We are looking for new colleagues for TIB’s Open Science Lab – Help us secure endangered research data from the US My blog posting, some more background info from @tibhannover and the job vacancies are all available in English as well, see below ⬇️ […] [Original post on openbiblio.social]

This week I talked to the Digital Humanities students about using AI as a research assistant. Slides here, in case they're useful for anyone. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1y1LHZxKihufntKmZCZq1YoX5jAFh4-kU/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=114563031523184809425&rtpof=true&sd=true […]

The corollary to this is that figuring out how to do reliable evals and tests for tasks other than code — incl fuzzy, subjective tasks — has become a critical bottleneck and will receive a great deal of attention.

Very interesting article! "This article looks briefly at exclusive systems of knowledge production. I describe how the Open Science movement that was founded to reform science often recycles the same extractive dynamics of neoliberal capitalism described by dependency theory." […]

You'll get to do some innovative work on linked data, federated web services (ActivityPub!) & peer-to-peer data archiving (BitTorrent!), in support of a global grassroots network of data rescuers and archivists! Including me! * 2 years fixed term at 0.5FTE * Starting salary 57708 EUR pro rata […]

This is what AI scrapers are doing to our platform. Our database capacity is just being ruined every time they initiate a fresh scrape and our tech team has to scramble, taking radical measures, to keep the platform up.

It's publication day! Available in print and Open Access https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262550918/digital-social-reading/ A book about how digital social reading apps are changing and nurturing the way we read. I talk about Wattpad, Goodreads, AO3 and more.