Exciting workshop for graph folks! @epi.ist will be presenting latest developments in opencausal.org. Details are below 👇

Why a small indie game developer put Palestinian liberation before profit A small indie game developer joined the No Games for Genocide campaign, even though it meant giving a significant chunk of money back to Microsoft.

Microsoft is the priority target for @nogamesforgenocide.com given the tech corp's ties to the IDF, & small indie developer @allwillrise.bsky.social recently broke contract with Xbox to support the campaign.

I spoke to them about their decision & why progressives must take up more space in games.

Meta and YouTube designed addictive products that harmed young people, jury finds Jury in Los Angeles awards plaintiff damages of $6m, with Meta to pay 70% and YouTube the remainder

Not just a jury...literally everyone, including Met and Youtube themselves.

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

This was a very difficult decision for us as a small indie team. Please stand with us and @nogamesforgenocide.com ❤️ #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #freepalestine

A very nice to initiative where you can post your DAG: opencausal.org

And because they're machine readable, they're much easier to search.

Questions live longer than answers

Open Causal: the second-best way to discuss a causal graph, right after the blackboard. Reporting from the Foundations of Causal Inference Workshop at the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge. @opencausal.org

@brembs We should by now have a LOCKSS-compliant, multiple-interface-searchable, free-as-in-beer international database that contains every valid scientific observation ever made along with the assumptions in which it was embedded at the time. That's been the goal since well before I came late […]

Context Widows or, of GPUs, LPUs, and Goal Displacement

Absolutely essential piece by @kevinbaker.bsky.social critiquing AI automation of science by pulling back the curtain on what modern science actually is. LLMs already replicate and accelerate its irrational bureaucratic structure.

It is a nice well thought out DAG! Thanks for being part of this 🙏

Today, I am presenting @opencausal.org at @euripsconf.bsky.social. Come say hi, if you are attending!

Upcoming Open Causal appearances:

December 7 — Causality for Impact workshop at @euripsconf.bsky.social

December 10 — Causal Inference Group meeting at @erasmusmc.bsky.social

Join us if you're around!

🧠 New causal graph:
Causal relationship between micro- and nanoplastics and lung function
🔗 https://opencausal.org/graph/6lwex6ix

I’m Building an Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain YouTube video by New York Times Opinion

👉 youtube.com/watch?v=EO14...

I’m uploading my #DAGs on #alcohol and #cancer to this nice platform for sharing and discussion.

This DAG is also available on DAGitty for easy reuse: dagitty.net/dags.html?id...

A detailed explanation of the assumptions behind the DAGs is here: www.dovepress.com/article/supp...

Today marks the official launch of opencausal.org!

Hüseyin (@epi.ist) is introducing the platform on two events today.

08.30 CET - European Public Health Conference #EPH2025 (Session 5.Y.2)

13.00 CET - Causal Data Science Meeting #CSDM2025

@ephconference.bsky.social @causalscience.org

opencausal.org is online!

Open Causal is an open platform to share, discuss and reuse causal graphs. Join now as a beta user, help shaping the future of causal graphs!

Don't miss @epi.ist's presentation this Thursday during the online #CDSM2025.

- Open Causal: a FAIR Platform for Causal Graphs

I'm very excited about this project, where we aim to promote transparent sharing, discussion, and reuse of causal assumptions through graphs.

Oops. Ooooooooooooops.

I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.

arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675

h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social

I even think the former might be a concern for the editor/publisher. A reviewer can focus only the latter. Maybe also the soundness of the assumptions.

Access to Web of Science will end on 1 January 2026 The university library has decided not to renew the licence for access to the Web of Science citation database (including Journal Citation Reports).

What might seem like a small announcement—it’s just one institution—actually carries substantial weight and has a strong symbolic meaning.

@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, has taken another bold step: it won't renew its Web of Science license. www.uu.nl/en/news/acce...

We’ll present our research on #advertising of unhealthy products and #publichealth at #EvidenceWeek @senseaboutsci.bsky.social
on 4th Nov:
senseaboutscience.org/evidence-wee...

We "invented" a game for it!

@danaldridgemp.bsky.social @sadikal-hassanmp.bsky.social @kennethstevenson.bsky.social

Thanks Julia! We are planning to launch the beta next month. I'll let you know then.

Presenting our ontology proposal for geospatial exposome data at the Int'l Society of Exposure Science workshop in Lisbon. Nice to see that it already attracts great interest from other groups, highlighting the need for metadata standards in the exposome field. Feedback is welcome.

osf.io/sy256

The offshore editorial office seems forgot inviting a second reviewer for one of our papers. I tried reaching the editor several times. Everytime my emails were redirected the office and I recieved copy-pasted response from same person while our paper waiting for nothing last 6 months.

Against Publishing: universonline.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Preprints are read, shared, and cited, yet still dismissed as incomplete until blessed by a publisher. I argue that the true measure of scholarship lies in open exchange, not in the industry’s gatekeeping of what counts as published.

Why I gave the world wide web away for free My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for

Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee

The AI Raj: How tech giants are recolonizing power Just as the East India Company’s success justified new powers, AI firms seek to leverage technical prowess to assume public functions.

In an essay for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, SFI External Professor Allison Stanger examines how AI firms are reshaping infrastructure, governance, and power. Her piece draws historical parallels and raises pressing questions about the role of private technology in public life.

The British establishment have all ready covered this new Banksy up.

Can we get it Reposted 10,000 times to show that they can never cover up their complicity in war crimes??

Protect the right to protest! Repost!