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"What does Governance mean to us in Research and Open Science?"

📅 30 June 2025, 15 - 16:30 UTC+1 (UK time)

Featuring: @Neil Chue Hong, Simon Hettrick, Riva Quiroga, @oscarseip, and @malvikasharan

This first fireside chat will feature insights from SSI leadership and Fellows, alongside leadership from The Turing Way.

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⚠️ Update: It has now been 24 hours since #Iran imposed a nationwide internet shutdown; the ongoing blackout incident is the most severe tracked since the November 2019 protests and impacts the public's ability to stay connected at a time when communications are vital ⏱️

The Growing Risk of Malicious Browser Extensions https://ino.to/ilso4IQ

As if for-profit journals are not scammy and scummy enough, look how they used #GenAI tools to butcher @jilltxt’s writing.

https://jilltxt.net/ai-copyediting-how-paperpal-butchered-my-paper-on-ai-generated-writing/

#AcademicChatter #No_AI #NoAI

@rbroekman sounds familiar 🥲

@jwildeboer @forgejo Mine too - thanks!

huh?

> Your next phone could run on Trump Mobile https://ino.to/hAnJ5C1

🥳 Mooi nieuws: we slaan bij @kbnationalebibliotheek vanaf nu de tekst van de Nederlandstalige Wikipedia op https://www.kb.nl/nieuws/kb-neemt-nederlandstalige-wikipedia-op-archief

@jeroenbosman editors can be overruled without prejudice apparently to begin with :/

https://osf.io/tn8mh

@nyhan they say the status is fine and maintenance happening later

i had no issues earlier today for what it's worth

https://status.cos.io

NEW: Statement from the PCI RR Managing Board on the withdrawal of Infant and Child Development as a PCI RR-friendly journal, and the decision by Wiley to refuse preprints that have been peer-reviewed by @PeerCommunityIn / @pcirr

Read here ➡️ https://osf.io/tn8mh

> Could a novelty indicator improve science?
> That’s why the UK Metascience Unit has partnered with the non-profit organization RAND Europe; the Sussex Science Policy Research Unit; and the publisher Elsevier, to launch MetaNIC

Count me uninterested – this will increase novelty selection in journals, hence, increase the exact pressures that drive quality down. Have any of these alleged meta-scientists actually read any of the meta-science of the past two decades?

https://ino.to/qGO5jG6

@viroviacum 💯 - agree, both need to change.

In this specific situation, if DOAJ were to say libraries/ac-comm needs to change first would be a cop out to me. A great way out of inertia like this is to take responsibility

@neuralreckoning @chartgerink

I always thought it was really cool that DOAJ recognized and included Verfassungsblog in its directory (up until 2025).

I do hope that @DOAJ can 'review' its policies in regard to law journals, quickly in time to reassess Verfassungsblog for 2026.

This exclusion reads like something Clarviate (Web of Science) would do tbh 🙃

@chartgerink Problem is that some libraries base funding decisions too much on DOAJ, which is IMO a mistake, as it means you would only fund one particular publication type. Libraries should fund more (journals, books, postpublication PR, innovative publication platforms, infrastructure). DOAJ is a valuable instrument in this whole, but should not be the only one.

@neuralreckoning Yes that is part of my point.

I am disappointed to see the DOAJ* reject Verfassungsblog.

Verfassungsblog provides consistent, quality analyses that contribute to an incredibly important area of societal discussion. Rejecting them based on homogenized conceptions of peer review standards across fields, is not only disappointing – it is playing with fire.

We need discussions of constitutional and fundamental rights now more than ever. I call upon DOAJ to reconsider

*Directory of Open Access Journals

https://verfassungsblog.de/verfassungsblog-doaj-scholarly-standards/

As Verfassungsblog indicates, libraries often require DOAJ inclusion to provide funds, hence: Verfassungsblog risks losing funding by libraries by DOAJ's decision

No matter how valid internal processes @ DOAJ, using their power to the detriment of funding around open sharing of constitutional scholarly work is a risk multiplier

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⚠️ Confirmed: Live metrics show that the #Gaza Strip is again in the midst of a telecoms blackout; the incident is likely to severely limit most residents' ability to communicate, in the second such incident this month 📉