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"It engendered a lot of copycat models"... 🤔 Agree w/Martin. None of us are perfect at acknowledging our debts/influences in our excitement at our own contributions, but from what I've seen MIT have never 👏 any of the forerunners of D2O (happy to be corrected!) when talking up their trailblazing.

Lots in this -- worth a read! 'People don't want to be isolated, competing with each other as their condition of existence. And so, I think this transition is a moment for us to reflect on the fact that we don't have to just accept these legacy systems that exploit our labour.' #AcademicPublishing

This is something we also pick up on in this @copim.bsky.social post -- profit-driven inflation of the quantity of published research is bad for research and for researchers: copim.pub/wileys-acqui...

Wiley’s Acquisition of Emerald: Some observations from Copim - CopimCopim reflects on Wiley’s acquisition of Emerald and the issues of scale and corporate consolidation in academic publishing.copim.pub

This is useful advice - I've been guilty of the "use emojis as bullet points" when writing posts before but will try to remember not to from now on.

Karen Hao has argued that 'AI' is as capacious a term as 'transportation' but we are good at talking in specific & complex ways about different forms of transport, their desirability for different uses (or not), how we want to transition away from some types etc - we need to start doing this with AI

I've been really enjoying watching the matches in Greece and having no idea what absolute nonsense the commentators are spouting...

This is well worth a read - particularly interesting for how it frames the role of the institutional / library-based publisher, and its reflections on what such presses have the ability to provide (and I mean this in a capacious sense) as well as some of the dynamics created by "prestige".

This is pathetic and, at this stage, dangerous.

“This transaction reflects our conviction that research and AI are mutually reinforcing: our proprietary content and data fuels AI, and AI accelerates the pace of publishing.” Not sure that this vision of ever-accelerating pace and expanding scale is good for the quality of academic research (1/2)

The end of May -- that glorious time of year when you start imagining all of the projects you'll be able to work on in the summer when 'everything calms down'. 'I'll do that in August when it's quieter', you think, delusionally.