Timeline cleanse. I do love Jon Batiste. youtu.be/nNOCkG_HI2M?...

💥New: Shaking up the scholarly publishing market – Why caps on APCs could backfire ✍️@stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca @eschares.bsky.social, @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca Flavia Camargo, @lmatthia.bsky.social Lucía Céspedes, Constance Poitras & Dorothea Strecker #AcademicSky #ScholComm #OpenAccess

Absolutely has happened to me. bsky.app/profile/esch...

I do think a count of submissions should get recorded somewhere. ORCiD? Each journal could then choose their own threshold of how many articles an author has submitted to any journal in a calendar year, below which they consider as usual and above which they auto-reject. Resets Jan. 1. #scholcomm

Proud to have played even a small role on this project! Great summary post and an excellent job by the entire IOI team. After two years of intensive research, IOI's project “Investigating "reasonable costs" to achieve public access to federally funded research and scientific data” has concluded.

NEW POST: NIH explores capping APCs: Let’s look at the evidence! We used data of NIH funded from 2025, and found that APCs for a few as 7% journals (or 6% of papers) would be fully covered by a $2K cap, 25% of journals (or 21% of papers) by a $3K cap. Read more! www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/09/03/n...

Here it is: www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/09/03/n... Haustein, S., Schares, E., Alperin, J.P., Camargo, F., Matthias, L., Céspedes, L., Poitras, C., & Strecker, D. (2025). APCs of 2,228 journals where NIH-funded authors published in 2025 (Version v1) [dataset]. Harvard Dataverse. doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...

Expanded this study to 2,200+ journals=87% of NIH funded papers in 2025 so far. Blog post with @eschares.bsky.social @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca @lucyces.bsky.social and other #ScholCommLab members coming later today.

Investigating Document Type, Language, Publication Year, and Author Count Discrepancies Between OpenAlex and Web of Science https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18620

BREAKING: Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa won't seek reelection to Senate in 2026, sources say.

I've seen a fare share of APC and page charge pages by now, but this was a new level of complexity: The Astrophysical Journal calculates APCs by per "quanta" charge: journals.aas.org/article-char...

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

Painful but necessary read about miss after miss at #INTC. I was there 2006-2015 in NAND flash memory, a small unit that felt more like a startup and insulated from the overall "Mother Intel". Even then the cracks were starting to show. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/t...

I wouldn't let my 6 y/o have another fruit cup and she was incensed. She yelled at me, with all the venom she could muster, "You're insane, Big Fella!"

potentially the funniest thing he’s said yet

Cinnamon says hello

Beautifully written article on the things you actually learn when you learn #stats. I see myself in every step of this post. Protecting Time is probably my biggest weakness. I've used YouTube👍, textbooks❌, and online courses and resources (plenty bookmarked but not worked through).

Just out: Open metadata enable large-scale hybrid open access studies. Cross-database comparison using major bibliometric databases shows that transformative agreements have been the main driver of open access. But paywalls still dominate. doi.org/10.1007/s111...

In this hypothetical scenario, why wouldn't subscription journals pay reviewers too? Many more people paying there. In any event, my view is a) opening all reviews b) of all articles c) and making them portable are more important than paying reviewers.

Important work for sure, but as a methods detail I remain skeptical of using PubPeer comments as a dataset. @reeserichardson.bsky.social himself posted on the study's PubPeer page. Does that mean this would now get grouped as "having a comment" and deemed questionable? pubpeer.com/publications...

@eschares.bsky.social and I, together with some last minute help by #ScholCommLab members @lucyces.bsky.social, Constance Poitras and Dorothea Strecker, provided Jeff with some data on APCs for the top journals of authors acknowledging NIH funding this year so far.

Can authors afford APCs for #openaccess publishing if NIH caps its payments for them? Institutional read-and-publish deals offer an APC-free alternative, but NIH also wants to lower the indirect cost rate to 15%, which could squeeze money for such deals. @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Love seeing Dame back in a Trail Blazers uniform. www.espn.com/nba/story/_/... #nba

A new program from the @sloanfoundation.bsky.social and Open Philanthropy - the "Pop-Up Journal Initiative". I haven't heard of this term before. Seems to be more narrowly tailored than a Special Issue, with a defined end date (5 years). First topic is the ROI of US R&D. popupjournal.com

This very readable intro to Git (really version control) by @jennybryan.bsky.social should be the first in a series of many such conversational introductions. Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about causal inference? academic publishing? APCs? #stats #scholcomm peerj.com/preprints/31...

I've been convinced and have now successfully adopted {here}. Big afternoon. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2017/12...

Going to see the musical Chicago this weekend. Can’t wait to hear “25 or 6 to 4.”

Interesting but puzzling paper. Study looks at University of Milan authors who do/not publish OA in a journal covered by an agreement. Halfway through they refer to a "statistical analysis available in an online appendix" but provide no such appendix, just a dead footnote. doi.org/10.1002/leap...

I'm applauding NIH for putting this out for public comment. Have ideas about how to best limit spending on inequitable and expensive article processing charges? Send them to the NIH: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-138.html

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

Today #RAGBRAI 52’s final day came through my wife’s small hometown. 20,000 riders on a week-long trip across Iowa. We volunteered at the stand to benefit the town Historical Society, in a building from 1895. Seven kinds of cookies, protein bites, strawberries, water, coffee. Now tired and hot.

📢 Broken incentives & hijacked #OpenAccess — sound familiar? @theguardian.com article sparked responses including a powerful one at #ScholCommLab @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca @eschares.bsky.social Leigh-Ann Butler & @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca www.theguardian.com/science/2025... #AcademicSky

Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

Listening to both episodes of this podcast on my walk last night, I realized @posit.co has both @hadley.nz AND @wesmckinney.com?? That's like having Coltrane AND Miles Davis in the same band. Will Positron be their Kind of Blue?

Damian Lillard is BACK 🙌 And in his first Trail Blazer presser since returning to Portland, the franchise icon is ready for a fresh start. 🔗 http://dlvr.it/TM359L

My favorite was Drake University's "D+" branding. Didn't catch on. www.cbsnews.com/news/drake-u...

Letters to the Editor regarding academic publishing, including one by @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca, Leigh-Ann Butler, and me .

1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint. This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.

Sweet corn time! This is the pot my grandma always made us sweet corn in growing up. Lots of memories with this one.

I've been attending USCOTS this week at ISU. Geographically a local but a visitor in discipline, picking things up as a stealth #stats learner. Enjoyed four pre-conf workshops so far and the wide range of topics and tools (Rmd, ipynb, tidymodels, Positron, @posit.co). And I got to meet @hadley.nz!

It's a good thing I'm not at this Royal Society Future of Publishing meeting. Would have had to bring my autograph book.

This is great. It puts into words many of my feelings about various Diet Coke delivery systems. I recently broke my daily afternoon 12oz can habit, and a big part of that was forcing myself to buy 2Ls. Just make the whole experience a little bit worse and thus easier to kick.

The latest PLOS Open Science Indicators (OSI) dataset is here! In partnership with @dataseerai.bsky.social, the new dataset includes insights from 166K+ articles. In addition, we explore lessons learned from years of OSI development on The Official PLOS Blog. 📈 plos.io/3ZFdjYL 🔎 plos.io/40N0Oxj

The Senate appropriations committee has voiced its intent to ignore the request by President Donald Trump to slash the budgets of the National Science Foundation and NASA science programs. scim.ag/4nW7XWi

Now that #APC price caps are in the news, a good time to remind you of what current and historic APC levels are. Our open dataset covers list APCs of six publishers for five years, for >36,000 journal-year combinations. doi.org/10.7910/DVN/... #scholcomm #metascience

Reached a German score of 30 (A2) on Duolingo today. That means I can “chat a little, if someone is patient and ready to help.”

NIH to set #APC caps for funded research. Interesting this is announced now, so soon after the NIH Public Access Policy started July 1 and publishers forcing compliance with APCs. Likely that any ACP under the cap will rise to meet it. Previous OSTP reports were notably silent on the idea.

Complete Statement: “NIH to Crack Down on Excessive Publisher Fees For Publicly Funded Research” www.infodocket.com/2025/07/08/s... #scholcomm #libraries #publishers #publishing

Looking for more info on controlling for certain variables that increase precision in estimating a causal effect. From what I can tell, variable should be entering outcome (?). p. 186 of Statistical Rethinking mentions this briefly, and I saw another example recently but now can't find it. #stats

For publication metadata nerds: viz of the generation of various metadata and their flow through the scholarly publishing system. The link goes to the online version that is fully animated, and has additional versions. Wonder if you think this is useful. docs.google.com/presentation...