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villavelius

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ORCID 0000-0002-4836-6568. #tfr Internationalist. Open Access. EU Citizen, ex-UK resident. ⓐ = I claim no rights other than attribution, and even that I'm relaxed about. Ⓤ = Fan of Plan U – https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000273
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petersuber, (edited ) to random

Two journals from the European Sociological Association () are leaving to become at (@themitpress).
https://mitpress.mit.edu/european-sociological-association-journals-european-societies-and-european-journal-of-cultural-and-political-sociology-move-to-diamond-open-access-at-the-mit-press/

The two journals "are the inaugural beneficiaries of the shift+OPEN program, an initiative by the MIT Press aimed at facilitating the transition of traditional journals to diamond open access."

villavelius,
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@petersuber @themitpress "This program includes three years of funding for the new open access journals."

Peter, do you happen to know what options MIT has in mind for funding/subsidising the journals after the initial three years? That would be most interesting and helpful for other publishers inclined to go that route.

clive, to random
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Your daily reminder that people in the medieval period were super weird

Via @dailymedievalcats

villavelius,
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@clive @dailymedievalcats And super creative!

villavelius, to random
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"Moet ook"? What fresh hell is this?

mbojan, to academicchatter

Adding to the ToRead list https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/12/07/where-did-the-open-access-movement-go-wrong-an-interview-with-richard-poynder/ @academicchatter

villavelius,
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@mbojan @academicchatter It's not so much that the 'OA Movement' (more a concept than a movement, really) failed, but that the academic 'ego-system' still has great difficulty recognising the benefits of OA to science, and instead prefers to keep on wallowing in the delusions offered by 'impact', 'prestige', and the like.

villavelius,
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@elmyra @mbojan @academicchatter Well, you've got a point. It's more about money than about science. And about prestige*, which costs billions. Billions that are subsequently not available to actual science.

*from French prestige "deceit, imposture, illusion", ultimately from Latin praestigium "delusion, illusion"

villavelius,
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@elmyra @mbojan @academicchatter I agree. OA advocacy therefore needs to be aimed more at the core of the academic system (funders, research establishments, universities, scholarly societies) and less at academic publishers. The latter are just picking up the money that academia keeps on throwing at their feet.

AmiW, to Stockholm German
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🎄 ADVENTSKALENDER
🎁 Türchen 6 / 🎁 Door 6
🎅🏼 Es ist Nikolaustag. Und hier ist er.
🎅🏼 It's St. Nicholas Day. And here he
is.
📷 by Artist: in City: Sweden 🇸🇪 - Title: "untitled" - Follow: ➡️
Making of: https://www.studiokleiner.com/kleiner-space/santa

villavelius,
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@AmiW Arcimboldoid

villavelius, to random
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Sci-Hub is in essence a global NGO helping to provide the basic needs of science. Should be supported by the UN.

villavelius, to random
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Pumpkinsoup. Souperfood.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231026-are-halloween-pumpkins-a-future-superfood

villavelius,
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@sciencebase Souperfood too?

BerLinguistin, to linguistics
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I'm having a hard time characterizing linguistic patterns such as 'heul heul schluchz schluchz' (sob sob) on German-speaking social media, probably because I'm not looking for the right keywords. Can anyone tell me how you would name this / point me to publications?

villavelius,
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@Gouximan @BerLinguistin Yes, do let us know if you find something. I guess the Dutch "huilie-huilie" is a similar sarcasm.

dgar, to random
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If GH can stand for P as in Hiccough,
If OUGH stands for O as in Dough,
If PHTH stands for T as in Phthisis,
If EIGH stands for A as in Neighbor,
If TTE stands for T as in Gazette,
If EAU stands for O as in Plateau,

The right way to spell POTATO should be:

GHOUGHPHTHEIGHTTEEAU

villavelius,
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@dgar
土豆

villavelius, to random
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“The notion of impact is incoherent, likely to reward the sensationalist and second-rate ... and risks turning academics into door-to-door salesmen for vulgarised versions of their increasingly market-oriented products.”
(Stefan Collini, professor of intellectual history at the University of Cambridge)
https://tinyurl.com/462crddw

villavelius, to random
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The commemorative book "We so loved Open Access", organized by @villavelius, is now being launched on the first day of the International Conference!

https://25.scielo.org/en/we-so-loved-open-access/

villavelius, to random
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"If Germany would implement a speed limit on its highways, it could reduce millions of tons of carbon emissions each year. Most other rich industrial countries already have one. What's behind this German love of speeding?" (Deutsche Welle, video 7/6/2023)

A strong attachment to Freedom of Speed, I guess.

petersuber, to random

Another article made it through peer review (at ) with the false claim that all journals charge .
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00381-023-05969-2

Reminder: Only a minority (≈ 31%) of OA journals charge APCs, even if a majority of articles pub'd in OA journals are in the APC-based variety.
https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/109344076065105780

villavelius,
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@petersuber One way of looking at it is that virtually all academic publishing is subsidised. There are basically three modes of indirect or direct subsidy, two of which pretend to be business models. 1. Subscriptions, paid for by (state-)subsidised libraries; 2. APCs, paid for by (funder-)subsidised authors; 3. Direct subsidies from anywhere to (NfP-)publishing outfits. The latter two make OA possible, of course; the first not.

glynmoody, to random
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‘Too greedy’: mass walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical’ fees - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/07/too-greedy-mass-walkout-at-global-science-journal-over-unethical-fees a rare outing of this major problem in the mainstream media

villavelius,
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@glynmoody O well, happened before and will happen again. Occasional walkouts are no solution.
Plan U (http://planu.org) points to a solution: post an open preprint before (or at the latest simultaneous when) submitting to a journal.

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