🌟Hello #AcademicMastodon🌟

I'm Hannah and currently working on the research project to understand the role of #Mastodon in #academia during my internship here.

If you haven’t done so already, please consider participating in the project. I would love to hear from you:

🔗https://rug.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9M1VEyMQ8k4xv94

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who has already participated in the survey! It is really insightful to read your opinions and experiences.

#AcademicChatter#OpenScience#Plushtodon#SocialMedia

Academia has a collective action problem.

"Instead, they all hold one another hostage, through a wicked collective action problem that holds back science, starves their institutions of funding, and puts their colleagues at risk of imprisonment."

Glad this was covered by @pluralistic

#academia #publishing #publishorperish #copyright

@academicchatter @academicsunite

https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/16/the-public-sphere/#not-the-elsevier

This is getting seriously ridiculous!

It is one thing that somebody doesn't WRITE their own papers, and another if they don't PROOF-READ their own papers – but a completely different thing altogether if the editors and reviewers don't read/see what's been written in a manuscript! Good lord!

#AcademicMastodon #academia #publishing #academic#science #sciencefiction #sciencemastodon #research #healthcare#LLM#AI#ArtificialInteligence

"The Failed Migration of Academic Twitter"

https://arxiv.org/html/2406.04005v1

Academic Twitter was great, & it breaks my heart that the community I found there has done so little to rebuild on Mastodon, even tho Mast is far better. I loved learning abt new research & pubs (& occasionally posting abt my own). A fair # of people migrated to Mast but most didn't stay, at least in my field of literary studies.

What can academics do to build & rebuild academic exchange on Mastodon?

#Academia @LitStudies

👋 We are excited to join @fediforum next week for the first time.

We'd love to exchange ideas with you about

➡️ academics’ mastodon use: drivers and hurdles; it's a small #research project we're currently starting;

➡️ #decentralized#SocialMedia in #academia; our #university #library’s perspective;

➡️ applying #OpenScience principles in our #mastodon #communications

#FediForum#AcademicMastodon

What is it like to attend a predatory conference?
“Predatory conferences often remain under the radar,”…A key reason that they persist…is that “researchers, especially those eager to strengthen their publication records, are sometimes lured by the promise of subsequent publication indexed in reputable citation databases”, such as in conference proceedings or in journals published by the conference organizer.”
#PredatoryConferences#HigherEd#Academia#Science

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02358-w