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MarkHanson

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#Biologist interested in #immunity and host #pathogen interactions @ University of Exeter, UK, using #Drosophila: more than melanogaster whenever possible. He/him. 🇨🇦

Also interested in the health of scientific publishing. Who do we give the keys to the car? Let's talk about ways to innovate publishing moving forward, and let's also clear the air about why some of the modern problems exist #AcademicChatter

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petersuber , (edited ) to academicchatter
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How are services adjusting to the decline of , especially ? Are they giving Twitter mentions less weight? Are they tracking mentions in other social-media platforms? If so, which platforms? Where do they think academics are going? Do they have good data?

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MarkHanson ,
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@egonw @petersuber @academicchatter yeah I'm waiting to see if/how AltMetric responds. They can track any website you alert them to for links to papers, so maybe each Mastodon instance would be equivalent? But something like Bluesky with fewer instances might be more feasible...

Neat to hear PlumX has dropped Twitter!

tiago , (edited ) to academicchatter
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It seems like Mastodon is losing its mindshare to among many academics.

I can't help but think this has to do with the self-imposed limitations of Mastodon — lack of quotes, ordered timeline, etc. Makes it less interesting to use, for no real advantage.

Sad, because the underlying decentralization is much more robust.

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MarkHanson ,
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@boud @tiago @LukasBrausch @academicchatter can chime in that Bluesky is feeling like a new home for , and the power of quote posts (primarily in adding your own flavour of support to add context to an existing post) is a huge benefit. This, more than anything, is what feels different to me about Bluesky vs Mastodon. I'm homebase Mastodon but I am enjoying Bluesky more each day.

MarkHanson , to random
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The strain on scientific publishing 📄:

The publishing sector has a problem. Scientists are overwhelmed, editors are overworked, special issue invitations are constant, research paper mills, article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!?

Myself, pablo, @paolocrosetto and Dan have spent the last few months investigating just that.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884

A thread🧵1/n

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MarkHanson , to random
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Wow. Ok. Normally I feel like it's a bit overplayed to individually comment on or the whole conversation, but this is really a must-see:

A Special Issue where the guest editors are lead or senior author on 27 of the 28 papers published through it. Were they also their own reviewers!? Like... that sounds like I'm taking the piss, but... no seriously were they?
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/processes/special_issues/Biologics_Botanicals

I guess this is a preview to an upcoming post. Look forward to it...

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@academicchatter this is insane

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