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Anna-Victoria Holtz

@anviholtz.bsky.social

PhD student @dzne.bsky.social and @esrdrostock.bsky.social‬ - demography, social science, health inequalities, dementia, PD, morbidity, life course

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Paolo Crosetto@paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 9mo ago

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

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Mark A. Hanson@hansonmark.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year.
IMPRS-PHDS@imprs-phds.bsky.social · last yr.

It's fabulous to welcome our students and alumni back to @mpidr.bsky.social for the 6th IMPRS-PHDS Graduate Workshop! We are looking forward to two days of research updates and networking as well as mini-workshops on science communication and mastering Q&A sessions!

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Anna-Victoria Holtz@anviholtz.bsky.social · 2y ago

Last week I had the chance to present my project on the healthcare utilization of people newly diagnosed with dementia at the cooperation conference "Gesundheit Gemeinsam 2024" in Dresden. The perfect opportunity to discuss with public health, medical, epi and social science researchers

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Anna-Victoria Holtz@anviholtz.bsky.social · 2y ago

Happy to share my first paper (ever) on colonoscopy procedures and subsequent risk of Parkinson’s disease. It's open access content.iospress.com/articles/jou...

Colonoscopy and Subsequent Risk of Parkinson’s Disease - IOS Press

Background: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is caused by the misfolding and aggregation of α-synuclein in neurons into toxic oligomers and fibrils that have prion-like properties allowing them to infect heal...

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