federal antitrust lawsuit filled against 6 commercial publishers of academic journals, including Elsevier & Wiley & Sons on behalf of a putative class or scientists & scholars who allege that these for-profit publishers unlawfully appropriate billions of $ that would have funded scientific research
Academic Journal Publishers Antitrust Litigation On September 12, 2024, Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel at Justice Catalyst Law filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against six commercial publishers of a...
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The Editor-in-Chief of the journal Science thinks undergrad science majors should be taught philosophy of science. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Here at the University of Cincinnati, the Philosophy Department developed a course called How Science Works a decade ago...
Much is being made about the erosion of public trust in science. Surveys show a modest decline in the United States from a very high level of trust, but that is seen for other institutions as well. Wh...
Fantastic! And there you go—hypothesis 1 covers most of the bases. It omits the ravers, though their two-strapping is surely related both aesthetically and functionally to skater two-strapping. But the question remains: why too the massive pants?
This is real. Transition out happened over the course of the 90s at shows through ravers and skaters and Rawkus backpack-rap heads, all of whom also wore enormous pants. Two straps, huge pants, many forms of music. There is a puzzle here to solve
"Everything reminds Milton [Friedman] of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper." 🧪📈📉🦋🦫 #HistSTM
I trust if they keep digging they’ll also find statues of Aglaea and Euphrosyne and Thalia
Very depressing illustration of Goodhart’s Law. “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” That’s because the measure produces artificial incentives to game the system. True of every ranking system in academia and elsewhere.
> LSU changes tenure rules for librarians to improve its research rankings lailluminator.com/2024/08/20/l... #academia #HigherEd #librarians (c)
As LSU makes its bid for membership in a prestigious academic organization, its librarians have been put on notice to publish more research.
When you know originalism is lies and Lil Jon is the truth you can see the future
Slim Pickens is about to show up and ask what in the wide wide world of sports is a'goin' on here