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10 science agencies from 8 European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace expensive journals in c/academia@mander.xyz
[–] pirofti@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

ACM is going full APC starting January 2026 including the papers that will be under review at the time. Glad to see EU stepping up!

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[–] pirofti@mander.xyz 1 points 8 months ago

MDPI papers are not worth the trouble of even reading the title.

Friends do not let friends publish with MDPI in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] pirofti@mander.xyz 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Romanian here working in Academia, can confirm this happened and was a huge headline in the press a few weeks ago. Let me know if you need more info.

Pity, really. in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] pirofti@mander.xyz 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OpenBSD predicted this in 2009: https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#46 :)

A short review of ***Hélas*** (i.e. "Alas") by Bourhis & Spiessert [mature] in c/eurographicnovels@lemm.ee
[–] pirofti@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Loved the review, thank you very much for this!

Here is the goodreads link for those interested.