We are cOAlition S, an international consortium of research funding & performing organisations, aiming to make full and immediate Open Access to research publications a reality by implementing #Plan_S
@cOAlitionS_OA ah that's great, good to have you onboard for discussions on academic publishing models. You may want to follow / CC in the hashtag #academicchatter and the similarly named group @academicchatter (with sizeable following) - both of which generate good discussions on this topic
"SigLA is an interactive database of inscriptions written in the (still undeciphered) Linear A script of Bronze Age Greece. SigLA aim at developing a systematic, exhaustive and user-friendly open access database of all Linear A inscriptions."
My comment: A beautiful, interactive, no cookie, no tracking web site, the way academic web sites ought to be.
New study: "We find that scientists are overwhelmingly (95%) failing to publish their #code and that there has been no significant improvement over time, but we also find evidence that code sharing can considerably improve #citations, particularly when combined with #OpenAccess publication." https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3222221/v1
Transgression is an essential concept for understanding many of today's political dynamics.
POPULISM AS A TRANSGRESSIVE STYLE by Théo Aiolfi (2022).
"As a consequence of its performative turn, the critical literature on populism has dedicated increasing attention to its sociocultural and stylistic features. Among the most prominent concepts underpinning this approach is the notion that populism relies on the “flaunting of the low” or the use of “bad manners.” This article engages in an extensive discussion of the way this concept is used in the literature and showcases its main limitations. In replacement, I then suggest the alternative concept of transgression, understood as the violation of a norm, which has the substantial advantages of being more flexible and versatile as well as less reliant on a normative binary".
DONALD TRUMP AND THE RATIONALIZATION OF TRANSGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR: The role of group prototypicality and identity advancement by Ben Davies, Carola Leicht and Dominic Abrams (2022).
"Overall, the present study identifies the rationalization of transgressive leader behaviors as a novel pathway to their continued support. We also identify identity advancement as a key driver of this effect. These results provide an important extension of deviance credit and indicate that the role of group prototypicality in the context of group serving leaders may need to be reconsidered. These results also have worrying implications for the nature of transgressive leadership and demonstrate how unimpeachable such leadership may become once it is established."
@PhilosophicalPsychology@philosophy@phenomenology Spent an hour with that article, too. The promise is that "Affordance frameworks can help us add phenomenological nuance to [various unusual] reports", and maybe assist thinking, e.g., the built environment in a fresh and affectively more helpful way.
The question might be, do they really? The article contains mainly promises. A more general question remains about the specific surplus-value of the arduous affordance-theoretical framework.
@PhilosophicalPsychology@philosophy@philosophyofpsychiatry Uhh, well, as a talking specimen: there is a cherry picking philosopher constructing a type from anecdotes. Interesting, but slightly off here and there. As far as I see in my little psycho bubble, the dependency on the background culture is an important variable, and we have - once more - a spectrum of cases here. Another caricature that should not be generalized!
Have you heard of the 1954 Hague Convention? It creates a world-wide general system of cultural property protection in armed conflict. Less well known are the systems of "Special Protection" (1954 Convention) and "Enhanced Protection" (1999 Second Protocol) intended to protect designated exceptional sites.
Why we think every scholarly organization, but in particular scholarly societies, should not just migrate to #Mastodon, but host their own instances - and what that has to do with the journals many scholarly societies use to generate revenue: