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Social Science
Published in Leiden Madtrics
Authors Information & Openness focal area, Engagement & Inclusion focal area, Evaluation & culture focal area

The new administration in the US is attacking science. Accepted grants and publications are forced to be retracted or altered if they contain forbidden words. Funding and peer review processes for biomedical research are grinding to a halt, and (open) governmental data are being taken down to reflect the views of the current political administration.

Languages and Literature
Published in Martin Paul Eve

tl;dr : cancel your big deals and transitional agreements (they’re not working) and invest in a set of hundreds of non-APC, OA titles offered by Open Journals Collective, which derives from the OLH model. Email Caroline Edwards (at Birkbeck or at OJC) to get involved. This week saw the launch of the Open Journals Collective. My good friend and colleague, Dr Caroline Edwards, wrote about this launch in the LSE Impact Blog.

Web-scrapingBotsAIComputer and Information Sciences
Published in Louche Cannon

I've seen an uptick in people I respect concluding that the massive increase in badly-behaved web-scraping bot is intentional and just another example of sociopathic AI companies ripping-up long-respected web conventions for the sake of profit

AllgemeinUrheberrechtOpen ResearchKulturdatenOther Social SciencesGerman
Published in Open Access Blog Berlin

Seit Januar 2025 macht das Bildarchiv Foto Marburg rund 1,2 Millionen digitalisierter Fotografien aus dem eigenen Bestand verfügbar. Die Dateien sind kostenlos unter offener Lizenz beziehungsweise Public Domain Mark erhältlich. Darunter befinden sich unzählige Aufnahmen aus der europäischen Kunst und Architektur. Direktor Christian Bracht erläutert die Hintergründe der Open-Access-Initiative.

National SecurityBiotechnologyOther Engineering and Technologies
Published in The Connected Ideas Project
Author Alexander Titus

The first time I stepped into a biofoundry, I realized we were living through a moment that most people hadn’t yet noticed. It wasn’t a cleanroom full of microchips, it was a factory of living cells, designed and optimized to manufacture the future. Biotech had moved beyond the lab, beyond medicine, and into the very infrastructure of global power. This isn’t speculation. It’s happening.

Mathematics
Published in Math ∩ Programming
Author Jeremy Kun

It’s April Cools! Last year I wrote about parenting, in 2023 about friendship bracelets. and in 2022 about cocktails. This year it’s a bit of a meandering stroll through some ideas around mutual aid and self-reliance. Maternity wards If you walk around the maternity ward at Kaiser Permanente’s Sunnyside medical center outside of Portland, Oregon, you might notice the same two things I did.

Historia De Las MujeresHumanitiesSpanish
Published in BLOG ATARRAYA
Author Atarraya

por Lorgio Cobá Noh La Revolución Mexicana y la Constitución Mexicana de 1917 establecieron como un derecho de todas las mexicanas y los mexicanos la educación. Con la fundación de la Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP) inició un ambicioso proyecto educativo que buscó contribuir a la modernización del México posrevolucionario. Una de las preocupaciones fue llevar la educación hasta los rincones más apartados del país.

Rogue ScholarComputer and Information Sciences
Published in Front Matter

This is the third issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Rogue Scholar infrastructure, community updates, and other news relevant to Rogue Scholar users.Blogs added to Rogue Scholar Four blogs from four different subject areas were added in February.