What drives #censorship complicity in scholarly #publishing? New preprint from my recent PhD shows how structural, commercial & organizational pressures pushed Western publishers to acquiesce to censorship demands in China—and the obstacles facing collective action: bit.ly/3lfraqt #PublishingEthics

Why not be like the goddess Veritas (Truth) today? Wear a fancy reading hat with flames, read a physical book, and maybe also ride a horse meanwhile. #booksky #bookhistory

There are people among us who fill out event registration forms entirely in lower case. Who are you? Explain yourselves.

Is #openscience being co-opted by the US govt? To what ends? Enormouse privilege to share a platform with such incredible pannelists (Michael-Anne Kyle, Dan Rudmann, Christopher Marcum) at #OSfair25, expertly moderated by Sara Rouhi (rouhiroo.bsky.social) + blessed with a very engaged audience!

Are you a Gates-funded researcher? Want to learn more about preprints? Join us for our webinar 'The Gates Foundation's 2025 Open Access Policy Refresh: Introducing VeriXiv'. 📆 24th September 🕒 09:00 BST Sign up today: spr.ly/63325ABpvc @georgecoops.bsky.social

a rare and precious thing

At The British Book Awards on Monday, I made the point from the stage of how human this sector is [...] books train us, not computers, and they make us into the better humans we need to be, says @philipdsjones.bsky.social in this week's editor's letter 👇 #BookSky

ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh. This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

something weirdly cleansing about passing through airport security esp. now I’ve cleared all the dry baby wipes out of my big coat

The collective resolve of the medical publishing industry is being put to the test, says George Cooper 👇 #BookSky

#censorship in health research affects us all. We share a responsibility to stand firm and decry Trump’s war on "gender ideology" as a full-scale assault on the scientific method. A comment in @the-bookseller.bsky.social www.thebookseller.com/comment/will...

Alleged #DeepSeek censorship part of a broader trend towards the export of China’s censorship controls to global forms of online communication and media, involving the coercion of private firms acting as agents of the state - a comment in @dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

I predict more and more of these abusers will be exposed. We'll look back this time when it's considered normal to film your kids 24/7 and think "WTF" www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

it’s cold up north

getting into Lemsip in a big way

If you’re working on a topic related to academic publishing and might be interested in writing a short-from monograph like Matt’s, I’d be very happy to discuss a proposal with you (as editor of the academic strand in the CUP Publishing and Book Culture series). In the meantime do read Matt’s book!

reading about this Louise Haigh thing and wondering how long a PR storm of this magnitude can survive in such a small teacup

A terrific theory that pairs well with the Economist's terrific and terrifying chart of Musk's tweeting.

A visual alternative to the usual academic publisher "proposal guidelines" form here. Ask me about submitting a book proposal!

Grammarly is more likely to add errors than to detect them. See the analysis in my latest addition to the Editor Vs AI series: scieditor.ca/2024/11/edit...

A List of Things People Blamed on Radio 🧵

wearing shredded pair of old trainers until it’s winter official but now worried I have trench foot

wondering if people will take me more seriously now I’ve upgraded to the big trolley in Lidl

Afternoon, new followers. Twitter's sudden fall is worrying news for small publications like ours. If you like what we do, buy a magazine from the archive or even a subscription for the year. www.the-fence.com/shop/

Made another highly specific apology card.

the bizarre grandeur of the York council registry office - you don’t get local government interiors like this down south

A List of Things People Blamed on Jazz 🧵

We will not descend into pious liberal hand wringing about that man’s every action and statement for four years! Or even make bad jokes! Not again children! Lmao

day three on here and already getting pushed content I’m firmly in the market for

does not compute

I was here before you read about Bluesky in the Guardian