So incredibly disappointed and disturbed by what elLife has done here x.com/mbeisen/stat... And yes this is my brother who they fired for posting a link and a comment about an Onion article. But I can say without any bias what they did was idiotic and wrong.
The Onion, of all things! I signed the petition as epidemiology faculty, academic editor of 2 journals, and editorial board of 2 journals. The Onion has had pretty even coverage over the 25 years that I've been reading it, since the days it was on paper and only in Madison, and then Chicago.
BEIT LAHIA, GAZA STRIP—Saying they’ve begun to reevaluate their stance as the latest outbreak of Israeli-Palestinian violence has escalated, hundreds of residents of the Gaza Strip told reporters ...
What the... smh.
Academic freedom for me but not for thee. Truly wild how staff in higher ed/academic publishing get treated despite... you know... the supposed ethics these institutions claim to follow.
That’s ridiculous. As if life wouldn‘t be difficult enough.
It was antisemitic and in bad taste. I don’t object to replacing the EIC for something that egregious.