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presentations today at MTE14, and the papers that go with them","summary":"BIG
day today. The 14th Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota
(MTE14) is taking place in Salt Lake City this week. Normally I’d be there
in a heartbeat, but my son is graduating from high...","date_published":"2023-06-09T13:02:26Z","date_modified":"2023-06-09T13:02:26Z","authors":[{"url":null,"name":"Matt
Wedel"}],"image":null,"content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/ripple-rock-in-the-oklahoma-morrison.jpg\"><img
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data-image-title=\"Ripple rock in the Oklahoma Morrison\" data-image-description=\"\"
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data-large-file=\"https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/ripple-rock-in-the-oklahoma-morrison.jpg?w=480\"
class=\"size-large wp-image-21001 aligncenter\" src=\"https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/ripple-rock-in-the-oklahoma-morrison.jpg?w=480\"
alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/ripple-rock-in-the-oklahoma-morrison.jpg?w=480
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960w, https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/ripple-rock-in-the-oklahoma-morrison.jpg?w=150
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768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" /></a></p>\n<p>BIG day today.
The 14th Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota (MTE14) is
taking place in Salt Lake City this week. Normally I’d be there in a
heartbeat, but my son is graduating from high school next week and I’m
far too busy to get away. Still, I’m an author on one poster and two
talks that are running today, along with the three associated short papers
that are published in the conference volume in The Anatomical Record. </p>\n<p>I
will be blogging about these things, and shortly, but for now here are Wedel-related
presentations and links to the papers, in chronological order. (The whole
conference volume is available <a href=\"https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ar.25219\">here</a>,
I just extracted the papers I’m on as separate PDFs to post in the links
below.)</p>\n<p>1. Wedel and Atterholt on expanded neurocentral joints in
sauropods — Jessie is presenting our poster, which should be up for
most of the day. Citation and link to paper:</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:
40px\"><a href=\"https://sauroposeidon.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/wedel-and-atterholt-2023-expanded-neurocentral-joints-in-sauropods.pdf\">Wedel,
M.J., and Atterholt, J. 2023. Expanded neurocentral joints in the vertebrae
of sauropod dinosaurs. In Hunt-Foster, R.K., Kirkland, J.I., and Loewen, M.A.
(eds), 14th Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota. The Anatomical
Record 306(S1):256-257.</a></p>\n<p>2. Curtice et al. on the first material
of <em>Haplocanthosaurus</em> from Dry Mesa — I believe Brian Curtice
and Colin Boisvert are tag-teaming this talk at 2:00 pm MDT. </p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:
40px\"><a href=\"https://sauroposeidon.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/curtice-et-al-2023-haplocanthosaurus-from-dry-mesa.pdf\">Curtice,
B., Wedel, M.J., Wilhite, D.R., and Boisvert, C. 2023. New material of <em>Haplocanthosaurus</em>
(Hatcher 1903) from the Dry Mesa Dinosaur Quarry and a comment on sauropod
diversity. In Hunt-Foster, R.K., Kirkland, J.I., and Loewen, M.A. (eds), 14th
Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota. The Anatomical Record
306(S1):79-81.</a></p>\n<p>3. Weil et al. on Morrison microvertebrates from
the Oklahoma panhandle — Anne Weil is giving this talk at 2:15 pm MDT.</p>\n<p
style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><a href=\"https://sauroposeidon.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/weil-et-al-2023-oklahoma-morrison-microvertebrates.pdf\">Weil,
A., Hall, L., and Wedel, M.J. 2023. Microvertebrate expansion of known fauna
of the Morrison Formation of Oklahoma will enable more meaningful comparisons
with other regions. In Hunt-Foster, R.K., Kirkland, J.I., and Loewen, M.A.
(eds), 14th Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota. The Anatomical
Record 306(S1):257-258.</a></p>\n<p>Stand by for more info on all this stuff.
And if you’re attending MTE14, go catch these presentations and say
hi to all these excellent human beings!</p>\n","tags":["#MTE14","conferences","navel
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beginning of the end for academic publishers?","summary":"On May 23, the Council
of the EU adopted a set of conclusions on scholarly publishing that, if followed
through, would spell the end for academic publishers and scholarly journals
as we know them. On the same...","date_published":"2023-06-02T07:01:14Z","date_modified":"2023-06-02T07:01:15Z","authors":[{"url":null,"name":"Björn
Brembs"}],"image":null,"content_html":"<img src=\"http://bjoern.brembs.net/wp//wp-content/uploads/2013/05/politics.gif\"
width=\"50\" height=\"50\" alt=\"science politics\" title=\"science politics\"
/><br/>\n<p>On May 23, the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_the_European_Union\">Council
of the EU</a> adopted a <a href=\"https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023/05/23/council-calls-for-transparent-equitable-and-open-access-to-scholarly-publications/\">set
of conclusions</a> on scholarly publishing that, if followed through, would
spell the end for academic publishers and scholarly journals as we know them.
On the same day, the adoption was followed by a <a href=\"https://www.coalition-s.org/open-science-stakeholders-welcome-european-efforts-towards-publicly-owned-and-not-for-profit-scholarly-communication/\">joint
statement</a> of support by the largest and most influential research organizations
in Europe. At the heart of the goals spelled out in the conclusions and the
statement of support is the creation of a “publicly owned and not-for-profit”
infrastructure for scholarly publications.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Specifically, the
Council </p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>ENCOURAGES Member
States and the Commission to invest in and foster interoperable, not-for-profit
infrastructures for publishing based on open source software and open standards,
in order to avoid the lock-in of services as well as proprietary systems,
and to connect these infrastructures to the EOSC</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This
echos almost verbatim our proposal from 2021 where we outline a <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634\">replacement
for academic journals</a>. In this post, we detail the reasons behind this
seemingly radical proposal:</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large
is-resized\"><a href=\"http://bjoern.brembs.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/FIG_circular_v1.5.png\"><img
decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://bjoern.brembs.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/FIG_circular_v1.5-1024x863.png\"
alt=\"Three major scholarly crises in a vicious cycle\" class=\"wp-image-2571\"
width=\"512\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http://bjoern.brembs.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/FIG_circular_v1.5-1024x863.png
1024w, http://bjoern.brembs.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/FIG_circular_v1.5-300x253.png
300w, http://bjoern.brembs.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/FIG_circular_v1.5-768x647.png
768w, http://bjoern.brembs.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/FIG_circular_v1.5-50x42.png
50w, http://bjoern.brembs.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/FIG_circular_v1.5.png
1175w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" /></a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>A
vicious cycle of three crises</em>.<br />With their supra-inflationary price
increases, profit-maximizing journals overcharge (via subscriptions or article
processing charges) institutions by a factor of up to tenfold, extracting
library budgets with little if anything left for infrastructural development.
The resulting lack of infrastructure funds is a crisis of affordability: institutions
cannot afford to invest in technology and human support for relieving researchers
of menial tasks such as manuscript submission, data deposition, code publication,
etc. This results in a functionality crisis that entails researchers lacking
time, functionalities and human support both for efficient scrutiny during
the review process as well as for making their own research open and reproducible.
Not shown: Journals have apparently not invested their surplus into reviewer
support, resulting in little improvement over the last decades, such that
researchers are still lacking basic functionalities such as, e.g., comments
via authoring system, direct author communication, AI-assisted error and fraud
detection, efficient manuscript submission, etc., contributing to the functionality
crisis. As the journals keep increasing their prices without a concomitant
rise in investments, they fuel the replicability crisis.</figcaption></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This
vicious cycle has been allowed to go on for so long, that more and more experts
are now calling for precisely such a disruptive break. The time for small,
evolutionary steps has passed and the parasitic publishing corporations have
shown little willingness over the last decades even to just mitigate, let
alone solve the problems caused by their extractive business models. For more
than a decade, an ever-growing group of researchers have called to <a href=\"http://bjoern.brembs.net/2013/06/cut-out-the-parasitic-middlemen/\">cut
out these parasitic middle-men</a>. It now finally seems as if our arguments
have been convincing. Everything in the Council’s conclusions reiterates
what the open science community has been fighting for in all this time: vendor
lock-in needs to be broken, scholarly governance established and fragmenting
silos replaced with interoperable, federated infrastructure.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The
technical solutions needed for this modernization from 17th century journals
to 21 century digital technology are plenty and readily available off the
shelf. Scholarship has the choice of either picking pre-existing solutions
such as <a href=\"https://core.ac.uk/\">CORE</a> or <a href=\"https://openresearchcentral.org/\">ORC</a>,
or design a new network. In either case, the general structural design of
such a network may look something like this:</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image
size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http://bjoern.brembs.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/FIG_openscience_platform_v1.6.png\"><img
decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://bjoern.brembs.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/FIG_openscience_platform_v1.6-1024x623.png\"
alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2572\" width=\"512\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"http://bjoern.brembs.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/FIG_openscience_platform_v1.6-1024x623.png
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50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" /></a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Concept
for a federated scholarly information network</em>.<br />A federated network
of institutional repositories constitutes the underlying infrastructure. Ideally,
this infrastructure is designed redundantly, such that large fractions of
nodes may go offline and the remaining nodes still provide 100% of the content.
Users only directly interact with the output and narrative layers. The output
layer contains all research objects, text, data and code. The narrative layer
combines research objects in various forms, including research articles. The
community layer encompasses standard social technologies such as likes, follows
and other network tools (see also “<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7643817\">Mastodon
over Mammon</a>“). Modified from <a href=\"https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2017/04/10/rather-than-simply-moving-from-paying-to-read-to-paying-to-publish-its-time-for-a-european-open-access-platform\">LSE</a>.</figcaption></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Picking
an existing solution such as CORE or ORC comes with the advantage that little
new development has to be done and that it is obviously very cheap: everything
is already in place and only needs to be expanded. The downsides are that
the existing solutions have been designed in the current ecosystem and that
may have entailed some historical baggage one would need to identify and fix.
Conversely, picking off-the-shelf components to build a replacement from scratch
costs more, but has the advantage to be able to build a state-of.the-art system
with all the bells and whistles from the ground up. It’s a bit like
the choice between buying a used or new car or house.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obviously,
right after the declaration came out, the corporate misinformation machine
sprang into high gear. I won’t repeat the misleading, false or sometimes
just comically desperate attempts at smearing an obviously well thought-through,
sound and logical solution that has been decades in the making. Suffice it
to say, there are plenty of reasons why the plans outlined by the Council
have drawn such widespread support from all corners of the research community,
while the only resistance comes from the monopolistic corporations. This declaration
tackles the root of the replicability, affordability and functionality crises.
It aims to treat the disease, not the symptoms and has the potential to develop
into an effective vaccine against parasitic businesses striving to leech the
public purse. Little wonder these businesses fear it so much.</p>\n","tags":["science
politics","Council of the EU","infrastructure","publishers"],"language":"en","blog_id":"8q8xh52","blog":{"id":"8q8xh52","title":"bjoern.brembs.blog","description":"The
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