Peace Ossom

"The color white’s relationship to the grand tradition of human expression predates recorded history, back to our earliest chalk drawings in caves. How fitting it would be for Cloud Dancer, a false white, to close it out! The pale, off-white horse cometh!" this is so good

Teaching when to trust As fake news accelerates, we need to teach our children how to think critically. Finnish schools are leading the charge

The US was in cluster 2 in the 2023 report, I wonder what it would rank now.
TL;DR: Media (and Information) literacy are far more important than people realize.

newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6482

Blueberries are round; so, I see the logic there.

i tend to get books that are way outside of my typical reading from those book treehouses.

i also feel this way about those little neighborhood free book tree houses.. *please dont stone me*

Every now again it’s useful to repeat advice about accessing papers that are behind a paywall that excludes you. Email the author. My estimate is that 90% of academics are so thrilled that a living, breathing, possibly even reading, person shows interest that they will swiftly send you a copy.

haha thanks!

carcassant

Ditto lol #ACRL2025

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Notice the whole group is white, and they choose to ignore the nonstop persistent racism and hatred the Obama family faced for decades before switching to "I'm just here so I dont get fined" level of participation in politics.. Okay.

As a wise man once said: "Real Gs move in silence like lasagna"

Just found out NIH has officially canceled our grant, a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease in Black Americans. I cannot even put into words how angry I am. The truth is they are canceling it because it has Black in the title. That's it, there is no other reason to do this.

Science Data May Soon Vanish From Government Websites. (Gift Article) Vast quantities of climate and environmental information have been removed from official websites in the past months. Scientists are trying keep it available.

@envirodgi.bsky.social and the Public Environmental Data Partners were featured in the @nytimes.com. Read all about their work! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/c...

Medical large language models are vulnerable to data-poisoning attacks - Nature Medicine Large language models can be manipulated to generate misinformation by poisoning of a very small percentage of the data on which they are trained, but a harm mitigation strategy using biomedical knowl...

Medical large language models are vulnerable to data-poisoning attacks. Nature medicine, 31(2), 618–626. doi.org/10.1038/s415... #medlibs h/t @cshannon.bsky.social

As scientific censorship gains a toehold under the Trump administration, "journals must remain committed to editorial independence and the integrity of the published record," says AJPH Editor-in-chief Alfredo Morabia. Read his comments now ⬇️

The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?

A “digital book burning” is under way at federal agencies. Can volunteer archivists and data hoarders save the country’s files from DOGE?

New book chapter just dropped. "Putting 'Fun' in Fundamental Research Data Management: Data Communities and Education" by Justin de la Cruz, Nicole Contaxis, Fred LaPolla, Genevieve Milliken & Peace Ossom

*Peeks head out*