Last week, Kim Akass blogged about how the US press response to Adolescence (Netflix, 2025) made visible certain blind spots in a culture seemingly unable to identify that a particular kind of masculinity might be a problem. Akass read this very much through a prism of Trump, and I here want to continue this focus in order to add further consideration to the question of why a convicted felon was elected president by the American people.

Franziska Boehm, Ellen Euler, Paul Klimpel, Fabian Rack, John Weitzmann (Hrsg.): Creative Commons Public License (CCPL). Kommentar und Handbuch für die Rechtspraxis . Berlin: Carl Grossmann Verlag, 2024 (direkt zum PDF-Download) Die richtige Anwendung von Creative-Commons-Lizenzen für offene Inhalte ist eine der häufigsten Fragen, die in der Open-Access-Praxis auftauchen.

The Invisible Hands It wasn’t the speed that surprised me—it was how natural it felt. For years, regulatory submissions had been a slow and painstaking process. Teams of specialists labored over every sentence, every data table, every response to agency questions.

A few months ago, Dorothy Bishop resigned her fellowship in the Royal Society in protest at Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship. This was a highly principled stand. Two months ago, Stephen Curry wrote an open letter to the President of the Royal Society asking him to explain how Musk’s activities and pronouncements can be considered compatible with the Society’s code of conduct.

The two scales that lead to questionable research practices.

This is a quick post to announce that on Monday, April 7 there will be a virtual panel discussion about dark matter and MOND involving Scott Dodelson and myself. It will be moderated by Orin Harris at Northeastern Illinois University starting at 3pm US Central time*. I asked Orin if I should advertise it more widely, and he said yes – apparently their Zoom set up has a capacity for a thousand attendees.

DOI 10.60804/82EM-7E16 Views from Kai Li, Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee Please describe your previous research project(s) that related to data use, and the main findings from that research. I was trained as a scientometrics researcher.

Beim #OERcamp treffen sich Menschen, die sich für freie und offene Bildung interessieren und engagieren – seit der ersten Veranstaltung 2012 in Bremen. Neben einem jährlichen Barcamp gibt es inzwischen verschiedene Formate, zum Beispiel die #OERcamp Werkstatt. Gastgeber Jöran Muuß-Merholz beantwortete im Vorfeld einige Fragen. iRights.info: Jöran, erzähl uns doch bitte etwas über die #OERcamp Werkstatt.

In 2024, thanks to the DataCite Global Access Fund, the Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Mexico) developed a project to promote Open Science. In this blog, we tell you about the development of the project and its results.

En 2024, gracias al Fondo de Acceso Global de DataCite, la Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas (México) desarrolló un proyecto de promoción de la ciencia abierta. En este blog te contamos sobre el desarrollo del proyecto y sus resultados.

🔗Encontrarse para compartir conocimiento, crear comunidad y generar nuevos proyectos. Así se presentó el programa de Campeon(a|e)s en la primera “Conversaciones con la comunidad” en español que se realizó el 12 de marzo de 2025 y en el que participaron aspirantes de distintos países como Argentina, México, Uruguay, Colombia, Perú, Chile y Estados Unidos.