Birgit Schmidt

We are creating an academic journal and *you* can shape it!

Make comments and suggest changes to replicationresearch.org 's
- Constitution
- TOP guidelines
- article types
- and reviewer guidelines
until September 5 and be credited as a contributor: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Cardboard box on a rock in a garden that says free plums & propaganda. Inside the box are French plums and postcards by Marc Fischer that say Losers Attack Our Libraries, Fight for Librarians

Free plums and propaganda.

Weiterführende Informationen über die Arbeitsgruppe sind hier zu finden:

www.langzeitarchivierung.de/Webs/nestor/...

Documentary Explores Historic Struggles, Lasting Impact of Black Librarians in America “Are You a Librarian? The Untold Story of Librarians” connects the history of public libraries, civil rights and literacy to the current political attacks on the public library system.

Documentary Explores Historic Struggles, Lasting Impact of Black #Librarians in America (via @wttw.bsky.social) news.wttw.com/2025/07/23/d... #libraries #publiclibraries

RIP Tom Lehrer - timeless gems tomlehrersongs.com/albums/

A screenshot of the Positron interface, labeled with its components: "Activity bar," "Primary side bar," "Editor," "Secondary side bar," and "Panel." The text "A quick tour of Positron" is on the left.

Take a quick tour of Positron, Posit's next-generation data science IDE, built by the creators of RStudio.

Read the blog to learn more: posit.co/blog/a-quick...

Dear #academicsky and #skybrarians....
Here are my notes and thoughts (whether you wanted them or not) for pages 1-16:
1) The weasel words gave me a headache before I finished reading the Executive Summary. 1/x

Presentation slides for my talk yesterday at #SciPy2025

Barba, Lorena A. (2025). Embracing GenAI in Engineering Education: Lessons from the Trenches. figshare. Presentation. doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

An attack on science is an attack on everyone. Excellent piece on the meaning of what is happening.

COAR Announces Launch of the International #Repositories Directory (IRD) www.infodocket.com/2025/07/09/c... #scholcomm #libraries #scholcomm @coar-repositories.bsky.social

After all these reports of authors adding language instructions for LLM reviews in their papers I wanted to check this myself and I downloaded the .tex source from one of these papers.

Here is an example.
(I will not share the identity of the paper)

At this point the AI grifters must be thanking their lucky stars that the education sector remains a dependable cash cow. Administrators buying into AI EdTech don't care about the errors because they will be dispersed among the frontline educators.

Minister demands overhaul of UK’s leading AI institute Peter Kyle calls for new leadership at Alan Turing Institute and greater focus on defence and national security

‘The call for new priorities implies a downgrading of ATI’s focus on health and the environment…“Moving forward, defence and national security projects should form a core of ATI’s activities, and relationships with the UK’s security, defence, and intelligence communities should be strengthened...”’

Meredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.

YouTube video by Lucy Rycroft-Smith (research) AI in Education: How evidence-based are the DfE's new AI support materials?

In case you missed it, @darrenmacey.bsky.social and I gave a short webinar last week on using #AI in #Education
I'm pleased to say it is now available to watch on Youtube here: youtu.be/BuFIyL74SKw?...

746 proposals for a total of 3M (about 13 will be funded).

If orgs spent 4000 in personnel time preparing their proposals on average, then this mechanism actually reduced funding for open science.

Open science is extremely underfunded.

i love it!

During COVID, mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives worldwide.

Today, Minnesota republicans proposed a bill stating that "whoever knowingly manufactures, acquires, possesses, or makes readily available to another mRNA injections or products" can be sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Coming July 8: The @coar-repositories.bsky.social International Repository Directory (IRD) officially launches!

Click the link below and register for the launch webinars:

-COAR IRD #1 🕛 12h CEST (Asia/Africa/Europe)
-COAR IRD #2 🕕 18h CEST (Americas/Europe/Africa)

Register: shorturl.at/UBY2D

Just archived by LIBER's Research Data Management Working Group on Zenodo: Data Management Plans (DMPs) In a Nutshell. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #RDM @libereurope.bsky.social

Screenshot of the slides (in grid view), which are available in several formats via the indicated URL.

The slides for my #lswt2025 talk "Knowledge graphs in the context of the National Research Data Initiative (NFDI)"
are up at
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15644994 .

#knowledgegraphs #kgi4nfdi #openscience

Applying AI Literacy to Student and Faculty Personas - Ithaka S+R This May, we hosted the first workshops for our Integrating AI Literacy in the Curricula cohort, a group of 45 colleges and universities committed to

In breakout sessions, participants considered definitions of AI literacy across #HigherEducation.

Learn more: sr.ithaka.org/blog/applyin...

Today I asked AI to summarise an academic paper. The actual results were the opposite to what was hypothesised (and to what others had shown). The AI summary assumed the study had found what everyone else had found. Hot tip: don’t use a stochastic parrot to summarise an outlier paper. #academicsky 🧪

new blog post: "Retracted articles cited in Wikipedia" https://doi.org/10.59350/mjxmp-7ra02 (related to @wikidata and @wikicite)

"So, I wrote a first script that lists DOIs in the Retraction Watch Database (via the CrossRef API downloaded list) that are not found in Wikidata. A second script […]

Spinger Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

New from The Strain Team:
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊

Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).

Gross! 😀 1/n

#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

What is a University Press? I was having a pretty good week last week, until we got to the closing minutes of play. At that point, I learned that Amsterdam University Press (AUP) had been acquired by the for-profit corporate pub...

What is a University Press?

On the acquisition of AUP by T&F (and my anger at it), the governance link between universities and university presses, and putting one's labour where one's values are.

eve.gd/2025/06/08/w...

👏 Friday is for sharing & caring!
🔦 Let's shine the spotlight on some upcoming events featuring KR21!
📰 Catch up on the details on LinkedIn 👉 www.linkedin.com/posts/knowle...

Introducing “Future #Knowledge”: A New #Podcast from Internet Archive and Authors; & More Headlines www.authorsalliance.org/2025/06/04/i... @authorsalliance.bsky.social @archive.org

A digital illustration on a pink background with white dots. A raven with a piece of paper in its beak in a colorful hexagon covered in various graphs and doodles. Dotted lines extend from the hexagon to four white rectangular documents with horizontal lines representing text. An 'AI' icon is in the upper right corner

Introducing the btw package for teaching LLM chat apps about your #RStats package!

Inject "invisible" messages into chats via system prompts and use tool calls to dynamically fetch context when needed.

Check out a dplyr example and learn more in @simonpcouch.com's post! posit.co/blog/custom-...

To be clear, this shields any research coming out of the NIH from independent peer review, which gives him total control to spread propaganda and makes any NIH study completely untrustworthy.