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More on the mass resignation of editors of 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺 & 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘧𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴: an op-ed by yrs truly in The Guardian, about the commercial academic publishing scam #PolTheory #philsky #polisky #academicsky

Academic publishing is a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that | Arash Abizadehwww.theguardian.com Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own, says academic Arash Abizadeh

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Nice review of @dsquareddigest.bsky.social 's The Unaccountability Machine from Michael Pollak

We can managelbo-news.com Dan Davies, The Unaccountability Machine: How Systems Make Terrible Decisions and How the World Lost Its Mind Profile Books, £22.00 by Michael Pollak why Hayek was wrong Here is what mainstream econom...

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Review of Felsch's Habermas biography for Foreign Policy.

The World Still Needs Habermasforeignpolicy.com The German philosopher is starting to outlive his liberal legacy.

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People said Greenpeace was nuts in 2009 to predict 921GW of installed solar by 2030. Last year there was 1,419GW. Cost dropped 95% from 2008-20 and it’s dropping faster. There will be vast amounts of cheap clean energy in the future; we just need to use it. www.economist.com/interactive/...

Sun Machineswww.economist.com Solar, an energy source that gets cheaper and cheaper, is going to be huge

Car makers phasing out small cars, pushing SUVs, because more profits. Surprise!

It's not just supply and demand. Car buyers got pushed into bigger, pricier vehicles | CBC Newswww.cbc.ca Canadians are buying more SUVs and trucks than ever, despite their higher costs and growing concerns about affordability and emissions. Here's a closer look at how government policies and automakers' strategies pushed consumers toward bigger, pricier vehicles.

Hobbes’s view of the univ strikes again: FL lawyer argues that public-uni profs can’t criticize gov b/c “the professor’s speech is the government’s speech and the government can restrict professors…from offering viewpoints.” Same ideology is reflected in Quebec’s ban on teachers wearing hijabs.

Fla. argues it could stop professors from criticizing governorwww.insidehighered.com A nationally prominent conservative lawyer, hired to defend the state’s Stop WOKE Act, asserted that what public university professors say in classrooms “is the government’s speech.” The national impl...

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“To use a technical term, it blew my mind,” said Vancouver’s former chief planner Brent Toderian…”They weren’t lazy about it—they didn’t just throw up barriers and ban cars. It might be the best bargain I’ve ever heard,” Toderian said. #Montreal www.theenergymix.com/montreal-add...

Montreal Adds Nine More Car-Free Streets after ‘Mind Blowing’ Successwww.theenergymix.com Four years after Montreal decided to make a 2.5-kilometre stretch of a busy downtown artery car-free every summer, the transformation continues to receive rave reviews from users and local businesses.

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I wouldn't have been able to complete my master's in history under covid lockdowns without the Internet Archive's collection. The Internet Archive pays for books the books it copies and makes them accessible to people who could not otherwise read them. Support their work. Sign the petition. Thanks.

More than 500,000 books have been removed from our lending library due to the publishers’ lawsuit, including more than 1,300 banned and challenged titles. 📚🕳️ Sign our open letter to the publishers urging them to restore access to these books. 📖✍️ #LetReadersRead 👉 blog.archive.org/2024/06/17/l...

One of the lasting lessons the COVID era taught me was how to cut onions without burning my eyes: do it outside in the open air. Also, 2 metres.

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Rabbi Sara Zober

We need to class driver's licenses by weight like a CDL. As you rack up driving infractions, you'll be forced to get a smaller and smaller vehicle until you can only drive a Smart Car.

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Once more, I realize that people like me (who grew up under authoritarian regimes) have a huge advantage understanding what’s going on in the world. Many of us have tried to warn others in Europe and the US… pero nadie escarmienta en cabeza ajena.

Elsevier’s Scopus ranking of top 10 philosophy journals include 3 fake journals #philsky

How a widely used ranking system ended up with three fake journals in its top 10 philosophy listretractionwatch.com Tomasz Żuradzki Recently our philosophy faculty at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, like many institutions around the world, introduced a ranking of journals based on Elsevier’s Scopus database t…

Following the mass resignation of all other editors from 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺 & 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘧𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴, the editor-in-chief Anna Stilz has now also resigned from Wiley. #philsky #PolTheory #polisky

We pulled the trigger: The editors of 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺 & 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘧𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴 have informed Wiley that we are resigning en masse. We will be starting a new diamond open-access journal with @openlibhums.bsky.social, the same publisher that is now publishing 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺. #philsky #PolTheory #polisky

Editors at Philosophy & Public Affairs Resign; Will Launch New OA Journaldailynous.com The executive, associate, and advisory editors and all of the editorial board members of one of the most influential journals in moral and political philosophy, Philosophy & Public Affairs, have resig...

Stilz Resigns from PPA; Shares Instructions to Authorsdailynous.com Anna Stilz (currently at Princeton, soon to be at Berkeley), editor-in-chief of Philosophy and Public Affairs, has submitted her resignation to the journal’s publisher, Wiley. – Her resignation follow...

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Campaign ad that includes the correct precise numbers. Scrolling text: 60 courts rejected Donald Trump's claims that the 2020 election was stolen. 900 people convicted or pled guilty to January 6 crimes. 10 Trump lawyers disbarred or facing disciplinary or criminal charges. 1/

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Every so often it's worth reminding ourselves that "Butt Dial" and "Booty Call" have the same literal translation, but are very much not the same thing.

I finally finished this. A must-read investigation of the state of Israel.

The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israelwww.nytimes.com After 50 years of failure to stop violence and terrorism against Palestinians by Jewish ultranationalists, lawlessness has become the law.

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I have an oped in the @nytimes.com about the renewable energy transition. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/06/01/o...

Opinion | Oil and Gas Companies Are Trying to Rig the Marketplacewww.nytimes.com Fossil fuel interests are spreading misinformation that renewable energy is harmful, unreliable and worse for consumers.

Every researcher trying to understand the crazy world of commercial academic publishing—where university-paid researchers do the research, writing, refereeing, and editing free of charge to publishers, who then sell us the right to access our own product at exorbitant prices—should read this.

Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?www.theguardian.com The long read: It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell

Lufa Farms has 5 massive hydroponic greenhouse rooftop farms in the Montreal area. Their goal is to feed the city locally, sustainably, year round. Now they’re looking to expand to Boston.

Les Fermes Lufa s’installent à Boston et rêvent de l’Europewww.ledevoir.com Ce projet d’expansion de «quelques dizaines de millions de dollars» en est encore à ses premiers pas.

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Alternate headline: Thirty-Eight Philosophers Agreed About Something

Our mass resignation from Wiley’s 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺 & 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘧𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴, and our plan to launch a new diamond open-access political philosophy journal with @openlibhums.bsky.social, was covered by @insidehighered.bsky.social today. (With some verbiage from yrs truly.) #philsky #PolTheory #polisky

“Philosophy & Public Affairs” editors resign en massewww.insidehighered.com Thirty-eight editors of Philosophy & Public Affairs, a Wiley-owned journal, announced their resignations en masse Wednesday, including the entire editorial board, all the associate editors and both ex...

Montreal says bring it on Edmonton! We’ll have an Oilers vs Canadiens Stanley Cup match played winter cycling styles

NEW EPISODE: "Winter Cycling in Oil Country" Is Edmonton, Alberta the most exciting bike city in North America? Hear how this Canadian city, which sits near one of the biggest deposits of tar sands in the world, is betting big on year-round cycling. thewaroncars.org/2024/05/21/1...

Wiley, Wiley on the wall, who’s the most-money-makingest of them all?

#Wiley is closing 19 journals that were rife with research fraud. In the past two years, it has retracted more than 11,300 papers. www.wsj.com/science/acad...

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2500 years ago, Herodotus wrote an oddly specific description of an unusual boat. Historians always assumed it was more crap that Herodotus made up, until they found the wreck of a boat just like it

Nile shipwreck discovery proves Herodotus right – after 2,469 yearswww.theguardian.com Greek historian’s description of ‘baris’ vessel vindicated by archaeologists at sunken city of Thonis-Heraclion

What kind of McCarthyist hellscape are they turning universities into? UNC Chapel Hill secretly records and surveils its profs using “panoptic” device, like in some kind of dystopian novel.

Letter says UNC Chapel Hill secretly records professorswww.insidehighered.com A business school professor was startled to learn that the university had recorded his classes as part of a ‘review’ he didn’t know about. The university says it has no formal policy on filming classe...

Le mot en r qui ne doit pas être prononcé chez nous. “Les mots harcèlement ou violence y apparaissent des dizaines de fois. Mais le mot racisme quasiment jamais, d'après une vingtaine de politiques consultées.” ici.radio-canada.ca/info/long-fo...

« Y a trop de Noirs » : racisme dans le milieu de la santéici.radio-canada.ca Des employés d’un CHSLD, insultés par des patients et des collègues parce qu’ils sont noirs, ont dénoncé la situation. Le CIUSSS a déployé un plan d’action.

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Thanks to the OLH’s diamond open access model (funded by an international network of more than 350 supporting libraries), Theory and Social Inquiry will be free to read and will not charge authors publication fees.

We are delighted to announce the launch of another Open Library of Humanities journal, Theory and Social Inquiry, on our in-house publishing platform Janeway: www.openlibhums.org/news/702/

The Open Library of Humanities launches Theory and Social Inquirywww.openlibhums.org The Open Library of Humanities is very pleased to announce the launch of a new journal, Theory and Social Inquiry, on our in-house publishing platform Janeway. Theory and Social Inquiry …

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Or read about the Sistine chapel