🔎 New vacancy: PhD position 🎓 Understanding the Global Movement for Open Research Information.

Are you interested in studying the contemporary #OpenResearchInformation landscape and the attempts to challenge current closed forms of research information? We have an exciting PhD position opening up at @cwts.

🕖 Deadline for application is on June 4, 2024 👉 https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/2024/q2/14858-phd-position-on-understanding-the-global-movement-for-open-research-information

Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra weighs in on the T&S debacle.

“In a world without for profit journals and infrastructures of publication controlled by but a small number of organizations, this would likely have not occurred. This is not about ideas or principled defenses of what the field ought to be. It is about profit.” https://scatter.wordpress.com/2024/01/11/they-work-hard-for-the-money/?fbclid=IwAR28sO-ZhGjMqS83wsREU4Wytob-CUAU4_vDVPTVpSWcgDztAKqRk8saznY_aem_AZ0XCTfSrNJSmJZEaw63k7MB0sERSEPT2BrnmOWP91KsQMAj2lLrzc1OK1lk4SY-oNU

Unsurprisingly, _Science_ published an attack on academic unions. It portrays successful struggles to improve pay and conditions for PhD and postdocs as anti-individualist (!) and an attack on innocent research group leaders.

https://www.science.org/content/article/student-and-postdoc-unions-proliferate-academia-scrambling-adapt

Among other gems:

'Individual faculty members, who support grad student researchers and postdocs out of their own grants, are having to take a careful look at their budgets as well. “Every lab is in many ways its own little microbusiness,” says Lisa García Bedolla, vice provost for graduate studies and dean of the graduate division at UC Berkeley. '

and

'“less research is going to be produced per dollar of [grant] money,” Nestler says. "This is the way the … research enterprise will have to change.”'

“Towards Responsible Publishing” proposal from cOAlition S

Read more about the proposal and approach https://www.coalition-s.org/blog/introducing-the-towards-responsible-publishing-proposal-from-coalition-s/

and give feedback here
https://www.coalition-s.org/towards-responsible-publishing/

@devivijay @jelena3121 @PeerCommunityIn @PeerCommunityJournal @CorinaLogan

If Nature magazine calls something "radical" so often, you can bet it is a new #openaccess policy that is threatening their business:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03342-6

And of course the new #openscience proposal from cOAlition S is anything but radical. It is evidence-based, straightforward and logical - which is precisely why it must threaten the parasitic business model of academic publishers:

https://www.coalition-s.org/towards-responsible-publishing/

This is the right proposal at the right time, it's what academia needs, finally!