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Mélanie Weynants@melanieweynants.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Jahrzehnte lang erkämpfte Gesetze zum Schutz von Natur, Trinkwasser und Gesundheit werden gerade zugunsten kurzfristiger Wirtschaftsinteressen still und leise abgeschafft. Alle Menschen in Europa sind betroffen. Unterschreibe die Petition. #HandsOffNature www.nabu.de/natur-und-la...

Hände weg vom Naturschutz

Die EU will zentrale Naturschutzgesetze lockern. Gemeinsam können wir das verhindern. Gib jetzt deine Stimme ab – für starken Schutz von Mensch und Natur!

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Karin Mora@karinmora.bsky.social · 9mo ago

😲 Who knew that you only have to establish your own journal to have higher profit margins than the pharma or the oil industry… 😲 With us scientists loving to work for free… Put that keyboard away. Your super-yacht is waiting. 🛥️ An insightful analysis on the Drain of Scientific Publishing 📈

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.
AI4SoilHealth@ai4soilhealth.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The European Parliament is set to have its final vote on the first EU-wide directive for soil monitoring, making soil monitoring policies a hot topic right now. Join this free webinar for a timely deep dive into the subject: ai4soilhealth.eu/event/buildi... @au.dk @thesoilassociation.bsky.social

Building soil monitoring into policy - AI4SoilHealth

Join the fourth session in the AI 4 Soil Health project webinar series "Envisioning the future of soil health monitoring".

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