Peter Suber

@petersuber.bsky.social

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I'm much more active on #Mastodon than #Bluesky. But you can follow my Mastodon account from Bluesky through my new (June 2024) Masto-Bluesky bridge account:
https://bsky.app/profile/petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy

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Big news: Utah’s Supreme Court rules that Republicans illegally repealed a ballot initiative that banned partisan gerrymandering. Utah could get a fairer congressional map after 2024 that turns a safely Republican seat solidly Democratic in Salt Lake City. Ruling: campaignlegal.org/document/uta...

Utah Supreme Court rules against legislature's ballot initiative override in redistrictingwww.fox13now.com The Utah Supreme Court has upheld a lawsuit challenging the legislature's redistricting boundaries. In a ruling obtained by FOX 13 News on Thursday morning ahead of its official publication

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I’m excited to announce that at The Navigation Fund (www.navigation.org), we’ve launched an Open Science program to make science more collaborative and impactful. We aim to support transformative ideas that will reshape the future of open science. 1/3

The Navigation Fundwww.navigation.org

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Pro-political murder Republican Mark Robinson may well end up winning with a compliant supermajority in the legislature. His opponent is AG Josh Stein, who has built a record of fighting for reproductive rights and corporate accountability. Help him win:

In a normal campaign, this would have dominated the weekend’s news. I wrote about @gregsargent.bsky.social’s scoop about the Christian nationalist GOP nominee for NC Gov calling for murder of his political enemies: ‘Some folks need killing’: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | ‘Some folks need killing’: North Carolina Lt. Gov takes Christian nationalism to dangerous lowwww.msnbc.com Mark Robinson’s newly explicit calls for killing perceived enemies show how seamlessly Christian nationalists can glide into promoting real violence.

GET INVOLVED · North Carolina Democrats on Mobilizewww.mobilize.us Volunteer with North Carolina Democrats in your area! Check out the events the NCDP and our County Parties are hosting from the mountains to the coast!

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Project 2025 treats climate science - not climate change - as the problem that must be solved. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-manda...

Project 2025 will double down on protections for fossil fuel industries while killing clean power initiatives, while this is going on, but the media is mostly focused elsewhere for some idiotic reason www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Temperatures 1.5C above pre-industrial era average for 12 months, data showswww.theguardian.com Copernicus Climate Change Service says results a ‘large and continuing shift’ in the climate

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Here we are, the first full year of temperatures 1.5% above pre-industrial times: climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-j...

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Very excellent to see a clear refutation of OA fear mongers from @petersuber.bsky.social - if you can trust anyone to explain OA clearly, it is this man. UK government funded research has had to be open access for a long time now, and surprise (!) it hasn't collapsed our research sector.

2/ Publishing in an APC-based OA journal is an author choice, not a funder requirement. By all means point out the cost of APCs, but not as if they were the cost of compliance with the new fed funder policies.

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Has anyone tested to see if this works to gain access to paywalled academic research journals. Probably can't get the pdf, but maybe the whole html page version?? 🤔 #academicchatter #academia #research www.wired.com/story/quora-...

Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demandwww.wired.com WIRED was able to download stories from publishers like The New York Times and The Atlantic using Poe’s Assistant bot. One expert calls it “prima facie copyright infringement,” which Quora disputes.

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Good news everyone, John Roberts who called the science behind determining gerrymanders "sociological gobbledygook" just gave himself the power to rule on extremely technical matters over the expertise of people who have dedicated their lives to mastering administrative tasks.

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People who are dumber than elementary school children should not be allowed to set the educational agenda for elementary school children.

Dear Reporters, If you’re interviewing a theocrat who says “all our laws are based on the Ten Commandments” and you don’t immediately ask them to provide evidence and examples for that laughably stupid claim, just go ahead and quit your job. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/u...

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I fairly regularly need older/more obscure stuff that I can't immediately get through the libraries I have access to. This is especially frustrating when a digital version exists but is paywalled.

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1/21 A thread on the role of scholars in #climate #activism. TLDR: academics needn’t become activists, but we must support activism Moreover, active engagement with activism will enhance our scholarship

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📚 Attention Readers & Researchers More than 500,000 books have been removed from our lending library due to the publishers' lawsuit. Have you been affected? Share your story with us and help us fight to restore access. #LetReadersRead 👉 forms.gle/G2GXK6xwMZ3t...

Share Your Story: The Impact of Losing Access to 500,000 Booksforms.gle The publishers' lawsuit against the Internet Archive (Hachette v. Internet Archive) has resulted in the removal of more than 500,000 books from our lending library, including over 1,300 banned and cha...

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Florida school board bans book in school about Florida school board book bans.

'Challenges our authority': School board in Florida bans book about book banswww.tallahassee.com Indian River County School Board members, for example, said they disliked how it referenced other books that had been removed from schools.

I now follow #BridgyFed (@ap.brid.gy) and hope you will too. techcrunch.com/2024/06/05/b... Let's support the bridges that let #decentralized #socialmedia platforms to talk to each other. #ActivityPub #ATProtocol #Bluesky #Fediverse #Interoperability #Mastodon

Bluesky and Mastodon users can now talk to each other with Bridgy Fed | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com Bridgy Fed is one of the efforts aimed at connecting the fediverse with the web, Bluesky and, perhaps later, other networks like Nostr.

"[US] colleges are now closing at a pace of one a week…up from a little more than two a month last year." hechingerreport.org/colleges-are... #AcademicSky, #Colleges, #EduSky, #Universities

Colleges are now closing at a pace of one a week. What happens to the students? - The Hechinger Reporthechingerreport.org The pace of long-predicted college closings has sped up dramatically this spring, threatening to throw more and more students off the path to a degree.

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Positive Ruling for libraries in Canada: "Huge Win for Copyright User Rights in Canada: Federal Court Rules Digital Lock Rules Do Not Trump Fair Dealing" Go Canada. Now Fair Use for libraries US: Acquire, preserve, lend, and cooperate. each dead by contracts www.michaelgeist.ca/2024/06/huge...

Huge Win for Copyright User Rights in Canada: Federal Court Rules Digital Lock Rules Do Not Trump Fair Dealing - Michael Geistwww.michaelgeist.ca The Federal Court has issued a landmark decision (Blacklock’s Reports v. Attorney General of Canada) on copyright’s anti-circumvention rules which concludes that digital locks should not trump fair de...

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I *finally* turned my OA business models classification into a proper paper, up now at zenodo.org/records/1124... (btw, preprints are awesome routes to OA!)

Classifying Open Access business modelszenodo.org The proliferation of Open Access (OA) business models has been rapid, presenting challenges for stakeholders in academic publishing in communicating and working effectively with one another. This arti...

Kudos to #Japan for adopting a national #OpenAccess policy, for requiring OA through #repositories rather than #journals — #GreenOA rather than #GoldOA — and for funding to upgrade and standardize the country's institutional repositories. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Japan’s push to make all research open access is taking shapewww.nature.com Japan will start allocating the ¥10 billion it promised to spend on institutional repositories to make the nation’s science free to read. Japan will start allocating the ¥10 billion it promised to spe...

Great example of research influencing law by way of #OpenAccess and public awareness. news.arizona.edu/news/mapping... #HousingDiscrimination

Mapping Racist Covenants: How a UArizona geographer's research informed a new Arizona law | University of Arizona Newsnews.arizona.edu A project led by Jason Jurjevich informed a law that lets homeowners remove unlawful restrictions from their property records.

Translators play an important and underappreciated role in the sharing of knowledge. They deserve more recognition for what they do. As a step in that direction I just signed this petition and hope you will too. www2.societyofauthors.org/translators-... #Translation #Translators

#TranslatorsOnTheCover – sign the open letter - The Society of Authorswww2.societyofauthors.org We call on every writer to ask their publishers for cover credits for the people who translate their work. Signatories to the open letter below, written by Jennifer Croft (translator of Olga Tokarczuk...

This is #federalism at its best. States are free to differ from one another, within the limits imposed by the federal constitution. They are free to experiment with new ideas while other states watch and learn. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/05/20/m... #Massachusetts #USPolitics

‘Millionaires tax’ has already generated $1.8 billion this year for Massachusetts, blowing past projections - The Boston Globewww.bostonglobe.com The estimated haul is already $800 million more than what Governor Maura Healey and state lawmakers planned to spend from its revenue in fiscal year 2024.

#Google brags that you can now chat with #Gemini on #GoogleMessages. But in practice, you can only do this with G Messages on your phone, not G Messages on your laptop through a browser, drawing attention to the continuing limitations on G Messages.

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My continuing obsession with open access to sources for exploring the 19th century has resulted in a new edition of this guide to free, searchable full texts of magazines www.victorianresearch.org/openaccesspe...

VRW: Open Access Periodicalswww.victorianresearch.org

Kudos to all 38 editors of 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘧𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴 (pub'd by #Wiley), who just resigned to launch a new #OpenAccess — #DiamondOA — journal with @openlibhums.bsky.social on the same topics. dailynous.com/2024/05/22/e... #Editors #Philosophy

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...

"Women's contributions [to #OpenSource software] tend to be accepted more often than men's. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often." peerj.com/preprints/17... #FOSS #FLOSS #Gender

Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus menpeerj.com Biases against women in the workplace have been documented in a variety of studies. This paper presents the largest study to date on gender bias, where we compare acceptance rates of contributions fro...

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As is well known, the best way to avoid an oncoming train is to shut your eyes, put your fingers in your ears, and refuse to say the word "train." ( /v @dgraham.bsky.social )

DeSantis signs bill wiping climate change references from Florida lawwww.axios.com Florida is facing multiple climate-change related threat — including a dangerous heat wave that's swept the state's south.

Message from the 28 Presidents of National Academies of Sciences of the European Union Member States to candidates in the upcoming European Parliament elections: Support #OpenScience and #OpenEducation. sciencebusiness.net/sites/defaul...

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When Japanese researchers first make their work #OpenAccess, it's usually for external reasons, such a journal or institutional policy. But after that "there was a tendency for internal factors to…develop such that [they] wanted to contribute to the OA." www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jims...

研究者がオープンアクセスを実現する要因と経年変化www.jstage.jst.go.jp 研究者が初めてオープンアクセス(OA)を実現する要因，及び OA に対する認識の経年的な変化を明らかにするために，2016 年から 2022 年にかけて隔年で実施された NISTEP の質問紙調査の回答を二次分析した．結果，研究者が初めて OA を実現する主な要因は，投稿した雑誌や所属機関のポリシー …

"In the face of such colossal danger, why is the world’s response so slow & inadequate? The #IPCC experts overwhelmingly pointed to [the] lack of political will. Almost 3/4 of the respondents cited this factor, with 60% also blaming vested corporate interests." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despairwww.theguardian.com Exclusive: Survey of hundreds of experts reveals harrowing picture of future, but they warn climate fight must not be abandoned