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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1h

@dalias @Gargron

"Your account" in singular sounds a bit weird to me. You also only have one email address?

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Bonfire @bonfire.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h

🔬 With Bonfire's upcoming Open Science flavour, you can now archive conversations to #zenodo (and compatible repositories like https://works.hcommons.org from @hello) and obtain a #doi.
Every participant becomes a credited co-author, and ORCID integration means it can be automatically published […]

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6h

TIL: apparently one of the main technical hurdles for universities to run their own #mastodon instances is to make the instance work with the institution's SSO (most often Shibboleth). It seems there would be a huge opportunity to facilitate the entrance of such major multiplicators into the […]

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

So true for so many problems of our times! @pluralistic got it so right:

"Systemic problems have systemic solutions, not individual ones. You can’t shop your way out of a monopoly."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/05/way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbish

早已过气：亚马逊怎么变得这么糟糕？

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? (www.theguardian.com) 13:47 ↑ 132 HN Points

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

The natural history of #enshittification according to @pluralistic:
1 First, platforms are good to their users.
2 Then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers.
3 Next, they abuse those customers to claw back all the value for themselves – and become a giant pile […]

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

"This moment we’re living through, this Great Enshittening, is a material phenomenon, much like a disease, with symptoms, a mechanism and an epidemiology."

by @pluralistic

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/05/way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbish

早已过气：亚马逊怎么变得这么糟糕？

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? (www.theguardian.com) 13:47 ↑ 132 HN Points

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

"Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ (@pluralistic) explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and what we can do about it" […]

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Yogi Jaeger @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

This little explainer of #agency as the basis of #freewill by @arvin_ash and Philip Ball is quite neat, even pointing out the importance of #relevancerealization (without naming it, though...)

https://youtu.be/Ye6b7OkxBnc

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

"legacy [academic] publishers maintain their dominance by leveraging their scale, strong brands, and investment capacity while adopting or acquiring OA models, creating a competitive environment where scale and strategic differentiation are decisive."

https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/13/4/46 […]

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

"This study implements a multi-year analysis (2019–2023) comparing the performance of Open Access and legacy publishers. Using a set of financial ratios—grouped by profitability, liquidity, efficiency, and solvency, as well as data on firm size (revenues, assets, and employee counts), we assess […]

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

"The question that arises at this stage is whether openness in knowledge constitutes the Achilles heel of the once profitable legacy publishing industry or whether it is the Trojan horse of the latter for increasing its revenues."

https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/13/4/46

#publishing #openaccess […]

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14d

Oh, how cool!
"we introduce the Claims Network approach, which collects information about REIL [Research (R), Education (E), societal impact (I), and academic leadership (L) ] contributions by inviting researchers to post about them on the distributed Mastodon social media environment." […]

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 27d

The University of Utrecht is cancelling the #webofscience and offering training sessions on #OpenAlex.
https://www.uu.nl/en/news/access-to-web-of-science-will-end-on-1-january-2026

"Discontinuing Web of Science is a logical step that fits in with the UU vision on #OpenScience. Closed commercial […]

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19d

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115230366976982724

It just got even easier for #academic #scholarly #institutions to host their own Mastodon instance!

#academicchatter

Mastodon @mastodon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19d

We’re taking another step in building a sustainable financial base as a non-profit. Today, we’re announcing new hosting and support offerings, tailored for larger organisations and public institutions. These enable organisations to own their social identities, on their own infrastructure […]

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 19d

“Goebbels Ends Careers of Five ‘Aryan’ Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime”

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hist4dem @hist4dem.bsky.social · 21d

Angriffe auf bestimmte Forschungsbereiche von rechts außen sind ein weitaus größerer Eingriff in die Wissenschaftsfreiheit als eine vermeintliche „cancel culture“.
Debora Gerstenberger von #hist4dem im Interview mit dem Deutschlandfunk.
Mehr dazu heute um 16:00 im HS1 beim #Historikertag2025

Regime bedrohen Wissenschaftsfreiheit: Diskussion auf dem Historikertag

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hauschke @hauschke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21d

#eduroam is one of the most wonderful things of global academia.

#oat25

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 21d

"DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing."
https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/
(#paywalled)

"The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence […]

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20d

@v_i_o_l_a @sedoa

Cool! Danke! Habe einiges mitgenmommen!

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v_i_o_l_a @v-i-o-l-a.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 21d

weitere probleme des kommerziellen open access: "reputation" via impact factor (@brembs 👋), daten-tracking (@RenkeSiems 👋), datensouveränität u.a.m. #oat25

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Jeroen Sondervan @jeroenson.bsky.social · 28d

CLOCKSS @clockssarchive.bsky.social stepping in to support diamond #openaccess journals with their stuggles with long term preservation: clockss.org/new-pilot-di...

New Pilot: Diamond Open Access - CLOCKSS

CLOCKSS is proud to launch a pilot program to preserve Diamond Open Access publications — at no cost to participating libraries, whether current supporters or new to our community.

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29d

"This review draws upon insights from a curated body of recently published research papers to highlight structural injustices in academic publishing, their adverse effects on global research output, and the excessive pressure placed on faculty members to fulfill the requirements of accreditation […]

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29d

Wie nich finde, auch nach über 30 Jahren immer noch angenehme Pflichtlektüre für alle biomedizinisch Interessierten, das @laborjournal

Heute neu:
https://www.laborjournal.de/rubric/aktuell/index.php

#biologie #medizin #Biomedizin #forschung #deextinction #organoids

Aktuelles

Auf dieser Seite sind alle die Artikel verlinkt, da aus der aktuellen Print-Ausgabe für die Online-Ausgabe übernommen wurden. Mit einem Blick sehen Sie, was NEU ist.

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 6

@hweimer

I can try and recollect from memory what I have learned about journals in general (averages may of course not apply everywhere):
1. On average, journals charge 5-10 times their publication costs. Corporate more, societies less.
2. Studies show that the difference of published articles […]

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 6

@hweimer

Please correct me if I got this wrong:
You're advertising a set of journals where you don't know what the taxpayer pays, you don't know whether the editorial system even improves on the preprints at all and you don't know if anybody even reads the papers.

If a politician told you […]

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