Shea Swauger

The Future of Research Is Mixed, Messy, and Human:
www.sheaswauger.com/post/the-fut...

Ethical Use of Pervasive Data for Research | Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics (IDDP) | Columbian College of Arts & Sciences | The George Washington University The IDDP Council for Pervasive Data Ethics - Next Steps for the U.S convened to chart a set of actions to advance ethical practices in computing research.

GWU IDDP organized a Council to reflect on the comments submitted to NTIA’s Request For Comment (RFC) regarding Ethical Guidelines for Research Using Pervasive Data. Check out the findings here: iddp.gwu.edu/ethical-use-...

First base: sharing your Spotify
Second base: sharing your location
Third base: sharing your calculator history

writing is just a process of realizing you forgot all the words you used to know and learning them again, one by one, in a thesaurus

I'm at the library and I love it. You should go to the library.

The internet becomes more tolerable once you realize that 99% of the people who are being assholes to you online have never actually engaged with your work and have no plans to.

we should bring back whatever MIT's graphic designers were doing in the late 60s

M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening is a misunderstood documentary about people with allergy-induced migraines

When we demanded that politicians listen to scientists, that probably should have included social scientists

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Max Schrems implies the existence of Min Schrems

(I'm sorry)

A dating app, but it matches researchers looking for collaborators on a project: "Mixed methods education researcher seeks coders for inter-rater reliability. Willing to trade SPSS analysis for a literature review"

The NIH cuts are being spun as a way to eliminate bloated university bureaucracy. And looking at the sheer numbers, I get it.

But in fact the story is the exact opposite. The federal research grants system is highly efficient. And it super charges American innovation. 🧵

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If you rely on federal data for research, download everything you need now

Checklist for USA federal data backups | Data management Introduction The United States (US) federal government collects, aggregates, and disseminates a large volume of information and data. This content is used by researchers, policymakers, and many others...

MIT Libraries has a Checklist for USA Federal Data Backups, which provides instructions for downloading and archiving federal data for research purposes:
libraries.mit.edu/data-managem...

Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab has begun backing up data from data.gov, and you can email them to nominate data to save (lil@law.harvard.edu)

The End of Term Web Archive is a collaborative web crawling project that saves data at the end of presidential administrations. You can nominate data you think is important to be saved:
eotarchive.org

Researchers and students at the Chan School of Public Health ran a “data preservation marathon” to save as much federal research data as possible and upload it to the Harvard Dataverse or the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine:
dataverse.harvard.edu
web.archive.org

The Public Environmental Data Project focuses on federal environmental data and is accepting volunteers:
screening-tools.com

The Data Liberation Project — About The what, why, how, when, where, and who of the Data Liberation Project.

The Data Liberation Project operates a suggestion form, which identifies data that should be saved for public use: www.data-liberation-project.org/about/

In response to critical research data being deleted or modified across federal agencies, several orgs are leading campaigns to save what they still can or locate deleted copies and host them on non-federal servers. Some are even taking suggestions for what to save or enable volunteers to help 👇

Finished a book about the US electrical grid (nerd) and I realized I know nothing about electricity. The more I learned, the less I understood it. Electricity is so weird and magical and I’m in awe

I was asked what my taste in music was and the only thing I could think of was "whatever sad lesbians listen to" and it's very accurate

This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x

whispering "treat yo self" as I take 2 ibuprofen before bedtime

another student DURING our online Zoom class is getting a tattoo and now I have a new goal

Introduction to Astronomy gave me more existential anxiety than all my philosophy classes combined. 10/10 would recommend

They can have a little prosciutto as a treat