new article in Science on academic Bluesky

https://www.science.org/content/article/academic-bluesky-grows-researchers-find-strengths-and-shortcomings

by @kakape

we have chosen to put most of our research into documents in PDF format.

PDFs are a huge pain to make accessible.

most scientists write their papers in Latex, overleaf, etc., which cannot produce accessible PDFs.

to make such PDFs accessible, one uses Adobe Acrobat, which is expensive and proprietary.

increasingly, we post our PDFs to arXiv, which ~forbids accessible PDFs b/c they can't be compiled from source.

~none of our science is accessible.

artifacts (and file formats) have politics.

10 years after we created Registered Reports, the thing critics assured us would never (in a million years) happen has happened: @Nature is offering them.

The Registered Reports initiative just went up a gear and we are one step closer to eradicating publication bias and reporting bias from science.

Congratulations to all involved in achieving this milestone.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00506-2

Tonight, through the cultstud-l listserv, I learned about the Centre for Commons Organising, Values Equalities and Resilience (COVER) at the U of Essex -- what a great project!: https://www.essex.ac.uk/centres-and-institutes/commons-organising-values-equalities-and-resilience

And what a great spring (mostly online) seminar series! https://www.facebook.com/commonsresearch

An astounding image of our moment at the precipice:

Climate activists standing against the inhuman-scale machinery of the open-pit Lützerath brown coal mine, with a wind farm visible in the distance.
#climate #LützerathLebt #coal #renewable