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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 3h

On December 12, we’re hosting a webinar on Scraping, covering several different approaches to scraping and data access for open source researchers. Sign up here: www.bellingcat.com/workshops/de...

December 12, 2025: Intermediate Scraping Webinar (4 hour) [Americas / Europe-friendly time] - bellingcat

December 12, 2025: Intermediate Scraping Webinar (4 hour) [Americas / Europe-friendly time]

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 3h

Want to learn how to track aircrafts? On December 11 we have an online workshop focused on flight tracking tools, terminology and methods. Find more information here: www.bellingcat.com/workshops/de...

December 11, 2025: Flight Tracking Workshop (4 hour) [Americas / Europe-friendly time] - bellingcat

December 11, 2025: Flight Tracking Workshop (4 hour) [Americas / Europe-friendly time]

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 3h

These days don’t work for you? We’re also hosting this training in November. www.bellingcat.com/workshops/no...

November 25 - 28, 2025: Bellingcat Online Workshop (16-hour) [Europe-friendly time] - bellingcat

November 25 - 28, 2025: Bellingcat Online Workshop (16-hour) [Europe-friendly time]

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 3h

We’re hosting a four day online workshop in verification and social media & individual-focused research. Check what open source fundamental we’ll cover, and other information here: www.bellingcat.com/workshops/oc...

October 28 - 31, 2025: Bellingcat Online Workshop (16-hour) [Americas / Europe-friendly time] - bellingcat

October 28 - 31, 2025: Bellingcat Online Workshop (16-hour) [Americas / Europe-friendly time]

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 3h

Bellingcat offers a variety of workshops designed to sharpen your online investigation skills. Want to learn how to verify online claims, or gather data through web scraping? Check out our upcoming online workshops and webinars. Make sure to sign up! ⬇️

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 9h

You know what tool existed when I was in high school that no one ever taught me how to use? Excel. A thing I use all the time now, mostly self-taught, existed in the late 1990s and no one was upending the curriculum to make sure I knew how to use it.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 9h

It felt like an extremely radical thing to say "you can just not teach them how to use this. i don't even know what it means to teach them AI skills but you can also just not. it might make your students more hireable, honestly."

But this idea that it's a tool whose existence justifies its use?

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 9h

i told her that she can't go wrong teaching her kids to read and write and think, and that she doesn't have to use any of this garbage if it's not helping her teach kids how to do those important things. one of my old english teachers was fist pumping in the back row but not sure it really landed.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 10h

I was with a panel of people who were all making good arguments about why AI will never replace this or that skill or job, so maybe we'll be okay, and I finally said to one teacher: "you can just say no. you don't have to use it. it steals from people and teaches no skills. it's not a good tool."

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 10h

I was at my old high school today, for the first time in over twenty years, to talk to the teachers about how their curriculum can better support students. AI came up, and so many teachers were saying "Well it's a tool, they have to know how to use it, it's the future so we have to accept it!"

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 1d

Environmental problems are complex, and they are not going to be solved by the first thought that pops into your head after thinking about the problem for seven and a half seconds.

We often need your help. But we do not need you to reinvent the wheel poorly, or to guess how to help.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 1d

If you can see why that cannot possibly help resolve the situation-because the professional locksmith has tools, training, and information you do not have, and this is not a combination lock- you understand why I'm so annoyed when people do *the same thing* to conservation scientists ALL THE TIME.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 1d

Scene: As you're walking down the street, you see a professional locksmith trying to open a locked storefront door to help the store owner who accidentally locked their keys inside.

You shout out "hey, my high school locker combination started with 27, I hope that helps" and keep walking.

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Ben Young Landis @younglandis.bsky.social · 1d

And bookmark the Arizona State University initiative for cannabis analytics, safety, and health, led by @leung-lab.bsky.social. (I met Max when we were both Blue Devils and nowadays he's a Sun Devil 😈): newcollege.asu.edu/research/cen... 🧪

Cannabis Analytics, Safety and Health Initiative | New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences

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Ben Young Landis @younglandis.bsky.social · 1d

Also see Max's new #SciPol piece in @issuesinst.bsky.social on improving cannabis analytics, health, and safety in the United States: issues.org/coordinated-... 🧪

A Coordinated Approach to Cannabis Policy and Product Safety

The United States urgently needs a coordinated approach to regulating cannabis use that prioritizes product safety and patient well-being.

issues.org

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Ben Young Landis @younglandis.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats to my friend and #SciComm client Maxwell Leung @leung-lab.bsky.social at ASU on being named as an expert source in this @npr.org #NPRShortWave segment! On major gaps in contaminant testing and patient safety assurances for medical cannabis across U.S. states:
www.npr.org/2025/10/14/n... 🧪

Why patchy state weed regulations may put your health at risk : Short Wave

Marijuana is decriminalized or legal in some form in multiple states. But, because it’s illegal on the federal level, states have had to build their own regulatory infrastructure. Without a centralize...

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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 1d

Dear funding agencies,

I know we all want to discover the wonder drug that will cure the horrible diseases, but to do that, we need to invest in basic, unsexy, foundational research on how the systems work. Funding can’t all be drug development.

Sincerely,
Looking for basic research grants.

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Nature @nature.com · 1d

Sex cells made from scratch could revolutionize human reproduction

go.nature.com/432Vnf9

The quest to make babies with lab-grown eggs and sperm

Sex cells made from scratch could revolutionize human reproduction. But researchers are struggling to translate promising results in mice into benefits for humans.

go.nature.com

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 1d

To date we have found very nearly 400,000 mentions of research in the podcast world.

Podcast data is available right now on our Details Pages, The Altmetric Explorer database, the Altmetric API and FOR DATA NERDS on Altmetric data hosted on Google BigQuery.

Please enjoy
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 1d

In January 2025 Mark appeared on Preprints in Motion, a podcast run by @ripplingideas.bsky.social.

Because the podcast links to his article LIKE A BOSS, we caught the mention along with two other podcasts that covered it while it was still in preprint form:
www.altmetric.com/de...

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Report for: The strain on scientific publishing

In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 1d

There are 36,000 or so podcasts that explicitly link to research in some of their episode descriptions. That's how we find the research citations btw, exactly how we also do it with YouTube.

Podcasters: Link to the research in your episode descriptions!
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I will find you meme. We very nearly went for Liam Neeson in taken but that seemed threatening.

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 1d

Podcast episodes have been one of the top requests for tracking we've received along with Bluesky, sentiment analysis and for this account to calm down and post sensibly (two out of three ain't bad.)

Here are the numbers on podcast attention to research and how it works.

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Podcast volumes of attention to research over time graph

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 1d

PODCASTS

Altmetric now tracks podcasts mentioning research

In 2018 there were roughly 500,000 podcasts in existence. Just 3 years later that number was 2 million. Today it's around 4 million.

Amid all the Squarespace ads there's citations to research.

Let's go
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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 1d

These are the Office icons Microsoft rejected. Microsoft experimented with some new Office icons that closely resembled its older Office for Mac designs. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799736/...

These are the Office icons Microsoft rejected

Microsoft explored some designs that closely resembled its older Office for Mac icons.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d

Madness. In jail, in another state, since Sunday, clarinetist Oriana Korol is a 38-year-old child and family therapist, a U.S. citizen and mom with a 3 y.o.

Sound dangerous?

The Sheriff says she is being held on suspicion of assault on a federal officer. But, not charged yet?

Habeas corpus, kids!

pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 1d

more detailed story in the @oregonian.com

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Federal agents barrel into band at Portland ICE protest, arrest clarinetist, accuse her of assault

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

www.oregonlive.com

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