MCP___ @mcp_@social.cleverlibre.org

Wonderful! @hildabast writes:

"It’s exciting to join in the growth and success of truly social media – media that doesn’t trap us in commercially-owned spaces that are extractive and manipulative. It feels worth investing in a community for the longterm when you know they can follow you if you move to a different neighborhood."

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2023/08/20/how-is-science-twitters-mastodon-migration-panning-out/

#science

Olga #Karatch rappresenta una figura di spicco del movimento pacifista europeo, insieme a Yurii #Sheliazhenko anche lui sotto attacco, accusato ingiustamente e falsamente di “giustificare la guerra di aggressione russa” e per questo sottoposto agli arresti domiciliari.
"La verità - spiega Mao Valpiana, presidente del Movimento Nonviolento - è che l’#obiezione di coscienza, la #diserzione, la #renitenza alla leva sono ormai un fenomeno di massa che inizia a fare paura". 

https://www.avvenire.it/attualita/pagine/ucraina-guerra-pace-pacifista-bielorussa

On anti piracy red button in Italy (and the untold risk of retaliation)
https://blog.quintarelli.it/2023/08/on-anti-piracy-red-button-in-italy-and-untold-the-risk-of-retaliation/

On anti piracy red button in Italy (and the untold risk of retaliation)
https://blog.quintarelli.it/2023/08/on-anti-piracy-red-button-in-italy-and-untold-the-risk-of-retaliation/

Welcome to hell!

The images from #Lahaina town (#Hawaii) after being devastated by wildfires that were fanned into the town by Hurricane Dora are just the beginning of what will be our day-to-day reality in the near future if no radical cuts in emissions are implemented.

#pacifisti
Perché l'#Ucraina sta perseguendo il #pacifista Yurii #Sheliazhenko per "giustificazione dell'aggressione russa"?
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/8/10/yurii_sheliazhenko_charges

Una raccolta di elenchi suddivisi per disciplina di persone, studiosi, gruppi e comunità presenti su #Mastodon: https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon #academics #fediverso #fediverse @informapirata @scuola @ildisinformatico @aborruso @alephoto85 @alessandrov @maupao @wikimediaitalia @PaolaCorti @mcp_

Dicer’s oaths: ORE, COARA and the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research Systems
As reported by Roars, the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of University a
https://aisa.sp.unipi.it/dicers-oaths-ore-coara-and-the-italian-national-agency-for-the-evaluation-of-the-university-and-research-systems/
#English #news #ANVUR #CentralizedResearchAssessment #COARA #ResearchAssessmentReform #ScientificJournals #TheCoalitionForAdvancingResearchAssessment

“You agree to grant and hereby grant Zoom a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license and all other rights required or necessary to (…) perform all acts, including AI and ML training and testing.” https://stackdiary.com/zoom-terms-now-allow-training-ai-on-user-content-with-no-opt-out/ #digitallabor #ai #exploitation #data #privacy

Everybody should stop using #zoom right now. Same holds for any service that wants to reuse your content to train "ai"

https://mastodon.social/@mfriess/110843663222647480

Sci-Hub's Alexandra Elbakyan Receives EFF Award for Providing Access to Scientific Knowledge | TorrentFreak https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hubs-alexandra-elbakyan-receives-eff-award-for-providing-access-to-scientific-knowledge-230728/

#Anvur contro la revisione paritaria aperta, perfino quando sostenuta dall'Unione Europea e in armonia con i principi di COARA, che ANVUR stessa ha firmato: https://www.roars.it/open-peer-review-per-anvur-non-ha-valore/ La valutazione di stato è strutturalmente dispotica e retrograda: https://commentbfp.sp.unipi.it/maria-chiara-pievatolo-la-bilancia-e-la-spada-scienza-di-stato-e-valutazione-della-ricerca/

And now protocols.io goes the way of Mendely:

https://www.protocols.io/workspaces/protocolsio-news/news/the-next-chapter-for-protocolsio

If you don't want your personal data being sold or otherwise misused, stop using protocols.io!

Bit by bit, every useful tool in science is getting killed.

#openscience

@richardsever @mike

The Council of the EU suggested to hit both birds with the same stone:

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023/05/23/council-calls-for-transparent-equitable-and-open-access-to-scholarly-publications/

A scholarly infrastructure would be able to provide a market for such tools, irrespective of their business model:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230206

A tiny sliver of what we are currently wasting on the ex-publishers would've been enough to save protocols.io

@richardsever @mike

YES! After a tender!

I dare you to name just one Big Deal that wasn't awarded in a secret negotiation, but in a competitive tender!

This is precisely why we in our article are requiring all publications services to be tendered and not negotiated. In brief:

https://bjoern.brembs.net/2022/03/why-publication-services-must-not-be-negotiated/