Science cannot function without critical feedback from a community. Publishing therefore central to the scientific method says peter gluckman Very true, I've always been slightly troubled that many in publishing industry don't really appreciate how important it is #stmfrankfurt

Percerse incentives of the 'bibliometric disease' has led to huge volumes of poor quality articles whose almost only value is for the authors' career advancement says peter gluckman The tail is wagging the dog, and that's bad for science #stmfrankfurt

The primary role of science and of publishing is disseminating knowledge. There must be trust between publishers and scientists – peter gluckman #stmfrankfurt

Gone straight on my to-read list.

A morning of split attention trying to follow #stmfrankfurt and the #RoadToOpenScience conference simultaneously. A science policy expert peter gluckman is front lining #stmfrankfurt. Waiting to see if there is input from scholarly comms at #openscience conference…

Sarahanne Field @SMirandaField: Think about #openscience as a buffet and scientists should be able to pick and choose, flexibility is important. #roadtoopenscience

Key point by Marc Schiltz on metrics and rankings. Just because you can come up with numbers and rankings doesn't mean that the evaluation system is "objective". Metrics can give a false feeling of objectivity. #RoadToOpenScience #researchassessment

Excellent keynote at #STMFrankfurt today - "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Though we'd argue that most of your important data is more "countable" than you might think!)

Niamh O'Connor suggests deconstructing publication processes by disconnecting the peer-review from individual publications, via portable peer review. But adoption of such a post-modern #scicomms requires greater transparency of publishing services costs. #STMFrankfurt

Impressed with Laurie Goodman's talk at #STMFrankfurt about GigaScience - a super flexible multilingual xml-first publishing platform - and on replacing APCs by covering costs with all sorts of other things from training to hacks that support grant-writing.

In business models for OA session. Lots of comments on #DiamondOA, inspired by the excellent talk of @piotrr70. Commercial publishers can play a role in diamondOA, as publishing service providers, as long as research community remains in control of its output. #RoadToOpenScience

#RoadtoOpenScience So glad to hear Tony Ross-Hellauer calling for sustainable careers for all of those involved in the research process, not just researchers. We don't need a strict divide between researchers and professional support staff. 👏👏👏 cc Marta Teperek @martateperek.bsky.social Dr Danny Kingsley (she/her)

Massive news: eLife to abolish accept/reject decisions: papers will just be “peer reviewed”. Others can argue about this, but lots of interesting consequences. 1/9 elifesciences.org/articles/83889

Want to become a Marie Curie postdoc fellow? Join the #MSCAweek at Eurac Research ! linkedin.com/posts/euracres…

I'm in the top 2% of users on StackOverflow. My content there has been viewed by over 1.7M people. And it's unlikely I'll ever write anything there again. Which may be a much bigger problem than it seems. Because it may be the canary in the mine of our collective knowledge. A

The job title ‘research manager’ may no longer be fit for purpose, says Dr. Evelina Brännvall. Describing these people as administrators or support staff does not capture the nature of their jobs. I'm now one of them. I ❤ my job but ill at ease with job title researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe…

Troubling signs of plagiarism found in hundreds of IEEE conference papers. retractionwatch.com/2023/06/15/pla…

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Here is a full disk view of NOAA’s GOES East satellite capturing the moon's shadow during the total eclipse! #Eclipse2024