1/7 I am thrilled to announce Aspire, a new method for scientific document similarity from my internship with Ai2 to be presented at #NAACL2022! 📰Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2111.08366 👾🐱Code, data, HF models: github.com/allenai/aspire A TLDR of our contribs:

I am heartbroken to share this..the PBS News’s beloved long-time Friday night analyst Mark Shields, who for decades wowed us with his encyclopedic knowledge of American politics, his sense of humor and mainly his big heart, has passed away at 85, with his wife Anne at his side.

The goosebumps moment that THE SNOWMAN takes flight and soars over the South Downs to the tune of Walking In The Air will forever be one of the truest, purest reminders of the magic of childhood and the magic of Christmas. Thank you, RAYMOND BRIGGS 🤍

We have a new paper + dataset out today measuring daily wildfire smoke PM2.5 across US back to 2006, expertly led by Marissa Childs StanfordECHOLab . Below is an animation of 2020 data. paper: doi.org/10.1021/acs.es… data: stanfordecholab.com/wildfire_smoke Quick thread below

Scientific knowledge should be available to everyone. We know Semantic Scholar hasn’t been focusing on the needs of disabled users in the past, but this year, we set out to change that. Read about how we started to make Semantic Scholar more #accessible: blog.allenai.org/accessibility-…

Yuck, yuck, yuck! Air quality is quickly deteriorating to unhealthy levels, and will likely worsen as easterly winds increase.

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Hi Unpaywall ! Is the OA status static or dynamic? eg if best location changes from closed and then you find a repo copy and then a few months later it's oa on publisher site, would the status change at every step of that journey?

Today, we remember long-lost friends, whose furious fight for righteousness still inspires and ignites us. #WorldAIDSDay #BeSeen 🏳️‍🌈 PROFILE: wislgbthistory.com/people/peo-f/f…

Judy Woodruff signed off as NewsHour anchor Friday night with this special message to viewers. to.pbs.org/3WWaWzK

"It's just a drum beat Jeremy liked to play". Doin' the cockroach live in 1998 is forever seared in my memory. Truly grateful. Love to Jeremiah Green's family, friends & fans. youtu.be/G33AcZzZ0pM?t=…

The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform Builds the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph, the largest open scientific literature graph to-date, with 200M+ papers, 80M+ authors, 550M+ paper authorship edges, and 2.4B+ citation edges. arxiv.org/abs/2301.10140

Happy orbit, Yoko Ono 🤍 "Whisper your desire to the wind. Ask the wind to take it to the end of the world." From Acorn, her book of conceptual instructions that I've only recently discovered and fallen in love with.

"Distilling complex ideas and thoughts down to the most graceful and poignant gestures...that's a human practice." I'm endlessly inspired by the MacArthur Fellows.

Anthony Vidler, architect, historian, and professor renowned for his erudition and passion for teaching died. He spent much of his career teaching at Princeton University School of Architecture. ow.ly/LVE150PZaIg

A great conductor. Attending Macal's Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra $5 open rehearsals was so meaningful as a poor art gallery worker in my 20s. I'll never forget the Ralph Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony rehearsal -- Behold the Sea!

"These groups waited until the end of the process to declare that the entire concept of digital lending is unacceptable to them...For too long, publishers have undermined the work of library professionals and our commitment to access." 😬

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