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petersuber

@petersuber@fediscience.org

Working for open access to research.

#openaccess #openculture #opendata #openeducation #openinfrastructure #openlicenses #openscience #opensource

#scholcomm #copyright #publishing #research #universities #libraries #socialmedia #fedi22

#politics #democracy #philosophy #nomic #climate #maine

Dad of daughters

Actively #antiTrumpist

For #OA news, also follow the Open Access Tracking Project (https://fediscience.org/@oatp). I aim for comprehensive coverage there, not here.

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petersuber, to academia
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New study: Researcher productivity (measured in articles published) correlates with the collection size of their .
https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/26293/34235

Note this aside, apart from the main conclusion: "There was a statistically significant negative correlation between the number of articles published and references used in the publications. This suggests that the more faculty are likely to publish, the less they tend to use the references in the publications."


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petersuber, to ai
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I knew that tools had an insatiable appetite for training text. But I didn't know this:

"At …managers, lawyers and engineers last year discussed buying the publishing house to procure long works [for AI training], according to recordings of internal meetings obtained by The Times. They also conferred on gathering copyrighted data from across the internet, even if that meant facing lawsuits."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/technology/tech-giants-harvest-data-artificial-intelligence.html

petersuber, to random
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The New England Journal of Medicine (@nejm, ) just published a candid examination of its myopic history during the rise of .
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2307319

It considers various excuses, for example, that it was a journal of medicine, not politics. But it finds them all wanting. I commend its honesty.

Also see the coverage of the NEJM article.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/science/nazi-science-new-england-journal-medicine.html

petersuber, to random
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should be open (transparent, discoverable). "Any opaque corrective measures in journals whose papers could be cited may negatively impact the wider…literature and community."
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejn.16330
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petersuber, to ukteachers
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It turns out that () work better for medical , and improve trainees' "subjective attitude toward ECG interpretation and their objective ability to interpret various abnormalities."
https://www.jem-journal.com/article/S0736-4679(23)00584-X/abstract
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petersuber, to academia
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From @gsoh31: "It is impossible to be a top-line manager and administrator and mentor and researcher and writer and outreach officer and IT expert and online instructor and pedagogical innovator and recruiter and teacher and marker and external examiner and press pundit and grant bidder and editor and look after your own wellbeing."
https://voicesofacademia.com/2024/04/05/its-not-your-fault-that-academic-life-is-getting-harder-by-glen-ohara/


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petersuber, to random
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Society publishers: Preserve your independence!

New study: "Self-published societies have achieved sustained growth in their revenues from publishing while societies with publishing partners have seen a significant decline. For…societies with the means & the will to publish journals in their own right, this study provides compelling evidence for retaining, or even reclaiming, their independence."
https://zenodo.org/records/10933141

petersuber, (edited ) to ukteachers
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Institutionalized filter bubbles.

"America has legislated itself into competing red, blue versions of "
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/04/04/education-laws-red-blue-divide/

PS: This is much worse than the trend toward red and blue . Readers of journalism have choices. K-12 don't.

petersuber, to climate
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From @MichaelEMann: “I push back on [] doomism because I don’t think it’s justified by the science, and I think it potentially leads us down a path of inaction. And there are bad actors today who are fanning the flames of climate doomism because they understand that it takes those who are most likely to be on the front lines, advocating for change, and pushes them to the sidelines, which is where polluters and petrostates want them.”
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/04/forget-doomers-warming-can-be-stopped-top-climate-scientist-says/

petersuber, to random
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Christine Borgman and Amy Brand are right: "The current state of in scholarly publishing is in transition from ‘nice to have’ to ‘need to have.’" And this fact has consequences: "To make research processes more trustworthy, transparent, and verifiable, stakeholders need to make greater investments in data stewardship and knowledge ."
https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/imfn7i7f/release/2?readingCollection=a6db7dff
stewardship and knowledge infrastructures.

petersuber,
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@JACoates
That's certainly what the future of assessment ought to be. But I don't think it's inevitable. We're only going to get there with a lot of hard work, vigilance, education, and advocacy.

petersuber, to USpolitics
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From @lessig and @matt_seligman: "In the year after President Biden took office in 2021, 18 states passed 34 voting restriction laws. Many of these new laws became possible because the [] decision in 2013 in Shelby County v. Holder struck down key provisions of the . Every one of the laws passed the state legislature on a party-line [] vote."
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/03/election-theft-101-foster-skepticism/

petersuber, to random
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Later this month (April 25) the will vote on restoring .
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-401616A1.pdf

Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel backs it: "A return to the FCC’s overwhelmingly popular and court-approved standard of net neutrality will allow the agency to serve once again as a strong consumer advocate of an open internet.”

petersuber, to USpolitics
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New study: "The more states were inclined to vote #Republican, the more likely their #vaccine recipients or their clinicians reported #COVID19 vaccine AEs [adverse events]…Either the perception of vaccine AEs or the motivation to report them was associated with political inclination."
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2816958

#Covid #Medicine #Snowflakes #USPolitics

petersuber, to climate
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From the : "Globally subsidies were $𝟳 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 or 7.1 percent of GDP in 2022, reflecting a $2 trillion increase since 2020."
https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/climate-change/energy-subsidies

petersuber, (edited ) to politics
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liked to point out that scientists sometimes admit error and change their minds. "They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in or .”

A cynic might say this never actually happens in either. The best answer to that cynic is .

petersuber, to USpolitics
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A clear case in which delay = victory for #Republicans.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/south-carolina-will-use-gerrymandered-congressional-map-in-2024-district-court-rules/

#Gerrymandering #SCOTUS #USPolitics

petersuber, to github
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I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship:

" and are delighted to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) committing the two organizations to coordinate efforts encouraging the adoption of ORCID iDs through the research lifecycle."
https://info.orcid.org/orcid-and-github-sign-memorandum-of-understanding/

petersuber, (edited ) to random
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New study: Citations to retracted papers "are more likely to come from audiences…unfamiliar with the field of the retracted paper. In addition, we find this association to be much stronger among those citing high-status journals, consistent with the behavior of scientists relying on heuristic search instead of engaged search process."
https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00303

PS: This is a polite way to refer to careless research and the reach for prestige-by-association.

cyberlyra, to opensource
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#hci peeps, who's written about the capture of #opensource systems by industry and for-profit companies? Asking for a grant application ...

petersuber,
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@cyberlyra @sfmatheson
Thanks, Janet. The list at is fairly complete (thanks to automation from ). But if it helps, here's my preferred, hand-crafted list.
http://bit.ly/suber-oa-writings

petersuber, to random
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Kudos to the for improving its already-strong policy.
https://www.cgdev.org/blog/advancing-equity-and-innovation-research-publishing-time-new-era-open-access-movement

"At its core, the [new] Open Access policy will:

  • End the foundation’s support for individual article publishing fees []
  • Require and advocate their review."
petersuber,
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Update. Here's the announcement from the itself.
https://gatesfoundationoa.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/24810787662100-Policy-Refresh-2025-Overview

"The policy refresh will take effect on January 1st, 2025. The specific policy language will be posted on the website, https://openaccess.gatesfoundation.org, soon."

petersuber,
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Update. And finally, here's the new policy itself. It wasn't released until now.
https://openaccess.gatesfoundation.org/open-access-policy/2025-open-access-policy/

petersuber, (edited ) to twitter
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In September 2020 I started what became a long #Twitter thread on #MultilingualResearch.
https://twitter.com/petersuber/status/1307774697531113474

Starting today, I'm stopping it on Twitter and continuing it on #Mastodon.

Here's a rollup of the complete Twitter thread.
https://resee.it/tweet/1307774697531113474

Here's a nearly complete archived version in the @waybackmachine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220908060944/https://twitter.com/petersuber/status/1307774697531113474

Watch this space for updates.

#Academia #Multilingualism
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petersuber,
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Update. New study: "Academics who perceive high to publish tend to employ instrumental publication strategies rather than normative ones…Publishing results in open-access outlets or in native languages other than English is less important for those under pressure."
https://academic.oup.com/rev/advance-article/doi/10.1093/reseval/rvae011/7634754

petersuber,
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Update. "Too often, scientific research in any language other than English is automatically seen as second tier, with little consideration for the quality of the work itself. This harmful prejudice ignores the work of those involved, especially in the humanities and social sciences. It also profoundly undermines the global academic community’s ability to share knowledge with society."
https://theconversation.com/english-dominates-scientific-research-heres-how-we-can-fix-it-and-why-it-matters-226198

petersuber, to random
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I'm very glad to see farmers win the right to repair their tractors. It's a win for consumers against bogus objections from manufacturers.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64206913

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petersuber,
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Update. "’s legislature just passed a bill over the objection of lobbyists, and which would require Apple to change an anti-repair design in the iPhone and other devices. If signed by the governor, it will become by far the strongest repair law in the nation."
https://www.404media.co/oregon-passes-right-to-repair-bill-that-would-make-apple-redesign-the-iphone/

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