Trying to get a clearer picture of why I'm often at odds w/ other folks talking abt scholarly publishing. I think it's a different emphases of what publishing, at base, is.
Seeing it as . . .
making things public = social function
creating assets (whether as IP or added to the commons) = economic function
technologically driven dissemination of knowledge = informational function
or, for me, as the necessary work of mediation = not a function, a pragmatic activity in the world
it's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't have the capacity to overthink things
@ryanrandall @TheConversationUS I actually didn't pick up on the fact that this is intended for first year students, oops. But one implicit aspect of "ethics for engineers" type courses is that they tend to be corrective measures rather than foundational, or clearing misconceptions that can actually be avoided altogether.
For me personally, https://doi.org/10.2307/2928741 really helped shape my perspective of the nature of facts, and Chapter 2 of Pandora's Hope serves an illustrative case
@ryanrandall @TheConversationUS Same, but based on some of the examples presented there and key texts omitted, I'm actually quite skeptical of whether this can pull it off properly
When it comes to open access maybe it’s time to acknowledge that the didactic model is just not going to work.
Think about the number of peer-reviewed journal articles that, even after all these years, still make the kind of mistakes that could be caught by a quick online search. Or all those newspapers and magazines that continue to commission opinion pieces from authors who aren’t really on top of the subject.
If these people wanted to learn surely they would have by now. Clearly they don’t, whether it’s for reasons of politics, profit, wishful thinking or just an ingrained professional conservativism. So, rather than producing an endless stream of books, essays, statements, reports, interviews, conference papers and social media posts trying to engage with them, might we not be better off directing our time and energy elsewhere?
#openaccess #oa #OAbooks #openScience #publishing #academicjournal #scholcomms
Reading Frankenstein and it's amazing how much we've watered it down, removing all the things that make the original story so great
Ive said it a million times before: in research, if open data mandates mean that all data needs to exist on some cloud server, we are in for a catastrophe of the highest order where cloud providers will be in a position to siphon off however much public funding they want - the "free open data" programs are bait. The corollary is the continual rise and sudden collapse of archives who miss one grant cycle or cant keep up with the infinitely expanding cloud bills.
Its not just a disaster for private data, but public data and the whole of the web. If researchers want their disciplines to continue to exist, to contribute to a healthy information ecosystem, and to realize the promise of the web for science, they should be investing in and demanding p2p infrastructure.
I am writing about how we contribute to improving the quality of research.
I feel uneasy that everything about generating a friendly, non-adversarial, transparent, non-toxic, diverse work/community environment must be explained in great detail because otherwise, some people can't connect the dots as to why doing so generates better quality science.
Two thoughts: how much work lies ahead of us and how lucky I am to be in places where we put people first.
My writing process is fucking up a whole lot for weeks or even months, and giving myself the time I need to scrap everything completely and re-write at the last second
Qualitative researchers: what are common critiques/questions you get in reviews? I was reminded about this document I created last year outlining major critiques and how I have responded but I'm always looking to expand: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jHiWJdkjm6Go683GIxi0tz8l-17rQQpadn9qb7zZDh4/edit?usp=sharing
I currently cover reviewer comments about:
*quantifying your data
*IRR
*method justification
*sample size
Here is our poster "Careers in Ruins: Academic Archaeology Job Trends From 2013 - 2023"
It was presented today at #SAA2024 #saa2024nola by
#UniversityOfWashington
undergrad Anne Poole. Co-authors include Ailin Zhang, Setareh Shafizadeh & Jess Beck.
Data & #rstats code at https://github.com/benmarwick/archyjobads
In case you were curious, there's several hundred local volunteer organizers for #WomenWhoCode meet ups scrambling to find ways to stay in touch with their members and each other, and just pure silence from the entire global staff.
If y'all were serious about "paying maintainers" you could do a lot of good right now with a very little bit of money. Paying for meetup or zoom would help a *lot* of marginalized technologists. Or even better, connect them with a new 501c3 parent org.
We're doing another #ournetworks 🌻
Meet us IRL in Vancouver on July 27 for...
Our Networks 2024: Does not (cloud) compute.
Think: #localfirst x #permacomputing x #solarservers x hanging out on a LAN together to collectively explore what collaboration and online presence looks like when a network is optional-- https://ournetworks.ca/
Every time I see any story about how fucked scholarly communication is my first reaction is a) yall know you can just make your own websites right, b) yall know you can just review each others work without a journal giving you permission right, and only then do I arrive at c) ok there are systemic problems but seriously have you considered (a) and (b) and how this is all entirely optional
@jonny Wild that a doi has become some signifier of scholarly legitimacy, i.e. something worth citing
A DOI is literally a URL.
As in a DOI === a URL.
As in {DOI} === https://doi.org/{DOI}.
A DOI is literally a path beneath a single domain that you have to pay a dollar and your soul for.
With the fracturing of social media we've decided to start a BTC newsletter to update on what is going on with the collective - publications, microgrants, activism and mutual aid in #archaeology. We expect to post 1-2 times a month. Sign up here: