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RE: https://post.lurk.org/@loriemerson/116935764227731524
The token [1] chasers creating more work for everybody. *You don’t say*
[1] Career progression tokens. Even this word has been usurped.
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RE: https://post.lurk.org/@loriemerson/116935764227731524
The token [1] chasers creating more work for everybody. *You don’t say*
[1] Career progression tokens. Even this word has been usurped.
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My coauthors keep sending me huge Inkscape figure files, and despite me telling them about the `File -> Clean Up Document` function they still ignore it.
So, public announcement: when you work on a figure for a long time, some graphical elements that you think you deleted are still in the file, just hidden. The `Clean Up Document` function in the `File` menu removes them and can sometimes cut the figure weight by a factor 2 or more. This helps opening the figure in Inkscape but also in other viewers on older computers, and keeping the file size low. -
My coauthors keep sending me huge Inkscape figure files, and despite me telling them about the `File -> Clean Up Document` function they still ignore it.
So, public announcement: when you work on a figure for a long time, some graphical elements that you think you deleted are still in the file, just hidden. The `Clean Up Document` function in the `File` menu removes them and can sometimes cut the figure weight by a factor 2 or more. This helps opening the figure in Inkscape but also in other viewers on older computers, and keeping the file size low. -
AI Made Up a Science Term — Now It’s in Dozens of Papers https://www.byteseu.com/2203410/ #AIHallucinations #AIInScience #AITrainingData #Claude35 #DigitalFossils #GPT4o #KnowledgeIntegrity #OCRErrors #PaperRetractions #RetractionWatch #Science #ScientificPublishing
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Congratulations to the team behind the journal Innovations in Graph Theory, hosted on the Centre Mersenne platform, whose application to the DOAJ has just been accepted!
https://doaj.org/toc/3050-743X
Innovations in Graph Theory is a mathematical journal publishing high-quality research in graph theory including its interactions with other areas. The journal is diamond open access, meaning there are no charges for authors and no charges for readers.
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Congratulations to the team behind the journal Innovations in Graph Theory, hosted on the Centre Mersenne platform, whose application to the DOAJ has just been accepted!
https://doaj.org/toc/3050-743X
Innovations in Graph Theory is a mathematical journal publishing high-quality research in graph theory including its interactions with other areas. The journal is diamond open access, meaning there are no charges for authors and no charges for readers.
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Congratulations to the team behind the journal Innovations in Graph Theory, hosted on the Centre Mersenne platform, whose application to the DOAJ has just been accepted!
https://doaj.org/toc/3050-743X
Innovations in Graph Theory is a mathematical journal publishing high-quality research in graph theory including its interactions with other areas. The journal is diamond open access, meaning there are no charges for authors and no charges for readers.
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Congratulations to the team behind the journal Innovations in Graph Theory, hosted on the Centre Mersenne platform, whose application to the DOAJ has just been accepted!
https://doaj.org/toc/3050-743X
Innovations in Graph Theory is a mathematical journal publishing high-quality research in graph theory including its interactions with other areas. The journal is diamond open access, meaning there are no charges for authors and no charges for readers.
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Congratulations to the team behind the journal Innovations in Graph Theory, hosted on the Centre Mersenne platform, whose application to the DOAJ has just been accepted!
https://doaj.org/toc/3050-743X
Innovations in Graph Theory is a mathematical journal publishing high-quality research in graph theory including its interactions with other areas. The journal is diamond open access, meaning there are no charges for authors and no charges for readers.
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Making scientific knowledge free for all https://theconversation.com/making-scientific-knowledge-free-for-all-286857
The three main approaches are Green OA, Gold OA and Diamond OA:
- Green OA : publishing in a traditional journal and then depositing an accepted but unformatted version of the manuscript in an Open Access archive or an institutional repository
- Gold OA: final article immediately accessible to everyone, but involves publication fees amounting (i.e. Article Processing Charge, APC) to several thousand euros, paid by the authors or their institutions
- Diamond OA: allows authors to publish content for free and gives readers free access, thanks to journals that are backed by scientific communities, university libraries or non-profit organisations.
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Making scientific knowledge free for all https://theconversation.com/making-scientific-knowledge-free-for-all-286857
The three main approaches are Green OA, Gold OA and Diamond OA:
- Green OA : publishing in a traditional journal and then depositing an accepted but unformatted version of the manuscript in an Open Access archive or an institutional repository
- Gold OA: final article immediately accessible to everyone, but involves publication fees amounting (i.e. Article Processing Charge, APC) to several thousand euros, paid by the authors or their institutions
- Diamond OA: allows authors to publish content for free and gives readers free access, thanks to journals that are backed by scientific communities, university libraries or non-profit organisations.
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📢 Call for Papers: Journal of Solid Waste Valorization and Chemical Management
💡 The journal is rooted in the greendevelopment philosophy of "solid waste resource recovery and chemical risk control". Aiming to establish a professional academic platform.
📖 Join us — submit your work!
Journal Website: https://www.icjn.net/jswvcm
#SolidWaste #GreenChemistry #ZeroWaste #WasteToEnergy #CallForPapers #AcademicPublishing #ScientificPublishing #OpenAcess #OA
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📢 Call for Papers: Journal of Solid Waste Valorization and Chemical Management
💡 The journal is rooted in the greendevelopment philosophy of "solid waste resource recovery and chemical risk control". Aiming to establish a professional academic platform.
📖 Join us — submit your work!
Journal Website: https://www.icjn.net/jswvcm
#SolidWaste #GreenChemistry #ZeroWaste #WasteToEnergy #CallForPapers #AcademicPublishing #ScientificPublishing #OpenAcess #OA
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📢 Call for Papers: Journal of Solid Waste Valorization and Chemical Management
💡 The journal is rooted in the greendevelopment philosophy of "solid waste resource recovery and chemical risk control". Aiming to establish a professional academic platform.
📖 Join us — submit your work!
Journal Website: https://www.icjn.net/jswvcm
#SolidWaste #GreenChemistry #ZeroWaste #WasteToEnergy #CallForPapers #AcademicPublishing #ScientificPublishing #OpenAcess #OA
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📢 Call for Papers: Journal of Solid Waste Valorization and Chemical Management
💡 The journal is rooted in the greendevelopment philosophy of "solid waste resource recovery and chemical risk control". Aiming to establish a professional academic platform.
📖 Join us — submit your work!
Journal Website: https://www.icjn.net/jswvcm
#SolidWaste #GreenChemistry #ZeroWaste #WasteToEnergy #CallForPapers #AcademicPublishing #ScientificPublishing #OpenAcess #OA
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📢 Call for Papers: Journal of Solid Waste Valorization and Chemical Management
💡 The journal is rooted in the greendevelopment philosophy of "solid waste resource recovery and chemical risk control". Aiming to establish a professional academic platform.
📖 Join us — submit your work!
Journal Website: https://www.icjn.net/jswvcm
#SolidWaste #GreenChemistry #ZeroWaste #WasteToEnergy #CallForPapers #AcademicPublishing #ScientificPublishing #OpenAcess #OA
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Due to my role as editor in a journal, I have just received a rather disturbing email from what I guess I would describe it as a scientific publication agency. Here is an excerpt:
"For manuscripts that successfully complete the journal's peer-review and editorial procedures, we are willing to pay an additional fee of up to 500 USD for accelerated review service. This fee would be separate from and additional to the journal's regular APC or publication charges."
Likely it is spam/scam, but it is hard to discount entirely, and it would reflect on a broken and further crumbling publishing system.
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Interesting wrinkle to my never quite finished stance on where to review and publish today.
I got a review request from the Journal of Human Geography. I look them up, they are published by SAGE, so I send my usual "I do not review for Big Publishing" response https://marioangst.com/en/blog/posts/dear-editors/
Then they actually get back with a note that they are a radical outfit (their page says they engage in "institutional socialism"), which does not make a profit and re-distributes all the money they get back from SAGE. I mean, that is quite cool and shows that it's not always so clear-cut.
I reconsidered, but in the end still decided not to review for them.
In effect, they are cool outfit who purchases publishing services from one of the big publishers. I do not have a problem in principle with companies providing scientific publishing services, as long as they don't extract excessive value from our work. SAGE might not do that for Human Geography, but definitely does as a whole.
So, after these considerations, I still do not think this aligns with my principles on where I contribute my reviewing labour. Especially as there are many other initiatives who actually have taken back the means of communications themselves. With Open Journal Systems software and recent initiatives like Open Research Europe, I just think we are at a different point in time now, where there are just not that many excuses to go with Big Publishing left.
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Interesting wrinkle to my never quite finished stance on where to review and publish today.
I got a review request from the Journal of Human Geography. I look them up, they are published by SAGE, so I send my usual "I do not review for Big Publishing" response https://marioangst.com/en/blog/posts/dear-editors/
Then they actually get back with a note that they are a radical outfit (their page says they engage in "institutional socialism"), which does not make a profit and re-distributes all the money they get back from SAGE. I mean, that is quite cool and shows that it's not always so clear-cut.
I reconsidered, but in the end still decided not to review for them.
In effect, they are cool outfit who purchases publishing services from one of the big publishers. I do not have a problem in principle with companies providing scientific publishing services, as long as they don't extract excessive value from our work. SAGE might not do that for Human Geography, but definitely does as a whole.
So, after these considerations, I still do not think this aligns with my principles on where I contribute my reviewing labour. Especially as there are many other initiatives who actually have taken back the means of communications themselves. With Open Journal Systems software and recent initiatives like Open Research Europe, I just think we are at a different point in time now, where there are just not that many excuses to go with Big Publishing left.
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Before submitting a paper, checking a journal’s publishing behavior may now be as important as reading its aims.
New tools use open databases to highlight suspicious shifts in output and authorship.
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01707-1
#OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity #ScientificPublishing #DataScience #AcademicPublishing
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Before submitting a paper, checking a journal’s publishing behavior may now be as important as reading its aims.
New tools use open databases to highlight suspicious shifts in output and authorship.
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01707-1
#OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity #ScientificPublishing #DataScience #AcademicPublishing
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When I recently did a literature review of English-language scientific articles, I thought things were bad.
But now I review articles in German and things are much, much worse: No DOIs, no online access, articles available only in print at a small university a day trip away … articles published in a journal discontinued in 1984, and articles only available on an obscure CD-ROM that needs Windows 98 to display its content. 😶
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When I recently did a literature review of English-language scientific articles, I thought things were bad.
But now I review articles in German and things are much, much worse: No DOIs, no online access, articles available only in print at a small university a day trip away … articles published in a journal discontinued in 1984, and articles only available on an obscure CD-ROM that needs Windows 98 to display its content. 😶
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"Why have papers by one of history's most famous physicists been retracted?" <https://doi.org/10.1126/science.zwsaifa>
> In early May, Yves Gingras, a historian of physics at the University of Quebec (UQ) at Montreal, was browsing Retraction Watch, a website that catalogs fraud, data manipulation, and other scientific sins. He noticed a link that read, “Retractions by Nobel Prize winners.” Were there really Nobel laureates whose papers had been withdrawn from the scientific literature? [...]
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> The fourth name on the list, with two retracted papers, was Max Planck—a legendary pioneer of quantum mechanics and the 1918 Nobel laureate in physics. Gingras had never heard a whiff of scandal about Planck, who was almost as widely revered for his character as his physics. [...]
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> Gingras was especially incensed that Springer Nature deviated from the normal practice of merely slapping the word RETRACTED across the digital version of the paper while still allowing scholars to read the text. Instead, the publisher posted a blank white page with the cryptic phrase, “This article has been withdrawn due to article violation.” Springer Nature is nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95. [...]
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> Representatives from Springer Nature declined to comment, beyond saying that “detailed information about specific retractions is usually confidential and can only be shared with the relevant authors.” The company also nixed an editorial that Scarlata planned to write about the retractions.
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> The retraction of the second Planck paper, published in 1940, left Gingras and Khelfaoui even more baffled. It also cited copyright violation—yet the piece had never appeared elsewhere. Then Khelfaoui noticed something that added to suspicions that an algorithm was at work.Here's one of the retracted papers on Springer: <https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01475382>. Luckily still on Archive: <https://archive.org/details/sim_naturwissenschaften_1942-02-27_30_9-10>
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"Why have papers by one of history's most famous physicists been retracted?" <https://doi.org/10.1126/science.zwsaifa>
> In early May, Yves Gingras, a historian of physics at the University of Quebec (UQ) at Montreal, was browsing Retraction Watch, a website that catalogs fraud, data manipulation, and other scientific sins. He noticed a link that read, “Retractions by Nobel Prize winners.” Were there really Nobel laureates whose papers had been withdrawn from the scientific literature? [...]
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> The fourth name on the list, with two retracted papers, was Max Planck—a legendary pioneer of quantum mechanics and the 1918 Nobel laureate in physics. Gingras had never heard a whiff of scandal about Planck, who was almost as widely revered for his character as his physics. [...]
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> Gingras was especially incensed that Springer Nature deviated from the normal practice of merely slapping the word RETRACTED across the digital version of the paper while still allowing scholars to read the text. Instead, the publisher posted a blank white page with the cryptic phrase, “This article has been withdrawn due to article violation.” Springer Nature is nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95. [...]
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> Representatives from Springer Nature declined to comment, beyond saying that “detailed information about specific retractions is usually confidential and can only be shared with the relevant authors.” The company also nixed an editorial that Scarlata planned to write about the retractions.
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> The retraction of the second Planck paper, published in 1940, left Gingras and Khelfaoui even more baffled. It also cited copyright violation—yet the piece had never appeared elsewhere. Then Khelfaoui noticed something that added to suspicions that an algorithm was at work.Here's one of the retracted papers on Springer: <https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01475382>. Luckily still on Archive: <https://archive.org/details/sim_naturwissenschaften_1942-02-27_30_9-10>
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Die @dfg_public hat ein Video zum wissenschaftsgeleiteten Publizieren veröffentlicht.
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Die @dfg_public hat ein Video zum wissenschaftsgeleiteten Publizieren veröffentlicht.
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Sometimes I still can't wrap my head around how messy #ScientificPublishing is.
I have user accounts at 3 different universities, and for a simple literature review I need all three of them but still don't have access to all articles I need to read.
Also, during my search I came across articles published in peer-review journals of the most renowned scientific publishers … and they're full of errors.
PS: If I have to click one more #CloudFlare captcha, I will run amok. (Not really, but still…)
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Sometimes I still can't wrap my head around how messy #ScientificPublishing is.
I have user accounts at 3 different universities, and for a simple literature review I need all three of them but still don't have access to all articles I need to read.
Also, during my search I came across articles published in peer-review journals of the most renowned scientific publishers … and they're full of errors.
PS: If I have to click one more #CloudFlare captcha, I will run amok. (Not really, but still…)
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Together with our Editor-in-Chief, Gerhard Wilde, our Managing Editor Dr. Barbara Hissa will give an invited talk as part of the spring/summer series 2026 of the Israel Vacuum Society (IVS).
The talk will take place online on June 25, 2026 at 1:00 pm CEST.
Participation is free ➡️
https://www.ivs.org.il/_files/ugd/ab9e6a_308d24dec1464c70947096a506a4ff50.pdf#EditorsTalk #EdiTours #ScientificPublishing #DiamondOpenAccess #OpenScience #BJNANO 💎🔓
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Together with our Editor-in-Chief, Gerhard Wilde, our Managing Editor Dr. Barbara Hissa will give an invited talk as part of the spring/summer series 2026 of the Israel Vacuum Society (IVS).
The talk will take place online on June 25, 2026 at 1:00 pm CEST.
Participation is free ➡️
https://www.ivs.org.il/_files/ugd/ab9e6a_308d24dec1464c70947096a506a4ff50.pdf#EditorsTalk #EdiTours #ScientificPublishing #DiamondOpenAccess #OpenScience #BJNANO 💎🔓
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Indeed: APCs of like £100 / paper, if that; likely far less [1]. And ideally, of that amount per submission, which correlates far more with actual work to do [2].
[1] Such as in fields like machine learning https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/03/06/an-efficient-journal/
[2] https://albert.rierol.net/tell/20161008_Breaking_even_in_scientific_publishing.html
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Indeed: APCs of like £100 / paper, if that; likely far less [1]. And ideally, of that amount per submission, which correlates far more with actual work to do [2].
[1] Such as in fields like machine learning https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/03/06/an-efficient-journal/
[2] https://albert.rierol.net/tell/20161008_Breaking_even_in_scientific_publishing.html
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From Alex Eve (executive director of the society journal Development) and James Briscoe (editor-in-chief of Development):
"We contend that Development is a key example that demonstrates the lack of correlation between the impact factor metric, and the trust, reputation and scientific rigour of the articles we publish."
"The elephant in the room: impact factor"
Alex Eve and James Briscoe, 2026 editorial
https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/153/12/dev205838/371997/The-elephant-in-the-room-impact-factor -
From Alex Eve (executive director of the society journal Development) and James Briscoe (editor-in-chief of Development):
"We contend that Development is a key example that demonstrates the lack of correlation between the impact factor metric, and the trust, reputation and scientific rigour of the articles we publish."
"The elephant in the room: impact factor"
Alex Eve and James Briscoe, 2026 editorial
https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/153/12/dev205838/371997/The-elephant-in-the-room-impact-factor -
At least PLoS is a non-profit, and publishes its finances. Editors are often not professional, and yes, APCs make no sense when authors, reviewers and editors are all practicing scientists. Hosting a bunch of PDFs and the editorial management software does not cost nowhere near as much per paper.
I only review and edit for non-profit journals. If we all did the same the for-profit journals would soon collapse, because they rely completely on our unpaid labour of us academics. (If they attempt to circumvent our boicot with LLMs, well, whatever happens to them will be well-deserved and self-inflicted.)
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At least PLoS is a non-profit, and publishes its finances. Editors are often not professional, and yes, APCs make no sense when authors, reviewers and editors are all practicing scientists. Hosting a bunch of PDFs and the editorial management software does not cost nowhere near as much per paper.
I only review and edit for non-profit journals. If we all did the same the for-profit journals would soon collapse, because they rely completely on our unpaid labour of us academics. (If they attempt to circumvent our boicot with LLMs, well, whatever happens to them will be well-deserved and self-inflicted.)
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Preprints are bad because we need peer review to ensure quality and integrity of the scientific record. 🤥😜
🤑🤑🤑 #Elsevier
#ScientificPublishing #SciPub 🧪
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The problem is not APCs, the problem is rent-extraction of #ScientificPublishing by for-profits. It's senseless.
But pay those same APCs to someone like CoB? They'll find their way towards sponsoring conferences, travel awards, studentships, etc...
Nothing wrong with that!
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The TLDR: Impact Inflation tells you when a journal is "punching above their weight", or have an "inflated value" in terms of IF. Golf rules, lower is better. IF is a flawed metric. Impact Inflation normalizes the IF so you can tell what it means. #SciPub #ScientificPublishing
The strain on scientific publi...
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Scientific publishing has barely adapted to the internet ... but sure likes to profit from LLM-generated papers that bring those sweet APCs.
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Scientific publishing has barely adapted to the internet ... but sure likes to profit from LLM-generated papers that bring those sweet APCs.
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The publisher makes money. That’s the value. Why bother with actual scientists (reviewers, editors, readers) if not needed, since all authors need is tokens of progress for career progression. The papers won’t be read anyway by any committees that will evaluate their CVs.
Some fraction of academia has fallen into a garbage gyrus.
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The publisher makes money. That’s the value. Why bother with actual scientists (reviewers, editors, readers) if not needed, since all authors need is tokens of progress for career progression. The papers won’t be read anyway by any committees that will evaluate their CVs.
Some fraction of academia has fallen into a garbage gyrus.
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@SciMag @news-from-science-SciMag
By their own data, the method doesn't work? Also, mesuring novelty is a bad idea to begin with, because novelty is largely unrelated to impact. But the method sure gives publishers something to point to for their decisions, offloading or even dispensing with the need for judgement. Of course Elsevier is interested ...
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@SciMag @news-from-science-SciMag
By their own data, the method doesn't work? Also, mesuring novelty is a bad idea to begin with, because novelty is largely unrelated to impact. But the method sure gives publishers something to point to for their decisions, offloading or even dispensing with the need for judgement. Of course Elsevier is interested ...
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The past two months, I helped coordinate the "Phase Transitions..." research semester programme at CWI (https://www.cwi.nl/en/events/research-semester-programmes/phasecap-phase-transitions-in-combinatorics-algorithms-probability/). It ended last Friday, and still I feel "hungover" from the intensive blur of activities/developments/ideas. Very grateful to my team --Feri, Jop, Serte, Carla, Noela, Guus-- we did it!
In parallel, during the same two months, after the dawn of recognition of what has arrived (after a tip from Jeroen), I underwent a kind of phase transition myself. Avowed refusenik in March (see https://mathstodon.xyz/@kangmeister/115252549665766971); an "anti-Gemini" research working group in April; compulsive button-pressing in May. (And yes, I *know* it is easy to set it up for pressing fewer buttons...)
That poetic part of me (or whatever remains of it) is allured by the term, "cognitive surrender", if only to help in my search for the right words to describe the sharp changes underway in various facets of mathematical life/growth.
#CWI #combinatorics #algorithms #probability #conferences #generativeAI #formalization #lean #scientificpublishing
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The past two months, I helped coordinate the "Phase Transitions..." research semester programme at CWI (https://www.cwi.nl/en/events/research-semester-programmes/phasecap-phase-transitions-in-combinatorics-algorithms-probability/). It ended last Friday, and still I feel "hungover" from the intensive blur of activities/developments/ideas. Very grateful to my team --Feri, Jop, Serte, Carla, Noela, Guus-- we did it!
In parallel, during the same two months, after the dawn of recognition of what has arrived (after a tip from Jeroen), I underwent a kind of phase transition myself. Avowed refusenik in March (see https://mathstodon.xyz/@kangmeister/115252549665766971); an "anti-Gemini" research working group in April; compulsive button-pressing in May. (And yes, I *know* it is easy to set it up for pressing fewer buttons...)
That poetic part of me (or whatever remains of it) is allured by the term, "cognitive surrender", if only to help in my search for the right words to describe the sharp changes underway in various facets of mathematical life/growth.
#CWI #combinatorics #algorithms #probability #conferences #generativeAI #formalization #lean #scientificpublishing