Simon Waldman
@simon-on-energy.bsky.social
Teaching & research on renewable energy with @heriotwattuni.bsky.social, #Orkney. #UCU member. #Energy, #oceanography, & #academia, all in personal capacity. Born at 334ppm. Also at @simon_on_energy@fediscience.org. he/him
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How many older journalists and papers look back at their role whipping up hatred against gay people like me in the 80's and 90's with pride and a sense they did right? Very few. So what do *you*, today's journos and papers, think your prospects are after re-running same campaign against trans folk?
November 20, 2025 at 11:27 PM
How many older journalists and papers look back at their role whipping up hatred against gay people like me in the 80's and 90's with pride and a sense they did right? Very few. So what do *you*, today's journos and papers, think your prospects are after re-running same campaign against trans folk?
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Funders can drive change. Authors can't. Authors are producers, not consumers. Producers don't decide demand, consumers do. Funders and research institutes must demand change of their authors, or withhold their funds. It's that simple. Funders have all the cards.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Funders can drive change. Authors can't. Authors are producers, not consumers. Producers don't decide demand, consumers do. Funders and research institutes must demand change of their authors, or withhold their funds. It's that simple. Funders have all the cards.
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Back on track:
Funders hold all the cards. There's this flawed view that authors are consumers and journals are producers. Wrong.
Funders and institutes are consumers. They contract authors to produce research, and they pay for journals to QC the work.
Funders are the consumers.
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Funders hold all the cards. There's this flawed view that authors are consumers and journals are producers. Wrong.
Funders and institutes are consumers. They contract authors to produce research, and they pay for journals to QC the work.
Funders are the consumers.
8/n
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Back on track:
Funders hold all the cards. There's this flawed view that authors are consumers and journals are producers. Wrong.
Funders and institutes are consumers. They contract authors to produce research, and they pay for journals to QC the work.
Funders are the consumers.
8/n
Funders hold all the cards. There's this flawed view that authors are consumers and journals are producers. Wrong.
Funders and institutes are consumers. They contract authors to produce research, and they pay for journals to QC the work.
Funders are the consumers.
8/n
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Fundamentally, what we need is leadership. But we break with the chorus of most #OpenScience initiatives here and emphasize very strongly that this leadership must come from funders and institutions.
We researchers can support the battle, but we cannot lead the charge. Funders hold the cards.
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We researchers can support the battle, but we cannot lead the charge. Funders hold the cards.
6/n
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Fundamentally, what we need is leadership. But we break with the chorus of most #OpenScience initiatives here and emphasize very strongly that this leadership must come from funders and institutions.
We researchers can support the battle, but we cannot lead the charge. Funders hold the cards.
6/n
We researchers can support the battle, but we cannot lead the charge. Funders hold the cards.
6/n
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More fundamentally, every active scientist has been brought up in a system where The Drain was already normalized.
This system hasn't always existed. For-profit publishers are a recent invention. Their value proposition has always been awful, and now they are actively eroding trust in science.
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This system hasn't always existed. For-profit publishers are a recent invention. Their value proposition has always been awful, and now they are actively eroding trust in science.
5/n
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
More fundamentally, every active scientist has been brought up in a system where The Drain was already normalized.
This system hasn't always existed. For-profit publishers are a recent invention. Their value proposition has always been awful, and now they are actively eroding trust in science.
5/n
This system hasn't always existed. For-profit publishers are a recent invention. Their value proposition has always been awful, and now they are actively eroding trust in science.
5/n
If you're going to spam #AcademicSky with recruitment, could you at least specify the field or topic of the postdoc position? Then people could know whether to click through.
October 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
If you're going to spam #AcademicSky with recruitment, could you at least specify the field or topic of the postdoc position? Then people could know whether to click through.