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SamCrawley

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Political Science postdoc researcher at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). My research focusses on politics of climate change, and on comparative politics in general.

I've been coding most of my life, and use FOSS whenever possible.

#PoliticalScience #PoliSci #Academia #ClimateChange #OpenScience

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SamCrawley , to academicchatter
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  • Had a paper accepted for publication! 🥳

  • The peer review process was long, and in the mean time, my institution's read & publish agreement with the publisher expired... so now I can't publish as open access! 😞

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jimbob , to random
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I keep hearing about this deluge of spam, but I have not seen a single one. And for that I praise the sysop.

SamCrawley ,
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@scholar_farmer @academicchatter @adamhsparks @jimbob yeah it's actually quite a problem for some guppe groups, and no easy fix on the horizon

SamCrawley , to academicchatter
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I wish every peer reviewer who has ever thought "I know! I'll say they need to add more controls to their models" would stop and think about whether that is actually a helpful comment. @academicchatter

tragiccommons , to random
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I've been reading a lot about the state of scientific publishing. Some people seem to think it's in trouble, but I see signs of health from the various innovations people are trying. Some interesting examples include the use of openreview.net to open up reviews and give credit to reviewers, and the decision by eLife to stop issuing rejections, but open up the process instead. There is an interesting critique of the eLife decision by @MarkHanson located here: https://mahansonresearch.weebly.com/blog/do-we-really-need-journals

It's a weird time for me to be working on a new journal publishing platform, but maybe it's the right time. I've always been bugged by the economics of journal publishing, and that's what got me started working on it. Maybe I should shift my focus to the social process of publishing. The death of hasn't helped, and I don't think LinkedIn and on the fediverse have filled the need yet.

SamCrawley ,
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@tragiccommons I have vague ideas of a federated academic publishing model (primarily hosted by universities) on an OSS stack... but you're right there is evolution in publishing which may work better than revolution

On connecting with academics, you can also follow @academicchatter

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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SamCrawley ,
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@TEG @tiago @academicchatter

This is a much bigger limitation than lack of quotes to me. I feel like I have to work really hard to understand what's going on in my feed because everything's always happening backwards.

I think instead of "algorithmic feeds" we should just call it "more sorting options".

My feeling is there is enough content for many communities here, it's just often really hard to find it.

SamCrawley ,
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@crecente @TEG @tiago @academicchatter Thanks, seems interesting. Hopefully some of these options become available soon.

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