Important information as we prepare our fall course syllabi—consider adding a statement that addresses your new reporting obligations under Title IX (and yes, this sucks).

I’m deeply concerned about California’s SB-1047, Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act. While well intended, this bill will not solve what it is meant to and will deeply harm #AI academia, little tech and the open-source community.

New follow-on post, addressing the neglect of software in the US policies for public access to federally funded research: —"Without access to the associated code, data remains inert and opaque…" ospo.gwu.edu/public-access-… #OpenAccess #OpenScience #reproducibility #SciencePolicy

A number of my colleagues Caltech and I have put together a letter voicing our concern regarding CA SB 1047 (AI Safety Act). Sign the letter and show your support! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… We call on @caltech students, postdocs, faculty, staff, and alumni to sign but also leave

📣 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗪 𝗢𝗦𝗣𝗢 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴! 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗿𝘀: 𝗔𝗻 𝗢𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲 –Green: the DIY solution, –Bronze: a half-measure, –Gold: a gilded cage, –Diamond: researchers' best friend… ospo.gwu.edu/open-access-co… #OpenAccess #OpenScience

What Open Source does is set the rules by which we all co-operate to help each other find the goods we want. Apache licensed software? You can do what you want with it! AGPLv3? You can do what you want, but you can't take anyones freedoms away, and you must give the same freedoms

We are convinced that Canvas and Blackboard are run by anti-education tech-bros. Their goal is to make students believe that professors are idiots through targeted failures, nonsensical defaults, and overall system stupidity

The #GreenOA option will live on, because in some fields preprinting is a way of life. With #GoldOA, yes, the public is paying twice for access: funding agency repositories and again through APCs—supporting Diamond OA is thus the more sensible option: ospo.gwu.edu/open-access-co…

Starting a new thread about this: I'm in doubt about whether we can rule out #GreenOA and #preprint repositories for Federal public access requirements. In fact, I have submitted #arXiv preprints (author accepted manuscript) to NSF-PAR no problem, e.g., par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/…

Now on the FORCE11 online magazine Upstream: "Overview: US Policy on Open Access and Open Data" by yours truly—explains the policy documents known as the Holdren and Nelson memos, and the U.S. National Science Foundation's implementation… #OpenAccess doi.org/10.54900/1maj8…