"Much of OA policy is grounded in an ideology that treats everything as a market problem to be fixed through market instruments....neoliberal logic that gave rise to APCs"
Whether or not you agree with the main thrust of this article, the above is accurate. 1/2 www.samuelmoore.org/2026/04/14/w...
“Such attacks on art only reveal the deep anti-humanism of the tech elite. They are a class that shuns human interaction, with its serendipities, annoyances and joys… #GenAI is a tool to discipline, then eliminate, the human worker. This is sold as progress.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...
this is not surprising to me and the question is will this accumulating body of evidence change anything
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Honestly, the great crisis of our society is the unwillingness of institutions to inflict consequences.
Impeach the president, fire the sex pests, expel cheating students, excommunicate an unrepentant heretic, prosecute the war criminals.
Believe in your institution enough to enforce its rules.
‘A fundamental realisation is that shared values and principles must guide us (e.g., scientific integrity, sustainability, diversity, digital sovereignty, and democracy).’
#GenAI #AIliteracy #speirgorm #spéirgorm #speirghorm
Cover of the book Doing Open Social Science
"The authors showcase a wealth of knowledge and practical tips to help turn quantitative and qualitative outputs into something truly open and reusable."
— Andy Tattersall, Consultant, Open Research Communications Expert
Doing Open Social Science will publish May 2026: https://bit.ly/4bKnowA
ORCID is taking root! 🌍🌱 Join us March 26 for ORCID in the Wild featuring the Health Research Board (HRB) Ireland 🇮🇪
We're diving into:
📊Symplectic Grant Tracker
🤝Affiliation Manager
⏳Real-world resources & internal goals
Don't let your integration stay in the shade! 🌿🔍
#ResearchSky
This is why I increasingly believe that librarians should use our limited time and resources to lobby for proper regulation and governance and not on developing 'literacy' or 'ethical use' policies after adoption, when it's far too late. It's like teaching victims of crime to be more 'ethical'.
New paper from @aial.ie! @harshp.com, Dick Blankvoort, Adel Shaaban, @sashamtl.bsky.social & me
We analysed 6 GenAI ToS--finding missing info, major power imbalances & user obligations that are impossible to meet without violating the terms
arxiv.org/abs/2603.18964 & aial.ie/research/ter...
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"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning"
got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing
Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
A card with details of the OXFOS conference speaker's event.
Join us for a webinar on Cultivating #FAIRdata across the disciplines on Mar 5th with colleagues @fairsharing.bsky.social and @researchdataall.bsky.social #RDAambassadors @allysonlister.bsky.social and Daniel Manrique-Castano. #OxFOS26 @ox.ac.uk
➡️ Register at go.glam.ox.ac.uk/OxFOS26_Regi...
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”
Screenshot reads: She and other publishing specialists question whether LeapSpace’s limited reach is worth the cost. Users will need either an institutional subscription (based in part on the institution’s size and amount of research) or an individual one, which costs $32 a month. Many libraries are already struggling to afford existing subscriptions. And if users want to read the cited content, they will need a separate subscription to that content’s publisher—akin to paying for multiple video-streaming services.
The inevitable next stage of academic publishers profiting from academics' work is here - scraping it for AI then charging subscriptions for access to the AI summaries, and then again for the citations. Academic content assetization as we called it in a recent paper. www.science.org/content/arti...
Microsoft said the bug meant that its Copilot AI chatbot was reading and summarizing paying customers' confidential emails, bypassing data protection policies.
1/ Finally wrote up “The Story of Mendeley”! Most people know the tool, few know about its rise and fall. The Mendeley story provides important clues for how to build self-sustaining AND non-extractive knowledge commons, which is why I think it deserves more attention 🧵
A review of the proceedings from four major computer-science conferences showed that none from 2021, and all from 2025, had fake citations.
arxiv.org/abs/2602.058...
#AI #LLMs #Hallucinations #Misconduct #ScholComm
State of Open Data talk
Brian Nosek brings up something I've been thinking about.
Pre-AI - Benefits of data sharing often exceeded the costs (most people use your data for good)
Post-AI - People have real concerns about how their open data will be used for things they don't ethically agree with
Is the Group Chat coming back soon? Hope it isn't dropped forever :(
It's not unheard of to find errors in your data after publishing it. While it's not fun when this happens, this one-pager can help guide you through the process of updating data, code, and publications when errors are found.
osf.io/q4jre/files/...
Have you registered for Thursday's webinar? Huge interest in this one.
Still time to register.
Confronting the Challenges of Sensitive Open Data
#OpenScience #OpenData
katinamagazine.org/content/arti...
Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...
THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
"An academic discovers a paper attributed to him that does not exist has been cited 42 times" is a sentence with an actual referent in 2025.
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
