John Hilton

Yeah agree about that Forest game. It was truly horrible.

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This error message on the #saintsfc app says it all really

I think we need a manager with a longer name. These 4-6 letter managers don't seem to be working.

Jones, Selles, Martin, Juric, Rusk, Still, ?? #saintsfc

I persuade myself that there's a great team in there somewhere and they just need not do the obviously crap things and settle, and then they keep doing the obviously crap things.... Then I remember how long I have been thinking that 😵‍💫 (Sorry to intrude on your zen vibe) 😐

One of mine was called Hilda, for reasons I don't recall. But I am old enough that it was print only.

A couple of injuries and two of them are banned following a red card. I think they could have called up a couple of the U18s though

A black and white archive photograph of a bearded man sharpening a scythe for cutting crops

Everybody waiting for #CelebrityTraitors tonight

YouTube video by Keith Jarrett - Topic So Tender

So sad to hear

youtu.be/-wnYZT_DjsI?...

The A to Z Scholarly Publishing Quiz Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.

I have put together another short quiz on scholarly publishing. This week it's all about DOIs, diamond OA, DORA, and other D things. Just for fun, but reply with your score if you like.

>>> tally.so/r/wQgMOl

I am not surprised. Supreme frustration just from looking at my phone while away on holiday, so can only imagine the feeling of those who paid to witness it.

Spoilers! But I do love this a lot

Dunfermline Dave #McMorrissey

The A to Z Scholarly Publishing Quiz Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.

It's Monday, so I'm sharing my latest scholarly publishing quiz. This week's quiz is brought to you by the letter C - COPE, contributorship, Cell Press, cakes...

tally.so/r/nPVog0

What score did you get?

Guidelines and checklists for... writing guidelines and checklists, by Tom Lang

That cover ❤️

So now we have a Gateway and a Nexus. Other publishing organisations have gone with Portal, Hub, Framework, Academy for their AI showcases. I wonder what's next on the list? Matrix? Enclave?

www.wiley.com/en-gb/soluti...

The A to Z Scholarly Publishing Quiz Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.

Round 2 of the A to Z Scholarly Publishing Quiz. This week is brought to you by the letter B 👉 tally.so/r/nWxP6R
Reply with your score!

#ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #Scholcomms #Quiz

New archive of independent music magazines, from RILM. I just love that there's a spreadsheet that lists all the editors. Hats of to editors, independent music, and curated archives.

ReplicationResearch.org is now open for submissions!

Submit replications and reproductions from many different fields, as well as conceptual contributions. With diamond OA, open and citable peer review reports, and reproducibility checks, we push the boundaries of open and fair publishing.

Tracking Shutdown Impact and Changes at PubMed There's been some panic about PubMed again, since a notice on the website warned it could be out of date because of the US government shutdown. Shutdown is dreadful, in so many ways. But that notice doesn't mean PubMed has been de-funded, or that it's not being maintained. The notice is the same as the one displayed during a shutdown in 2018.

Tracking Shutdown Impact and Changes at PubMed

There's been some panic about PubMed again, since a notice on the website warned it could be out of date because of the US government shutdown. Shutdown is dreadful, in so many ways. But that notice doesn't mean PubMed has been de-funded, or that it's…

Agree. It's decision making and judgement, not button pushing.

The A to Z Scholarly Publishing Quiz Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.

I am running a weekly A to Z Scholarly Publishing Quiz. It's just for fun, but you might learn something 📘

This week’s letter: 🅰️

Take the quiz here 👉 tally.so/r/3j8z8R

Please reply and let me know how you did!

#AcademicPublishing #ScholarlyPublishing #ScholarlyCommunications #Quiz

New post on RestoRes's website. "New initiative seeks evidence for effective open science practices"

The Global Research Initiative on Open Science, officially launched last week, aims to identify what works (and what doesn’t) in Open Science worldwide.

restores.univ-rennes.fr/highlights/n...

When I use a word . . . Paracetamol/acetaminophen—autism and asthma Among the many examples of serendipity in drug discovery, the antipyretic action of phenacetin was accidentally discovered because of its use by clinicians who were mistakenly supplied with a product ...

Jeffrey Aronson on serendipity, paracetamol/acetaminophen, autism, bias, and so much more... doi.org/10.1136/bmj....

Innovation in scientific publishing and its implications for Crossref DOI registration practices - Request for input - Crossref Lots of exciting innovations are being made in scientific publishing, often raising fundamental questions about established publishing practices. In this guest post, Ludo Waltman and André Brasil disc...

We need good practices for DOI registration for publish-review-curate platforms like @metaror.bsky.social and others.

@andre-brasil.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post about this: doi.org/10.64000/76j...

Together with @crossref.bsky.social we hope to receive input from the community on this issue!

COYR! Yeah, not a clue what's going to happen. Win or lose, I just want some goals...

Riverside blue also all over the place

People who come to my workshops on ai search engines are often frustrated because they want me to tell them which is best. With librarians it manifests as to asking which we subscribe to. Not a bad idea if idea is you trust preferences revealed by actions. But here's the issue . . (1)

Glenn's boots 🌟