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Kristi Holmes
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Professor and Director at Northwestern University - Leveraging collaborative information initiatives to drive discovery and health #openscience
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lseimpactblog.bsky.social
💥New: Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science

✍️ @danbrockington.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca

#AcademicSky #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing
Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science - Impact of Social Sciences
Have the interests of commercial publishers now become antithetical to the pursuit of knowledge?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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npr.org
The adventures of a precocious 6-year-old and his stuffed tiger debuted on November 18, 1985. NPR's Renee Montagne spoke with the comic strip's editor, Lee Salem, in 2005.
40 years ago, Calvin and Hobbes' raucous adventures burst onto the comics page
The adventures of a precocious 6-year-old and his stuffed tiger debuted on November 18, 1985. NPR's Renee Montagne spoke with the comic strip's editor, Lee Salem, in 2005.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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bffo.bsky.social
From @csoneson.bsky.social , @markrobinsonca.bsky.social & colleagues in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Building a continuous #benchmarking ecosystem in #bioinformatics | #Education 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓  
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Building a continuous benchmarking ecosystem in bioinformatics
Benchmarking, which involves collecting reference datasets and demonstrating method performance, is a requirement for the development of new computational tools, but also becomes a domain of its own t...
journals.plos.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk 🎤

If you’ve read this far and still need convincing, please check out our preprint arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 and this infographic: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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The four-fold drain of scientific publishing: Money, Time, Trust, and Control.
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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natureportfolio.nature.com
A Perspective in Nature Medicine outlines an agenda for urban health research that promotes a virtuous cycle by which population health and environmental sustainability support and reinforce each other. go.nature.com/49g7kC3 #healthpolicy #publichealth 🧪
This is figure 3, which shows conceptual models to understand drivers of urban health.
November 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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jambina.bsky.social
WHO ASKED FOR THIS?!?!
jtullock.bsky.social Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · 14d
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
Screen grab from Dropbox saying Emojis in file names are finally here!
November 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
kristiholmes.bsky.social
As the mother of a thoroughly interesting 13 year old, I absolutely love this. ❤️
November 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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sfchronicle.com
A review of health records from more than 130,000 adults found that people who used melatonin for a year or longer were significantly more likely to develop heart failure, be hospitalized for it, or die from any cause within five years.
Melatonin for sleep linked to 90% higher risk of heart failure, study finds
A major American Heart Association analysis suggests that long-term melatonin use for sleep could be linked to a higher risk of heart failure and death among adults with chronic insomnia.
bit.ly
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
Even chimpanzees think rationally and weigh the evidence when making a choice ;-)
@science.org
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Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs
The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...
www.science.org
October 31, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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diplo-drama.bsky.social
No SNAP in November?
If you have the means, donate to your local food pantries. Kids shouldn’t go hungry!
October 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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barrybutler9.bsky.social
Friday's Flow. This morning along Chicago's lakefront.
October 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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mbeisen.bsky.social
Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:33 AM
kristiholmes.bsky.social
Thanks to @scedmunds.bsky.social for sharing your expert perspectives during your talk today, "Integrating Machine Learning Standards in Disseminating ML Research" #IDW2025
October 14, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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govpritzker.illinois.gov
Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.
October 14, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Californian Morning' (mid 20thc) by US artist and printmaker Emmy Lou Packard (1914-1998) #WomensArt
Print featuring a line of different wild plants in silhouette with a singing blackbird perched in one and a dragonfly flying above, all in front of the ocean under an orange sun
October 12, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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galterlibrary.bsky.social
Next Friday! Join Galter Special Collections at Graceland Cemetery for a tour through history as we explore the final resting places of renowned Feinberg faculty and graduates.
🔗Register: galter.northwestern.edu/course_info/...
Promotional image for the Feinberg Founders & Notables Historical Walking Tour at Graceland Cemetery, featuring tombstones and monuments under a partly cloudy sky. Event date: Friday, October 17, 2:00–3:30 pm.
October 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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makedatacount.bsky.social
NEW RESOURCE available from the Make Data Count and HELIOS Open ‘Implementing data evaluation in academia’ Working Group. This implementation guide provides practical guidance for integrating data and other open outputs in institutional review processes.

Download the guide: tinyurl.com/y77e73n8
October 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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scienceeurope.org
📢Join the upcoming webinar to explore how monitoring & evidence gathering can support #OpenScience, research assessment reform, and systemic change, featuring discussions on key international initiatives.

🕓 20 Oct, 16:00 CEST
📍Online
👉Register: bit.ly/4305IIn
October 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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galterlibrary.bsky.social
Join us this October for our virtual classes! Register here: galter.northwestern.edu/classes
NIH, My NCBI and PMCIDs - Virtual Q & A "Office Hours" Date: Fri, October 10 11:00 AM CDT Location: Online (Zoom) Conducting a Systematic Review: Part 2 - Tools & Resources Date: Wed, October 15 1:00 PM CDT Location: Online (Zoom) EndNote Date: Thu, October 16 12:00 PM CDT Location: Online (zoom) NIH Public Access Policy and Publication Management with MyNCBI Date: Thu, October 16 12:00 PM CDT Location: Online (Zoom) Feinberg Founders & Notables: Historical Walking Tour of Graceland Cemetery Date: Fri, October 17 2:00 PM CDT Location: Graceland Cemetery & Arboretum Prism: collect, share, and preserve the full spectrum of your work Date: Tue, October 21 9:00 AM CDT Location: Online (Zoom) ORCID: Register, Use, Share Date: Tue, October 21 10:00 AM CDT Location: Online (Zoom) PubMed Date: Tue, October 21 10:00 AM CDT Location: Online (Zoom) Northwestern Elements Date: Tue, October 21 11:00 AM CDT Location: Online (Zoom) Proofig AI Training: Research Integrity with Automated Image Verification Date: Wed, October 22 12:00 PM CDT Location: Online (Zoom) Using SciENcv for NIH Biosketches and Other Support Documents Date: Thu, October 23 12:00 PM CDT Location: Online (Zoom) Getting to Know the NIH Policy on Data Management and Sharing Date: Mon, October 27 10:00 AM CDT Location: Online (Zoom)
October 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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newyorker.com
Tim-Berners Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, is now building tools that aim to resist big-tech platforms, give users control over their own data, and prevent A.I. from hollowing out the open web.
Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It
In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive monopolies, he thinks he can do it again.
www.newyorker.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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nucatsinstitute.bsky.social
Changing the Way We Talk: How Science Communications Brings Research to the Masses — bit.ly/4mCl7WB
September 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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juancommander.scholcommlab.ca
JOB OPPORTUNITY: @pkp.sfu.ca is looking for a Managing Director! This is a rare opportunity to lead a highly impactful #scholcomm organization. Role works closely with me (Scientific Director) to provide strategic and operational leadership. Help us spread the word!

pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
PKP is hiring a Managing Director - Public Knowledge Project
The Public Knowledge Project, a Core Research Facility of SFU, invites applications for the position of Managing Director
pkp.sfu.ca
September 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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richardsever.bsky.social
HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
September 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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galterlibrary.bsky.social
Excited for Medical Education Day!! 💜@nufeinbergmed.bsky.social Hope you get a chance to visit us and grab some library swag and candy!
Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center booth under a 'BREAK BOX' sign, with a banner, informational materials, snacks, and two people interacting.
September 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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nicoatnu.bsky.social
Announcing our fall seminar speakers! Starting September 24th, with talks by leading researchers from Northwestern, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon University, Midjourney, and Google.

Join us each Wednesday at 12pm US Central: bit.ly/WedatNICO

#WedatNICO #ComplexSystems #DataScience #AI
An event flyer for Wednesday @ NICO Fall 2025 seminars, September 24 to November 12, featuring talks by by Emma Alexander, Sébastien Martin, Tomer Ullman, Patrick Park, Max Kreminski, Elizabeth Gerber, Julio Ottino, and Blaise Agüera y Arcas.
September 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM