Open knowledge enthusiast. Creates and maintains. Director of Open Access Programmes at Arcadia Fund.
Recognises that access to knowledge is a human right […]
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Ross Mounce
With the US government's ban on foreigners using certain applications of a private American company, the White House has confirmed Europe's worse fears.
Trump can shut down the European economy by blocking access to the American services we use every day.
Wow. Three red cards in the first game? Gonna be an interesting tournament!!!
The American Anthropological Association has put out a very clear statement in response to a new report claiming the humanities and social sciences are ruining themselves with left-wing bias. Would be good to see more such robust responses to these familiar yet deeply unhelpful accusations
Ross Mounce
RE: https://openbiblio.social/@ZBW_MediaTalk/116724993233759851
alleged fraud with AI-generated musicology books published by a publisher(?) called "tredition" https://tredition.com/
tredition is a "self-publishing platform"
Always worth re-reading the definition of open access as set out by the Budapest Open Access Initiative back in 2001/2002:
"By “open access” to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link […]
Rebecca Sear
this is really important in the context of debates about AI. The ethos of Open Access is to permit anyone to pass research as data to software.
I don't believe a stance along the lines of: "I don't want my research to be used in AI training" is compatible with making ones research open access.
Urgh. Really not a great time for the University of Nottingham and its staff. When it rains, it pours?
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@haveibeenpwned/116728142994038188
Ugh #Bots
The #AI_bubble fuels annoying and costly extraction of #openaccess resources, including #opendata in #archaeology research.
Open Context (https://opencontext.org) is now getting slammed with 3x more traffic than normal.
The financial fallout of […]
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Setting the Record Straight on Anthropology @americananthro.bsky.social on the Vanderbilt Report...Yes. And still more to come...
americananthro.org/advocacy-sta...
The Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences identifies anthropology as the single most extreme case of scholarly deterioration in the humanities and soc...
The US government has ordered Anthropic to block non-Americans from accessing its latest AI models. Europe is running out of time to shield itself from the US kill switch.
