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Excellent statement from @plosbiology.org here. Leadership is staggering lacking in the OS space so this is particularly good to see. I hope others will follow.

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Leaving academia is tough. I dive into the struggles of job hunting and share my own experiences of academia and career journey so far. If this resonates with you, reach out - I’d love to hear your experiences. #academicsky #AltAc

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"we should try to use a more diverse range of services... (such as Zenodo instead of OSF for depositing data and manuscripts, or EuropePMC instead of PubMed Central)" I always recommend those anyway as they're just better than their US counterparts 🤷

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Excellent article. That last paragraph is spot on.

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I have always liked PLOS Bio!

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To be clear. This is awfully bad messaging and is how to drive a wedge between scientists. Academic "leadership" is missing at the best of times. All those at the bottom are not disposable or unimportant yet that's the message this sends. Message togetherness and solidarity not division.

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Trump tracker is potentially really important yet Science decides to keep this all paywalled. Where is the putting science and scientists first? Info on what's going on is vital when the attacks are so rapid.

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In any normal country this man would never be allowed to practice law again.

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"publishers must be more honest about their limitations, & the fact that many of their papers are unreliable...did their part to clean up the literature by retracting more unworthy papers...Opening up science at various stages to more aggressive scrutiny—“red teaming,” if you will—would also help"

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Does anyone know if there tracking of the arguments being used by Trump/Musk/globally against science? I've seen a lot of open science principles being used to legitimise efforts but wondering if there's numbers for this Maybe @socialmedialab.ca or @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca? #academicsky

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I got to collaborate with amazing @jacoates.bsky.social on this: Calling open science community to be the guidepost & lead by example as science & scientists suffer in chaos. Read here: upstream.force11.org/open-science...

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The open science community must lead by example in defending science. We are ideally positioned to combat the efforts by Trump, Musk & others that are anti-science & anti-inclusion. Time to practice what we preach! #academicsky #openscience #metasci #ScholComm

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Well over 600 signatories now. Please keep the momentum going. Sign and share to show how much the wider scientific community is concerned by the Royal Society's silence over Musk's FRS. Members of the UK and international scientific community are all welcome to sign.

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Signed and I urge as many other people to do so as possible. The sustained refusal from the Royal Society to remove Musk is utterly reprehensible.

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Relatively late notice, but is there anyone in the US who'd like to come on the podcast to discuss what's going on & how it's all feeling? Ideally looking to record this week. Departure from usual episodes but they're here if you want a feel for how we do things #academicsky

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See below for a statement from ASAPbio on the current anti-science actions in the US. Although focused on the US, the anti-science, anti-evidence movement is global - there are numerous countries censoring or injecting political & religious ideology into science.

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Step 1. Sow distrust through misinformation Step 2. Dismantle science Step 3. Hijack reform efforts to disguise what you're really doing & lend legitimacy & credibility Step 4. Only share controlled & ideological compliant "science" This new journal is step 3 in action. #scipub #academicsky

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Using Vinay as the "scientist" lending credibility to this says absolutely everything.

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Labour are an utter disgrace. They've abandoned the North to throw more money and infrastructure in the South. They attack the working class and support the Uber rich. Don't even get me started on the absolute BS around benefit cheats which has been amped up by sh*t like Jeremy Kyle for decades now

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submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Would anyone in my network be willling to co-write an op-ed on this with me?

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Great thread! Altmetric have been killing it over here 🔥.

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Final chance to apply to this years ASAPbio Fellows cohort! I know there's lots going on in the science world right now. The Fellows program covers; Transparent, author-controlled, sharing of research (preprints) How to be a great advocate & communicator *The future of science communication

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This journal is leaning hard into the discourse around open science. It's quite a good illustration of the weaponization of 'transparency' to legitimise a publishing effort.

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Step 1. Sow distrust through misinformation Step 2. Dismantle science Step 3. Hijack reform efforts to disguise what you're really doing & lend legitimacy & credibility Step 4. Only share controlled & ideological compliant "science" This new journal is step 3 in action. #scipub #academicsky

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Using the PISS acronym also has the wonderful quality of describing a set of ridiculous self-citing authors as "incontinent." They just can't control themselves... In 2025, you've gotta take the wins where you can find them❤️ #PaperMills #SciRetraction #FoSci #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicSky #SciPub

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Journal editors: time to step up to the plate.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Wonder if this will be indexed in Web of Sciece and Scopus? This is the logical next step in the US attack on science and evidence & should be causing much more uproar than it is. Peer review/gatekeeping under the guise of a legitimate journal is already rife for abuse.

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