George Cooper

I’m excited to share that I’m starting a new role as Lecturer (Publishing Practice) at UCL! Alongside ongoing research on censorship, I’ll be exploring practice-oriented projects, so if you work in publishing and want to discuss ideas for a potential collaboration, get in touch!

Guest Post — DEI Under Threat: Collaborative Strategies to #DefendResearch - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest post reflects on the recent panel discussion, "Collaborative strategies to #DefendResearch and ensure academic freedom," by speakers and organizers of the event.

Powerful Scholarly Kitchen piece re centrality of diversity to research & the importance of collaboration to protect scholarship. @tteleen.bsky.social, @rouhiroo.bsky.social, @georgecoops.bsky.social et al
#DEI #DefendResearch scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/12/22/g...

What drives #censorship complicity in scholarly #publishing? New preprint from my recent PhD shows how structural, commercial & organizational pressures pushed Western publishers to acquiesce to censorship demands in China—and the obstacles facing collective action: bit.ly/3lfraqt #PublishingEthics

The allegorical figure Veritas (Truth) is depicted in a print from 1611 reading -because the act of reading symbolizes the act of interpretation. The goddess is sitting on a horse, and all this is a detail from a larger print that can be found as a digital copy over here: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1923-1016-27-21

Why not be like the goddess Veritas (Truth) today? Wear a fancy reading hat with flames, read a physical book, and maybe also ride a horse meanwhile. #booksky #bookhistory

There are people among us who fill out event registration forms entirely in lower case. Who are you? Explain yourselves.

Sally Rooney is clearly an excellent writer and arguments to the contrary are a cheap way to make edgy copy for literary magazines

Is #openscience being co-opted by the US govt? To what ends? Enormouse privilege to share a platform with such incredible pannelists (Michael-Anne Kyle, Dan Rudmann, Christopher Marcum) at #OSfair25, expertly moderated by Sara Rouhi (rouhiroo.bsky.social) + blessed with a very engaged audience!

VeriXiv Webinar: "The Gates Foundation's 2025 Open Access Policy Refresh: Introducing VeriXiv", 24th September 2024. Speakers: Dr. George Cooper, Senior Associate Publisher, F1000; Dr. Augustino Hellar, CEO, Prime Health Initiative Tanzania (PHIT).

Are you a Gates-funded researcher? Want to learn more about preprints?

Join us for our webinar 'The Gates Foundation's 2025 Open Access Policy Refresh: Introducing VeriXiv'.

📆 24th September
🕒 09:00 BST

Sign up today: spr.ly/63325ABpvc

@georgecoops.bsky.social

a rare and precious thing

Philip Jones | 'The British Book Awards 2025 was a time to accentuate the human'

At The British Book Awards on Monday, I made the point from the stage of how human this sector is [...] books train us, not computers, and they make us into the better humans we need to be, says @philipdsjones.bsky.social in this week's editor's letter 👇 #BookSky

Thanks Stephanie! Was a fun session and good discussions afterwards.

@fulhamish.bsky.social Can you untag me from these posts - you’ve got the wrong George Cooper…!

Can you untag me from these posts - you’ve got the wrong George Cooper…!

Can you untag me from these posts - you’ve got the wrong George Cooper…!

Can you untag me from these posts - you’ve got the wrong George Cooper…!

Can you untag me from these posts - you’ve got the wrong George Cooper…!

"Developing a device that could treat severe bleeding. It seems to have caught the committee’s attention for using the words “victims” — as in gunshot victims — and “trauma.” Creating biosensors to detect infectious diseases. The grant appears to have been tagged for the repeated use of “POC,” an acronym often used for “people of color” but in this context meaning “point of care” — that is, the place where people receive medical treatment — and “barrier,” referring to a part of the biosensor itself. Designing eye-tracking technology for diagnosing and treating concussions. It appears to have gotten flagged for referencing “traumatic” brain injuries and the “status,” meaning the condition, of patients."

ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh.

This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

something weirdly cleansing about passing through airport security esp. now I’ve cleared all the dry baby wipes out of my big coat

Will medical publishers fight Trump’s war on 'woke'?

The collective resolve of the medical publishing industry is being put to the test, says George Cooper 👇 #BookSky

Will medical publishers fight Trump’s war on 'woke'? The collective resolve of the medical publishing industry is being put to the test.

#censorship in health research affects us all. We share a responsibility to stand firm and decry Trump’s war on "gender ideology" as a full-scale assault on the scientific method.

A comment in @the-bookseller.bsky.social

www.thebookseller.com/comment/will...

fully support X-Bluesky migration as a general thing but… I think you have the wrong George Cooper…? No Fulham FC connections I can exploit I’m afraid.

China's ChatGPT rival, DeepSeek, changes its answers in REAL-TIME China's controversial ChatGPT rival, DeepSeek, censors politically sensitive responses in real-time and refuses to even name President Xi Jinping.

Alleged #DeepSeek censorship part of a broader trend towards the export of China’s censorship controls to global forms of online communication and media, involving the coercion of private firms acting as agents of the state - a comment in @dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

‘The nice version of her was manufactured for YouTube’: my mum, the family vlogger who became a child abuser Ruby Franke was a social media star who made viral videos about her six children and perfect-seeming life – until she was jailed for child abuse. Now her eldest daughter Shari is telling her side of t...

I predict more and more of these abusers will be exposed. We'll look back this time when it's considered normal to film your kids 24/7 and think "WTF"

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

it’s cold up north

getting into Lemsip in a big way

If you’re working on a topic related to academic publishing and might be interested in writing a short-from monograph like Matt’s, I’d be very happy to discuss a proposal with you (as editor of the academic strand in the CUP Publishing and Book Culture series). In the meantime do read Matt’s book!

reading about this Louise Haigh thing and wondering how long a PR storm of this magnitude can survive in such a small teacup

A terrific theory that pairs well with the Economist's terrific and terrifying chart of Musk's tweeting.

Proposal Guidelines Visual, broken into eight sections - Working Title, Structure, Description & Aims, Chapter Synopses, Length & Schedule, Competition, Market & Audience, and What About You

A visual alternative to the usual academic publisher "proposal guidelines" form here. Ask me about submitting a book proposal!

the Admiral. Sausage bap and a pint from 7am.