Alberto Corsín Jiménez

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Anthropology of traps, technology, and captivating counterurbanisms. Co-editor, Cultural Anthropology, 2022-2026. Instituto de Lengua, Literatura y Antropología, CSIC

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Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · Jul 1

Hace un mes se publicó Historia Ilustrada del Confinamiento. El libro se puede descargar gratuitamente desde @editorialcsic.bsky.social He pensado hace un hilo diario con las historias que componen la trama del libro. Hoy empiezo con los mapas que desencadenaron nuestra investigación 🧵

Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · 6d

Tengo sentimientos encontrados sobre el proyecto de renovación del Museo de Antropología. Por supuesto, el acento descolonizador es importante y necesario. Pero el proyecto se antoja más de gestión cultural que de museografía radical antropológica. Y el informe en sí apenas es una propuesta de salas

Ministerio de Cultura @culturagob.bsky.social · 7d

📢 El Museo Nacional de Antropología y el Museo de América presentan los proyectos de sus nuevas exposiciones permanentes

Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · 7d

Manifiesto del personal del CSIC en apoyo a la huelga de las universidades públicas madrileñas
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Ministerio de Cultura @culturagob.bsky.social · 7d

📢 El Museo Nacional de Antropología y el Museo de América presentan los proyectos de sus nuevas exposiciones permanentes

Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · 7d

Just published Cultural Anthropology's @culanth.bsky.social latest issue! Articles on scale in radio astronomy, debt’s slow violence, marine inequality, fugitive kinships, financial activism, revolutionary temporalities, shifting conviviality, and contested soil.
journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...

Vol. 40 No. 4 (2025) | Cultural Anthropology

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 14d

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.

It's *scientific publishing*.

We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Colin F. Camerer, Ben C. Sheldon , and 35 more Dorothy Bishop, Colin F. Camerer, Ben C. Sheldon, Juli G. Pausas, Dan Brockington, David M. Schultz, Sam Harper, Robert Böhm, Brendan Nyhan, Garry Peterson, Ross Woods, Euan G. Ritchie, Alistair Munro, Howard I. Browman, Rebecca Sear, Paul E. Johnson, Benjamin Braun, Ian Hussey, Jonathan Hopkin, Paolo Crosetto, Veli‐Matti Karhulahti, Jean Bonnet, Jacob T. Levy, Margot C. Finn, Étienne Ollion, Matt N Williams, Alberto Corsín Jiménez, Patrick Präg, Urška Demšar, Rense Corten, Juanjo Medina, Julie Novkov, Matti Vuorre, Tom Louwerse, Frédéric Delsuc, José Pina-Sánchez, Catherine M. Hulshof, Alba Anadon‐Rosell

Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 15d

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

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Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below.

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.

A figure detailing the drain on researcher time.

1. The four-fold drain

1.2 Time
The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce,
with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure
1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material
has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs,
grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for
profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time.
The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million
unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of
peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting
widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the
authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many
review demands.
Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of
scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in
‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow
progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to
volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier,
local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with
limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging
with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks
intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision.

A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below:

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.

The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised
scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers
first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour
resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.

Reposted by Fabián Muniesa

Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · 15d

Pensar los futuros de la IA y culturas algorítmicas pasa por conocer sus contextos históricos. Aquí nuestro granito de arena a la historia de la cultura digital en España en lo que va de siglo

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Free Culture and the City by Alberto Corsín Jiménez and Adolfo Estalella | Paperback | Cornell University Press

Free Culture and the City examines how and why free software spread beyond the world of hackers and software engineers and became the basis for an urban movement now heralded by scholars as a model...

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu

Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · 18d

El nuevo disco de Rosalía es verdaderamente prodigioso. Audaz, exquisito, hermoso. Mio Cristo Piange Diamanti es una joya. open.spotify.com/intl-es/trac...

Mio Cristo Piange Diamanti

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Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · 21d

Radiohead sonaron increíbles. Pero por muy sugerente y atmosférico que fuera el juego de pantallas, no poder disfrutar de un directo sin intermediación, sin artificios, estropeó el concierto. Tienen un directo extraordinario, pero nos dieron un vídeo de MTV

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Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · 23d

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · 24d

Autonomia ethnographica

Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · 25d

Estas últimas semanas, a raíz de alguna presentación, me han llegado comentarios muy emocionantes, de lectores que no se esperaban "de un libro con dibujos", aportaciones teóricas sobre "urbanismo de género", "geografía urbana", "epidemiología social" o "gestión comunitaria de las emergencias" ☺️

Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · Jul 1

Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · 28d

La primera edición se agotó hace unas semanas. Hoy hemos sabido que ya está lista la segunda edición 😊

Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · Jul 1

Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · Oct 25

En un proyecto europeo la misma dedicación horaria de un investigador radicado en Alemania o Inglaterra cuesta el DOBLE de lo que cuesta un investigador con sede en España. El secreto a voces de la ciencia en nuestro país es que hacemos ciencia de frontera a precio de los años 90.

Reposted by Fabián Muniesa, Ruy Llera Blanes

Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · Oct 23

Delighted to see this new Theorizing the Contemporary series now published—the second to appear in Spanish, on a wonderfully exciting topic and featuring a brilliant lineup of contributors @culanth.bsky.social

www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Vocabulario para la experimentación etnográfica

Este foro sitúa la experimentación como un impulso creciente en antropología que desborda la escritura permeando el análisis, el trabajo de campo...

www.culanth.org

Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · Oct 23

Muy contento con la publicación de esta nueva serie de "Theorizing the Contemporary" para Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social, la segunda que hacemos en español. Un lujazo de tema y contribuciones

www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Vocabulario para la experimentación etnográfica

Este foro sitúa la experimentación como un impulso creciente en antropología que desborda la escritura permeando el análisis, el trabajo de campo...

www.culanth.org

Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · Oct 12

Con el inimitable @marcuspixelart.bsky.social firmando libros en la Escuela Popular de Prosperidad (vídeo grabado y editado por Marcus)

Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · Oct 12

Y se ha agotado la edición aún estando disponible para libre descarga la versión digital 🤩

Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · Oct 11

Ayer supimos que la primera edición del libro se ha agotado!

Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · Jul 1

Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · Oct 11

"El Complemento Específico de los empleados del CSIC por niveles administrativos (según la Relación de Puestos de Trabajo de diciembre de 2024), se sitúa en la última o penúltima posición respecto a los 40 Organismos que hay en la Administración pública" www.eldiario.es/sociedad/esp...

Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · Oct 11

Ayer supimos que la primera edición del libro se ha agotado!

Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · Jul 1

Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · Oct 10

¡Nos vemos en una hora!

Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · Sep 25

Me hace mucha ilusión presentar el libro en la mítica Escuela Popular de Prosperidad el próximo día 10. ¡Venirse!

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