Today, we honor American Business Women’s Day, commemorating the founding of the American Business Women’s Association in 1949. From its beginnings, the ABWA championed women across industries—breaking barriers and building opportunities.

#AmericanBusinessWomensDay #Leadership #Innovation #Impact

“I invite systems scientists, policy architects, and organizational futurists to consider how governance must evolve when reality itself becomes probabilistic, entangled, and nonlinear.” — Eva King

We're hiring! Please share with your networks.

Director of Business, Philanthropy, and Investor Partnerships. Applications are due May 4, 2025.

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THE SHIRTS ARE BACK IN STOCK

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When scientists and experts embrace their roles as constituents and advocates, our society is better equipped to defend against attacks on science and to effectively push for equitable, evidence-informed solutions that protect people's health, safety, and environment.

For academics or security personnel requiring empirical studies on terrorism that were deleted from security agencies, please see this website from the University of Maryland National Consortium for Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism.
#science
www.start.umd.edu/pirus-reports

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

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

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BlueSky is great. Now, if we could just remove the OnlyFan accounts... Blocking them one at a time is time-consuming.

Russian state disinfo bots are active on BlueSky for over 2 weeks now.
They are posting fake videos using AI-generated voice to promote talking points of Russian state.

Please help us to reduce its visibility: follow this labeler, choose Warn or Hide; spread the word:
@ab4n-labeler.bsky.social

Loneliness linked to ill health through effect on protein levels, research suggests

The Economist analyzed 347,000 PhD abstracts published between 1812 and 2023.

They found that, in every discipline, the abstracts have become harder to read, especially in the humanities and social sciences.

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‼️ Holy moly! The TAKE IT DOWN Act—which would criminalize deepfake image-based sexual abuse (aka deepfake porn) and require platforms remove such non-consensual content within 48 hours—has been added to this year's Continuing Resolution.

Vote is on Thurs; HUGE win for victims if this passes. 1/

Here are some tips for new BlueSky users.
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BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD

Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce:

We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky!

We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct.

Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions.

Let's get into it!

There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research.

A Place of Joy.

“Science…is under attack. …

whether science should be political…is…moot…

Given…the expansion of attacks on science, it is time for scientists to be more effective, forceful, and vociferous as their own political advocates.”

Princeton Prof Agustin Fuentes

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I am new to BlueSky, just like most of you. Here are a few of my favorite scientists, academics, and generally interesting people who have found their way here. It is a little eclectic so you can pick and choose your favorites.
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We spent part of the holiday at Gettysburg National Military Park. It is a good day for gratitude and remembrance.