Elena Alonso @chicafisica@red.niboe.info

Did you know you can easily search through your own Mastodon posts?

Just include from:me in the search field.

Instead of this, you can include in:library to show posts you have interacted with or written yourself.

If you want to search through posts of a specific user, include from:username (the full username, including the instance)

#mastodon #MastoTips #FediTips #tip #tips #information #knowledge #fediverse

If you’re considering writing an ERC personal grant proposal, you may find these bits of advice helpful: https://enspire.science/category/erc-posts/

#erc @academicchatter #ercgrant

Cómo ser (más) anónimos en internet

Ser totalmente anónimo es casi imposible, pero puedes limitar mucho lo que internet sabe de ti si respetas algunas normas básicas.
#CuidadosDigitales #DerechosDigitalesColectivos

https://es.wired.com/articulos/como-ser-mas-anonimos-en-internet

Para facilitar la participación de interesades en el desarrollo de Open Science para #Bonfire, he iniciado un hilo de discusión en nuestro foro de ActivityPub. Participa 💛

#CienciaAbierta #ComunicaCiencia #FediAcadémico

#EuropeanUnion & #EuropeanCommission official accounts on the Fediverse:

➡️ @EU_Commission - EU's executive body, appointed by elected governments of EU member states

➡️ @EUSPA@social.network.europa.eu (main) & @euspa@tube.network.europa.eu (videos) - Co-ordinates EU space activities, sat nav, climate sats etc

➡️ @EC_OSPO - Handles EU's relationship with FOSS, driving EU's presence on the Fediverse

➡️ @EC_NGI@social.network.europa.eu (main) & @ec_ngi@tube.network.europa.eu (videos) - EU initiative helping fund FOSS online projects such as Mastodon, PeerTube etc

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Interesting read on #PaperMills and a criminal world that pays editors to accept papers, people paying for papers and even downright bribing!
Worrying trends!

https://www.science.org/content/article/paper-mills-bribing-editors-scholarly-journals-science-investigation-finds

@academicchatter #science #publishorperish

👩🏽‍💻¿Estabas por internet y has visto que para entrar a algunas webs te pide que aceptes las cookies o pagues? Sí, la normativa ha cambiado.

En Maldita Tecnología nos cuentan cómo podemos rechazar las #cookies (gratis), o al menos otras opciones para limitarlas.

https://maldita.es/malditatecnologia/20240111/cambio-cookies-cobrar-no-aceptan/

An Early Version of Mickey Mouse Enters the Public Domain on January 1, 2024

https://www.openculture.com/2024/01/an-early-version-of-mickey-mouse-enters-the-public-domain-on-january-1-2024.html

Los libreros no ponen "bestseller" en la cubierta de un libro para convencerte de que un libro es bueno, ponen "bestseller" en la cubierta de un libro para convencerte de que otras personas piensan que el libro es bueno.

Esta prueba de influencia social informativa (fenómeno psicológico donde las personas asumen que la acción de otras personas refleja un comportamiento correcto en una situación especifica) puede considerarse como una forma de ser 'ignorante pluralista' (cuando creemos en una falsa opinión mayoritaria que en realidad no existe).

https://youtu.be/p6aF5ma7BiM

@jonny @petersuber

For Alexandra Elbakyan, Sci-Hub is in essence #communist. ‘We must move from the concept of “intellectual property” to the concept of “intellectual communism” when knowledge and information are free and belong to everyone.’

https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/pb-assets/OA%20chapters/Briel_9781802076622_ch5_OA-1687267442.pdf

Granted, she describes #scihub as ‘so far the most radical, and .. most successful, take on #openaccess’. Still, is there an argument Sci-Hub is not actually about ‘genuine’ OA. Not if the latter is understood conservatively in terms set by:

1) the ‘big publishers’ and other gatekeepers (funders, government, REF): the citation advantage, metrics, competition with non-OA publications, as @jonny says;

2) the academic profession: individual recognition, reputation, visibility, esteem, symbolic capital, promotion, career progression.

Those may be the criteria Abdelghani Maddi uses to evaluate Sci-Hub:

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2023/10/25/sci-hub-presents-a-paradox-for-open-access-publishing/

But don't those criteria perpetuate the current publishing system far more than Sci-Hub?