"The pressures & incentives to publish are so high that anyone involved with any aspect of scholarly publishing can be exploited or duped. This is largely happening at an industrialized scale co-ordinated by unethical groups or organizations (e.g. paper mills) producing fraudulent content & offering incentives (including financial) to stakeholders, such as attempts to bribe ..."

My former colleague Sabina Alam on T&F's research integrity challenges.

insights.uksg.org/articles/10.…

#ResearchIntegrity

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#Gaza #Palestine
#IsraelWarCrimes

Portland City Council in Maine has voted unanimously to divest from companies doing business with Israel.

The divestment list includes 85 companies, among them major corporations such as Chevron, Volvo and Boeing.

The move follows a previous resolution passed in January, which called for the US government to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Israel has rejected several ceasefire deals by introducing new conditions.

middleeastmonitor.com/20240905…

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[poll] hey people who run linux,, have you been running into kernel panics recently? i thought it was just me but i noticed my friends were experienced them too ​​
some things that might (or might not!) narrow it down: arch linux (or probably any other bleeding edge type distro), tends to happen after suspending (but not immediately, might be a while), big maybe on using Xorg (havent tested tty or wayland), will occur during normal usage or at shutdown

pls boost ​​ im wondering if its widespread

#linux #linux

• yes!! on laptop (22%, 2 votes)
• yes!! not on laptop (0%, 0 votes)
• no?? (66%, 6 votes)
• i dont use linux but i wanted a button (11%, 1 vote)

Escape conf is something else.

escconf.com/

Countdown to my talk on my current go to #python web dev stack.

#htmx #playwright #alpinejs

At the beginning of academic #conference or #barcamp season. #OpenScience Community - do you have best practices of sharing your slides, talk-material, etc.?

I thought about installing @pfefferle tool for #Wordpress - Fediverse Connections; creating individual posts on my blog; putting the slides on #Zenodo ... done?

@elleneuler @girl_friday @Lambo

ABC News releases rules for Sept. 10 debate between Harris and Trump (Will Steakin/ABC News)

abcnews.go.com/US/abc-news-rel…
memeorandum.com/240905/p10#a24…

Elon Musk is absolutely not a 'free speech absolutist' (Gaby Del Valle/The Verge)

theverge.com/2024/9/4/24235213…
memeorandum.com/240905/p11#a24…

The number of full time real estate agents and brokers in the US is decreasing, per Axios:

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

We are planning to shut down #diaspora service at poddery.com unless new volunteers step in to maintain it. #matrix and #xmpp services will continue.

We decided to drop diaspora services at diasp.in earlier and this is a continuation of that trend.

We have been running this for over 12 years.

codema.in/d/3vqnoceg/important…

#FreeSoftware #privacy