poster pitch i failed to prepare, capped off with the actual poster session and #wine

#OpenScience

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

I started playing with the #NSF #GRFP award data (still open btw [1]). As we heard, this award program was also slashed [2] Below is a visual to see how we haven't had this few granted fellows for 15 years.

[1] www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...
[2] www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Douse a Dean @ CMU carnival. My 2025 bingo did not have @terrainsvagues.bsky.social hitting a clean bullseye, dousing @cmkeithw.bsky.social while Not Like US played in the background

Yes, huge Obsidian advocate here! Thanks for the shout out @marapauline.bsky.social

Literally. I just wanna try to help people a little and learn things?

I just want to do my work, man. That’s all any of us want to do.

Last month, the second #Reproducibility Hackathon @cmulibraries.bsky.social went off without a hitch.

A fascinating study on #LLM writing and an opportunity that let many students reproduce it!
#OpenScience

library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...

This is going to kill many public libraries, especially in rural areas. If you use a public library, you will be impacted. #imls is a dust mote in the federal budget. It also provides things like internet at your local library so people can apply for jobs and kids can do homework.

Nicole Auvil used her sharp chemistry skills to help create a "super-sniffer" that can precisely analyze chemical compounds.
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...

Science is Under Siege: The Open Science Community Must Act and Lead by Examplemple https://upstream.force11.org/open-science-call-to-act/

Me:

- Got a higher education and a stable job
- Married and bought a house
- Understanding my mental health
- Achieved some modern form of the *American Dream*

Democracy:

It's #LoveData25 week! 🎉 Today, we’re spotlighting insights from our recent collaboration with the Data Curation Network. Learn about:
- Why research data curation matters
- Curation best practices
- How proper curation boosts reusability, discoverability, & integrity

🛠️ cos.io/blog/data-cur...

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...

I'm hosting an event centered around #reproducibility, #OpenScience and #AI/#LLMs @cmulibraries.bsky.social

Question of exploration: Do LLMs write like humans?

Meta-question of exploration: Do data and code about LLMs writing like humans work reliably for students that access it?

We'll see!

#NewMexicoTech was an excellent institution for me.

We sensed that leadership was corrupt, but that quickly changed when President Stephen Wells arrived.

I am not surprised at all that Wells uncovered this corruption and was forced out because of it.

www.abqjournal.com/news/courts/...

Reporters: Please stop calling things DEI that are not DEI. This is only cementing the propaganda being used to legitimize the dismantling of all types of initiatives that are not DEI as well as legitimize efforts to end civil rights enforcement. Be specific with your language. Be accurate.

Email from Stanford leadership: “Based on our initial assessment, and in light of the extensive uncertainty about the Memo’s meaning, we do not believe it is necessary or appropriate to pause federally-funded research activities at Stanford at this time.”

Phew,but incredible it even has to be said.

This. My dad had an endowed position but every other person in his lab was grant funded, often from cobbling together grants that each ran for years. To just stop all of them? People don't eat, AND in medical research, if people can't work you might lose whole experiments.

Interesting survey on trust in scientists
>70k respondents, 68 countries. LOTs to digest, but when surveying for public perception of scientist trustworthiness:

Openness scored the lowest between metrics of competence, benevolence, integrity, and openness!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ACRL News, I beg of you, talk about book bans based on discrimination against Black and LGBTQ+ people, and the rise in antisemitism and islamophobia. It is like pulling teeth to get most of my academic library colleagues to acknowledge anything besides "AI" right now and you are not helping 🫠

In the last administration, we had a year of #OpenScience. But really, we have a lifetime of it, regardless of an administration that tries to hide it.

bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ostp/

A quick reminder of this hopefully useful starter pack of librarians & library teams interested in open research (including open access, FAIR research data management, open licensing, open educational resources & more):