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Our message to Oxford Academic: REVERSE THIS DECISION, REINSTATE OUR JOBS, and RESPECT THE CONTRACT YOU JUST SIGNED. #OUPIsUnionStrong

Speaking of which. Reason number 294 why publishing costs are higher than everyone assumes because of staff time: hours and hours dealing with petty author grievances like this x.com/aemonten/statu…

We've heard this more than once at #OASPA2024 but also heard 'community-led' identified as a term of 'value' by a commercial press. Important to be clear about *what* e.g. 'community-led' *means* to avoid a kind of 'community-washing' as organisations latch on to the term.

The Guardian and Observer #NUJ chapel is united in its opposition to the sale of The Observer newspaper to Tortoise Media. At a meeting today, the chapel passed two motions and expressed no confidence in the Scott Trust. nuj.org.uk/resource/sale-…

The latest from #UKSGInsights: "Classifying open access business models" by Tasha Mellins-Cohen bit.ly/3NaS5Ot

Science is built on trust. What happens when someone destroys it? My first feature for The Transmitter investigates the emotional and existential fallout for one lab in the aftermath of a misconduct case. thetransmitter.org/science-and-so…

Laura Davison appointed next general secretary of ⁦NUJ⁩ at what she calls a “critical time” for journalists nuj.org.uk/resource/laura…

Article reporting on the terrible working conditions at MDPI and the death of a young employee predatoryjournals.org/news/f/death-a…

When managers at MDPI would allegedly rather have a publishing worker *die* than let her leave her desk when feeling unwell, now is the time to join a union.

Very important overview of what is still a very substantial and very under-explored aspect of UK schol comms. Some data limitations which the authors acknowledge, and some inevitable biases in the (large) sample, but a very significant analysis overall.

Don't agree with the argument 'eLife shouldn't complain about paused WoS indexing because they don't like IFs'. You can still think WoS indexing is valuable for discoverability even if you don't want to be in the JCR?