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Larry Swanson @larry.bsky.social · 12d

Super-fun to chat with @torreybird.bsky.social about her childhood family dinner-table conversations about semantics, her work aligning stakeholders on language and meaning in big digital projects, and how to close "semantic gaps" in complex organizations.

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Torrey Podmajersky: language and meaning in complex systems

Torrey Podmajersky is a UX writer and content designer and an expert on aligning semantics and language in the design complex systems.

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Andy Welfle 🛰️ @andy.wtf · Sep 18

What's the German word for that specific feeling of satisfaction you get when you find an inexpensive paint pen that writes REALLY clearly and nicely on a strange (but cool) coverstock that your fresh Field Notes uses, when regular ink or graphite doesn't show up very well at all?

A blue Field Notes memo book on a laptop keyboard, opened to the inside cover. “Andy Welfle” is written in yellow ink on the name line, with the start date filled in as 9/14/2025 and the location as San Francisco. A yellow GetHPen Highlight Pen rests diagonally across the notebook. To the right, another open notebook page dated September 14, 2025 shows handwritten notes in blue ink.

Close-up of the inside cover of a blue Field Notes memo book with “Andy Welfle” written in yellow ink on the property line. The clear cap of a yellow GetHPen Highlight Pen rests across the bottom edge of the notebook. A laptop keyboard is visible in the background.

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Larry Swanson @larry.bsky.social · Sep 6

So good to see @velitchkov.eu at Semantics 2025. Great presentation on applying data centricity and rules to gnarly procurement problems.

Ivo @velitchkov.eu · Sep 5

Really enjoyed @semantics-conf.bsky.social 2025, once again (this is the 4th time I participate)

Here's my slidedeck kvistgaard.github.io/slides/rules...

#SEMANTiCS2025

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Larry Swanson @larry.bsky.social · Aug 20

Casey Hart connects professional #ontology practice and the academic discipline of #philosophy and shows how concepts like epistemology, metaphysics, and rhetoric are relevant to both knowledge graphs and AI technology in general.

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Casey Hart: the philosophical foundations of ontology practice

Casey Hart is an expert on the academic and philosophical foundations of professional ontology practice and knowledge graph construction.

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Chris Mungall @cmungall.bsky.social · Aug 15

This is terrible news, not just for fly research, Drosophila is a key model organism that helps us understand shared biological pathways and the systems that underpin many human diseases 💔💔💔

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Aug 13

FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

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Harvard University lays off fly database team

The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.

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metaphacts @metaphacts.bsky.social · Aug 7

#AI adoption is growing in #LifeSciences, and a human-in-the-loop ( #HITL ) approach is an essential collaborator. HITL ensures accurate outcomes, eliminates bias, and allows humans to provide critical oversight. Read more:

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#HumanInTheLoop #Research #Healthcare

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Larry Swanson @larry.bsky.social · Aug 5

@cmungall.bsky.social‬ tackles complex #knowledgeManagement challenges in the life sciences with well-honed collaborative methods and AI-augmented computational tooling, streamlining #ontology creation and #knowledgeGraph building.

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Chris Mungall: collaborative knowledge graphs in the life sciences

Chris Mungall is an expert on building knowledge graphs for the life sciences with a wide variety of scientific collaborators.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · Jul 26

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

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Larry Swanson @larry.bsky.social · Jul 23

Leveraging MCP and LLM-powered natural-language interfaces, Emeka Okoye has created RDF Explorer, a Model Context Protocol #MCP service that lets any developer surf the semantic web without having to learn #RDF.

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Emeka Okoye: exploring the semantic web with MCP

Emeka Okoye, is a very experienced ontology engineer and the creator of the RDF Explorer linked data tool, an MCP service

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Larry Swanson @larry.bsky.social · Jul 7

Tom Plasterer was instrumental in the creation of the now-widely-adopted #FAIRdata principle, the idea - driven by the introduction of the #semanticWeb - that data should be findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.

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Tom Plasterer: the origins of FAIR data practices

Tom Plasterer was instrumental in early efforts to make web data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable - that is, FAIR.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · Jul 5

stop letting venture capitalists set the agenda.

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · Jun 27

Back in the day, Twitter used to be really good if I set up a thread to connect freelancers with clients. Let's see if Bluesky can do it.

Clients: if you're looking for freelancers/contractors, get in the comments

Freelancers/contractors: get in comments

Everyone else: boosts appreciated

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · Jun 27

Fact: It is my birthday.
Fact: I run a free+ad-free newsletter about keeping tech/UX design accountable, called Product Picnic.

Conclusion: legally, you have to subscribe to it. The word of the birthday boy is law!

The Product Picnic

Writing on UX and product management to connect today's discourse with classic insights that the industry forgot.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · Jun 25

One of the lessons of working with lots of different clients in lots of different businesses is that “building useful abstractions” is a very valuable skill, but one that absolutely cannot replace real operational knowledge of the things being abstracted

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Larry Swanson @larry.bsky.social · Jun 12

Drawing on her background in the #humanities and her pragmatic approach to business, Mara Inglezakis Owens has developed #knowledgeArchitecture practices that delight system users and demonstrate value to key stakeholders. And she's fun to talk with :)

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Mara Inglezakis Owens: a people-loving enterprise architect

Mara Inglezakis Owens is a human-centered enterprise architect at a major US airline with a background in rhetoric and the humanities.

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Larry Swanson @larry.bsky.social · Jun 10

Manny Silva has created Docs as Tests, a system that integrates well-developed #techComms practices and a collection of engineering tooling, to help #technicalWriters streamline and constantly improve their software #documentation and #QA work.

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Manny Silva: Docs as Tests for resilient technical documentation

Manny Silva is the author of the book "Docs as Tests: A Strategy for Resilient Technical Documentation" and a tech writer at Skyflow.

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Larry Swanson @larry.bsky.social · May 23

Frank van Harmelen's #AI research looks at how technical systems can best support #people. While some in the AI world seek to replace #humans with machines, he focuses on #hybridIntelligence that supports and collaborates with #people.

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Frank van Harmelen: hybrid human-machine intelligence for AI

Frank van Harmelen's Hybrid Intelligence Centre investigates AI systems that collaborate with people instead of replacing them.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · May 10

No, we are not going to live on other planets. Bullshit artists like Musk might as well be the leaders of death cults. arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

Silicon Valley billionaires literally want the impossible

Ars chats with physicist and science journalist Adam Becker about his new book, More Everything Forever.

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Denny Vrandečić @vrandecic.bsky.social · May 8

Had a wonderful conversation with Larry, talking about Abstract Wikipedia, Wikidata, knowledge, and language barriers. Larry, thank you for having me over!

Larry Swanson @larry.bsky.social · May 8

As the founder of Wikidata, @vrandecic.bsky.social has thought a lot about how to better connect the world's knowledge. His current project, Abstract Wikipedia, aims to let anyone on the planet contribute to the world's collective knowledge.

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Denny Vrandečić: Abstract Wikipedia connecting the world's knowledge

Denny Vrandečić aims to better connect the world's knowledge with the Abstract Wikipedia project.

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Larry Swanson @larry.bsky.social · May 8

Thank YOU, Denny! Awesome conversation.

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Larry Swanson @larry.bsky.social · May 8

As the founder of Wikidata, @vrandecic.bsky.social has thought a lot about how to better connect the world's knowledge. His current project, Abstract Wikipedia, aims to let anyone on the planet contribute to the world's collective knowledge.

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Denny Vrandečić: Abstract Wikipedia connecting the world's knowledge

Denny Vrandečić aims to better connect the world's knowledge with the Abstract Wikipedia project.

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International Semantic Web Conference @iswc-conf.bsky.social · May 6

⏰ The clock is ticking! ⏰

This is your last chance to submit to the ISWC Research, Resource, and In-use Tracks!

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Larry Swanson @larry.bsky.social · May 1

Charles Ivie on the "failure" of the #semanticWeb: Now that more than half of the world's web pages share #RDF annotations and #knowledgeGraphs are widely adopted across enterprises, let's call it what it is - a rousing success.

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Charles Ivie: the rousing success of the semantic web "failure"

Charles Ivie the ostensibly failed "semantic web" knowledge-representation "failure" has actually been quite successful.

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Larry Swanson @larry.bsky.social · Apr 25

Andrea Gioia helps his clients build reusable #dataProducts to capitalize on the value in their #enterprise data assets. Built around collaboratively developed #ontologies, Andrea's products have evolved into something that might also be called a #knowledgeProduct.

Andrea Gioia: human-centered modeling for data products

Andrea Gioia helps his clients build composable, reusable data products so they can capitalize on the value in their data assets.

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Larry Swanson @larry.bsky.social · Apr 22

At Autogram, @eaton.fyi has developed a #contentObservability framework to address the complexity of modern digital architectures, evaluating the composition, quality, health, and effectiveness of content programs to help enterprises measure their #contentROI.

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Jeff Eaton: content observability in complex systems

At Autogram, Jeff Eaton and Karen McGrane developed a content observability framework to address complex, modern content ROI measurement.

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