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I'm just getting started on Bluesky... Personal website: https://alhufton.com/. Editor-in-Chief of Patterns at Cell Press @cp-patterns.bsky.social
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In a remarkable show of unity, today 48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 members call on Congress to protect the future of science. Our elected officials must act now so we have a hope of avoiding long-term damage to the US science enterprise. www.ucsusa.org/about/news/s...

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ICYMI 🤩 Check out our grounded theory study providing a framework to assist clinical decision-making when using #AI in medicine #ethics #bioethics #MedSky #AcademicSky

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Join Cell Press on March 5, 2025 for a free webinar Land Health: Preventing zoonoses spillover Tune in for a cross-disciplinary discussion on land-use change and infectious disease. Register to attend or receive the recording: www.bigmarker.com/cellpress-so...

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#academicsky this is a useful and fair account of the US Federal research data taken down (and when and the extent of its restoration) www.kff.org/policy-watch...

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When the federal government abandons important areas of funding and leaves a gaping hole in the advancement of science, any prudent funder would fill the hole, not follow suit. I don’t know the rationale here but seriously WTF? Disclosure: HHMI paid my way through graduate school.

submitted 25 days ago • 27 comments

📆Save the date! The online seminar will focus on three emerging open infrastructure tools and platforms: OpenCitations, OpenAlex, and Thoth Open Metadata. Register now at bit.ly/registration...

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This was a bit surprising ... www.the-geyser.com/sparc-gives-... (currently no paywall).

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The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has apparently taken down web content related to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) as they "evaluate the new Executive Orders."

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If your research could be affected by such policies, you can use OSF or similar services to post a preprint with a CC-BY license to ensure it is accessible to everyone: osf.io/preprints OSF is open source, free-to-use, and maintained by @cos.io a 501(c)3 charity.

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I hope you will all join me in expressing your thanks to the NIH and NSF staff who are working in an impossibly difficult and chaotic environment to keep science going in our country.

submitted 29 days ago • 15 comments

My sympathies to the editors & reviewers that will have to deal with these requests. Rejecting a paper due to suspected political interference isn't a good outcome. Censorship still wins & the value of the research is lost. But publishing papers that have been manipulated politically also isn't ok.

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Wonderful piece by @neurograce.bsky.social on the importance and challenges of being an agentic human

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Climate and environmental data are already disappearing from the web under the Trump administration. Read more about what the EDGI is doing to preserve these important data and resources in their Opinion piece in the January issue of Patterns www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

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Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai

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In my January editorial at Patterns, I share some insights into how we think about "impact" at the journal, and some of the reasons why I use citation metrics cautiously and basically ignore impact factors and other similar journal-level metrics. www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

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Hey Bluesky! I'm a professional scientific editor, open science advocate, and inconsistent social media user. Follow @cp-patterns.bsky.social if you want to know more about what I do at my day job as the Editor-in-Chief of Patterns. For more about me, check out alhufton.com

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