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DESIGN THINKING! Comic @designthinking.lol · 15d

With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.

Chasz Griego @chaszg.bsky.social · Sep 20

"La Bibliotheque, un espace en libre-acces"

I know basically zero French, but this poster immediately resonated with me while visiting the Geneva botanical garden on a trip for #OpenScience

#Libraries

A public poster for a botanical library reading "La Bibliotheque, un espace en libre-acces," which translates to "The Library, a free-access space."

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Chasz Griego @chaszg.bsky.social · Sep 15

Great first day at the #OSFair2025 at CERN in Geneva.

First a tour of the antimatter factory. I entered France on the way over without even knowing. Then a minute poster pitch i failed to prepare, capped off with the actual poster session and #wine

#OpenScience

Me in front of antimatter factory at CERN

Me standing in front of my poster with a glass of vino blanco

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · May 23

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

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Chasz Griego @chaszg.bsky.social · Apr 20

I started playing with the #NSF #GRFP award data (still open btw [1]). As we heard, this award program was also slashed [2] Below is a visual to see how we haven't had this few granted fellows for 15 years.

[1] www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...
[2] www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A bar chart displaying the number of awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships each year from the year 2000 to 2025. From 2000 to 2008, awards were close to 1000 each year. Awards increased to around 2000 per year from the years 2010 to 2022. Awards increased to over 2500 in 2023, dropped around 2000 awards in the year 2024, and now back to 1000 in the year 2025.

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Chasz Griego @chaszg.bsky.social · Apr 4

Douse a Dean @ CMU carnival. My 2025 bingo did not have @terrainsvagues.bsky.social hitting a clean bullseye, dousing @cmkeithw.bsky.social while Not Like US played in the background

Dean Keith Webster sitting in a lawn chair soaking from the dousing apparatus that hangs above him

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Chasz Griego @chaszg.bsky.social · Mar 31

Yes, huge Obsidian advocate here! Thanks for the shout out @marapauline.bsky.social

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · Mar 19

Literally. I just wanna try to help people a little and learn things?

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · Mar 19

I just want to do my work, man. That’s all any of us want to do.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · Mar 19

I just want to do my work, man. That’s all any of us want to do.

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Chasz Griego @chaszg.bsky.social · Mar 17

Last month, the second #Reproducibility Hackathon @cmulibraries.bsky.social went off without a hitch.

A fascinating study on #LLM writing and an opportunity that let many students reproduce it!
#OpenScience

library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...

2025 Reproducibility Hackathon Investigates LLM Writing Styles | CMU Libraries

On Tuesday, Feb. 18, the Libraries hosted its second annual Reproducibility Hackathon. 35 participants were challenged to replicate and augment published research, working with existing data and code ...

library.cmu.edu

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Erin Richardson @erinrichardson.bsky.social · Mar 15

This is going to kill many public libraries, especially in rural areas. If you use a public library, you will be impacted. #imls is a dust mote in the federal budget. It also provides things like internet at your local library so people can apply for jobs and kids can do homework.

Kathleen Fitzpatrick @kfitz.info · Mar 15

This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.

www.whitehouse.gov

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CMU Mellon College of Science @cmuscience.bsky.social · Mar 3

Nicole Auvil used her sharp chemistry skills to help create a "super-sniffer" that can precisely analyze chemical compounds.
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...

Nicole Auvil Awarded Kwolek Fellowship - Mellon College of Science - Carnegie Mellon University

Nicole Auvil first became interested in chemistry and machines as a high school student working for Lusso Cosmetics in her hometown of Lakewood, Ohio.

www.cmu.edu

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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Feb 19

Science is Under Siege: The Open Science Community Must Act and Lead by Examplemple https://upstream.force11.org/open-science-call-to-act/

Science is Under Siege: The Open Science Community Must Act and Lead by Example

Worldwide, science is under attack by anti-scientific movements. The new US administration has thrown the entire academy into chaos, threatening global health. This article is a call for the open science community to practice what it preaches and lead by example in defending science.

upstream.force11.org

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Chasz Griego @chaszg.bsky.social · Feb 19

Me:

- Got a higher education and a stable job
- Married and bought a house
- Understanding my mental health
- Achieved some modern form of the *American Dream*

Democracy:

Meme of SpongeBob Squarepants getting up from seat with text caption IGHT IMMA HEAD OUT

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Center for Open Science @cos.io · Feb 11

It's #LoveData25 week! 🎉 Today, we’re spotlighting insights from our recent collaboration with the Data Curation Network. Learn about:
- Why research data curation matters
- Curation best practices
- How proper curation boosts reusability, discoverability, & integrity

🛠️ cos.io/blog/data-cur...

Transforming Research with Data Curation Practices

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Feb 1

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...

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Chasz Griego @chaszg.bsky.social · Jan 31

I'm hosting an event centered around #reproducibility, #OpenScience and #AI/#LLMs @cmulibraries.bsky.social

Question of exploration: Do LLMs write like humans?

Meta-question of exploration: Do data and code about LLMs writing like humans work reliably for students that access it?

We'll see!

Carnegie Mellon University Libraries @library.cmu.edu · Jan 31

Want to interact with research exploring the nuance of Large Language Models?

We're hosting a hackathon focused on replicating and exploring research from CMU, investigating the way Al writes.

Reproducibility Hackathon 2025: bit.ly/rephackathon...

Tues. 2/18, 4:30-8:30pm - Hunt Library, Room 308

A pair of glasses in front of computer code.

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Chasz Griego @chaszg.bsky.social · Jan 31

#NewMexicoTech was an excellent institution for me.

We sensed that leadership was corrupt, but that quickly changed when President Stephen Wells arrived.

I am not surprised at all that Wells uncovered this corruption and was forced out because of it.

www.abqjournal.com/news/courts/...

Former New Mexico Tech president contends he was fired for exposing mismanagement

Stephen Wells is a geologist by profession, but after becoming president of one of the state’s most prestigious universities, the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, he became a

www.abqjournal.com

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · Jan 29

Reporters: Please stop calling things DEI that are not DEI. This is only cementing the propaganda being used to legitimize the dismantling of all types of initiatives that are not DEI as well as legitimize efforts to end civil rights enforcement. Be specific with your language. Be accurate.

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · Jan 28

Email from Stanford leadership: “Based on our initial assessment, and in light of the extensive uncertainty about the Memo’s meaning, we do not believe it is necessary or appropriate to pause federally-funded research activities at Stanford at this time.”

Phew,but incredible it even has to be said.

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Elizabeth Hargrave @elizhargrave.bsky.social · Jan 28

This. My dad had an endowed position but every other person in his lab was grant funded, often from cobbling together grants that each ran for years. To just stop all of them? People don't eat, AND in medical research, if people can't work you might lose whole experiments.

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jan 28

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion

The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Chasz Griego @chaszg.bsky.social · Jan 27

Interesting survey on trust in scientists
>70k respondents, 68 countries. LOTs to digest, but when surveying for public perception of scientist trustworthiness:

Openness scored the lowest between metrics of competence, benevolence, integrity, and openness!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · Oct 19

ACRL News, I beg of you, talk about book bans based on discrimination against Black and LGBTQ+ people, and the rise in antisemitism and islamophobia. It is like pulling teeth to get most of my academic library colleagues to acknowledge anything besides "AI" right now and you are not helping 🫠

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Chasz Griego @chaszg.bsky.social · Jan 23

In the last administration, we had a year of #OpenScience. But really, we have a lifetime of it, regardless of an administration that tries to hide it.

bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ostp/

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Open Research, University of Sheffield @openresshef.bsky.social · Jan 22

A quick reminder of this hopefully useful starter pack of librarians & library teams interested in open research (including open access, FAIR research data management, open licensing, open educational resources & more):

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