Cloudflare introduced a new /crawl endpoint - one API call and an entire site crawled.
No scripts. No browser management. Just the content in HTML, Markdown, or JSON.
developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/po...
I spent 4 months trying to answer a simple question: has this book been translated into my language?
Turns out no one tracks this. Not ISBN registries. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries.
So I built a tool that crosses four databases to piece it together.
zenodot.app
Any #historians out there with any possible interest in public opinion from 1935 to now? I would be very grateful for anyone willing to chat about how to help historians discover materials in the polling archive. All topics: politics, policy, health, culture, religion #skystorians
3/3 Where possible people should specify a proper access procedure, e.g., via a restricted access repository. Where that's impossible, the exemption should just be clearly listed -- that's what polisci and econ journals do.
2/3 FWIW, I think PLOS's policy for sensitive data is bad. PLOS makes people write IRBs into data availability statements and that's a bad idea. I'd guess that 80% of datasets with IRB in contact info wouldn't be accessible (IRBs aren't set up for this & data aren't preserved anywhere).
IRBs do that, but much less so these days. In 2015 (or so, unclear when study was conducted) it was 100% standard.
I also think it can be entirely appropriate -- if proper de-id isn't possible, e.g. ethical, practical, and legal issues are massive.
1/3
That's not what the policy says?
"If restrictions on access to data come to light after publication, we reserve the right to post a Correction, an Editorial Expression of Concern, contact the authors' institutions and funders, or, in extreme cases, retract the publication."
I mean -- we have IRBs/ethics boards for vetting & oversight of sensitive data? Do you actually doubt that researchers handle sensitive data???
I don't think the callous attitude about sensitive data is helpful (for anyone). The EoC is for clinical trial data on therapy - seems sensitive to me.
You know what would save you a lot of time writing 500 words of bs...?
See how useful this was?
This doesn't really apply to code? Human subject protections on data sharing are a real concern (even if they can be abused). Code can always be shared
and if you have a billion images to work with (like me teaching dataviz lol), this by @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social is super helpful for an initial pass at making alt text for plots
What happened to polisci???
(It'd also be funny bc I'd expect broad agreement on top 3 and complete mayhem on the other 2)
This is the actual (AI generated) reason an NEH grant got cancelled...
NEH's budget is tiny—not just compared to NSF/NIH, but compared to humanities funding in every other wealthy nation. What little was there was largely rescinded and several programs were cut in full last year. It decimated not merely individual projects but whole corners of the humanities in the US.
Go look the last half dozen of your interactions with other users and think about whether you've made this a better place. Bye.
I know. That's why getting them the right tools is important. (And my bio is public. What are your qualifications to opine in this?)
Basically, yes. More precisely, I'm asking "are pediatricians in general well trained & equipped to answer qs about vaccine safety to parents steeped in a vax disinfo environment".
I'm very much not convinced that's the case
Or, to put it more bluntly: insisting that the only acceptable strategy is to condemn parents who are antivax as bad parents is only marginally less anti science than denying the efficacy of vaccines themselves
It's a professional obligation when you work in social problems of this sort to treat people w/unconditional positive regard. That does NOT mean you approve of their behaviors or don't provide serious feedback about harm. But it is straight up unethical to decide it's your job to say who is "bad"
Do you think doctors necessarily have a good way to explain how we know they are safe to people who have heard/been fed vax misinfo?
In a perfect world this might not be necessary, but in the info environment we're in, it probably is
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See the second link for some available 1.18 installers -- if you have an old back-up they might still work (they won't work on the 1.19 database though).
What version (exactly) of Mendeley do you currently have and do you still have the data? Zotero has pretty robust import from Mendeley, but the default version uses synced data; using local data is more complicated. See
www.zotero.org/support/kb/m... and this thread
forums.zotero.org/discussion/1...
Happy dog?
Happy dog carrying a white baseball hat in its mouth?
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You'll get free advice on prompting :P
One of my go-tos: "If no one's responsible for that task, that's exactly who does it"
So much of data management (and a lot of other task-oriented stuff) is just roles and responsibilities
See, this is the AI posts I'm here for!
As a bad coder w/o AI, I'm still pretty sure Claude Code is pareto better than me, but now that it lets me do more ambitious things, I do think about this a lot.
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I really like lefty Mormons. The same earnestness & cheerfulness, but woke.
