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3/ The #NIH policy is all-green (#GreenOA). It requires deposit in an OA repository, PubMed Central (#PMC). It does not require publishing in an OA journal.

If you're an NIH-funded author and a journal tells you that you must pay an #APC to comply with the policy, it's lying. Compliance with the policy is free of charge. If a journal asks you to pay an APC, it's only to publish in that particular journal. Consider taking your submission elsewhere.

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#SPARC has released its own new info on the new #NIH #OpenAccess policy.
sparcopen.org/wp-content/uploa

Excerpt:

<blockquote>
● The Policy requires immediate public access to articles -- #embargoes are no longer allowed.
● NIH reiterates authors do not have to pay a fee to comply with the Policy.
● The Policy applies to manuscripts accepted for publication on or after July 1, 2025. This means the Policy will apply to existing grants if an article is accepted on or after that date.
● The Policy requires that final peer-reviewed manuscripts be submitted to #PubMedCentral (#PMC) upon acceptance to be made publicly available immediately upon publication.
● The Policy requires that grantees explicitly grant the NIH the right to make the manuscript available in PMC without an embargo.
● The Policy does not explicitly grant full reuse rights of the manuscript to the public.
</blockquote>

‘Omg, did PubMed go dark?’ Blackout stokes fears about database’s future
nature.com/articles/d41586-025

A brief outage has focused attention on scientists’ reliance on the US-government-funded website.

Comment: a fundamental and vitally important biomedical resource, the importance of which cannot be understated.

www.nature.com‘Omg, did PubMed go dark?’ Blackout stokes fears about database’s futureA brief outage has focused attention on scientists’ reliance on the US-government-funded website.

PubMed Goes to Europe for Safe Harbor?

This bit of info caught my eye…especially given the backend changes the current administration may have made or may be making: So I didn't know, but Europe already has a backup of PubMed, the database of biomedical research publications. The US PubMed broke down over the weekend. And here is our alternative: #pubmed #pmc via Bert Hubert

mglink.org/2025/03/03/pubmed-g

Another Think Coming · PubMed Goes to Europe for Safe Harbor?This bit of info caught my eye…especially given the backend changes the current administration may have made or may be making: So I didn’t know, but Europe already has a backup of PubMed, the…
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Another major development in Gaza today is that an American mercenary outfit is now operating in Gaza in areas that the IOF wishes to continue controlling. This group is likely staffed by Americans.

The US based mercenaries were seen driving white trucks and being guided by IOF soldiers to where they will be stationed.

#Gaza#OSINT#IOF

“With nearly 70% of its teaching staff on precarious contracts, Oxford is one of the worst offenders, but this is an issue that extends across UK higher education.”

#RebeccaAbrams, 2024

theguardian.com/education/2024

Not just the UK either. I know people who have been on similar gig contracts at NZ universities, and I've read worse stories about the US. Another product of the PMC (Professional-Managerial Class)

The Guardian · Academics win claim against Oxford University over ‘sham contracts’By Sally Weale

The article I linked in my recent posts on news bias at the BBC are yet another symptom of the Professional-Managerial Class. Which the late David Graeber excoriated in his article on the way they're wrecking academia;

davidgraeber.org/papers/anthro

The idea that "management" is a particular set of skills - transferable from retail stores, to newsrooms, to airlines, to governments - is a dangerous nonsense. One that is rapidly driving human societies towards a cliff.

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David GraeberAnthropology and the rise of the professional-managerial class - David GraeberMany of the internal changes within anthropology as a discipline—particularly the “postmodern turn” of the 1980s—can only be understood in the context of broader changes in the class composition of the societies in which university departments exist, and, in particular, the role of the university in the reproduction of a professional-managerial class that has come […]

Once again, I have to say, I absolutely love Catherine Liu’s book, VIRTUE HOARDERS: THE CASE AGAINST THE PROFESSIONAL MANAGERIAL CLASS.

I am rereading it again and it makes even more sense this time. I realize that I have been a member of the PMC (on a lower rung for sure) for years and have, at times, fallen for its wiles. I think it’s fair to say this is the class that lost the 2024 election, and predictably so.
#PMC #socialism #politics #culture #liberals #virtue

The things that I work on have not changed much for December Adventure so its going to be the same things that I usually work on, but now they are going to be shared :) The projects I work on currently are around Scheme/Guile, Guix and XMPP.

An intro since its the first post and I haven't announced my project really:
I have worked for about a year on my Networks of Consent XMPP app built on top of Spritely with Gnunet as transport and with Permacomputing Principles. Majority of work on this is writing standards (XEPs) to make XMPP work on top of a different model than it currently has. (Distributed, content-addressed, object capability based, Multicast, Pull not push architecture as some examples). Last few months development has picked up by a lot so that is a big part of what I am working on now.

Last few days I finished a XEP draft of how OCapN would work on top of XMPP. You can find it here
codeberg.org/Applesauce/Guile_
Next steps would be writing the code so that Semantic XMPP, Framing and ERIS can be started to be added on top. Together with documenting the differences with current XMPP standards of course.

Codeberg.orgGuile_XMPP/Documentation/XEPs/OCapN.md at mainGuile_XMPP - XMPP library using Spritely and written in Guile

It's a bit late for #MedallionMonday but here is a beautiful pair of medallion #PMC from #Australia Post. The top one is the regular issue Battle of Normandy #medallion cover (with 2024 made). The bottom one is the limited edition #Impressions version, with foil printing, larger stamp block, gold coloured medallion and limited to only 250. I think this pair look great together. What do you think?

@numismatics #AustraliaPost #Numismatics #CoinCollecting #WWII #Remembrance

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Along these lines ...

"[Catherine Liu and Olúfémi Táíwò] explain, for instance, why the Democratic party in the US (and many social democratic parties in Europe) is increasingly a club for the rich and educated, while many working-class voters have abandoned it. They illuminate, too, our culture’s obsession with the minutiae of symbolic representation and the policing of language but disregard for real material inequalities."

#KenanMalik, 2024

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · Cosplaying social justice is the new elitist way of elbowing out the working classBy Kenan Malik

I was reading an article in #LeMonde which referred to a couple of scientific papers. One of them was cited by its link to #PMC, ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/

However, #retractionWatch tells of the #retraction of this paper retractionwatch.com/2015/07/21

On the #publisher's page, the only sign of the #retraction is a link on the side "Authors’ Explanation of the Retraction" and pdf file is not tagged in any way—it even has an "update" banner leading to this below.

Is this common??

lemonde.fr/intimites/article/2