Margaux Larre-Perez
larreperez.bsky.social
Margaux Larre-Perez
@larreperez.bsky.social
Open Science, Datactivist. Ph.D. in cognitive psych, budding meta-scientist. Everything open, 90s, video games and pop culture :)

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2826-9656
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💥New: Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI

✍️ @eve.gd

#CreativeCommons #ScholComm #AcWri
Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI - Impact of Social Sciences
Considering the legal standing of creative commons licenses & copyright, Martin Eve suggests legal protections for academic work are unlikely to be forthcoming.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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New from 404 Media: Trump's tariffs mean the libraries can't get their loaned books back. "They can't ship them back to us because their carrier either is flat out refusing to ship anything to the U.S., or they're citing not being able to handle the tariff situation."
www.404media.co/libraries-ca...
Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs
Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’
www.404media.co
October 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Discussing the current state of open educational resources and e-textbooks, @niamhtumelty.bsky.social & @heroicendeavour.bsky.social argue they should form a central part of university strategies for public engagement @lseimpactblog.bsky.social.

@lsepress.bsky.social @lselibrary.bsky.social
Open educational resources should be central to the public mission of universities - Impact of Social Sciences
Discussing the current state of open educational resources and e-textbooks, Niamh Tumelty and Caroline Ball argue they should form a central part of university strategies for public engagement.…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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People are running stats on LLM-generated participants and think they’re being social scientists when in fact they’re technically just playing a very strange video game. This is like saying you’re doing math research because you’re playing sudoku.

www.science.org/content/arti...
AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds
Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings
www.science.org
October 4, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Red Hat is investigating a breach impacting as many as 28,000 customers. We got some files related to it, shows impacted customers might include the Navy and Congress. Also Federal Aviation Administration, Bank of America, AT&T.

www.404media.co/red-hat-inve...
Red Hat Investigating Breach Impacting as Many as 28,000 Customers, Including the Navy and Congress
A hacking group called the Crimson Collective says it pulled data from private GitHub repositories connected to Red Hat's consulting business. Red Hat has confirmed it is investigating the compromise.
www.404media.co
October 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow
September 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune
Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.
fortune.com
September 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Or, Baudrillard is jealous that even he couldn't have dreamed this sh*t up.
September 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵
September 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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“Added value” 🙄
This is a problem.
September 26, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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COUNCILS DON'T NEED YOU TO PROVE YOUR IDENTITY IN ORDER TO REPORT A POTHOLE. THEY DON'T EVEN NEED YOU TO *REVEAL* YOUR IDENTITY.
Public backs ‘super ID card’ which could be used to report potholes
Ministers have recently said they are considering introducing a form of digital ID for adults in Britain
www.independent.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Sure, let’s collate every member of the public’s personal and private information into one giant database right before handing whole swathes of the state over to multinational corporations using an emergent technology with numerous security issues
September 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Big news: Internet Archive Europe ( @internetarchive.eu ) has opened its new HQ in Amsterdam! 🎉 A home for preservation, access & shared cultural heritage.

Read coverage from @mariabustillos.com in Flaming Hydra: flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-...
Freedom and Sharing at the Internet Archive Europe
On Friday, in a narrow, cream-painted 17th-century row house facing a wide canal bathed in golden light, the Internet Archive Europe celebrated the opening of its new headquarters in Amsterdam. Around...
flaminghydra.com
September 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
guess what book it's about 🙃
OH MY GOD THIS BOOK HAS NO CITATIONS AND NO BIBLIOGRAPHY
September 26, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended
September 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Lol we made a discovery layer that lies to you, it's a learning experience

"the team has worked hard to minimize such results, but they can and will surface. Importantly, these moments are opportunities to learn more about both the technology and user expectations."
Launch of Collections Explorer (MVP)
On Monday, September 15, Harvard Library launched the MVP of Collections Explorer, the first working prototype of the Reimagining Discovery initiative. This marks a pivotal moment: for the first time,...
circblog.library.harvard.edu
September 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Searches previously blocked (e.g., on genocide or civil rights history) now return results, while genuinely harmful queries (e.g., instructions for building weapons) remain blocked.
Guardrails for Responsible AI | Clarivate
Le moment où Clarivate déclare utiliser le Research Assistant de Primo VE pour protéger "l'intégrité scientifique et les libertés académiques" en filtrant les résultats sur la base de "termes sensibles ou indésirables"
Guardrails for Responsible AI
Clarivate on AI guardrails: balancing responsible AI, safety, and academic freedom through shared standards and community collaboration.
clarivate.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Guardrails for Responsible AI | Clarivate
Le moment où Clarivate déclare utiliser le Research Assistant de Primo VE pour protéger "l'intégrité scientifique et les libertés académiques" en filtrant les résultats sur la base de "termes sensibles ou indésirables"
Guardrails for Responsible AI
Clarivate on AI guardrails: balancing responsible AI, safety, and academic freedom through shared standards and community collaboration.
clarivate.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases.

This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions.

arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122
Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review
Large language models (LLMs) are playing an increasingly integral, though largely informal, role in scholarly peer review. Yet it remains unclear whether LLMs reproduce the biases observed in human de...
arxiv.org
September 22, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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I'm not sure where I'm going here, but there seems to be a fair amount of overlap between what (some) people want from AI agents and what (some) people wanted to achieve by keeping commonplace books — organizing and synthesizing a personal archive of information, ideas, etc
this exists it is called thinking
September 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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“The law doesn’t matter anymore” is obeying in advance.
I know it's frustrating when lawyers point out when something the administration is doing is not legal. But responding with "the law doesn't matter anymore" is really unhelpful and defeatist. Clarifying the law is important because it reminds us not to comply in advance and to resist and take action
September 19, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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"next-generation ‘end-to-end’ AI-powered solution" is today's compu-global-hyper-mega-net
Company News: Elsevier Announces Development of a "Next-Generation 'End-To-End' AI-Powered Solution For Academic and Corporate Researchers"; Closed Beta Launching Today, Available For Purchase During Q1 2026 www.elsevier.com/about/press-... @elsevierconnect.bsky.social #AI #scholcomm
September 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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OpenAI has a new paper on how people use ChatGPT. I can't help but look at the categories and wonder which ones the various delusional spirals I've reported on slot into.
September 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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So the question today - like on a lot of days - is: what's the most important thing you could be working on right now? Or talking about right now? And if you are not doing it, then what are you doing?

#OpenScience cannot mean what it meant 10 years ago.
September 17, 2025 at 6:13 AM