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Senior Policy Analyst at @futureofprivacy, PhD student researching school shootings. www.sheaswauger.com

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06.03.2026 16:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Come check it out!

06.03.2026 01:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We built the whole thing ourselves, which is either impressive or a cry for help depending on how you look at it. There’s stuff for everyone! Vintage sci-fi book covers, botanical illustrations, a collection of butts, the usual.

06.03.2026 01:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Aside from our day jobs, my partner and I recently launched a small art print shop called Motley. It started out as an antique booth, morphed into an online store, and will soon be in every home worldwide. Probably.
motleyprints.com

06.03.2026 01:24 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
The Future of Research Is Mixed, Messy, and Human When people talk about "research, " they usually imagine something related to computers, numerical data, and instruments buzzing and blinking with importance. They're not wrong, but while this mental ...

The Future of Research Is Mixed, Messy, and Human:
www.sheaswauger.com/post/the-fut...

22.07.2025 20:04 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ethical Use of Pervasive Data for Research | Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics (IDDP) | Columbian College of Arts & Sciences | The George Washington University The IDDP Council for Pervasive Data Ethics - Next Steps for the U.S convened to chart a set of actions to advance ethical practices in computing research.

GWU IDDP organized a Council to reflect on the comments submitted to NTIA’s Request For Comment (RFC) regarding Ethical Guidelines for Research Using Pervasive Data. Check out the findings here: iddp.gwu.edu/ethical-use-...

22.07.2025 17:07 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3

First base: sharing your Spotify
Second base: sharing your location
Third base: sharing your calculator history

01.07.2025 03:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

writing is just a process of realizing you forgot all the words you used to know and learning them again, one by one, in a thesaurus

17.06.2025 16:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm at the library and I love it. You should go to the library.

01.05.2025 19:08 πŸ‘ 9295 πŸ” 997 πŸ’¬ 263 πŸ“Œ 80

The internet becomes more tolerable once you realize that 99% of the people who are being assholes to you online have never actually engaged with your work and have no plans to.

14.04.2025 21:11 πŸ‘ 9453 πŸ” 611 πŸ’¬ 160 πŸ“Œ 32

M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening is a misunderstood documentary about people with allergy-induced migraines

22.03.2025 16:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When we demanded that politicians listen to scientists, that probably should have included social scientists

19.03.2025 18:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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12.03.2025 02:29 πŸ‘ 54154 πŸ” 10850 πŸ’¬ 815 πŸ“Œ 697

Max Schrems implies the existence of Min Schrems

(I'm sorry)

06.03.2025 17:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A dating app, but it matches researchers looking for collaborators on a project: "Mixed methods education researcher seeks coders for inter-rater reliability. Willing to trade SPSS analysis for a literature review"

22.02.2025 19:53 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The NIH cuts are being spun as a way to eliminate bloated university bureaucracy. And looking at the sheer numbers, I get it.

But in fact the story is the exact opposite. The federal research grants system is highly efficient. And it super charges American innovation. 🧡

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08.02.2025 19:25 πŸ‘ 802 πŸ” 243 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 17

If you rely on federal data for research, download everything you need now

04.02.2025 17:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Checklist for USA federal data backups | Data management Introduction The United States (US) federal government collects, aggregates, and disseminates a large volume of information and data. This content is used by researchers, policymakers, and many others...

MIT Libraries has a Checklist for USA Federal Data Backups, which provides instructions for downloading and archiving federal data for research purposes:
libraries.mit.edu/data-managem...

04.02.2025 17:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Data.gov Home - Data.gov

Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab has begun backing up data from data.gov, and you can email them to nominate data to save (lil@law.harvard.edu)

04.02.2025 17:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
End of Term Web Archive The End of Term Web Archive is a collaborative initiative that collects, preserves, and makes accessible United States Government websites at the end of presidential administrations.

The End of Term Web Archive is a collaborative web crawling project that saves data at the end of presidential administrations. You can nominate data you think is important to be saved:
eotarchive.org

04.02.2025 17:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Harvard DataverseDataCite-Logo

Researchers and students at the Chan School of Public Health ran a β€œdata preservation marathon” to save as much federal research data as possible and upload it to the Harvard Dataverse or the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine:
dataverse.harvard.edu
web.archive.org

04.02.2025 17:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Data + Screening Tools

The Public Environmental Data Project focuses on federal environmental data and is accepting volunteers:
screening-tools.com

04.02.2025 17:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Data Liberation Project β€” About The what, why, how, when, where, and who of the Data Liberation Project.

The Data Liberation Project operates a suggestion form, which identifies data that should be saved for public use: www.data-liberation-project.org/about/

04.02.2025 17:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

In response to critical research data being deleted or modified across federal agencies, several orgs are leading campaigns to save what they still can or locate deleted copies and host them on non-federal servers. Some are even taking suggestions for what to save or enable volunteers to help πŸ‘‡

04.02.2025 17:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Finished a book about the US electrical grid (nerd) and I realized I know nothing about electricity. The more I learned, the less I understood it. Electricity is so weird and magical and I’m in awe

03.02.2025 00:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I was asked what my taste in music was and the only thing I could think of was "whatever sad lesbians listen to" and it's very accurate

01.02.2025 20:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x

31.01.2025 19:28 πŸ‘ 7238 πŸ” 3546 πŸ’¬ 311 πŸ“Œ 339

whispering "treat yo self" as I take 2 ibuprofen before bedtime

29.01.2025 18:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

another student DURING our online Zoom class is getting a tattoo and now I have a new goal

25.01.2025 19:17 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Introduction to Astronomy gave me more existential anxiety than all my philosophy classes combined. 10/10 would recommend

23.01.2025 04:48 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0