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Infants beat AI at detecting human motivations
James Devitt-NYU, Futurity, 2023/02/21

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This is interesting. A study "...putting infants and AI head-to-head on the same tasks is allowing researchers to better describe infants' intuitive knowledge..." suggests that "Infants outperform artificial intelligence in detecting what motivates other people's actions." I understand that on the question of getting facts right, the two are running neck and neck.

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Are Institutional Research Data Policies in the US Supporting the FAIR Principles? A Content Analysis
Clara Llebot, Diana J. Castillo, Journal of eScience Librarianship, 2023/02/21

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The term 'FAIR' refers to the idea that data should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. As this article suggests, "The guiding principles and the definitions for research data in the policies support the idea that institutional policies are a potential tool for the implementation of the FAIR principles." However, write the authors, "our analysis indicates that they are not generally used for that purpose. Only one policy mentions FAIR. Data sharing is mentioned in half of the policies, but 11 of these only note this concept in the context of funder requirements. Access and retention sections are mostly written without considering publicly available data. Twenty-nine policies do not mention data documentation." Ouch. This and the previous item via Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

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There's no "I" in Research Data Management: Reshaping RDM Services Toward a Collaborative Multi-Stakeholder Model
Alisa B. Rod, Biru Zhou, Marc-Etienne Rousseau, Journal of eScience Librarianship, 2023/02/21

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It is well worth noting that recent years have seen a formalization of research data management (RDM) services with the growth of new policies, norms, and principles. The recent pandemic especially demonstrated some of the challenges of RDM supporting remote users. This article describes a reshaped RDM model "founded on centralized and cohesive collaboration between multiple stakeholders at a large research university in Canada." It also suggests how similar collaboration could exist between institutions. All of that said, and despite the appear of the 'one stop shop' for research data, it is worth exploring alternatives between fully centralized RDM and a siloed research infrastructure. In the longer term, we will want to support something like social linked data, which is essentially what a 'multi-stakeholder' approach implies.

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Rethinking Happiness to Increase Our Well-Being
The Report by Class Central, 2023/02/21

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I'm sceptical about resources from well-to-do institutions like, say, Yale, that suggest to us that we should learn to be happy with less. Were it true, surely such would be practiced by the leading lights that work at and attend that institution. That is all.

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