Maria Wolters

New paper on the state of democracy today.

If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear

Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?

We do. But it’s free and covers conferences and workshops well

This is a good and important suggestion - every major dataset housed in the US (which is a *lot* of great data) can be considered under threat right now. One way researchers and institutions elsewhere can help limit the harm is finding ways to mirror host/backup a lot of that data.

"No, Mr Vance. No polar bears out there. And don't worry if you do meet one. They're very friendly. Feel free to go up and pet them! Totally safe! Absolutely won't eat you, honest!"

That’s awful

🚨I converted the list of terminated #NIH grants (as of 3/22) into a google sheet. I added activity codes and award jurisdictions (see tabs for grant count and $ by each). Note this HHS list likely does not include all planned/completed terminations as of this date.🚨 Please use, share and distribute!

On #AI and the "threat" to #ScientificPublishing:

Read "Chaos in the Brickyard" (1963). It takes just 2 minutes. It's a 1-page letter in Science.

AI makes bricks. What we really need are edifices. Those come from people who choose only quality bricks to build their edifices.

#ResearchIntegrity

Thread on the potential for abuse of AI in government, by a GovTech AI developer. Cc @shannonvallor.bsky.social

The new travel management company, Diversity Travel, is ranked as one of the University of Edinburgh’s signature recent administrative failures

They also wonder why on Earth women survive past menopause. Must be child rearing

Instead, Operation “Ruin UK Higher education” picks up steam …

This would be a wonderful opportunity to get the and the brightest from the US to come to the UK, especially those targeted by Project 2025. Do they leverage it? Of course not.

Women are an expendable resource. The eejits behind those rules don’t even care about getting us safely through childbirth.

Support deck.blue! And if you haven't checked out deck.blue now's as good a time as any. It's like TweetDeck for Bluesky.

The image is a black-and-white political cartoon depicting a man in a suit standing behind a counter labeled "Republican Platform." He is holding a bottle labeled "Untaxed Whiskey, 20¢ Gal." in one hand and a piece of cloth labeled "War-Taxed Common Cloth, Tariff 84%" in the other. Above the counter, a sign reads, "If you don’t see what you want, ask for it." The cartoon, signed by W.A. Rogers, appears to satirize the Republican Party's economic policies, highlighting the disparity in taxation between luxury items like whiskey and essential goods like cloth.

In 1890, the Tariff Act came into place in the United States. It placed tariffs on imports of up to 50%.
While touted as a way to build American industry, there was also the hope it would force an annexation of Canada. It backfired.
Let's learn more.

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US sponsorship of Pacific disinformation workshop ends after dispute An NZ-run programme has been caught in the crossfire of the Trump administration's crackdown on diversity and countering disinformation.

I'm not just blowing smoke, I'm involved with this academy

Danke!

Hast Du ein paar Empfehlungen für uns von Autor:innen aus dem DACH Raum? Das wäre super!

Ringen-Jacobs: strategy (4) female gangs are OK. Networking is fine. Let’s lift each other up (5) empower yourself and others #womenup

Ringen-Jacobs: Female Forward mode ideas. (1) control your visibility. Watch the cost - what feels right. (2) digital resilience - control your exposure (3) balance is calm focus #womenup

Ringen-Jacobs calls for digital self determination and digital detox, if needed. #womenup

Ringen-Jacobs: what stresses women? Echo chamber traps, swathes of information, gender specific challenges #womenup

Fits well with #womenup

Ringen-Jacobs: Women are well networked and well informed, but we feel isolated and overwhelmed #womenup

Ringen-Jacobs: we are living in difficult times. Austerity, diversity under attack. What can we do? How can we be an agent of change? #womenup

At #womensup, a Digital Media Women event. Keynote: Female forward: effective in digital times by Lisa Ringen-Jacobs

The Data Rescue Tracker Grew Overnight Are you looking for a specific dataset? Are you curious if someone somewhere has rescued it? You aren't alone! We created the Data Rescue Project (DRP) as a way to encourage communication across the m...

Read about the new additions to the Data Rescue Tracker! Thank you so much to @icpsr.bsky.social, EDGI, and others for participating in this effort. If you are doing data rescue, please get in touch. We'd love to track where the data are going. www.datarescueproject.org/dr-tracker-d...

Some changes to Google‘s AI principles.

What a fascinating article! Added to Zotero. It's such a nice example of scholarly dialogue and methodological rigour as well.