"We’ll fill this industry with people who think they’re good, because their bot passed CI. They'll float through, confident, while the real ones - the hungry ones - get chewed up by a system that doesn’t value understanding anymore. Just output. Just tokens per second."
Mutatis mutandis, this is what happened to scientific publishing in academia. Output over understanding.
Dear Readers, Researchers, and Followers,
It is with the utmost delight that we announce: ACIG has been approved for indexing in Scopus – one of the most prestigious scientific databases in the world!
This achievement would not have been possible without the outstanding contributions of our brilliant Authors, our esteemed Reviewers, and the continued interest and support of our Readers. Please accept our deepest and most heartfelt thanks.
We would also like to express our sincere appreciation to the dedicated professionals behind the publishing process at ACIG – both past and present. In particular, we wish to honour our Editor-in-Chief @agasztold whose commitment is truly invaluable, as well as Dorota Domalewska, Agnieszka Wrońska, Ruben Arcos, Marek Górka, Krzysztof Silicki, Anna Sitkowska, Katarzyna Nakonieczna, Katarzyna Dudzińska, Jacek Leśkow, and Nikola Zbyszewska-Strus.
ACIG is expected to appear in Scopus search results within the next few months.
ONLINE registration is now open for the DIAMAS Final Conference on 3 June 2025 !
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- Explore the outcomes of the DIAMAS project
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@neuralreckoning Indeed, for methods sections, much better to copy paste than to cite a study behind a paywall.
via @EuroMathSoc, a playful read about refusing to go along with a "big deal":
Session 1 of the 18th EASE Conference, Disinformation in Publishing, is in progress.
Our keynote speaker Nicolien van der Linden says:
"Misinformation and disinformation have been identified by the World Economic Forum as the greatest threats to global stability in 2024 and 2025."
She added, "If we can't agree on what disinformation is, how can we fight it? What exactly are we combating?"
The LUMEN project website is live! 
Explore their mission, meet the partners, and follow their journey.
Mathdoc's participation in LUMEN, mainly in collaboration with Mathrice, aims to develop or integrate editorial tools for the centre Mersenne.
Yesterday's highlight: I learned that my blog post/ rant about how fucked up scientific publishing is was picked up by a course on scientific writing 
. The PhD student in my project is doing the course and she spotted it as part of the reading list. How cool is that 
.
https://marioangst.com/en/blog/posts/scientific-publishing/
The Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Wrocław 
is hosting an online talk “Insights into a journal editor’s tool kit” by Dr. Marc Kielmann on May 8 at 5 pm CEST.
https://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/news/CRTPM3HWGRNEVKB2WN2RD3YCH4?M=y
#OrganicChemistry #ScientificPublishing #BJOC #DiamondOpenAccess 
#Journal | #Radioprotection
Discover the latest full issue flipbook of Radioprotection No. 60-1.
Published by EDP Sciences on behalf of la Société Française de Radioprotection ,
it unveils the newest academic insights in the discipline.
Read more 
https://bit.ly/4cSdfwU
#SFRP #OpenAccess
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The centre Mersenne will present a poster at the final conference of the #DIAMAS project ‘The Future of Diamond Open Access Publishing in Europe and Beyond’ on 3 June in Brussels.
We look forward to seeing you there!
https://diamasproject.eu/announcement-diamas-conference-03-06-25/
#Journals | EPJ B
#CallforPapers for a Topical Issue on
“100 Glorious Years of the Ising Model”
Guest Editors from #presiuniv , #Kolkata, #India, #TheNASUkraine
and #WignerResearchCentre, Budapest
April 30, 2025 https://buff.ly/4fTP7uA
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@ScienceScholar
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Our #scientificPublishing is not 100% a problem, I am happy to be reminded today as we get reviews for a manuscript.
Not just because we got very pleasing reviews, not even just because they are interesting. Of course that helps a lot, but beyond that the main points are:
- reviewers read the paper in detail,
- they took genuine interest in the science in it,
- they make helpful comments,
- they ask relevant questions
- they're not suggesting a single paper [of their own] to cite,
1/2
#Journals | EPJ B
#CallforPapers for a Topical Issue on
“100 Glorious Years of the Ising Model”
Guest Editors from #presiuniv , #Kolkata, #India, #TheNASUkraine
and #WignerResearchCentre, Budapest
April 30, 2025 https://buff.ly/4fTP7uA
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"The biggest mystery is not why arXiv succeeded. Rather, it’s how it wasn’t killed by vested interests intent on protecting traditional academic publishing."
Very interesting interview profile of Paul Ginsparg in WIRED narrating the history of arXiv:
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-arxiv-most-transformative-code-science/
For anyone still submitting biology papers with p-values:
"Estimation statistics should replace significance testing", Claridge-Chang and Assam, 2016
https://www.nature.com/articles/nmeth.3729 (and also at https://zenodo.org/records/60156 ).
#Journals | EPJ B
#CallforPapers for a Topical Issue on
“100 Glorious Years of the Ising Model”
Guest Editors from #presiuniv , #Kolkata, #India, #TheNASUkraine
and #WignerResearchCentre, Budapest
April 30, 2025 https://buff.ly/4fTP7uA
#ScienceMastodon
#ScientificPublishing
@ScienceScholar
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#Journals | EPJ B
#CallforPapers for a Topical Issue on
“100 Glorious Years of the Ising Model”
Guest Editors from #presiuniv , #Kolkata, #India, #TheNASUkraine
and #WignerResearchCentre, Budapest
April 30, 2025 https://buff.ly/4fTP7uA
#ScienceMastodon
#ScientificPublishing
@ScienceScholar
@academia @phdlife @phdstudents
@academicsunite @academicchatter
@ScienceAdm
Holds no punches: "Academic publishing is dominated by for-profit giants like Elsevier and Springer. Calling their practice a form of thuggery isn’t so much an insult as an economic observation."
Nice talk by @givingtools about @unjournal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PegsSgZnapo , which uses peer-review-curate, for economics-related research, that we are also using at MetaROR.org for meta-science.
Provides journal-neutral quality peer reviews. They include some quantitative ratings, which we don't currently do at MetaRoR. #scientificPublishing
