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  1. Last 7 days
    1. the journal stated that it is implementing a new initiative in 2026, enabling African authors to publish their research free of charge for the first six months. When the article publishing cost (APC) is eventually introduced, it would be adjusted to an affordable level.

      ...for the first 6 months?? As in, they wouldn't have to pay the APC for 6 months?

    1. “[He said] we are very selfish and we care a lot about ourselves as individuals, and that therapy and yoga and stuff like that is not good for the world. We should not care so much about ourselves and care more about the world.”

      this is WILD coming from Thiel

    1. But a spokesperson for Elsevier, the journal’s publisher, told us in accordance with its policies, “author names are not removed from published articles.”

      Really? Not even if the names are there fradulently?

    2. Last year, Chemosphere was delisted from Clarivate’s Web of Science after more than 60 papers received expressions of concern for authorship practices and undisclosed conflicts of interest.

      Yikes!

    1. These were workers with visas that allowed them to be in the United States, but the ICE videos made it appear that they were nothing more than common criminals. In fact, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that Seoul’s foreign ministry said the Trump administration wanted to transport the workers in handcuffs but yielded when South Korea objected that they weren’t criminals.

      Why were they even deported IF THE WERE HERE LEGALLY?!

  2. Sep 2025
    1. As to whether people should be concerned about the risk, he says, “The risk of myocarditis is higher from COVID than it is from any of the COVID vaccines.”

      who says?

    1. Factors that lower or increase risk of transmission include:

      Why would you have these in the same list? They should be two different lists. It may be confusing to people what actually increases or decreases risk of transmission

  3. Aug 2025
    1. He laid out three priorities: Reestablishing Target’s reputation as a retailer with stylish and unique items, providing a more consistent customer experience, and using technology more effectively to operate an efficient business

      Missing the point!

    1. private equity may decide to join forces with OSF and see what they can accomplish.

      Private equity only aims to liquidate assets and squeeze as much money out of their purchases at the expense of everyone else.

    1. if they become the only hospital in the area, what will stop them from raising their prices, knowing the community has no other choices

      nothing, because although they claim to be a non-profit, they're really a business.

    1. The authors’ approach of looking at image duplication networks is innovative and had not been done before,

      what about legitimate duplications? For example, if a dataset results in multiple publications that are focused on different aspects of the research? Authors should create new images for each publication focus?

    1. that are nearly impossible to distinguish from human writing, a new study reveals

      Does ChatGPT go off about how your article didn't cover such-and-such when if the reviewer actually read your paper entirely, they'd know you actually did talk about such-and-such?

  4. Jul 2025
    1. For graduate and professional students, the elimination of Grad PLUS loans and the implementation of new borrowing caps will reduce funding opportunities for those seeking advanced degrees.

      They eliminated Grad PLUS loans entirely??!

    1. “Creating an open, honest, and transparent research atmosphere is a key part of restoring public trust in public health,” said NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. “This reform will make science accessible not only to the public but also to the broader scientific community, while ending perverse incentives that don’t benefit taxpayers.”

      it's not like the OA movement has been working on this for decades or anything.

    2. he National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced plans to implement a new policy that will cap how much publishers can charge NIH-supported scientists to make their research findings publicly accessible.

      this is actually a good thing.

    1. mmediate sharing of content that has been published via the subscription route (zero-embargo green) is not a sustainable approach to immediate access, with its continued reliance on library subscription payments.

      What? This isn't what green OA is???? I honestly can't tell what they think green OA is based on this. Also very cute trying to act as if y'all are doing libraries a favor.

    2. that they haven’t committed to licensing any version of their article under a licence inconsistent with the terms of our agreement

      Interesting that they use "license" instead of publish.

    1. The ADC represents a lower-cost alternative to a full APC, and the majority of publishers require a full APC prior to sharing the accepted manuscript.

      This is misleading. APC's are only supposed to be charged when publishing the FINAL version of an article as open access, AKA the version of record.

      Introduction of a so-called "article development charge" is nothing but a money grab.

    2. The ADC is due only after acceptance. It is not a submission or deposit fee. It affords broad sharing capabilities for the accepted manuscript by any means and is directly proportional to the cost of publishing services provided up to acceptance.

      BULLSHIT. The publisher relies on unpaid academic labor for the vast majority of this work.

    1. The White House has been pushing Texas Republicans to redraw the state’s congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterm election to protect the party’s slim majority in the House, the New York Times first reported last month.

      uh, holy shit

    1. In an unsigned order, the high court said that lower courts had stopped the plans based on the administration’s general effort, rather than specific agency “reduction in force” plans that would drastically cut the size of the government workforce.

      ...what? Why does this matter?

    1. At worst, casually using such terms perpetuates the disturbing trend of minimizing the Holocaust by effectively making it one example among many of human rights abuses, rather than the ultimate example of genocidal atrocity conducted by a nation-state.

      This is not a casual use of the term!!!

    1. However, the LAPD can only search for matches from police-owned arrest records, namely, mugshots. Its own rules don’t allow it to search for matches across other sources, such as social media.

      I bet they do anyway

    1. And let's not forget about "birth tourism." This is where people come to the U.S. just to have their baby here so the baby can be a citizen.

      I'm very skeptical about how common this actually is versus right-wingers trying to drum up anti-immigration sentiment.

    1. A man born to an active-duty member of the United States military on an Army base in Germany in 1986 before coming to the states as a child was deported last week to Jamaica, a country he’s never been to, according to a report by The Austin Chronicle.  

      I feel like if your parent is a US Citizen and you're born on an US army base, you should be a US citizen. If Ted Cruz is one, so is this guy

    1. “How much they liked our article is less important to the world than their thumb on the scale for authors and sources of preferred races or papers that fit an ideological orthodoxy,” wrote Harvard Law School professor Stephen E. Sachs, who co-authored a rejected paper arguing that parents should be able to cast proxy votes on their children’s behalf.

      Whew boy

    2. The question at stake is not whether the 2,288 leaked pages show racial discrimination against papers’ authors, whose identities were concealed from editors at that stage in the review process

      What's the question at stake then?

  5. Jun 2025
  6. May 2025
    1. FDA regrets that it was unable to publish this notice 15 days prior to the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee meeting due to technical issues

      BULLSHIT

    1. During a Wednesday press conference in Jamaica, Rubio called it forced labor, saying the Cuban “regime does not pay these doctors, takes away their passports.”

      I'm confused, aren't these doctors working outside of Cuba??????

    1. State law currently allows teachers to have a moment of silence in the classroom, so this bill would change one word in the law — from may to shall, creating a new mandate. The bill leaves the implementation up to the teacher. 

      w h y???

  7. Apr 2025
    1. You’re hearing “catchphrases” that raise cautionary flags. For example, you find yourself refocusing the discussion when someone says, “The problem is we need more (sales staff, revenue).”

      but sometimes you DO need more staff

    1. This move from Indiana University’s Bloomington faculty council comes after FBI and Department of Homeland Security agents raided the homes of Xiaofeng Wang, a Chinese national and cybersecurity professor who taught at the university for 20 years.

      I hadn't heard about this

    1. Columbia has largely accepted the administration’s requirements to restore funding, including placing an academic department under outside oversight.

      this is absurd

    1.  The accreditors’ job is to determine which institutions provide a quality education — and therefore merit accreditation.  Unfortunately, accreditors have not only failed in this responsibility to students, families, and American taxpayers, but they have also abused their enormous authority.

      According to what criteria?

    1. VOA, still primarily a radio service, was set up during World War II to counter Nazi propaganda, and has become a major global media broadcaster.

      this is significant

    2. VOA, still primarily a radio service, was set up during World War II to counter Nazi propaganda, and has become a major global media broadcaster.

      this is significant

    1. While she has left her job as an oral surgeon to home-school her daughter, she notes that many parents can’t do that and can’t afford private school

      that doesn't mean you get to then discriminate against everyone else.

    2. On the other side is the notion that public schools should accommodate religious objections to some materials by allowing parents to opt their kids out of some classes.

      Isn't this already a thing?

    1. ata from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), for instance, show racial disparity in infant deaths even when the socioeconomic factor of level of education is controlled for

      okay that's interesting.

    1. Trump’s minions presented his 180-degree pivot as proof of his preternatural sophistication, cunning and farsightedness. People who are not his employees cited First Corinthians: “For if the trumpet gives an indistinct sound, who will prepare for battle?”

      wat

    1. In it, he said Japan and other nations had been taking advantage of the US for decades. He claimed "the Japanese, unimpeded by the huge costs of defending themselves (as long as the United States will do it for free), have built a strong and vibrant economy with unprecedented surpluses".

      We dropped two fucking nuclear bombs on major Japanese cities. Frankly, paying for their military defense is the LEAST America can do.

    1. The rule applies to students who choose an alternative name because of a change in gender identity, as well as those who might want to use a nickname.

      this is ridiculous.

    1. At around the time of the expo, the US supreme court ruled that the Trump administration may continue using the law to deport alleged gang members.

      But also said they had to provide enough time for due process.

    1. In an unsigned order, the court's conservatives threw out a lower court order that prevented the administration from continuing its deportations under the controversial Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

      WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

    1. Rosenbaum sentenced Williams to 55 years in prison, with three years of credit for time already served in custody. Williams will be required to serve 100% of his remaining sentence.

      He committed the murder when he was 16, was he tried as an adult??

    1. It would be difficult to say with a straight face that the international standards system is truly anti-capitalist

      especially considering how much ISO standards documents cost

  8. Mar 2025
    1. Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., crafted a resolution calling for the extension of presidential term limits, which would allow Trump to seek another term in office.

      Crafted is a good word choice here as the proposed legislation is written in such a way that no other living presidents would be allowed to run for a third term.

    1. "To our LGBTQ community, I know that recent legislation has been difficult," Cox said. "Politics can be a bit of a blood sport at times, and I know we've had our disagreements. I want you to know that I love and appreciate you and I am grateful that you are part of our state. I know these words may ring hollow to many of you, but please know that I mean them sincerely."

      Wow.

    1. It goes on to say: "Museums in our Nation's capital should be places where individuals go to learn — not to be subjected to ideological indoctrination or divisive narratives that distort our shared history."

      The utter lack of self-awareness

    1. Driving the news: The federal government must stop issuing paper checks by Sept. 30 in favor of direct deposit, prepaid cards, or "other digital payment options," per an order Trump signed yesterday.

      pre-paid cards are bullshit

    1. but the governor and the legislature haven't shown much interest in making that happen on the state's dime.

      there's a ton of evidence showing that the ROI on these is NOT in the state's favor.

    1. The database served as the backbone for Sen. Cruz’s October 2024 investigative report, which revealed how the Biden administration politicized scientific research. The report discovered multiple extreme research projects that were spearheaded by professors who were also promoting antisemitic protests on college campuses.

      oh for fuck's sake Ted.

    1. "It remains unclear whether funding for existing grantees will continue, and whether new grants will be available in the future."

      How can they cancel grants that have already been awarded if the projects aren't violating any policies??

    1. Those discussions ended last Friday, when Jackson and DOGE agents Jacob Altik and Nate Cavanaugh showed up at the USIP door with two others who said they were FBI agents but did not further identify themselves

      did they actually show identification?

    2. along with the smaller Inter-American Foundation and the U.S. African Development Foundation, which provide small business and farming grants and loans. They were both taken over by DOGE this month.

      POTUS CAN'T ELIMINATE AGENCIES ENACTED BY CONGRESS

    1. USDA’s subscription cancellations, which an internal email says were carried out under the supervision of the Elon Musk–led Department of Government Efficiency, eliminated all journals produced by any of 17 publishers, according to a list circulated internally at USDA on Friday and obtained by Science

      THE FUNDS ARE ALREADY ALLOCATED, HOW ARE THEY STILL ALLOWED TO DO THIS?!

    1. however, said he's asked supporters of Pride flags in schools how they would feel about MAGA flags there--and said they told him they're against that.

      the meanings of these flags are not equivalent.

    1. “Dismantling the Department of Education may sound bold,” Cox concluded in his piece. “But it’s also common sense. Washington doesn’t have all the answers. It’s time to trust states and local communities to do what they do best.”

      If states and local communities were willing and able to support every student then we wouldn't need the Dept. of Ed., but they don't and we do.

    1. This bill simply ensures that all employees — not just union representatives — have a direct voice in workplace discussions, creating more opportunities for concerns to be heard and addressed.”

      not truuuuuuuuuuuuuue

    2. I’m disappointed that in this case, the process did not ultimately deliver the compromise that at one point was on the table and that some stakeholders had accepted,” Cox said in a statement after signing the legislation.

      then why did you sign it

    1. as AI outputs clearly threatened to replace Thomson-Reuters' legal research firm Westlaw in the market

      AI training =/= not the same as replacing. Generating materials from the copyrighted works LLMs are trained on is what violates US Copyright law.

  9. Feb 2025
    1. This decision will have no negative effect on veteran health care, benefits or other services and will allow VA to focus more effectively on its core mission of serving veterans, families, caregivers and survivors. We cannot discuss specific personnel matters due to privacy concerns.”

      This is utter bullshit

    1. Earlier, he said this digitizing arm of the company aligns with the “drive to be more efficient” within the federal government

      bruh, you know Moosk doesn't care about efficiency.

    2. “There’s a limestone mine where we store all the retirement paperwork...This mine looks like something out of the ’50s, because it was started in 1955, so it looks like it’s, like, a time warp,” said Musk, who went on to explain that the mine’s elevator speed determines the pace at which the government can process the retirements of federal employees.

      it's a fucking preservation archive you ignorant fool.

    1. Within 180 days, the Commission will produce a strategy, based on the findings of the assessment, to improve the health of America’s children.

      don't fucking cut SNAP benefits

    1. "We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site," Trump said as Netanyahu looked on. "Level the site, and get rid of the destroyed buildings. Level it out, create an economic development."

      Something something unending foreign wars?

  10. Jan 2025
    1. Secret Service said they were investigating a threat, and responded to a house. They said they were then told the person they wanted to talk to was at Hamline Elementary School, but they did not enter the school, the Secret Service told the I-Team.

      This sounds shady af. Isn't the Secret Service charged with protecting the president and his family? Why are they in Chicago?

    1. arguing a child born in the United States to an undocumented mother cannot receive citizenship unless his or her father is a citizen or green card holder.

      So the status of the child depends on the status of the mother? That's exactly how enslaved or free status was determined for children born to women in slavery.

    1. King found the phrase attractive and included it in several of his speeches.

      saying that King found it "attractive" is dismissive of Dr. King's intent intent. He found it meaningful or it resonated with him +"and included it in several of his speeches" would be more appropriate.

  11. Dec 2024
    1. exposed a deep, ugly resentment against private health care companies as social media feeds were flooded with posts celebrating — or at least justifying — Thompson's slaying.

      this shouldn't have been a surprise

  12. Nov 2024
    1. Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies—both with upper-division significations

      It literally says "Introduction" in the course title. If it were upper division, it wouldn't???

    1. Sometime later, however, some of these patients are likely to have had a code included in their healthcare record that was associated with unintended weight loss and cancer

      Not sure I follow this sentence

    1. “We’re a marketplace of ideas,” he said. “That’s what a university is. But the manager that runs the marketplace determines where within the marketplace the ideas will be housed.”

      EDUCATION IS NOT A BUSINESS

    1. Instead, to find Green copy, the reader will need to rely on other citation information and conduct a search via one or more search engines,

      which is generally what they do anyway

    2. the Green open access approach not only preserves the subscription system but also imposes hidden costs on readers, prolonging the inequities that open access aims to address.

      this is a bold thesis.

  13. Oct 2024
    1. The commissioners also created another committee to review and revise library policy, including the rules around the citizens reconsideration group

      are they going to add the librarians back?

    1. Previously, there was an advisory committee comprised of five librarians and five community members. As a result of the change, the librarians were removed from the Committee, and the determinations of the new Committee, which consisted of five non-librarians, became binding

      jfc

    2. The decision was made after the government of Montgomery County, under pressure from right-wing activists, removed librarians from the process of reviewing children's books and replaced them with a "Citizens Review Committee."

      what the fuck?? THIS IS LITERALLY PART OF WHY WE GO TO GRADUATE SCHOOL

    1. New World Encyclopedia is a wiki-based encyclopedia which contains carefully selected articles that are rewritten and supervised by a team of editors with academic and literary qualifications

      Rewritten from where???

    1. Indiana University has School of Medicine located in Purdue University West Lafayette campus.

      I wonder what's going to happen with this school of medicine with the dissolution of IUPUI.

  14. Sep 2024
    1. held accountable for achieving specific results, even if the head of the agency must "deviate from government rules" to achieve those results.

      ???? what does that even mean?

    1. Opponents of the proposal, including some major academic publishers, say it would infringe on authors’ rights to choose how their work is published and what others may do with it.

      no it doesnt. It's a NONEXCLUSIVE license

  15. Aug 2024
  16. thejeffersoncouncil.com thejeffersoncouncil.com
    1. Promote a culture of civil dialogue, the free exchange of competing ideas and intellectual diversity throughout the University.

      Getting UVa. to suspend the Guide Service's tours because they acknowledge that Jefferson was a slave holder, is really living up to this goal.

    1. Service credit toward length of Notice of Nonreappointment is to be given to an academic professional staff member for previous employment in which several concurrent part-time, non-visiting, related academic appointments add up to full-time academic employment.

      interesting, this is exactly the opposite of what the union's website says.

    1. The contract stipulated they could not contact Chewy employees. It's unclear whether this stipulation also meant that those artists were not allowed to contact each other, but many of the artists who responded to the email or spoke with Insider said they believed this was the case.

      weird

    1. After the Carlyle group bought the Manor Care chain, leaving the nursing homes — not Carlyle — responsible for $5 billion in new debt, it extracted $6.1 billion for investors by selling off the nursing homes’ land and buildings.

      how are the investors not on the hook for the debt?

    1. some top journals, including The BMJ, formerly the British Medical Journal

      A lot of this is a result of funding agencies requiring data sharing, see the 2013 OSTP memo

    2. So-called open-access journals, which publish online and don’t charge for subscriptions, are proliferating, as are websites that allow researchers to post their results before they have been externally vetted.

      y'all really need to talk to a scholarly communications librarian because you don't need to be putting OA journals in scare quotes like that

  17. Jul 2024
    1. The company’s unusual decision to publish its sole peer-reviewed article in a journal unrelated to neural engineering — and list the authors as Elon Musk and Neuralink — deviates from the norms of scientific publishing

      yikes. Work for hire then

    1. I’m also tired of trying to defend a woman that some people may not like because of racism, sexism and others simply because there is just something about her.

      This completely ignores that it doesn't matter which POC woman who runs. There will always be "something about her"

    1. it routinely awards very high rankings to publications with no international relevance whatsoever.

      I see what the author is going for but just because a journal is published in Malaysia doesn't mean it has "no international significance whatsoever".

    1. Wouldn’t it be great if you could pay $9.99 a month and read all of the books you want? Just like you get all the movies you want from Netflix? Or all the music you want from Spotify?

      isn't this just a paid library?

    1. Also, someone just reminded me of how Voltage did their entire Lovestruck team dirty by ending the app, right when the writers were trying to unionize. That was dirty AF.

      that's probably why they shut them down.

    2. After the success of their Japanese otome game ports in the West, publisher Voltage Inc launched a US based division that specialized in original English language otome titles. The new brand, Lovestruck, put out a number of otome titles until 2021 when Voltage Inc announced they were terminating the service.

      I didn't know Lovestruck was shut down!! D:

    1. he complaint notes that Matienzo describes herself as an “archivist” and uses the handle “anarchivist”.

      she's a pretty big deal in the archives/library world

    2. . Having a copy of the data publicly available through Anna’s Archive is a direct threat to its business

      THEY DIDN'T CREATE THE DATA. While they do a lot of remediation work, THEY DON'T OWN THE METADATA.

    1. all previously scraped data should no longer be distributed. Instead, it should be destroyed in full, including all the torrents that are currently being offered.

      OCLC DOESN'T OWN THE METADATA. THEY DON'T OWN THE FUCKING RIGHTS TO IT. IT'S FACTS BASED ON LIBRARIAN DEVELOPED CATALOGING STANDARDS! And the librarians DO IT FOR FREE

    2. In addition to monetary damages, the non-profit also seeks injunctive relief

      Take it from librarians - OCLC may be a nonprofit but they act like a for-profit corporation

    3. an additional $608,069 for a two-year Cloudflare contract that helps to protect the service against malicious outside attacks.

      they should've been doing this anyway

    4. This ‘metadata’ heist was a massive breakthrough in the site’s quest to archive as much published content as possible. However, OCLC wasn’t pleased and responded with a lawsuit at an Ohio federal court, accusing the site and its operators of hacking and demanding damages.

      OCLC DOESN'T EVEN CREATE THE METADATA. THE MEMBER LIBRARIES DO! THEY DON'T OWN THE METADATA!!

    1. Since Vampire Diaries was one of these series that provided a license to Amazon, the original creator was then able to start writing and publishing fan fiction about her very own series. S

      that's dope

    1. Shannon’s attorney performed cross examination of the witness, attacking the credibility of her statements on the basis that she had altered her story multiple times since the alleged incident occurred, including in statements to the police and at the May 10 preliminary hearing.

      which is common in traumatized people

  18. Jun 2024
    1. Van Der Mark suggested setting up a homeschooling section in the library and noted that the proposals helped her come up with new ideas for programs.

      like a homeschooling collection? Orrr what?

    2. proscribe all eligible references to be made by libraries and municipalities in California. When we asked, the City declined to modify that geographic limitation.”

      two of the requirements forbid "all" references by libraries and municipalities - as in you can't have only references from California or California references aren't counted?

  19. May 2024
    1. However, the reasons why Patient 4, who is mentioned in several places in the article, was excluded are not made clear and the context in which complications arose is not knowable either…

      shouldn't the peer reviewers have caught this?

  20. Apr 2024
    1. Congress could not use federal funding provided to a private hospital to neutralize a state ban on abortion because the state of Idaho must also consent to having its law altered in this way.

      What?

    1. But according to Parker and other abortion foes, that’s because black women are being “preyed upon” to believe that abortion is a good solution to the tough problem of unintended pregnancy. “It’s a very vulnerable community,” she said.

      Well that's condescending

    1. Sonmez was briefly placed on administrative leave in January 2020 after tweeting in the hours after NBA star Kobe Bryant’s death about the criminal charges of rape, later dropped, he had faced years earlier.

      WTAF

  21. Mar 2024