#catherding — Public Fediverse posts

Are there examples of successful academic boycotts?

I can think of several unsuccessful examples, like the PLoS petition and the Cost of Knowledge boycott.

Getting academics to make and stick to collective agreements is like herding cats.

https://researchwhisperer.org/2025/11/25/librarians-versus-the-world/

#Boycotts #AcademicPublishing #AcademicJournals #AcademicLibraries #Librarians #CatHerding #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing

Are there examples of successful academic boycotts?

I can think of several unsuccessful examples, like the PLoS petition and the Cost of Knowledge boycott.

Getting academics to make and stick to collective agreements is like herding cats.

https://researchwhisperer.org/2025/11/25/librarians-versus-the-world/

#Boycotts #AcademicPublishing #AcademicJournals #AcademicLibraries #Librarians #CatHerding #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing

Are there examples of successful academic boycotts?

I can think of several unsuccessful examples, like the PLoS petition and the Cost of Knowledge boycott.

Getting academics to make and stick to collective agreements is like herding cats.

https://researchwhisperer.org/2025/11/25/librarians-versus-the-world/

#Boycotts #AcademicPublishing #AcademicJournals #AcademicLibraries #Librarians #CatHerding #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing

Are there examples of successful academic boycotts?

I can think of several unsuccessful examples, like the PLoS petition and the Cost of Knowledge boycott.

Getting academics to make and stick to collective agreements is like herding cats.

https://researchwhisperer.org/2025/11/25/librarians-versus-the-world/

#Boycotts #AcademicPublishing #AcademicJournals #AcademicLibraries #Librarians #CatHerding #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing

Are there examples of successful academic boycotts?

I can think of several unsuccessful examples, like the PLoS petition and the Cost of Knowledge boycott.

Getting academics to make and stick to collective agreements is like herding cats.

https://researchwhisperer.org/2025/11/25/librarians-versus-the-world/

#Boycotts #AcademicPublishing #AcademicJournals #AcademicLibraries #Librarians #CatHerding #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing

Consultant wisdom I just made up:

"The Work is never the work; the work is the People"

#work #consulting #catherding

Like yak-shaving and dogfooding among software developers circles, cat-herding is a colourful idiom common in community development circles.

Consider that we're all fiercely independent beings. Like cats! So in the absence of a formal decision-making structure that everyone has agreed to follow, trying to get people to all pull in the same direction, to achieve shared goals, can be like herding cats.

No offence is meant to any human beings (or cats!)

#CatHerding #YakShaving #DogFooding

Poking my head in at work via Slack for a milestone release on major project has me like...

#ProjectManager #development #CatHerding

@kernellogger +1 for #CatHerding 😻

There are a lot of days where my work on #Linux #kernel regression tracking feels like I'm wasting my time on #CatHerding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_MaJDK3VNE

Then there are days where I write a simple mail in the hope to get a stalled discussion on a regression fix rolling again: https://lore.kernel.org/all/9e297f30-d[email protected]/

Nothing happens before I go to bed, and when I wake up a new fix was posted (https://lore.kernel.org/all/1677529301[email protected]/ ) and mainlined (https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/46d733d0efc79bc8430d63b57ab88011806d5180 ); and another, related fix, too (https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/ae3419fbac845b4d3f3a9fae4cc80c68d82cdf6e ) 😲

My husband just informed me, "I now have all of the cats!" like he'd just won the Powerball lottery. What is this, collect them all and win a prize?🤣 #catherding #cats #catsofmastodon #humor

#CatHerding #Cats

https://igm.rit.edu/~jxs/media/Horizon_cat_herders.mp4