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hansonmark.bsky.social
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

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Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
physpm.bsky.social
Très heureux de recevoir la bourse doctorale de @arthritiscanada.bsky.social

Témoigner d'un succès est important, souligner ses échecs l'est tout autant

Pour 5 bourses, seulement une a reçu un retour favorable

C'est capital à mes yeux de contribuer à un narratif qui met en lumière cet aspect
October 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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vert.eco
Après plusieurs interpellations publiques et internes par des personnes racisées dans des événements écolos comme le festival Les Résistantes, la parole antiraciste se libère.

Vert a mené l’enquête👇
Agressions, invisibilisations… le mouvement écologiste n’est pas épargné par le racisme
La parole antiraciste se libère dans les mobilisations écologistes. Après plusieurs interpellations publiques et internes par des personnes racisées dans des événements écolos, Vert a mené l’enquête.
vert.eco
September 2, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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wcrifoundation.bsky.social
Abstract submission and travel grant application for the 9th World Conference on Research Integrity are open. Please consider to submit an abstract and to reshare this message. lnkd.in/eJ9hmaRs
June 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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paolocrosetto.bsky.social
🚨Offre de bourse de thèse🚨 [pour les 🇫🇷phones]

Le laboratoire GAEL (Grenoble) offre une bourse de thèse de 3 ans en *économie* sur le projet PREFALIM: analyse de l’impact des interventions de politiques publiques sur les préférences alimentaires des consommateurs.

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June 16, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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aukehoekstra.bsky.social
Is red meat bad for you? New meta study of 44 studies finds it depends on the sponsor.

If the sponsor was impartial, most studies find it's bad for you.

If the sponsor was the red meat industry, most studies are structured to find no problems.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40379522/
Industry study sponsorship and conflicts of interest on the effect of unprocessed red meat on cardiovascular disease risk: a systematic review of clinical trials - PubMed
This trial for systematic reviews or meta-analyses was registered at PROSPERO as CRD42024525197 (https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=525197).
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
May 21, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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jama.com
Authors, editors, reviewers, and other potential users should use CONSORT 2025 when writing and evaluating manuscripts of randomized trials to ensure that trial reports are clear and transparent.

Learn more in this Special Communication. https://ja.ma/3Yyu0Hh
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April 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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dorassessment.bsky.social
The h-index is frequently used, but it has many shortcomings. Colleagues at #ScholCommLab made two educational videos explaining why it should never be used in isolation when evaluating researchers. Read more in our guest blog by @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca & team sfdora.org/2025/04/07/i...
Introducing two educational videos on the h-index: The pedagogical potential of multimedia for teaching about scholarly metrics | DORA
The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) recognizes the need to improve the ways in which the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated.
sfdora.org
April 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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bonpote.com
Il paraît que c’est ‘impossible’ d’aller en train au Maroc. La bonne nouvelle, c’est que c’est faisable, et accessible !

Dans cet article se trouve tous les détails, avec le prix de chaque étape et l'empreinte carbone du voyage. Hâte de lire vos retours !
bonpote.com/aller-au-mar...
Aller au Maroc en train (sans cramer la planète)
Chaque année, des millions d'Européens se rendent au Maroc. Des millions de personnes vivants en France font le voyage, pour raisons
bonpote.com
March 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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ruben.the100.ci
New comment by @faridanvari.bsky.social and friends arguing that psychology is fragmented into the study of too many constructs and measures with too few links.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Defragmenting psychology
Nature Human Behaviour - Psychology is fragmented into the study of a myriad of constructs and measures, most of which are used very rarely. This hinders cumulative knowledge generation. We call on...
www.nature.com
March 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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poissonpodcast.bsky.social
"Concentrez-vous les antispécistes" (@clemovitch.com)

Viktorovitch a raison en soi dans ce qu'il dit – c'est-à-dire à quel point l'animalisation est une arme incroyablement dangereuse pour de nombreuses catégories d'humains qui sont ainsi ramenées à une infériorité méprisable
khideux.bsky.social Khideux @khideux.bsky.social · Mar 13
@clemovitch.com, au-delà du caractère autoritaire d’envisager l’exclusion d’une vieweuse pour avoir formulé une contradiction cordiale, il y a une incohérence analytique dans le raisonnement.

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#Antispécisme #Spécisme #Domination #ViolencesSystémiques #RapportsDeForce #Intersectionnalité
March 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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cortecs.bsky.social
GROSSE ANNONCE !

Du 14 au 18 juillet, au cœur des Alpes, le Cortecs organisera sa première École douteuse, une école d’été autogérée de la pensée critique. Le nombre de place est limité et les candidatures ouvriront prochainement.

Plus d'info ci-dessous.
cortecs.org/non-classe/j...
Juillet 2025 : le Cortecs lance sa première École douteuse ! - Le Cortecs
Le Cortecs organise l’École douteuse, sa première école d’été autogérée, interdisciplinaire et ouverte à toute personne (étudiant-e, chercheur-euse, enseignant-e, formateur-ice, animateur-ice, …) inté...
cortecs.org
March 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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marionogier.bsky.social
La justice reconnaît l’illégalité du recours au logiciel #briefcam et à la vidéosurveillance algorithmique ( #vsa ).
C’est un séisme quand on connaît l’etendue du recours informel, en dehors de tout cadre légal, à ce type de dispositif par les collectivités et l’Etat.
Merci à la Quadrature du Net
La justice confirme enfin l'illégalité de Briefcam
Victoire totale aujourd’hui au tribunal administratif de Grenoble ! L’affaire opposant La Quadrature du Net à la ville de Moirans, en Isère, s’achève par une décision reconnaissant l’illégalité du log...
www.laquadrature.net
January 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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marionkcampbell.bsky.social
An issue that often comes up is how to set a “non-inferiority margin” in a non-inferiority trial and how to ensure it is appropriate 1/8
#MethodologyMonday #109
January 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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retractionwatch.com
Thousands demand withdrawal of review article recommending exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome

@dalmeet.bsky.social reports
Thousands demand withdrawal of review article recommending exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome
The decision to abandon a process to re-evaluate a review recommending exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) has reignited calls for the article to be withdrawn.  The 2019 ver…
retractionwatch.com
January 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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agranholm.bsky.social
Interested in design and evaluation of advanced adaptive trial designs?

See our new preprint: doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Here we summarise key methodological considerations and how to specify and evaluate them using simulations via our 'adaptr' #Rstats package (inceptdk.github.io/adaptr/)
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Designing and evaluating advanced adaptive randomised clinical trials: a practical guide
Background Advanced adaptive randomised clinical trials are increasingly used. Compared to their conventional counterparts, their flexibility may make them more efficient, increase the probability o...
doi.org
January 16, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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brennankahan.bsky.social
New CONSORT extension for cluster-crossover trials published in @bmj.com

www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Reporting of cluster randomised crossover trials: extension of the CONSORT 2010 statement with explanation and elaboration
This article presents the CONSORT (consolidated standards of reporting trials) extension for cluster randomised crossover trials. A cluster randomised crossover trial involves randomisation of groups ...
www.bmj.com
January 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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lakens.bsky.social
A third UK university has dropped its previous deal with El$evier because they couldn't afford it anymore. As many UK universities are experiencing financial hardship, if you want your work to be cited, better make sure to publish open access! www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Another UK university drops big Elsevier deal - Research Professional News
York becomes third institution known to have cancelled agreement with academic publishing giant
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
January 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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dpmoriarity.bsky.social
"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
January 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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cedricstolz.bsky.social
🧵 Thread : Voici mes schémas de philosophie :

1/ Qu'est-ce que le libre arbitre ?
January 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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florencedellerie.bsky.social
💬 "Il est + coûteux de faire du mal à un animal quand on est #végane, que de l’épargner quand on l’est pas."

Si vous refusez l'asservissement des autres animaux, partager cette vidéo de @repliqueethique.bsky.social à vos proches peut aider, avant les fêtes.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-vb...
"Tu peux bien faire un effort" | 039⏱️Votre Éthique en 2 min
YouTube video by Réplique Éthique
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December 23, 2024 at 11:27 AM
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latitudes-network.bsky.social
How to assess quality of evidence? Term not well defined but usually includes 3 elements: 1. Internal validity (AKA #RiskOfBias), 2. External validity, 3. Reporting quality. @latitudes-network.bsky.social deals with study validity and @equatornetwork.bsky.social aims to improve quality of reporting
December 8, 2024 at 12:57 PM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
Update: I wrote an email to HAL to take down the preprint. I think Raoult deserves another retraction.
This is not scientific research, it is defamation.
December 2, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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maartenvsmeden.bsky.social
Was reminded today of the importance of repeating this message

www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
November 13, 2024 at 7:39 PM
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jclinepi.bsky.social
A Systematic Review of Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomized Trials in High Impact Journals: Assessing the Design, Rationale, and Analysis - @jclinepi.bsky.social www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
A Systematic Review of Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomized Trials in High Impact Journals: Assessing the Design, Rationale, and Analysis
Stepped wedge cluster randomized trials (SW-CRTs) are an appealing study design because they enable sequential roll out of an intervention across clusters, bringing logistical advantages. This review ...
www.jclinepi.com
December 2, 2024 at 11:50 AM