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Kevin Sanders

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PhD candidate on the politics of open research and publishing environments at [redacted]. OBC. Copim. Synths. Tapes. Perennial pain. Skullduggery. Ⓐ 🍉 ORCID: 0000-0003-1217-0149. https://hairdryerexcommunication.bandcamp.com/ (he/him).

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 1h

Since its creation in 1998, CSC has been misused as an unofficial punishment and plagued by endemic discrimination easily amounting to institutional racism and Islamophobia, as well as institutional corruption.
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Field of Nightmares: The never-ending expansion of torture units in England - Freedom News

The Close Supervision Centre (CSC) is part of a system that requires endlessly greater punishment and resources to discipline prisoners facing degr…

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2h

'Universities have collectively announced more than 12,000 job cuts in the last year, new analysis from the University and College Union (UCU) suggests.'

Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens

University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.

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Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 1h

I think your definition, that "journal title must be owned by public or not-for-profit organisations" is at risk of reifying "public" ownership; in the context of the neoliberal academy, "public" institutions commonly have commercial operations -- publishing houses are sometimes in such units.

Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 1h

( @alittleroad.bsky.social, @scholtom.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social and I have a relevant article we'll post a preprint soon).

Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 1h

Ahh, it seems to be back up now :)

On ddh.diamas.org/docs/diamond..., I see the community-led is listed. Institutional publishers are not typically community-led.

Diamond criteria – Diamond Discovery Hub Documentation

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 8h

At an academic conference and the most common conversations I've had is stuff like, "How many faculty is your school trying to fire? Do you still have professional development funds? Do you still have an English department?" Fun times!

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Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 3h

I had a lovely wander through the fancier parts of town before dawn. Now: coffee at Victoria. Later: all day mandatory PhD training. (Saved by seeing my supervisor afterwards).

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 11h

Once they’ve banned all the LGBTQ books for youth, they’re coming for your horny fairies.

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Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 11h

Hi @craft-oa.bsky.social! I am trying to better understand your approach to Diamond OA, but your website is giving me an error connection message www.craft-oa.eu/ddh/ (the issue also appears to impacting your wider domain).

www.craft-oa.eu

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hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 17h

Awareness: 1/3 of eligible respondents were not aware of "Open Science". Awareness was fairly similar across disciplinary disciplines, with the lowest awareness among Arts & Humanities, highest was Media & Information.

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hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 17h

IMPAKT Open Science research model: knowledge drives attitudes towards Open Science, perceptions about Open Science, knowledge, and attitudes drive implementation of Open Science.
#OSCanada

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Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 18h

which do not seem to have much to do with capitalist commodities." (I'm starting to tire of the historical materialims, but there is something to be done with this line of critique).

Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 18h

"The appearance of care as loving nurture – which is the ideal type on which the ethics of care builds its theoretical and normative claims – lures us into thinking that in a caring relationship individuals relate to each other primarily through their innate emotions,

Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 18h

"while in the world of commodities we see the ‘objects’ but not the real people behind them, in the world of caring we see the ‘people’ but not the commodities behind them."

Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 18h

"care is a strategic political goal insofar as a focus on care enables us to redefine and redraw the boundaries between the public and the private sphere."

Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 19h

Such a fetishization of care does in fact stem from the capitalist devaluation of caring activities as non-work, which is precisely what social reproduction feminism endeavours to explain"

Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 19h

"the ‘fetishization of

Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 19h

More specifically, the under-theorized dimensions that I will flesh out include how social reproduction feminism understands the role of affect within care labour" https://doi.org/10.1177/14647001251376299

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Satorl @satogamedev.itch.io · 15d

had the urge to do this since the moment i saw this post!
#pixelart

mockup of a point and click gameabout columbo, he is talking to a dog, he says "Youre a real friendly boy, arent you? oh, youre a girl"
on the bottom half you can see columbos inventory, he has an egg in his pocket

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anastasia c. wilson @abolisheconomics.bsky.social · 11d

"Using Marx’s theory of commodity fetishism, it thus contends that care ethics risks treating care as a fetish, obscuring the systemic inequalities and inherent contradictions embedded in caregiving." doi.org/10.1177/1464...

Towards a critique of care fetishism: Social reproduction feminism and the ethics of care - Sara R Farris, 2025

Recently, there has been a notable rise in scholarly publications, research projects and public discussions engaging with care ethics and social reproduction fe...

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Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 1d

Go @thoth-metadata.bsky.social or go home.

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Laura J. Smart @ljsmart.bsky.social · 1d

Lack of transparency from vendors is a big problem, among other big problems with transparency in AI metadata. I'm 3/4 through leading a research project evaluating the enhanced eBook Central records which should be getting submitted for pub in early Dec. I'll post when it's available.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 2d

What the shit, Clarivate! Anyone using Ebook Central MARC records, be warned. They're jamming those records with AI generated metadata. Auto-enabled but you can disable it.

Dear Alex,
We are writing to share an important update coming to Ebook Central that will help improve ebook discoverability. At the end of October 2025, Ebook Central Express MARC records will include AI-generated metadata when publisher metadata fields are not available.

Why are we introducing AI-generated metadata to Ebook Central records?

Most publishers include subject information in their metadata, but there are times when this information is not included, leading to limited search availability in discovery systems. For this reason, we are providing AI-generated Library of Congress subject headings only when not available from the publisher to improve the completeness of our metadata and discoverability of Ebook Central titles.

Which AI-generated fields are included in Express MARC? 

The AI-generated fields will include Library of Congress Subject Heading (LCSH) (6XX); Library of Congress Classification (050); Dewey Decimal (082); Description (520); and Source of Description (588). To learn more, please visit our FAQ page.

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Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 1d

The indifference one receives shouldn't be read negatively. A lot of people have a lot of shit going on. Care is what is how we should approach everything. Even more so she. We feel uncared for.