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Do you see problems with the for-profit academic publishing system? Take action with us! Publish with diamond open access in 5 years after the pledge activates. Activation happens when a critical mass is reached. freeourknowledge.org/2024-01-30-col… freeourknowledge.org @projectFOK

🌱 Tomorrow: OHM Root Council — Participatory Democracy Turning shared values into shared governance. 🗣 Jonathan Sri, participatory democracy expert 📊 Results of our value-mapping experiment 🗳 Electing OHM's incoming board 🗓️ 8pm AEST / 10pm UTC 🔗 lu.ma/9y9gsev5

Come explore a radically inclusive, open peer-review system designed for academia — and generalised to help ANY community self-organise around what they find valuable. For all project & community builders, #openscience & #metaresearch advocates, and revolutionaries at heart 🔥

For people who believe that communities can determine their own values, better than the journals and other institutions they operate under

🌱 Huge thanks to everyone who helped launch our new OHM Council Series! 🙏 It was great to share space with such a diverse group, across different backgrounds and locations. I’m beyond excited for this next phase — launching a hands-on experiment to collectively define OHM’s values for the year ahead. We’re growing OHM from the ground up — embedding our shared values into its core. 💠 This is an open call for anyone who wants to be part of that process. Beginning this Monday 10am UTC. 👇 Details in the video Let’s grow the future we want to see — together. 💜🌱

37 OHM-azing humans kicked off our new Council Series this week! We met, shared, and outlined plans for the year. Missed it? Here's the recording: 📷 youtube.com/watch?v=t31eje… Next up: a hands-on experiment to choose our collective values for OHM (Monday). Link in shownotes 👇

People, just stop doing Frontiers special issues. Find a nice diamond open access journal, and self-publish and collaboratively peer review the set of papers you all want to write. Do not give Frontiers money. If anything, they hurt your reputation. MDPI is even worse.

It’s been a huge year for @OHMcollective and the #WisdomSystem! Collaborations, global travel, app dev breakthroughs, and more. Ready for the highlights and a glimpse of what's next? Check out our 2024 wrap-up on the blog! openheartmind.org/2024-in-review… ~~~ Honourable mentions to these amazing communities creating spaces to connect, share, and build a more open, fair and regenerative future 🙏 @aimos_inc @vibecamp_ @EmbassyNetwork @AsteraInstitute @_zanzalu @improvingpsych @ZuBerlinCity @JoinEdgeCity @FelizzyS @z_ayub @shanhaiwoo @themu_xyz @FundingCommons @IPFS @SingularityNET @oceanprotocol @foresightinst @EFDevcon @regensunite #OpenScience #DeSci

In tijden van bezuiniging kan de academische wereld veel geld besparen door commerciële uitgevers links te laten liggen en over te stappen op Diamond Open Access. Nederland zou hierin een voortrekkersrol moeten pakken, vinden Wim Pouw en Bert Bakker. voxweb.nl/nieuws/bezuini…

This invitation from MDPI to publish in their new journal called Metrics, after they carefully reviewed my "impressive" work about narrative CVs... which are intended to fight against the misuse of metrics... 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ Acceptance to publication in 5.8 days 🤷‍♀️

📢 Excited to announce 📚 ‘The Discovery of Mind: From Wundt to Neuroimaging’ by Ardi Roelofs! Explore the history of psychology from Wundt’s groundbreaking work to modern neuroimaging. Free via @RadboudUP👉 edu.nl/xwqjq #OpenAccess #Psychology #Neuroscience #Mind

Open Mind provides a venue for the highest quality, most innovative work in cognitive science. We are proud to collaborate with @mitlibraries & @HarvardLibrary to fund this journal and champion open and equitable scholarly publishing: direct.mit.edu/opmi #OAWeek @LanguageMIT

Wow, NeuroImage must be really struggling to get submissions…

After following a few starter packs, and the latest influx of twitter refugees, my blue sky activity has exploded. You love to see it!

Academics, what makes you still stay here with this app riddled with mysogyny and right wing propaganda? What makes you publish with journals that are known to extract extreme profits from little value added? We really have a problem of collective (in)action

And *that* is the trick. One journal keeps very high standards & reputation high. The rest of the franchise free rides on that reputation to get $ in. And as scientists we fall for it like flies -- because it gives us the possibility of free riding on that reputation too. 🤷

Do you see problems with the for-profit academic publishing system? Take action with us! Publish with diamond open access in 5 years after the pledge activates. Activation happens when a critical mass is reached. freeourknowledge.org/2024-01-30-col… freeourknowledge.org @projectFOK

Publishing science in an effective, reliable and fair way costs money. But the world would be better off if we stopped treating publishing as a transaction and instead treated it as a centrally funded resource with no financial barriers ever for either publishing or reading.

@aemonten PLOS Biology: Research Article $5,500 Short Reports $5,500 Update Article $3,150 PLOS Medicine: Research Article $6,300 Do you believe they spend that money to publish a PDF online? Plus, they had almost $26 million in assets in 2022...

About Plos One being a "non-profit" PLOS Biology: Research Article $5,500 Short Reports $5,500 Update Article $3,150 🤡 PLOS Medicine: Research Article $6,300 Do you believe they spend that money to publish a PDF online? Plus, they had almost $26 million in assets in 2022. 🤑

"When researchers pay to publish: results from a survey on APCs in four countries". Delighted to see this output from the GRIP project and honored to be part of the journey w/ so many talented researchers! arxiv.org/abs/2410.12144