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Notices by Björn Brembs (brembs@mastodon.social), page 2

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    Björn Brembs (brembs@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Feb-2025 01:15:26 JST Björn Brembs Björn Brembs
    • Dan Goodman

    Indeed, @neuralreckoning is spot on:
    "start building new multi-country organizations, designed from the start to be community-run and resilient. A coalition of university #libraries could be ideally placed to lead this effort, as they already have vast experience building for and supporting access to scientific data and publications"

    https://www.thetransmitter.org/policy/science-must-step-away-from-nationally-managed-infrastructure/

    So who needs to do what to make it happen?
    Once they are identified, a targeted campaign is required to get them to do what's right.

    In conversation Saturday, 22-Feb-2025 01:15:26 JST from mastodon.social permalink

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      Soaring prices for orphan drugs slam U.S. families and insurers
      The Orphan Drug Act has opened the door to almost unlimited price tags for drugs to treat rare diseases — burdening insurers, government programs, and families for whom obtaining the medication is…
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    Björn Brembs (brembs@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 07:58:37 JST Björn Brembs Björn Brembs

    This boggles my mind:

    In the 1980s and 90s, universities just pulled thousands of kilometers of cables, installed routers and software - just so they could have web servers and give everyone at their institution an email account.

    Today, the best most of them can do is find some arbitrary Mastodon instance somewhere else and get one single account.

    Imagine every university having just a single email address, e.g.

    my-university@apple.com

    🤦♂️

    #academicchatter

    In conversation Friday, 31-Jan-2025 07:58:37 JST from mastodon.social permalink
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    Björn Brembs (brembs@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 00:53:36 JST Björn Brembs Björn Brembs
    • Gaspar Jekely

    Oh wow! Everyone needs ot see and spread the slides of @jekely 's #openscience talk:

    https://jekelylab.github.io/ELTE_Open_Science_28Jan2025.html#/title-slide

    #opendata #openaccess #science #academicchatter

    In conversation Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 00:53:36 JST from mastodon.social permalink
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    Björn Brembs (brembs@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 04:23:31 JST Björn Brembs Björn Brembs

    "I didn't think there was anything left for publishers to monetize (after having authors acquire the funding, do the research, write the paper, do the peer review, and correct the page proofs for free while they take in all the profits), but here I stand corrected," he continued, adding that the "research brief" promised in the package "is essentially the abstract that you're writing anyway usually."

    https://futurism.com/springer-nature-ai-media-kit

    In conversation Friday, 10-Jan-2025 04:23:31 JST from mastodon.social permalink

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      The Publisher of the Journal "Nature" Is Emailing Authors of Scientific Papers, Offering to Sell Them AI Summaries of Their Own Work
      Stalwart journal publisher Springer Nature is asking researchers to buy $49 AI-generated "Media Kits" to summarize and promote their work.
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    Björn Brembs (brembs@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 23:23:16 JST Björn Brembs Björn Brembs

    Only 12 signatures needed to reach 2k signatures urging univeristies to leave X:

    https://openpetition.de/Unis4Mastodon

    Only four days left to sign!

    Help us reach this milestone by spreading the word!

    #academicchatter #academis

    In conversation Monday, 06-Jan-2025 23:23:16 JST from mastodon.social permalink
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    Björn Brembs (brembs@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 22:30:50 JST Björn Brembs Björn Brembs

    By now, most decent people have left Musk's Nazi Chatroom and some have even written about it, e.g.:

    https://www.publix.de/en/news/exit-is-our-only-hope

    However, #academia appears to be a little slow on the uptake, despite the grandiose words in their mission statements:

    https://bjoern.brembs.net/2024/12/by-their-actions-you-shall-know-them/

    The petition we have started to spur universities into action is nearly at the end:

    https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/open-letter-to-the-german-rectors-conference-hrk-on-the-use-of-social-media

    Can you sign it and push it beyond 2k signatures?

    #academicchatter

    In conversation Monday, 06-Jan-2025 22:30:50 JST from mastodon.social permalink
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    Björn Brembs (brembs@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 21:10:05 JST Björn Brembs Björn Brembs

    By their actions you shall know them

    Universities worldwide currently face a pivotal choice: should they contribute to building a global infrastructure for exchange, science, and discourse, free from the control of oligarchs, to promote democracy, human rights, and digital participation? Or should they continue advertising on private networks, hoping for clicks and marginally increased student enrollment? The Fediverse serves as a litmus test for universities globally:…

    https://bjoern.brembs.net/2024/12/by-their-actions-you-shall-know-them/

    In conversation Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 21:10:05 JST from mastodon.social permalink
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    Björn Brembs (brembs@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 05:57:57 JST Björn Brembs Björn Brembs

    If you haven't checked out mastodon.academy yet, now is a good time.

    In conversation Monday, 23-Dec-2024 05:57:57 JST from mastodon.social permalink

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    Björn Brembs (brembs@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 22:34:03 JST Björn Brembs Björn Brembs

    Must-read on surveillance publishing:

    "A few companies with dominance over academic publishing have been able to capture and use surplus value created through the publishing lifecycle. This extraction—of academic labour, of data, of information—is reinvested into their proprietary data analytics products."

    https://cjal.ca/index.php/capal/article/view/43293

    #openscience #libraries

    In conversation Friday, 20-Dec-2024 22:34:03 JST from mastodon.social permalink

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      The Citation Economy as a Site of Extraction for Surveillance Publishing
      Cet article relie les idées du capitalisme de surveillance et de ce que Jeff Pooley a décrit comme l'édition de surveillance à celle de l'économie de la citation. Quelques entreprises qui dominent l'édition académique ont été en mesure de capturer et d'utiliser la plus-value créée tout au long du cycle de vie de l'édition. Cette extraction — de travail académique, de données, d'informations — est réinvestie dans leurs produits brevetés d'analyse de données. C'est à la fois littéralement, car les données collectées par l'édition peuvent être incorporées dans des algorithmes d'analyse de données, et financièrement, car les marges bénéficiaires de ces branches d'édition académique sont étonnamment élevées. De manière cruciale, ces bénéfices ont été utilisés pour élargir les portefeuilles de services de données extractives de ces sociétés dans tous les secteurs, à mesure que les éditeurs académiques passent de vendeurs d'informations aux courtiers en données axés sur la technologie. En fournissant leur travail directement (en tant que rédactrices.teurs, réviseur.e.s, etc.) ou indirectement (en tant qu'auteur.e.s) à ces entreprises, les chercheuses.eurs sont complices de la collecte et de l'analyse de données utilisées pour tout et par tous, des agences publicitaires aux forces de l'ordre. Ces données sont revendues aux universités qui les utilisent pour évaluer et surveiller les pratiques de publication de leurs employé.e.s, en utilisant des mesures et des méthodes brevetés qui ne correspondent pas aux principes de la liberté académique. Cet article donne un aperçu de ce paysage, concluant par des implications et des recommandations pour les universitaires et les bibliothécaires qui y sont piégé.e.s. Il comprend également un mini-zine que nous prévoyons distribuer pour aider à contextualiser les rôles des universitaires dans l'économie de la citation et les implications éthiques de leur travail.
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    Björn Brembs (brembs@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 08:32:35 JST Björn Brembs Björn Brembs

    "Es kann eben nicht ausgeschlossen werden, dass Elon Musk morgen #BlueSky kauft. Aber das Mastodon-Netzwerk kann niemand kaufen."

    https://www.riffreporter.de/de/gesellschaft/aktionsbuendnis-mastodon-wissenschaft-hochschulen-x-twitter-abkehr

    Link zur Petition:
    https://www.openpetition.de/petition/blog/appell-an-die-hochschulrektorenkonferenz-zur-nutzung-sozialer-medien#petition-main

    #unisinsfediverse

    In conversation Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 08:32:35 JST from mastodon.social permalink

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      Neuigkeiten: Appell an die Hochschulrektorenkonferenz zur Nutzung sozialer Medien - Online-Petition
      Wir fordern die Hochschulen in Deutschland auf, ihre Accounts bei X (vormals Twitter) baldmöglichst still zu legen. Die Präsenz bei X/Twitter wird aufgrund der dort betriebenen Desinformation und politischen Hetze nicht dem Aufklärungsanspruch der Hochschulen gerecht. Gleichzeitig sollten Präsenzen auf Mastodon (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(Software)) und anderen Servern im Fediverse (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse) aufgebaut werden, deren dezentrale und moderierte Gestaltung
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    Björn Brembs (brembs@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 05:54:51 JST Björn Brembs Björn Brembs

    [The academic publishers now] "not only provide tools, they also collect user data. They log everything a researcher does, every keystroke."

    https://ukrant.nl/magazine/elseviers-stranglehold-on-academia-how-publishers-get-rich-from-our-data/?lang=en

    In conversation Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 05:54:51 JST from mastodon.social permalink

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      Elsevier’s stranglehold on academia: How publishers get rich off our data
      Academic publishers’ most valuable asset used to be their journals. Now, it’s the data they collect from researchers and then sell. That is extremely concerning, a growing group of Groningen researchers feels. ‘They control every part of the process and register every action you take.’
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    Björn Brembs (brembs@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 22:33:10 JST Björn Brembs Björn Brembs

    This is not emphasized nearly enough: when ideology clashes with science, "neutral" science means condoning the abuse of science.

    "Science journalists can either challenge abuses of science or look the other way."

    https://johnhorgan.org/cross-check/scientific-american-loses-its-bold-leader

    In conversation Monday, 18-Nov-2024 22:33:10 JST from mastodon.social permalink

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      Scientific American Loses Its Bold Leader — John Horgan (The Science Writer)
      from John Horgan
      HOBOKEN, NOVEMBER 15, 2024. Well before Scientific American ’s editor vented her despair over the election, social in justice warriors were bashing the magazine for its political views. Critics include anti-woke bros Jordan Peterson , Charles “The Bell Curve” Murray , Pinker wannabe Michael S
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    Björn Brembs (brembs@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 20:30:04 JST Björn Brembs Björn Brembs
    in reply to
    • Cory Doctorow
    • Boris Barbour

    @BorisBarbour @pluralistic

    Precisely.
    Why people with enough neurons to form a synapse who leave X go to BlueSky will forever remain a mystery to me.

    In conversation Friday, 15-Nov-2024 20:30:04 JST from mastodon.social permalink
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    Björn Brembs (brembs@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 20:30:01 JST Björn Brembs Björn Brembs
    in reply to
    • Cory Doctorow
    • Boris Barbour
    • Cian O’Donnell

    @cian @BorisBarbour @pluralistic

    Really? That's it? To me, this sounds a lot like:

    "sure, there is no water in the Namib either, but at least it's not the Sahara! Doesn't that count as an improvement? Oh and now I have a lot of thirsty people with me in the Namib, when I would have to drink water with so much fewer people outside of deserts."

    Sorry, but I can't make heads nor tail of this. My interest to go over there and interact with people whose minds operate like this is quite low.

    In conversation Friday, 15-Nov-2024 20:30:01 JST from mastodon.social permalink
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    Björn Brembs (brembs@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 20:29:44 JST Björn Brembs Björn Brembs
    in reply to
    • Cory Doctorow
    • Boris Barbour
    • Cian O’Donnell

    @cian @BorisBarbour @pluralistic

    I study learning and memory (in invertebrate animals). I guess part of it is my bewilderment as to how many triels some people need to actually learn something 🤣

    Then again, when email came, had there been only GMail initially, some people would probably still today struggle to understand what they would need a private and a work email for. 😆

    In conversation Friday, 15-Nov-2024 20:29:44 JST from mastodon.social permalink
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    Björn Brembs (brembs@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 00:34:20 JST Björn Brembs Björn Brembs
    • Cory Doctorow

    For really no reason at all 😇 here's why I find the user experience on #Mastodon better than in that Nazi Chatroom when it was still called "Twitter":

    - 500+ characters
    - post editing
    - follow hashtags
    - better s/n ratio
    - no ads

    Plus, https://quintsns.pianeta.uno/ does a pretty good job at replacing paper.li

    So I wouldn't go back, even if someone resurrected Twitter. Now, FriendFeed on the other hand... 😆

    @pluralistic says it best, why #BlueSky is no alternative:

    https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast

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    Björn Brembs (brembs@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 00:34:18 JST Björn Brembs Björn Brembs
    • Cory Doctorow
    • Matthew Loxton

    @mloxton @pluralistic

    Pretty much how I feel and why I think scholarship is the best place to adopt the Fediverse, see e.g.:

    https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230207

    We even started a petition to the German Rector's Conference to leave X and support Mastodon instead:

    https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/open-letter-to-the-german-rectors-conference-hrk-on-the-use-of-social-media

    In conversation Friday, 15-Nov-2024 00:34:18 JST from mastodon.social permalink
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    Björn Brembs (brembs@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 00:02:05 JST Björn Brembs Björn Brembs

    The consequences of quantitative research assessment today:

    - Impact factor: fake data, irreproducibility, et al.
    - h-index: citation cartels, paper mills et al.

    So sure, yes, let's think of yet another external motivation to incentivize researchers to cut corners: welcome the s-index!

    https://www.thetransmitter.org/open-neuroscience-and-data-sharing/the-s-index-challenge-develop-a-metric-to-quantify-data-sharing-success/

    🤦♀️

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    Björn Brembs (brembs@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 21:41:09 JST Björn Brembs Björn Brembs

    Scientific American saying it like it is:
    "The Supreme Court’s Contempt for Facts Is a Betrayal of Justice"

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-supreme-courts-contempt-for-facts-is-a-betrayal-of-justice/

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      The Supreme Court’s Contempt for Facts Is a Betrayal of Justice
      from The Editors
      The Supreme Court majority’s recent decisions about homelessness, public health and regulatory power, among others, undermine the role of evidence, expertise and honesty in American democracy
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    Björn Brembs (brembs@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 17:24:32 JST Björn Brembs Björn Brembs

    Now that's a long overdue initiative! Please help spread it!

    Public Money? Public Code! - FSFE-Tube

    https://media.fsfe.org/w/7cH6EATpmPwaMsEZN8vfyj

    In conversation Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 17:24:32 JST from mastodon.social permalink
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