@OAPym

Account mostly no longer in use. Works in research publishing. #openaccess / #opendata for work. Views are my own. RT not endorsement.

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Joined October 2016
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Cureus has been de-listed by Web of Science and as such has lost its Impact Factor.
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After 3 of the last 4 flights that I have taken with @British_Airways were cancelled with zero support from BA, I am surrendering my Silver membership with OneWorld in favour of Star Alliance. BA are *terrible*.
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I will use my remaining ~300K Avios airmiles for personal hotels, etc, but I am not using BA for work again. Horrible airline.
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I was particularly unimpressed with the Cust Serv person that offered me an alternative flight home after my Dublin flight was cancelled if I could fly from Inverness. Was I supposed to swim from Ireland to Scotland? A basic understanding of geography would help your customers
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As we are getting a puppy soon I needed to puppy proof my home and garden. Ended up taking 4 huge car loads to charity or the dump yesterday. My back is *really* sore.
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I like this approach in principle (although it makes price transparency harder), but in practice lowering prices for some, necessitates raising prices for others in order to remain revenue neutral, and no-one is seemingly able to pay more. coalition-s.org/blog/maximiz…

Maximizing participation in scholarly communication through equitable pricing 

Academic knowledge shouldn’t be hindered by economic disparities. However, many researchers today, particularly in developing countries, face significant barriers to participating in scholarly...

coalition-s.org
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It took me over 4 hours to get home from work today....
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This is scary, but also entirely at odds with the evidence. Malhotra has been a contrarian for decades, so no surprise there, but as an epidemiologist, Bhattachayara should be more familiar with the epi data. Doubling down on infection "herd immunity" is, at this point, stupid
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It is worth noting that Dr Bhattachayara was an author of the "Great Barrington Declaration". An approach to Covid that sought to allow unchecked infection in the population that weren't in high risk groups. This was obviously attractive to idiots.
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And I say idiots, because the only way that those would work would be to *permanently* exclude at risk groups from society. Which is getting very close to eugenics.
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Copenhagen Airport *still* needs to have more space in their gate lounges. It has been insufficient for at *least* 20 years.
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Haven't seen this in the UK, but it is delicious!
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Off to Copenhagen for ~24 hours.
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Twitter; aiding stalkers to prop up advertising revenue.
Engineering
@Engineering16 Oct 2024
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I think that there might be a slight issue with BBC weather forecast for today...
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An odd drive home music selection today made up of modern Acid Techno from Marie Vaunt and '80s/90s hardcore from Bad Religion. I'm not sure how I never knew that Greg Graffin of Bad Religion was a Professor of Evolutionary Biology at UCLA as well as being a punk icon.
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Yikes.
Lonni Besançon 🇫🇷 🇸🇪
@lonnibesancon30 Sep 2024
Web of Science puts Cureus and @HeliyonJournal on hold. Read the story from @joelving on @RetractionWatch featuring many sleuths that you all know about (e.g., @nickwizzo) retractionwatch.com/2024/09/…

Web of Science puts mega-journals Cureus and Heliyon on hold

Web of Science, Clarivate’s influential database of abstracts and citations, has paused indexation of new content from the open-access journals Heliyon and Cureus, apparently due to concerns about …

retractionwatch.com
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S3:E1 of The Bear may be some of the finest TV storytelling that I have ever seen. Sublime.
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Another fine day in post-LLM publishing...
Liam Bright@lastpositivist11 Sep 2024
What a curious thing to say!
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It is August.
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