Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@qoto.org

The dance of the naked emperors: a followup to "The rise and fall of peer review”

https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-dance-of-the-naked-emperors

#ScholarlyCommunications #PeerReview

The definitive paper on "Version of Record" (though I disagree on the conclusions) https://content.iospress.com/articles/information-services-and-use/isu220164 @egonw

Italy
Health minister extends PCR test mandate to all passengers incoming from China in all airports.

One flight from China to Milan had 52% COVID test positivity, another 38%.

Sequencing for variants is ongoing

https://www.lastampa.it/cronaca/2022/12/28/news/test_covid_a_malpensa_e_fiumicino_per_i_passeggeri_in_arrivo_dalla_cina_nello_scalo_lombardo_il_52_di_positivi-12436209/

#ReceptioGate: nonexistent Lugano HQ ?

Un poste de premier assistant (ça veut dire assistant-docteur), dans le domaine des études cinématographiques et audiovisuelles

https://www.uliege.be/cms/c_17319060/fr/fphl-ca221214-ps0101-eca

Un temps partiel (50%) en Pratiques et politiques des médiations culturelles

https://www.uliege.be/cms/c_17336711/fr/fphl-pa0103-ca221214-mediations-cult

Un autre mi temps (50%) en Théories et pratiques du monde du livre contemporain et de la fonction éditoriale

https://www.uliege.be/cms/c_17336712/fr/fphl-pa0104-ca221214-fonction-editoriale

#7 in my 2022 retrospective of #music I Released this Year...

"You and I": one of the poppier numbers I've done in recent years: synths, jangly guitars, harmonies, all the usual ingredients. I keep trying to recreate the feeling of classic 80s synth-pop and this is one of my more successful attempts.

Produced using #FOSS software (especially #ardour)

Free to stream and download on #SoundCloud

https://soundcloud.com/transitsofmars/you-and-i

Greetings. Once upon a time long ago, I was sitting alone in the UCLA ARPANET site #1 computer room late one night when the high Santa Ana winds outside started disrupting power. Hit after hit, very dangerous for the minicomputers, disk drives, and other equipment in that room, since we didn't have uninterruptible power supplies back then.

I made some calls and it was decided I should shut everything in the room down. Everything. I phoned the ARPANET NOC (Network Operations Center) at BBN and explained the situation, since I was about to shut down IMP #1 (essentially, a refrigerator-sized router) on ARPANET which sat in a corner of the room, and doing this could cause disruptions if done in an unplanned manner. The IMP was *always* running -- I had never seen it powered down.

I worked my way around the room, powering down terminals and disks, and printers, and the power supplies on the 11/45 (ARPANET Host #1 - UCLA-ATS) and the 11/70 (Host #129 [1+128 on IMP #1] - UCLA-SECURITY. Back then my email addresses were LAUREN@UCLA-ATS and LAUREN@UCLA-SECURITY -- no domains yet.

The usual roar of the machines gradually got quieter and quieter, until only the IMP was left. I pulled down the power switch. Now there was dead quiet except the hum of the lights, a situation I'd never experienced in that room before. Very odd feeling.

Suddenly I heard a click -- the IMP was powering back up by itself. Damn. I pulled down the switch again. Quiet for a time, then click and it came back up yet again. Before I started thinking about screwing around with its power cables or turning off breakers that could have unexpected effects, I called the NOC again to ask them if they had any ideas.

"Oh yeah. We should have told you! There's a little switch that controls auto-restart. Surprise!"

So I found and flipped that little toggle switch, powered down the IMP again, and this time it stayed down. I had turned off the ARPANET -- at least at UCLA. -L

For those of you who are as eager to read more about the #Receptiogate affair as I am, here is today’s news instalment, a 5th post by the duped blogger, addressing the issue of plagiarism. As entertaining as this is in all its absurdity, at the heart it is a truly sad and disturbing situation, of course. To be continued, no doubt.

https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-part-v.html

@stefan_hessbrueggen @Tinido Und im Moment sieht das wirklich absolut gar nicht gut aus: vermutlich der Gatte dreht frei, hat sich einen Twitter-Account zugelegt und pöbelt und bedroht nicht nur Peter Kidd, sondern recht wahllos alles und jede. Offenbar haben sie Anzeige bei der Kantonspolizei erstattet (jedenfalls entsprechende Fotos gepostet) und eine angebliche Adresse gefunden (von jemand anderem gleichen Namens, was das ganze aber nicht ungefährlicher macht)

Like watching the most ghastly, slow-motion car crash… #receptio #ReceptioGate #rossi

With #ChatGPT still making news, we decided to highlight some of the pieces from our vault on language models.

Check out “Digital Humanities and Natural Language Processing: Je t’aime... Moi non plus” by Barbara McGillivray, Thierry Poibeau & Pablo Ruiz Fabo which focuses on more collaboration between #DH datasets and #NLP tools:
http://digitalhumanities.org:8081/dhq/vol/14/2/000454/000454.html

See Diego Jiménez–Badillo et al.’s work titled “Developing Geographically Oriented NLP Approaches to Sixteenth–Century Historical Documents: Digging into Early Colonial Mexico” exploring how #NLP and other #computational approaches can be applied to understand large #historical #corpuses:

http://digitalhumanities.org:8081/dhq/vol/14/4/000490/000490.html

@Marphurius #Rossi seems to say that the stock photos on the #Receptio pages are due to a technical problem. That doesn't seem credible to me. Among other things, #Kidd posted a link showing pages that have recently been deleted from reception.eu: https://web.archive.org/web/diff/20221130193323/20221225114026/https://www.receptio.eu/operationalstaff There I find an image of myself, clearly a photomontage that I never knew anything about.

Very good summary (in German) of #Receptiogate, including some new statements and thoughtful commentary in the context of Swiss academia and funding practices:

https://www.kath.ch/newsd/receptiogate-der-heilige-stephanus-koennte-einer-zuercher-professorin-zum-verhaengnis-werden/