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Matt Hodgkinson
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Head of Editorial at DOAJ (@DOAJ); Editorial Lead at Science Integrity Alliance; Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE; #C0PE) & European Association of Science […]

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@briannosek.bsky.social Ahem. It has over 3000 citations.
On the relative motion of the Earth and the luminiferous ether AA Michelson, EW Morley - American journal of science, 1887 - ajsonline.org THE discovery. of the aberration of light was soon followed by an explanation according to the emission theory. The effect was attributed to a simple composition of the velocity of light …  Cited by 3004 Related articles  [PDF] archive.org LVIII. On the relative motion of the earth and the luminiferous Æther AA Michelson, EW Morley - The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin …, 1887 - Taylor & Francis The effect was attributed to a simple composition of the velocity of light with the velocity of the earth in its orbit. The difficulties in this apparently sufficient explanation were overlooked …  Cited by 173 Related articles
November 7, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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[Running, selfie]

The best time to find out you've got the beginnings of a cold is certainly not a few hundred metres into a 10K run, when you suddenly find it difficult to breath.

I struggled to my finish in 53:47 in Grantchester this morning, stopping after […]

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A selfie. I'm a middle-aged white man with shoulder-length way brown hair, round glasses, and grey-brown stubble, wearing a red running vest and blue finishers medal strap around my neck. The Running Events Cambridgeshire flag is behind me.
September 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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[Running]

My finish in the Cheltenham Half Marathon last weekend, raising money for Sue Ryder.

https://www.justgiving.com/page/matt-hodgkinson-run-cheltenham

#halfmarathon #charityrun #sueryder #runninguk #cheltenham
I am running with both feet off the ground, right foot forward. The Cheltenham racecourse stand is in the background and half a dozen other runners are in view. I'm a middle-aged white man with swept-back dark hair, round sunglasses, a blue and white Sue Ryder running vest (number 6066), black shorts, and light teal running shoes.
September 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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[Running]

I ran the Run Cheltenham Half Marathon yesterday to raise money for Sue Ryder and, in perfect conditions, I got my second fastest time at 1:45:47. Copious jelly babies from spectators helped!

It's not too late to donate […]

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MY RESULTS Run Cheltenham 21 Sep 2025 Background shows runners in black and white. Congratulations Matt Hodgkinson! Your results are in, and they're looking great. Finished 01:45:47.4 Net Time
September 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Wake up, babe, new COPE guidelines just dropped!

Version 3 of the Retraction guidelines and brand new Expression of Concern guidelines are out now. I co-authored the long-awaited EoC guidelines and v.2 of the Retraction guidelines […]

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https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wake-up-babe
September 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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[Running]

One month until I run my next half marathon, raising money for Sue Ryder, the end-of-life and grief support charity.

I got a new running watch as the one I sent back was irreparable. I managed a quick short run today, hitting 4:19 min/km over the […]

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Running summary: 17:49 2.57km 11:46 mins 4'34"/km 151.00 kcal 172 bpm
August 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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[Caturday appeal]

This is my cat's brother, a lovely 12-year-old chonk who is now very poorly. My neighbours are raising money for his treatment.

"Our beautiful cat Çiya has become very ill and we are all heartbroken. After initial scans, blood tests and X-rays […]

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Çiya, a black, grey, and white cat sleeping on his paws on a red sofa.
July 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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[Left-wing politics]

Got myself banned from r/GreenAndPleasant after a few months for explaining why someone on the left might not celebrate the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It turns out that their version of UK left unity only applies to tankies.
#ukpol #reddit #tankies #russianinvasion
r/GreenAndPleasant u/Comrade-Zoya 1mo Why so much liberalism here? As the title says, why? All post I see about Isfaili genocide people rightly criticize Isfail for clearly committing genocide. But move it onto another topic like China or the Ukrainian nazi proxy war and there is just so much liberal bull shit that sounds like it was written by a guardian contributor or reads like a press release from the white house. Shouldn't anyone posting that be banned? They have hundreds of subs they can post in, they dont need to post their brainwashed liberal shit takes here. Icy_Bed_4087 1mo There are leftist critiques of the Russian invasion. Jacobin interviewed a Ukrainian socialist in 2022, for example: https://jacobin.com/2022/03/ukraine-socialist-interview-russian-invasion-war-putin -nato-imperialism. Slavoj Zizek is also critical: https://kyivindependent.com/slavoj-zizek-putin-represents-the-worst-of-a -longstanding-trend-in-russian-history/ If you do "No True Scotsman" too much, you won't unite the British left - you'll end up as a tiny echo chamber. 28 upvotes GreenAnd Pleasant-ModTeam MODS 1mo You literally posted CIA funded kiev independent as your sources 2 upvotes
July 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Damian Pattinson of @eLife (and my former boss at PLOS ONE) at The Royal Society's Future of Scientific Publishing conference describes the devastating effect on their submissions of Clarivate removing their Impact Factor due to their change in peer review model […]

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July 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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A decade later, this drivel is unretracted by Elsevier.

#elsevier #PublicationEthics #progressinbiophysicsandmolecularbiology #ottorossler #autism #crackpottheories #elephants #pseudoscience
Matt Hodgkinson 5 Jul 2015 1. Play infrasound to cure a young white elephant's autism 2. ???? 3. PROPHET!!! So suggests an article by Otto Rössler and colleagues (including the intriguing 'Anonymous Student') in the Elsevier journal Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079610715000954 Free full text at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2015/06/is-it-ethical-to-heal-a-young-white-elephant-from-his-physiological-autism Rössler is a chaos theory researcher also known for defending El Naschie in his unsuccessful libel claim against the journal Nature, and spraying his university with graffiti. The proposal was made that a human caretaker with a strong bond of love can deliberately "smile acoustically" at a protégé whenever momentarily delighted in the interaction. A young white elephant was chosen as a symbol and a challenge for the therapeutic profession. An infrasound "reassuring device" (like a commercially available infrasound generator [26] equipped with a once recorded natural bonding-type infrasound) was proposed to be employed. In this way, the holiest moments in a human playroom - never so far exposed to the public eye - could be reproduced in an elephant barn for everyone to witness and be moved in their hearts. The elephant may then love to learn to speak, in the aftermath of his having taken the initiative in trying to reward his partner in a deep emotional connection between two free souls of differing speeds of operation and differing depths of thought but the same infinite affection for the other. Eventually, the nonhuman partner might become the advisor of a planet in need of outside help. But this will be possible only if the adoptee is never confronted with deliberate malevolence, as Jesus demanded for the holy souls of children. The new partner of humankind would - it was argued - bring back the spirit of Mandela who was an equally foreign intelligence. The first author met Mandela's personal friend Neville Alexander as a youth. And Mandela likewise lost a child at age seven when they are still elephants-foreign intelligences ...
July 5, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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[Running for charity]

I've been a runner for 7 years! My next challenge is running the Cheltenham Half Marathon in September for Sue Ryder - the first time I've run a race in my home town since school sports day!

Sponsor me at […]

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Facebook post: Matt Hodgkinson 5 Jul 2018 Six weeks ago, I changed my morning routine from getting the 7:40 train to the 7:10 due to rail chaos (https://www.facebook. com/matt.hodgkinson.75/posts/10156155133181071), when I realised I could get up 5 mins earlier and shower at work. I also realised I could jog the ~2km from King's Cross to my work (http://walkit.com/walk/?city=london&from=london+king%27s+cross&fuid=4 24175_512795&to=1+fitzroy+square&tuid=391296_456015&rta =old&direct=no2#nogo). With one week off for when we were in France, I now don't need to take my inhaler before, during or after the run, and today for the first time I didn't need to walk (other than waiting for traffic) to catch my breath.
July 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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[Israel-Gaza war]

“The individuals were moving towards forces in a way that posed a threat to them.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/04/the-guardian-view-on-israels-choice-for-gazas-people-risk-their-lives-for-supplies-or-starve

#unclejimbo […]

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June 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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My Mastodon timeline is divided over AI.

#aitools #LLMs #chatbots
Anders Puck Nielsen boosted Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy 2h Ok. I know some people are still going on about how Al is completely useless and there are no viable uses of it. Meanwhile, in the last two weeks I built for myself the perfect tasks management/productivity tool, which fits exactly the way my brain works. Entirely just by telling an LLM what to do. ... Elia Ayoub (he/him) @ayoub@spore.social 1h Are there tech reviewers (laptop/phones especially) that are anti-Al? Given how much junk is being forced on our devices, I don't even know who to trust to get critical information about tech products.
June 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Publishing shouldn't be a Kafka novel! Editorial offices need to sort themselves out. One problem is outsourcing to companies that use undertrained staff working from inflexible scripts.

#JournalPublishing #JournalEditing #editorialoffices #editorialscreening #academicpublishing #kafkaesque
Reviewer 2 Must Be Stopped! on Facebook Nate Joseph 4d Me submits to "top tier" journal in my field. Editorial desk: sends back. "Please include a title". Me looks. The title is there. Puts in giant bold font: TITLE: "my title". Resubmits. Editorial desk: sends back, please add title to manuscript. Me: emails editorial. "I am confused my manuscript has a title." Editorial board emails back. "Please add title". What da hell! Update: The editorial board admitted this was a mistake and has passed on the paper for review. Updated again: The paper was rejected by editorial for undisclosed reasons.
June 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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[Liverpool crash, misinformation]

There's an image circulating that's supposed to be the driver of the car driven into the Liverpool parade.

While the left panel seems to be a screencap of a video still, the right panel is AI generated. Don't fall for […]

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A post from @UnityNewNet on X.com, "This is an interesting AI generated image on the right based on the snapshot on the left..." They are boosting a post by @shimp718 saying "53?" and sharing the photos. The photos are a probable screengrab of a video of the Liverpool driver (needs verifying) from behind and to the right. He's a white male with short hair wearing a dark grey top. The right-hand photo is AI generated based on the other image, showing what he is imagined to look like in profile.
May 30, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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[UKpol, Greens]

#greenparty #GPEW #uklocalgov #LocalElectionsUK #localelections2025 #localelections25 #localcouncils #localcouncillors #ukpol #ukpolitics #greenpolitics
Chris Williams @chrisw100.bsky.social + Follow Another record year for the Green Party 859 Councillors on 170 Councils in England & Wales Now join us to keep Greens growing and to take the fight to Reform join.greenparty.org.uk Green Councillors 1974 to 2025: Chart showing rise from 0 to 859, with a steady increase to about 100 in 2018 followed by a sharp rise from 2019.
May 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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[Caturday]

My cat followed me halfway to the allotment this afternoon. She won't go much further than this, only a couple of hundred metres from our house.
#caturday
My ginger and white cat standing sideways on the pavement by a red shopping bag with broad bean plants in it, reading for planting out.
May 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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[UKpol]

We now have 859 Green councillors on 181 councils - our growth is as sustainable as our policies.

#greenparty #GPEW #uklocalgov #uklocalelections2025
Local elections 2025 results The Green leadership team: Zack Polanski, Carla Denyer, and Adrian Ramsay. THANK YOU! Green Party world and sunflower leaves logo, Green Party. Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party.
May 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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[USpol, immigration]

ICE is holding US citizens now. Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez was held despite presenting a birth certificate, but eventually released after protests.

https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/lcso-confirms-release-of-georgia-man-detained-by-ice […]

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Peter Griffin skin color chart race terrorist Meme, with US CITIZEN on the light colours and ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT on the darker ones.
April 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Engaging panel on neurodiversity in academic libraries, chaired by Josh Sendall, w/ Caroline Ball, Andrew Walsh, & Jo Fitzpatrick. Personal accounts of how tiring masking is (i.e. presenting yourself to different audiences), thinking you were depressed when you […]

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Josh, Caroline, Jo, and Andrew sat behind the panel table at UKSG.
April 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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For Immediate Release, April 1, 2025: University of Michigan Press will publish all of the content on Meta platforms as a series of printed books […]

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Charles Watkinson. Associate University Librarian, Publishing, University of Michigan For Immediate Release, April 1, 2025: University of Michigan Press will publish all of the content on Meta platforms as a series of printed books. University of Michigan Press, a medium-sized publisher of scholarly monographs and regional studies such as Amphibians and Reptiles of the Great Lakes Region (https://lnkd.in/gS69nebW) has embarked on an ambitious new project. Over the next 94 years, the Press will stop publishing award-winning books in the humanities and social sciences. It will instead devote all its efforts to republishing all the content on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp in print. "We initially thought of asking Meta if they minded us using their copyrighted content," said Charles Watkinson, director of the Press. "But there was someone on WhatsApp who said that it would probably take, like, 4 weeks for Meta to send us all their stuff in PDF format. Also we didn't know Meta's address so we thought it would be better to take the harvesting route." The Press is collaborating with Prestige Nail and Spa in Singapore to acquire the content. Qinfan Banquan, director of operations, preemptively apologized for potential issues. "Our bots can go a bit wild sometimes. If you find that your Instagram is not working for a few days, it's probably a rogue crawler trying to download the same post about Pink Pony Club six million times a second." ...
April 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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My UKSG 2025 starts with Beth Bayley from Karger on their journey since deciding fo head for OA in 2018.

They've "tried it all": flipping, hybrid, transformative agreements, Subscribe To Open (S20), Diamond.

There's barriers to adopting each OA business model […]

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Trying It All Flipping Everything OA BUT APCs; mixed demand; journal/publisher sustainability? Hybrid Journals Another OA option; more OA articles BUT Not an option for all (£); much still paywalled TAS/RAP Less disruptive; more OA content BUT Mixed interest in TAs; equity factor Transformative Journals Easier transition; options for all BUT Overall little impact S20 OA w/o APCs; easier transition BUT Long-term sustainability? (+ workflow) Diamond OA OA w/o APCs BUT Long-term sustainability? Lessons Learned: • If we flipped it all, we might not survive (different communities + economic realties = instability). • We need to meet communities' needs, not write their agendas. • There is no magic bullet for transitioning to OA.
April 1, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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In a speech at the High Court of King Diarmaid in 6th Century Ireland, St. Columba aka Colmcille advocated for the right to copy books ~1500 years before the Budapest Open Access Initiative (Ray Corrigan, 2007 […]

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"My friend's claim seeks to apply a worn out law to a new reality. Books are different to other chattels (possessions) and the law should recognise this. Learned men like us, who have received a new heritage of knowledge through books, have an obligation to spread that knowledge, by copying and distributing those books far and wide. I haven't used up Finnian's book by copying it. He still has the original and that original is none the worse for my having copied it. Nor has it decreased in value because I made a transcript of it. The knowledge in books should be available to anybody who wants to read them and has the skills or is worthy to do so; and it is wrong to hide such knowledge away or to attempt to extinguish the divine things that books contain. It is wrong to attempt to prevent me or anyone else from copying it or reading it or making multiple copies to disperse throughout the land. In conclusion I submit that it was permissible for me to copy the book because, although I benefited from the hard work involved in the transcription, I gained no worldly profit from the process, I acted for the good of society in general and neither Finnian nor his book were harmed."
March 17, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Did I mention that I was running the Cambridge Half Marathon for Centre 33? And that we've raised nearly 400 quid?? And that you can still sponsor me, and your donation will be DOUBLED???
https://www.justgiving.com/page/matt-h-cambridge-half-centre33

Not the PB […]

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TTP CAMBRIDGE HALF MARATHON RESULTS 2025 Matt Hodgkinson 6260 Half Marathon 9 March 2025 Gender: Male Category: M45-49 Status: Finished Pace: 5:11 min/km Net Time: 01:49:24 OVERALL 3965/13575 CATEGORY 353/860 GENDER 3204/7687
March 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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From a discussion of the etymology of the word "druid" on the Indo-European Linguistics Facebook group. It's the truth, by my balls!

#linguistics #etymology
"Our Modern English word "true" comes from the same roots as "dru" (literally and figuratively) and has a fascinating story. The Old Anglo Saxon word "treow" meant both "tree" and "true" because pre-Christian pagans, believing an oak tree to be sacred, would literally touch an oak to swear an oath (in the same way a Roman would grab his right testicle to "testify," with the risk of losing it if caught in a lie). This act of touching a "treow" (or "touching wood") to swear an oath was expressed as a verb, as in "I treow it/I swear it." The "tree" part of the meaning was later lost, but not the literal words "tree/true.""
March 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM