so… humanities commons is changing its name to “knowledge commons”
i dislike this. it was a one of a kind platform that originated in and foregrounded humanities. now it’s dumping it and becoming a generic preprint thing and dumping its niche. a criminally underserved niche
i don’t know if i wanna use it anymore. when i was quite excited that i would soon be able to upload my thesis and planned papers on it @academicchatter
@academicchatter i mean you might think this is a bit of an overreaction on my part but frankly the “humanities” in the name was almost the main attraction for me. it was like the one place humanities wasn’t an afterthought. it is a big deal imo 🤷♂️
This will surprise absolutely no one, but in digging around for cohort comparators for a tenure case, there are many people producing excellent cognate work, but very few of them are on a tenure track and thus have to be excluded from comparison. This isn't working, folks
New study (quoting Google's translation): "The main factors that led [#Japanese] researchers to implement #OpenAccess for the first time were external factors such as the #journal they submitted to and the #policies of their…institutions…[But] after the researcher realized her OA through external factors, there was a tendency for internal factors to gradually develop such that he wanted to contribute to the OA." https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jims/22/1/22_68/_article/-char/ja
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
@ml@academicchatter unfortunately for comp bio/bioinformatics/regulatory genomics, it's still mostly Twitter. Which is annoying, because I'm no longer on twitter.
Like, we are probably over represented here, but it's nothing compared to twitter.
@TheConversationUS@academicchatter
East for you to say... did you spend 4 + years of your life and a hundred thousand to get a degree that barely gets you a job? People deserve to celebrate some parts of their short life on earth without political interference.
“While publishers are fighting back with technology, paper mills are using the same kind of tools to stay ahead.
“Generative AI has just handed them a winning lottery ticket,” Eggleton of IOP Publishing said. “They can do it really cheap, at scale, and the detection methods are not where we need them to be. I can only see that challenge increasing.” @academicchatter
Sand makes up coastal bioinfrastructures in Guyana, as Sarah Vaughn shows in a recent essay, https://roadsides.net/vaughn-010/. Groynes used to prevent erosion "reinforce the shoreline’s existing sandy terrain." These groynes themselves contain sand. The essay is part of a special issue entitled "Bioinfrastructures" co-edited by Raúl Acosta and S.AND team member Lukas Ley. Check out the full open access issue here: https://roadsides.net/collection-no-010/
Through the term "bioinfrastructures," Ley and @raulaco reckon with the surge in projects to (re)create lively urban landscapes: While this shows that "infrastructure is never just a single entity or one discrete thing but rather an evolving set of multispecies and material relations," they also interrogate the ambivalent politics of bioinfrastructures.
What is the significance of bioinfrastructures "for larger political projects, emancipatory movements and Indigenous sovereignty?"
#US / Union Theological Seminary trustees endorse divestment from ‘companies profiting from the war in Palestine’
[...] “Our investment policies will continue to adapt, guided by our values, to strengthen the resolve that undergirds our decision today, [...] We do not take this step lightly, and we do so with all humility, recognizing that our work on the global stage is far from finished. Although our investments in the war in Palestine are small because our previous, strong anti-armament screens are robust, we hope that our action today will bring needed pressure to bear to stop the killing and find a peaceful future for all.”
@ttpphd@academicchatter ah, interesting. my first thought is that the system would become more objective, since you'd be eliminating a potential source of bias (who you happen to know, and who happens to be a big name, and who is prepared to write impressive things about you). but maybe this would only shift the landscape and effectively put more of the evaluation burden on journal reviewers and editors, who may have their own biases...
"The really important part [of science] are causal analyses, and they practically always involve data collection. That's why sciences with strong experimental traditions fare a bit better - when you need to run a costly experiment yourself in order to publish a paper, this creates a strong incentive to think things through and do high-impact research."
A "cool paper" is a succinct and provocative publication that presents an innovative idea in a clever and thought-provoking manner, often challenging conventional wisdom and inspiring further exploration.
Tell us about cool papers you like and that we should check out!
Man, I talk about this paper from 10 years ago all the time. This is maybe the best paper I've ever read. "Technical tour de force" gets thrown around a lot, but figure 3 alone could be its own major paper, and it's just the creation of a genetic tool to address a molecular hypothesis in vivo. Then throw in "hints at info waiting to be mined from huge published datasets" and "hints at important regulatory mechanism."