$3.7 billion spent on APCs in 2025. That's ~1000X more than it costs to run bioRxiv/medRxiv. Worth thinking about as we consider how to fund infrastructure... arxiv.org/pdf/2608.16322

🚨New publication in @estsjournal.bsky.social! How do preprint servers decide what gets posted—and why do those decisions matter? With @irenepasquetto.bsky.social @fleerackers.bsky.social @stephenpinfield.bsky.social @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca & Melanie Benson Marshall 1/

Nice to see this interest our work on preprint moderation (led by @nataschachtena.bsky.social): "Why preprint servers are increasing moderation — and what that means for researchers". www.nature.com/articles/d41... [archive without paywall here: archive.is/x98qF]

Why preprint servers are increasing moderation — and what that means for researchers

Repositories are adapting in response to AI-generated content and junk science, leading some people to question how much moderation is too much.

nature.com

Big thanks to @jacksonwryan.com for writing this thoughtful, reflective piece on how #preprint servers are balancing principles of integrity and inclusion in moderation practices. Research led by @nataschachtena.bsky.social Story: www.nature.com/articles/d41... #openscience #scholcomm

Excited and honored to be joining the ASAPbio Board of Directors! Preprints and the early circulation of research have been central to my research for some time, and I’m really looking forward to contributing to this work alongside such a thoughtful group of colleagues.

ASAPbio@asapbio.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We would like to extend a warm welcome to the six new members of the ASAPbio Board of Directors! Let's welcome @amamotoryoji.bsky.social, @jeremymberg.bsky.social, Stefano Bertozzi, @nataschachtena.bsky.social, @rnls.bsky.social, and @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy!

So good: "Metascience...has progressively developed ways to study studies – towards the fundamentally metaphysical assertion that SCIENCE == REPLICATION. This isn’t metascience, it’s metapositivism: taking the exact same self-confident methodology and unreflective ontology up [a] level."

Metascience Manquè

Five Years of Never Met a Science

kevinmunger.substack.com

I've seen some talk about how we are witnessing the end of the professoriate as we know it and this may be true, but I think it's bigger: it's the decimation of the mission-oriented profession. Want to make a middle-class living serving the public good? Capitalism doesn't want that for you.

One speaker referred to Metascience as ‘successful branding’ to engage policy makers; another spoke of it ‘strategically forgetting’ well-established disciplines like STS and Philosophy of Science.

I’m wary of comparing illnesses, but sometimes it’s useful for showing just how severe and misunderstood some conditions are. Good to see post-viral illness & chronic fatigue getting more attention. Hoping this kind of research starts to shape clinical practice, too. www.ucl.ac.uk/engineering/...

Long Covid can impact fatigue and quality of life worse than some cancers

Fatigue is the symptom that most significantly impacts the daily lives of long Covid patients, and can affect quality of life more than some cancers, finds a new study led by researchers at UCL and th...

ucl.ac.uk

🧵Solidarity with Francesca Albanese. She is facing a barrage of lies and smears + the Trump Admin is calling on the UN to fire her. Why? Because there is simply no arguing with her devastating new report on the companies profiting from genocide. Stay tuned for our interview on @zeteo.com.

In honor of #PrideMonth2025, I just wanted to take a moment to discuss the crucial role of intersectionality, gender and inclusion in research, specifically as it relates to our research involving #LongCOVID, #MECFS, chronic #lyme and other complex chronic illnesses. As we 1/

🧵 1/10 What the hell kind of interview was that today on The Daily @nytimes.com? Instead of showing how harmful the NIH grant cuts are to U.S. science and public health, Natalie Kitroeff spent the episode validating the logic behind them.

So many Long Covid patients suffer in silence, dismissed by doctors or left to navigate life-destroying symptoms alone. Odine refused to accept that abandonment as normal. She fought for answers, for dignity, for care. Her work made so many feel less alone, and her loss is deeply felt.

Ondine Sherwood obituary

Other lives: Founder of a group campaigning for the recognition of Long Covid

theguardian.com

An extraordinary conversation.

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · last yr.

“What we have in this generation of ... AI is essentially a business where there's 10,000 mostly white men who are benefiting and 8 billion people around the world who are being either exploited at a minimum or directly harmed...” — Roger McNamee ( @moonalice.com ) www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8dd...

This may be a small act, but it matters. Proud that our lab has taken a stand against the genocide in Palestine and in support of the PACBI call.

Juan Pablo Alperin@juancommander.scholcommlab.ca · last yr.

Today, the #scholcommlab published a Statement of Support for PACBI Principles. With it, I reject my university's (SFU's) complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and call them out for restricting my ability to direct the work of @pkp.sfu.ca in a principled way. www.scholcommlab.ca/pacbi/

"Our findings challenge the prevailing narrative that a few commercial publishers dominate global scholarly publishing. While prior analyses based on selective indexes reinforced the perception of an oligopoly [...], examining diverse national contexts reveals a more pluralistic reality."

Janne Pölönen@jpolonen.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 Our new study challenges the prevailing narrative that a few commercial publishers dominate global scholarly publishing! Read the preprint: Beyond the oligopoly: Scholarly journal publishing landscapes in Latin America and Europe. doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Today! Still open for registration. I'll be speaking on our panel, on the topic of "Open Research in the Age of Populism". I don't do so many talks these days as they really take a lot out of me, but I'm looking forward to this one. blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/...

I catch blocks if I talk about C19 but: There’s a new, more contagious strain spreading—“razor blade throat” is one symptom. But, most spread is SYMPTOMLESS. You DON’T KNOW you’re spreading it. More spread, more mutations & variants—>more disabled & dead. Put a mask on in public. We keep us safe.

Interested in platforms, data integration, and scientific infrastructure? This Wednesday at RMZ, at 11:00 AM (Berlin time), Amelia Acker will present her research on the topic. It's hybrid! Details below 👇

RMZ HU@hu-rmz.bsky.social · last yr.

Next Wednesday, 28.05.25, 11:00, Amelia Acker (University of Texas at Austin) will present her work on "Platform Power and Data Integration Services in Scientific Infrastructure" Join us online or in-person! www.rmz.hu-berlin.de... @ibi-hu.bsky.social

I've said it enough but I cannot recommend this any more highly. It's a fantastic opportunity for anyone interested in preprints and metascience. I wish this was live when I was looking for postdocs.

Juan Pablo Alperin@juancommander.scholcommlab.ca · last yr.

GREAT OPPORTUNITY: Please do some individual outreach for this position, and please apply even if you do not meet all the requirements. Postdoc studying #peerreview #preprints #scholcomm. www.scholcommlab.ca/join-us/hiri... Let's get the word out! Send on your mailing lists and social media!

"The struggle for Palestinian liberation is not a burden; it is a duty and an honor we carry with pride. So at every turning point in my life, you will find me choosing Palestine. Palestine over ease. Palestine over comfort. Palestine over self."

sam@samthielman.com · last yr.

goddamn

Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha on Winning a Pulitzer: I Can't Celebrate While Gaza Is Starving

Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha on Winning a Pulitzer: I Can’t Celebrate While Gaza Is Starving

Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha has just been awarded the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his essays about the Palestinian experience in the face of the U.S.-backed Israeli assault on Gaza. He...

democracynow.org

Join me for a Publishing How-To Roundtable on May 16 at 1pm ET! We'll be talking about innovative ways to share your scholarly ideas and offer advice on building communities of practice around publishing. Attendance is capped at 100, so grab a spot asap: forms.gle/cHLd1yrMYpwt...

1/5🧵After a long trip through peer review limbo, our paper on inclusion and public participation in Open Science policy is finally out! 📖 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Towards an inclusive Open Science: examining EDI and public participation in policy documents across Europe and the Americas | Royal Society Open Science

National, international and organizational Open Science (OS) policies are being formulated to improve and accelerate research through increased transparency, collaboration and better access to scienti...

doi.org

JOIN US! Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity on Preprints and Open Peer Review. Multi-year project. Come with work @nataschachtena.bsky.social, @mariomalicki.bsky.social, me, and the rest of #ScholCommLab. Apply by May 23rd! bit.ly/SCLpostdoc2025 Please share widely!

@petersuber.bsky.social makes a simple but important point: if we want research to remain open and uncensored, we need to host it in more than one place—and more than one country.

Peter Suber@petersuber.bsky.social · last yr.

I just did an interview for @zbw-leibniz.bsky.social on the impact of #Trump admin actions on US research and higher education. Thanks to @avatter.de for the good questions. www.zbw-mediatalk.eu/2025/04/pete... #Academicsky #Acadsky #Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #USPol #USPolitics

Side note: Many early career researchers are afraid someone will steal their ideas if they post a preprint. Time and time again, the idea stealer is in the lab or seminar room. Getting your ideas out of there with your name on them can provide protection.

MPR News@mprnews.org · last yr.

The University of Minnesota is facing accusations that it mishandled multiple reports of plagiarism by a star professor who’d brought millions of dollars in grants to the school.

“Water is also being used as a weapon of war. In early March, a week after stopping any food…from getting into Gaza, Israel cut off the electricity supply to Gaza’s main operational desalination plant. The situation now could not be more desperate. ‘Gaza is a killing field’.”

Gaza is a ‘killing field’ where people are being starved. How long will the world tolerate this? | Arwa Mahdawi

What is happening is, quite simply, annihilation. Yet our politicians keep funding it and media outlets normalize it

theguardian.com

All the good OS jobs require you to be in the US. This space needs a kick up the butt - especially now. So much talent being missed out on for roles that could be remote and global!