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Tim Elfenbein [email protected]

@timelfen

Scholar of infrastructure & labor in publishing; Principal of Forthcoming LLC, a publishing consultancy; Digital explorer–analog sailor; @timelfen@assemblag.es

 Madison, WI
Joined March 2009
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In introductory undergraduate courses in linguistic anthropology, we learn to pay close attention to how completely baseless claims about language are often stated as fact to naturalize various societal hierarchies & norms.
Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) profile pictureRichard Dawkins
@RichardDawkins28 Dec 2022
"A lexicographer estimated that the average 19th-century peasant used a vocabulary of 250 words, an educated person 5,000, and Shakespeare 27,780, though that last number is disputed” (Max Hastings, The Times) Does that figure of 250 make origin of language seem less mysterious?
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Replying to @timelfen @libraria_cc
Update - a follow-up by @annebracken has just been published on our page! allegralaboratory.net/yes-sc…

Yes, Scholar-Publishers Can Make Common Cause After All - Allegra Lab

Last spring, I began work with the open access advocacy group, Libraria, as a Community Convener to help organize a mutual aid network amongst a group of

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If you are at 4S, check out our panel at 11am CST, put together by @katherinebuse and @sampizelo, ft. Zach Yost, Will Lockett, Goetz Hoeppe, and yours truly. I will be talking about why we should consider scientific production today as a media franchise. #ESOCITE4S2022
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal (@ranjodhd) profile pictureRanjodh Singh Dhaliwal@ranjodhd6 Dec 2022
My never-ending visa issues mean that I won't unfortunately be able to make it to Cholula for 4S. @katherinebuse and @sampizelo have planned a fantastic panel, and I am super sad to be missing out! Hope everyone has a great time at #ESOCITE4S22 and maybe we will meet in 2023.
Image from Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal (@ranjodhd)
Image from Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal (@ranjodhd)
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Hurrah! My Book History journal article on the history of the PDF is now open access (as it was always meant to be) muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/8…
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HAPPENING TODAY!
Labor Tech Research Network (@labortechgroup) profile pictureLabor Tech Research Network@labortechgroup6 Dec 2022
come join us at #ESOCITE4S22 @4sWeb this friday for the official launch of the Labor Tech Research Network as a 501(c)3 nonprofit! We have an incredible panel of Latin American scholars at 11am and an unconference at 2pm.
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About to wrap up #neurips2022 by Schmidhubering Vaswani et al. (2017) with some hundred-year-old cites from linguistic anthropology, tune in ai-cultures.github.io
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Most researchers have never heard of this term or know what it means. We didn't when we first started building scite.
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apropos of any future STS handbook this editorial raises great points about method. #ESOCITE4S22 #sts
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Thank the power of the universe for managing editors.
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We are thrilled to announce the launch today of the Open Book Collective! Visit our site to see our members such as @OpenBookPublish, @DOABooks, @OAPENbooks, @punctum_books, @mediadotpress, @meson_press, @matteringpress, @African_Minds & #Thoth! #LibraryTwitter
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Raise your hand if you work in scholarly communication & have been using uncritically the term "ecosystem" fed by private publishers to disguise their enclosed "plantations". Then read this important article👇by @mariafarrell immediately! @InvestInOpen
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"By comparing UK-based and China-based IP addresses and the content discrepancies between the two, I’ve managed to gain some handle on the scale of publication data that is now inaccessible in China." timeshighereducation.com/dep…

Can academic publishers resist self-censorship in China?

Five years on from Cambridge University Press’ controversial compliance with a Chinese government request to make more than 300 articles unavailable to Chinese readers, publishers are increasingly...

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There's always in these messages the idea that nothing educational happens during a strike - that solidarity is not learning, that refusing to compromise on dignity & justice is not educational, that being confronted with the decision of whether to cross the picket doesn't teach.
The New School (@TheNewSchool) profile pictureThe New School@TheNewSchool7 Dec 2022
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But as we enter the fourth week of disruptions, we must use our resources carefully to ensure that our students’ academic needs are met.
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I would just like to point out thar the uni presidents who are trying to bust the unions at Rutgers and the New School are both Black men who are scholars of James Baldwin. The NYU dean who tried to destroy my life was also a Black Baldwin scholar. This is no accident.
David Huyssen @davidhuyssen.bsky.social (@davidhuyssen) profile pictureDavid Huyssen @davidhuyssen.bsky.social@davidhuyssen8 Dec 2022
UPDATE ON THE NEW SCHOOL STRIKE The Provost who only 5 days ago wrote the whole university implicitly threatening undergraduates with academic punishment and signaling an intention to hire scab graders is now invoking bell hooks on the paradise of learning.
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For the moment, The New School has achieved the perfect all-administrative university: a fancy cafeteria, dormitories, high tuition, zero pay for teachers and a fully staffed and highly paid executive administration.
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has someone tried doing Moneyball with university departments
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I am happy to see @gatesfoundation support the reimagining of the @eLife model! It's important to applaud changes/experiments in publishing that address the issues plaguing the traditional publishing process - such using journal name as a proxy for impact.
eLife - the journal (@eLife) profile pictureeLife - the journal@eLife7 Dec 2022
In support of our new publishing model, 9 funders and research organisations are embracing reviewed preprints as an alternative way to assess researchers, and call on others to do the same. elifesciences.org/for-the-pr…
Research, funders, embrace, reviewed pre-prints. Learn about the support surrounding our new model.

ALT Research, funders, embrace, reviewed pre-prints. Learn about the support surrounding our new model.

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Our latest research report reveals interesting insights into the financial health of #nonprofits in research & scholarship 👀 Read the report + explore our recommendations for decision makers to improve the financial health of organizations they fund👇 investinopen.org/blog/financ…
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Or is Twitter just another name for nothing left to lose?
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We are SO excited to be publishing a Q&A conversation between @GillianTett and Koray Caliskan in our next issue - with a preview very soon on the blog....
Gillian Tett (@gilliantett) profile pictureGillian Tett@gilliantett28 Apr 2022
I am SO excited to say that my book #anthrovision is now out in paperback...and if there was ever a moment we need some anthrovision it is now, with the world in turmoil! bit.ly/3ONwhYW
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