I’m excited to share that the Researcher Support Consortium (RSC) has officially launched! The RSC is a response to the growing number of academic researchers who are facing campaigns of intimidation and harassment for their important public interest work. researchersupport.org 1/

Researcher Support Consortium

Thanks again to those who have contributed data to my spreadsheet which captures where UK research orgs exist on microblogging social networks. Nearly 300 entries. Form here - please share across the platforms docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Notable research and associated organisations on social media in the UK (including international with UK ties).

Use this form to add any notable research accounts on the following social media platforms, X, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads and LinkedIn. Add only official accounts that have had some form of activity....

Thanks for this. Last month I posted some excerpts from _The Public and its Problems_ in which he anticipated some of the debates we're now having about #SocialMediasuber.pubpub.org/pub/nnpkmt91

COS is hiring a Founding Program Manager (contract) to co-create and lead a Metascience Alliance! Help build a diverse community to improve research quality and accelerate progress. Learn more and apply now: jobs.lever.co/cos/2e6c65cc...

wow... welcome to the ONE MILLION new users in the last three days!!! 🎉 uau... bem-vindos ao UM MILHÃO de novos usuários nos últimos três dias!!! 🎉

Hi. I'm the former director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication. Now semi-retired but still working for the cause. I post much more to Mastodon than Bluesky. But you can follow those posts through my Mastodon-Bluesky bridge account. bsky.app/profile/pete...

Doing peer reviews, I frequently make a comment like this: "The authors indicated that their protocol followed the recommendations of the Declaration of Helsinki. However, recent versions (e.g. 2013) of the Declaration of Helsinki says that “Every research study involving human subjects

Thanks for that postscript. Yes, some OA book publishers request or require subventions (aka book processing charges or BPCs) and some don't.

Facebook, X, YouTube and other social media platforms rely on a 1996 law to insulate themselves from legal liability for user posts. But what if the same law could be used to rein in the power of those social media giants? That idea is at the heart of a lawsuit filed in May against Meta.

How a Law That Shields Big Tech Is Now Being Used Against It

A Massachusetts professor has filed a lawsuit against Meta using a novel interpretation of Section 230, a law known primarily for shielding social media companies from liability.