Kristi Holmes

In like a lion, out like a lamb. Today to start the day on March 1st in Chicago.

Reminder to register for the CTSA Translational Impacts Working Group's virtual Translational Impact Summit on March 2-3! #CTSAProgram affiliated faculty, staff, trainees, and community partners are invited to join.

https://ccos-cc.ctsa.io/news/translational-impact-summit-2026

Learn more about #CGR at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/comparative-...

CGR is a terrific project and huge contribution to our research data and tooling ecosystem!

Excited to share this new #CGR paper 🤩 It has been a real joy to work with the awesome NIH/NLM/NCBI team. HUGE kudos to paper lead E Tvedte & thanks also to coauthors! Thank you CGR working group, NIH exec steering committee, T Murphy, & V Schneider for championing the #CGR vision forward!

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Snow Blanket. Lake Michigan is frozen and the significant snowfall along the shoreline today creates a white welcome mat approaching the Chicago skyline on Sunday evening.

Tonight at Navy Pier. GO BEARS!!!

Santa Claus Has Come to Chi-Town. Merry Christmas!

Notice of Request for Information; Accelerating the American Scientific Enterprise The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) requests input from all interested parties on Federal policy updates that aim to accelerate the American scientific enterprise, enable groundbreaking...

OSTP has issued a request for information, please share with them your ideas for how to improve government functions related to science funding and policy

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

What defines research impact?

New research shows that many of the most influential papers appear in lower-tier journals, highlighting why article-level metrics matter for recognizing individual contributions.

Read more in @plosbiology.org: plos.io/4p5jRfH

It's Christmas Eve Eve. This morning's start in Old Town, Chicago.

Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science - Impact of Social Sciences Have the interests of commercial publishers now become antithetical to the pursuit of knowledge?

💥New: Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science

✍️ @danbrockington.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca

#AcademicSky #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing

40 years ago, Calvin and Hobbes' raucous adventures burst onto the comics page The adventures of a precocious 6-year-old and his stuffed tiger debuted on November 18, 1985. NPR's Renee Montagne spoke with the comic strip's editor, Lee Salem, in 2005.

The adventures of a precocious 6-year-old and his stuffed tiger debuted on November 18, 1985. NPR's Renee Montagne spoke with the comic strip's editor, Lee Salem, in 2005.

Building a continuous benchmarking ecosystem in bioinformatics Benchmarking, which involves collecting reference datasets and demonstrating method performance, is a requirement for the development of new computational tools, but also becomes a domain of its own t...

From @csoneson.bsky.social , @markrobinsonca.bsky.social & colleagues in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Building a continuous #benchmarking ecosystem in #bioinformatics | #Education 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓  
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journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

The four-fold drain of scientific publishing: Money, Time, Trust, and Control.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk 🎤

If you’ve read this far and still need convincing, please check out our preprint arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 and this infographic: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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This is figure 3, which shows conceptual models to understand drivers of urban health.

A Perspective in Nature Medicine outlines an agenda for urban health research that promotes a virtuous cycle by which population health and environmental sustainability support and reinforce each other. go.nature.com/49g7kC3 #healthpolicy #publichealth 🧪

WHO ASKED FOR THIS?!?!

As the mother of a thoroughly interesting 13 year old, I absolutely love this. ❤️

Melatonin for sleep linked to 90% higher risk of heart failure, study finds A major American Heart Association analysis suggests that long-term melatonin use for sleep could be linked to a higher risk of heart failure and death among adults with chronic insomnia.

A review of health records from more than 130,000 adults found that people who used melatonin for a year or longer were significantly more likely to develop heart failure, be hospitalized for it, or die from any cause within five years.

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Friday's Flow. This morning along Chicago's lakefront.

Congrats, Bill!! This recognition is so very deserved!! 🤩

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

Thanks to @scedmunds.bsky.social for sharing your expert perspectives during your talk today, "Integrating Machine Learning Standards in Disseminating ML Research" #IDW2025

Thanks, Scott. Great meeting so far, wish you were here!

Print featuring a line of different wild plants in silhouette with a singing blackbird perched in one and a dragonfly flying above, all in front of the ocean under an orange sun

Californian Morning' (mid 20thc) by US artist and printmaker Emmy Lou Packard (1914-1998) #WomensArt

Promotional image for the Feinberg Founders & Notables Historical Walking Tour at Graceland Cemetery, featuring tombstones and monuments under a partly cloudy sky. Event date: Friday, October 17, 2:00–3:30 pm.

Next Friday! Join Galter Special Collections at Graceland Cemetery for a tour through history as we explore the final resting places of renowned Feinberg faculty and graduates.
🔗Register: galter.northwestern.edu/course_info/...

NEW RESOURCE available from the Make Data Count and HELIOS Open ‘Implementing data evaluation in academia’ Working Group. This implementation guide provides practical guidance for integrating data and other open outputs in institutional review processes.

Download the guide: tinyurl.com/y77e73n8

📢Join the upcoming webinar to explore how monitoring & evidence gathering can support #OpenScience, research assessment reform, and systemic change, featuring discussions on key international initiatives.

🕓 20 Oct, 16:00 CEST
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👉Register: bit.ly/4305IIn

NIH, My NCBI and PMCIDs - Virtual Q & A "Office Hours" Date: Fri, October 10 11:00 AM CDT Location: Online (Zoom) Conducting a Systematic Review: Part 2 - Tools & Resources Date: Wed, October 15 1:00 PM CDT Location: Online (Zoom) EndNote Date: Thu, October 16 12:00 PM CDT Location: Online (zoom) NIH Public Access Policy and Publication Management with MyNCBI Date: Thu, October 16 12:00 PM CDT Location: Online (Zoom) Feinberg Founders & Notables: Historical Walking Tour of Graceland Cemetery Date: Fri, October 17 2:00 PM CDT Location: Graceland Cemetery & Arboretum Prism: collect, share, and preserve the full spectrum of your work Date: Tue, October 21 9:00 AM CDT Location: Online (Zoom) ORCID: Register, Use, Share Date: Tue, October 21 10:00 AM CDT Location: Online (Zoom) PubMed Date: Tue, October 21 10:00 AM CDT Location: Online (Zoom) Northwestern Elements Date: Tue, October 21 11:00 AM CDT Location: Online (Zoom) Proofig AI Training: Research Integrity with Automated Image Verification Date: Wed, October 22 12:00 PM CDT Location: Online (Zoom) Using SciENcv for NIH Biosketches and Other Support Documents Date: Thu, October 23 12:00 PM CDT Location: Online (Zoom) Getting to Know the NIH Policy on Data Management and Sharing Date: Mon, October 27 10:00 AM CDT Location: Online (Zoom)

Join us this October for our virtual classes! Register here: galter.northwestern.edu/classes