How Much Women's Art Was Suppressed Because Men Were Jealous?
"Picasso almost ended Dora Maar's career, convincing her, when they were a couple, to quit photography because he was intimidated by her talent. There is a long list of artists suppressed by the petty hacks of European modernist movements, and a longer list of female innovators erased from public memory. Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning met similar resistance; Andre Breton and Dalí both also being misogynistic megalomaniacs who vanguarded surrealism from women; Henry Miller writing to Anaïs Nin that her stories were garbage and should be disregarded, only for her to discover whole sections copied word for word in his novels years later, all while she financed his existence.
Francoise Gilot finally gets an exhibition after this hack successfully ruined her chances of success as an artist while she lived, and her name is still omitted.
Rebecca Solnit suggests that the fact that the question "what is your mother's maiden name?" is often used for security measures is a meaningful indicator of the extent of women's erasure. What's in a name? A lot. If one's claim of one's own name meant nothing then colonisers wouldn't need to strip them from the colonised, and men wouldn't need to erase them in marriage, from history books and from reportage."
"The University of Tokyo became the first Japanese university to sign the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (#DORA, @DORAssessment) on 1 December 2023."
As I see it, the draft implementation plan proposed for Maynooth University's Strategic Plan involves abandoning the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment #DORA.
In addition to supporting #preprints, content #mining, and #DORA#assessment reforms, it applies #CCBY licenses to all research carried out at the institute.
The main German science funding agency DFG has made some decisions lately, that seem to clash with their progressive #openscience policies. Grant applicants, at the very least, will want to know what is going on:
ICYMI yesterday, there have been some puzzling actions and decisions at the main German funder DFG @dfg_public recently, which seem to clash with their otherwise stellar #openscience policies:
So far, the rate of journals 'flipping' to #openaccess has been near constant at about 1-3 per year. About the same number flip back every year. With about 50k journals now, this doesn't even register.
In 2021, our main funding agency in Germany, the @dfg_public signed #DORA. A year later, they joined #CoARA. Last week, a panel from the DFG published an article on how they use journals to evaluate grant applicants:
You've had a few days to read this year's Accelerate State of DevOps Report. Ready to discuss it with the community? Join us Wednesday, Oct 11 at 5:30PM UTC as we provide a brief overview of the report and then have an open discussion. We're interested in hearing from you as we synthesize these findings with the community!
What is the obsession in the new era of #StarWars with #maps. We’ve got #Kamino deleted from a map. We’ve got #LukeSkywalker being hidden by a map. Then another map on the wreckage of the death star to find the Emperor. And now a magic map hidden hundreds of years ago in a temple can find where #Thrawn is on #Ahsoka? This is a dumb plot that keeps being reused! STOP WITH THE MAPS!!!
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This week in the DORA.community, @matthewskelton will join us for a discussion about untangling software delivery with team topologies, flow metrics, and careful decoupling.
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Hurricane #Dora has officially crossed the International Date Line into the western Pacific Ocean. It is now designated as a Typhoon. This is the 2nd time on record that a tropical system remained at #hurricane strength across the eastern, central and western Pacific basins. #wx