Elbakyan is an unabashed utopian. “Science should belong to scientists and not the publishers,” she told me in an email. In a letter to the court, she cited Article 27 of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, asserting the right “to share in scientific advancement and its benefits”.

Whatever the fate of Sci-Hub, it seems that frustration with the current system is growing. But history shows that betting against science publishers is a risky move. After all, back in 1988, Maxwell predicted that in the future there would only be a handful of immensely powerful publishing companies left, and that they would ply their trade in an electronic age with no printing costs, leading to almost “pure profit”. That sounds a lot like the world we live in now.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science

#Scihub #SciencePublishing

From labs to journals, women are driving science forward, linking diversity to stronger research cultures.

🔗 https://phys.org/news/2026-02-celebrating-women-future-science-scholarly.html

#WomenInSTEM #GenderEquity #SciencePublishing #InclusiveScience #WomenInScience

Reformation of Science Publishing: The Stockholm Declaration
Full declaration: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.251805
Video: https://sciii-it.org/stockholm-declaration/
Sign the Declaration: https://sciii-it.org/stockholm-declaration/#cosign

🧪 #AcademicsSky #SciencePublishing #ScienceIntegrity @royalsociety.org
@royalsocietypublishing.org @scienceacademyswe.bsky.social #RoyalSwedishAcademyOfSciences

Come and join us tomorrow at the Frankfurt Book Fair!

EDP Sciences celebrates 105th anniversary of scientific excellence
📍 Stand E90 (Hall 4.0)
🕒 Oct 15, 15:30–17:00 – cake, toast & great stories!

#FrankfurtBookFair2025 #FBM2025 #EDPSciences #SciencePublishing #105YearsOfScience

The #JEOSRP team was delighted to attend #EOSAM2025 in Delft— a week of inspiring talks and great exchanges in #Optics & #Photonics. 

Looking to submit your research to the EOSAM 2025 special issue? Find out more: https://www.europeanoptics.org/pages/jeosrp/scientific-papers/topical-issues-conference/eosam-2025.html

📆 Deadline 31 Dec 2025

Looking forward to Tampere, Finland, 24–28 August 2026! 

#Optics #Photonics #SciencePublishing #Delft

We talk about "scientific breakthroughs" as "new discoveries that open up new directions. Certainly that is what the awards are given for. But awards are given post-hoc (30 years later), after we know which discoveries opened up those spaces. It's much harder to see them in the moment.

I wonder how many big award prizes are given for GlamourMag papers and how many were published in minor journals like Brain Research (as O'Keefe and Dostrovsky 1971 was).

I suspect that the successful GlamourMag publications are by the __last__ person to close a long story, after we understand what we're looking for, how to look for it, and what controls to do, not the __first__ person to open the story, which is usually confusing, noisy, and not at all convincing.

#sciencePublishing

💬 “It felt more like a collaboration than an exam.”

Victor, Alexandra & Katerina share what it was like publishing their work through eLife’s PRC model, and how it helped them focus on what was possible rather than what was out of reach. #AcademicChatter #OpenScience #ScolComm #SciencePublishing
https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/eba5f10f/publishing-with-elife-more-a-process-of-a-collaboration-than-an-exam-you-need-to-pass?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic