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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 12h

This is a proposal for a general audience book. :) But that’s a good way to think about focusing effort on academic writing!

(I do encourage my grad students to read books as often as they can!)

Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 13h

Thank you, friend!

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 15h

Absolutely. I’ve been part of those conversations when I was on the governing board of ESA. But understanding what’s happening can help give folks a head’s up as those contracts are coming up for renewal. I know I’d want to know.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 18h

Best of luck to you!

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 19h

This is one of the reasons I will always shut down "reading is a privilege" discourse. Reading is a RIGHT. Rights can be infringed upon, but they are still inherent. We have the right to the skills and tools needed to consume information. We have the right to leisure time.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 19h

(She couldn't remember the reviewer's name, so I can't attribute the quote to its origin, but still wanted to share the sentiment.)

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 19h

I've been working on a book proposal and alternating between "this is meaningful" and "this is pointless," and a friend recently shared this quote that she stumble on in a Goodreads review: "Every book is a grand gesture of optimism on the part of both the reader and writer." Keep creating, friends.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22h

The table of contents for Read This When Things Fall Apart is a crisis directory—“read this if…” [insert heartbreak, setback, disaster, or breaking point]. I wish I could gift a copy to every activist in Chicago. You can donate a copy to an activist in need here: www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...

The cover for the book, Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. The cover art features a person wading into a body of water in the woods at night.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23h

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · Sep 19

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.

Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors

The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).

www.thebookseller.com

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 1d

I’m really curious how this will work, because our editorial assistant just disappeared when we moved to ReX.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 1d

It's honestly so bad it's got to start costing Wiley
money due to slowing down publishing at this point.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 1d

Yep. You do not want it. You lose functionality, rather than gain any. Reviewers can’t even suggest alternatives using the new system. It’s unhinged.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

A bunch of weirdos are trying to commit a hostile takeover of the entire education system. If you were a former student at UT-Austin, join us in saying come and take it!

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

Hey, sharing an update here on the open letter opposing the Trump compact targeting our school and others. We’ve finalized the letter language, and we’re using this form to collect signatures.

forms.gle/EUJPfhTaEceS...

Former Longhorns “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” Open Letter

On September 28th, The Washington Post reported that the Trump Administration is planning to offer what they have named a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” to nine universities in ...

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 1d

But this, I'm sure, doesn't violate any rules against inciting or glorifying violence.

Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: One of Turning Point USA’s first campus events since Charlie Kirk’s murder is a panel of abortion “abolitionists” — extremists who want women executed for ending their pregnancies.

jessica.substack.com/p/turning-po...

Turning Point USA Hosts Campus Event Pushing Death Penalty for Abortion Patients

10.3.25

jessica.substack.com

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for the thoughtful conversation (and also all you're doing in your community, which sounds really powerful!).

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 1d

My work as a reviewer is for authors, not the journal publisher. I track my reviewer effort to make sure I’m putting in as much as I take out. Work like layout, typesetting or line editing for page proofs should be paid because that work is for the journal; the people doing that aren’t also authors.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 1d

I think there are lots of ways to think about labor that can also align with our values about justice (like work in kind, barter, or gift economies).

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 1d

I'm glad to hear it. I understand it's not GEB's fault, I just have to be really thoughtful about where my effort goes, and I also don't have a lot of power in this system except for where I put my effort. As I told Amanda and Rich, I'm happy to come back if the system changes.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 1d

I don't support paying reviewers. I think that creates ethical issues (paying people for publishing encourages academic fraud as it is), and it's too difficult to parse effort and quality. I treat reviewing as work-in-kind: I take effort out of the system as an author, I pay effort in as a reviewer.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 1d

That takes so, so many society journals out of the running, though, which I'm not comfortable with. And for early career folks (like the grad student lead author of our JVS paper), I'm not comfortable imposing too many restrictions. We already choose not to publish with Elsevier or NPG.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 1d

This is a huge loss of functionality, in my opinion. As it now often takes upwards of 20 invitations to find reviewers, having people make suggestions when they decline is an essential feature, which we have now lost.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 1d

I can invite as many as I want, it's just that I vastly prefer coming up with a list (as per the old system) and then inviting them as needed. Or, rather, at GEB, the EA would invite from the list and then email me if we needed more names.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 1d

So much lost functionality. I can't even come up with a ranked list, I can only invite reviewers one at a time. So far, I haven't had a single person even decline for my manuscripts; the invitations are just "timing out." I don't even know if they're being received.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 1d

We need a large and loud response from the scientific community, or publishing at Wiley journals is going to come to a complete standstill. And since Wiley is the main alternative to Elsevier, there really aren't many options. Yet another industry has leaned into AI only to be utterly enshittified.

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