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I just used my institution's subscription to read this #paywalled article from #Sage.
https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432261462166When the Sage platform recognized that I was an authorized user, it asked me to click my consent to its terms of use before showing me the article text.
https://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/terms-of-useFirst, I've never seen that before.
Second, one of the terms purports to waive my fair-use rights. "Except as expressly permitted by this Agreement or your separate Access Agreement(s) or other agreement(s) (if applicable) or Sage's Article Access Sharing policy, you may not…copy any portion of the Site and/or Services."
BTW, it would take wide consultation and at least a full day for me to figure out whether any "separate Access Agreement(s) or other agreement(s) (if applicable)" create exceptions allowing me to copy short passages "for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching… , scholarship, or research" -- to quote 17 USC §107, the US statute on fair use.
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I just used my institution's subscription to read this #paywalled article from #Sage.
https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432261462166When the Sage platform recognized that I was an authorized user, it asked me to click my consent to its terms of use before showing me the article text.
https://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/terms-of-useFirst, I've never seen that before.
Second, one of the terms purports to waive my fair-use rights. "Except as expressly permitted by this Agreement or your separate Access Agreement(s) or other agreement(s) (if applicable) or Sage's Article Access Sharing policy, you may not…copy any portion of the Site and/or Services."
BTW, it would take wide consultation and at least a full day for me to figure out whether any "separate Access Agreement(s) or other agreement(s) (if applicable)" create exceptions allowing me to copy short passages "for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching… , scholarship, or research" -- to quote 17 USC §107, the US statute on fair use.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107 -
"Did U.S. scrutiny of foreign research drive prominent geneticist to decline authorship?"
https://www.science.org/content/article/did-u-s-scrutiny-foreign-research-drive-prominent-geneticist-decline-authorship
(#paywalled)All five US co-authors of a paper with both US and Chinese funding ask to be removed from the author list and moved to the acknowledgments section.
"The outcome offers an example of the gymnastics many researchers are contemplating as they try to cope with growing U.S. government scrutiny of research collaborations, especially those with Chinese institutions."
#China #Collaboration #DefendResearch #Funding #ScholComm #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"Did U.S. scrutiny of foreign research drive prominent geneticist to decline authorship?"
https://www.science.org/content/article/did-u-s-scrutiny-foreign-research-drive-prominent-geneticist-decline-authorship
(#paywalled)All five US co-authors of a paper with both US and Chinese funding ask to be removed from the author list and moved to the acknowledgments section.
"The outcome offers an example of the gymnastics many researchers are contemplating as they try to cope with growing U.S. government scrutiny of research collaborations, especially those with Chinese institutions."
#China #Collaboration #DefendResearch #Funding #ScholComm #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"White House deletes thousands of web pages about energy conservation as heatwave slams US."
https://www.theverge.com/policy/961449/white-house-mamdani-heatwave-deletion
(#paywalled)"The deletions by the Trump administration are broad and indiscriminate. While pages that would support Mamdani’s request to lower thermostats were deleted, so too were pages about water conservation, types of insulation, and its solar decathlon challenge."
Here are preservation copies of the deleted pages in the Internet Archive.
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/*#Censorship #Climate #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"White House deletes thousands of web pages about energy conservation as heatwave slams US."
https://www.theverge.com/policy/961449/white-house-mamdani-heatwave-deletion
(#paywalled)"The deletions by the Trump administration are broad and indiscriminate. While pages that would support Mamdani’s request to lower thermostats were deleted, so too were pages about water conservation, types of insulation, and its solar decathlon challenge."
Here are preservation copies of the deleted pages in the Internet Archive.
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/*#Censorship #Climate #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. The Chronicle of Higher Education tots up "nearly $3 million" so far paid out by universities to compensate faculty wrongfully punished for criticizing Kirk. It also points to an unspecified number disciplined but so far uncompensated.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/colleges-have-paid-nearly-3-million-to-employees-fired-for-comments-about-charlie-kirk
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Update. The Chronicle of Higher Education tots up "nearly $3 million" so far paid out by universities to compensate faculty wrongfully punished for criticizing Kirk. It also points to an unspecified number disciplined but so far uncompensated.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/colleges-have-paid-nearly-3-million-to-employees-fired-for-comments-about-charlie-kirk
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The #NSF is shifting significant amounts of money from research grants to tech investments.
https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-nsf-slashes-research-programs-support-new-tech-initiative-insiders-say
(#paywalled)#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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The #NSF is shifting significant amounts of money from research grants to tech investments.
https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-nsf-slashes-research-programs-support-new-tech-initiative-insiders-say
(#paywalled)#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. The #CDC-censored research vindicating #COVID #vaccines has now been published in 𝘑𝘈𝘔𝘈 𝘕𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯:
"Interim Estimated Effectiveness of 2025-2026 COVID-19 Vaccines in Adults Using a Test-Negative Design."
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2850668Also see the Washington Post article on its censorship and publication.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/06/23/cdcs-chief-blocked-covid-vaccine-study-now-its-top-medical-journal/
(#paywalled)#Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #StreisandEffect #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics #Vaccines
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Update. The #CDC-censored research vindicating #COVID #vaccines has now been published in 𝘑𝘈𝘔𝘈 𝘕𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯:
"Interim Estimated Effectiveness of 2025-2026 COVID-19 Vaccines in Adults Using a Test-Negative Design."
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2850668Also see the Washington Post article on its censorship and publication.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/06/23/cdcs-chief-blocked-covid-vaccine-study-now-its-top-medical-journal/
(#paywalled)#Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #StreisandEffect #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics #Vaccines
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"We published in Nature Medicine in 2025 for free. In 2026, it cost us $12,850."
https://www.statnews.com/2026/06/11/open-access-journal-fees-nature-wiley-elsevier-nih/
(#paywalled)There's a lot going on in this confused and confusing article.
* The author and her co-authors were foolish to pay $12,850 for a Nature Medicine APC. They could have published the same article for a lower fee, or no fee, at many other respected journals. They didn't pay for quality. They paid for journal branding or prestige.
* The author says her team paid for the APC "to comply" with the NIH policy. Untrue. Complying with the NIH policy is free of charge. They paid the APC to publish in Nature Medicine.
* The author says that APCs "pose barriers to making NIH-funded research available to the public." Untrue. NIH makes funded research available to the public through #PubMedCentral (#GreenOA) no matter where the author chooses to publish and no matter whether the author chooses to pay an APC.
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"We published in Nature Medicine in 2025 for free. In 2026, it cost us $12,850."
https://www.statnews.com/2026/06/11/open-access-journal-fees-nature-wiley-elsevier-nih/
(#paywalled)There's a lot going on in this confused and confusing article.
* The author and her co-authors were foolish to pay $12,850 for a Nature Medicine APC. They could have published the same article for a lower fee, or no fee, at many other respected journals. They didn't pay for quality. They paid for journal branding or prestige.
* The author says her team paid for the APC "to comply" with the NIH policy. Untrue. Complying with the NIH policy is free of charge. They paid the APC to publish in Nature Medicine.
* The author says that APCs "pose barriers to making NIH-funded research available to the public." Untrue. NIH makes funded research available to the public through #PubMedCentral (#GreenOA) no matter where the author chooses to publish and no matter whether the author chooses to pay an APC.
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General-Anzeiger | Siegburg: Schuhmachermeister entwerfen Schuhe für Cosplay
https://ga.de/region/sieg-und-rhein/siegburg/siegburg-schuhmachermeister-entwerfen-schuhe-fuer-cosplay_aid-149023339 -
"Bots Now Outnumber Humans Online And The Internet Was Never Built For This."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/josipamajic/2026/06/04/bots-now-outnumber-humans-online-and-the-internet-was-never-built-for-this/
(#paywalled)"The culprit is not the old wave of scraper bots and search crawlers, but agentic AI… #AgenticAI…made up just 1.7% of automated traffic at the start of last year. By the end of 2025 that category had grown 8,000%."
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"Bots Now Outnumber Humans Online And The Internet Was Never Built For This."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/josipamajic/2026/06/04/bots-now-outnumber-humans-online-and-the-internet-was-never-built-for-this/
(#paywalled)"The culprit is not the old wave of scraper bots and search crawlers, but agentic AI… #AgenticAI…made up just 1.7% of automated traffic at the start of last year. By the end of 2025 that category had grown 8,000%."
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Frankenpost | Die Zweitgrößte in Bayern: Gamer-Messe in Hof feiert wieder E-Sport, Cosplay und Nerdkultur
https://www.frankenpost.de/inhalt.die-zweitgroesste-in-bayern-gamer-messe-in-hof-leidenschaft-die-fasziniert.939b9361-a138-43f1-8f38-099d56aa7150.html -
Update. Adhari AlZaabi's thoughtful reflection on ways for non-native speakers of English to benefit from #AI to help compose English-language research articles while minimizing the risks of distortion and loss of agency.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2848649
(#paywalled)"Uncritical AI use risks amplifying fluency at the expense of accuracy. In contrast, if AI is constrained to the role of translator, auditor, or compliance tool, it can instead reduce inequitable cognitive burden without compromising scientific judgment."
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Update. Adhari AlZaabi's thoughtful reflection on ways for non-native speakers of English to benefit from #AI to help compose English-language research articles while minimizing the risks of distortion and loss of agency.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2848649
(#paywalled)"Uncritical AI use risks amplifying fluency at the expense of accuracy. In contrast, if AI is constrained to the role of translator, auditor, or compliance tool, it can instead reduce inequitable cognitive burden without compromising scientific judgment."
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Update. Another article made it through peer review (at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons) leading with two false generalizations, that (all or most) #OpenAccess journals charge #APCs and that (all or most) paid APCs are paid by authors.
https://journals.lww.com/jaaos/abstract/9900/the_open_versus_closed_access_publication.1671.aspx
(#paywalled)Most OA journals are #DiamondOA and charge no APCs.
http://www.doaj.org/Most paid APCs are paid by funders or employers, not by authors out of pocket. (Footnote: The evidence is clearer for the global north than the global south.)
https://suber.pubpub.org/pub/j1jk6hu9On the plus side, the article reports that in field of orthopaedic surgery, OA articles have higher citation counts and altmetric scores than non-OA articles.
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Update. Another article made it through peer review (at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons) leading with two false generalizations, that (all or most) #OpenAccess journals charge #APCs and that (all or most) paid APCs are paid by authors.
https://journals.lww.com/jaaos/abstract/9900/the_open_versus_closed_access_publication.1671.aspx
(#paywalled)Most OA journals are #DiamondOA and charge no APCs.
http://www.doaj.org/Most paid APCs are paid by funders or employers, not by authors out of pocket. (Footnote: The evidence is clearer for the global north than the global south.)
https://suber.pubpub.org/pub/j1jk6hu9On the plus side, the article reports that in field of orthopaedic surgery, OA articles have higher citation counts and altmetric scores than non-OA articles.
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Siegener Zeitung | Spucke, Hass und Häme: Besucher der City-Galerie Siegen greifen Cosplayer an
https://www.siegener-zeitung.de/lokales/siegerland/siegen/spucke-aus-dem-dritten-stock-cosplay-event-in-siegen-eskaliert-besucher-reagieren-mit-haeme-O6VEEI77VBFCVEYU3V22E3BD4M.html#Paywalled #Versäummmt #SamtSiegen #Samt #Siegen #Anime #Manga #Cosplay
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Siegener Zeitung | Spucke, Hass und Häme: Besucher der City-Galerie Siegen greifen Cosplayer an
https://www.siegener-zeitung.de/lokales/siegerland/siegen/spucke-aus-dem-dritten-stock-cosplay-event-in-siegen-eskaliert-besucher-reagieren-mit-haeme-O6VEEI77VBFCVEYU3V22E3BD4M.html#Paywalled #Versäummmt #SamtSiegen #Samt #Siegen #Anime #Manga #Cosplay
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Siegener Zeitung | SamtCon Siegen: Deutschlands erster Anime-Linienbus feiert Premiere
https://www.siegener-zeitung.de/lokales/siegerland/siegen/samtcon-siegen-deutschlands-erster-anime-linienbus-feiert-premiere-MYLPWTHV5VHPRBKLCYNRWLRNSI.html -
"Here’s Who Was Harmed by Trump’s Cancellation of Research Grants."
https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-trump-agenda/heres-who-was-harmed-by-trumps-cancellation-of-research-grants
(#paywalled)"A year after the National Institutes of Health [#NIH] terminated more than 2,000 research grants, a new analysis indicates that the cuts disproportionately hurt scientists who identify as people of color and LGBTQ."
This article summarizes research forthcoming in The Lancet Regional Health — Americas.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/home#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"Here’s Who Was Harmed by Trump’s Cancellation of Research Grants."
https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-trump-agenda/heres-who-was-harmed-by-trumps-cancellation-of-research-grants
(#paywalled)"A year after the National Institutes of Health [#NIH] terminated more than 2,000 research grants, a new analysis indicates that the cuts disproportionately hurt scientists who identify as people of color and LGBTQ."
This article summarizes research forthcoming in The Lancet Regional Health — Americas.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/home#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Did you know #Google will strengthen it's #control of your #Android devices from September 2026? https://c.org/zVRvKmpCwv #paywalled #ecosystem
https://keepandroidopen.org/en/ #keepandroidopen -
Did you know #Google will strengthen it's #control of your #Android devices from September 2026? https://c.org/zVRvKmpCwv #paywalled #ecosystem
https://keepandroidopen.org/en/ #keepandroidopen -
"Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trump’s first year."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026/04/19/science-research-funding-cuts-trump/
(#paywalled)"A Washington Post analysis found that through March 31, halfway through this fiscal year, the number of competitive grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health [#NIH] is down by more than half compared with the same period last year. Biomedical funding has also undergone a shift, the analysis found, cutting the U.S. research footprint across nearly every major disease area - including fewer grants focused on women’s health, cancer and mental health. Overall, the NIH supported over 2,700 fewer scientific projects in fiscal 2025, about a 15 percent cut in the number of competitive grants compared with the previous fiscal year."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trump’s first year."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026/04/19/science-research-funding-cuts-trump/
(#paywalled)"A Washington Post analysis found that through March 31, halfway through this fiscal year, the number of competitive grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health [#NIH] is down by more than half compared with the same period last year. Biomedical funding has also undergone a shift, the analysis found, cutting the U.S. research footprint across nearly every major disease area - including fewer grants focused on women’s health, cancer and mental health. Overall, the NIH supported over 2,700 fewer scientific projects in fiscal 2025, about a 15 percent cut in the number of competitive grants compared with the previous fiscal year."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Here's a #paywalled article with a truncated #OpenAccess abstract. You can tell from the title that the author has some objections to #OpenData ("a good idea that can be taken too far"). But the free version of the abstract doesn't tell us any of those objections. It starts by listing the benefits of open data and then cuts off.
https://www.jhandtherapy.org/article/S0894-1130(26)00015-3/abstractEven paywalled journals benefit by making abstracts OA. They advertise the paywalled content. But OA abstracts should give us enough information to know whether we want to click through (or pay) to read the full text. They should not be cliffhangers that make us want to click through, if at all, just to get the full abstract.
I can imagine some editors thinking that truncated OA abstracts are an experiment worth trying. After all, they might trigger even more click-throughs (or payments) than full abstracts. OK, then will they also experiment with truncated titles?
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Here's a #paywalled article with a truncated #OpenAccess abstract. You can tell from the title that the author has some objections to #OpenData ("a good idea that can be taken too far"). But the free version of the abstract doesn't tell us any of those objections. It starts by listing the benefits of open data and then cuts off.
https://www.jhandtherapy.org/article/S0894-1130(26)00015-3/abstractEven paywalled journals benefit by making abstracts OA. They advertise the paywalled content. But OA abstracts should give us enough information to know whether we want to click through (or pay) to read the full text. They should not be cliffhangers that make us want to click through, if at all, just to get the full abstract.
I can imagine some editors thinking that truncated OA abstracts are an experiment worth trying. After all, they might trigger even more click-throughs (or payments) than full abstracts. OK, then will they also experiment with truncated titles?
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Märkische Oderzeitung | Buch aus Müncheberg: Wie aus der Leidenschaft für Anime ein Fantasy-Roman wird
https://www.moz.de/lokales/seelow/buch-aus-muencheberg-wie-aus-der-leidenschaft-fuer-anime-ein-fantasy-roman-wird-78777578.html -
The #CDC is sitting on a report showing that the #COVID #vaccine "cut the likelihood of emergency department visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/04/09/covid-vaccine-report-delayed/
(#paywalled)It was set to be published last month when #JayBhattacharya delayed it because of "methodology" concerns. But it uses standard CDC methodology for evaluating vaccines, and Bhattacharya approved the release of a flu vaccine report using the same methodology the week before the planned release of the COVID report. Bhattacharya reports to #RFKJr.
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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The #CDC is sitting on a report showing that the #COVID #vaccine "cut the likelihood of emergency department visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/04/09/covid-vaccine-report-delayed/
(#paywalled)It was set to be published last month when #JayBhattacharya delayed it because of "methodology" concerns. But it uses standard CDC methodology for evaluating vaccines, and Bhattacharya approved the release of a flu vaccine report using the same methodology the week before the planned release of the COVID report. Bhattacharya reports to #RFKJr.
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung | Cosplay im Ruhrgebiet: „Die Szene ist ein Safespace für die LGBTQ-Gemeinschaft“
https://www.waz.de/kultur/article411327154/cosplayer-im-ruhrgebiet-die-szene-ist-ein-safespace-fuer-die-lgbtq-gemeinschaft.html#Paywalled #Queer #MikuHatsune #Cyberpunk2077 #Ukraine #Cosplay #初音ミク
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Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung | Cosplay im Ruhrgebiet: „Die Szene ist ein Safespace für die LGBTQ-Gemeinschaft“
https://www.waz.de/kultur/article411327154/cosplayer-im-ruhrgebiet-die-szene-ist-ein-safespace-fuer-die-lgbtq-gemeinschaft.html#Paywalled #Queer #MikuHatsune #Cyberpunk2077 #Ukraine #Cosplay #初音ミク
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Update. Here's a letter to the editor explicitly arguing that we needn't curb #OpenAccess or #OpenData to address the flood of low-quality journal submissions consisting of little or nothing more than the #AI crunching of open datasets.
https://www.jclinepi.com/article/S0895-4356(26)00127-7/abstractToo bad the letter is #paywalled.
The letter is accompanied by another paywalled letter arguing that the problem does require "controlled access to open data."
https://www.jclinepi.com/article/S0895-4356(26)00126-5/abstract -
Update. Here's a letter to the editor explicitly arguing that we needn't curb #OpenAccess or #OpenData to address the flood of low-quality journal submissions consisting of little or nothing more than the #AI crunching of open datasets.
https://www.jclinepi.com/article/S0895-4356(26)00127-7/abstractToo bad the letter is #paywalled.
The letter is accompanied by another paywalled letter arguing that the problem does require "controlled access to open data."
https://www.jclinepi.com/article/S0895-4356(26)00126-5/abstract -
Alex Bronzini-Vender reviews Elise Stefanik's new book, 𝘗𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘐𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘴: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘵 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢’𝘴 𝘌𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/elise-stefanik-goes-woke
(#paywalled)"Stefanik…has assembled here the most serious version of the Trumpist case against 'woke' academe. The problem is that the most serious version of the Trumpist critique turns out not to be serious at all…In Stefanik’s telling, the woke academy has poisoned itself with the conflation of discomfort with harm, arbitrary line-drawing between legitimate ideas and hateful ones, and the fetishizing of subjective experience. And Stefanik’s antidote, it turns out, is more conflation of discomfort with harm, arbitrary line-drawing between legitimate ideas and hateful ones, and the fetishizing of subjective experience."
#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
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Leipziger Volkszeitung | New Adult, Manga, Romantasy: Junges Publikum auf die Leipziger Buchmesse 2026
https://www.lvz.de/kultur/regional/new-adult-manga-romantasy-junges-publikum-auf-die-leipziger-buchmesse-2026-MLDGHEKA6ZGXTAFXH345NTRCPU.html#Paywalled #LBM #LBM26 #LBM2026 #Buchmesse #Leipzig #MCC #MCC26 #MCC2026 #Manga