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Why do university powers that be send continual positive messaging not founded in reality? Why did state media send soviet citizens messaging to paint a picture of normality, ‘all is fine, carry on’, when it was clear that all was not normal? Propaganda comes to mind. A rosier answer for universities is public relations, marketing and advertising.
@academicchatter #academia #propaganda @insidehighered #education #university @AcademicDigest @academicsunite @academia
If you are involved in higher education and feel like a normality is being imposed on you, this may be of interest:
https://zenodo.org/records/18452231
@academicchatter #academia #propaganda #advertising #bureaucracy #education #university @AcademicDigest @academicsunite @academia @insidehighered #RecoveringAcademic
The Grinch Says: "You aint kingpin. high but have a happy holiday season anyway"
@skateboarding #skateboarding #Grinch #christmas #lindavista @[email protected]
When the study confirms intuition:
"We find that the number of papers cited at least as well as those appearing in high-impact factor journals vastly exceeds the number of papers published in such venues."
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003532
Decades on, academic journals are still useless as indicators of much of anything.
Are authors fairly judged by assessment of the prestige of the journals in which their work is published? This study compares article level metrics with journal level metrics, finding that the vast majority of influential papers are published in lower tier journals, and that more authors, regardless of demographics, would be better recognized with article level data.
"Research Groups Oppose Capping #NIH Funding of Publisher Fees."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/12/16/research-groups-oppose-capping-nih-funding
PS: These universities seem to be saying: "We accept the growth of the APC model. We just need help paying APCs." They don't take any responsibility for steering authors toward high-prestige, high-JIF, high-APC journals, and don't acknowledge their ability to change those incentives while upholding their historic standards of quality. They could say instead, "We will revise our research assessment (promotion and tenure) procedures to focus on the quality of research more than where it is published." Insofar as universities succeed at shifting those incentives -- admittedly a long game -- authors could submit work to no-fee or diamond OA journals, bypass APC-based journals, and face no blowback from their P&T committees. All researchers and research institutions would win, including those institutions that now want govt help in paying APCs.
#Academia #AcademicMastodon #APCs #Assessment #DiamondOA #OAintheUSA #OpenAccess #ScholComm #Universities
The National Institutes of Health received roughly 900 comments on its various proposals to limit how much of its grant dollars are eaten up by journals’ publication charges. Major science groups called the approaches wrong.
My own Uni is 235 out of 257
@academicchatter Also on Zenodo if people prefer that platform
In 2025, anything related to changes in writing, from education to the professional level, is correlated with artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs). It’s often assumed that the correlation shows causation: AI and LLMs are the cause of the decline of writing. That’s an easy tale to tell. It offers a clean story with a clear villain. The reality is that an artificial bogeyman can not absolve humans. Outsourcing, shortcuts and other choices that follow from externalized reasons to write are older than AI. This permeated into liberal arts education and science publishing in a way that pre-paved a path for which AI and LLMs are not the cause but the natural end-game.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) are often assumed to be a cause for the decline in writing. That’s a easy tale to tell. The reality is that an artificial bogeyman can not absolve humans. Motivations to outsource writting permeated into higher education and science long ago in a way that pre-paved a path for which AI and LLMs are a natural end-game.
https://futureu.education/uncategorized/commentary-by-adrian-lenardic-and-johnny-seales-why-write/
@academicchatter #writing #universities #AI #LLM #education #science #academicpublishing
What is a University Press?
On the acquisition of AUP by T&F (and my anger at it), the governance link between universities and university presses, and putting one's labour where one's values are.
I was having a pretty good week last week, until we got to the closing minutes of play. At that point, I learned that Amsterdam University Press (AUP) had been acquired by the for-profit corporate publishing behemoth Taylor & Francis. This is not really a surprise in some ways. AUP had been transformed into a private, for-profit enterprise in 2019.
Björn Brembs
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