Mastodawn

Asura Jun 11, 2025

jonny (good kind)May 15, 2025

Open letter from Mike Nason to #PKP re: collaboration with a university in Israel:

PKP is in existential contradiction when it avoids politics. Open Access is political. The anti-capitalist and anti-corporatist fundamentals of the movement are political. Open source is political.
Neutrality is a political position.
Compliance is a political position.

https://ahemnason.notion.site/open-letter-pkp

An Open Letter to the Leadership of the Public Knowledge Project | Notion

Hey. My name is Mike Nason, Open Scholarship & Publishing Librarian at the University of New Brunswick and the Open Scholarly Infrastructure Advisor with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP). I owe a significant portion of my career to PKP. I’ve worked either in community with the organization – or actively for it – for, very nearly, my entire professional career. Just short of twenty years, which, it turns out, amounts to being just short of half my life. PKP has been supportive and open. And, they pushed for things I really cared about; things like open access to research, global equity in academic publishing, open source, the principles of open scholarly infrastructure, and ethical approaches to fulfilling the goals of movements outlined in the Budapest Open Access Initiative.

ahemnason on Notion

Asura Apr 29, 2024

jphill Apr 22, 2024

I'm a Jew who's been afraid at Palestine protests.

Then, I learned more. I learned that I didn't know what people were chanting. I learned there was a lot to unlearn.

Then I decided I don't want my identity used to shield a genocidal apartheid state.

https://www.jphilll.com/p/being-afraid-does-not-mean-youre

Being afraid does not mean you're under attack

On those condemning anti-genocide protests, but not genocide

New Means

Asura Apr 17, 2024

This is what goes on in my brain whenever I hear folks who are surprised that the exploitative and hypercompetitive space that academia has become fosters questionable publishing practices and suggest that we need a different carrot/stick/badge

Asura Apr 3, 2024

Open Knowledge Maps Apr 3, 2024

Three cheers for our community! 🎉

This week we are celebrating a milestone: 3 million knowledge maps! Exponential growth means a new knowledge map is created every 10 seconds.

We would like to say a huge thanks to all our mappers. Here’s to the next 3 million! 🎈

#openscience

Asura Apr 2, 2024

PLOS Biology Apr 2, 2024

#ShortcutCitations: using citations instead of describing methods may compromise #reproducibility. Analysis of >800 papers shows that >90% use ≥1 shortcut citation; these significantly impair reconstruction of the original method @questBIH #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3VI4wa0

Shortcut citations in the methods section: Frequency, problems, and strategies for responsible reuse

Methods sections often lack critical details needed to reproduce an experiment; the practice of citing previous papers instead of describing the methods in detail may contribute to this problem. An analysis of >800 papers across three fields shows that >90% of papers use at least one shortcut citation, that these significantly impair reconstruction of the original method, and that <25% of journals have policies relating to previously described methods.

Asura Mar 27, 2024

Johannes Mar 27, 2024

One of the largest science funders, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will cease paying journal “article processing charges” and instead asks funded researchers to publish their work as preprints. This is fantastic. The costs of the current publishing system drain research funds and exclude too many scientists solely due to financial constraints. Funders are in a much better position to rock the “publishing” boat than researchers.
https://gatesfoundationoa.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/24810787662100-Policy-Refresh-2025-Overview

#academia #OpenScience #research

Asura Mar 26, 2024

Lady Laura

Mar 25, 2024

"You get more conservative when you get older" only really worked for the generations that got RICHER as they got older.
The real truth was always just "You get more selfish the more money you have".

Asura Mar 25, 2024