Megan Lynch (she/her)
@ml@ecoevo.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

As we hear more about publishers not doing a good enough job of editing and factchecking, and even turning things over to AI, it seems to me it's a good time for experienced scientists to share which journals in their field they still trust to show the kind of academic rigor and integrity we should expect of academic publishing.

Please reply with which journal/s in your field you still respect, and why.

@plantscience @academicchatter#Publishing#Science#AcademicChatter
Megan Lynch (she/her)
@ml@ecoevo.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

As we hear more about publishers not doing a good enough job of editing and factchecking, and even turning things over to AI, it seems to me it's a good time for experienced scientists to share which journals in their field they still trust to show the kind of academic rigor and integrity we should expect of academic publishing.

Please reply with which journal/s in your field you still respect, and why.

@plantscience @academicchatter#Publishing#Science#AcademicChatter
Megan Lynch (she/her)
@ml@ecoevo.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

As we hear more about publishers not doing a good enough job of editing and factchecking, and even turning things over to AI, it seems to me it's a good time for experienced scientists to share which journals in their field they still trust to show the kind of academic rigor and integrity we should expect of academic publishing.

Please reply with which journal/s in your field you still respect, and why.

@plantscience @academicchatter#Publishing#Science#AcademicChatter
Björn Brembs
@brembs@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

Have you ever felt the world around you is feeling kind of absurd in some peculiar aspect but were never able quite to articulate this creepy feeling? Yep, me too.

LLMs can help bring that feeling to life, even if you're not a Shakespeare.

It may not be literature, but it sure as hell beats anything I would ever be capable of writing and it is my own idea:

https://bjoern.brembs.net/2025/07/edgewise

#openscience #openaccess #journals #publishing
Iris K. Vaughan
@Iriskv@piaille.fr  ·  activity timestamp last week

RT needed please 💜

EN :
A Palestinian woman I'm in contact with has been writing since she was a child and has written a book in English about her sufferings. It's almost done and she asked me if I thought there was any way for it to be published. Does anyone have suggestions for her ? Any way she could be ready by people?

#Gaza#Palestine#Help#Genocide #book #mastobooks #writer #art #publishing
Molly White
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp last week

Interesting to see two major news outlets — The Verge and Wired — both announce major newsletter strategies nearly simultaneously. I suspect both are motivated by the hope that email will be "stickier" than the (declining) direct traffic to news websites.

"The Verge Launches New Site Features Aimed at Deepening Audience Engagement and Announces New Editorial Newsletters": https://www.theverge.com/press-room/710921/verge-site-features-launch-newsletters

"A New Era for WIRED—That Starts With You": https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-era-for-wired-that-starts-with-you/

The Verge cites the desire to "deepen[] its direct relationship with readers". Wired writes "The platforms on which outlets like WIRED used to connect with readers, listeners, and viewers are failing in real time", saying they wish to "connect our humans to all of you humans".

#journalism #newsletters
ToddZ Ⓥ
@toddz@social.linux.pizza replied  ·  activity timestamp last week
@molly0xfff Nope nope nope. Already swamped with newsletters.

I don't need every source of everything I'm tangentially interested in hounding me for attention on a daily basis.

#nofomo #news #publishing
Iris K. Vaughan
@Iriskv@piaille.fr  ·  activity timestamp last week

RT needed please 💜

EN :
A Palestinian woman I'm in contact with has been writing since she was a child and has written a book in English about her sufferings. It's almost done and she asked me if I thought there was any way for it to be published. Does anyone have suggestions for her ? Any way she could be ready by people?

#Gaza#Palestine#Help#Genocide #book #mastobooks #writer #art #publishing
Santiago
@santiago@mastodon.uy  ·  activity timestamp last week

Fetching all the various sources you all kindly pointed out, this is a quick and dirty list of all research papers that mention fediverse or mastodon words in their titles ordered by year. There are several authors that have published several papers. It would be awesome to reach them on their mastodon/fediverse accounts. If you know them or you are one of them, poke a mention or reply, i would like to follow you.

(1) Rethinking the “social” in “social media”: Insights into topology, abstraction, and scale on the Mastodon social network [Diana Zulli, Miao Liu & Robert Gehl] (2020) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461444820912533?icid=int.sj-full-text.similar-articles.2

(2) Understanding the growth of the Fediverse through the lens of Mastodon [Lucio La Cava, Sergio Greco & Andrea Tagarelli] (2021) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.15473

(3) Network Analysis of the Information Consumption-Production Dichotomy inMastodon User Behaviors [Lucio La Cava, Sergio Greco & Andrea Tagarelli] (2022) https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/19391/19163

(4) Moderating the Fediverse: Content Moderation on Distributed Social Media [Alan Z. Rozenshtein] (2022) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4213674

(5) Le Fediverse comme système de médias sociaux alternatifs: conflits de valeurs et design des protocoles informatiques [Chanel Robin, Eva Giard, Stéphane Couture] (2022) https://cirst.uqam.ca/publications/1514/

(6) CHAPTER 12 Emerging Forms of Sociotechnical Organisation: The Case of the Fediverse [Jacopo Anderlini, Carlo Milani] (2022)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv319wpvm.16

(7) Creating a City for All of Us: The Possible Role of the Fediverse in Archiving Civic Urban Memory [Pen Lister] (2023) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44206-024-00137-8

(8) Information Consumption and Boundary Spanning in Decentralized Online Social Networks: the case of Mastodon Users [Lucio La Cava & Andrea Tagarelli] (2023) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.15752

(9) Will Admins Cope? Decentralized Moderation in the Fediverse [Ishaku Hassan Anaobi, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro, Haris Bin Zia, Dami Ibosiola & Gareth Tyson] (2023) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.05915

(10) The Effects of Group Sanctions on Participation and Toxicity: Quasi-experimental Evidence from the Fediverse [Carl Colglazier, Nathan TeBlunthuis & Aaron Shaw] (2024) https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02109

(11) An analysis of mastodon adoption dynamics based on instance types [Eduard Sabo, Tim Gesthuizen, Kelvin J. A. Bouma, Dimka Karastoyanova, Mirela Riveni] (2024) https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13278-024-01341-7.pdf

(12) Decentralised Moderation for Interoperable Social Networks:A Conversation-based Approach for Pleroma and the Fediverse [Vibhor Agarwal, Aravindh Raman, Nishanth Sastry, Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro] (2024) https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/31293/33453

(13) Decentralised Networks as a Tool for Fighting Disinformation and Censorship: The Fediverse and Free, Collaborative and Open Networks [Ramón Salaverría, María-Pilar Martínez-Costa & Clara González Tosat] (2024) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-63153-5_2

(14) 15 - Moderating the Fediverse. Content Moderation on Distributed Social Media from Part III - Platform Governance [Alan Z. Rozenshtein] (2024) https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/media-and-society-after-technological-disruption/moderating-the-fediverse/A9018A2868DBE98ED59BA66BC6C25913

(15) From Network to Platform to Protocol: Mastodon’s Ethos and the Sociotechnical Imaginary of the Fediverse [Skip de Mönnink] (2024) https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/46353

(16) Closing the Door to Remain Open: The Politics of Openness and the Practices of Strategic Closure in the Fediverse [Jamie A. Theophilos] (2024) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051241308323

(17) Privacy Policies on the Fediverse: A Case Study of Mastodon Instances [Emma Tosch, Luis Garcia, Cynthia Li, Chris Martens] (2024) https://doi.org/10.56553/popets-2024-0138

(18) Collaborative Content Moderation in the Fediverse [Haris Bin Zia, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro & Gareth Tyson] (2025) https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05871

(19) Trust and Friction: Negotiating How Information Flows Through Decentralized Social Media [Sohyeon Hwang, Priyanka Nanayakkara & Yan Shvartzshnaider] (2025) https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02150

(20) "A Blocklist is a Boundary": Tensions between Community Protection and Mutual Aid on Federated Social Networks [Erika Melder, Ada Lerner, Michael Ann DeVito] (2025) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3710919

(21) Can This Platform Survive? Governance Challenges for the Fediverse [Thomas Struett, Aram Sinnreich, Patricia Aufderheide & Rob Gehl] (2025) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4598303

#mastodon #fediverse #research #papers #academic #publishing #study
Santiago
@santiago@mastodon.uy replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

Fetching all the various sources you all kindly pointed out, this is a quick and dirty list of all research papers that mention fediverse or mastodon words in their titles ordered by year. There are several authors that have published several papers. It would be awesome to reach them on their mastodon/fediverse accounts. If you know them or you are one of them, poke a mention or reply, i would like to follow you.

(1) Rethinking the “social” in “social media”: Insights into topology, abstraction, and scale on the Mastodon social network [Diana Zulli, Miao Liu & Robert Gehl] (2020) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461444820912533?icid=int.sj-full-text.similar-articles.2

(2) Understanding the growth of the Fediverse through the lens of Mastodon [Lucio La Cava, Sergio Greco & Andrea Tagarelli] (2021) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.15473

(3) Network Analysis of the Information Consumption-Production Dichotomy inMastodon User Behaviors [Lucio La Cava, Sergio Greco & Andrea Tagarelli] (2022) https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/19391/19163

(4) Moderating the Fediverse: Content Moderation on Distributed Social Media [Alan Z. Rozenshtein] (2022) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4213674

(5) Le Fediverse comme système de médias sociaux alternatifs: conflits de valeurs et design des protocoles informatiques [Chanel Robin, Eva Giard, Stéphane Couture] (2022) https://cirst.uqam.ca/publications/1514/

(6) CHAPTER 12 Emerging Forms of Sociotechnical Organisation: The Case of the Fediverse [Jacopo Anderlini, Carlo Milani] (2022)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv319wpvm.16

(7) Creating a City for All of Us: The Possible Role of the Fediverse in Archiving Civic Urban Memory [Pen Lister] (2023) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44206-024-00137-8

(8) Information Consumption and Boundary Spanning in Decentralized Online Social Networks: the case of Mastodon Users [Lucio La Cava & Andrea Tagarelli] (2023) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.15752

(9) Will Admins Cope? Decentralized Moderation in the Fediverse [Ishaku Hassan Anaobi, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro, Haris Bin Zia, Dami Ibosiola & Gareth Tyson] (2023) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.05915

(10) The Effects of Group Sanctions on Participation and Toxicity: Quasi-experimental Evidence from the Fediverse [Carl Colglazier, Nathan TeBlunthuis & Aaron Shaw] (2024) https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02109

(11) An analysis of mastodon adoption dynamics based on instance types [Eduard Sabo, Tim Gesthuizen, Kelvin J. A. Bouma, Dimka Karastoyanova, Mirela Riveni] (2024) https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13278-024-01341-7.pdf

(12) Decentralised Moderation for Interoperable Social Networks:A Conversation-based Approach for Pleroma and the Fediverse [Vibhor Agarwal, Aravindh Raman, Nishanth Sastry, Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro] (2024) https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/31293/33453

(13) Decentralised Networks as a Tool for Fighting Disinformation and Censorship: The Fediverse and Free, Collaborative and Open Networks [Ramón Salaverría, María-Pilar Martínez-Costa & Clara González Tosat] (2024) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-63153-5_2

(14) 15 - Moderating the Fediverse. Content Moderation on Distributed Social Media from Part III - Platform Governance [Alan Z. Rozenshtein] (2024) https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/media-and-society-after-technological-disruption/moderating-the-fediverse/A9018A2868DBE98ED59BA66BC6C25913

(15) From Network to Platform to Protocol: Mastodon’s Ethos and the Sociotechnical Imaginary of the Fediverse [Skip de Mönnink] (2024) https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/46353

(16) Closing the Door to Remain Open: The Politics of Openness and the Practices of Strategic Closure in the Fediverse [Jamie A. Theophilos] (2024) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051241308323

(17) Privacy Policies on the Fediverse: A Case Study of Mastodon Instances [Emma Tosch, Luis Garcia, Cynthia Li, Chris Martens] (2024) https://doi.org/10.56553/popets-2024-0138

(18) Collaborative Content Moderation in the Fediverse [Haris Bin Zia, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro & Gareth Tyson] (2025) https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05871

(19) Trust and Friction: Negotiating How Information Flows Through Decentralized Social Media [Sohyeon Hwang, Priyanka Nanayakkara & Yan Shvartzshnaider] (2025) https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02150

(20) "A Blocklist is a Boundary": Tensions between Community Protection and Mutual Aid on Federated Social Networks [Erika Melder, Ada Lerner, Michael Ann DeVito] (2025) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3710919

(21) Can This Platform Survive? Governance Challenges for the Fediverse [Thomas Struett, Aram Sinnreich, Patricia Aufderheide & Rob Gehl] (2025) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4598303

#mastodon #fediverse #research #papers #academic #publishing #study
Angela Miller
@Alternatecelt@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

From Private Eye.

#funnynotfunny #haha #publishing #facepalm #satire

Non-celebrity publishes children’s book by Our Publishing Correspondent this woman has writing children’s Bill Cashgrab books is anyone’s guess.” I The publishing world was THE CHILDREN’S publishing relieved when it became clear there world was rocked this week as a was no marketing budget for this book was released by a new author ~~ book, as that was going on Gwyneth who wasn’t a celebrity. Paltrow’s first picture book, | “We've checked and double- meaning that the non-celebrity checked and she does indeed author's book sold less than 3,000 appear to be a former nanny copies despite excellent reviews. living in West Somerset whose “This means she’ll now have talent was spotted by an editor to put her talent towards paying at Bloomsbury,” said everyone the bills, ghost-writing children’s working in publishing. books by celebrity authors.” “She’s not a footballer like “Well, that’s a relief,” agreed Marcus Rashford, a presenter everyone in children’s publishing like Dermot O'Leary, a pop star eagerly looking forward to the day like Madonna, a comedian like when Al will be able to generate David Baddiel or an actress like children’s books for the celebrities Keira Knightley, so what business to put their name on at no cost.
Non-celebrity publishes children’s book by Our Publishing Correspondent this woman has writing children’s Bill Cashgrab books is anyone’s guess.” I The publishing world was THE CHILDREN’S publishing relieved when it became clear there world was rocked this week as a was no marketing budget for this book was released by a new author ~~ book, as that was going on Gwyneth who wasn’t a celebrity. Paltrow’s first picture book, | “We've checked and double- meaning that the non-celebrity checked and she does indeed author's book sold less than 3,000 appear to be a former nanny copies despite excellent reviews. living in West Somerset whose “This means she’ll now have talent was spotted by an editor to put her talent towards paying at Bloomsbury,” said everyone the bills, ghost-writing children’s working in publishing. books by celebrity authors.” “She’s not a footballer like “Well, that’s a relief,” agreed Marcus Rashford, a presenter everyone in children’s publishing like Dermot O'Leary, a pop star eagerly looking forward to the day like Madonna, a comedian like when Al will be able to generate David Baddiel or an actress like children’s books for the celebrities Keira Knightley, so what business to put their name on at no cost.
Non-celebrity publishes children’s book by Our Publishing Correspondent this woman has writing children’s Bill Cashgrab books is anyone’s guess.” I The publishing world was THE CHILDREN’S publishing relieved when it became clear there world was rocked this week as a was no marketing budget for this book was released by a new author ~~ book, as that was going on Gwyneth who wasn’t a celebrity. Paltrow’s first picture book, | “We've checked and double- meaning that the non-celebrity checked and she does indeed author's book sold less than 3,000 appear to be a former nanny copies despite excellent reviews. living in West Somerset whose “This means she’ll now have talent was spotted by an editor to put her talent towards paying at Bloomsbury,” said everyone the bills, ghost-writing children’s working in publishing. books by celebrity authors.” “She’s not a footballer like “Well, that’s a relief,” agreed Marcus Rashford, a presenter everyone in children’s publishing like Dermot O'Leary, a pop star eagerly looking forward to the day like Madonna, a comedian like when Al will be able to generate David Baddiel or an actress like children’s books for the celebrities Keira Knightley, so what business to put their name on at no cost.
Angela Miller
@Alternatecelt@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

From Private Eye.

#funnynotfunny #haha #publishing #facepalm #satire

Non-celebrity publishes children’s book by Our Publishing Correspondent this woman has writing children’s Bill Cashgrab books is anyone’s guess.” I The publishing world was THE CHILDREN’S publishing relieved when it became clear there world was rocked this week as a was no marketing budget for this book was released by a new author ~~ book, as that was going on Gwyneth who wasn’t a celebrity. Paltrow’s first picture book, | “We've checked and double- meaning that the non-celebrity checked and she does indeed author's book sold less than 3,000 appear to be a former nanny copies despite excellent reviews. living in West Somerset whose “This means she’ll now have talent was spotted by an editor to put her talent towards paying at Bloomsbury,” said everyone the bills, ghost-writing children’s working in publishing. books by celebrity authors.” “She’s not a footballer like “Well, that’s a relief,” agreed Marcus Rashford, a presenter everyone in children’s publishing like Dermot O'Leary, a pop star eagerly looking forward to the day like Madonna, a comedian like when Al will be able to generate David Baddiel or an actress like children’s books for the celebrities Keira Knightley, so what business to put their name on at no cost.
Non-celebrity publishes children’s book by Our Publishing Correspondent this woman has writing children’s Bill Cashgrab books is anyone’s guess.” I The publishing world was THE CHILDREN’S publishing relieved when it became clear there world was rocked this week as a was no marketing budget for this book was released by a new author ~~ book, as that was going on Gwyneth who wasn’t a celebrity. Paltrow’s first picture book, | “We've checked and double- meaning that the non-celebrity checked and she does indeed author's book sold less than 3,000 appear to be a former nanny copies despite excellent reviews. living in West Somerset whose “This means she’ll now have talent was spotted by an editor to put her talent towards paying at Bloomsbury,” said everyone the bills, ghost-writing children’s working in publishing. books by celebrity authors.” “She’s not a footballer like “Well, that’s a relief,” agreed Marcus Rashford, a presenter everyone in children’s publishing like Dermot O'Leary, a pop star eagerly looking forward to the day like Madonna, a comedian like when Al will be able to generate David Baddiel or an actress like children’s books for the celebrities Keira Knightley, so what business to put their name on at no cost.
Non-celebrity publishes children’s book by Our Publishing Correspondent this woman has writing children’s Bill Cashgrab books is anyone’s guess.” I The publishing world was THE CHILDREN’S publishing relieved when it became clear there world was rocked this week as a was no marketing budget for this book was released by a new author ~~ book, as that was going on Gwyneth who wasn’t a celebrity. Paltrow’s first picture book, | “We've checked and double- meaning that the non-celebrity checked and she does indeed author's book sold less than 3,000 appear to be a former nanny copies despite excellent reviews. living in West Somerset whose “This means she’ll now have talent was spotted by an editor to put her talent towards paying at Bloomsbury,” said everyone the bills, ghost-writing children’s working in publishing. books by celebrity authors.” “She’s not a footballer like “Well, that’s a relief,” agreed Marcus Rashford, a presenter everyone in children’s publishing like Dermot O'Leary, a pop star eagerly looking forward to the day like Madonna, a comedian like when Al will be able to generate David Baddiel or an actress like children’s books for the celebrities Keira Knightley, so what business to put their name on at no cost.
Björn Brembs
@brembs@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

And yet another one in the ever increasing list of analyses showing that top journals are bad for science:

"Thus, our analysis show major claims published in low-impact journals are significantly more likely to be reproducible than major claims published in trophy journals. "

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.07.663460v2

#publishing #openscience #reproducibility