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John Hilton

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Publishing, editing, scholarly communications, evidence, research integrity. Also: Southampton FC, much music, occasional nonsense

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Hilda Bastian @hildabast.bsky.social · 7h

Tracking Shutdown Impact and Changes at PubMed

There's been some panic about PubMed again, since a notice on the website warned it could be out of date because of the US government shutdown. Shutdown is dreadful, in so many ways. But that notice doesn't mean PubMed has been de-funded, or that it's…

Tracking Shutdown Impact and Changes at PubMed

There's been some panic about PubMed again, since a notice on the website warned it could be out of date because of the US government shutdown. Shutdown is dreadful, in so many ways. But that notice doesn't mean PubMed has been de-funded, or that it's not being maintained. The notice is the same as the one displayed during a shutdown in 2018.

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John Hilton @johnhilton.bsky.social · 3d

Agree. It's decision making and judgement, not button pushing.

Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · 3d

We, editors, don't "count votes", and yes, we may make decisions that differ from your recommendation. And that doesn't mean we "are wrong".

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Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · 3d

We, editors, don't "count votes", and yes, we may make decisions that differ from your recommendation. And that doesn't mean we "are wrong".

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John Hilton @johnhilton.bsky.social · 4d

I am running a weekly A to Z Scholarly Publishing Quiz. It's just for fun, but you might learn something 📘

This week’s letter: 🅰️

Take the quiz here 👉 tally.so/r/3j8z8R

Please reply and let me know how you did!

#AcademicPublishing #ScholarlyPublishing #ScholarlyCommunications #Quiz

The A to Z Scholarly Publishing Quiz

Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.

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Florian Naudet @floriannaudet.bsky.social · 12d

New post on RestoRes's website. "New initiative seeks evidence for effective open science practices"

The Global Research Initiative on Open Science, officially launched last week, aims to identify what works (and what doesn’t) in Open Science worldwide.

restores.univ-rennes.fr/highlights/n...

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John Hilton @johnhilton.bsky.social · 12d

Jeffrey Aronson on serendipity, paracetamol/acetaminophen, autism, bias, and so much more... doi.org/10.1136/bmj....

When I use a word . . . Paracetamol/acetaminophen—autism and asthma

Among the many examples of serendipity in drug discovery, the antipyretic action of phenacetin was accidentally discovered because of its use by clinicians who were mistakenly supplied with a product ...

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Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social · 14d

We need good practices for DOI registration for publish-review-curate platforms like @metaror.bsky.social and others.

@andre-brasil.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post about this: doi.org/10.64000/76j...

Together with @crossref.bsky.social we hope to receive input from the community on this issue!

Innovation in scientific publishing and its implications for Crossref DOI registration practices - Request for input - Crossref

Lots of exciting innovations are being made in scientific publishing, often raising fundamental questions about established publishing practices. In this guest post, Ludo Waltman and André Brasil disc...

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John Hilton @johnhilton.bsky.social · Aug 9

COYR! Yeah, not a clue what's going to happen. Win or lose, I just want some goals...

John Hilton @johnhilton.bsky.social · Jul 30

Riverside blue also all over the place

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Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · Jul 26

People who come to my workshops on ai search engines are often frustrated because they want me to tell them which is best. With librarians it manifests as to asking which we subscribe to. Not a bad idea if idea is you trust preferences revealed by actions. But here's the issue . . (1)

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John Hilton @johnhilton.bsky.social · Jul 25

Glenn's boots 🌟

John Hilton @johnhilton.bsky.social · Jul 15

So all of scholarly communications is entirely pointless? Hmm...

John Hilton @johnhilton.bsky.social · Jul 9

Leonard Nimoilspill also damaging

John Hilton @johnhilton.bsky.social · Jun 28

Lack of clarity.

Road sign alerting about forthcoming work but the numbers indicating dates and times are positioned in eccentric and arbitrary positions.

John Hilton @johnhilton.bsky.social · Jun 27

I really, really don't like these 'initiatives' (and I hate that they are called 'initiatives') but thankfully my team was relegated so my attention will mostly be elsewhere 😄

John Hilton @johnhilton.bsky.social · Jun 13

Oh #1 has caused Polgara, the rat-faced Drasnian, Tolnedra, Elrond, and Malloreans to start rattling around my brain 😀

John Hilton @johnhilton.bsky.social · Jun 9

Me too!

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John Hilton @johnhilton.bsky.social · Jun 8

Yes, just surprising to me the opening was business vocab rather than focus on books, scholarship, etc. Sage situation interesting to learn about.

John Hilton @johnhilton.bsky.social · Jun 8

Thank you! Hopefully your willingness to distill Still will still work well as the transfer rumour mill spills over...😀

John Hilton @johnhilton.bsky.social · Jun 8

I love writing that makes you want to urgently relisten or dig further into an artist's work. After reading this by Ian Penman via @mitpress.bsky.social I am hoping to experience some Satie 'riverine clarity' next week

The Many Sides of Erik Satie

“The Satie life contains so much murk; his music sparkles with riverine clarity.”

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

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John Hilton @johnhilton.bsky.social · Jun 7

Today's genre of choice - Polish big band #JazzSky 🇵🇱 🎷

Big Band Katowice – Music For My Friends 1978 (Polskie Nagrania Muza)

Label : Polskie Nagrania Muza Value : Funky big band from Poland -- a very groovy set that's right up there with the best large group 70s s...

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John Hilton @johnhilton.bsky.social · Jun 7

Odd wording choice for an email to authors - assets, portfolio, etc

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John Hilton @johnhilton.bsky.social · Jun 7

fennelement

John Hilton @johnhilton.bsky.social · Jun 6

Yes, and other audio. I don't know if audio papers or musical abstracts or listenable data remixes/collabs exist, but you should link up with Spotify to be ready for that!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · Jun 5

once again I must tap my own sign

@clairewillett

honestly the best marketing scheme in history is men successfully getting away with calling women the "more emotional" gender for like, EONS, because they've successfully rebranded anger as Not An Emotion

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John Hilton @johnhilton.bsky.social · Jun 5

Glad that ICMJE abandoned the list, but with thousands of journals it seems a big and costly challenge to create and manage a certification process that is equitable and reliable.

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Mark Hahnel @hahnel.org · Jun 5

Infrastructure is a collective responsibility – lessons from scholarly publishing and metadata

blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Infrastructure is a collective responsibility – lessons from scholarly publishing and metadata - Impact of Social Sciences

Improving research metadata quality requires shared stewardship. The authors show how community-led models like COMET are building a more inclusive research infrastructure.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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John Hilton @johnhilton.bsky.social · Jun 4

Project anti-management?

John Hilton @johnhilton.bsky.social · Jun 4

I wish there was a library of resources on research integrity methods and resources... Oh! Look.... 👍👏

COSIG @cosig.net · Jun 4

Anyone can do post-publication peer review.
Anyone can be a steward of the scientific literature.
Anyone can do forensic metascience.
Anyone can sleuth.

That's why we are launching COSIG: the Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides, an open source resource for all of the above.

cosig.net

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John Hilton @johnhilton.bsky.social · Jun 4

Some undefined work is happening hereabouts at some point. Maybe.

Temporary road sign informing about upcoming road works, but the numbers are all chaotically positioned

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