Laura J. Wilkinson @ljw@qoto.org

Facts are facts.

His coming was foretold in the ancient murals #cats

Not a caterpillar - On a frosty May morning, a group of European Bee-eaters perched on a branch gave the impression of a caterpillar at first glance. The vibrant colours of their feathers, with shades of green, blue, and yellow, seemed to blend together and create a fluffy, caterpillar-like appearance. It's also a winning image in Adult Category of European Wild Wonders photo competition, November 2011. José Luis Rodríguez

On en parle depuis longtemps, mais rarement sur la base d'estimations fiables. Désormais, nous savons combien coûtent les frais de publication pour la France (30M€ par an!) et nous avons une estimation crédible des tendances pour les dix prochaines années.
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RT @ouvrirlascience
Combien coûtent les APC ?
Le ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche publie une étude qui chiffre les coûts générés par les frais de publ…
https://twitter.com/ouvrirlascience/status/1610648029350035456

#DOAJ is hiring!

https://blog.doaj.org/2022/12/12/vacancy-managing-editors-freelance/

Closing date: 13th Jan (that's this Friday)

#job #editorial #openaccess #scholcomm #freelance

I DON'T WANT SELF DRIVING CARS!!!!

✔️ I want boring things like public transit that comes so regularly I don't need to check a schedule.

✔️ I want fast passenger rail so accessible and easy it's preferable to suffering airports.

✔️ I want cities that aren't built around cars-as-default

✔️ I want the country to own it.

@dailybug @pluralistic probably the key to solve all humanity's problems right now:

«There’s a problem when you have threats on your horizon where the cause and effect are separated by a lot of time and space. The natural point at which denial gives way to concern is past the point of no return. So what you want to do is shift the moment of peak denial further back so that you’ve got more runway to do something about it.»

Strikes me we really need a better terminology for retractions. Because honest error shouldn’t be thrown in the same bin as deliberate falsehood.

Unless we honour the honourable retraction we promote science-for-glory over science-for-knowledge.

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/the-top-retractions-of-2022-70852
HT @ElisabethBik on Twitter

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"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

A season (meteorologically and culturally) for Camus https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/12/28/albert-camus-almond-trees-character/