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FTC Non-Compete Agreements: Final Rule Issued | Goodwin
https://www.goodwinlaw.com/en/insights/publications/2024/04/alerts-otherindustries-ftc-issues-final-rule-prohibiting

FTC Non-Compete Agreements: Final Rule Issued | Goodwin
Read Goodwin's detailed summary of the FTC Final Rule prohibiting non-compete clauses. Set to take effect soon pending legal challenge.

Apparently even the European Data Protection Supervisor #EDPS , can't find the funds for it's mastodon servers. Which is bizar if you think about all the "talk" about not relying on #bigtech , a more independent EU, open standards, security, importance of reliable information etc.

EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story
Two years ago, the EDPS embarked on a pioneering journey to launch two social media platforms, EU Voice and EU Video. The pilot project has proved successful in delivering alternative, privacy-friendly and user-focused social media platforms. It is time to review the results.On 28 April 2022, ...

netscience: Scientific collaborations in network science (2006)
A coauthorship network among scientists working on network science, from 2006. This network is a one-mode projection from the bipartite graph of authors and their scientific publications.
This network has 1589 nodes and 2742 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Weighted, Projection

From twelve years ago, talking to the deeply-missed David Carr about Reddit: “Condé gave it enough rope and left the people there to their own devices. I don’t know whether it was a brilliant strategy or accidental neglect, but the founders did not leave, the community stayed intact, and the site grew beyond anybody’s expectations.”

Reddit Thrives Under Hands-Off Policy of Advance Publications
Reddit, built on open-source software and guided by the ethos of its community of 20 million users a month, is a classic Web start-up in which opportunity seems mixed with barely controlled anarchy.

Looking forward to the talk of @… .

On the challenges of open access monitoring - Insights
#OpenAccess .

On the challenges of open access monitoring - Insights
Insights: the UKSG journal (2048-7754) aims to support UKSG's mission to connect the information community and encourage the exchange of ideas on scholarly communication, specifically to:Provide a forum for the communication and exchange of ideas between the many stakeholders in the global knowledge community.Disseminate news, information and publications, and raise awareness of services that support the scholarly information sector.From 1988 to 2011, Insights was published as Serials: The Jo…

PST-Bench: Tracing and Benchmarking the Source of Publications
Fanjin Zhang, Kun Cao, Yukuo Cen, Jifan Yu, Da Yin, Jie Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16009

PST-Bench: Tracing and Benchmarking the Source of Publications
Tracing the source of research papers is a fundamental yet challenging task for researchers. The billion-scale citation relations between papers hinder researchers from understanding the evolution of science efficiently. To date, there is still a lack of an accurate and scalable dataset constructed by professional researchers to identify the direct source of their studied papers, based on which automatic algorithms can be developed to expand the evolutionary knowledge of science. In this paper,…

Apparently even the European Data Protection Supervisor #EDPS , can't find the funds for it's mastodon servers. Which is bizar if you think about all the "talk" about not relying on #bigtech , a more independent EU, open standards, security, importance of reliable information etc.

EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story
Two years ago, the EDPS embarked on a pioneering journey to launch two social media platforms, EU Voice and EU Video. The pilot project has proved successful in delivering alternative, privacy-friendly and user-focused social media platforms. It is time to review the results.On 28 April 2022, ...

Between Flat-Earthers and Fitness Coaches: Who is Citing Scientific Publications in YouTube Video Descriptions?
Olga Zagovora, Katrin Weller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15083

Between Flat-Earthers and Fitness Coaches: Who is Citing Scientific Publications in YouTube Video Descriptions?
In this study, we undertake an extensive analysis of YouTube channels that reference research publications in their video descriptions, offering a unique insight into the intersection of digital media and academia. Our investigation focuses on three principal aspects: the background of YouTube channel owners, their thematic focus, and the nature of their operational dynamics, specifically addressing whether they work individually or in groups. Our results highlight a strong emphasis on content …

"Petrochemicals, the building block of plastic, are already poisoning communities that neighbor production facilities with cancer-causing pollution,"
Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Beyond Petrochemicals executive director and one of the report's sponsors Heather McTeer Toney told The Guardian.
"The consequences of this industry’s unfettered carbon emissions will reach everyone on the planet"

A Prototypical Expert-Driven Approach Towards Capability-Based Monitoring of Automated Driving Systems
Richard Schubert, Cedrik Kaufmann, Marcus Nolte, Markus Maurer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16502

A Prototypical Expert-Driven Approach Towards Capability-Based Monitoring of Automated Driving Systems
Supervising the safe operation of automated vehicles is a key requirement in order to unleash their full potential in future transportation systems. In particular, previous publications have argued that SAE Level 4 vehicles should be aware of their capabilities at runtime to make appropriate behavioral decisions. In this paper, we present a framework that enables the implementation of an online capability monitor. We derive a graphical system model that captures the relationships between the qu…

HyLiMo: A Hybrid Live-Synchronized Modular Diagramming Editor as IDE Extension for Technical and Scientific Publications
Niklas Krieger, Sandro Speth, Steffen Becker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13711

HyLiMo: A Hybrid Live-Synchronized Modular Diagramming Editor as IDE Extension for Technical and Scientific Publications
Creating suitable diagrams for technical and scientific publications is challenging and time-consuming, as manual control over the layout is required to communicate information effectively. Existing diagramming tools usually allow modeling the diagrams via a textual domain-specific language (DSL) that can be rendered and auto-layouted or via a graphical editor. While auto-layout is fast, the results are often not satisfying for most publications. However, graphical editors are time-consuming to…

I have been diving into the #ClimateAI literature recently and one thing I notice, that I think is interesting is how many of the publications are authored by scientists who are not at traditionally high powered climate institutes, or often indeed from countries we see a lot of climate modelling literature from. And their names are often not classically WEIRD either. Which suggests

Since I'll have to fix my "publications / presentations / talks" page on my website soon, here's a question:
Does anyone know a wordpress lugin that allows generating tables that can be filtered dynamically by the client (as in "show me only lines with X in column Y")?

How The Intercept, Alternet, and Raw Story are using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in suits against OpenAI, possibly serving as a model for other sites (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/03/the-inte

The Intercept charts a new legal strategy for digital publishers suing OpenAI
Raw Story, AlterNet, and The Intercept are among the first smaller publications to go up against the AI goliath for copyright violations.

New paper: Internet Sanctions on Russian Media: Actions and Effects. In the Proceedings of Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI), 2024.#FOCI24

HyLiMo: A Hybrid Live-Synchronized Modular Diagramming Editor as IDE Extension for Technical and Scientific Publications
Niklas Krieger, Sandro Speth, Steffen Becker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13711

HyLiMo: A Hybrid Live-Synchronized Modular Diagramming Editor as IDE Extension for Technical and Scientific Publications
Creating suitable diagrams for technical and scientific publications is challenging and time-consuming, as manual control over the layout is required to communicate information effectively. Existing diagramming tools usually allow modeling the diagrams via a textual domain-specific language (DSL) that can be rendered and auto-layouted or via a graphical editor. While auto-layout is fast, the results are often not satisfying for most publications. However, graphical editors are time-consuming to…

Si vous êtes du Québec et que vous ne l'habitez pas, connaissez-vous l'Abitibi-Temiscamingue? Il semblerait que nous sommes 80% en dehors de la région Š en avoir une connaissance limitée et que la moité de ce 80% admettent même très mal la connaître.
https://

Publications | L'Observatoire de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Liste des publications

netscience: Scientific collaborations in network science (2006)
A coauthorship network among scientists working on network science, from 2006. This network is a one-mode projection from the bipartite graph of authors and their scientific publications.
This network has 1589 nodes and 2742 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Weighted, Projection

Mapping Literacies in the Tourism Labor Market: A Cross-Database Comparison
Eddy Soria Leyva, Ana Beatriz Hernandez Lara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15426 h…

Mapping Literacies in the Tourism Labor Market: A Cross-Database Comparison
This book chapter conducts a comparative bibliometric analysis of literacies in the tourism labor market, drawing from the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus databases. The objective is to assess scientific outputs and identify key patterns of scientific collaboration. Findings suggest a statistically significant difference between the two databases with an overlap level of 35.71%. However, there is a gradual and correlated increase in the number of publications over time. Scopus stands out for it…

FAIR Jupyter: a knowledge graph approach to semantic sharing and granular exploration of a computational notebook reproducibility dataset
Sheeba Samuel, Daniel Mietchen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12935

FAIR Jupyter: a knowledge graph approach to semantic sharing and granular exploration of a computational notebook reproducibility dataset
The way in which data are shared can affect their utility and reusability. Here, we demonstrate how data that we had previously shared in bulk can be mobilized further through a knowledge graph that allows for much more granular exploration and interrogation. The original dataset is about the computational reproducibility of GitHub-hosted Jupyter notebooks associated with biomedical publications. It contains rich metadata about the publications, associated GitHub repositories and Jupyter notebo…

Eh, some good vocabulary in here
> Elle coanime également le balado Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 (Nouvelle fenêtre), qui décortique l’emballement Š propos de l’IA.
«balado» — podcast
«décortique l’emballement» — dissects the hype
Attention @…
Ne vous méprenez pas : les robo…

Ne vous méprenez pas : les robots conversationnels ne sont pas conscients
Le lancement récent du grand modèle de langage Claude 3 a ravivé des discussions au sujet de la conscience de l'intelligence artificielle (IA). Cela est dû en partie au fait que Claude semblait philosopher à propos de sa propre conscience dans des publications virales et que l’entreprise qui l’a créé, Anthropic, a affirmé que Claude manifeste des degrés de compréhension et de fluidité « quasi humains ».

There’s a middle path here and no one is going to see it.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/03/report-for-america-is-phasing-out-partnerships-with-hedge-fund-owned-publications/

How a Woman Named [[Steve]] Pioneered Tech
https://www.computer.org/publications/tech-news/research/dame-stephanie-steve-shirley-computer-pioneer/
(Via

How a woman named "Steve" became one of Britain’s most celebrated IT pioneers, entrepreneurs, and philanthropists
Among computing pioneers, Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley is one of the most celebrated for building a $3 billion empire in the 1960s with an all-female staff.

Environmental policies must adjust to climate risks identified by the EEA! Our food and health are at risk. Check it out: [#ClimateAction

„Nearly all Linux distributions are using XZ Utils. However, the compromised version was mainly distributed in testing versions of the distributions.“
https://www.cert.europa.eu/publications/security-advisories/2024-032/

Critical Vulnerability in XZ Utils
Critical Vulnerability in XZ Utils

For someone who is in a supporting role I may be writing too many publications and research proposals at the moment... 😂

European Commission’s use of Microsoft 365 infringes data protection law for EU institutions and bodies | European Data Protection Supervisor - @…

The Case for Reform of Scientific Publishing - International Science Council
https://council.science/publications/reform-of-scientific-publishing/

The Case for Reform of Scientific Publishing - International Science Council
This timely discussion paper sets out priorities for reform in scientific publishing proposed by the International Science Council.

EU law enforcement cooperation reaches new level in Trackathon held at Europol HQ.
90 participants from 33 countries and Europol took part in the first edition of the Trackathon.
The #ENFAST #Trackathon resulted in new leads on 50 cases.

#ilt
#Reproduktionsarbeit
#Carearbeit hört sich irgendwie netter an, nicht so anstrengend.

@thetrudz over on Twitter:
“🕊️🥀 started a spreadsheet that has publications I could find that actually do reference sassycrass’ brilliant thoughts, despite so much other erasure. In case you’re creating an archive of her & need this.”
https://www.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01254 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

Human participants in AI research: Ethics and transparency in practice
In recent years, research involving human participants has been critical to advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), particularly in the areas of conversational, human-compatible, and cooperative AI. For example, around 12% and 6% of publications at recent AAAI and NeurIPS conferences indicate the collection of original human data, respectively. Yet AI and ML researchers lack guidelines for ethical, transparent research practices with human participants. Fewer than on…

Seed-based information retrieval in networks of research publications: Evaluation of direct citations, bibliographic coupling, co-citations and PubMed related article score
Peter Sj\"og{\aa}rde, Per Ahlgren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09295

Seed-based information retrieval in networks of research publications: Evaluation of direct citations, bibliographic coupling, co-citations and PubMed related article score
In this contribution, we deal with seed-based information retrieval in networks of research publications. Using systematic reviews as a baseline, and publication data from the NIH Open Citation Collection, we compare the performance of the three citation-based approaches direct citation, co-citation, and bibliographic coupling with respect to recall and precision measures. In addition, we include the PubMed Related Article score as well as combined approaches in the comparison. We also provide …

I don't know much about Sebastišn #Piñera's politics or personality - but what I do recall very well is that as Chile's president he (who has just died in a helicopter accident) gave a remarkable speech about the importance of #astronomy at the opening event of the #ALMA radio interferometer in 2013. Here it is, on page 5 of https://www.eso.org/sci/publications/messenger/archive/no.152-jun13/messenger-no152-2-6.pdf

GOV.UK publishes a rich web version of the Budget (with hyperlinked footnotes and SVG figures) but still emphasises the PDF version. (Because there's no image thumbnail?)
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/spring-budget-2024

Spring Budget 2024
This is the Spring Budget 2024 in full. You can find supporting and related documents below.

Have faculty publication expectations gone up? Hard data from some branches of psychology. [HT Rob Goldstone]
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/peer-reviewed-articles.html

How Many Peer-Reviewed Articles Do You Need to Earn Tenure?
Developmental psychologist James Byrnes explores updated norms, historical trends, and strategies of successful candidates for publishing peer-reviewed articles.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12372 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

HunFlair2 in a cross-corpus evaluation of named entity recognition and normalization tools
With the exponential growth of the life science literature, biomedical text mining (BTM) has become an essential technology for accelerating the extraction of insights from publications. Identifying named entities (e.g., diseases, drugs, or genes) in texts and their linkage to reference knowledge bases are crucial steps in BTM pipelines to enable information aggregation from different documents. However, tools for these two steps are rarely applied in the same context in which they were develop…

Moritz Müller presenting a bibliometric analysis of the CS literature to quantify the evolution of citizen science:
CS as a field is growing, but lack of recent bibliometric analyses, tries to fill that gap. Explore if/how CS publications track the increase of funding etc. Also looking at how types of CS publications have changed.
#ecsa2024

Russia’s The Insider is caught between censorship and tech platforms - Rest of World https://restofworld.org/2024/exporter-platforms-censor-russian-opposition/

New paper: Internet Sanctions on Russian Media: Actions and Effects. In the Proceedings of Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI), 2024.#FOCI24

"If the West is serious about a possible great power conflict, it needs to take a hard look at its industrial capacity, mobilisation doctrine and means of waging a protracted war, rather than conducting wargames covering a single month of conflict and hoping that the war will end afterwards." , great article,

The Attritional Art of War: Lessons from the Russian War on Ukraine
If the West is serious about the possibility of a great power conflict, it needs to take a hard look at its capacity to wage a protracted war and to pursue a strategy focused on attrition rather than manoeuvre.

Canada's Local Journalism Initiative, which gave $50M over five years for journalists' salaries, expires March 31, with no word on whether it will be renewed (Brishti Basu/CBC News)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/federal-funding-journalists-expire-1.7116950…

Federal money's kept hundreds of journalists employed in Canada. But the program's set to expire | CBC News
The Local Journalism Initiative launched in 2019 that currently supports more than 400 journalists in underserved communities. It's set to expire on March 31, and independent journalists and publications relying on the funds have no news about whether it will be renewed.

The bottom 20% of Americans receive only about 3% of US income.
The bottom 40% get about 11%.
PDF of Census report:
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2023/demo/p60-279.pdf
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Russian imports from countries like Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, which have chosen to not join Western sanctions against Russia, continue to  swell with semiconductor technology from U.S. and European companies.
This is partly due to their membership in the Eurasian Economic Union, a Russia-led coalition of trade partners. Member countries of the alliance can easily engage in trade partnerships, which support the free movement of goods, creating the opportunity for sanctioned products t…

Russia continues to evade sanctions — the West must stop it | George W. Bush Presidential Center

Russian Navy Chief Nikolay Yevmenov reportedly dismissed, Alexander Moiseev steps in as acting commander: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/11/russian-navy-chief.html

How did The New York Times, one of the world’s most famous and well-established publications, choose to review Geraldine DeRuiter’s ( @…) new book?
By illustrating her decapitated head on a plate, getting devoured by another woman. No, I’m not joking.
I got mad about it. I wrote about why:

Platform Responsibility: In Defense of Geraldine DeRuiter
Why we write and why we read. If you publish content online, you’re responsible for the harm that it may cause. It seems like The New York Times didn’t get the memo.

@… BigPub aims to maximize their profits, and especially with APCs, more publications = more revenue. That’s why they don’t have a problem with even egregious papers, as long as academics continue counting publications in “prestigious“ journals. I agree that there’s a certain risk that academics realize at some point that it’s a scam. But (i) change is s…

@… BigPub aims to maximize their profits, and especially with APCs, more publications = more revenue. That’s why they don’t have a problem with even egregious papers, as long as academics continue counting publications in “prestigious“ journals. I agree that there’s a certain risk that academics realize at some point that it’s a scam. But (i) change is s…

How a Woman Named [[Steve]] Pioneered Tech
https://www.computer.org/publications/tech-news/research/dame-stephanie-steve-shirley-computer-pioneer/
(Via

How a woman named "Steve" became one of Britain’s most celebrated IT pioneers, entrepreneurs, and philanthropists
Among computing pioneers, Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley is one of the most celebrated for building a $3 billion empire in the 1960s with an all-female staff.

I am so angry at how certain politicians are combining with misinformation/disinformation sources to create huge confusion and misplaced anger and media hyperbole about the carbon tax in BC and Canada, especially when it comes to fuel for "normal" cars and trucks driven by "normal" people.
If you believe the carbon tax is the only or even largest reason gas prices are rising, then you have been lied to.
Here are some carbon tax and fuel facts in BC:
1) F…

This hurts both parties.
Of the two of them, the AP the most.
Next most, what remains of the industry itself.
Most of all, it’ll hurt us, as an audience.
https://www.thewrap.com/gannett-drops-ap-associated-press-usa-today/

Gannett to Halt Use of AP Content in its Publications
The company will stop using the outlet’s content on March 25, according to an internal memo from chief content officer Kristin Roberts

The New York Times' thriving games business prompts others to try to replicate its success, such as with Hearst's acquisition of Puzzmo, but games coverage lags (Nathan Grayson/Aftermath)
https://aftermath.site/new-york-times-wordle-connections-puzzmo…

Why Big Publications Like The New York Times Are Making Games (But Barely Covering Them) - Aftermath
"The ad market is terrible. There's very real news fatigue. There's tons of alternative sources for news that aren't even news agencies."

My brother pointed me to this entertaining but also cuttingly accurate essay
Goodbye to Publications, by Bert-Jaap Koops
https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/15751/10284
it&…

Director's Statement on the Budget and Economic Outlook for 2024 to 2034 (Phill Swagel/CBO Publications)
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59933

Director’s Statement on the Budget and Economic Outlook for 2024 to 2034
CBO’s Director, Phillip Swagel, discusses the current budget and economic outlook.

SPONGE: Open-Source Designs of Modular Articulated Soft Robots
Tim-Lukas Habich, Jonas Haack, Mehdi Belhadj, Dustin Lehmann, Thomas Seel, Moritz Schappler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10734

SPONGE: Open-Source Designs of Modular Articulated Soft Robots
Soft-robot designs are manifold, but only a few are publicly available. Often, these are only briefly described in their publications. This complicates reproduction, and hinders the reproducibility and comparability of research results. If the designs were uniform and open source, validating researched methods on real benchmark systems would be possible. To address this, we present two variants of a soft pneumatic robot with antagonistic bellows as open source. Starting from a semi-modular desi…

“The editors particularly invited reflections on how (…) disciplinary orientations constrain inquiry. But that, I think, is not the real issue. The main issue is that there is so much knowledge out there already (…) and, with a little effort, scholars could easily find it if they wanted to, but they don’t. (…) Scholars simply don’t have time to read each other’s work, because they have to write.”

Tea-leaves, scribbles, publications from today's #TalkingAI conferencebat HSLU, a set of workshops by the VA-PEPR team to present and debate the issues of conversational interfaces and our data rights: https://sites.hslu.ch/va-pepr/en/

Research Artifacts in Software Engineering Publications: Status and Trends
Mugeng Liu, Xiaolong Huang, Wei He, Yibing Xie, Jie M. Zhang, Xiang Jing, Zhenpeng Chen, Yun Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06852

Research Artifacts in Software Engineering Publications: Status and Trends
The Software Engineering (SE) community has been embracing the open science policy and encouraging researchers to disclose artifacts in their publications. However, the status and trends of artifact practice and quality remain unclear, lacking insights on further improvement. In this paper, we present an empirical study to characterize the research artifacts in SE publications. Specifically, we manually collect 1,487 artifacts from all 2,196 papers published in top-tier SE conferences (ASE, FSE…

From Keywords to Structured Summaries: Streamlining Scholarly Knowledge Access
Mahsa Shamsabadi, Jennifer D'Souza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14622 http…

From Keywords to Structured Summaries: Streamlining Scholarly Knowledge Access
This short paper highlights the growing importance of information retrieval (IR) engines in the scientific community, addressing the inefficiency of traditional keyword-based search engines due to the rising volume of publications. The proposed solution involves structured records, underpinning advanced information technology (IT) tools, including visualization dashboards, to revolutionize how researchers access and filter articles, replacing the traditional text-heavy approach. This vision is …

How Human-Centered Explainable AI Interface Are Designed and Evaluated: A Systematic Survey
Thu Nguyen, Alessandro Canossa, Jichen Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14496

How Human-Centered Explainable AI Interface Are Designed and Evaluated: A Systematic Survey
Despite its technological breakthroughs, eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) research has limited success in producing the {\em effective explanations} needed by users. In order to improve XAI systems' usability, practical interpretability, and efficacy for real users, the emerging area of {\em Explainable Interfaces} (EIs) focuses on the user interface and user experience design aspects of XAI. This paper presents a systematic survey of 53 publications to identify current trends in human…

Report for America, the nonprofit that placed 600 reporters in newsrooms since its 2017 launch, is "phasing out" partnerships with hedge fund-owned outlets (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/03/report-f

dblp_coauthor_snap: DBLP authors (2012)
A coauthorship network extracted from the DBLP computer science manuscript database, in 2012. This network is a one-mode projection from the bipartite graph of computer scientists and their publications.
This network has 425957 nodes and 1049866 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Unweighted, Metadata, Projection

ACLSum: A New Dataset for Aspect-based Summarization of Scientific Publications
Sotaro Takeshita, Tommaso Green, Ines Reinig, Kai Eckert, Simone Paolo Ponzetto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05303

ACLSum: A New Dataset for Aspect-based Summarization of Scientific Publications
Extensive efforts in the past have been directed toward the development of summarization datasets. However, a predominant number of these resources have been (semi)-automatically generated, typically through web data crawling, resulting in subpar resources for training and evaluating summarization systems, a quality compromise that is arguably due to the substantial costs associated with generating ground-truth summaries, particularly for diverse languages and specialized domains. To address th…

Office 365 privacy compliance is a problem for the EU commission, i can imagine that is also the case in many EU member states, national governments...
https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-…

European Commission’s use of Microsoft 365 infringes data protection law for EU institutions and bodies
Following its investigation, the EDPS has found that the European Commission (Commission) has infringed several key data protection rules when using Microsoft 365. In its decision, the EDPS imposes corrective measures on the Commission. The EDPS has found that the Commission has infringed several ...

The SRG / #eROSITA All-Sky Survey - #Cosmology Constraints from #Cluster Abundances in the Western Galactic Hemisphere: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08458 -> eROSITA relaxes cosmological tension: https://www.mpe.mpg.de/7999333/news240214 - results from the first X-ray sky survey resolve the previous inconsistency between competing measurements of the structure of the Universe. BTW, the eROSITA bibliography https://erosita.mpe.mpg.de/publications/ lists 49 recent preprints now ... wonder if there is anyone from project reading them *all*.

A word cloud from the titles of all my publications on Google Scholar using https://shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/scholar_googler3/
I need to get cats somewhere in my articles..
found via: https://archaeo.social/@FlintDibble/111891581805182121

As you may have heard,mainstream news organizations are facing a financial crisis.
Many liberal publications have taken an even more severe beating.
But the most dramatic declines over the past few years belong to conservative and right-wing sites.
The flow of traffic to Donald Trump’s most loyal digital-media boosters isn’t just slowing, as in the rest of the industry;
it’s utterly collapsing.

Right-Wing Media Are in Trouble
The flow of traffic to Donald Trump’s most loyal digital-media boosters isn’t just slowing; it’s utterly collapsing.

Don't mention it: An approach to assess challenges to using software mentions for citation and discoverability research
Stephan Druskat, Neil P. Chue Hong, Sammie Buzzard, Olexandr Konovalov, Patrick Kornek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14602

Don't mention it: An approach to assess challenges to using software mentions for citation and discoverability research
Datasets collecting software mentions from scholarly publications can potentially be used for research into the software that has been used in the published research, as well as into the practice of software citation. Recently, new software mention datasets with different characteristics have been published. We present an approach to assess the usability of such datasets for research on research software. Our approach includes sampling and data preparation, manual annotation for quality and men…

This is why in EU funded (#HorizoneEurope) projects, the commission demands that a copy of every publications is *ALSO* archived in a repository like #Zenodo - and they have full guidelines as to preserving open access to science via their

Touring the Former ‘Book Row’ - Village Preservation https://www.villagepreservation.org/2024/02/12/touring-the-former-book-row/

Director's Statement on the Budget and Economic Outlook for 2024 to 2034 (Phill Swagel/CBO Publications)
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59933

Director’s Statement on the Budget and Economic Outlook for 2024 to 2034
CBO’s Director, Phillip Swagel, discusses the current budget and economic outlook.

MM: So far last analyses only include publications until 2018, so not very recent #ecsa2024 // way to make me feel old, for thinking 2018 was like yesterday! 😂

Tea-leaves, scribbles, publications from today's #TalkingAI conferencebat HSLU, a set of workshops by the VA-PEPR team to present and debate the issues of conversational interfaces and our data rights: https://sites.hslu.ch/va-pepr/en/

ACLSum: A New Dataset for Aspect-based Summarization of Scientific Publications
Sotaro Takeshita, Tommaso Green, Ines Reinig, Kai Eckert, Simone Paolo Ponzetto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05303

ACLSum: A New Dataset for Aspect-based Summarization of Scientific Publications
Extensive efforts in the past have been directed toward the development of summarization datasets. However, a predominant number of these resources have been (semi)-automatically generated, typically through web data crawling, resulting in subpar resources for training and evaluating summarization systems, a quality compromise that is arguably due to the substantial costs associated with generating ground-truth summaries, particularly for diverse languages and specialized domains. To address th…

netscience: Scientific collaborations in network science (2006)
A coauthorship network among scientists working on network science, from 2006. This network is a one-mode projection from the bipartite graph of authors and their scientific publications.
This network has 1589 nodes and 2742 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Weighted, Projection

Publications should suspend paywalls for all 2024 US election coverage, as they get in the way of the public being informed, the foundation of democracy (Richard Stengel/The Atlantic)
https://t.co/6jeIDUVz59

Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls
The case for making journalism free—at least during the 2024 election

The role of non-scientific factors vis-a-vis the quality of publications in determining their scholarly impact
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Leonardo Grilli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05345

The role of non-scientific factors vis-a-vis the quality of publications in determining their scholarly impact
In the evaluation of scientific publications' impact, the interplay between intrinsic quality and non-scientific factors remains a subject of debate. While peer review traditionally assesses quality, bibliometric techniques gauge scholarly impact. This study investigates the role of non-scientific attributes alongside quality scores from peer review in determining scholarly impact. Leveraging data from the first Italian Research Assessment Exercise (VTR 2001-2003) and Web of Science citations, …

Tech giant #Google is blocking links to California news outlets from search results
Google has temporarily 💥blocked links from local news outlets in California💥 from appearing in search results
in response to the advancement of a 🌟bill that would require tech companies to pay publications for links that articles share. 🌟
The change applies only to some people using Google in California, tho…

High-pressure minerals and new lunar mineral changesite-(Y) in Chang’e-5 regolith: #lunar sample returned by China’s 2020 lunar mission contained minerals that provide clues to their origin.

dblp_coauthor_snap: DBLP authors (2012)
A coauthorship network extracted from the DBLP computer science manuscript database, in 2012. This network is a one-mode projection from the bipartite graph of computer scientists and their publications.
This network has 425957 nodes and 1049866 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Unweighted, Metadata, Projection

Scientific Impact of novel Instrumentation: the Case of MUSE
Martin M. Roth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13540 https://arxiv.org/pdf/24…

Scientific Impact of novel Instrumentation: the Case of MUSE
In the process of transforming science cases into a viable and affordable design for a novel instrument, there is the problem of how to gauge their scientific impact, especially when they end up in competing top level requirements that can be incompatible with each other. This research note presents a case study for scientific impact of the integral field spectrograph MUSE in terms of number of refereed publications from 2014 to 2024 as a figure of merit, broken down by different research areas…

dblp_coauthor_snap: DBLP authors (2012)
A coauthorship network extracted from the DBLP computer science manuscript database, in 2012. This network is a one-mode projection from the bipartite graph of computer scientists and their publications.
This network has 425957 nodes and 1049866 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Unweighted, Metadata, Projection

Study finds that we could lose science if publishers go bankrupt
Back when scientific publications came in paper form, libraries played a key role in ensuring that knowledge didn't disappear. Copies went out to so many libraries that any failure—a publisher going bankrupt, a library getting closed—wouldn't put us at risk of losing information.
But, as with anything else, scientific content has gone digital, which has changed what's involved with preservation.
O…

Study finds that we could lose science if publishers go bankrupt
A scan of archives shows that lots of scientific papers aren't backed up.

(Non-)retracted academic papers in OpenAlex
Christian Hauschke, Serhii Nazarovets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13339 https://arxiv.org/…

(Non-)retracted academic papers in OpenAlex
The proliferation of scholarly publications underscores the necessity for reliable tools to navigate scientific literature. OpenAlex, an emerging platform amalgamating data from diverse academic sources, holds promise in meeting these evolving demands. Nonetheless, our investigation uncovered a flaw in OpenAlex's portrayal of publication status, particularly concerning retractions. Despite accurate metadata sourced from Crossref database, OpenAlex consolidated this information into a single boo…

Report for America's head says it is ending support of hedge fund-owned newsrooms to "prioritize partners that will be springboards for the next generation" (Kim Kleman/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2024/re

Why Report for America will no longer place corps members in hedge fund-owned publications - Poynter
Our program must focus on areas where it has the most impact, RFA executive director Kim Kleman writes

What Large-Scale Publication and Citation Data Tell Us About International Research Collaboration in Europe: Changing National Patterns in Global Contexts
Marek Kwiek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09407

What Large-Scale Publication and Citation Data Tell Us About International Research Collaboration in Europe: Changing National Patterns in Global Contexts
This study analyzes the unprecedented growth of international research collaboration (IRC) in Europe during the period 2009-2018 in terms of coauthorship and citation distribution of globally indexed publications. The results reveal the dynamics of this change, as growing IRC moves European systems away from institutional collaboration, with stable and strong national collaboration. Domestic output has remained flat. The growth in publications in major European systems is almost entirely attrib…

The very existence of a state vetting process for books is anathema to the values that I as a historian, bibliophile, and teacher hold sacred—even if the censors could approve every book that I submitted.
As Bradbury warned, “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
Here in Florida, the match was struck by our state legislature with the passage of House Bill 1467.
Educators are left trying to keep the flam…

A School without Books: The State of Censorship and Classroom Libraries in Florida
One veteran Florida social studies teacher shares the recent changes brought to his district by state legislation.

How the Alliance of Nonprofit News Outlets, launched in August 2023 and now with 32 member publications, helps small news nonprofits reach large funders (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/02/many-sma…

Many small news nonprofits feel overlooked by funders. A new coalition is giving them a voice
“There are haves and have-nots in the nonprofit journalism space. And this isn't right.”

dblp_coauthor_snap: DBLP authors (2012)
A coauthorship network extracted from the DBLP computer science manuscript database, in 2012. This network is a one-mode projection from the bipartite graph of computer scientists and their publications.
This network has 425957 nodes and 1049866 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Unweighted, Metadata, Projection