@jonny I see what you mean, and this is a systemic issue. I'm not convinced that new publishing models alone will resolve these concerns.
I wonder if there are models that combine open review with the ability to reject a paper's release, i.e. publishing only accepted work alongside reviewers' feedback. And what about diamond journals that do closed review, which are not conflicted by the same kinds of revenue models as for-profit publishers?
@jonny Fair enough, and like I said, it's probably not an instance of editorial oversight. I agree with what you're saying, but some people do consider the ability to force authors to properly account for reviewers' feedback prior to publishing the article as a valuable aspect of editorial powers that is not present here
@jonny I'm not sure if this represents lack of editorial oversight, and I do not think it justifies exclusion from WoS/Scopus, but there has been some controversy over review, revision and popularization of human evolution research published through elife https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2024/17473
@sarae Every week or so I visit the pages of a few people whose takes I really value and sometimes experience fomo, seems like a lot of fruitful discussion is going on there. Also there are job posting there that I don't see here
Great thread on bluesky about an important paper: https://bsky.app/profile/tomhostler.bsky.social/post/3l73x6z2hdc2k #openscience
@timelfen @petersuber That being said, as long as there are archival guardrails up and means of evaluating potential failures, experimentation on scholars' own terms could be really valuable
@timelfen @petersuber I agree. Publishing is more than just the business of typesetting and copyright law, but believing that this is the case ensures that it's possible to resolve the broken system through purely technical means, i.e. just by using automated publishing workflows and encouraging use of open licensing agreements, while ignoring labour, governance, anything to do with people, power and systemic issues. Perfectly represented through the intro for that famous twilight zone episode
Screenshot of my wee home-cooked app that uses the gemini vision model to transcribe & describe text. Goal is to make an easy way for one to process field notebooks etc into some kind of structured text. Seems to work well! Gotta test it against stuff I already have transcribed...
https://github.com/shawngraham/handwriter Currently png's with alpha channels cause grief. But multi-page pdfs work. Page below is from agora excavations that someone slapped up on pinterest (https://www.pinterest.com/pin/388998486556005394/)
Unicopedia Ægypta is a developer-oriented set of #Unicode utilities related to Egyptian hieroglyphs, wrapped into one single app, built with #Electron.
Repository: 🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-aegypta
#characters #codecharts #codepoints #desktopapplication #egyptian #electronjs #glyphs #hieroglyph #hieroglyphs #javascript #localfonts #unicode #unicopedia #unikemet
For all the experts on fedi:
Do you ever encounter any hyper-specific popular-but-wrong concepts about your field circulating among laypeople or colleagues that are massive red-flags indicating they may be susceptible to falling down a fascist rabbithole?
Along the lines of "IQ scores are meaningful indicators of intelligence", but more idiosyncratic to your specific area of interest
Brilliant (and free) new book on "Abductive Reasoning in Science" by Finnur Dellsén Open Access: www.cambridge.org/core/element... #PhilSci
Over the years I’ve had lots of people ask me about how I got my job or how to get a job like mine. I finally have a good answer! We are hiring someone to assist me in running three European research projects. Job is full-time for four years to start. Pay grade is high enough to potentially support applications from outside the UK. Come work for the Archaeology Data Service! We are nice! https://jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/postdoctoral-research-associate-ads-571242.html#utm_source=jobsacuk&utm_medium=jobboard&utm_content=571242&utm_campaign=online_recruitment
I nearly got wagtail fully setup to replace wordpress before realizing that I somehow fucked up the python environment and it’s now kaput
@adr I’ll give it a go. This seems to be the go-to on a bunch of forums and Reddit threads I’m consulting
@adr Looking for text, but I'll keep this in my back pocket! I hear good things about DeepL quality but I'd prefer a no/low-cost solution over that
I wonder what was going on between september 28 and today at the internet archive hq
Forgot how exciting hockey is -- this may be the year I start caring about it again
with someone threatening to leak Internet Archive account passwords, I feel like it should be more clear generally: the email address of your Internet Archive account, not just the display name, is publicly associated with anything you upload, and anyone can search for all uploads by an email address