I need some help with something.

Does anyone not have an ORCID?

Or, rather, does anyone have students who don't have an ORCID?

(I want to help them sign up, but I also need some information from the sign-up process.)

Alright: given everyone's so interested in the data search engine from yesterday -

(A) if you're looking for *online, free, or open datasets* to do science, where do you look? What are the most common sources or databases?

(B) what field are you in?

Rewhatsisname this pls.

New Substack post.

Rescued from the drafts bin of mid-Plague mental horrors - when I genuinely thought that The Big Stupid (the collective incentive to science-grift) had begun.

Not a happy piece of writing, but it happened.

https://open.substack.com/pub/jamesclaims/p/the-right-to-be-wrong-isnt-the-freedom?r=6xosj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

So this is fun as shit: it's a dataset search engine.

ods.beta.sci2sci.com

I put in some physiological signals where I know the availability of data sources very well, and goddamn it if it didn't find a few more for me.

Full-length profile of ya bois at @DataColada in the Wall Street Journal. You love to see it.

BTW - THE STREISAND EFFECT: STILL UNDEFEATED.

https://archive.ph/lmKHg

I was today years old when I found out HERG stands for "Human Ether-à-go-go-Related Gene".

And that it's the homolog of a gene that makes anesthetized flies dance like they're at the Whisky A Go Go.

Bring back whimsy in science.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItTGFd_HGmE