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Abby André, Director of the Impact Project | Doctoral Fellow, Lawyer, Professor, Data Visualization Expert – “I wanted to share this 91.7 WVXU/Cincinnati Public Radio story about The Impact Map, a tool I created to help visualize how federal employment, funding, and policy decisions affect our communities. With more than 5,300 data points—and growing—the map is …
The Inquirer – Will Bunch: A viral conversation about the near-death of reading by U.S. college students in the iPhone era reveals a threat to democracy. “The notion of Donald Trump — who lived most of his adult life in a gilded penthouse above Fifth Avenue and thinks that he invented the word “groceries” — …
Washington Post no paywall – The president may not like how the museum and research institution tells the American story — but Americans do. “On March 27, President Donald Trump issued the executive order “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” which accused the Smithsonian of “replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by …
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The New York Times [no paywall]: “The US government holds a tremendous amount of data about US citizens. Now The Trump administration is trying to access that data and link it together. These intimate details about the personal lives of people who live in the United States are held in disconnected data systems across the …
OpenAlex is a free and open catalog of the world’s scholarly research system. It is a nonprofit project that indexes and links over 250 million scholarly works from 250 thousand sources. You can search, analyze, and export the data for free, or upgrade to access more features and support the project. OpenAlex offers an open …
James R. Jacobs: “Just wanted to let you know that End of Term Archive is in the middle of harvesting the ERIC database. We’ve currently collected 24000 PDF files discoverable via Full Text Search (going on 500,000+… should be done later today) from Wayback Machine archives of ERIC. There’s a collection search where you can …
Hamilton College: “These stunning peonies bloom each spring in Hamilton’s Grant Garden thanks to the hybridization talents of Arthur Percy Saunders, dean and professor of chemistry in the decades prior to World War II. According to Ernest Williams, the William R. Kenan Professor of Biology Emeritus (who provided the following photographs), Saunders initially crossed the …
404 Media: “Almost two dozen repositories of research and public health data supported by the National Institutes of Health are marked for “review” under the Trump administration’s direction, and researchers and archivists say the data is at risk of being lost forever if the repositories go down. “The problem with archiving this data is that …
Matthew Prebeg – I put together this spreadsheet as a living resource for websites and digital places that reignite feelings of joy, excitement and curiosity while exploring the internet. Somewhere along the road, corporations and recommendation algorithms made the internet feel loud and unescapable. I like to think of the internet as a place where you …
Bloomberg – no paywall – “The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency is poised to eliminate most websites tied to its research division under plans for the cancellation of a cloud web services contract, a move that could snarl operations at several labs. A contract for the services across NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric …
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 5, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and …
