Samuel Moore
@samuelmoore.org
Researcher at Cambridge University Library / Cambridge Digital Humanities
PI: @morphss.bsky.social
New book: Publishing Beyond the Market https://press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publishing-Beyond-the-Market
https://www.samuelmoore.org
PI: @morphss.bsky.social
New book: Publishing Beyond the Market https://press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publishing-Beyond-the-Market
https://www.samuelmoore.org
Pinned
Samuel Moore
@samuelmoore.org
· Sep 1
You can now download the book on the publisher's website: press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ... (open access of course)
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Since it’s University Press Week #UPweek, a shout out to my amazing colleagues at University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social. They are flying the flag for open humanities publishing.
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Since it’s University Press Week #UPweek, a shout out to my amazing colleagues at University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social. They are flying the flag for open humanities publishing.
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In today’s pay-to-publish model where every paper lands somewhere, rejection just means another publisher profits. That's why publishers are building multi-tier journal ecosystems.
"Acquiring the Karger journals will provide OUP with many more downstream transfer destinations, helping OUP to publish more of the articles that get rejected by their higher impact journals."
Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
OUP acquires Karger's long tail
Hello fellow journalologists,
newsletter.journalology.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 AM
In today’s pay-to-publish model where every paper lands somewhere, rejection just means another publisher profits. That's why publishers are building multi-tier journal ecosystems.
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"Festival of Floppies" and "Copy that Floppy" are such good titles for outreach events, I can't get over it.
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/future-nosta...
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/future-nosta...
Future Nostalgia: Safeguarding the knowledge of floppy disks
Funded by British Academy/ Leverhulme Trust Small Grant
www.lib.cam.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"Festival of Floppies" and "Copy that Floppy" are such good titles for outreach events, I can't get over it.
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/future-nosta...
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/future-nosta...
"Ultimately the message of the book is one of hope. It can take a long time for these structures and infrastructures to be dismantled. Returning looted objects, removing racist statues, or changing academic disciplines doesn’t happen overnight. Militarist realism won’t be unbuilt in a day."
💥New from me in @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social
“Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism”—presenting colonialism as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology”
jacobin.com/2025/11/brit...
“Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism”—presenting colonialism as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology”
jacobin.com/2025/11/brit...
One Day, Britain’s Monuments Will Fall
Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism,” presenting colonialism and enslavement as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past bu...
jacobin.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"Ultimately the message of the book is one of hope. It can take a long time for these structures and infrastructures to be dismantled. Returning looted objects, removing racist statues, or changing academic disciplines doesn’t happen overnight. Militarist realism won’t be unbuilt in a day."
The problem with embracing non-profit publishing is you still get this:
bsky.app/profile/samu...
We need publishing that is not commercially driven rather than focusing on profit status.
bsky.app/profile/samu...
We need publishing that is not commercially driven rather than focusing on profit status.
‘Embrace non-profit publishing to tackle largest science crisis’.
Stockholm Declaration promotes shift to models encouraging high quality and restoration of trust.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...
Stockholm Declaration promotes shift to models encouraging high quality and restoration of trust.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...
‘Embrace non-profit publishing to tackle largest science crisis’ - Research Professional News
Stockholm Declaration promotes shift to models encouraging high quality and restoration of trust
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The problem with embracing non-profit publishing is you still get this:
bsky.app/profile/samu...
We need publishing that is not commercially driven rather than focusing on profit status.
bsky.app/profile/samu...
We need publishing that is not commercially driven rather than focusing on profit status.
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Join us online on 2 Dec for ‘Old, New, Precarious Data’, the 1st event of the 2025-6 @dh-researchhub.bsky.social seminar series on incompleteness & loss in digital cultural heritage collections. Speakers include @beatricecannelli.bsky.social, @heatherfro.bsky.social, Leontien Talboom & Amelia Acker
Old, New, Precarious Data
Old, New, Precarious Data is the first event of the 2025-2026 DHRH flagship seminar series on incompleteness and loss in digital cultural heritage collections.
www.sas.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Join us online on 2 Dec for ‘Old, New, Precarious Data’, the 1st event of the 2025-6 @dh-researchhub.bsky.social seminar series on incompleteness & loss in digital cultural heritage collections. Speakers include @beatricecannelli.bsky.social, @heatherfro.bsky.social, Leontien Talboom & Amelia Acker
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Reminds me of how Coventry University is making staff redundant while also building a new campus in India and, for some reason, a hotel in Coventry city centre. Feels bad to know that your employer cares more about buildings than people.
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Reminds me of how Coventry University is making staff redundant while also building a new campus in India and, for some reason, a hotel in Coventry city centre. Feels bad to know that your employer cares more about buildings than people.
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We're delighted to digitally contribute to @theul.bsky.social Curious Cures project
Curator James Freeman highlights some of way Middle English medical writings have survived to us:
specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=30906
One more month to catch the physcial exhibition, do not miss it!
Curator James Freeman highlights some of way Middle English medical writings have survived to us:
specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=30906
One more month to catch the physcial exhibition, do not miss it!
In their own words: medical writings in Middle English – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
We're delighted to digitally contribute to @theul.bsky.social Curious Cures project
Curator James Freeman highlights some of way Middle English medical writings have survived to us:
specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=30906
One more month to catch the physcial exhibition, do not miss it!
Curator James Freeman highlights some of way Middle English medical writings have survived to us:
specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=30906
One more month to catch the physcial exhibition, do not miss it!
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I live in a world where scholarly publishing is operated as a market, and that market is controlled by conglomerate publishers, some of whom are "non-profit".
"Acquiring the Karger journals will provide OUP with many more downstream transfer destinations, helping OUP to publish more of the articles that get rejected by their higher impact journals."
Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
OUP acquires Karger's long tail
Hello fellow journalologists,
newsletter.journalology.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I live in a world where scholarly publishing is operated as a market, and that market is controlled by conglomerate publishers, some of whom are "non-profit".
"Acquiring the Karger journals will provide OUP with many more downstream transfer destinations, helping OUP to publish more of the articles that get rejected by their higher impact journals."
Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
OUP acquires Karger's long tail
Hello fellow journalologists,
newsletter.journalology.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
"Acquiring the Karger journals will provide OUP with many more downstream transfer destinations, helping OUP to publish more of the articles that get rejected by their higher impact journals."
Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
My kingdom for a publisher that allows you to download an entire book as one file rather than individual chapter pdfs
November 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
My kingdom for a publisher that allows you to download an entire book as one file rather than individual chapter pdfs
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I wonder if the differing responses to AI are down to arXiv having a sustainability model that's more mature and dependent on institutional funding, while Openrxiv is newer and looking to more to commercial services and partnerships for sustainability.
A week after the arXiv was forced to tighten down on submissions because of overwhelming volumes of AI slop, bioRxiv is throwing the doors wide open.
disappointed that @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social is implicitly endorsing the use of LLMs to replace scientific thought
@richardsever.bsky.social this is a short-sighted move and a net negative for science
@richardsever.bsky.social this is a short-sighted move and a net negative for science
November 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I wonder if the differing responses to AI are down to arXiv having a sustainability model that's more mature and dependent on institutional funding, while Openrxiv is newer and looking to more to commercial services and partnerships for sustainability.
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RIP Paolo Virno
November 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
RIP Paolo Virno
I wonder if the differing responses to AI are down to arXiv having a sustainability model that's more mature and dependent on institutional funding, while Openrxiv is newer and looking to more to commercial services and partnerships for sustainability.
A week after the arXiv was forced to tighten down on submissions because of overwhelming volumes of AI slop, bioRxiv is throwing the doors wide open.
disappointed that @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social is implicitly endorsing the use of LLMs to replace scientific thought
@richardsever.bsky.social this is a short-sighted move and a net negative for science
@richardsever.bsky.social this is a short-sighted move and a net negative for science
November 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I wonder if the differing responses to AI are down to arXiv having a sustainability model that's more mature and dependent on institutional funding, while Openrxiv is newer and looking to more to commercial services and partnerships for sustainability.
"Until a year ago, only 2–3% of submissions were ultimately rejected by moderators, says Steinn Sigurðsson, an astrophysicist at Penn State University in University Park who is arXiv’s scientific director. But in the last year, that number has gone up to 10%."
'The oldest and best-known preprint repository, arXiv, has announced that it will no longer accept review or position papers in computer science. The website will make exceptions only for papers that have been previously accepted by a peer-reviewed venue, such as a journal or conference.'
Preprint site arXiv is banning computer-science reviews: here’s why
The repository is taking steps to tackle a surge in low quality, AI-generated content.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:31 AM
"Until a year ago, only 2–3% of submissions were ultimately rejected by moderators, says Steinn Sigurðsson, an astrophysicist at Penn State University in University Park who is arXiv’s scientific director. But in the last year, that number has gone up to 10%."
Was stuck dealing with a chatbot and so I repeated the word COMPENSATION over and over again until they gave me a tenner. Love AI.
November 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Was stuck dealing with a chatbot and so I repeated the word COMPENSATION over and over again until they gave me a tenner. Love AI.
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Quite a good illustration of why the problems of knowledge production are not about "misplaced incentives" but the degradation of the material conditions that allow us to do our work.
Scientists feel that the pressure to publish is rising, but that the time and resources they have to do the necessary research are falling, according to a survey of 3,200 researchers
go.nature.com/4hNDvuN
go.nature.com/4hNDvuN
Pressure to publish is rising as research time shrinks, finds survey of scientists
Researchers feel that pressures to publish are increasing, but the time and resources available to do research are decreasing, according to a survey by Elsevier.
go.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Quite a good illustration of why the problems of knowledge production are not about "misplaced incentives" but the degradation of the material conditions that allow us to do our work.
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💯 and it's troubling so many people still think that reforming promotion and tenure policies is a magic solution
November 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
💯 and it's troubling so many people still think that reforming promotion and tenure policies is a magic solution
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Solidarity with @pcsunion.bsky.social workers at the British Library.
300 workers on strike. Some of them having to take second jobs or taking out loans just to be able to survive.
A Pay "award" below inflation is a pay cut. Unacceptable.
Solidarity - and keep organising! ✊🏼
300 workers on strike. Some of them having to take second jobs or taking out loans just to be able to survive.
A Pay "award" below inflation is a pay cut. Unacceptable.
Solidarity - and keep organising! ✊🏼
November 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Solidarity with @pcsunion.bsky.social workers at the British Library.
300 workers on strike. Some of them having to take second jobs or taking out loans just to be able to survive.
A Pay "award" below inflation is a pay cut. Unacceptable.
Solidarity - and keep organising! ✊🏼
300 workers on strike. Some of them having to take second jobs or taking out loans just to be able to survive.
A Pay "award" below inflation is a pay cut. Unacceptable.
Solidarity - and keep organising! ✊🏼
Quite a good illustration of why the problems of knowledge production are not about "misplaced incentives" but the degradation of the material conditions that allow us to do our work.
Scientists feel that the pressure to publish is rising, but that the time and resources they have to do the necessary research are falling, according to a survey of 3,200 researchers
go.nature.com/4hNDvuN
go.nature.com/4hNDvuN
Pressure to publish is rising as research time shrinks, finds survey of scientists
Researchers feel that pressures to publish are increasing, but the time and resources available to do research are decreasing, according to a survey by Elsevier.
go.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Quite a good illustration of why the problems of knowledge production are not about "misplaced incentives" but the degradation of the material conditions that allow us to do our work.
Reposted by Samuel Moore
I'm really interested in preprint review, especially how we can orchestrate collective feedback on preprints. I know this is just one option of many, but a commercial AI tool for feedback feels to me like the wrong direction when what's needed is better ways of gathering human readers.
Enabling options for review: from training and transparency to author-centered AI tools - openRxiv
Peer review is widely viewed as a critical aspect of biomedical communication. Ideally, it provides authors with feedback so they can improve manuscripts and gives readers, particularly nonspecialists...
openrxiv.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I'm really interested in preprint review, especially how we can orchestrate collective feedback on preprints. I know this is just one option of many, but a commercial AI tool for feedback feels to me like the wrong direction when what's needed is better ways of gathering human readers.
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My prediction is that LLM peer review will slow down science. It will do this for precisely the same reasons that contemporary peer review does and some extra ones. Start by reading @hansonmark.bsky.social thread below, then read on. 🧵
Just tried q.e.d. by @odedrechavi.bsky.social et al. with a few papers including by myself & others where I knew a claim within was flawed based on a misunderstanding of the signal.
1) it was impressive. I see what the hype is about.
2) it hallucinated.
www.qedscience.com
Overly long #SciPub🧵 1/n
1) it was impressive. I see what the hype is about.
2) it hallucinated.
www.qedscience.com
Overly long #SciPub🧵 1/n
q.e.d Science
Critical Thinking AI for constructive criticism and science evaluation
www.qedscience.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
My prediction is that LLM peer review will slow down science. It will do this for precisely the same reasons that contemporary peer review does and some extra ones. Start by reading @hansonmark.bsky.social thread below, then read on. 🧵
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Public Data Cultures is out today on @politybooks.bsky.social! 📗🎊 jonathangray.org/2025/10/23/p...
It aims to nurture critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. Happy to see it out in the world! 🦔🌌💜
It aims to nurture critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. Happy to see it out in the world! 🦔🌌💜
October 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Public Data Cultures is out today on @politybooks.bsky.social! 📗🎊 jonathangray.org/2025/10/23/p...
It aims to nurture critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. Happy to see it out in the world! 🦔🌌💜
It aims to nurture critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. Happy to see it out in the world! 🦔🌌💜
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It's funny that I just tried out qed and put out a mammoth thread on my experience:
bsky.app/profile/hans...
bsky.app/profile/hans...
Just tried q.e.d. by @odedrechavi.bsky.social et al. with a few papers including by myself & others where I knew a claim within was flawed based on a misunderstanding of the signal.
1) it was impressive. I see what the hype is about.
2) it hallucinated.
www.qedscience.com
Overly long #SciPub🧵 1/n
1) it was impressive. I see what the hype is about.
2) it hallucinated.
www.qedscience.com
Overly long #SciPub🧵 1/n
q.e.d Science
Critical Thinking AI for constructive criticism and science evaluation
www.qedscience.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
It's funny that I just tried out qed and put out a mammoth thread on my experience:
bsky.app/profile/hans...
bsky.app/profile/hans...
I'm really interested in preprint review, especially how we can orchestrate collective feedback on preprints. I know this is just one option of many, but a commercial AI tool for feedback feels to me like the wrong direction when what's needed is better ways of gathering human readers.
Enabling options for review: from training and transparency to author-centered AI tools - openRxiv
Peer review is widely viewed as a critical aspect of biomedical communication. Ideally, it provides authors with feedback so they can improve manuscripts and gives readers, particularly nonspecialists...
openrxiv.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I'm really interested in preprint review, especially how we can orchestrate collective feedback on preprints. I know this is just one option of many, but a commercial AI tool for feedback feels to me like the wrong direction when what's needed is better ways of gathering human readers.