And it’s still early in summer. Let’s hope for some rain…

This feels like political influence and personal interest have been mixed.

If the CEO’s get more, then the owner class must have even more.

It’s a sad world

I like the gesture

Elsevier? The company that makes money from public funded research? The one that does basically nothing and earns tons of money on the back of tax payers and free labor of authors, reviewers and editors.

Hopefully open access policies will bring an end to the exploitative business model of science “publisher”.

Productivity at Burger King will skyrocket with this innovation /s

Wild take, given that Instagram is often the cause for the self-harm tendencies of teenagers.

Honestly I don’t understand why this platforms exist in their form. We know that they are responsible for the suicide of teenagers. How much worse can it get?

Europe is big enough to have its own software. And the next generation of software should be open source - enough with monopoles

This private courts are a problem. They are very one sided for the benefit of mega corporations.

Kind of sad. Teens have a higher rate of suicide because of the evil algorithms of social media and we as a society do basically nothing about it. I’m readings news about it since years and absolutely nothing changes. Why are we not forbiddening it? How much worse can it get??

Thanks! How does it work? Can I influence it?

Hope she can make good decisions when sleep deprived

Every country should do this.

https://www.dw.com/en/german-nationals-us-immigration-detained-interrogation-ice-donald-trump/a-71987211

I would be afraid to be send back or detained. The situation is a bit unclear for travelers.

Same for ACM. I think it’s good as it’s easier to read. But sometimes I still write names (e.g. as Mueller et al. points out, the color blue is actually red [666]), to highlight something. But that’s maybe for 5 out of 100 sources.

On top of it. The students get in debts to study. So it’s a double exploitation of them.

Frontiers has many different journals. The quality of the journal highly depends on the editor of the journal. But there has been reports that Frontiers has been involved in predatory actions. They used rejected papers and re-submitted them to other journals (as they have a lot of journals and some paper topics can fit in several journals). This is seen as predatory behavior. Overall I would argue that Frontiers is borderline, it would not be my first choice. Keep in mind, as an Open access journal they get paid my the author’s. Each article costs around 2.000$, so they need to publish papers in order to survive as a business.

There is no culture of unions in IT. But there should!

The contribution to the community is weak. I recommend the authors to work on their study design and to basically redo everything in good.