Where we at with writing "living papers" that are occasionally updated? One example is the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Many questions, such as what they do for metadata of updates (new DOIs?). While related to my post about wiki infrastructure https://alexholcombe.wordpress.com/2025/01/31/scientists-what-are-you-supporting/, there is much more to the issue.
Relatedly, preprint servers have recently been working more on versioning. Medicine has experimented with living documents for decades, but I don't know what has developed there.
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In which I reveal the Article Processing Charge of a journal that nobody asked for. https://alexholcombe.wordpress.com/2025/01/31/scientists-what-are-you-supporting/
[#]AcademicJournals #Wikipedia
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Scientists! What are you supporting?
Much has been said about how expensive journals are. Large companies like Elsevier, Sage, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, or Wiley publish most of the major journals, and it is their shareholders that pocket the "rent" they receive thanks to academics' labor. CC BY-SA 4.0 Fluffybuns. There are alternatives. One of them is based on Wikipedia, whose process for vetting information is highly transparent.
https://alexholcombe.wordpress.com/2025/01/31/scientists-what-are-you-supporting/
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New #scholarlypublishing book! PRC, Publish-Review-Curate, can replace the cloistered traditional journal management system (Cathedral) way. By breaking up the monolithic scholarly communication Cathedrals, not only do we reduce gatekeeping and speed dissemination, https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adamhyde_prc-vs-the-cathedral-activity-7284530548255965185-ldwk
we also can escape the dominance of corporate publishers by building on the infrastructure of non-profit preprint servers, including adding peer review.
I haven't actually read the book yet but knowing Adam Hyde and how he's worked with us at MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review) and with Elife, I'm betting he discusses these things!
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Here is my new email signature. Trying to promote good things I am involved with, which really need promoting.
Hm, I wish I could randomize the signature between a few different ones that reflect different activities I'm involved in (using Outlook or Gmail), to seem less boring.
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Let your blog run free!
Don't allow your writing to be tied to one platform - register your science-related blog with Rogue Scholar, the free blog indexing service helping bring science blogs into scholarly database infrastructure. I checked with Martin Fenner, who created and runs Rogue Scholar, and he said it works fine with non-paywalled Substack blog posts, I think because the full text of free posts are provided by Substack in the RSS feed...
https://alexholcombe.wordpress.com/2024/12/18/let-your-blog-run-free/
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Scientists in academia get credit almost solely for publishing papers, but there is so much more to science, including the critical evaluation that happens in peer reviews. As these increasingly become public, they can also be more incentivized, which could really improve science! https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-04027-4
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Should this be my new email signature? Never used my sig to promote initiatives before..
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We scientists need help from government, national academies, someone to deal with the rising tide of fraud.
Australia’s health and medical research funder [NHMRC] "has been savaged by government auditors over its lax approach to scientific misconduct and fraud in an audit that lays the groundwork for a shake-up of the way bad science is policed."
https://www.smh.com.au/national/dodgy-science-in-the-crosshairs-as-fraud-audit-skewers-australia-s-top-research-agency-20241203-p5kvd8.html
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Today's email to one of the large corporations that have captured academia.
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Diamond open access (free to read AND to publish in) experimental psychology-adjacent journals we have accredited at freejournals.org.
Do you know of others? Lemme know; could suggest they check they meet our standards at freejournals.org, and join our community. #openaccess
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Can you see the silhouette of the brain? Lots of parameters one can play with.
https://shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/scholargoggler9/
Interesting my metascience and contributorship work isn't prominent, too few publications relatively I suppose.
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How would your metascience look if you submitted to MetaROR? Check out one of our first articles! You'll see the editorial summation at top and then the peer reviews. https://metaror.org/kotahi/articles/12/index.html #metascience #metaresearch
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Today's review request decline email, to the editor of a journal published by Elsevier. #ScientificPublishing
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I actually know very little about the Roman Empire, but I've been reading Fukuyama's "The origin of political order" and its provided me this sort of long-run perspective.
I find that situating the ongoing rather infuriating events in this realist view of longstanding societal forces can make them less acutely stressful - helps one to take a step back.
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Late republic and Roman Empire politics revolved around the efforts of powerful leaders like Caesar, Sulla, or Pompey to capture state institutions through mobilization of their allies.
Having politics be centered on benefiting people very broadly rather than client groups is a difficult equilibrium to maintain.
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Been thinking a lot about the Roman Empire 😀. Why? Not as something to aspire to, but because it is a sobering reminder of what politics is usually like, putting recent events in perspective.
I have been lucky to live during times when (some of) American, European, and Australian politics seemed, to some extent, to be about deciding on the best policies for society broadly.
Mostly, politics isn't like that.
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At the diamond open access WikiJournal of Science, reviews have always happened in the open, because it's based on the Wikipedia model, not the closed shop of traditional academic journals. Check us out. https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_of_Science
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"One scientist pointed to Gupta, sitting on the front row, questioning: "Well, how do you explain having exactly the same fossils in two localities 600 kilometres apart?" An infuriated Gupta stormed out of the room and re-entered clenching his fist as he tried to punch Talent, but was prevented by other participants. He shouted to the organisers, demanding the list of all participants and Talent's manuscript."
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