Think about Turkish Journal of Botany is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). There are no page charges and the latest Impact Factor is 1.8 and rising!
Prof. Jeff Ollerton - @[email protected]
journals.tubitak.gov.tr/botany/

Another day, another “scientists declare the bee the most important species on the planet” post. I’m a bee scientist and whilst I love bees, it’s not true. There’s also not “The bee”. There’s 20K species. Please stop sharing and liking these misinformed posts #scicomm

The data is in and we can conclude:

Folks who insist on “data are” don’t understand how language works scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2024/04/30/fol… via Stephen Heard

Anyone interested in researching bees in Bristol let me know 👇🐝👇🐝👇

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UK-based friends travelling to the EU for work - are you claiming for data roaming charges? It seems more hassle than it's worth for £2.29 a day, but I wonder cumulatively how much academics' personal funds & / or public research money is now redirected to phone companies.

Never seen before: perfoliate flower of Geum rivale

Worried that there are too many papers published in too many journals with mixed motives? I sure do and reject MDPI requests and submit/review for journals that are 'good actors'. However, there is more nuance to the story so read Brian McGill's (U Maine) opinion on the matter.

We (Global South) complained about lack of access to papers. Then, we were provided with an amazing solution. With OA, we can read any papers from rich-countries, we just cannot publish ours anymore.
We are now allowed at the meeting, as long as we don't talk. Higly inclusive!

nature and Science Magazine's pay to publish model, incredibly exploitative use of free peer review and lack of free article access is a pure scam. If we want to democratize science, steering away from this oligopoly in academic publishing would be a helpful step.

#EarlyCareerResearchers are the main workforce producing new scientific work & thus papers.
If we really want a change in the #AcademicPublishing system, we need 1st a radical change in the evaluation criteria for positions & #funding for #ECR

I'm in good company of the shelves of #Stroud library!
Pelagic Publishing

Well, the APC for publishing one paper in Scientific Reports is equal to about a 5-6 month salary of a typical Vietnamese lecturer. Most can't pay the APC, nor access subscribed journals. They are excluded from essential resources for doing science.

I agree with every word Brian McGill writes. Academic publishing is a mess, we are publishing too much, and letting for-profit publishers drive us into the ground. And we’re all complicit in this!

The state of academic publishing in 3 graphs, 6 trends, and 4 thoughts dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/04/29/the… via Dynamic Ecology

First footsteps in #Kunming . Some thoughts and photos from my first week here in #China .

#botany #pollinators #biodiversity

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Seriously, you're going to wake one morning in the 2050s in a home warmed by your wind powered heat pump, open the dividend from your solar farm share, ride to work on an electric bus passing fields of agroforestry brimming with wildlife, and wonder what all the fuss was about.

This excellent quote by British philosopher Bertrand Russel sums up my experience with social media in one sentence.

An epic day of bike-birding around Oxfordshire yesterday with Tom Bedford & Thomas Miller. Grim weather: heavy rain early & late, cold NE wind, but set new day record for county with 118 species. Highlights 12 spp wader, Little Gull, Arctic Tern, Short-eared Owl in 145 km cycled

Great to be joined by Dr. Fauci on this National Academy panel today

Holy crap!