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.

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

I was recently at a conference – the friends-and-family kind. International, sure, but mostly populated by academically 'related' researchers. A chance to get all together, talk about new projects, showcase current research, see if there is a possibility for interesting collaborations. A nice sense of community, lighthearted and caring.  This conference also had a student track.

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.

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.

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.

A world-class wildlife biology degree awaits at these top US universities, where research opportunities and field experiences shape tomorrow’s conservationists.

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.

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 March.

As this blog post is being published, we are sending out emails to all openSNP users with some news: OpenSNP will be turned off – and with that also delete all the data stored on it – on April 30, 2025 . Given that the project has been part of my life for so many years and shaped how I view (data) commons and open &

In December, I published a note that finished with: This reflection was connected to a longer piece I was writing for The Journal of Global Ethics . The article is now available and open-access, so it is free to read and download: Christopher Hobson. ‘The Passing of Another Golden Age: Global Ethics in a Time of Deglobalisation.’ Journal of Global Ethics , March 2025.