Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@qoto.org

If you took time off for holiday celebrations you may have missed the juicy #AcademicScandal that is being unravelled by Peter Kidd et Al in social media. Deals with #Medieval #Manuscript but that's only the surface.
#RECEPTIO #RECEPTIOgate
Reading list:
1. https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/nobody-cares-about-your-blog.html?m=1
2. https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-part-i-staff.html?m=1
3. https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-part-ii.html?m=1
4. https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-iii-my.html?m=1

#6 in the year-end musical retrospective is another tune with my transatlantic band, The Calm Rads: "Only One (Song for Heather)".

One of our more upbeat, rocking numbers, sort of in the direction of 70s rock.

Free to stream and download on SoundCloud.

Some recording and final mixing done in #ardour.

https://soundcloud.com/thecalmrads/only-one

#music

#5 in the year-end musical retrospective: "A Spring Romance".

I'm really pleased with how this one turned out, and I think it does have something happy and spring-like to it.

Free to stream and download on SoundCloud.

Made with #ardour.

#music #ardour

https://soundcloud.com/transitsofmars/a-spring-romance

We live in a benighted age where not everyone cares about vim and emacs, but among those who do, I believe there is a generational divide. If you have an opinion and an age, please respond:

Also, remember that #Elsevier owns #Mendeley, which it uses to collect data on you. #Zotero is #OpenSource and not run a by an EvilCorp.

See this blog by @eikofried and Robin Kok on Elsevier's #data extraction and collection practices.

Lots of reasons to ditch anything to do with Elsevier.

#OpenScience #OpenAccess #research
https://eiko-fried.com/welcome-to-hotel-elsevier-you-can-check-out-any-time-you-like-not/

Very interesting and provocative article (not sure I agree with conclusions, but they are worth considering seriously).

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/1/267976-the-end-of-programming/fulltext#comments

A propos of the #Kidd / #Rossi #plagiarism case and for the record: there are hundreds of #scholarly #blogs, some hosted by academic publishers and archived by national libraries, publishing important and useful work, often ahead of publication in peer-reviewed venues. These blogs are a valid form of scholarly output and merit attention, attribution, citation and respect. @Mareike2405 @dehypotheses

Bin gespannt was als nächstes zusammenbricht. Mein Tipp: die Feuerwehren.
https://m.dw.com/de/ein-land-funkt-sos-deutschland-an-der-belastungsgrenze/a-64189343

1/ There's a lot of discussion on Mastodon right now about QT (quote-tooting). Some of the posts I've seen have been somewhat simplistic in their assumptions. I thought it would be useful to relate QTing to something I do know well: citations in research papers.

QTing is, of course, not exactly the same as citing. I'll get back to that at the end. But it is useful to consider the many reasons one might perform a citation:

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The plot thickens. https://www.academia.edu/93663003/Alleged_Plagiarism

Back online - lost power (including heat, water, and of course Internet) for 38 hours because of storm. Roads still closed here. 81mph//130km/h winds, yay. Snow, yay. Bigfoot wandering the back garden, yay. Two days with no news about twitter - almost makes up for it :)