MCP___ @mcp_@qoto.org

“Some searches still just give you a normal list of links, but when the results are right there at the top, there is often no point in ever leaving Google.
That could be disastrous for the rest of the internet. Google, after all, dominates the global search market, sending billions of visits to websites across the web every day.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/07/google-search-generative-experience-content-creation/674674/

Wonderful! @hildabast writes:

"It’s exciting to join in the growth and success of truly social media – media that doesn’t trap us in commercially-owned spaces that are extractive and manipulative. It feels worth investing in a community for the longterm when you know they can follow you if you move to a different neighborhood."

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2023/08/20/how-is-science-twitters-mastodon-migration-panning-out/

#science

Olga #Karatch rappresenta una figura di spicco del movimento pacifista europeo, insieme a Yurii #Sheliazhenko anche lui sotto attacco, accusato ingiustamente e falsamente di “giustificare la guerra di aggressione russa” e per questo sottoposto agli arresti domiciliari.
"La verità - spiega Mao Valpiana, presidente del Movimento Nonviolento - è che l’#obiezione di coscienza, la #diserzione, la #renitenza alla leva sono ormai un fenomeno di massa che inizia a fare paura". 

https://www.avvenire.it/attualita/pagine/ucraina-guerra-pace-pacifista-bielorussa

On anti piracy red button in Italy (and the untold risk of retaliation)
https://blog.quintarelli.it/2023/08/on-anti-piracy-red-button-in-italy-and-untold-the-risk-of-retaliation/

On anti piracy red button in Italy (and the untold risk of retaliation)
https://blog.quintarelli.it/2023/08/on-anti-piracy-red-button-in-italy-and-untold-the-risk-of-retaliation/

Welcome to hell!

The images from #Lahaina town (#Hawaii) after being devastated by wildfires that were fanned into the town by Hurricane Dora are just the beginning of what will be our day-to-day reality in the near future if no radical cuts in emissions are implemented.

#pacifisti
Perché l'#Ucraina sta perseguendo il #pacifista Yurii #Sheliazhenko per "giustificazione dell'aggressione russa"?
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/8/10/yurii_sheliazhenko_charges

Una raccolta di elenchi suddivisi per disciplina di persone, studiosi, gruppi e comunità presenti su #Mastodon: https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon #academics #fediverso #fediverse @informapirata @scuola @ildisinformatico @aborruso @alephoto85 @alessandrov @maupao @wikimediaitalia @PaolaCorti @mcp_

Dicer’s oaths: ORE, COARA and the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research Systems
As reported by Roars, the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of University a
https://aisa.sp.unipi.it/dicers-oaths-ore-coara-and-the-italian-national-agency-for-the-evaluation-of-the-university-and-research-systems/
#English #news #ANVUR #CentralizedResearchAssessment #COARA #ResearchAssessmentReform #ScientificJournals #TheCoalitionForAdvancingResearchAssessment

“You agree to grant and hereby grant Zoom a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license and all other rights required or necessary to (…) perform all acts, including AI and ML training and testing.” https://stackdiary.com/zoom-terms-now-allow-training-ai-on-user-content-with-no-opt-out/ #digitallabor #ai #exploitation #data #privacy

Sci-Hub's Alexandra Elbakyan Receives EFF Award for Providing Access to Scientific Knowledge | TorrentFreak https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hubs-alexandra-elbakyan-receives-eff-award-for-providing-access-to-scientific-knowledge-230728/

And now protocols.io goes the way of Mendely:

https://www.protocols.io/workspaces/protocolsio-news/news/the-next-chapter-for-protocolsio

If you don't want your personal data being sold or otherwise misused, stop using protocols.io!

Bit by bit, every useful tool in science is getting killed.

#openscience

@richardsever @mike

The Council of the EU suggested to hit both birds with the same stone:

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023/05/23/council-calls-for-transparent-equitable-and-open-access-to-scholarly-publications/

A scholarly infrastructure would be able to provide a market for such tools, irrespective of their business model:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230206

A tiny sliver of what we are currently wasting on the ex-publishers would've been enough to save protocols.io

@richardsever @mike

YES! After a tender!

I dare you to name just one Big Deal that wasn't awarded in a secret negotiation, but in a competitive tender!

This is precisely why we in our article are requiring all publications services to be tendered and not negotiated. In brief:

https://bjoern.brembs.net/2022/03/why-publication-services-must-not-be-negotiated/

History is full of people who continued to struggle in desperate and grim circumstances (...) Some lived to see those circumstances change because of that struggle. Some days I think that if we lose the climate battle, it’ll be due in no small part to this defeatism among the comfortable in the global north, while people in frontline communities continue to fight like hell for survival. Which is why fighting defeatism is also climate work.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/26/we-cant-afford-to-be-climate-doomers

Protocols.io is bought by Springer Nature.

It will be interesting to see how this viewed by the community. Will there be outrage as when Elsevier bought Mendeley? Or does Nature get a pass - certainly less ire around BMC, Digital Science, etc. and T&F’s acquisition of F1000 was less remarked on.

https://www.protocols.io/workspaces/protocolsio-news/news/the-next-chapter-for-protocolsio