Grassroots Review Journals @GrassrootsReview@fediscience.org

Today is the launch of Octopus. Designed to replace journals and papers as the place to establish priority, Octopus publishes hypotheses, methods, data, analyses and reviews.
https://science-octopus.org/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Open_Science/comments/vnfboy/today_is_the_launch_of_octopus_designed_to/?utm_source=ifttt

@bonfire is a new federated network for individuals and communities to design, operate and control their own digital lives. It's support #ActivityPub 👍

You can help Bonfire by becoming a beta tester today: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/meet_us_at_the_playground/

In my opinion, the whole #Bonfire UI is adorable and promising

The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) got 4 million for the Notify Project to exchange peer review information between repositories and review systems.
https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-updates/coar-welcomes-significant-funding-for-the-notify-project/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Open_Science/comments/uxgc82/the_confederation_of_open_access_repositories/?utm_source=ifttt

Opportunities and risks of publishing academic talks online. If talks are published speakers may be less willing to show preliminary results, discussion could be less open, journals should clarify whether they see this as prior publication.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01755-6
https://www.reddit.com/r/Open_Science/comments/ul1hvu/opportunities_and_risks_of_publishing_academic/?utm_source=ifttt

#introduction

G'day! I'm Conal Tuohy. I'm a NZer who's lived in Australia for years, with my Aussie partner. We live in Brisbane.

I'm a freelancer, doing software development, specialised consultancy (Web APIs, XML, linked data, text encoding) & training for a bunch of clients, especially #GLAM organisations and digital humanities people in universities. Always on the lookout for new & interesting work!

During the pandemic I've become an unpaid publicist for a bunch of local water dragons.

I like how "peer-review" concept is popularized now.

There is an issue though: the peer-review in science has all the same problems as maintenance work has in the software development.

Scientists are not paid or promoted for peer-reviews. In academic circles usually you praise people who do original research, not those who dig into the research of others.

And no one will give you a Fields medal for understanding what other Fields nominee actually did.

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"Replacing the prestige signal." Bjoern Brembs argues that journal prestige hardly guides scientists on what to read. We would invest the enormous sums wasted on a modern quality control system with multiple review systems.
http://bjoern.brembs.net/2022/02/replacing-the-prestige-signal/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Open_Science/comments/sof83v/replacing_the_prestige_signal_bjoern_brembs/?utm_source=ifttt

Open Source for research publishing Community Call - January 2022
https://www.force11.org/article/open-source-community-call-january-2022
https://www.reddit.com/r/Open_Science/comments/s7ucv4/open_source_for_research_publishing_community/?utm_source=ifttt

Sci-Hub: is it Unethical to "Pirate" Science? (Video and transcript by scientific skeptic Rebecca Watson.) "The oligarchy these publishers have formed is immoral and antithetical to the pursuit of humanity’s knowledge"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/60817400
https://www.reddit.com/r/Open_Science/comments/rz0iq1/scihub_is_it_unethical_to_pirate_science_video/?utm_source=ifttt

Academic publishing – market or collectivization? http://bjoern.brembs.net/2021/12/academic-publishing-market-or-collectivization/

Copyright lawyer and former top Pirate politician Julia Reda calls for collectivization of scientific publishing. Regensburg Neurogenetic Bjoern Brembs worries about becoming a moderate.