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Holding Gilligan to account ...
https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2025/09/10
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4 panel comic strip
one congressman reads that more people know the lyrics to Gilligan's Island theme song than know their congressperson's name and wonders how they can be held accountable if no one knows who they are
The congressmen look at each other and in final frame skip off while high fiving
Update. "Since 2017, the #UK has mandated organisations employing more than 250 people to publicly report their annual #gender#PayGap…Every science publisher pays men more than women. In 2024, the lowest median pay gap favouring men was 9.5% ( #SpringerNature), followed by #Sage (13.3%), #Wiley (17.7%), and #Informa (formerly Taylor & Francis) (22.7%). #Elsevier remains an outlier in the magnitude of its gender pay gap and in the lack of progress. Eight years ago Elsevier stood out among publishers, with a median pay gap in 2017 of 40.4% in favour of men over women in its UK business…Elsevier’s median pay gap for 2024 is 32.8%, maintaining its position as worst performer among peers over all eight years of mandatory reporting."
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0004673
Papers mills and other manipulative practices are a major problem in the scientific publishing system. Addressing this problem requires an in-depth system-level understanding of dynamics leading to these practices. At @cwts we have PhD position to work on this!
Are you interested? Make sure to apply by May 13!
This project will be supervised by Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner, @stephenpinfield and myself.
The project has been set up in an exciting partnership with #Wiley. https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/advancing-our-understanding-of-systematic-manipulation-paper-mills-wiley-cwts-partnership
Another community of academics fed-up with the publisher Wiley:
“We do not believe that Wiley is currently providing an environment that allows the editors to do their editorial work according to the standards of the academic community and free from the negative influence of commercial and profit-oriented interests,”
Good to see: "This month, Advanced Genetics is joining other #Wiley journals in implementing a “Mandates Data Sharing” policy…We and the other participating journals require that authors openly share data underlying their publications and upgrade our editorial workflows to better support data sharing and optional data peer-review. This initiative covers 88 Wiley Journals…across various fields."
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ggn2.202400055
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