Notices by Jorge Peña (jorgeapenas@ecoevo.social)

@RenseC It is high time for scientific societies to leave for-profit publishers and convince governments to fund their diamond open-access journals. And it is high time for national agencies to stop burning public money into funding scientists funding greedy golden open-access publishers. This kafkaesque dystopic world of academic publishing needs to stop, quickly.

If you have a Google Scholar profile and it shows that you have X number of articles not available, you have some urgent work to do. At the minimum, post said article in your web page. If you don't have a personal web page, you also have some urgent work to do.

#openaccess

We do the writing. We do the editing. We do the reviewing. We do the formatting (we typeset everything in LaTeX). We do the proofreading. We correct the mistakes introduced by proofreaders.

What do publishers do? They make us sign silly copyright forms, stamp their logo on our papers, and then proceed to charge *us* (either as authors or readers) ridiculous amounts.

People think academics/scientists are clever. We might be. But we are also stupid. And vain.

#openaccess

"Because our status quo is self-expression, sometimes all artists have left is to refuse. So I refuse. I won’t write about poetry amidst the 'reasonable' tones of those who aim to acclimatize us to this unreasonable suffering. No more ghoulish euphemisms. No more sanitized hell-words. No more warmongering lies.

If this resignation leaves a hole in the news the size of poetry, then that is the true shape of the present."

https://lithub.com/read-anne-boyers-extraordinary-resignation-letter-from-the-new-york-times/

A senior colleague told me recently that French was the most Germanic of the Romance languages, and English the most Romance of the Germanic languages, and it all made sense.