Intriguing to see the returnn of the acceptability of the embargo period.

i appear to have asked a question akin to "how do Rebel Alliance schoolteachers feel about Darth Vader?"

People who are annoying on the internet and the people who over-react to them: A political history of the twenty-first century

Amazing work

New BJPS Short Read! Why Does Causal Reasoning Work? Naftali Weinberger, Porter Williams & James Woodward on the role of worldly infrastructure www.thebsps.org/short-reads/... #philsci #philsky

The burglar who stole your telly charging you to watch it at his house

Anyway, academics are famously good about resisting the temptation to defect in collective action problems so I'm sure it'll turn out fine

We now have a brand new youtube channel, where we'll be sharing BJPS Short Reads (new episodes as they are released; back catalogue whenever we can...). And we're starting with a banger... youtu.be/VTE87PDMNuc #philsci #philsky #hpbio

To be fair, Elsevier bought Aries and EM in 2018 after allegedly spending tens of millions of dollars on their own failed eVise system. And it’s not like anyone has built a better system than EM in the intervening years. These systems are notoriously difficult to create

Elsevier spends $2B/year on tech. Springer Nature has spent hundreds of millions. Sobering numbers for non-profit tech initiatives trying to compete newsletter.journalology.com/p/journalolo...

Dune Roaming

New season of BJPS Short Reads! Death in Mind – Susana Monsó and Laura Danón on what the opossum’s playing dead tells us about animal minds. Read or listen here: www.thebsps.org/short-reads/... #philsci #philsky #hpbio

Deep lore here

Oof. This is impressive. Not the usual green-tie nonsense.

The BJPS asks referees to return reviews within a month. Are you aware of journals that offer less time than this? Please share—it’s for a thing!

The BJPS asks referees to return reviews within a month. Are you aware of journals that offer less time than this? Please share—it’s for a thing!

Populism runs rife in academia when it comes to discussions about publishing

And the winner of the BJPS Popper Prize for 2025 is... www.thebsps.org/auxhyp/bjps-... #philsci #philsky

How about: Insofar as AI will ever be able to do a good enough job at such things, there’s a spectrum of responses AI might generate that run from the useful to the incomprehensible: ‘This subset of scans are from people with very early stage cancer’ might be at one end; ‘42’ might be at the other.

This move would be easier for journals if @altmetric.com were to stop including Twitter stats (if you measure it, they will come)

Everything about this is (a) horrifying and (b) rampant. Even if we could apply the brakes immediately, cleaning up the mess already made in this short time would be an enormous and very difficult task.

Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.

Philosophy bros and tech bros are two cheeks of the same arse, and the point of intersection is where you find the real arseholes

Doll for all those people out there who think open infrastructure and open content is free, can you please remember the following two things: 1) Everything on the internet is rented. 2) it’s not free, it’s “included”. Someone somewhere is paying

‘At all levels of university’ is spot on here. Under-discussed and theorised is the way these sorts of undergrad trends mirror trends in authorship, peer review, etc.

From @aip-publishing.bsky.social: cost of a peer reviewed article is $2700 (*before* you start giving back to the community). Would like to see a more detailed split, but it does align with estimates from eLife and EMBO #ScientificPublishing www.stm-publishing.com/cost-transpa...

And we’d do it again

These sorts of moves are completely understandable and bound to cause problems for philosophers of science

Some people argue that 'the British Isles' isn't political and we shouldn't be bothered by it, which is why they're invariably so open to my suggestion that we should switch to 'the Irish Isles' for the next few hundred years while we work out a solution.

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

It really seemed, at least from this distance, that the US was making real strides in the unionisation of poor & precariously employed workers, and now business is aligned with an economically illiterate president and there’s AI slop as far as the eye can see. They really hate paying people huh.

Let us by all means determine that software should be covered by the Working Time Directive. Let’s tell OpenAI they can no longer change or deactivate their models because that amounts to forced surgery or murder. If we must have this conversation, let it go all the way.

People are really hating on this but creating a narrative voice that melds Patrick Bateman and Alan Partridge is actually a significant technical feat

Achoimre trí fhocal ar pholasaí an Aontais Eorpaigh i leith Gaza. Handy three word summary of EU Gaza policy.

Fen Diagram A cartoon for the mathematically-minded lovers of flatlands, a particular Venn diagram in itself. www.worldofmoose.com/products/fen...

Someone's bound to have done this one already, right?

Do you ever look at someone else’s job and think about all the bad choices you’ve made and how it might have been

Okay, but look at how many _employees_ Nature has. How many philosophy journals have employees, let alone expert full-timers? www.nature.com/nature/editors

With the Israeli aid blockade, every time UNICEF says how close the population is to famine, "authorities just loosen the noose a little bit and a bit of aid is allowed to come in. When international attention dissipates, it's tightened once more. When famine hits, it will be too late."

If we understood publishing as a labor arrangement btwn variously situated workers (scholars, pub labor, librarians, etc.), whose labor is alienated & repackaged in cunning ways, we’d all be in a better place to feel & express solidarity, & to work toward something better. bsky.app/profile/time...

I wish scholars complaining abt editorial quality or enshittification realized they’re acting as if they’re entitled to the labor of others: people who are typically (even when not out-sourced) in more precarious situations than scholars are. In the face of AI, they are suddenly essential workers.

While scholars here are currently hot & bothered by OxfordUPs efforts to integrate AI-tools into their editorial workflow,👇 has been the actual labor arrangement (albeit, without the AI subterfuge) at big presses for quite some time, & most scholar haven’t batted an eye. bsky.app/profile/brun...

Socrates: Philosophers must rule as kings Glaucon: okay but what if we give them journals and blogs to manage first, to see how it goes?

Weak at the knees looking at these covers

Talking about himself on Thurs. Taking the opportunity of the end of the postdoc to reflect on ~15yrs of studying him. Planning normie philosophy + personal views on: slavery/anti-Irish views; B's loving parenting alongside family separation inherent in slavery; new work on tech & agriculture

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