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Tim Elfenbein

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Principal of Forthcoming LLC, a publishing consultancy; Member of @limnpress.bsky.social editorial collective; Researcher & practitioner of scholarly publishing; Digital explorer–analog sailor; @[email protected] on Mastodon; Victim of meaning.

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Tim Elfenbein @timelfen.bsky.social · Nov 11

To all the folks in scholarly communication/publishing/open science out there:
1. I appreciate the work you do.
2. I likely have significant differences w/ you or your organization over strategic direction, stakeholder orientation, ideals for the future, etc., etc.
3. I appreciate the work you do.

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mediastudiespress.bsky.social @mediastudiespress.bsky.social · 19h

The October History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs! buttondown.email/hms/archive/...

History of Media Studies Newsletter October 2025

History of Media Studies Newsletter October 2025 Welcome to the 53rd edition of the History of Media Studies Newsletter. The monthly email, assembled by Dave...

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 21h

Librarians, in celebration of #OAWeek, join Duke University Press and @mitpress.bsky.social for a webinar introducing our collection within MIT Press's Direct to Open (D2O) program.

Wednesday, 10/22 1:00 PM Eastern. Register here: buff.ly/5LbRSkj

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 21h

Well this is grim. Thanks LinkedIn. #AcademicPublishing #Librarian #OpenResearch #SocietyPublishers #UniversityPublishers

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 22h

Major win for our field: finally a large, replicable effect.

Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 1d

Results of the replication are in!

Chocolate is more desirable than poop:

Cohen's d_rm = 6.20, 95%CI [5.63, 6.78]

N = 486, two single item 1-7 Likert scales of desirability.

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@jamiecummins.bsky.social

Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 2d

Make an effect size prediction!

@jamiecummins.bsky.social and I are replicating Balcetis & Dunning's (2010) "chocolate is more desirable than poop" (Cohen's d = 4.52)

Let us known in the replies what effect size you think we'll find. Details of the study in the thread below.

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

A candid and transparent postmortem of two technical incidents we've had on Knowledge Commons recently, brightened up at the end with a summary of the good work we're doing in moving development forward.

about.hcommons.org/2025/10/14/d...

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 1d

After complaints about Timothy Dexter's A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1797) being entirely devoid of punctuation, in future editions the eccentric businessman supplied a supplemental page so that people “may peper and solt as they please”: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dexter-pickle

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Tim Elfenbein @timelfen.bsky.social · 1d

Saint Martin notes: #10

So much winning.

20-ish foot barnacle-encrusted motorboat capsized while still tied to a dock.

Name of the boat, painted on the port side: “Live to Win”

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Limn @limnpress.bsky.social · Sep 12

Limn 12 Spotlight Series

Javier Lezaun compares aquatic mesocosms to the larger global implications of climate change.

Limn 12 - Climate's Interiors

Out now.

limn.press/article/midd...

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Tim Elfenbein @timelfen.bsky.social · 2d

Saint Martin notes: #9

Hand-painted wall with trees and letters that say:

"Jameson: Drink with responsibility"

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Limn @limnpress.bsky.social · 3d

Limn Issue 13 - Ghostwriters

coming this spooky season:

Limn’s haunted mansion has an open house

🏚️ more to come soon 🏚️

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 6d

periodic reminder that if you write stuff that's published on the web for a publication you yourself do not own, PDF that shit as soon as it goes live

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Tim Elfenbein @timelfen.bsky.social · 6d

SILS graduate here, reserving judgement until I know more.

Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 7d

Breaking: We’ve talked to multiple individuals who have confirmed that UNC-CH is merging SILS (library and information science) and SDSS (data science and society). Announcement will be tomorrow morning. Faculty were not consulted.

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 8d

I can’t believe my life is being affected by the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 10d

Arnoud S. Q. Visser ( @arnoudvisser.bsky.social), On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-it-All (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2025; #skystorians) press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

On Pedantry

A lively and entertaining cultural history of a supremely annoying intellectual vice

press.princeton.edu

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 12d

I'm excited to share my new paper with a former student, Tommy Smith. "'This Work Would Not Have Been Possible without...': The Length of Acknowledgments in Sociology Books"

Open Access in @sociusjournal.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Main figure from the paper. Violin plots showing the length of acknowledgments sections in books by sociologists, broken out by gender, race, sexuality, parents’ education, millennium of author’s PhD, and publisher type.

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Economic thought @economicthought.bsky.social · 12d

Interview: The economic style of reasoning is not value-neutral! An interview with Elizabeth Popp Berman, by Ditte Andersen
doi.org/10.1177/0001...

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 13d

"It was about relationships, shared labour, and refusal. It was about making space – for each other, for alternative forms of scholarship, and for survival."

Write-up by Rebekka Kiesewetter of the recent Radical Open Access conference.

Reflections on Radical Open Access III: From Openness to Social Justice Activism – Radical Open Access Collective

radicaloa.postdigitalcultures.org

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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 13d

Our latest issue just out and, we think we can say this, it is a banger. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/c... feat. @philiproscoe.bsky.social @ulissess.bsky.social @cibled.bsky.social @maijutanninen.bsky.social @busedoyu.bsky.social @zephoria.bsky.social @theobourgeron.bsky.social &&

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Christoph Sorg @christophsorg.bsky.social · 14d

I'm so disappointed my book (funded by public money) was purchased by a rentier capitalist plattform registered in a tax haven. Open access file is not available anymore since today, but I uploaded it here:

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Tim Elfenbein @timelfen.bsky.social · 14d

Do human animals have a sense of a difference between natural and artificial elements of their environment? How do they manifest the difference, which they can then input to sense?

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 14d

Do non human animals have a sense of a difference between natural and artificial elements of their environment? If so, which ones, and how does that manifest?

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D. J. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 14d

Finally officially published! "Race science in mainstream psychology, 1960–2010" with @rhacodactylus.bsky.social (who needs a job btw) direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... 🧵

#histsci #sts #philsci #metascience

Race science in mainstream psychology, 1960–2010

Abstract. Anthropologists and human geneticists have long rejected efforts to purportedly scientifically justify racial inequality and colonialism. But race science has persisted, at least on the marg...

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 14d

1/ Open Book Collective is proud to be supporting next week's conference in Abuja on 'Reclaiming Academic Sovereignty: Nigeria’s National Summit on Open Access Book Publishing', with OBC's @joedeville.bsky.social speaking alongside a number of @copim.bsky.social colleagues
oa-summit.bookhub.ng

Reclaiming Academic Sovereignty — OAConference 2025

Nigeria’s National Open Access Stakeholders Conference — Oct 6–7, 2025 at NOUN, Abuja.

oa-summit.bookhub.ng

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Tim Elfenbein @timelfen.bsky.social · 14d

All happening while I’m trying to read JD Peters on the sea as a medium.

JD Peters’s *The Marvelous Clouds* turned to chapter 2, “Of Cretaceans and Ships; or, The Mooring of Our Being,” with the beach and cruise ships of Philipsburg in the background.

Tim Elfenbein @timelfen.bsky.social · 14d

Saint Martin notes: #8

In Philipsburg this morning on an unsuccessful trip to get car insurance. Now sitting at a beach-side coffee shop, watching the tourists streaming off the recently arrived cruise ship. The merchants & tour guides prepare for the day’s catch.

View across a beach filled with lounge chairs and umbrellas to two giant cruise ships. If you zoom into the photo, you can see the line of passengers on the dock, like ants marching.