Crystal Steltenpohl

Data Management in Large-Scale Education Research | Crystal Lewis Materials from a presentation with the Center for Open Science, on Data Management in Large-Scale Education Research.

Data Management in Large-Scale Education Research talk with @cos.io

cghlewis.com/talk/cos/

With Nonprofits Under Pressure, Boards Must Step Up on Tech Now | TechPolicy.Press Keeping up with tech is no longer about execution alone; it’s about trust and mission integrity, writes Alethea Hannemann.

With the nonprofit sector under increasing pressure, tech isn’t just an operations issue—it’s a legitimacy issue. Boards must lead on values, managing risk and and engaging on all aspects of digital governance, writes Alethea Hannemann:

"It's sort of getting peer-pressured by the data to adopt these problematic personalities, but we're handing these personalities to it for free, so it doesn't have to learn them itself," Lindsey said. "Then we yank them away at deployment time. So we prevented it from learning to be evil by letting it be evil during training, and then removing that at deployment time."

"If you coax the [LLM] to act evil, the evil vector lights up”

Oh yeah. Just subtract the evil vector from the weights. Why didn't anyone think of that?

www.theverge.com/anthropic/71...

A reminder that Meta (and anyone with a six legged horse in the AI race) needs as many people as possible wearing smart glasses capturing real world video for training world models.

Here's the letter that NSF sent UCLA last week about cutting its research funding

NSF says UCLA is doing affirmative action by asking applicants' their zip codes, family income and what HS they went to, and that they can discuss race in personal statements

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Exclusive: retraction-prone editors identified at megajournal PLoS ONE Study says small editor group handled many problematic manuscripts — and a Nature investigation finds out who they are.

"45 editors handled only 1.3% of all articles published by PLoS ONE, but accounted for more than 30% of retractions. Twenty-five of these editors also authored papers in PLoS ONE that were later retracted."

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

imo, if someone believes some races or ethnicities are genetically inferior to others, that person has revealed a weakness of mind and character that casts extreme if not irrefutable doubt on their other ideas. why would i expect them to use more rigor on, eg, housing than they do on human nature?

undocumented -> tourists -> visa holders -> Green card holders -> nationalized citizens (WE ARE HERE) -> birthright citizens

This is a personal gripe, but every time I point this out the lawyers in my life share their heads “You’ll be fine.” Normalcy bias is a hell of a thing.

At this year's Open Science Conference in Hamburg we will bring into focus the intersection between Open Science and AI. On-site as well as online participation are possible. Register now! Further information and registration: www.open-science-conference.eu #OSC2025

‘We dissent’: NASA staff declare opposition to Trump cuts Declaration of dissent, which warns that science and safety are at risk, joins similar documents from staff at the EPA and the NIH.

🧪280 NASA employees past & present + at least 4 astronauts, have signed a declaration of opposition to the many of the impending drastic changes

The last six months have been full of rapid, wasteful & catastrophic changes that have sabotaged their mission.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Science isn’t the output. Science is the method that is formalized as the output. But ya know.

Calls for qualitative research to adopt open science practices are growing louder, often framed as universally desirable reforms. Yet, such calls too often ignore the epistemic, ethical, and relational distinctiveness of qualitative inquiry, making ‘openness’ a site of epistemic and political struggle. In this article, I articulate concerns about the uncritical adoption of open science principles, particularly data sharing mandates, within qualitative research. I contend that, when imposed as default, opening qualitative inquiry risks enacting harm through three key pathways: the commodification of qualitative data (including via AI tools), the decontextualization and objectification of narratives, and the erosion of participant trust and consent. These risks are not speculative. In fact, they are foreseeable outcomes of applying quantitative logics to qualitative contexts without due reflexivity (which, I contend, represent a kind of epistemic colonialism). In this paper, I position qualitative openness not as a neutral or technical good, but as a contested terrain in which power, epistemology, and institutional politics are negotiated. Against the backdrop of audit culture and algorithmic extractivism, I argue that the push to open qualitative data risks reproducing colonial and neoliberal logics under the banner of reform – a risk that should not be taken lightly.

"Building on Leonelli’s call for judicious connection and decolonial scholarship that centres relationality and knowledge stewardship, I argue for a model of openness grounded in situated ethics, dynamic consent, and resistance to imposed transparency."

doi.org/10.31219/osf...

#MetaSci #OpenSci

Introducing Linked Services: A Simpler Way to Connect Research Tools to OSF Researchers rely on a range of tools to store data, analyze results, write papers, and share outcomes. OSF's latest release, Linked Services, offers a way to bring those tools into one place, making it easier to organize, share, and connect your work.

📣 Introducing Linked Services on OSF

The new Linked Services section on OSF project overview pages enables you to connect your project to external research tools, starting with Dataverse. More Linked Services will be added in the future, offering even more flexibility.

www.cos.io/blog/intr...

Newsweek’s infamous 17 July 1995 cover: “Bisexuality: Not Gay. Not Straight. A New Sexual Identity Emerges.”

A very happy 30th birthday to bisexuality, born this day in 1995 🎂

🆕 GREI blog post: Building Skills with Generalist Repositories

Learn how GREI & The Carpentries are building open, inclusive, sustainable materials that help researchers use generalist repositories effectively—offering insights on supporting better data sharing & reuse.

🌟 medium.com/@blog-gre...

If you have been involved in the launch of a data governance program, I'd love to hear your perspective on what went well and what you'd do differently. Specifically, how did you ensure that the business saw the program as valuable and worthy of ongoing investment?
#dataBS #DataEngineering

Serving with Purpose: Lessons Learned from Consulting in Assessment and Research - Educational Leadership and Policy Studies By Jerri Berry Danso ​​​I’m Jerri Berry Danso, a first-year doctoral student in the Evaluation, Statistics, and Methodology (ESM) program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Before beginning th...

I realize when I talk to others about freelance consulting, I usually talk about procedural types of things. Which I think is helpful, but I rarely think to talk about what being a consultant means to me. This blog post, from Jerri Danso, describes that for me.
cehhs.utk.edu/elps/serving...

RoSE's 2025 e-Conference Special Interest Group Talks: - Presenting the Yet Another Conceptual Understanding of Statistics Assessment (YACUSA) - Statistics across the Curriculum: Integrating Applied Analytics in to Large General Education Courses - Enhancing Statistics Learning Through Mindfulness

Do you teach statistics, or do you conduct research about teaching statistics? The RoSE e-Conference on July 31st has sessions for you! Join our Statistics Pedagogy special interest group talks by registering for free here: bit.ly/roseconferen... #StatsEd #statistics #conferences

RDM Weekly - Issue 004 A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

Issue 4 of RDM Weekly is out now! 📫

- Data, Behind the Scenes Conference @randyau.com
- Intro to SQL @tladeras.bsky.social
- Setting up a FAIR and Reproducible Project @heidiseibold.bsky.social
- Making Data Pipelines in R @meghansharris.bsky.social
and more!

open.substack.com/pub/rdmweekl...

They bricked my Fitbit via an update shortly after acquiring the company, and when I informed them of this they were like oh sorry, here's a coupon for like 15% off. Couldn't answer why I'd bother to get a replacement if they couldn't own up to breaking my equipment. (I did not use the coupon.)

A photo of cat sitting in some Venetian blinds they have just destroyed with the text JOY DIVISION at the top and UNKNOWN PLEASURES at the bottom

This might be my favourite cat meme of 2025 so far

RDM Weekly - Issue 003 A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

Issue 3 of RDM Weekly is out now!

- Upcoming Data Stewardship Webinar @casdarnetwork.bsky.social
- Sharing Qualitative Data @cnsyoung.com
- The {excluder} package @jeffreyrstevens.com
- Basic Data Entry in Excel @statsepi.bsky.social
- And more!

rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

Unless there are mechanisms in place to make those uses impossible, it’s “meant” to do the most invasive and harmful thing people can think of to do with it.

The feds' hidden immigration weapon: Virginia's surveillance network Flock Safety cameras across Virginia weren't meant to be used for immigration enforcement — but they were.

It’s frustrating to see lines about what a surveillance tech was “meant” to do, because at every step communities have said that it would be used for these exact purposes.

📣 Call for Proposals: SIPS-PCI Registered Report Funding Partnership!
The Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science and Peer Community In Registered Reports @pci-regreports.bsky.social invite researchers from all areas of psychology to submit empirical research projects for consideration.

What *is* metascience? Issues, inclusion and future public value - Warren's blog: Publics, politics, science and technology This week, the biennial Metascience Conference came to London’s “Knowledge Quarter” with around 800 participants from a wide range of roles, including researchers, librarians, research funders, publis...

After two really enjoyable days at #Metascience2025, I wrote about how one 🌶️ moment encapsulated the controversy over metascience's issues 📑, inclusivity 🤗and future public value 🔮 #STS #AcademicSky

All feedback welcome on here, or by email 😀

warrenpearce.pika.page/posts/what-i...

A Tale of Two Science Reform Movements Reflections from meetings of Metascience 2025 and the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science

New post! "A Tale of Two Science Reform Movements," in which I compare the recent #Metascience2025 and #SIPS2025 conferences, and find that I am much more at home at one than the other. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

Open Scholarship Catalytic Awards Program — Open Research Community Accelerator The Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA), with generous support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, is pleased to launch the Open Scholarship Catalytic Awards Program.  The program aims to...

Congrats to @melissafloresphd.bsky.social & Designated Campus Colleague @nscorralfrias.bsky.social (U of Arizona), awarded the ORCA Catalytic Award in collaboration with @abrir.bsky.social to advance DEI in open & big team science! Proud of our work: orcaopen.org/work/cap
#OpenScience #ORCA #ABRIR

Missing everyone at #SIPS2025 :(

NIH plan to remove ideological influence from science. How does this fit in the junk science being promoted by the U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services?
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/06/20/n...