Posts by Samuelmoore@hcommons.social
(DIR) Post #APOn5niZZevhb0tUyO by Samuelmoore@hcommons.social
2022-11-08T15:41:47Z
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Went to visit an elderly relative at lunch today. For whatever reason, she decided to tell me all about the Great Stink of London in 1858. Thought I was just going for tea and cake but came away with greater appreciation for municipal drainage infrastructure.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stink
(DIR) Post #APX9CQMqf3EMypRdCa by Samuelmoore@hcommons.social
2022-11-12T12:45:06Z
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He just strolled into my garden and went for a snooze on the patio furniture
(DIR) Post #ARi7D5qexbOOJwfeUa by Samuelmoore@hcommons.social
2023-01-16T19:08:38Z
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This year I'm embarking on a research project with a colleague about scholar-led open access. It's gonna be #diamond
(DIR) Post #AUT2jcWzggVo8BAizg by Samuelmoore@hcommons.social
2023-04-08T11:19:35Z
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'This is the story of one woman’s battle against a global network of academic journals that underlie published scientific research. In 2011, Alexandra Elbakyan had just moved home to Kazakhstan after a disappointing few years trying to study neuroscience in the United States when she landed on an internet forum where a bunch of scientists were all looking for the same thing: access to academic journal articles that were behind paywalls. That’s the moment the very simple, but enormously powerful, website called Sci Hub was born'.Radiolab interview with Alexandra Elbakyanhttps://radiolab.org/podcast/library-alexandra
(DIR) Post #AczWNZ1c3xfXqiw6JU by Samuelmoore@hcommons.social
2023-12-19T18:41:54Z
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'The report presents Hindawi as a victim of an “academic culture of ‘publish or perish’, which has incentivized unethical behaviour”. What it omits is the influence of the commercial publisher culture of greed, which aims for massive growth in the number of published papers, with associated growth in profits.'Excellent point from @deevybee https://retractionwatch.com/2023/12/19/hindawi-reveals-process-for-retracting-more-than-8000-paper-mill-articles/
(DIR) Post #AczWNaNd1asE3IFCGe by Samuelmoore@hcommons.social
2023-12-19T18:43:26Z
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It's unfathomable that they've accepted so many dodgy papers that they have to develop a process to sift through them all 'at scale'. Clearly the commercial scale of the operation is the root cause of the problem.
(DIR) Post #Ak7GPS58gzWOSRB3L6 by Samuelmoore@hcommons.social
2024-07-20T08:00:25Z
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Lots of academics wondering what they should do about this and the answer is as simple as not publishing your monograph with Taylor & Francis or any of their imprints. There are so many other publishers who will do a better job and won't sell your data to Microsoft. https://www.thebookseller.com/news/academic-authors-shocked-after-taylor--francis-sells-access-to-their-research-to-microsoft-ai
(DIR) Post #Ak7GPTztZSW0OkjtRY by Samuelmoore@hcommons.social
2024-07-20T08:05:24Z
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I'm actually working on a project for @openfuture about how to increase academic governance in this space, but this governance can only really happen with organisations that want to behave as part of the research community.
(DIR) Post #AoRX0MebEWIufeupu4 by Samuelmoore@hcommons.social
2024-11-26T18:34:12Z
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@aral find enshittification so unhelpful as an explanation of our current digital predicament. It just doesn't explain anything meaningful about capitalism.
(DIR) Post #Ayy0aKKZTp1Qy4pPtY by Samuelmoore@hcommons.social
2025-10-07T08:30:15Z
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"The capacity to produce scholarly-sounding discourse might no longer suffice as a form of professional defence when bureaucracy can generate equivalent-seeming scholarslop at scale. In response, academics will need to find new means to defend the university and contest the use of scholarslop before it is too late."https://stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-coming-threat-of-algorithmic-idea.html?m=1