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FMinus: “Companies and organizations that are supposed to be on the right side of the environmental movement too often hire compromised lobbyists. Search our database to find out who’s hiring who—and whether or not their track record is consistent with their values. [Search by State or Search by Client] Launched in July 2023, F Minus …
Follow the Open Science Community on Mastodon. “Get in touch with the Open Science Community from around the world on Mastodon! This page lists accounts of people interested in Open Science, Metaresearch, Replication, Reproducibility, Open Educational Resources, Open Access, Open Data, Open Source, Open Hardware, Open Software, Open EVERYTHING. It also offers an easy method …
Quartz: “An association of the UK’s leading universities has signed a raft of guiding principles on the ethical use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) among its students and staff, addressing the increasingly common use of the technology in academia. Vice-chancellors of all 24 Russell Group universities that include the University of Oxford, the London School …
Webinar – Data Librarianship; Richard Huffine (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation); Friday, July 7. 2023; 2:00-3:00p.m. (EDT): Register to attend the live training webinar, “Data Librarianship.” Webinar: GovInfo API Overview and Search Service Preview – Register to attend the live training webinar, Date: Wednesday, July 12, 2023. Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (EDT) Recording and …
MakeUseOf: “Looking to translate a specific website? Rather than pasting the content into Google Translate, let the platform do the work for you. You can browse the web in any language with Google Translate. For instance, if you want to read an article from a German webpage, you can plug in Google Translate and translate …
Artificial Intelligence in Science – Challenges, Opportunities and the Future of Research [300 page e-book available free via OECD]: “The rapid advances of artificial intelligence (AI) in recent years have led to numerous creative applications in science. Accelerating the productivity of science could be the most economically and socially valuable of all the uses of …
The New York Times [free link]: “For thousands of years, mathematicians have adapted to the latest advances in logic and reasoning. Are they ready for artificial intelligence?…Mathematicians have responded to these disruptions with varying levels of concern. Michael Harris, at Columbia University, expresses qualms in his “Silicon Reckoner” Substack. He is troubled by the potentially …
Reposted with permission from AALL Spectrum, Volume 27, Number 6 (July/August 2023), pgs 48-50. By Rachel Green, Faculty Services Librarian; Caitlin Hunter, Reference Librarian; Sherry Leysen, Reference Librarian and Lynn McClelland, Reference Librarian, UCLA, Hugh & Hazel Darling Law Library Tips for locating court records in non-U.S. jurisdictions (and why we should appreciate PACER more). Legal …
Vox: “A popular saying is that public libraries are the last bastion of true democracy.At the library, patrons aren’t really expected to pay for anything; they can use the library’s free services, from unlimited wifi to job application support; and, of course, the thousands of books libraries hold are available to anyone. But in recent …
Lemley, Mark A. and Maitra, Sonali, Video Game Law (June 1, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4466453 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4466453 “This is the complete text of Video Game Law: An Open Access Casebook, the first law school casebook to cover video game law. It includes chapters on the history of video games, copyright, patents, trademarks, the right …
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Unchartered Territories: “Maps twist our perception of the world. Countries closer to the equator—which happen to be poorer —seem smaller than they are. This is because the world is a 3D sphere, but maps are 2D projections on a plane. That means distortion. So we develop a poor intuition for comparative region sizes. The biggest …
