Next Friday! Join Galter Special Collections at Graceland Cemetery for a tour through history as we explore the final resting places of renowned Feinberg faculty and graduates.
🔗Register: galter.northwestern.edu/course_info/...

NEW RESOURCE available from the Make Data Count and HELIOS Open ‘Implementing data evaluation in academia’ Working Group. This implementation guide provides practical guidance for integrating data and other open outputs in institutional review processes.

Download the guide: tinyurl.com/y77e73n8

Can’t make it to Chicago? We’ll bring the Obama Presidential Center to you.

Join us at 6 p.m. Central Thursday (Oct. 9) for a virtual walk-through of the 19.3-acre campus opening next spring on the South Side.

Save your spot: obama.org/stories/obam...

📢Join the upcoming webinar to explore how monitoring & evidence gathering can support #OpenScience, research assessment reform, and systemic change, featuring discussions on key international initiatives.

🕓 20 Oct, 16:00 CEST
📍Online
👉Register: bit.ly/4305IIn

Join us this October for our virtual classes! Register here: galter.northwestern.edu/classes

Tim-Berners Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, is now building tools that aim to resist big-tech platforms, give users control over their own data, and prevent A.I. from hollowing out the open web.

Changing the Way We Talk: How Science Communications Brings Research to the Masses — bit.ly/4mCl7WB

JOB OPPORTUNITY: @pkp.sfu.ca is looking for a Managing Director! This is a rare opportunity to lead a highly impactful #scholcomm organization. Role works closely with me (Scientific Director) to provide strategic and operational leadership. Help us spread the word!

pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...

HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Excited for Medical Education Day!! 💜@nufeinbergmed.bsky.social Hope you get a chance to visit us and grab some library swag and candy!

Announcing our fall seminar speakers! Starting September 24th, with talks by leading researchers from Northwestern, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon University, Midjourney, and Google.

Join us each Wednesday at 12pm US Central: bit.ly/WedatNICO

#WedatNICO #ComplexSystems #DataScience #AI

“Summer is never
Fall is again
Winter is forever
Spring is when”

From “Elegy as the Four Seasons” by Katie Peterson. buff.ly/T5tjtwN

In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit.

So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.

Welsh born textile artist and knitwear designer Kate Jenkins creates fun crochet/knit creations #WomensArt

Read more here: www.nei.nih.gov/about/news-a...

Excited about this collaborative effort! Thrilled to share that our team has been named a finalist in the NIH S-index Challenge to incentivize excellence in data sharing across biomedical research to develop a user-driven model for measuring the impact of data sharing. @nuresearch.bsky.social

A groundbreaking paper published @nature.com today—the first large health language model—predicts >1,000 diseases for a person and when.
Implications here:
erictopol.substack.com/p/dawn-of-a-...

Which takes longest?

1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/DrDQVj/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IRB approval
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/DrDQVj/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Travel reimbursement
3️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/DrDQVj/3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The sun expanding to a red giant & engulfing Earth
4️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/DrDQVj/4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peer review

📊 Show results

Funding info in preprints isn’t just a formality. It’s part of the research record.

🔍 Builds trust through transparency
📑 Meets funder requirements
📈 Boosts discoverability & impact

bioRxiv now has an easy way to add standardized funder info at the time of submission.

openrxiv.org/funder-metad...

If you enjoy…

Weekends
Safe working conditions
Retirement benefits
Paid vacations
Breaks at work
Sick leave
Paid holidays

… then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.

#code_plagiarism is REAL & #AI is negatively affecting the #integrity of code/software. Dan Katz, @scedmunds.bsky.social & I discuss involved issues & their impacts on #research_integrity & #publication_ethics in a @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social post: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/28/g...

Join us this September for our virtual classes! Register here: galter.northwestern.edu/classes

Amid the political upheaval of 1967, a group of bureaucratic innovators within the federal government released a manifesto. Their message: “Invention and innovation lie at the heart of the process by which America has grown and renewed itself.” Read the story: issues.org/nation-of-in...

Datasets are fundamental to research: recognizing it, along with outputs like code & protocols, is essential for a comprehensive assessment of researchers' impact & rigor. Read on how @makedatacount.bsky.social is developing infrastructure & standards for data evaluation 👉 sfdora.org/2025/08/26/r...

Our CEO, Jack Dorsey, is really good at vibe coding! Here's some lessons we learned from watching one of his sessions.

https://engineering.block.xyz/blog/jack-dorseys-vibe-coding-tips