aj-boston.neocities.org

as someone whom peers and colleagues have routinely labeled as a "slow librarian" this book looks up my alley!!!

Why every scientist needs a librarian Librarians can be key research partners who help to scour the literature, manage data and make science open.

(ja rule voice) every thug needs a lady

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

an old-school DnD alignment chart, a grid of 3x3 squares, with the two axes being lawful to chaotic and good to evil. lawful good: a lengthy, well-formatted footnote with additional explanatory text neutral good: a note to future self of what to do with a footnote, but the full citation already pulled chaotic good: an incomplete footnote but the various authors are at least listed in brackets lawful neutral: a somewhat more restrained footnote than lawful good, without explanatory text true neutral: just the footnote chaotic neutral: a note from the author to the author, saying only "find this again!" lawful evil: a curt footnote saying "see, again:" with the full citation after it neutral evil: text, cut off by the screenshot: "I swear I read this somewhere; I've lost the bloody [...] goes to publication" chaotic evil: a completely blank footnote

I found this lying around in a random folder with other things I made in grad school: FOOTNOTE ALIGNMENT CHART

Is there a technology that the papacy is excited about?

(ages 25-35 were very hard!!!)

5 (+6) authors by whom I've read at least 5 books:
Bret Easton Ellis
Cormac McCarthy
George R.R. Martin
Herman Melville
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
J.M. Coetzee
Gabriel García Márquez
Roberto Bolańo
Tom Robbins
Ursula Le Guin
Vladimir Nabokov

@mikerugnetta.com 😈😜

🆕 Never Post! What Kind of Place is the Internet? If not body, why so many feels...

www.neverpo.st/what-kind-of...

Journal giant Elsevier unveiled an AI tool that scans millions of paywalled papers. Is it worth it? First-of-its-kind product raises questions about costs, access, and equity

Absolutely not!

www.science.org/content/arti...

Every episode of The Sopranos was about Antonio Gramsci.

berserk.fandom.com/wiki/Beherit

the only place this should happen is academic conferences

Biotech investor set to lead US National Science Foundation If confirmed by the US Senate, Jim O'Neill would be the first non-scientist or engineer to lead the agency, a big funder of US basic research.

US President Donald Trump plans to nominate biotechnology investor Jim O’Neill to be the next leader of the National Science Foundation (NSF), a White House spokesperson confirmed to Nature.

go.nature.com/4rsfxt6

Every now and then I get a question from a prospective author like "how much does it cost to publish with you." NO. That is not a thing.

Do. Not. Pay. To. Publish.

Pleased to announce that my Venmo payment has been accepted by a highly-rated paper mill!!!

No two countries that both use Fritos have ever gone to war with each other.

More training WORKS.

OMG THERE'S A DOG AT THE OLYMPICS SKI EVENT

cascade publishing does save time and helps to ensure a manuscript gets published, but so does the simultaneous submission system that law reviews employ.

the difference is the latter ensures the manuscript finds its highest quality outlet while the former only works to keep submissions in-house.

Academic publishers defeat lawsuit over ‘peer review’ pay, other restrictions A group of major academic publishers convinced a judge in New York to dismiss a lawsuit accusing them of thwarting competition by barring scholars from submitting papers to multiple journals simultane...

they should do this lawsuit again, but with a good argument instead of a bad one www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

academic publishers: "simultaneous submissions are unethical"

also academic publishers: "your submission was weak. we have sent it to our journal for weak articles"

you gotta get the matching IEMs too 😉

I have the HiBy R4 in orange, but if I could do it again, would go with the Neon Evangelion edition!!!

Screenshot of article from researchinformation.info: Clarivate announces Academic AI Working Group - Research Information. Expressions of interest invited from professionals engaged in Academic AI, user experience, digital strategy or responsible AI frameworks

"It's tech companies that build these things, not libraries"
The companies: Librarians, come build our tech for us for free.

Library Futures Announces 2026 Research Network Grants Research and advocacy for the future of libraries.

The AI Model Policies Working Group, independent publisher/library collaborations, and much more--meet our 2026 Research Network!

www.libraryfutures.net/post/library...

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Intellectual property maximalists have historically been like "we gotta give creators monopoly protection for as long as possible!"

Then ~100 years finally passes and it's just this lil' dumbass mouse playin a jig on his harmonica.

I can fix it. Why won't they let me fix it. I alone can fix it.

Higher Ed, in particular, should have fought 2FA on personal phones and removing our office phones tooth and nail for this reason.

Intellectual property maximalists have historically been like "we gotta give creators monopoly protection for as long as possible!"

Then ~100 years finally passes and it's just this lil' dumbass mouse playin a jig on his harmonica.