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Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing - Research Professional News Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards

" 60 per cent of UK university libraries are considering dropping their big deals with the five major academic publisher"
Many call for diamond open access. A new organisation with many partners, @ojcollective.bsky.social , is launching in January.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades Despite some ups and downs over the past several decades, today's real average wage in the U.S. has about the same purchasing power it did 40 years ago. And most of what wage gains there have been hav...

You're new to this topic. The accepted consensus for most of the 21st century has been "wage stagnation for decades". See e.g. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... The revised consensus is wages did stagnate for decades, but have grown recently. www.noahpinion.blog/p/so-why-did...

Looks like a great course (I've read about 1/2 the syllabus). It may be covered in your readings I haven't reviewed, but there could be more on evo psych, nativism, and intelligence.

🧠 Steve Fleming (@smfleming.bsky.social), professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College London on why collaborating with philosophers helps science ask better questions—and find better answers.

#PLPEXPeditions
@ucl.ac.uk @uclpals.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social

"By any measure" - the child poverty rate doubled under Biden after Manchin killed the child tax credit. For millions of workers like me (teacher), our living standards fell because our salaries were stagnant during relatively high inflation. The bad econ news wasn't all propaganda.

Philosophy of Biology Welcome to Cambridge Core

Read all Elements in The Philosophy of Biology series for FREE during the ISHPSSB conference 20 - 25 July. You can find all of these Elements free to download and read here: cup.org/4kEgivL

Let’s talk about Professor Jonathan Caravello, who teaches math and philosophy at CSU Channel Islands. He’s been detained by the feds based on events at a protest in Ventura County on Thursday.

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Dear Professor Byrne

My brave coworkers at MIT put together a statement re: Alex Byrne's confirmation that he co-authored the HHS report recommending against gender-affirming care for trans youth (www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...)

Please read the letter and sign at: dearprofessorbyrne.wordpress.com

A conversation with the editors of the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science Editors-in-Chief Michael C. Frank and Asifa Majid share their vision for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science as it surpasses 100 published articles.

The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (OECS) now features over 100 published articles! Editors-in-Chief @mcxfrank.bsky.social & @asifamajid.bsky.social share their vision for this open, online reference developed to guide the next generation of exploration in cognition & intelligence:

OECS thematic collections.

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind.

Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale Image display by cell-by-cell retina stimulation, enabling colors impossible to see under natural viewing.

Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale: "directly controlling the human eye’s photoreceptor activity via cell-by-cell light delivery ... we confirm a partial expansion of colorspace towards [a] theoretical ideal"

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I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

#OTD in 1858, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution by natural selection were published by the The Linnea Society, the first public announcement of the theory #histsci

Cambrian explosion fossils - the gift that keeps on giving.

Near-collapse of the geomagnetic field may have contributed to atmospheric oxygenation and animal radiation in the Ediacaran Period - Communications Earth & Environment An ultra-weak magnetic field from Earth’s core lasting for at least 26 million years may have contributed to Earth’s oxygenation and further diversification of the Ediacaran fauna, according to single...

Here's the original scientific article for those interested.

The development of human causal learning and reasoning

New Review by Mariel K. Goddu & Alison Gopnik

Web: go.nature.com/3Uy0WhG
PDF: rdcu.be/dFT5p

#psychology #psychscisky #devpsyc