Academia could indeed become the bedrock of a more democratic, pluralistic and progressive social media, but "it would require universities, as well as sector-wide organisations such as funding councils and learned societies, to recognise and take a stance in relation to these issues in a way they have thus far failed to do."
Pretty much exactly what we have also pointed out:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230207
This is true for too man universities these days, you are correct.
And yet, I think even the most detached admins would have a hard time resisting a global push, wouldn't they?
We have outlined the general goal for a scholarly infrastructure in Fig. 3 here:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230206
One straightforward approach would be to start with the journals, as tons of money are locked up there. Most of that money is unnecessary and a large chunk ouright harmful, see, e.g.
https://f1000research.com/articles/10-20/v2
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00037/full
E.g., the EU is backing this concept:
The EU is moving to position ORE along these lines:
One way to push institutions in this direction is for all of us to contact our representatives. I have started writing something that could one day be used as a template:
https://cryptpad.fr/doc/#/2/doc/edit/C65EM+kOfMsSklipy5iSYWWE/
Still needs some work, though, just to show the direction.
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