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RossGayler , 5 hours ago to academicchatter

I am looking for a (preferably derogatory) term to evoke the steaming, interconnected mess of for-profit academic publishing, research-institution and funding-body selection criteria, and research career structure.

I was thinking of something like an analogue to "military-industrial complex" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_complex) - so something like "academic-publishing research-institution industrial complex".

I would greatly appreciate suggestions for a name for this.

@openscience @academicchatter #OpenScience #OpenAccess @petersuber @albertcardona @brembs @jonny @UlrikeHahn

Ooze , 4 hours ago

@RossGayler @openscience @academicchatter @petersuber @albertcardona @brembs @jonny @UlrikeHahn The cupidity corruption axis.

maegul , 1 year ago to academicchatter

@academicchatter

So I just learnt that J Physiol requires figures to be made with Biorender (https://www.biorender.com/), a VC backed subscription SaaS extend and extinguish of scientists drawing pictures!

Is this a thing now!? Complete privatisation of the publication workflow!?

Am I the only one enraged by this!? Pictures? We could have just made our own shared repository of useful graphics. Our own open source software. Uggghhh!

#neuroscience #Science #academia

Ooze , 1 month ago

@vartak @maegul @academicchatter Oh my sweet summer child.

ml , 2 months ago to academicchatter

Have any good investigative journalists done pieces on how the slant of donors, the power of large universities "strategic communications" departments, and the evisceration of newsrooms have affected how the public gets access to reliable scientific research and information in the public interest? #Science #Newstodon #Journalism @academicchatter

Ooze , 2 months ago

@ml @academicchatter I too wish to know the answer to this question.

CoinOfNote , 2 months ago to histodons

ANZAC day, the 25th April, is one of the most solemn days in #Australia, commemorating the first great battle Australia took part in as a nation - the storming of the beach in what is now known as "ANZAC Cove", Türkiye on April 25, 1915 as part of #WWI. #ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, the name for the joint force of the two young nations, forever joined in solidarity and mateship.

Lest, we forget.

#History @histodons @numismatics

Medallion featuring an army bugler playing "The Last Post" with "THE ANZACS" above and "APRIL 25, 1915" below.

Ooze , 2 months ago

@CoinOfNote @histodons @numismatics ANZAC day marks the first time that Australian and New Zealand soldiers died fighting in a war that in no way threatened our countries, in aid of an imperial power who threw away our soldiers' lives because of incompetence.

Ooze , 2 months ago

@CoinOfNote @histodons @numismatics May we never stop asking why we do war.

Is bravery not wasted on destruction in a facile cause? It can be more nobley deployed.

Much of the focus on ANZAC day glorifies war instead of grieving for and then preventing it.

Ooze , 2 months ago

@CoinOfNote @histodons @numismatics Your point is valid for those who were drafted and sent to Vietnam. Those who volunteer for the military at any time knowingly surrender their morals to those they are thus sworn to obey.

While it is true that, since the Nuremberg principles, soldiers are alleged to be able to refuse an immoral order, the likelihood of being shot should one chose to do so means the only sure way to not be forced to act against one's morals is not to enlist at all.

eliocamp , 3 months ago to academicchatter

I've been thinking about that Sabine Hossenfelder video* that is doing the rounds and I have to say that I mostly don't like it. It raises real issues with how the incentives are laid out in science, yes, but the whole framing is (sometimes explicitly) that that is all academia is and there's nothing of value. Besides, these are not new issues and a lot of people have been talking about these points in a much more productive way.

#AcademicChatter @academicchatter
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• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlGDfRU8

Ooze , 3 months ago

@eliocamp @academicchatter I think she is spot on. I think your implication that making YouTube videos is somehow inherently dodgy is unfair. She's doing something that is accessible to people who can't access a university and she's not perpetuating the wasteful bullshit that takes up so much of an academics life in an institution.

kris_inwood , 5 months ago to sociology

Expressions of interest are invited to publish in the 50th anniversary issue of Social Science History on the theme of ‘past and present’. 200-word abstracts are due Apr 2nd 2024; complete papers are due Jan 15 2023.
More info at
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ag7s084dk5xfko68y1pq4/50th_anniversary_issue_SSHA_CFP.docx?rlkey=mgxjxijplzrd4m0a7ksbaxcle&dl=0

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon #history #histodons
@archaeodons

Ooze , 5 months ago

@kris_inwood @economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons Is this open access?

RonaldVisser , 5 months ago to academicchatter

Interesting read on #PaperMills and a criminal world that pays editors to accept papers, people paying for papers and even downright bribing!
Worrying trends!

https://www.science.org/content/article/paper-mills-bribing-editors-scholarly-journals-science-investigation-finds

@academicchatter #science #publishorperish

Ooze , 5 months ago

@furqanshah @RonaldVisser @academicchatter So much this.