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"Top Editors Resign from Springer Journal to Launch Nonprofit Immunology Journal" https://scholarlyworld.com/top-editors-resign-from-springer-journal-to-launch-nonprofit-immunology-journal/

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Six in 10 universities ‘consider dropping big publishing deals’ Only 60% ? How odd. I would have thought it would be 100% _considering_ it, and 60% likely to do it within the next 12 months […]

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In totally unrelated news, my university has set a 10% annual increase in "research outputs" as a key performance metric in our current strategy. That's a doubling time of 7 years.

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I can't remember who recommended Komoot to me (for planning hiking routes, making and saving trails in eg .GPX), but I've used it a lot now and I really like it 👍 https://www.komoot.com/

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Help! On Friday the National Library of Australia suspended my Trove API keys, threatening 15 year's work helping researchers use & understand Trove. If you use my tools or value my work you might like to let the NLA know. Details here […]

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Super interesting 4-year tender... 👀 https://bidstats.uk/tenders/2025/W07/840565060 Manchester Open Research Environment, advancing the University's green open access (OA) strategy - Request for Information #OpenAccess #RightsRetention #GreenOA #Repositories

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Today I got to try Rømmegrøt. Absolutely lovely. Love it here, in Oslo! 🇳🇴

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🏁 Our books and journals have passed the million mark! Huge thanks to all of our authors, contributors, editors, and readers for helping us reach this milestone. Read more here: www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...

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WTAF? “Tech bro”?

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University Libraries shifts approach to academic publishers | Nebraska Today https://news.unl.edu/article/university-libraries-shifts-approach-to-academic-publishers

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Excited to announce I've been appointed Executive Director of the Barcelona Declaration @BarcelonaDORI , (alongside my other consulting activities). We have funding for the next 3 years and will soon discuss the creation of a governance board […]

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EMS Press successfully opens 22 journals via S2O for 2025 - ALPSP https://www.alpsp.org/news-publications/industry-news/ems-press-successfully-opens-22-journals-via-s2o-for-2025/

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It is once again time to give thanks to Brian Fox, the Black American programmer that has given us BASH and `echo`! Thank you for your INCREDIBLE contributions to open source software, Unix, and Linux. It literally would not be the same without you […] [Original post on social.smallhack.org]

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📢 Le Baromètre de la Science Ouverte 2025 de l'Université de Lorraine est en ligne ! 🔍📊 L'édition 2025 du Baromètre est désormais disponible 👉 https://scienceouverte.univ-lorraine.fr/bibliometrie/barometre-lorrain-de-la-science-ouverte/ Cette année encore, des tendances fortes et des […]

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These 2 papers provide compelling empirical evidence that competition in #science leads to sloppy work being preferentially published in hi-ranking journals: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/733398 https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article/doi/10.1093/qje/qjaf010/7997678 Using […]

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reading: Open But Hidden: Open Access Gaps in the National Science Foundation Public Access Repository Figure 3 very interesting. CHORUS members like AIP & Wiley making it arguably harder to find free access to full texts of NSF funded research :( […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Great to see this announced today: https://investinopen.org/blog/invest-in-open-infrastructure-announces-2-7m-commitment-from-founding-group-for-the-ioi-fund-for-network-adoption/ I hear there will be more supporters of the IOI Fund for Network Adoption coming soon... #OpenAccess […]

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Finally! I use-case for ChatGPT I can actually believe in. For low volume journals seeking to produce _possibly_ valid JATS XML i could imagine this might be an interesting option to try out...? https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/jlsc/article/id/18048/ Thing is though... who will check what […]

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hahaha... the Kakistocracy wikipedia page is trending on HN. I can't think why... sarcasm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy

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Timeline cleanse. It was an exceptionally good day to see sea stars on the central California coast #today. (I’m adding alt text in just a minute on my computer. Hang on.)

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Claudia Sheinbaum poked fun at Trump's renaming decision and even initially sarcastically suggested renaming North America as "América Mexicana" or "Mexican America". 💯 🇲🇽 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8634nwxd46o #GulfOfMexico

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it's very frustrating how much of modern scholarship is like "here's a nice paper distributed online as pdf. It hinges on a source that was published in the Dark Ages, that is, after the public domain cutoff but before people started publishing their work online. There is neither hide nor hair […]

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Why Editors At Scientific Journals Are Resigning En Masse https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/scientific-journal-editors-mass-resignations/

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I’m the sure the Internet will never believe me but... this evening a neighbour left some gluten-free beer and fever tree tonic water out on the street with a “Free / Take Me” cardboard sign. I took a beer 🍺 Maybe they are trying to do dry January? 🤷‍♂️ Usually it’s just books, but the […]

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Aaron Swartz, 8 novembre 1986 - 11 janvier 2013. Rest in Power buddy! (drawing by @brunoleyval )

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I found this ?cocoon? / ?egg mass? in Xiamen botanical garden (Fujian Province, China) last week. It's up on iNaturalist. Anyone have any idea what it might be? It's really quite distinctive...! https://uk.inaturalist.org/observations/257126401 #iNaturalist #iNat #China

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After some German unions yesterday, more than 60 (!!) German universities left #X/#Twitter today. Some are already active on #Mastodon. They justified this with their commitment to fact-based communication and against antidemocratic forces. Values that […] [Original post on social.heise.de]

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How many UK universities in a row need to ditch Elsevier before RELX investors get worried about their stock price? pondering ... #HouseOfCards #TheCostofKnowledge

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Anyone taking bets on which UK universities are also going to announce they are ditching Elsevier in the next few weeks? [ inside information welcome 🙂 ] #ElsevierExit #TheCostofKnowledge #HouseOfCards

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Quite an interesting alignment between: a) UK universities ditching Elon Musk's X (fka Twitter) and b) UK universities ditching Elsevier I think both are extremely toxic and regardless of the motivations being different for each, I think the timing of these things is both overdue but also […]

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Reading: Navigating Knowledge: Patterns and Insights from Wikipedia Consumption by Tiziano Piccardi & Robert West https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00939 "Google returns Wikipedia articles on the first page of results for 67%-85% of the queries, depending on the type of searched content..." […]

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Spotted this excellent book on my travels, translated into Chinese, in a Ningbo (Zhejiang province) bookstore. Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World by Carl Bergstrom and @jevinwest Publisher: CITIC Press (state-owned) ISBN […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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The USurrey just cancelled its #ReadAndPublish agreement with #Elsevier, less than one month after USheffield did the same. https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-universities-2025-1-uk-university-drops-elsevier-deal/ #Academia #Journals @academicchatter

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‘As of my last knowledge update’: How is content generated by ChatGPT infiltrating scientific papers published in premier journals? Fun paper to read, not the most rigorous methodology (an entirely Google Scholar based analysis)... https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.1650 […]

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Back in the fediverse after a brief hiatus owing to being in China. I'm astonished to find that Xiamen Botanical Garden doesn't have an entry in EN-Wikipedia - it's a superb garden, and better than Kew Gardens imo! The garden receives more than 1 million visitors annually. Xiamen has more […]

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The US Institute of Museum and Library Services (#IMLS) just released the final version of its new #OpenAccess policy to comply with the #OSTP #NelsonMemo. https://www.imls.gov/about/policy/policy-notices/public-access

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Cool. Mastodon _not_ blocked in mainland China it seems?

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I have a 12.5 hour flight tomorrow that in other times would NOT be a 12.5 hour long flight. Thanks Russia sarcasm #Holidays

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Really great to see the continued growth at Rogue Scholar ( @rogue_scholar ) @StephenCurry 's blog "Reciprocal Space" is now part of the Rogue Scholar community too. Which means among other things, the super famous "Sick of Impact Factors" blog post now has its own DOI: 10.59350/xqrv5-7bv94 […]

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Happy Christmas $RELX I know exactly who I'm paying when I pay Reed Exhibitions Limited for a ticket, so I do my best to pay as little as possible and so I'm booking the "early bird" price ticket. 😐 See you there? #LondonBookFair

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