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Most Common PIN Codes — Information is Beautiful

Delta Think @deltathink.bsky.social · 5d

🔢 Think your PIN is original? Think again.

@infobeautiful.bsky.social has visualized the most common PIN codes in the world — and let’s just say, “1234” is doing a lot of heavy lifting. 😅

informationisbeautiful.net/visualizatio...

#DataVisualization #FridayFun #DataStorytelling #DeltaThinkData

How predictable is yours?

informationisbeautiful.net

Delta Think @deltathink.bsky.social · 6d

@heatherstaines.bsky.social and @meagan-g-phelan.bsky.social checking in on Meagna's keynote at
@scholarlypub.bsky.social's New Directions Seminar focused on the critical intersection of science, politics, and public trust.

#Trust #Evidence #Scholarship #Science #ScholComm

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Delta Think @deltathink.bsky.social · 7d

🎤@heatherstaines.bsky.social is live at @scholarlypub.bsky.social's New Directions Seminar!

And always terrific to find to time to connect with #ScholComm friends and colleagues. We 👀 you DK and Bill!

#ScholarlyPublishing #Community

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Delta Think @deltathink.bsky.social · 11d

📚 The reprint you’ve been waiting for…

E.A. Codman’s 1896 Album of Stereoscopic & Plain X-Rays (hot off Roentgen’s discovery) is finally back — digitized by Harvard’s Countway Library.

👉 countway.harvard.edu/news/ea-codm...

#ScholComm #HistoryOfScience #FridayFun #Science

E.A. Codman's 1896 Album of Stereoscopic and Plain X-rays Digitized! | Countway Library

The Center for the History of Medicine is pleased to announce the digitization of E. A. Codman's Album of stereoscopic and plain X-rays : radiographs, 1896. This album represents some of the earliest ...

countway.harvard.edu

Delta Think @deltathink.bsky.social · 12d

📊 Delta Think is finalizing our Annual Market Sizing Analysis—a rigorous look at the global journals market with a focus on OA trends. Don’t miss our free 2025 report + webinar.

Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#ScholComm #OA #DeltaThinkData

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Delta Think News & Views: Market Sizing Update. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Our annual update on shifts in Open Access content including context and long-term trends

us02web.zoom.us

Smart AI, Smarter Scholarship

Delta Think @deltathink.bsky.social · 19d

🤖 Smart AI. Smarter Scholarship.

Our latest News & Views looks at how AI is reshaping research + publishing—beyond the hype.

Read more: www.deltathink.com/smart-ai-sma...

✉️ Sign up for updates or meet us at #FBF25 + #CharlestonConf.

#AI #ScholComm #ManageToChange

Can ChatGPT help science writers?

Delta Think @deltathink.bsky.social · 20d

🔨 Science explores opportunities and challenges for science communication in an era of generative AI, raising questions about how AI may support—but not replace—critical human skills like judgment, accuracy, and storytelling.

#ScholComm #AcademicPublishing #AI

www.science.org/content/blog...

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Delta Think @deltathink.bsky.social · 21d

Update from #OASPA2025 ...

Malavika Legge, @oaspa.bsky.social Program Manager, moderates the Interactive Feedback Session with an assist from her very talented son and a reminder from
Maurice York's 2024 Keynote Address: "Only all of us know enough ... "

#OA #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing

Interview: Heather Staines, member of the Executive and Education Committees COUNTER Metrics

Delta Think @deltathink.bsky.social · 21d

We see you @heatherstaines.bsky.social 👀!

infoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · 21d

Interview: Heather Staines, Member of the Executive and Education Committees COUNTER Metrics www.countermetrics.org/interview-he... #scholcomm #publishing #libraries @deltathink.bsky.social

Our latest interview is with Heather Staines. Heather is a member of both the COUNTER Executive Committee and the Education Committee.

www.countermetrics.org

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Delta Think @deltathink.bsky.social · 22d

Day one at #OASPA2025 ... amazing setting at Irish College Leuven and welcome remarks from @viroviacum.bsky.social.

We have FOMO, but if you are attending, please be sure to check in with @heatherstaines.bsky.social.

#OA #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing

Why would anyone want to be a scientist?

Delta Think @deltathink.bsky.social · 25d

Why would anyone want to be a scientist?

We ❤️ this thoughtful piece from @biologists.bsky.social ... a powerful reminder of why scientists and their work matters.

#Science #Researchers #Passion #Innovation #Progress

journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

It is difficult to fathom why anyone intelligent enough to be a scientist would actually choose to be one. Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently...

journals.biologists.com

Delta Think @deltathink.bsky.social · 26d

US policy shifts → OA ripple effects.

Check in with @heatherstaines.bsky.social at #OASPA2025 to explore insights from Delta Think’s Author/Researcher survey.

#OpenAccess #OAPolicy #ScholComm #DeltaThinkData #AcademicPublishing #Scholarship

www.deltathink.com/delta-thinks...

Delta Think’s Survey Results: What 13,000 Researchers Revealed About the Fallout from US Funding Cuts

Delta Think @deltathink.bsky.social · 27d

The @arl.org has submitted comments on NIH's proposal to limit allowable publication costs.

ARL argues that capping APCs risks shifting costs back onto libraries without addressing systemic issues in scholarly communication.

#ScholComm #Research #Funding
#Policy

www.arl.org/wp-content/u...

www.arl.org

Peer Review Week (PRW) is a global celebration of the vital role peer review plays in ensuring the quality and integrity of research.

Delta Think @deltathink.bsky.social · 28d

🥳 Celebrating #PeerReviewWeek #PRW2025: RETHINKING PEER REVIEW IN THE AI ERA

Check out all of the events and activities and get involved at peerreviewweek.net

#ScholComm #AcademicPublishing #PeerReview

peerreviewweek.net

UCLA researchers host science fair to showcase work suspended by the Trump administration

Delta Think @deltathink.bsky.social · 29d

At UCLA, researchers recently staged a “science fair” to showcase projects halted by the suspension of more than $584 million in federal grants.

Funding disruptions don’t pause science — they dismantle it.

#Research #Funding #Policy #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing

laist.com/news/educati...

On Thursday evening, dozens of researchers hosted a science fair at UCLA to demonstrate the long-term impact of frozen grants.

laist.com

AI Darwin Awards 2025 - Celebrating Spectacularly Bad AI Decisions

Delta Think @deltathink.bsky.social · Sep 12

🚨 Proof that humans have not cornered the market on stupidity.

#AI #Innovation #Oops #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing

aidarwinawards.org/index.html

Honouring those who use artificial intelligence in spectacularly reckless ways. Submit nominations for the most catastrophically ill-advised AI deployments of 2025.

aidarwinawards.org

Delta Think @deltathink.bsky.social · Sep 11

Seen at #ALPSP2025 ...

➡️ @elainestott.bsky.social hanging out with @heatherstaines.bsky.social

➡️ @kellyhenwood.bsky.social, Jitske De Vries, Tina Harseim, and @charlierapple.bsky.social discussing strategies for social media/digital engagement in #ScholComm, orchestrated by DT's Diane Harnish

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Delta Think @deltathink.bsky.social · Sep 10

🛎️ Live from Manchester!

@heatherstaines.bsky.social Staines, Wayne Sime, and Innovation Award Finalist Rebecca Taylor Green kick off #ALPSP2025.

#ScholComm #Community #AcademicPublishing

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Delta Think @deltathink.bsky.social · Sep 10

How much will U.S. funding decisions ripple across the global research and publishing ecosystem?

@heatherstaines.bsky.social and Dan Pollock dig into the impact of NSF funding cuts on #ScholComm.

www.deltathink.com/news-views-h...

#Science #Funding #Policy #AcademicPublishing #DeltaThinkData

News & Views: How much will cuts to NSF funding affect the future of scholarly publishing?

A crowdsourced database tracks US science grant cancellations

Delta Think @deltathink.bsky.social · Sep 8

@aip-publishing.bsky.social's Physics Today recently spotlighted a new crowdsourced database that maps U.S. science grant funding.

#Science #Research #Funding #Policy

pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...

Increasing transparency and informing advocacy and litigation efforts are the main goals of the online resource, which monitors the status of funds awarded by NSF and NIH.

pubs.aip.org

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Delta Think @deltathink.bsky.social · Sep 7

#Beautiful #Science #Passion #Vocation

Science News @scinews.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Delta Think @deltathink.bsky.social · Sep 5

It turns out leeches aren’t just for medieval medicine. They’re still in use today — and yes, it’s evidence-based. 🪱➡️🩺

It may sound a little icky, but science says leeches still get the job done.

www.healthcare-brew.com/stories/2025...

#Gross #FridayFun #Science #ScholComm

How leeches (yes, leeches!) are used in medicine today

Leeches. Why did it have to be leeches?

www.healthcare-brew.com

Delta Think @deltathink.bsky.social · Sep 4

Less paperwork, more science?

New @nationalacademies.org report pushes to streamline U.S. research regs — changes that could reshape publisher workflows too.

nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2923...

#ScholComm #ResearchPolicy #AcademicPublishing

Simplifying Research Regulations and Policies: Optimizing American Science

Read online, download a free PDF, or order a copy in print.

nap.nationalacademies.org