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, (edited ) to random

Today is the 22d birthday of the Budapest Open Access Initiative.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read/

BOAI is still active and issued its 20th anniversary recommendations in 2022.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

They focus on:

  1. Moving to
  2. Reforming
  3. Moving away from
  4. Moving away from agreements.

I'm proud of my association with both and .

Happy 's Day to all who are working for worldwide.

petersuber, to random

2023 was a year of significant progress in reforming in the direction of the principles. Thanks to @DORAssessment for the summary and large veins of the underlying activism.
https://sfdora.org/2024/02/12/2023-in-review-list-of-new-developments-in-research-assessment/

petersuber, to journalism

"Nine times Donald ‘forgot’ stuff"
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/9/2222459/-Here-are-9-times-Donald-Trump-forgot-stuff

It can be useful to have a few examples and links at your fingertips, since major news outlets tend to overlook or underplay them these days.

petersuber,

Update, from @juddlegum: "Three major papers — the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal — collectively published 81 articles about Hur's assessment of Biden's memory in the four days following the release of Hur's report. Incidents that raised questions about former President Trump's mental state received far less coverage by the same outlets."
https://popular.info/p/manufacturing-a-political-crisis

frenaville, to Israel French

Denouncing critics of as ‘un-Jews’ or antisemites is a perversion of , by Kenan Malik

👉 The story of Jewish suffering means there is a moral necessity to fight everywhere

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/11/denouncing-critics-of-israel-as-un-jews-or-antisemites-is-a-perversion-of-history

petersuber,

@frenaville
This principle is explicit in the 2020 Jerusalem Declaration on (). Should be better known.
https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/

petersuber, to random

"Harnessing the open access version of ChatGPT for enhanced clinical opinions"
https://journals.plos.org/digitalhealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pdig.0000355

PS: If you're curious, here's all the authors have to say about the fact that the open version is open: "The aspect of GPT-3.5 remains important to research, encouraging its usage among the medical community without a financial investment in [Generative Artificial Intelligence]."

petersuber, to random

Kudos to for being named a .
https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2024/02/05/osm-named-as-a-digital-public-good-by-un-affiliated-agency/

,
@openstreetmap

petersuber, (edited ) to academia

Glad to see the launch of the for Ukrainian System ().
https://lpnu.ua/en/news/ministry-education-and-science-ukraine-hosted-kick-meeting-open4ua-project

"The project provides for:

  • Developing a draft law…on state policy in the field of open science.
  • Preparation of recommendations for implementing principles…
  • Preparation of recommendations for state of higher ed institutions based on the principles of open science…"


@academicchatter

petersuber, (edited ) to llm

is a new fully open from @allen_ai, @kempnerinst, and other partners. The source and training are both open.
https://blog.allenai.org/hello-olmo-a-truly-open-llm-43f7e7359222

"Keeping models and their datasets in the open and not behind APIs enables researchers to learn and build from previous models and work."

petersuber, (edited ) to random

Another reason not to rest research or journal/publisher/university on counts.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607

"Intrigued by a citation-boosting service that we unravelled during our investigation, we contacted the service while undercover as a fictional author, and managed to purchase 50 citations. These findings provide conclusive evidence that citations can be bought in bulk, and highlight the need to look beyond citation counts."

petersuber, to random

New study: Editors of #LIS journals "overwhelmingly indicated that they did not create #Wikidata items for materials published in their journal and were completely unaware of or only somewhat familiar with Wikidata."
https://kula.uvic.ca/index.php/kula/article/view/247

kdnyhan, to random
@kdnyhan@social.esmarconf.org avatar

Journal club time!

Wojick, M., Conner, H., Farley, A., Huaman, E., Luyo, M., Thomas-Pate, S., & LaGrone, L. (2024). Access to evidence-based care: A systematic review of trauma and surgical literature costs across resource settings. Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open, 9(1), e001238. https://doi.org/10.1136/tsaco-2023-001238

petersuber,

@kdnyhan
True enough. The quoted par is better than many short accounts. But I still have a few quarrels.

petersuber, to twitter

This says a lot about who's flocking to / #X these days.

"X, formerly Twitter, becomes No. 1 app on U.S. App Store on news of Tucker Carlson-Putin interview"
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/07/x-formerly-twitter-becomes-no-1-app-on-u-s-app-store-on-news-of-tucker-carlson-putin-interview/

petersuber, to Law

matter for and public policy, not just for science.

"Papers used by judge to justify abortion pill suspension retracted"
https://retractionwatch.com/2024/02/06/papers-used-by-judge-to-justify-abortion-pill-suspension-retracted/

petersuber,

@Amoshias
Right. But could/should matter to an appellate court.

petersuber, (edited ) to Florida

wants parental consent before students can celebrate .
https://www.thedailybeast.com/iprep-academy-school-in-miami-dade-county-demands-permissions-slips-for-black-history-month

Note that did not seek parental consent in 2010 when it wanted schools to rename the the .
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2010/0519/Texas-textbook-war-Slavery-or-Atlantic-triangular-trade

petersuber, (edited ) to Guns

The party that wants to let teachers carry in the classroom now wants to criminalize teachers for allowing certain in the classroom.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2024/01/31/utah-teachers-could-be-criminally/


@academicchatter

petersuber, (edited )

Background: have introduced legislation to allow teachers to carry in the classroom in , , , , , , , , and .
https://missouriindependent.com/2023/06/16/republican-states-arm-teachers-fortify-buildings-in-another-year-of-school-shootings/


@academicchatter

senficon, to Futurology
@senficon@ohai.social avatar

& bubble: Have you ever been hindered in your work by access restrictions on ebooks, software, videos etc.? Please take a few minutes to participate in this survey on the impact of digital content locks on access to information and research! https://www.knowledgerights21.org/news-story/survey-on-the-effects-of-digital-content-locks-and-tpms-on-education-and-research/

petersuber,

@felifeli @senficon
Thanks for this. I hadn't seen it. It looks like your school was using a copy from ProQuest instead of one of the many truly OA editions. The limitations highlighted here are all ProQuest limitations. For truly OA editions (from MIT Press, Internet Archive, and other places) see my book home page.
http://bit.ly/oa-book

petersuber,

@senficon @felifeli
Earlier today we tagged the survey for the Open Access Tracking Project (). I hope that brings in more responses.

petersuber, to academia

"Following the controlled demolition of Al-Israa University, Israeli army footage of which was widely shared on social media, every single higher education institution in is believed to have either been destroyed or severely damaged since the invasion began."
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/academia-gaza-has-been-destroyed-israeli-educide
()


@academicchatter

petersuber,

Update. "According to UNESCO, over 195 heritage sites have been destroyed or damaged in 's ongoing assault. The Media Office said in December that 200 of the 325 ancient or archeological sites registered across the enclave had been destroyed."
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/gaza-cultural-genocide/

petersuber, (edited ) to internet

Early in the pandemic (April 2020) I started what became a long thread on in academic .
https://twitter.com/petersuber/status/1252981139855355904

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

Here's a rollup of the complete Twitter thread.
https://resee.it/tweet/1252981139855355904

Here's a nearly complete archived version in the @waybackmachine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220908134128/https://twitter.com/petersuber/status/1252981139855355904

Watch this space for updates.


@academicchatter

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petersuber, (edited )

Update. This qualification applies to all the studies I've collected in this thread: "Different research does not understand the concepts of 'man/woman' and 'male/female' in the same way, and there is no discussion nor written consensus on how to tackle these issues ethically and correctly within ."
https://digibug.ugr.es/bitstream/handle/10481/88251/Gender1.pdf

Another qualification: Most of these studies determine the sex/gender of authors by using software that makes guesses based on their names.

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

petersuber,

Update. journals that flip to see an increase in citations. Those that charge also see a decline in submissions from the global .
https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijgo.15398

PS: These authors recognize that not all OA journals charge APCs (). On the one hand, their data only show a decline in submissions from the south for APC-based OA journals. But their imprecise writing attributes it to OA as such.

petersuber, to ai

Good start on a hard question — how or whether to use tools in .
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-2587766/v1

"For the moment, we recommend that if are used to write scholarly reviews, reviewers should disclose their use and accept full responsibility for their reports’ accuracy, tone, reasoning and originality."

PS: "For the moment" these tools can help reviewers string words together, not judge quality. We have good reasons to seek evaluative comments from human experts.

petersuber,

Update. "Avg scores from multiple ChatGPT-4 rounds seems more effective than individual scores…If my weakest articles are removed… correlation with avg scores…falls below statistical significance, suggesting that [it] struggles to make fine-grained evaluations…Overall, ChatGPT [should not] be trusted for…formal or informal research quality evaluation…This is the first pub'd attempt at post-publication expert review accuracy testing for ChatGPT."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05519

petersuber, to random

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,

Update. " might’ve backed a bill in , but it was spotted lobbying 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 a new bill in that tries to ban the practice known as parts pairing."
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/9/24067957/apple-right-to-repair-oregon-bill-parts-pairing-ban

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