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The "special issue-ization" of journal publishing and guest editor manipulation pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38972046/

Great initiative! More and more, researchers are able to publish their articles at no cost to authors or readers. Another example is @PeerCommunityIn @PCI_Neuro

@christlet @inkscape We make all our publication figures in @inkscape and have for years...no particular resources to share, I learned organically and use essentially the vanilla package, so chiming in mostly to say it's possible (and enjoyable) to do.

Kicking off Edinburgh neuroscience day with some great flash talks from new group leaders. Love to see all the amazing work going on across the university and also highlighting open science projects such as @PCI_Neuro @EdinUniNeuro #EdNeuroDay

I like this recommendation to report confidence intervals not as 3.5 [-2.0, 8.7] but as subscripts ₋₂.₀ 3.5 ₈.₇ academic.oup.com/biostatistics/… Not the biggest thing, jut but seems a tiny bit easier to process.

Research integrity, preprints and where should the responsibility lie? - Samuel Moore ift.tt/Q0nbYu5

Gates Foundation ends support to Article Processing Charges (#APC @gatesfoundation). gatesfoundation.org/ideas/articles…

Fellowship opportunity for ECRs <4y post-PhD. Engineering. 5 year funding. Significant advantage given to people from "underrepresented groups" (see below). Internal deadline of May 6. Comp neuro has done well recently in our dept. Email me if interested. raeng.org.uk/research-fello…

If you’re fed up with how academic publishing is stuck but don’t see how to break free, here are things you could do when the world feels immovable: - review only preprints or journal articles that are already preprints and do so publicly to benefit readers (and reviewers), not just authors. Extra points if you explain to editors why you’re opting out of secret gatekeeping (many of them will agree with you, understand, or note that things are changing IME) - decide from today you’re not publishing the way you used to and signal to new folks that join your lab how you plan to do things (letting previous lab members do what they want. They may even come around when everyone else around them is free and committed to good science above signaling of the same). See 👇

I loved academia when I was in it — and believe more ever the exceptional value of truly transferable skills obtained within. That said, for the sake of all of humanity, I hope it can free itself of the rampant credit chasing, low agency, consensus fetishizing, and security primacy that IMO hold it back from its limitless potential

The Year of Open Science Culminating Conference kicks off tomorrow! Join us virtually to explore sessions focused on advancing open science policies and practices. 🗓️ March 21-22, 2024 📍 Online ✅ Register for free: cos.io/yos-conference Secure your spot now!

FASTMAP is an #opensource plugin for ImageJ. It allows for registering biological images within brain atlases. It also segments biological labels of interest within brain regions. @DTerstege Read about FASTMAP in this week's post on OpenBehavior: edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/p…

Exciting news! The UCL Open Science Conference 2024 is now accepting abstracts and poster submissions from UCL researchers. Explore the latest trends in open science and scholarship at UCL on June 20th. More info: buff.ly/3TLRDdt @ucylpay @UCLLibraries @UCLResearch

I have a joke about academic publishing . . . . . . [your institution does not have access to this content]

Are you curious about the role of #preprints in the publish-review-curate model and the importance of detangling traditional publishing? Join ASAPbio Associate Director @JACoates on March 19 for his talk "Preprints as the central pillar of the PRC model" to learn more!

Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science? | Science | The Guardian

'Despite the narrow audience, scientific publishing is a remarkably big business. With total global revenues of more than £19bn, it weighs in somewhere between the recording and the film industries in size, but it is far more profitable.'

We are hiring for a Research Assistant Professor in Learning and Education Sciences! This full-time or part-time role will: - Evaluate our learning programs - Build and execute a vision for the future of online graduate level education See our website in profile for info!

Calling all interested in neuromodulation! @srikipedia and I have the Cosyne 2024 workshop for you, focusing on the locus coeruleus. With a fantastic line-up of speakers:

FEB '23 Author: "Moreover other accusations by Bik and her team are so ridiculous they don’t even merit a response." FEB '24 Journal: "Retracted. Authors have decided that the article should not remain published in its current form." pubpeer.com/publications/D… cc:@MicrobiomDigest