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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

AllgemeinOpen ResearchKulturdatenUrheberrechtOther 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.

OpensnpData Stewardship23andmeDirect-to-consumer GeneticsPersonal GeneticsOther Social Sciences
Published in Bastian Greshake Tzovaras

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 &

CosmologyDark MatterLCDMMONDPhysical Sciences
Published in Triton Station

I’ve been busy, and a bit exhausted, since the long series of posts on structure formation in the early universe. The thing I like about MOND is that it helps me understand – and successfully predict – the dynamics of galaxies. Specific galaxies that are real objects: one can observe this particular galaxy and predict that it should have this rotation speed or velocity dispersion.

Large Language ModelLLMRetrieval Augmented GenerationOther Social Sciences
Published in Aaron Tay's Musings about librarianship
Author Aaron Tay

Introduction How do you test a tool that promises to revolutionize academic research? With AI-powered search engines popping up everywhere—from startups like Elicit.com to giants like Scopus AI—librarians, researchers, and developers need a reliable way to evaluate them.