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Via Ben Amata: “A colleague offered this non-government source as an alternative. EdArXiv: a preprint server for the education research community. Education researchers now have their own community developed preprint service! EdArXiv (Education Archive) is a free, open source, non-profit service that allows researchers to post and search working papers, unpublished work, conference materials, and …
A TechTonic Justice Guide – AI could be involved in all sorts of decisions made about you. Most of the time, government officials, landlords, employers, educators, and others who use AI to make decisions don’t announce it. This guide is meant to help you figure out if AI is being used and what you can …
The Hechinger Report: Funding for the Education Department’s online library, ERIC, is slated to end this week – “When you’re looking for research on four-day school weeks or how to teach fractions, or trying to locate an historical document, such as the landmark Coleman Report of 1966, you might begin with Google. But the reason …
Via LLRX: Classification as Colonization: The Hidden Politics of Library Catalogs – Assistant Professor and Cataloging & Discovery Librarian at Murphy Library, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Mike Olson’s research focuses on the intersection of information systems and social critique. In this timely and insightful article Olson discusses why and how library catalogs have always been battlegrounds …
The Distant Librarian: “OK, that’s a clickbait title, but only a little. They’re actually amongst the heaviest users of Claude, according to Anthropic (PDF), via the 2025 AI Index Report from Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI. The report itself is a 456-page PDF, so do start with the key takeaways, but then either search for specific …
BoingBoing: “The Department of Justice recently sent letters to perhaps “tens” of scientific journals, accusing them of being “partisan” and asking whether they are including “competing viewpoints.” One such letter went to the journal CHEST, a peer-reviewed journal published by the American College of Chest Physicians that specializes in research focused on chest and diseases, …
Washington Post [no paywall]: “Russia is automating the spread of false information to fool artificial intelligence chatbots on key topics, offering a playbook to other bad actors on how to game AI to push content meant to inflame, influence and obfuscate instead of inform. Experts warn the problem is worsening as more people rely on …
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Follow up to Law Firms Made Deals With Trump. Now He Wants More From Them – Robert H. Hubbell: “Five law professors come to the aid of law firms targeted by Trump. Five preeminent law professors from Boston University, Cornell, and Georgetown, all of whom are experts in ethics, have filed a brief in support of …
The New York Times [no paywall] “The White House will soon move to rapidly repeal or freeze rules that affect health, food, workplace safety, transportation and more. At the Department of Health and Human Services, Trump administration officials want to reverse a regulation that has required nursing homes to have more medical staff on duty. …
Follow up to Climate and DEI Deleted From Government Websites, Federal Workers Fired, Colleges Erase Programs, Law Firms Blackballed, Holocaust Denied – The New York Times Opinion by M. Gessen [unlocked]: “Almost three months into the Trump administration’s war on universities, and a year and a half into the Republican Party’s organized campaign against the …
