@natalieharrower
Canadian back from half a lifetime in Ireland. Executive Director https://crdcn.ca/. You many know me from https://dri.ie/ Happily up to my eyeballs in #ResearchInfrastructures #SSH #OpenScience #FAIR
📊 Today, @chiefscican.bsky.social has released Towards a National Scientific Data Governance Framework with recommendations to ensure research data is managed responsibly and used to benefit everyone. CRDCN's @natalieharrower.bsky.social contributed as an expert panelist.
🔗https://buff.ly/mFeCc4c
I just walked into the departures area at an airport (at home) and my phone provider texted me with roaming info. I’m nowhere near a border 🧐
Day 2 of CRDCN 2025 is well underway!
Board member and Academic Director of the @nb-rdc.bsky.social Ted McDonald speaks at the plenary session “Data management and supporting FAIRly restricted data” alongside James Doiron, Alexandra Cooper and Kevin Read, and moderator @natalieharrower.bsky.social.
US set to close office responsible for global science and technology
sciencebusiness.net/internationa...
50% tariffs on one of the world’s poorest countries. The disgust is real.
Trump tariffs could undermine Brexit deal in Northern Ireland
“A former EU commissioner has questioned whether Trump thought through his plan’s effect on the peace process brokered by the US almost 30 years ago.”
What makes anyone think that he *would* have thought this through??
Canadian universities, please respond this way, thank you.
jrnl.ie/6662142
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Really excited to be part of this panel on Canada’s national research infrastructures!
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Randomly came across this guide to Canadian etiquette and it’s so specific and accurate! I didn’t realize some of these were specific to Canadians - eg how a gift is also it always accompanied by a card.
culturalatlas.sbs.com.au/canadian-cul....
@marjoriessister.bsky.social hello, friend.
I just gave this book to my eight-year-old niece, so considering this and what @whatsfsaid.bsky.social just said, I think I’ll be asking her if I can borrow it! (We have agreed to read parts together ❤️)
Day ONE of the next four years starts with stupid, cruel, vindictive and dangerous. Read it. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
We're delighted to share our new Web Archiving Factsheet with the BlueSky community.
This cutting-edge new preservation capability means the DRI can digitally capture websites or content published on the web, to act as a record.
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Our Jan newsletter is out now! With news of our 2025 #CommunityArchive Scheme winners, tips on the creative reuse of digital collections, and the latest #OpenResearch news, read the latest issue here: mailchi.mp/ria/dri-jan-...
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Big tech is picking apart European democracy, but there is a solution: switch off its algorithms | Johnny Ryan
I only crossed paths with Kathryn McWilliams briefly - her death is a huge loss to research. Her career was incredibly impressive and I was so moved by these words in her obituary:
www.saskatoonfuneralhome.com/obituaries/k...
Hello!
"They came from Florida, from Fox News and Fox Business, square-jawed men and women with big hair and collagen lips." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Duo goes Meta
What a lovely thing to do - this acknowledgement.
Hard to express the delight and surprise of this clip in the kid’s film That Christmas! If you know, you know. 🤣#IrishMemes #Don’tMakeUnnecessaryJournies
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@jehalli.bsky.social you are looking very small, furry and cuddly here 🤗. Welcome to Bluesky!
I have a have no Catie’s fudge problem.
The CRDCN new Strategic Plan is out! Here's what we will get up to over the next five years:
FR: doi.org/10.71548/ceb...
EN: doi.org/10.71548/v8n...
More info: crdcn.ca
Is light roast hard on the knees?
