On Monday I received this email, sad news:
#cipres #philogeny #biology #bio #genetic #bioinformatics #informatics #taxonomy #science #sci #philogenetics #treeoflife #CIPRES #populationgenetics #code #coding

Had my social informatics students read work @pluralistic did with Consumer Reports about social media federation and user rights. Also considering what we can learn about society, technology, and ethics from science fiction.

If anybody is interested in reusing, here's the text of the module. Comments welcome if you plan to use or have used.

/* ACTIVITY BEGINS

SETUP: Students work with this material in collaborative file space

As a group, read these two connected pieces:

1. “Inside the Clock Tower: An Interoperability Story,” a short story by Cory Doctorow, commissioned by Consumer Reports regarding user experiences on social media and how regulatory legislation might affect those experiences - https://innovation.consumerreports.org/inside-the-clock-tower

2. “An Interview with Tech Activist and Author Cory Doctorow,” about the ACCESS Act by Consumer Reports - https://www.consumerreports.org/digital-rights/an-interview-with-tech-activist-and-author-cory-doctorow-a1943952645

Answer these questions as a group in the space below:

1. How can you use our class science fiction readings to connect Doctorow’s assessment of the real social media landscape with his portrayal of a social media landscape in science fiction?

2. How can you use lessons from Kling, Hanson, and Coleman to explain how Doctorow’s actions here are a kind of folksy social informatics?

3. How can you connect Doctorow’s work in both pieces to your understanding of the Mastodon social network?

ACTIVITY ENDS */

Our paper on leveraging large language models for academic conference organization (the AMIA 2024 Informatics Summit) was published today in npj Digital Medicine.

#LLMs #informatics

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-025-01492-7

Calling master's and PhD students!

The 2025 Graduate Researchers Award has opened for nominations!

Recognizing the work of two early-career researchers, the 2025 programme will provide two €5,000 prizes highlighting research and discovery in biodiversity informatics by grad students whose studies rely on GBIF-mediated data.

Learn more: https://gbif.link/gra-2025

AMIA 2025 Annual Symposium Call for Participation https://amia.org/education-events/amia-2025-annual-symposium/call-participation #informatics #bioinformatics #amia25

“ … what can Wikipedia tell us about human curiosity? Dani Bassett, a professor in the department of bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania, observed three different curiosity styles in people browsing the online encyclopedia—hunter, busybody, and dancer. They explain characteristics of each style and how which approach you use could depend on where you live.”

#anthropology #sociology #psychology #informatics #informationscience

https://www.science.org/content/podcast/challenges-studying-misinformation-and-what-wikipedia-can-tell-us-about-human-curiosity

I'm Märta, she/they, 35 yrs, living in the middle of Sweden with my SO and our elderly #NorwegianForestcat.

Our home is filled with #plants, of which some are successful and some are an experiment. I'm a #gamer, a #music enthusiast, a #hockey fan, #neurodivergent, a #yarn #crafter, #LGBTQIA+, a #baker, learning #foraging, and with a re-found love for #reading.

After 10 years of working as a university #librarian, I'm now studying #statistics with an #informatics profile.
#introduction

Current status, listening to this awesomeness from Data & Society

https://datasociety.net/events/living-in-the-shadow-of-ai-and-data/

Hello New Folks! #Introduction
I'm Josh, a Prof of Anthropology & Social Informatics at Indiana University South Bend, principal investigator w/Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA). I work at intersections of people, heritage, tech, & research, love to help folks use data systems more humanely, openly, & equitably

New week, new #job...?

We are #hiring! Currently, we are looking for 3 Postdoctoral Research Scientists/ Scientific Programmers. If you are interested in modeling the climate system on a km-scale, experienced in programming & have a degree in #meteorology , #physics, #informatics, #mathematics, #engineering, or other related fields: apply before December 10, 2024! https://jobs.mpimet.mpg.de/jobposting/a537d8c3fced9f9ba8d664f632b8db13ee4009940

SciX is seeking community leaders to serve on our advisory board! Nominations now open through 6 Nov: s.si.edu/4fA8fx8
#openscience #sciencelibrary #astrophysics, #heliophysics, #earthscience, #planetaryscience, @NASA-supported #biological & #physicalsciences, #informatics

The journey to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive American Medical Informatics Association https://academic.oup.com/jamia/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jamia/ocae258/7818436 #dei #informatics #bioinformatics

Visiting my old digs in #Boston as an #NLM #Informatics Fellow back in 1988-90.

My appointment was with the Harvard School of #PublicHealth and my office cube was in the old Peter Bent Brigham Hospital building.

Old photo is from 1911 showing William Osler (mentor) and Harvey Cushing (first chair of surgery). #History

Job Opp

Professor Kevin Doherty is recruiting a PhD candidate in HCI for Care at University College Dublin.

With co-supervision spanning the Schools of Computer Science and Medicine (Public Health and Primary Care) at Trinity College Dublin, this would be a great opportunity for anyone interested in an interdisciplinary approach to human-computer interaction and care.

See https://bit.ly/adaptphd for details and to apply by August 12th.

Great book forum on Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan's *Code: From Information Theory to French Theory.* I especially appreciated Geoghegan's reply, but the whole forum was excellent.

#Anthropology #Informatics #IntellectualHistory

https://histanthro.org/reviews/code-roundtable/#toc

Read the interview with our #sports #informatics professor Daniel Link, who talks about how data is collected and processed in #soccer and how #dataanalyses help to improve the game: http://go.tum.de/302108

#euro2024 #machinelearning #ai

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If I could take one truth about social media and, with a magical snap of my fingers, have it understood by the whole world, it would be this:

When some drippy bint or oozing pud has blatherated out a toxic opinion, NEVER quote them derisively just so that everyone else can see and learn how toxic they are. When you do that, you AMPLIFY the toxic opinion. Some of the people who see your post will think "Damn, yeah! Sign me up to that newsletter!"

We are excited to announce Meet the Editors with ASIS&T on April 17 at 6 PM PT. Come chat with us and ARCHEOTA!

Getting published for the first time can seem overwhelming, particularly for new student researchers. This panel aims to help students understand the process from submission to final acceptance that papers undergo. Editors will share information about their publications and provide insight into how best to succeed in publishing with them. We encourage you to bring your questions or submit them to us before the event. This event will be recorded.

#StudentJournal
#Journal
#PeerReviewed
#LibraryAndInformationScience #MLIS
#Library #LibraryScience
#ArchivalStudies
#Informatics
#RecordsManagement
#GraduateStudents
#SubmitYourWork
#Submissions #Writing #Science #Research
#WritingCommunity