So good: "Metascience...has progressively developed ways to study studies – towards the fundamentally metaphysical assertion that SCIENCE == REPLICATION. This isn’t metascience, it’s metapositivism: taking the exact same self-confident methodology and unreflective ontology up [a] level."

I've seen some talk about how we are witnessing the end of the professoriate as we know it and this may be true, but I think it's bigger: it's the decimation of the mission-oriented profession. Want to make a middle-class living serving the public good? Capitalism doesn't want that for you.

One speaker referred to Metascience as ‘successful branding’ to engage policy makers; another spoke of it ‘strategically forgetting’ well-established disciplines like STS and Philosophy of Science.

I’m wary of comparing illnesses, but sometimes it’s useful for showing just how severe and misunderstood some conditions are. Good to see post-viral illness & chronic fatigue getting more attention. Hoping this kind of research starts to shape clinical practice, too. www.ucl.ac.uk/engineering/...

🧵Solidarity with Francesca Albanese. She is facing a barrage of lies and smears + the Trump Admin is calling on the UN to fire her. Why? Because there is simply no arguing with her devastating new report on the companies profiting from genocide. Stay tuned for our interview on @zeteo.com.

In honor of #PrideMonth2025, I just wanted to take a moment to discuss the crucial role of intersectionality, gender and inclusion in research, specifically as it relates to our research involving #LongCOVID, #MECFS, chronic #lyme and other complex chronic illnesses. As we 1/

🧵 1/10 What the hell kind of interview was that today on The Daily @nytimes.com? Instead of showing how harmful the NIH grant cuts are to U.S. science and public health, Natalie Kitroeff spent the episode validating the logic behind them.

So many Long Covid patients suffer in silence, dismissed by doctors or left to navigate life-destroying symptoms alone. Odine refused to accept that abandonment as normal. She fought for answers, for dignity, for care. Her work made so many feel less alone, and her loss is deeply felt.

An extraordinary conversation.

This may be a small act, but it matters. Proud that our lab has taken a stand against the genocide in Palestine and in support of the PACBI call.

"Our findings challenge the prevailing narrative that a few commercial publishers dominate global scholarly publishing. While prior analyses based on selective indexes reinforced the perception of an oligopoly [...], examining diverse national contexts reveals a more pluralistic reality."

Today! Still open for registration. I'll be speaking on our panel, on the topic of "Open Research in the Age of Populism". I don't do so many talks these days as they really take a lot out of me, but I'm looking forward to this one. blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/...

I catch blocks if I talk about C19 but: There’s a new, more contagious strain spreading—“razor blade throat” is one symptom. But, most spread is SYMPTOMLESS. You DON’T KNOW you’re spreading it. More spread, more mutations & variants—>more disabled & dead. Put a mask on in public. We keep us safe.

Interested in platforms, data integration, and scientific infrastructure? This Wednesday at RMZ, at 11:00 AM (Berlin time), Amelia Acker will present her research on the topic. It's hybrid! Details below 👇

I've said it enough but I cannot recommend this any more highly. It's a fantastic opportunity for anyone interested in preprints and metascience. I wish this was live when I was looking for postdocs.

"The struggle for Palestinian liberation is not a burden; it is a duty and an honor we carry with pride. So at every turning point in my life, you will find me choosing Palestine. Palestine over ease. Palestine over comfort. Palestine over self."

Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha on Winning a Pulitzer: I Can't Celebrate While Gaza Is Starving

Join me for a Publishing How-To Roundtable on May 16 at 1pm ET! We'll be talking about innovative ways to share your scholarly ideas and offer advice on building communities of practice around publishing. Attendance is capped at 100, so grab a spot asap: forms.gle/cHLd1yrMYpwt...

1/5🧵After a long trip through peer review limbo, our paper on inclusion and public participation in Open Science policy is finally out! 📖 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

JOIN US! Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity on Preprints and Open Peer Review. Multi-year project. Come with work @nataschachtena.bsky.social, @mariomalicki.bsky.social, me, and the rest of #ScholCommLab. Apply by May 23rd! bit.ly/SCLpostdoc2025 Please share widely!

@petersuber.bsky.social makes a simple but important point: if we want research to remain open and uncensored, we need to host it in more than one place—and more than one country.

Side note: Many early career researchers are afraid someone will steal their ideas if they post a preprint. Time and time again, the idea stealer is in the lab or seminar room. Getting your ideas out of there with your name on them can provide protection.

“Water is also being used as a weapon of war. In early March, a week after stopping any food…from getting into Gaza, Israel cut off the electricity supply to Gaza’s main operational desalination plant. The situation now could not be more desperate. ‘Gaza is a killing field’.”

All the good OS jobs require you to be in the US. This space needs a kick up the butt - especially now. So much talent being missed out on for roles that could be remote and global!

It’s a heist movie but just with a bunch of humanities scholars trying to get their grant money back.

Earlier this week, The Regime suddenly axed grants related to LongCOVID. Massive backlash from advocates ensued. And today, the NIH reversed course and reinstated at least some of this grant funding. Keep making noise. Keep taking up space. Keep shouting the truth. thesicktimes.org/2025/03/28/u...

How should we fund Open Access book publishing? And why does how we do it matter? My colleagues @kjsanders.bsky.social and @kirahopkins.bsky.social discuss the politics of past, present & future OA publishing with such eloquence in this new article. What a treat! 👏👏 doi.org/10.31274/jls...

Case in point: for my recent piece for @theopennotebook.bsky.social, I spoke with 7 journalists who use open data in their (science) reporting: www.theopennotebook.com/2025/01/14/u... Clearly, there is potential for #opendata to support high quality journalism

Woohoo! Excited to see this out in the world!

Just under a week left to apply for this position on the MORPHSS project.

Hey if you have a couple minutes I'd love to know about your most recently concluded review experience (as an author), how long it took and the outcome. No personal info collected. Feel free to share. Tx! umdsurvey.umd.edu/jfe/form/SV_...

🔥 Hot off the press! 🔥 Are preprints reshaping journal publishing—or being absorbed into it? Our new paper in JDoc examines the dynamics at play! 👀 With @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca, @stephenpinfield.bsky.social, @fleerackers.bsky.social, & Irene Pasquetto 📖 doi.org/10.1108/JD-0... (1/🧵)

haven't seen anyone report this yet: you can no longer search for the terms "diversity", "equity", "inclusion", or "dei" on the nih website - you get redirected back to the homepage

This reminds me of James C. Scott: to govern is to simplify. States impose rigid categories to make societies ‘legible’ and easier to control—but legibility distorts reality. When reality resists, power rewrites the rules to force compliance. AI doesn’t escape this logic; it automates it.

'The group is buying up long-standing publications and converting them into fast-money machines by increasing the price they charge researchers for publishing, in addition to increasing the number of studies published with little regard to their quality.' english.elpais.com/science-tech...

Great summary of recent research on public perceptions of preprints, featuring a cool new paper by @fleerackers.bsky.social et al. 📰 Goes beyond our earlier work by also using qualitative methods, revealing very interesting (and worrying) results. Insightful read! www.science.org/content/arti...

When folks ask what successful #DiamondOpenAccess can look like, I always point to Latin America and it's 25+ yr history of institutionally sponsored, scholar led #openaccess (which is increasingly threatened by the commercialization of academic publishing). Kudos to @scielo.org Redalyc AmeliCA

A pungent piece of writing about the limitations of the misinfo/disinfo paradigm. And as @amnadler.bsky.social said, "Amen!"

📢 We are pleased to announce a #postdoctoral position at #LISIS (Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Science, Innovations, and Societies), Paris, to work on the #ROR² project focused on #OpenScience and #Research_Integrity. ℹ️ For more details, please see: ror2.hypotheses.org/247

Good to see this thoughtful new document from @oaspa.bsky.social on "(In)equity in open access: OASPA's recommended practices on financial and workflow barriers" zenodo.org/records/1426...

As preprint & PRC models grow, selective indexing risks creating new hierarchies where only research meeting traditional quality thresholds is visible and recognized. How do we design a system where openness truly levels the field instead of maintaining old power structures? #OpenScience #ScholComm