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Liberal and Conservative Representations of the Good Society: A (Social) Structural Topic Modeling Approach
I chose this article, because it is timely, relevant, easy-to-follow (because it is intuitive), and innovative (using data sources, Twitter, and an innovative method, textual analysis). I hope you enjoy the reading. Please follow my annotations (comments + questions) and respond to the questions I pose. Try to answer them in your own words.
- Sep 2019
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Communication effectiveness is determined by the level of shared interpretation of the message reached through listener response and feedback. When done successfully, the loop is complete, and both sender and receiver feel connected
Reciprocated links between people.
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To further assist students in reading annotated articles, individual annotations are tagged according to a particular "learning lens," including: glossary, for key terms; previous work; author's experiments; results and conclusions; news and policy links; connections to learning standards; and also reference and notes.
I once remarked on the evolution of scientific journal article titles and am surprised that they don't mention visiting popular science journalism as a means of entering some journal articles from a broader perspective before delving into a journal article itself? They don't always exist for all articles, but for those with interesting/broad impact they can be a more immediate way into the topic before getting in to the heavier jargon of a scientific article itself.
- Aug 2019
the Mississippi River provides the only means of communication
- Jun 2019
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So this is where some older paths-not-taken, such as Ted Nelson's original many-to-many, multidirectional model for hypertext, and some more recent potential paths, such as Herbert van de Sompel's decentralized, distributed vision for scholarly communication, might come in.
- May 2019
techcrunch.com techcrunch.com
Scientists can find the latest data and analysis on their areas of research, determine experiments that have already been performed that they don't need to replicate and find new opportunities for investigation
"Don't need to replicate"!!! A big part of science is the ability to exactly replicate and double check others' work! We need the ability to do more replication, not less!
www.historians.org www.historians.org
impossible to express novel ideas without novel language
Aren't MOST new ideas explained by way of metaphors or analogies to known ideas?
www.nature.com www.nature.com
High-level bodies such as the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and the European Commission have called for science to become more open and endorsed a set of data-management standards known as the FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) principles.
- Apr 2019
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If in observing the present state of the world and life in general, from a Christian point of view one had to say (and from a Christian point of view with complete justification): It is a disease. And if I were a physician and someone asked me "What do you think should be done?" I would answer, "The first thing, the unconditional condition for anything to be done, consequently the very first thing that must be done is: create silence, bring about silence; God's Word cannot be heard, and if in order to be heard in the hullabaloo it must be shouted deafeningly with noisy instruments, then it is not God's Word; create silence! Ah, everything is noisy; and just as strong drink is said to stir the blood, so everything in our day, even the most insignificant project, even the most empty communication, is designed merely to jolt the senses and to stir up the masses, the crowd, the public, noise! And man, this clever fellow, seems to have become sleepless in order to invent ever new instruments to increase noise, to spread noise and insignificance with the greatest possible haste and on the greatest possible scale. Yes, everything is soon turned upside-down: communication is indeed soon brought to its lowest point in regard to meaning, and simultaneously the means of communication are indeed brought to their highest with regard to speedy and overall circulation; for what is publicized with such hot haste and, on the other hand, what has greater circulation than---rubbish! Oh, create silence!" Soren Kierkegaard, For Self-Examination 1851 p. 47-48 Hong 1990
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Playing games with my brother taught me that connections can be made with another person through virtual reality. Things like cooperation, shared problem-solving, and communication in gaming can strengthen relationships. Most importantly, gaming taught me that no matter the differences between me and another person, we can find common ground through play.
- Feb 2019
ur pains ought not to
"Social communication" seems redundant. Communication itself is a social act.
very ideas can not be communicated, nor consequently our meaning understood, without the right use of tones;
Tones aid in understanding context connotations of conversations.
sis. To the use of these tones is owing in a great measure conciseness of discourse; and the necess
Tone is crucial in conversation and public speaking. I think this is where the disconnect happens through texting, where tone is difficult to reveal, often leading others to misinterpret messages. I believe the invention of emojis was designed to combat this problem.
The nonverbal aspects of public speaking are just as important as the verbal arguments.
- Communication
- Context
- Tone
- Nonverbal communication
- Messages
- Digital Age
- public speaking
- Misinterpretation
- Connotation
of nonverbal communication.
Watzlawick, Bavelas, and Jackson in "The pragmatics of Human communication lists five axioms. The first axiom is "one cannot not communicate" or that every human behavior is a form of communication. Nonverbal communication is its own discipline in communication studies.
See Locke's second function of language: "for the communicating of our thoughts to others" (817). Although Locke is skeptical as to language's ability to accurately communicate these thoughts, apart from civic discourse. But Astell is referring here to meaning related to "those Truths."
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means talking about audience—whom they are addressing and who are people who might accidentally come across their blogs or tweets
Knowing who the information is available to, whether it is the whole world or just a few people. Who are you talking to and how are you communicating to them?
mozilla.github.io mozilla.github.io
1) develop more educators, advocates, and community leaders who can leverage and advance the web as an open and public resource, and 2) impact policies and practices to ensure the web remains a healthy open and public resource for all.
Teaching people how to use the internet safely can allow for the internet to continue to be a place that helps someone obtain information, communicate with others, and express their knowledge to others. Providing a safe environmet for people to do these things is important for successful internet usage.
Without this, men fill one another's heads with noise and sounds;
Alluding to the Transactional Model of Communication, noise can external (e.g. words, sounds) or internal (e.g. anxiety, distraction). Noise is a barrier to clear communication, which in this sense, inhibits the progression of knowledge.
- Jan 2019
posthumanism poses intriguing questions to many longstanding,"self-evident" assumptions about rhetoric and communication
This statement really encapsulates why I am so enjoying the topic of posthumanism from a communication perspective! Challenging "self-evident" assumptions, especially in communication, will allow the field to progress forward.
Communication scholars have more recently begun to highlight enthnographies and autoethnographies in research.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
Most progress will instead occur as annotations on the article text. Articles already contain live links to referenced articles, and future annotations could, for example, indicate the level of support for a particular point, or flag citations to retracted articles.
Wonderful to see thinking in this direction. I'm thinking many layers of annotations for different purposes--both human and machine readable.
nonverbal signs that has enormous power,
Reminds me of "Pragmatics of Human communication" Jackson, Bavelas, Watzlawick
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it also constitutes a certain way of manifesting oneself to oneself and to others.
At the core of communication is the inherent need for connection.
www.aeseducation.com www.aeseducation.com
A creative communicator expresses themselves clearly and concisely through digital media
It is sometimes difficult to interpret what someone is saying through technology, so it is important to be fully aware of how and what you are saying to people through technology.
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"If me and my boyfriend fight, and we are talking and he stops to text someone back, even if it is for two seconds, I'm like,'What are you doing…1 freak out."
Communication can easily be misunderstood through text and can cause all sorts of problems in relationships between people. Not receiving a text back and late responses can cause incredible anxiety among some in our modern world
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Unfortunately, there were more cases in 2018 than in 2017 (29 versus 22).
The numbers and rosy picture here aren't quite as nice as other—more detailed—reporting in the Economist recently would lead us to believe.
In some sense I do appreciate the sophistication of Bill Gates' science communication here though as I suspect that far more Westerners are his audience and a much larger proportion of them are uninformed anti-vaxxers who might latch onto the idea of vaccine-derived polio cases as further evidence for their worldview of not vaccinating their own children and thereby increasing heath risk in the United States.
www.quantamagazine.org www.quantamagazine.org
the Frauchiger-Renner paper when it first appeared on arxiv.org. In that version of the paper, the authors favored the many-worlds scenario. (The latest version of the paper, which was peer reviewed and published in Nature Communications in September, takes a more agnostic stance.
I really love it when articles about science papers actually reference and link the original papers!
- Dec 2018
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Le commerce de l'échange savant dont les règles, les formes et les lieux peuvent être mis en cartes produit diverses sortes de validations qui permettent à leurs bénéficiaires d'entrer dans la négociation de situations matérielles : l'expression République des Lettres couvre, et mêle tout à la fois ces formes, ces lieux et un bon nombre de ces situations. Alors que l'échange et la validation des savoirs par les institutions académiques sont soumis à des conditions d'accès étroites et à des délais de publication encore plus longs pour les mémoires reçus par les sociétés que pour ceux de leurs propres membres, les périodiques savants s'ouvrent à des contributions d'origines très diverses qu'ils publient rapidement.
cohabitation et complémentarité des formes de communication savante (voir l'intervention de Judith). Le périodique apparaît comme une ouverture.
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But the reason I wanted to go back in that moment was the same reason students want to stick with familiar grading systems: I know how it works, I know how to communicate about it, I know how to get the best results from it, and it sticks within the letter-grading system I've used for 20 years as a teacher and longer as a student. I can recite all the dangers and disadvantages of letter grading, but because it's the system I've known for pretty much my entire life, there's still a certain comfort to it, and whenever things get weird or challenging or unpredictable, I get an atavistic desire to go back to what is familiar.
This is beautiful - acknowledging discomfort on the part of both teacher and student.
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Business Communication Etiquette
Communication is essential in all phase of life, including business. Lack of appropriate communication makes your message weakened or obscure and generates the reverse idea about you on others which can change your business very negatively. Being part of a business, it is essential that you communicate with the customers distinctly and completely to keep a good connection with them. Let's discuss Business Communication Etiquette in details.
- Nov 2018
Prezi is a productivity platform that allows for creation, organization, collaboration of presentations. It can be used with either mobile or desktop. Prezi integrates with slack and salesforce. RATING: 5/5 (rating based upon a score system 1 to 5, 1= lowest 5=highest in terms of content, veracity, easiness of use etc.)
edutechwiki.unige.ch edutechwiki.unige.ch
List of web 2.0 applications
EDUTECH wiki is a site that contains a variety of links to lists to hep educators with web 2.0 applications improving productivity Caution: some of the links are not active!
RATING: 4/5 (rating based upon a score system 1 to 5, 1= lowest 5=highest in terms of content, veracity, easiness of use etc.)
www.zachwhalen.net www.zachwhalen.net
One instructor's use of Slack, comparing and contrasting other LMS (but he used Canvas); good basic breakdown of the conversational tools and samples of how hey can be used; This is a great primer of Slack's use in the classroom (5/5)
www.peergrade.io www.peergrade.io
Use of Slack in a FACE-TO-FACE class and how much it increased interaction; brings up a point that concerns me and that's what happens when the instructor/TA appear to be available 24/7 given the nature of Slack; good exploration of motivating students to use it (4/5)
eds.b.ebscohost.com.libproxy.nau.edu eds.b.ebscohost.com.libproxy.nau.edu
Towards teaching as design: Exploring the interplay between full-lifecycle learning design tooling and Teacher Professional Development.
This article explores the theory of training teachers as learning designers to promote innovate and creativity. Included in the article are studies of designers with little teaching experience compared with those that are full-cycle teachers and the effect of TPD and LD upon training.
RATING: 5/5 (rating based upon a score system 1 to 5, 1= lowest 5=highest in terms of content, veracity, easiness of use etc.)
- Oct 2018
www.projectinfolit.org www.projectinfolit.org
Major Findings (2:35 minutes)
I'm quite taken with the variety of means this study is using to communicate its findings. There are blogposts, tweets/social posts, a website, executive summaries, the full paper, and even a short video! I wish more studies went to these lengths.
mikecosgrave.com mikecosgrave.com
A school friend might call him between 2 and 4 in the afternoon causing "an alarm signal
When the author described his families newly installed phone in the 1900s, it brought up very similar feelings that i could relate to even as child of the 1990s. Phones had been around for some time but I clearly remember my first few experiences been terrifyingly exciting. I would swap phone numbers and set up calls for after school with my friends, and unknown to my parents, I would wait for the 'alarm signal to go off'. To their surprise the the call was for me. I would sheepishly take the call with, heart thumping to find out who the voice on the other end was and if it was a boy that was calling I was terrified to say anything at all due to lake of privacy so those calls would never last long! Its interesting to see how quickly changes in communication have happened so rapidly in the past 30 years compared to the previous 100 years. It makes me think about how the ease of access to mobile phones is changing communication in the world, particularly among younger generations that see mobile phones as the norm and will never experience the good old fashioned house phone
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sCiEnCE – 8th GRAdEStudents interview local scientists (e.g., university researcher, local television meteorologist, medical technician) about the ways in which computer models inform their work. Students create a digital gallery of images from the different models accompanied by audio files of the interviews. Students are familiar with the use of computational models as tools to describe and predict real-world phenomena.
Explain the communication that is taken place in this example.
Communicate Clearly
Which of the following definitions relates to your goal as a classroom teacher?
Expressing thoughts clearly, crisply articulating opinions, communicating coherent instructions, motivating others through powerful speech—these skills have always been valued in the workplace and in public life.
Are our students good communicators? Explain.
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The Online Disinhibition Effect (John Suler, 2004) - the lack of restraint shown by some people when communicating online rather than in person. (It can be good as well as bad. How can we reduce the bad behavior?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_disinhibition_effect http://truecenterpublishing.com/psycyber/disinhibit.html
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We will have local, regional, national and then we see what happens. -Get infiramtion, weekly newsletters etc. Getting the stories together.
There are all these different structures. Thirdly, we need to inter-pollinate, and share these experiences. We need the culture of dialogue. We need to learn how to communicate in different ways- to share patterns, dance, paint etc. Finally, I would like to call it a carnival, and not a confluence- including different worlds,
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The last thing most people need is another microphone. They need something to say. (And time to say it.)
Interesting to hear this from 2006 and looking back now...
- Sep 2018
It's probably a lot easier to survive in Italy now without speaking Italian than it was 20 or 30 years ago. Yes. It's easier for everybody never to be away from home. Even people travelling on train journeys no longer talk to anybody. They just send text messages to people who they're close to. Funnily enough, all these means of communication mean that we actually communicate less with the people we don't know.
- Aug 2018
Earlier communication tools enabled individuals to create a private list ofcontacts (for instance a buddy list on instant messaging), to establish a group of contactsthat were shared by others (such as a listserv membership list), or to publish a list ofrelated links (such as a blogroll), but SNSs extended the practice of creating a publiclyvisible, personally curated list of contacts and made it a mainstream practice.
Differences between SNS and CMC.
- Jul 2018
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In a strong school culture, leaders communicate directly with teachers, administrators, counselors, and families, who also all communicate directly with each other.
Big challenge in higher ed. Should units communicate directly with families, alums, other units? Where is the place for student voice?
www.edutopia.org www.edutopia.org
Encouraging Students to Be In Tune With One Another
Communication and collaboration skills are key for navigating through society and relationships successfully- not as much emphasis in education as there should be!
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There are still some wrinkles to be ironed out in getting the various platforms we use today to play well with Webmentions, but it's a real step toward the goal of that decentralized, distributed, interconnected future for scholarly communication.
The fun, secret part is that Kathleen hasn't (yet?) discovered IndieAuth so that she can authenticate/authorize micropub clients like Quill to publish content to her own site from various clients by means of a potential micropub endpoint.
I'll suspect she'll be even more impressed when she realizes that there's a forthcoming wave of feed readers [1] [2] that will allow her to read others' content in a reader which has an integrated micropub client in it so that she can reply to posts directly in her feed reader, then the responses get posted directly to her own website which then, in turn, send webmentions to the site's she's responding to so that the conversational loop can be completely closed.
She and Lee will also be glad to know that work has already started on private posts and conversations and posting to limited audiences as well. Eventually there will be no functionality that a social web site/silo can do that a distributed set of independent sites can't. There's certainly work to be done to round off the edges, but we're getting closer and closer every day.
I know how it all works, but even I'm impressed at the apparent magic that allows round-trip conversations between her website and Twitter and Micro.blog. And she hasn't really delved into website to website conversations yet. I suppose we'll have to help IndieWebify some of her colleague's web presences to make that portion easier. Suddenly "academic Twitter" will be the "academic blogosphere" she misses from not too many years ago. :)
If there are academics out thee who are interested in what Kathleen has done, but may need a little technical help, I'm happy to set up some tools for them to get them started.
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It is important for students to recognize that although technology gives us a lot of power,
Using technology gives us power, but with that power comes great responsibility and knowing how to use it effectively. Students need to be aware of how technology can alter our behavior and communication.
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Because I'm old, I still have my students set up Feedly accounts and plug in the RSS feeds of their classmates and hopefully add other blogs to their feeds as well. And like blogging, I realize only a handful will continue but I want to expose them to the power of sharing their own research/learning via blogging and how to find others who do as well via Feedly.
- Mar 2018
ryancordell.org ryancordell.org
DH is collaborative rather than solitary
"DH is collaborative"... I would have to agree. When I think of digital humanities, I think of communicating and interacting with others across a variety of digital platforms. For example, in the digital humanities course that I took this term, we interacted on a digital platform through blogs with our peers and classmates. It was a really interesting and engaging way to interact with one another because it allowed everyone to speak up and have a voice of their own which is super unique for a college course.
- Nov 2017
m.signalvnoise.com m.signalvnoise.com
What group chat is good for, and its many drawbacks.
- Oct 2017
academic.oup.com academic.oup.com
DHers need more effective communication with broader publics, to bring our own work in preservation, speculative computing, and cultural memory into the light—and to foster collaborations with people outside the academy who share our orientations and concerns.
I am in 100% agreement. The question remains; how do you bring DH to the attention of the general public in a relatable and accessible way? How do you bridge the communication gap between those working in DH in an academic capacity and those who know nothing of the concept and work outside of academia?
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Communications skills being explicitly taught
Again, social annotation/reading provide an opportunity for this kind of instruction: teacher has a view into how students are interacting with each other (and text).
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'What should we drink?' the girl asked.
Keep an eye on the questions that the girl asks of the American and vice a versa. The following banter of the two characters features two main elements of speech: questions and statements. These speech patterns allude to who is leading a conversation and who holds some sort of power over the other. The statements will show us who holds the power between the conversing characters, while the questions show us the opposite: the character lacking in power.
This relationship changes throughout the rest of the story, read on and notice who is asking the questions in the conversation!
- Aug 2017
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the actual problem to be addressed is not the website itself. It is instead the structure of the current academic publishing and knowledge dissemination system that led to the creation, popularisation, and widespread use of Sci-Hub.
The actual publishing model is systematic of a change in scholarship
- Jul 2017
Native English speakers tend to be very poor at using English as a lingua franca.
- Don't talk fast.
- Don't use slang, obscure terms, or abbreviations.
- Give the other person time to absorb what you said and construct a reply.
- Restate important points in a different way.
- Make sure you get genuine confirmation.
- Jun 2017
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Expert communicators may sometimes be perceived as trustworthy because they know a lot about the product they are selling.
Brain Games persuasion experiment: A fake sales person utilizes the halo effect, expert bias, and artificial scarcity to to promote a worthless product to consumers.
- Apr 2017
communication, community, and interaction
Communication: the imparting or exchanging of information or news; means of connection between people or places, in particular. Interaction: reciprocal action or influence. At first glance, these words tend to have similar meanings or be sub categories of each other. I just found odd and interesting that Bay/Rickert chose both words rather than one or the other.
The venerableLISTSERV email lists such as mediev-l (founded in 1992) and other medieval-focusedlistservs are early instances of the digital democratization of scholarship, conducted as anasynchronous and geographically dispersed conversation.
Listservs and their relationship to Notes and Queries
firstwant to consider the ways in which our increased online presence has exposed manyof the existing networks that ground the sources of academic and intellectual authority(reputation, credibility, reliability).
How online communities have changed the way humanists work.
Fisher, Matthew. 2012. "Authority, Interoperability, and Digital Medieval Scholarship." Literature Compass 9 (12): 955–64. doi:10.1111/lic3.12018.
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pp. 6-7 Interesting history of Journal
Scholars have always had a need to communicate with other scholars. More than three hundred years ago, using the then new technology of the printing press, scholarly journals began. Journals were an exceptionally practical solution to the problem of the limited technolgogies of the time. ... For an individual before the seventeenth century the only practical form of communicating over significant distances was the personal letter. In comparison, scholarly journals allowed an individual to communicate more easily and exchange ideas with groups of others. These early journals were not seen as the final destination of a scholar's work; until this century, the monograph (book) was usually the final destination of a scholar's work. I find this distinction important because when a scholar today commits to be published in a journal, the product is usually considered finished and the scholar commits her or himself to the finality of the work. The journal article becomes the final piece offered to the public and to the fate of history.
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Together, these twin pressures—the need to enhance the ties between scholars and their organizations while simultaneously doing more with less —begin to suggest that the traditional value proposition of the scholarly society, in which one becomes a member in order to receive the various communications of the society, is no longer as viable as it once was. But there isn't a clear sense, as yet, of where the society's value for its members today, not to mention its sources of revenue that allow it to fulfill its mission, might lie. In order to find a way forward, today's scholarly societies must begin to think differently about their functions, their structures, and their overall goals.
CHanging roles of scholarly societies
The letters that were exchanged among the membership of the Royal Society in the mid-17th century, and that were later gathered into journals, gradually accrued formalized processes of review, editing, production, and distribution. In creating this new product —the scholarly journal—learned societies found one part of the financial model that would allow them to serve their larger goals. Scholars were encouraged to join and maintain their memberships in order to receive the journal. In addition to memberships made available to individuals, journal subscriptions were created for libraries, allowing academic institutions to help support the organizations that facilitated, validated, and circulated the work of their faculty members.
History of journals from letters
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he web was, like scholarly societies, invented for the express purpose of supporting communication amongst researchers by allowing them to create pages on which they could share their work with one another and with the world. The difference, of course, is that the web permits any individual scholar with server access and a little bit of technical knowledge to share their work directly and immediately further diminishing their apparent need for those collectives that scholarly societies have historically provided.
How the web is like and not like traditional societies
Since the Royal Society of London, learned and professional societies have been created precisely in order to help facilitate communication amongst members, scholars, and between those members and the broader intellectual world. Now, early on that communication took place via meetings and letters that were sent among the membership between meetings. Over time, the meetings developed into regularly scheduled conferences, and the letters were gathered into systematically produced and distributed journals. Those journals accrued a series of formal publishing processes including, of course, editing and peer review that came to mark them as authoritative resources for developing knowledge in their fields, and those resources came not only to be valued by their original audience, the members of the society, but also by a broader range of scholars, researchers, and students. As a result, research libraries collected those journals and made them available to their patrons
History of Scholarly Societies from networking centres through conferences through publishers
It could if we had more gold, but I am here to tell you that we do not. The boom Brandon just mentioned in the sciences has passed us by. ACLS funds a lot of scholarship, and we award $15 million in fellowship and grants, but if recipients of our fellowships use stipends to pay author fees that would be trading publication costs for research time. The National Endowment for Humanities, its funding is now 29% of its peak appropriation, and an additional 49% cut has been proposed, and the House Budget Committee is considering complete elimination of all funding. If the author pays model were widely adopted in the humanities, it would increase the already problematical level of inequality in academia. Wealthy universities could pay for their faculty but scholars at public universities and smaller colleges could not expect such largesse.
Why APC doesn't work in the humanities
They were created to name and claim an area of knowledge and to establish and monitor standards for cultivating that area. Establishing a peer-review journal was the most obvious way of doing that but there are many other ways. Prizes for books and articles, even the elections of officers themselves. Most humanities journals have two types of peer review: prepublication review of research articles and postpublication review of books and other published materials.
Modern scholarly societies in the humanites were created to provide peer review
William Rainey Harper, the first president of the nascent University of Chicago, was aggressive in recruiting star faculty to his new campus. He would offer blandishments including one relevant to our topic this morning. If Harper really wanted someone, the president would promise the wavering scholar that he, and it was almost always a "he" in those days, would be the editor of not one but two new journals that the university press would publish: one, a journal for academic specialists, and the second, for the general public.
How U of C used journal editorships--of scholarly and public--as recruitment tool in setting up the U of Chicago.
- Mar 2017
Commentator Kat Nagel outlined a life cycle that every list seems to go through. First thereis initial enthusiasm and evangelism (where people complain about the infrequency ofpostings). This is followed by a period of growth and then community (with lots of threadsand information and willingness to help). When the number of messages increases both involume and in diversity, a certain discomfort arises (often marked by complaints that the listhas lost its central purpose). Finally, if a group of purists emerges and is allowed to ''flame''(attack ad hominem) and act self-righteously, while others leave to form groups of their own,then a complacency develops, or worse stagnation and death. If, however, the self-righteousare minimized and a balance develops between community and diversity, then a list will reachmaturity
Life cycle of the listserv
The depth of interactivity varies widely among discussion groups. Some groups are likecocktail parties with many conversations (threads) competing. Some, like formal seminars,focus around specific topics. Some are like notice boards in the local grocery store wheremessages are pinned and left for others to read and comment on. And some groups merelyfunction as newspapers, disseminating electronic journals or computer programs, advertisingconferences or job vacancies. Many people are content to just read and listen, even in themost interactive groups, while a relatively few dominate conversations
Different kinds of listserv groups
In some ways, the exchange of correspondence publicly over these networksconstitutes a new form of publication. The posting on a list frequently resembles a letter to theeditor where someone conveys their opinions on a subjec
A way of understanding listservs as a new form of scholarly communication--like a letter to the editor.
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Marcin and Laura joined me on Thursday to talk about translating CLAVIER into their local cultures. They helped me, we are helping each other attempt to make that translation.
translation respect of context finding common ground difficulty
Mia talked about translating meaning through boxes, inside boxes.
Key. translation of meaning through boxes, inside boxes
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(I shall make a mental note for next time not to forget to mute the headset - metaphor to remember - it's just like the translator's cabin that I used to work in for the Short Film Festival in Clermont Ferrand REMEMBER to MUTE)
Confidence in competence.
Cutting off from space.
Withdrawing from space
mutual communication transaction, Rogers is often as con- cerned with the audience as with the speake
It seems like a lot of our rhetors so far have been discussing "mutual communication transactions," but without acknowledging it. Those earliest were, perhaps, genuinely not considering reciprocated communication from their audience at all, but in more recent weeks, at least, we have gotten rhetors who think about their audience at least a little. This, however, is certainly the most explicit text in terms of addressing rhetoric as a "mutual communication."
- Feb 2017
the grace and force of those ex-pressions which they used, when they sought to persuade or to affect.
This thought reminded me of the discussion in class about how even babies are communicating before developing a sense of language.
It seems to me that as long as an individual has an understanding of their own cultural ideas and contexts, they can grasp some form of rhetorical interaction with others; rhetoric seemingly always finds a way.
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but I think the biggest problem with our relationship is lack of communication.
This is why we need to be able to communicate properly and not just assume the other person is bad without understanding their sides of the story.
- Jan 2017
- Dec 2016
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Now, there is only so much survival training that is required, and there is always a little bit that is needed ongoing because it relates to your need to provide income for yourself and to get along with other people. You live in a social setting as well as a biological one. You must survive physically and you must survive socially. To do this you must develop your personal self so that you can communicate and participate with people effectively and be able to manage the simple affairs of your life. This is ongoing because even with a greater emphasis in life, you will have to develop and cultivate your personal self to accommodate this greater emphasis. Do not expect God to come and give you a great mission in life until you have the capacity for it.
- Sep 2016
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tores and storekeepers were at the center of the val-ley's communication system
Gathering places differ in different places with different social statures. Culture of communication and social communicating expectations.
- Aug 2016
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Borgman notes that no social framework exist for data that is comparable to this framework that exist for analysis. CF. Kitchen 2014 who argues that pre-big data, we privileged analysis over data to the point that we threw away the data after words . This is what creates the holes in our archives.
He wonders capabilities [of the data management] must be compared to the remarkably stable scholarly communication system in which they exist. The reward system continues to be based on publishing journal articles, books, and conference papers. Peer-reviewed legitimizes scholarly work. Competition and cooperation are carefully balanced. The means by which scholarly publishing occurs is an unstable state, but the basic functions remained relatively unchanged. while capturing and managing the "data deluge" is a major driver of the scholarly infrastructure developments, no Showshow same framework for data exist that is comparable to that for publishing.
- Jul 2016
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Page 203
Citation age of an average article is longest in the social sciences.
Page 202
Borgman on information artifacts in the social sciences
like the sciences, the social sciences create and use minimal information. Yet they differ in the sources of the data. While almost all scientific data are created by for scientific purposes, a significant portion of social scientific data consists of records credit for other purposes, by other parties.
Page 184
In the section "Description and Organization in the Sciences" Borgman discusses some of the ways in which scientific literature is better organized: for example these include uniform language, taxonomies, thesauri, and ontologies.
Borgman, Christine L. 2007. Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
page 182
the sciences create a variety of objects the salt in the gray area between documents and data. Examples include Laboratorio field notebooks, slicer talks, composition objects such as graphic visualization of data. Laboratorio notebooks are often classified as data because their records research. Slides from talks, which were once ephemeral forms of communication, now our compost and competent person websites are distributed to accomplish proceedings. Graphic visualization data can be linked to scarlet documents to report research or to the underlying data.
Chapter 8 is an excellent overview of the nature of the commons its differences and similarities
Page 182 Borgman on the disciplinary differences in scholarly practice
Despite many common activities, both the artifacts and practices of scholarship very by discipline. The artifacts very as scholars make choices about the sources of data, along with what, when, where, and what form to disseminate the products of their work. Scholarly practices vary in the way that scholars create, use, and share documents, data, and other forms of information.
Pages 153 and 154
Borgman on how data Deluge affects the balance between traditional and new forms of scholarship
Changes in scholarly practices such as mining data sets can have significant influences on scholar is professional identity. Shifts in technology and funding that favor computational methods May disadvantage those whose research is based on fieldwork for instance. These transitions can create a double bind for those research areas more funding for computational modeling made me less funding for field research to collect new data. Not only does less data collected but fewer students are trained in field methods. Substantial expertise and data collection and the ability to interpret older data may be lost. Conversely those who rely on computational methods must have sufficient knowledge of how the data were collected to be able to interpret them. They do require adequate training and data collection methods.... Research Specialties that use more computational methods are seeking a balance between a steady supply of new data, avoiding duplicate or redundant data collection where possible, and training students in field research and computational methods. Thus, new technologies for producing and analyzing data may have subtle but important influences on Scholars career path.
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Borgman makes the point here that while there is a Commons in the infrastructure of scholarly publishing there is less of a Commons in the infrastructure 4 data across disciplines.
The infrastructure of scholarly publishing Bridges disciplines: every field produces Journal articles, conference papers, and books albeit in differing ratios. Libraries select, collect organize and make accessible publications of all types, from all fields. No comparable infrastructure exists for data. A few Fields have major mechanisms for publishing data in repositories. Some fields are in the stage of developing standards and practices to activate their data resorces and Nathan were widely accessible. In most Fields, especially Outside The Sciences, data practices remain local idiosyncratic, and oriented to current usage rather than preservation operation, and access. Most data collections Dash where they exist Dash are managed by individual agencies within disciplines, rather than by libraries are archives. Data managers usually are trained within the disciplines they serve. Only a few degree programs and information studies include courses on data management. The lack of infrastructure for data amplifies the discontinuities in scholarly publishing despite common concerns, independent debates continue about access to Publications and data.
Chapters 4 and 5 the continuity of scholarly publishing and the discontinuity of scholarly publishing
These are both useful and important chapters for the scholarly Commons working group. They discuss the things that are common across scholarly communication as well as the different functions comma and they also discuss a new technology is disrupting this common area.
Page 47
Communication is the essence of scholarship comment as many observers have said in many ways. Scholarship is an inherently social activity, involving a wide range of private and public interactions within the research Community. Publication comment as the public report of research, is part of a continuous cycle of Reading, Writing, disgusting, searching, investigating, presenting, submitting, and reviewing. No scholarly publication stands alone. Each new work in a field his position relative to others through the process of citing relevant literature.
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Communication is the essence of scholarship comment as many observers have said in many ways.
Borgman gives bibliography of claims that scholarship is communication
A great paragraph here on the value of interconnection
scholarly data and documents are of most value when they are interconnected rather than independent. The outcomes of a research project could be understood most fully if it were possible to trace an important finding from a grant proposal, to data collection, to a data set, to its publication, to its subsequent review and comment period journal articles are more valuable if one can jump directly from the article to those insights into later articles that cite the source article. Articles are even more valuable if they provide links to data on which they are based. Some of these capabilities already are available, but their expansion depends more on the consistency of the data description, access arrangements, and intellectual property agreement then on technological advances.
I think here of the line from Jim Gill may all your problems be technical
- digital humanities
- citation practices
- Scholarly Communication
- digital scholarship
- Scholarly
- Importance of communication in science
- Disciplinary differences
- Borgman 2007
- disciplinary difference
- borgman 2007
- citation
- Scholarly Commons
- Data
- Interconnection
- Scholarly Commons Working Group
- data
- social sciences
Figure 3 illustrates at what age ceased 'indie' journals stopped publishing. Most journals survived the first 2–5 years period, whereas the mortality rate rose in the critical 6–9 years period. After that, the number of journals ceasing dropped sharply, indicating that the surviving journals had found stability.
Most critical period for journals is 6-9 years. After year ten, the number of journals that stop drops quickly
The development over time of active 'indie' OA journals before and after 2002 is shown in Figs. 1A and 1B. A journal was counted as 'active' in a particular year if it was still publishing articles in that year. Before 2002 the number of active journals grew very rapidly from a total of 76 journals in 1995 to 207 journals in 2002. The year 2002 was the cut-off year to be included in the studied cohort, meaning that no new journals were added to the data set after this point in time. After 2002, the number of journals in the cohort decreased steadily to the 127 that stayed active in 2014.
Interesting charts showing the rise and then decline of independent, scholar-published OA journals
The average number of articles published was 31 per year with 74% publishing 0–30 articles, and 9% 60 or more. The study also contains interesting data about the workload done, revenues etc.
Average numbers of articles in OJS journals: 31
- 74% publish 0-30
- 9% 60 or more
"The key question for OA publishing is whether it can be scaled up from a single journal publishing model with relatively few articles published per year to a comprehensive major journal with of the order of 50–100 articles annually." They further note: "The continuation of the journal relies very heavily on the personal involvement of the editor and is as such a risk to the model. Employing staff to handle, for example, management, layout and copyediting tasks, is a cost-increasing factor that also is a threat to the model." Both questions are still highly relevant today.
Key issues facing scholar-published journals: can they ramp up; can they survive succession.
Earlier studies A number of previous studies, both snapshots and some with longitudinal elements, have shed light on different aspects of such type of journals, which for short we will call "indie" journals.
Bibliography of "independent journals"
Often the enthusiasm of the founders and their personal network can carry a volunteer-based journal for a few years. But at that same time this type of journal, which lack the support of employed staff and a professional publishing organization, are threatened by many dangers. The editor may change affiliation or retire, or the support of the university hosting the journal might be withdrawn. Authors may stop sending in good manuscripts and it may become more and more difficult to find motivated reviewers. Not being included in the Web of Science, and the impact factor that follows, may in the long run limit the number of submissions severely. On the positive side of the balance the emergence of open source software for publishing (i.e., Open Journals System) and cheap or free hosting services like Latin American Scielo have facilitated the technical parts of publishing.
Problems with Scholar-published journals
Most of the OA journals founded in the 1990s were of this variety, later many established subscription journals (particularly society ones) have made their digital versions freely available immediately or with a delay. This has been particularly noticeable in countries where cheap or free national or regional electronic portals have become available, like Scielo, Redalyc, and J-stage. Since around 2003 the OA market has become increasingly dominated by professionally published journals, which finance themselves by charging authors so-called article processing charges, APCs. At first such journals were being launched by open access publishers like BioMedCentral and PLOS, but in the last couple of years the major commercial and society publishers have increasingly started new OA journals and have also converted some subscription journals to APC-financed models.
History of OA journals. Initially scholar-published, non-APC, post 2003 mostly APC-publisher-led journals
Open Access (OA) is nowadays increasingly being used as a business model for the publishing of scholarly peer reviewed journals, both by specialized OA publishing companies and major, predominantly subscription-based publishers. However, in the early days of the web OA journals were mainly founded by independent academics, who were dissatisfied with the predominant print and subscription paradigm and wanted to test the opportunities offered by the new medium. There is still an on-going debate about how OA journals should be operated, and the volunteer model used by many such 'indie' journals has been proposed as a viable alternative to the model adopted by big professional publishers where publishing activities are funded by authors paying expensive article processing charges (APCs). Our longitudinal quantitative study of 250 'indie' OA journals founded prior to 2002, showed that 51% of these journals were still in operation in 2014 and that the median number of articles published per year had risen from 11 to 18 among the survivors. Of these surviving journals, only 8% had started collecting APCs. A more detailed qualitative case study of five such journals provided insights into how such journals have tried to ensure the continuity and longevity of operations.
A longitudinal study of independent scholar-published open access journals
Björk, Bo-Christer, Cenyu Shen, and Mikael Laakso. 2016. "A Longitudinal Study of Independent Scholar-Published Open Access Journals." PeerJ 4 (May). peerj.com: e1990. doi:10.7717/peerj.1990.
- Jun 2016
Here is the real message of the letter and the real rationale of the Spenser Society of America: to multiply the institutional contexts in which writing on Spenser will at once be demanded and published. It so happens that the letter was written before the society's first meeting, but as this sentence shows, the society need never have met at all, since its most impor- tant goal-the creation of a Spenser industry with all its attendant machinery-had already been achieved
The creation of the Spenser industry: how communities create fields
www.researchtrends.com www.researchtrends.com
Publish or perish? The rise of the fractional author…
Plume, Andrew, and Daphne van Weijen. 2014. "Publish or Perish? The Rise of the Fractional Author…." Research Trends, no. 38(September). https://www.researchtrends.com/issue-38-september-2014/publish-or-perish-the-rise-of-the-fractional-author/.
Some researchers attribute the phrase to Kimball C. Atwood III, who is said to have coined the phrase in 1950 (
origin of the phrase "publish or perish"
- Apr 2016
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Jon Udell on productive social discourse.
changeable minds<br> What's something you believed deeply, for a long time, and then changed your mind about?
David Gray's Liminal Thinking points out that we all have beliefs that are built on hidden foundations. We need to carefully examine our own beliefs and their origins. And we need to avoid judgment as we consider the beliefs of others and their origins.
Wael Ghonim asks us to design social media that encourages civility, thoughtfulness, and open minds rather than self-promotion, click-bait, and echo chambers.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
Right: But where this argument fails is in interrogating whether, and why, this must necessarily be the case. Many socially necessary functions are provided outside market structures. Is there an iron law of nature dictating that scholarly communication must happen in a marketplace?
in the latter both the wide differential in manuscript rejection rates and the high correlation between refereerecommendations and editorial decisions suggests that reviewers and editors agree more on acceptance than on rejection.
In "specific and focussed" fields, the agreement tends to be more on acceptance than rejection.
In the former there is also much more agreement on rejectionthan acceptance
In "general and diffuse" fields, there is more agreement on paper rejection than in "specific and focussed."
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Excellence to recognise excellence quotation.
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. I consider that my job, as a philosopher, is to activate the possible, and not to describe the probable, that is, to think situations with and through their unknowns when I can feel them
The job of a philosopher is to "activate the possible, not describe the probable."
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massmediarefers to those means of transmission
When I ask students to post on Youth Voices, I'm asking them to participate in mass media. It's a big jump for some who do very little by friend-to-friend communication.
- Mar 2016
Levine, T., Asada, K. J., & Carpenter, C. (2009). Sample sizes and effect sizes are negatively correlated inmeta-analyses: Evidence and implications of a publication bias against non-significant findings.Communication Monographs, 76, 286–302
Paris, G., De Leo, G., Menozzi, P., & Gatto, M. (1998). Region-based citation bias in science.Nature, 396,6708
Rosenthal, R. (1979). The file drawer problem and tolerance for null results.Psychological Bulletin, 86,638–641
Song, F. J., Parekh-Bhurke, S., Hooper, L., Loke, Y. K., Ryder, J. J., Sutton, A. J., et al. (2009). Extent ofpublication bias in different categories of research cohorts: A meta-analysis of empirical studies.BMCMedical Research Methodology, 9, 79
Sterling, T. D. (1959). Publication decisions and their possible effects on inferences drawn from tests ofsignificance—Or vice versa.Journal of the American Statistical Association, 54, 30–34
publication bias
Osuna, C., Crux-Castro, L., & Sanz-Menedez, L. (2011). Overturning some assumptions about the effects ofevaluation systems on publication performance.Scientometrics, 86, 575–592
evaluation systems and publication performance
Pautasso, M. (2010). Worsening file-drawer problem in the abstracts of natural, medical and social sciencedatabases.Scientometrics, 85(1), 193–202
Schmidt, S. (2009). Shall we really do it again? The powerful concept of replication is neglected in thesocial sciences.Review of General Psychology, 13(2), 90–100.
Shelton, R. D., Foland, P., & Gorelskyy, R. (2009). Do new SCI journals have a different national bias?Scientometrics, 79(2), 351–363. doi:
Silvertown, J., & McConway, K. J. (1997). Does ''publication bias'' lead to biased science?Oikos, 79(1),167–168.
Yousefi-Nooraie, R., Shakiba, B., & Mortaz-Hejri, S. (2006). Country development and manuscript selec-tion bias: A review of published studies.BMC Medical Research Methodology, 6, 37
On developing countries and science
Evanschitzky, H., Baumgarth, C., Hubbard, R., & Armstrong, J. S. (2007). Replication research's disturbingtrend.Journal of Business Research, 60(4), 411–415. doi
replication research
Jeng, M. (2006). A selected history of expectation bias in physics.American Journal of Physics, 74(7),578–583
History of expectation bias in physics
Ioannidis, J. P. A. (2008a). Perfect study, poor evidence: Interpretation of biases preceding study design.Seminars in Hematology, 45(3), 160–166
effect of positive bias
Feigenbaum, S., & Levy, D. M. (1996). Research bias: Some preliminary findings.Knowledge and Policy:The International Journal of Knowledge Transfer and Utilization, 9(2 & 3), 135–142.
Positive bias
Song, F., Parekh, S., Hooper, L., Loke, Y. K., Ryder, J., Sutton, A. J., et al. (2010). Dissemination andpublication of research findings: An updated review of related biases.Health Technology Assessment,14(8), 1–193. doi
positive bias
De Rond, M., & Miller, A. N. (2005). Publish or perish—Bane or boon of academic life?Journal ofManagement Inquiry, 14(4), 321–329. doi:
On how increased pressure to publish diminishes creativity.
Several possible problems have been hypothesised, including: undue proliferation ofpublications and atomization of results (Gad-el-Hak2004; Statzner and Resh2010);impoverishment of research creativity, favouring ''normal'' science and predictable out-comes at the expense of pioneering, high-risk studies (De Rond and Miller2005); growingjournal rejection rates and bias against negative and non-significant results (because theyattract fewer readers and citations) (Statzner and Resh2010; Lortie1999); sensationalism,inflation and over-interpretation of results (Lortie1999; Atkin2002; Ioannidis2008b);increased prevalence of research bias and misconduct (Qiu2010). Indirect empiricalevidence supports at least some of these concerns. The per-capita paper output of scientistshas increased, whilst their career duration has decreased over the last 35 years in thephysical sciences (Fronczak et al.2007). Rejection rates of papers have increased in thehigh-tier journals (Larsen and von Ins2010; Lawrence2003). Negative sentences such as''non-significant difference'' have decreased in frequency in papers' abstracts, while catchyexpressions such as ''paradigm shift'' have increased in the titles (Pautasso2010; Atkin2002). No study, however, has yet verified directly whether the scientific literature isenduring actual changes in conten
Good discussion (and bibliography) of problems involved in hyper competition
Formann, A. K. (2008). Estimating the proportion of studies missing for meta-analysis due to publicationbias.Contemporary Clinical Trials, 29(5), 732–739. doi
estimate of positive bias in clinical trials.
Fronczak, P., Fronczak, A., & Holyst, J. A. (2007). Analysis of scientific productivity using maximumentropy principle and fluctuation-dissipation theorem.Physical Review E, 75(2), 026103. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.75.026103.
On rising scientific productivity over shorter careers.
Atkin, P. A. (2002). A paradigm shift in the medical literature.British Medical Journal, 325(7378),1450–1451
On the rise of sexy terms like "paradigm shift" in abstracts.
Bonitz, M., & Scharnhorst, A. (2001). Competition in science and the Matthew core journals.Sciento-metrics, 51(1), 37–54
Matthew effect
- globalisation
- evaluation
- incentives
- bibliography
- bias
- impact factor
- creativity
- matthew effect
- publish or perish
- scientific competition
- positive bias
- scientific and scholarly communication
- replicability
- replication research
To publish. And sometimes publish in the right journals.... In my discipline ...there's just a few journals, and if you're not in that journal, then yourpublication doesn't really count
Importance of "top" journals
In addition to that, the other thing that they focus on is science as celebrity.... Sothe standards are, ''How much did it cost, and is it in the news?'' And if it didn'tcost much and if it is not in the news, but it got a lot of behind-the-scenes talkwithin your discipline, they don't know that, nor do they care
Importance of news-worthiness.
You've got to have a billionpublications in my field. That is the bottom line. That's the only thing that counts.You can fail to do everything else as long as you have lots and lots of papers
Importance of publications in science--overrules everything else.
- prestige
- bibliometrics
- popular dissemination
- citation counts
- impact factor
- scientific competition
- dissemination
- newsworthiness
- scientific and scholarly communication
www.nature.com www.nature.com
The winner-take-all aspect of the priority rule has its drawbacks, however. It can encourage secrecy, sloppy practices, dishonesty and an excessive emphasis on surrogate measures of scientific quality, such as publication in high-impact journals. The editors of the journal Nature have recently exhorted scientists to take greater care in their work, citing poor reproducibility of published findings, errors in figures, improper controls, incomplete descriptions of methods and unsuitable statistical analyses as evidence of increasing sloppiness. (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.)As competition over reduced funding has increased markedly, these disadvantages of the priority rule may have begun to outweigh its benefits. Success rates for scientists applying for National Institutes of Health funding have recently reached an all-time low. As a result, we have seen a steep rise in unhealthy competition among scientists, accompanied by a dramatic proliferation in the number of scientific publications retracted because of fraud or error. Recent scandals in science are reminiscent of the doping problems in sports, in which disproportionately rich rewards going to winners has fostered cheating.
How the priority rule is killing science.
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The role of external influences on the scientific enterprise must not be ignored. With funding success rates at historically low levels, scientists are under enormous pressure to produce high-impact publications and obtain research grants. The importance of these influences is reflected in the burgeoning literature on research misconduct, including surveys that suggest that approximately 2% of scientists admit to having fabricated, falsified, or inappropriately modified results at least once (24). A substantial proportion of instances of faculty misconduct involve misrepresentation of data in publications (61%) and grant applications (72%); only 3% of faculty misconduct involved neither publications nor grant applications.
Importance of low funding rates as incitement to fraud
The predominant economic system in science is "winner-take-all" (17, 18). Such a reward system has the benefit of promoting competition and the open communication of new discoveries but has many perverse effects on the scientific enterprise (19). The scientific misconduct among both male and female scientists observed in this study may well reflect a darker side of competition in science. That said, the preponderance of males committing research misconduct raises a number of interesting questions. The overrepresentation of males among scientists committing misconduct is evident, even against the backdrop of male overrepresentation among scientists, a disparity more pronounced at the highest academic ranks, a parallel with the so-called "leaky pipeline." There are multiple factors contributing to the latter, and considerable attention has been paid to factors such as the unique challenges facing young female scientists balancing personal and career interests (20), as well as bias in hiring decisions by senior scientists, who are mostly male (21). It is quite possible that, in at least some cases, misconduct at high levels may contribute to attrition of woman from the senior ranks of academic researchers.
Reason for fraud: winner take all


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I've had a flip phone for years and years. And for the most part, I was happy with it. I don't get a whole lot of calls and it mostly existed for unusual circumstances. The one thing I had to admit it didn't do well was text, a fact that caused my teenage sons a great deal of angst when they were out and trying to have a conversation with me. Still, I resisted getting a smartphone because I don't like them.
I realize that the smartphone itself is an inanimate object, a tool to be used for good or ill. But everywhere I look, I see people with their heads down, engaged more with their phone than with the world or the people in front of them. I go to the park and see moms on their phones as their kids are trying to talk to them. I see toddlers being handed phones to amuse themselves. Go out to eat and all the people sitting at the table are interacting with their phones rather than with those around the table. Smartphones have made work a 24/7 experience with people always expected to be a text away regardless of what else they might be doing. It just makes me sad. In carrying the world in our pockets, we have lost something valuable in our interpersonal relationships.
I work hard in my life to maintain a technology/life balance. It's necessary for my mental health. I want the technology to serve me, not the other way around.
In the end, though, I lost the battle. The male members of my household decided I needed one (see inability to text above) and there was a deal through our internet company that made it the same price as what I was paying for my prepaid flip phone. I could even keep my old number. I had no realistic argument I could make other than my own stubbornness, so I had to suck it up and accept the new technology into my life.
I've had it for a couple weeks now. I got it a pretty rose colored case and at son #2's suggestion, named it Juliet. There are things I do like about it. I enjoy having a camera with me everywhere I go and to be able to share pictures without having to hook up my camera to the computer and download the photos. The GPS has helped a couple times already seeing as I lack any innate sense of direction and get lost way more than any person should. I can now text in complete sentences. These are all good things.
I'm working hard to not have it be an appendage, to still only get online a few times a day and to maintain my weekend break from the computer. So far, so good. I don't enjoy having to fight the temptation, though, and despite the convenience find myself missing the days when technology wasn't with us everywhere we go.


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Psalm 8; Matthew 25:31-46
Do you remember the first time you felt overwhelmed by the wonder of God's creation? I do. It was on a family vacation when my parents and brother and I traveled in our 1952 blue Plymouth sedan from the flat lands and cornfields of Iowa to the foothills and Rocky Mountains of Colorado. I will never forget how amazed I was to realize that what appeared from a distance as low lying clouds upon closer view magically turned into high mountain peaks. At age eight I fell in love with mountains, feeling a connection to God's creation in a way I had never before experienced.
I suspect that most of us have our own story of when we came to love God's wondrous creation. For some it may have been the first time on a Central Minnesota lake or up in the boundary waters; for some it may have been the first trip to the East or West coast and seeing the endless expanse of the ocean; for others it may have been camping out under the night sky and, like the Psalmist, feeling small when gazing up to heavenly canvas of the moon and all the stars.
The Psalmist not only voices our shared wonder at the majesty and glory of God as made visible in all creation. The Psalmist also asks a simple question that, depending on how we answer it, can help guide our lives still today. "When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established, what are human beings that you should be mindful of them, mortals that you care for them?"
In other words, when we consider how small we are in the vast expanse and grandeur of creation, why does God bother to think about us or to care about us? The Psalmist answers this question by declaring that God has made human beings "a little lower than God, and crowned them with glory and honor." This affirmation of the God-given worth of human beings is immediately followed by the Psalmist identification of the unique role of human beings: God gave us "dominion over the works of God's hands."
How we understand this role of having dominion over the rest of creation is critical. Unfortunately this role has been misinterpreted over the centuries to justify abuse and exploitation of the earth and its resources. In contrast, our own United Methodist Social Principles have correctly interpreted our role as caretakers or stewards of the gift of creation. Dominion is not a blank check for our personal use but a responsibility to exercise God's care over all that God has made.
This meaning of dominion is like the concept of "power of attorney." Like some of you, in recent years I was given the role of managing my parents' finances. Through signing over "power of attorney" my parents entrusted to me the care of all their finances in a way that would honor their years of labor and maintain their world as best as possible. The Power of Attorney document is a legal contract and a moral covenant that makes clear my role, its responsibilities and limitations.
In a similar way, when God granted us dominion over creation, we human beings joined in covenant with God and with one another to be responsible caretakers, stewards of this earth and all the works of God's hands. As our United Methodist Social Principles declare: "All creation is the Lord's and we are responsible for the ways in which we use and abuse it. God has granted us stewardship of creation. We should meet these stewardship duties through loving care and respect."
Today as we look back to the past year and look ahead to the new year, we stand at a crossroads when it comes to care of God's creation. As we look to the past we recognize the growing evidence of the global impact of humanity's disregard for this God-given home we call "earth." As we look forward we fear how dramatic changes in the earth's climate will impact future generations along with the costs already born by those who are often the most vulnerable and the least responsible for these devastating changes.
Even as we renew our covenant with God today as people of faith to care for God's creation, we call on those in positions of power in business and government to promote policies which protect the earth and reduce the growing threat to the human community as we know it. One way we have the privilege of doing this is through the United Methodist Earthkeepers ministry. Over the next seven years, this ministry aims to commission 500 Methodists across the United States to focus on creation care. This past year, one of our own church members, Rick Miller, was commissioned as an Earthkeeper and led us in our community garden project. During 2018 Rick will continue to provide leadership and help provide opportunities for us all to participate in community projects, educational events and advocacy efforts with the greater community for creation care.
Along with renewing our covenant to care for all God's creation, today we gather to renew our covenant to care for all God's children.
In the gospel of Mathew, Jesus calls us to care for all people, especially for those he calls "the least of our brothers and sisters." Again, as we look back today to the past year and look ahead to the new year, we stand at a crossroads when it comes to care of all of God's children, especially those considered the least. Along with the rollback of creation care by our nation in 2017, we also witnessed the rollback of civil rights and care for those most vulnerable as the mask was removed from the face of human hatred. What some have called "the mainstreaming of hate" was demonstrated time and again as hate-filled members of the so-called "alt-right" spread their hatred and violence across our nation. They identified and targeted "the least among us," particularly people of color, immigrants, religious minorities, and members of the LGBTQ community. The chilling scene of neo-Nazi white supremacists marching with torches in Charlottesville this summer was just one demonstration of how emboldened the members of hate groups have become during 2017. But perhaps just as disturbing was the reported rise in schools of harassment and bullying of children whose races, ethnicities and religions are targeted by classmates and their parents as un-American and unacceptable in our nation.
One of the alt-right leaders is a man named Andrew Anglin, who runs a neo-Nazi website called The Daily Stormer, taking its name from a famous 1930's Nazi tabloid. There is no mistaking Anglin's cause: he recently wrote that he is doing his part "to accomplish the goal Adolf Hitler set out to accomplish." Men such as Anglin are dangerous because they capture the attention of hundreds of thousands of people who are energized by calls to intimidate and destroy those they hate, justifying their violence by blaming the victims for all of our nation's and their personal problems.
As we move into the new year, the well-respected Southern Poverty Law Center is tracking over 900 hate groups in the United States that each day seek to enlist more members to join their movement.
This is why we as a church must continue to stand with all of our neighbors who are targeted and torn apart by people and policies aimed at destroying their freedom and civil rights. This past year I was so proud to see members of this congregation actively present at the St. Cloud City Council meeting to protest when one of the council members sought to pass a resolution to temporarily ban from St. Cloud the future re-settlement of all refugees. I was also proud of Pastor Leah when she invited a young Muslim teacher, Ayan Omar, to co-lead a community educational series at our church promoting religious tolerance, mutual understanding, civility and respect.
We have a great opportunity in the new year to introduce others to Ayan and to help turn strangers into friends through the Green Card Voices videos that are available on-line and at various community centers across our region. Let's watch the video now in which Ayan shares her story: www.greencardvoices.com/speakers/ayan-omar/
Jesus calls us to visualize him in the face of strangers. As we begin the comng new year, the equal or greater challenge may be whether strangers will see Christ in us.
Yes, today on this last day of 2017 we stand at a crossroads. It's up to us, standing together, to renew our covenant with God to care for creation and for all of God's children. Silence, inaction, is not an option for those who call Jesus, "Lord." To follow Jesus means to lift up our voices and to act, to not allow silence or inaction to lend further aid to the devastation of the earth or to the hatred of our neighbors. To follow Jesus means to see God's majesty in all creation and to see the face of Christ in each and every child of God. Thank you for joining together to renew our covenant with God and with one another to care for creation and for all of God's children. I invite you now to read and to join in the response found in the Companion Litany to our United Methodist Social Creed:
God in the Spirit revealed in Jesus Christ, calls us by grace to be renewed in the image of our Creator, that we may be one in divine love for the world.
Today is the day God cares for the integrity of creation, wills the healing and wholeness of all life, weeps at the plunder of earth's goodness. And so shall we. Today is the day God embraces all hues of humanity, delights in diversity and difference, favors solidarity transforming strangers into friends. And so shall we.
Today is the day God cries with the masses of starving people, despises growing disparity between rich and poor, demands justice for workers in the marketplace. And so shall we.
Today is the day God deplores violence in our homes and streets, rebukes the world's warring madness, humbles the powerful and lifts up the lowly. And so shall we.
Today is the day God calls for nations and peoples to live in peace, celebrates where justice and mercy embrace, exults when the wolf grazes with the lamb. And so shall we.
Today is the day God brings good news to the poor, proclaims release to the captives, gives sight to the blind, and sets the oppressed free. And so shall we.


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Dry techniques
For my drawings I mostly use markers and colored pencils. Drawings that were made with alcohol-based markers are very even and vibrant. There are so many different colors available that I can create an ulimited number of shades and tones. Furthermore marker groundings go perfectly with detailed pencil shades. In this way you get very saturated eye-catching illustrations.
Wet techniques
For my paintings I use watercolors and gouache, but also acrylics. With watercolor you can create pretty effects. For example, the wet-in-wet technique allows you to let different colors flow into each other and to create different blends, fringes and shapes. The combination with other materials is possible, too. Sometimes I even use silver metallic acrylics for special effects and a nice finish.
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Dr. Mario World continues to lag behind Nintendo's other mobile titles, seeing lacklustre first-month results.
Arriving in July to a scathing critical reception, Dr. Mario World was co-developed with LINE, and is the fifth Nintendo mobile title.
According to market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, Dr. Mario World grossed roughly $1.4 million across the App Store and Google Play from 7.5 million downloads during its first month.
While the figures compare favourably to licensed puzzle games from other developers -- such as Snoopy Pop+ ($1 million), Family Guy Freakin' Mobile Game ($900,000), and Sega Heroes ($340,000) -- it trails considerably behind the rest of Nintendo's mobile catalogue.
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Kiyomi Baird, Garden Planet, 2018, Oil Based Ink on Mulberry Paper Board Mount, 35" x 25" x2"
Kiyomi Baird: A Way of Seeing
Kiyomi Baird's art is both evanescent and transcendently beautiful, qualities not found so easily in today's art. As a Japanese-American painter, Baird holds on to her Asian origins, and produces art of unusual grace and quiet eloquence. Educated at Berkeley, the artist retains some of the openness and exploratory nature of Western culture, but as she found out after an extended stay in Tokyo, her deepest allegiance is with Japanese art. For the Western viewer, it also becomes clear quickly that much of her inspiration comes from a Buddhist recognition of the transience of life. The combination of spiritual awareness and exquisite imagery results in an art that lingers in the thought of the viewer, who may be startled by the extent to which the mixture succeeds.
An art as devotedly spiritual as Baird's maintains a dignity and wealth of purpose that lifts communication between the artist and her audience. As part of her visionary outlook, Baird refers to imagery of the sky—or, we might say, of the heavens. Baird's emphasis on internal insight is also clearly evidenced in several of her paintings. Through her works, Baird shows us, in subtle and profound ways, how we can reach within ourselves and find out who we truly are. This is a genuine achievement.
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