Are there examples of successful academic boycotts?
I can think of several unsuccessful examples, like the PLoS petition and the Cost of Knowledge boycott.
Getting academics to make and stick to collective agreements is like herding cats.
https://researchwhisperer.org/2025/11/25/librarians-versus-the-world/
#Boycotts #AcademicPublishing #AcademicJournals #AcademicLibraries #Librarians #CatHerding #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing
I've got a playful adult cat who enjoys pouncing and chasing string/rope toys. He thinks wires are string toys. Any ideas on how to teach him the difference? I don't want to find out the hard way if an electric blanket or laptop draw enough power to electrocute a cat.
Consultant wisdom I just made up:
"The Work is never the work; the work is the People"
Like yak-shaving and dogfooding among software developers circles, cat-herding is a colourful idiom common in community development circles.
Consider that we're all fiercely independent beings. Like cats! So in the absence of a formal decision-making structure that everyone has agreed to follow, trying to get people to all pull in the same direction, to achieve shared goals, can be like herding cats.
No offence is meant to any human beings (or cats!)
Poking my head in at work via Slack for a milestone release on major project has me like...
Attention all my procrastinating friends, the CfP for DevConf.cz closes March 10th, that's Friday! #DevConf was my favorite #opensource conference prior to the pandemic. This is the first year we're holding it again in person, and this year it's June 16-18 instead of January. In addition to the many developer tracks, there's also a Cat Herding / Agility / DEI track, which will be brilliant. Read more at https://www.devconf.info/cz/
@kernellogger +1 for #CatHerding 😻
There are a lot of days where my work on #Linux #kernel regression tracking feels like I'm wasting my time on #CatHerding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_MaJDK3VNE
Then there are days where I write a simple mail in the hope to get a stalled discussion on a regression fix rolling again: https://lore.kernel.org/all/9e297f30-dc8c-ecac-f7a6-348ddbd4b928@leemhuis.info/
Nothing happens before I go to bed, and when I wake up a new fix was posted (https://lore.kernel.org/all/1677529301-19530-1-git-send-email-george.kennedy@oracle.com/ ) and mainlined (https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/46d733d0efc79bc8430d63b57ab88011806d5180 ); and another, related fix, too (https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/ae3419fbac845b4d3f3a9fae4cc80c68d82cdf6e ) 😲
My husband just informed me, "I now have all of the cats!" like he'd just won the Powerball lottery. What is this, collect them all and win a prize?🤣 #catherding #cats #catsofmastodon #humor
Oh hai it is #@CharleneTeglia from Twitter or Magrat from TORN if you're that old on the internets. #Writer #Gardening #Weightlifting #Reading #CatHerding #SFF #Romancelandia
