Get off my lawn! Are journal demands for “novelty” creating a culture of low-level academic dishonesty?
This article on the Duck by Dan Nexon, about rather unfortunate consequences of the publish/perish incentives,makes some very good points
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Links I liked
Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site
When I was a boy, the sea off Sellafield was supposed to be the most radioactive body of water in the world. No idea if this was true, but this article about the past, present, and unfortunately very, very long future of Britain’s nuclear fuel industry is excellent.
Pinging Mastodon instances | Sociology, Statistics and Software
This small experiment is quite interesting, because it reveals a tiny bit of Mastodon’s network topology. I remember that I saw one of Brendon’s test posts.
Is MDPI a predatory publisher?
This, from 2021, is still interesting
The IndieWeb for Everyone | Max Böck
This is an interesting article on everyone’s favourite topic, written from a very specific perspective
Is there a future for the academic social capital held on twitter? | Impact of Social Sciences
This, by Mark Carrigan, makes many good points re The Developments at Twitter and what they mean for academics, academics institutions, and the wider society
Fall of Civilizations Podcast 6. Easter Island
I discovered this podcast during lockdown and found the combination of cultivated speech patterns & inevitable societal breakdown oddly soothing. This episode, however, is utterly depressing.
Autocracies like Russia end in these three ways – The Washington Post
Very good and rather sobering article by Kathryn Stoner on what is likely to happen after Putin
What makes for a successful conference? | The Duck of Minerva
These are all good points
Downtime is not an option – meet the stewards of the cloud | Aeon Essays
You, a quantitative researcher, may feel a certain affinity towards computers and, by extension, the cloud. You’re wrong. For a true geek-out, an ethnographic approach is required.