Laurence Horton

One thing we try with IDCC is to give a platform to people working where we are visiting. Delighted to see this announced. @anticac.bsky.social will, no doubt, provide an engaging kick-off from the perspective of a researcher working in open science and based in Croatia. #IDCC26.

A voice in your head that finds everything you do at fault for failing to do this, that, or something else, allied with a natural reaction of "what's your motivation for saying that?" to any praise you do receive, does tend to inoculate you against the egregious flattery of these chatbots.

Is that one of your Greek aphorisms?

Ok, using spaces is poor practice, but otherwise, short, descriptive, indicates version ✅

so was having an email address from the University of Essex.

The last one, I get. The others, come on!

"Verify you are a human by completing the action below."

In other news, "I am not a bot! I am not an AI crawler! I am a human being! I... am... a man!"

Words just don't have meanings these days, do they. Might as well call it Sock Pog. What does Sock Pog do, well it doesn't copy a link, clearly.

Really digging the way Copy Link in Outlook does not in fact copy the link. Great job Gatesy.

So much of this "use AI to..." or "Throw an LLM" is basically a way of saying "Don't bother thinking about this" and "Your work has no value".

Ok! You got me questioning my gender identity now!

Thanks! But you are the person to go to if I have a Forschungsdatenmanagementdatenschutzproblimaticakenfrage

Disappointed Germany is sticking with the English title, and not giving it some Liebedatenwoche (is that right @datendealerin.bsky.social!?)

Submit your translations for Love Data Week 2026! Do you have a translation of the Love Data Week theme? Submit them here. You can find previously submitted translations on our Translation page. You can find links to Canva editable versions of our ...

Nice idea from @icpsr.bsky.social for #LoveData26. Help translate "Love Data Week" and "Where's the data?" into as many languages as possible. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Check what's been submitted so far: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Lucky he was a Villa fan and not at St. Andrews in May 1985. Ian Hambridge wasn't so lucky.

A modern classic for your RDM/research methods presentations on data anonymisation.

I've heard of selling your body for sex, but, of course, it's Open AI so they're going to be selling other peoples'.

Great call for the next @rdapassociation.bsky.social summit:

"Practical, Personalized, Impactful: Research Data in the Real World".

With RDAP it's always programme quality high, cost of attending low. Recommended!
rdapassociation.org/summit

Another Bsky welcome, this time to Sonraí, who have been putting together and sustaining an excellent data steward network in Ireland. And, would you believe it, happen to be presenting on this at next year's #IDCC26 (registration now open, etc...)

"The King has said he's going to put a tax on tea,
And that's the reason y'all Americans drink coffee" (Harvey, 1976)

"Our AI data stew..." *SLAMS LAPTOP SHUT*

Friday. The day when I work through closing all the tabs I opened from Monday to Thursday.

Sometimes you can see where there is a natural end point. A point of full stop, end of discussion, nothing else to see, everyone go home now.

“I just don’t know how you go around, asking everyone first. I just don’t see how that would work,” Clegg said.

Naturally, Cleggy goes on.

CODATA and the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) announce the updated 2025 CODATA Research Data Management Terminology (RDMT) - CODATA, Committee on Data of the ISC Paris, October 2025. CODATA and the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) are delighted to announce the publication of the updated CODATA Research Data Management Terminology (RDMT) 2025. The Termin...

📢Good news alert!📢 NEW version (v002) of the CODATA RDM Terminology now online! Info + link: codata.org/codata-and-t... Direct link: vocabs.ardc.edu.au/viewById/685 Thanks to our fabulous expert Working Group and technical heroes @ardc.edu.au 👏 @codata-isc.bsky.social

God bless delimiter-separated values.

Everyone is focusing on the NI gaffe, obviously. But the switch from "we came up with..." to "i'm not here to talk about what the Conservative government did" makes me think she really is the world's first genAI party leader.

I admire how bad it is, it's like an anti-search engine.

Good question. Key reading for me was Yeo (2010) that SP hadn't yet decided what it meant, never mind be operationalized (that's how I read it anyway). Not sure how much the debate moved on, but my readings on it stop around the mid 2010s.

The BBC archive is always posting clips that do this. "Information Superhighway" was a particular favourite.