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DeSci Labs @descilabs.bsky.social · Aug 29

Science runs on trust, but the systems around it are often opaque.

At @descilabs.bsky.social, we’re building tools that make research records transparent & verifiable, because credible science deserves infrastructure as open as the knowledge it creates.

#DeSci #OpenScience

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · Jun 17

Hey mentors: It's great when your students publish papers and share links to them on social media, but it's your job to help them understand that posting only paywalled links excludes readers and limits their reach - and it's not necessary. Train them yourself, or lead them to better training.

Post your papers on SocArXiv

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jun 13

Extensive Propublica story about grant terminations

Sharing specifics and putting faces on the research…

Definitely worth a read

projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...

Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding

The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPu...

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Chris Bourg @mchris4duke.bsky.social · Jun 9

Very excited for the opportunity to speak at the 2025 Kramer Copyright Conference on “Imagining library futures in chaotic times”

Kraemer Library Copyright Conference @kcconference.bsky.social · Apr 11

🚨 Registration is now open for the 2025 Kraemer Copyright Conference! Join us June 16–18 in beautiful Colorado Springs to explore the future of libraries, copyright, and access to knowledge. Don’t miss it! #libraries #copyright📷https://copyright.uccs.edu

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · May 26

Good news! Release 1 of the 2024 GSS is available for download.

The 2024 GSS, like 2022, uses web, in-person, and phone modes. For some variables this can complicate analyses of trends. See documentation.

Still a prob sample & gold standard survey w/ high resp rates (by contemporary standards).

Get the Data | NORC at the University of Chicago

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · May 24

This new #RSOS paper investigates beliefs about social dynamics and #OpenScience. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @mchris4duke.bsky.social‬ @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social

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Chris Bourg @mchris4duke.bsky.social · May 23

This is outrageous and profoundly damaging.
president.mit.edu/writing-spee...

Today’s shocking news about Harvard | MIT Office of the President | MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · May 22

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · May 22

America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain
economist.com/science-and-...

website views of PhD programmes up in Netherlands. canada, sweden etc

website views from outside the US down massively in the US, up elsewhere

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Chris Bourg @mchris4duke.bsky.social · May 22

We also found that people report pro-social reasons for their own open science practices, but assume others are motivated to practice open science out of compliance.
Turns out your colleagues are more supportive of open science than you thought!

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Chris Bourg @mchris4duke.bsky.social · May 22

Beliefs about Social Dynamics and Open Science, w/ @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social & @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social - royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
While perceptions of social dynamics of your field don't predict open science attitudes, we did find high levels of support for open science (YAY) ..

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Rebecca Saxe @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social · May 15

Please help: Do you know a baby, less than 12 months old, who can walk? We are trying to complete a project, 7 years in the works. And all we need are 3 infants who are less than a year old and can walk, to do a short online looking-time study.
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Ashley Thomas @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social · May 21

Please, for the love of science in infant cognition, make videos of your stimuli available (even if you do live puppet shows). I'm trying to read through a paper right now, and there is no way someone could replicate it in good faith because there are no videos and so few details.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · May 20

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There's a common misperception about SocArXiv, unfortunately promoted by the much larger, richer, profit-generating SSRN service (Elsevier).

It sounds harsh to say this, but at SocArXiv we serve the scholarly community, and the scholarly record - not individual authors. I can explain.
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I am research. Hear me roar. Social science without walls.

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Chris Bourg @mchris4duke.bsky.social · May 9

I was privileged to meet her and her mother Colleen when she visited us at MIT in 2017.

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Chris Bourg @mchris4duke.bsky.social · May 9

Firing the Librarian of Congress in a 2 sentence email then joking about it is disgraceful. Dr. Carla Hayden was an exceptional leader, a remarkable person, a brilliant and compassionate leader, and a fierce advocate for libraries. She deserved so much better. We all deserve so much better.

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Open Research, University of Sheffield @openresshef.bsky.social · Apr 25

This forthcoming hybrid event at @sheffielduni.bsky.social on 21st May will bring together experts to explore the challenges & opportunities in fostering more equitable publication models.

More info and booking links on the page below:

#OpenAccess #OpenResearch #AcademicSky

Supporting Equitable Publication Models: A Roundtable Discussion

Academic publishing is shaped by a system of inequalities which significantly impact where and how researchers publish their work. This roundtable discussion will bring together academics, publishers ...

www.sheffield.ac.uk

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ResearchHub Foundation @researchhubf.bsky.social · Apr 21

What's Open Science?

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Apr 13

What will most transform #scholcomm in the next 10 years? A new survey of 90 #ECRs from 7 countries gives first place to #ai, followed closely by #openaccess and #OpenScience, followed by changes to #PeerReview.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/leap.2008

While respondents […]

Original post on fediscience.org

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Hans de Jonge @hldejonge.bsky.social · Apr 11

What are the consequences of current attacks on science by the Trump administration on #openscience? Join this webinar with the fabulous @rouhiroo.bsky.social and @danrdmnn.bsky.social!

CWTS | Leiden University @cwtsnl.bsky.social · Apr 11

📅 Mark your calendars for our seminar on 16 May!

📚 @rouhiroo.bsky.social and @danrdmnn.bsky.social will discuss the implications of the recent attacks of the Trump administration for Open Science.

@hldejonge.bsky.social @opensciencenl.bsky.social

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Open Science and Authoritarianism: An Interactive Discussion

In this webinar, Sara Rouhi (AIP Publishing) and Dan Rudmann (Utrecht University Library) will discuss the implications of the recent attacks of the Trump administration on academic freedom in the US ...

www.universiteitleiden.nl

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Noah Springer @noahspringer.com · Feb 26

I broke 1k followers recently, so let’s do a book thread! Here’s a bunch of releases I have coming out this spring from @mitpress.bsky.social! Games, trans theory, speculative design … it’s the best list in the business!
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MIT Press - Home Page

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Nick Lindsay @bluenoser2.bsky.social · Apr 7

It’s one of the great, terrific weirdnesses of my professional life that a member of the Velvet Underground was a colleague at MIT: www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

“We Were a Good Band”: An Interview with Walter Powers: Rock Music Studies: Vol 3 , No 2 - Get Access