"We seem to be stuck in a loop where consultation feedback indicates that the sector isn't ready for a mandate yet, but action that would make the sector ready is avoided or deferred, until the next consultation when everyone declares that a mandate is being imposed far too soon." Quite […]

No quibble with Konate's yellow card there. But why haven't half a dozen Wolves players also been booked for similar fouls? #LFC#PGMOL#consistency

That was a terrible, terrible goal to give away. Absolutely comically disastrous defending. #LFC

@petersuber Every day, another idiotic decision made in the name of IP.

I will never ever again attempt to take a train anywhere, not in Britain anyway. They just. Do. Not. Work. It's the car for me every time from now on.

"If I were to categorize programming languages like art movements, there would be mid-century utilitarianism (Fortran, COBOL), high-theory formalism (Haskell, Agda), Americorporate pragmatism (C#, Java), grassroots communitarianism (Python, Ruby), and esoteric hedonism (Befunge, Brainfuck). And […]

@rmounce This kind of thing is why, some time ago, I tipped over into the camp that believes we need to completely discard the present scholarly publishing structure, and replace it with something owned by the community and enforceably governed by the POSI.

I think if Mastodon ever wants to do a rebrand, they should go with 'Follow Humans'. As that's going to end up being a unique selling point, sadly.

Elsevier selling access to an open access article, again (2024 edition) https://rossmounce.co.uk/2024/09/24/elsevier-selling-access-to-an-open-access-article-again-2024-edition/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comtox.2017.10.001 the version […]

@petersuber @lizziegadd … and we were right to have those worries about bibliometrics.