Rod Abhari

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.

Sound familiar...?

RFK Jr.: farmers “shld consider...letting (H5N1) run thru the flock so that we can identify...& preserve the birds, that are immune to it”...

Scientists: "would be inhumane & dangerous, & have enormous economic consequences."

Fmr KS state vet: "It’s a recipe for disaster.” 🛟📉🧪

The Uncertain Resiliency of Public Trust in Science Confidence in scientific institutions mostly survived the first Trump administration. What will happen to it now?

Public trust of science--nice review of nuanced findings.

E.g., 68 nation survey: trust unrelated to sci & political orientation. Per @rodabhari.bsky.social, suggests conservative skepticism abt sci not rooted in ideology but... a result of "deliberate politicization by corp.'s & (GOP) pundits." 🛟

Fantastic.

A tweet from scientist Jessica Rose incorrectly sharing an academic article to support vaccine misinformation.

Even scientists share scientific articles without reading them!

I recently published an article calling out a scientist for spreading anti-vax misinformation. The scientist just tweeted my article out... as if it supported their anti-vax agenda 🤦‍♀️

#academicsky

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Hi Bluesky (+ many friendly familiar faces). I'm a researcher in HCI + ML, assistant prof at Simon Fraser University up in BC, and working on "healthy data flow". Doing a quick thread recapping some recent writing (blogs, pre-prints, etc.) that capture the things I work on and talk about!

Amazing.

Hi @altmetric.com, is there a plan for indexing Bluesky for academic mentions?

Starter pack with current and former CDSC members. We'll update it if and when more folks join Bluesky.

go.bsky.app/Jeez5Hk

Thanks for sharing Richard!