Sometimes I think that submission fees could be a solution... 50 bucks that you only get back/are charged against fees if an article is accepted. Many journals & editors are close to their breaking point.

BRUTAL: Jimmy Kimmel thrashes Trump's capture of Venezuelan dictator Maduro: "Yes, he's a criminal and a dictator who's driven his country into financial ruin, while he and his family have lined their own pockets, but Maduro is no saint either."

BOOM! 💥

Because international media largely seems to struggle to choose the correct wording to describe what’s happening: the US, under the self describes „peace president“, attacked another country and kidnapped its president. That is factual, no matter how bad or illegitimate Maduro‘s rule is (very bad).

Última hora de las explosiones en Venezuela, en directo | Estados Unidos ataca Venezuela, según Reuters y la CBS El Gobierno de Maduro considera las explosiones una “gravísima agresión militar” contra Venezuela | El Ejecutivo venezolano decreta el estado de emergencia

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Trump dice que Maduro ha sido capturado y trasladado fuera de Venezuela

Was gerade in Venezuela passiert, die Rückkehr der amerikanischen Hinterhofpolitik mit militärischen Mitteln, ist genau das Zeichen, was die Regime mit ähnlichen Gelüsten brauchen, von Moskau über Ankara und Teheran bis Peking.

Dinero gastado, tiempo invertido y menos confianza en el sistema: cómo las cuatro grandes editoriales "drenan" la ciencia La deriva de las últimas décadas ha otorgado el control sobre la ciencia a los grandes grupos editoriales privados, sostiene un estudio que indica que Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley y Taylor & Franc...

Dinero gastado, tiempo invertido y menos confianza en el sistema: cómo las cuatro grandes editoriales drenan la ciencia
www.eldiario.es/sociedad/din... / www.msn.com/es-es/notici...

Green to Grey is a pioneering collaboration between journalists and scientists counting every green space lost in Europe between January 2018 and December 2023.
greentogrey.eu #GreenToGrey

#OpenAccess Switzerland: Negotiations with Springer Nature: No-deal Situation www.swissuniversities.ch/en/topics/op...

Trump on Venezuela: "Getting land, oil rights, whatever we had -- they took it away because we had a president that maybe wasn't watching. But they're not gonna do that. We want it back. They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companies out. And we want it back."

All travelers from ESTA countries (yes the ones on visa waiver programs) will have to disclose 5 years of social media + huge amounts of personal data to enter the US now. All US academic associations should now meet outside the US if we want to meet our international colleagues.

Cloudflare outage disrupts ChatGPT, X, other internet services Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare says it is deploying a fix for an issue that caused global outages for ChatGPT, social media platform X, League of Legends and other prominent internet serv...

Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare says it is deploying a fix for an issue that caused global outages for ChatGPT, social media platform X, and transit infrastructure.

Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues Cloudflare's Status Page - Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues.

Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available. Follow our updates here: www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8g...

(S+) Sadisten-Netzwerk um »White Tiger«: Wie ein FBI-Agent an der Hamburger Polizei verzweifelte Im Juni haben die Behörden einen Mordverdächtigen aus Hamburg verhaftet. Waren sie zu langsam? Ein US-Ermittler, der den mutmaßlichen Pädokriminellen Jahre zuvor enttarnte, erhebt im SPIEGEL Vorwürfe.

#Polizeiruf110 Der reale Hintergrund: Sadisten-Netzwerk um »White Tiger«: Wie ein FBI-Agent an der Hamburger Polizei verzweifelte - DER SPIEGEL share.google/vjqTLIgHSUrO...

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Auch menschlich enttäuschend... Die SPD Potsdam sieht ihre Felle davonschwimmen!

Los Angeles Times | Obituary Robert Redford 1936-2025. Portrait of an older Robert Redford looking directly at the camera. He is wearing all black.

Robert Redford, a generational icon who commanded the big screen as the star of “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “The Way We Were” and won awards and lasting praise for directing films such as “Ordinary People,” has died. He was 89.

www.latimes.com/obituaries/s...

Did #Trump just imply that the U.S. is at #CivilWar?

Dear author, please add a meaningful y-axis label to your chart...

Thinking about that quote from Battlestar Galactica a lot these days:

"There's a reason why you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state.
The other serves and protects the people.
When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."

10-13 August 1975: around 150-300 young East Germans chased Algerian guest workers through the streets of Erfurt and beat them up in racist assaults www.deutschlandfunk.de/gedenken-an-...

Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature The action comes as high-ranking US officials criticize top journals as ‘woke’ and ‘corrupt’.

Confirmed: NIH, USDA, NASA about to lose access to 3,000 SpringerNature journals:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump Admin. Cuts NIH’s Springer Nature Subscriptions Citing an unnamed source, Axios reported this week that the Trump administration has cut “about $20 million in grants covering subscriptions” with Springer Nature

Looks like this is not (fully) true: www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Trump Admin. Cuts NIH’s Springer Nature Subscriptions Citing an unnamed source, Axios reported this week that the Trump administration has cut “about $20 million in grants covering subscriptions” with Springer Nature

Looks like this is not (fully) true: www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

They're cancelling publishers because of woke.

Gold OA and national agreements with publishers could have been the way to go, but national consortia failed to implement strict price caps -- instead they now seem to happily pay whatever publishers demand...

Wenn es sich bestätigt, doch eine sinnvolle Investition: Schwer verkäufliche Ruine als Innenstadtnaher Uni-Standort allemal besser als die üblichen Pseudo-Rekonstruktionen in #Potsdam. Und nicht noch ein Hotel oder Luxus-Wohnungen...

The proposed NASA budget would end already-operating #planetsci missions to Mars, Jupiter, asteroids, and “kill off nearly every major science mission the agency has not yet begun building” including those to Venus, Mars and Uranus. Monitoring climate change on Earth would also be hit hard. ☀️🧪⚛️

On May 14, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour in Manchester. Highlights from that first night are now available as the "Land of Hope and Dreams" EP...

Mark Zuckerbergs Konzern #Meta, dem #Facebook & #Instagram angehören, möchte seine Künstliche Intelligenz „Meta #AI“ mit Daten von User:innen trainieren. Meta setzt das Einverständnis voraus – ein Widerspruch ist aber bis 26.5. möglich. So geht's auf Facebook & Insta 👉 rbburl.de/metawiderspr...