An important discussion arpund the future of the academic publishing circus👇👇👇

Can I just estivate until October?

Authors intending to submit a manuscript to Biogeography.News should be aware that ~85% of #AssociateEditors are participating in a #WorkStoppage because of an unresolved #BetterPublishing dispute with Wiley

Manuscripts that are already under consideration at @jbiogeography will continue to be handled by all #AssociateEditors. The #WorkStoppage affects only new manuscript submissions.

We apologize that authors submitting new manuscripts to @jbiogeography during the #WorkStoppage should anticipate delays in handling of their submissions while #AssociateEditors ask Wiley for #BetterPublishing conditions for all

"...deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in LIFE..." #SupremeCourtLetsUsDownAgain #AffirmativeAction

GOP Supreme Court Justices have ruled forced births and “straight-only” businesses are legit, and policies leading to racial and economic equity are not legit. Sexism—homophobia—racism—classism are connected. Their defenders are in solidarity. Their opponents, we, must be too.

Daniel Becker, Ph.D., an asst. professor of Biology in OU Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences, has received a competitive Oak Ridge Associated Universities Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award for his continued research on bat migration in western Oklahoma. Read more: link.ou.edu/43t6POw

A few more days left to apply for this position. Also consider applying if you don't fulfill all the condictions for the position (e.g. German language).

.USGS wants your already-dead moths and butterflies for science if you live in OK, TX, KS, NB, GA, or AL . Info here: usgs.gov/news/state-new…

Wiley Wiley Ecology & Evolution has not responded meaningfully to the issues raised by @jbiogeography #AssociateEditors regarding #BetterPublishing see journalofbiogeographynews.org/2023/08/01/ass… for more details. The #WorkStoppage continues until concrete proposals are received.

More on the factors behind the work stoppage at Biogeography.News onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

This includes me: "At least two-thirds of the editorial board of Wiley’s Journal of Biogeography have resigned, citing the publisher’s push towards “exorbitant” open access fees." Another Wiley journal board resigns after month-long strike Biogeography.News timeshighereducation.com/news/another-w…

Beetles in Antarctica (once)! Reconstructing ancient dispersal through Antarctica: A case study of stream-inhabiting beetles, by Sykora et al onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

very lucky to work with @frog_phylo who led this new study of the “little things that run the world”. Includes a use for a macrogenetic summary statistic recently developed by Isaac Overcast (the evenness of genetic diversity)

Scientists who don’t speak fluent English get little help from journals, study finds nature.com/articles/d4158…