If the belief that open access is a good thing for society is an ideology, then so is the belief that scholarly publishers should get to make as much money as they absolutely can with no concern as to whether they're bleeding academia dry.
@lellyjz I feel like a lot of people just assume parents will protect them from working too much and refuse to imagine how parents are often complicit in this.
@katelynanne@andreagrimes Right? Like, I got angry when a restaurant failed to note that their fish and chips used salmon. When you say you're offering X dish that's well known with common parameters and you're gonna do something weird, let people know!
@jenniferwaller Have you looked into freelance journalists? I hired one for my wedding and loved them. Of course, I also worked with her, but worth a try!
@ButternutSquash Wow, that is awesome - and detailed! Is this considered as a supporting document to bylaws, or is it in place of bylaws? We just finished a first draft revision of our bylaws, and the emphasis throughout was to not be too detailed as that's more for policy documents.
@CopyrightLibn Back when I covered fed courts as a reporter and was convinced I would get laid off, I had an idea to start a blog that would just feature judicial opinion snark.
@aj_boston So these were the examples we used in our @JEPub editorial: "artificial selectivity, color charges for fully digital publications, the promise of prestige, cascading journals from a prestige brand, an emphasis on only extremely novel research, not publishing null results."
@catladylib My one concession to strength training in the past year was to start doing squats because they work so many muscles. I was like, efficiency! Then I hurt my knee recently and Dr gave me all these leg exercises and they're so boring!!! Ugh