Jeff Pooley
@jpooley.bsky.social
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It’s really hard to defend industry academic collaborations with meta as earnest, if they’re internally burying evidence of harm.
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November 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
It’s really hard to defend industry academic collaborations with meta as earnest, if they’re internally burying evidence of harm.
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💥New: Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science
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#AcademicSky #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing
✍️ @danbrockington.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca
#AcademicSky #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing
Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science - Impact of Social Sciences
Have the interests of commercial publishers now become antithetical to the pursuit of knowledge?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
💥New: Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science
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#AcademicSky #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing
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#AcademicSky #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing
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"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
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A robust ecosystem of many ways of having all the money stolen from my wallet will likely prove to be the most stable and productive ecosystem of ways to have all the money stolen from my wallet, rather than "one size fits all" solutions like "not being robbed"
An excellent piece on the scholarly publishing ecosystem, by Rick Anderson.
As is the case in biological ecosystems, a publishing ecosystem that has high levels of diversity with lots of niches will likely prove to be the most stable AND productive, rather than “one-size-fits-all” solutions.
As is the case in biological ecosystems, a publishing ecosystem that has high levels of diversity with lots of niches will likely prove to be the most stable AND productive, rather than “one-size-fits-all” solutions.
In Defense of Pluralism and Diversity: A Modest Manifesto for the Future of Scholarly Communication (Part 2 of 2) scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/18/a...
November 19, 2025 at 1:50 AM
A robust ecosystem of many ways of having all the money stolen from my wallet will likely prove to be the most stable and productive ecosystem of ways to have all the money stolen from my wallet, rather than "one size fits all" solutions like "not being robbed"
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Evidence from 14 research funding programmes confirms that early winners tend to keep winning (Matthew effect). But the idea that an early setback makes you stronger later doesn’t replicate widely.
buff.ly/UEtcRd4
buff.ly/UEtcRd4
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Evidence from 14 research funding programmes confirms that early winners tend to keep winning (Matthew effect). But the idea that an early setback makes you stronger later doesn’t replicate widely.
buff.ly/UEtcRd4
buff.ly/UEtcRd4
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Sharing this short piece, "The Matthew Effect in AI Summary," about dynamics of cumulative advantage (and patterned reputation-laundering) in AI summary-and-citation tools from both the giant AI co's & the big scholarly publishers www.jeffpooley.com/2025/11/th...
The Matthew Effect in AI Summary | Jeff Pooley
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November 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Sharing this short piece, "The Matthew Effect in AI Summary," about dynamics of cumulative advantage (and patterned reputation-laundering) in AI summary-and-citation tools from both the giant AI co's & the big scholarly publishers www.jeffpooley.com/2025/11/th...
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It's called the Technological Imperative. It's the atmospheric feeling that a technology compels its employment, but it's actually fostered by hucksters + corporations.
They're using it to make you feel AI is inevitable.
I explain in The Lint Trap
linttrapofhistory.substack.com/p/some-thoug...
They're using it to make you feel AI is inevitable.
I explain in The Lint Trap
linttrapofhistory.substack.com/p/some-thoug...
Some Thoughts on AI and the Technological Imperative
The machines are here. We already have surgery without surgeons, engineering without engineers, accounting without accountants, and journalism without journalists. Does it need to be this way?
linttrapofhistory.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
It's called the Technological Imperative. It's the atmospheric feeling that a technology compels its employment, but it's actually fostered by hucksters + corporations.
They're using it to make you feel AI is inevitable.
I explain in The Lint Trap
linttrapofhistory.substack.com/p/some-thoug...
They're using it to make you feel AI is inevitable.
I explain in The Lint Trap
linttrapofhistory.substack.com/p/some-thoug...
Sharing this short piece, "The Matthew Effect in AI Summary," about dynamics of cumulative advantage (and patterned reputation-laundering) in AI summary-and-citation tools from both the giant AI co's & the big scholarly publishers www.jeffpooley.com/2025/11/th...
The Matthew Effect in AI Summary | Jeff Pooley
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November 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Sharing this short piece, "The Matthew Effect in AI Summary," about dynamics of cumulative advantage (and patterned reputation-laundering) in AI summary-and-citation tools from both the giant AI co's & the big scholarly publishers www.jeffpooley.com/2025/11/th...
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So what now? 💥
We argue that scholarly publishing needs to be re-communalized.
No, not communism, just academia taking back control of:
1) its journals (hello breakaway journals)
2) its assessment systems (hello @barcelonadori.bsky.social)
6/n
We argue that scholarly publishing needs to be re-communalized.
No, not communism, just academia taking back control of:
1) its journals (hello breakaway journals)
2) its assessment systems (hello @barcelonadori.bsky.social)
6/n
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
So what now? 💥
We argue that scholarly publishing needs to be re-communalized.
No, not communism, just academia taking back control of:
1) its journals (hello breakaway journals)
2) its assessment systems (hello @barcelonadori.bsky.social)
6/n
We argue that scholarly publishing needs to be re-communalized.
No, not communism, just academia taking back control of:
1) its journals (hello breakaway journals)
2) its assessment systems (hello @barcelonadori.bsky.social)
6/n
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Over the past months (and at least 11 versions!), I was lucky to work with 11 amazing colleagues on a call to action to reform academic publishing.
Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n
Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Over the past months (and at least 11 versions!), I was lucky to work with 11 amazing colleagues on a call to action to reform academic publishing.
Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n
Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n
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The November 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 November 2025
History of Media Studies Newsletter November 2025 Welcome to the 54th edition of the History of Media Studies Newsletter. The monthly email, assembled by...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The November History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs! buttondown.email/hms/archive/...
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A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees
Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇
When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.
When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.
i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees
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“ ‘A lot of academic research on AI currently is also funded by the AI industry, which creates the risk of distorting scientific knowledge.’ ”
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
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November 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
“ ‘A lot of academic research on AI currently is also funded by the AI industry, which creates the risk of distorting scientific knowledge.’ ”
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The New York Times continues the decades-old effort to divert anger against the rich into generational conflict. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/o... Insofar as young people have it hard today, it is because we rigged the economy to give the rich all the money, not because of baby boomers.
Opinion | Thanks a Lot, Boomers
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The New York Times continues the decades-old effort to divert anger against the rich into generational conflict. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/o... Insofar as young people have it hard today, it is because we rigged the economy to give the rich all the money, not because of baby boomers.
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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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October 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The October History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs! buttondown.email/hms/archive/...
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Author of ransom note suggests paying ransom is, in fact, pretty good idea.
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Author of ransom note suggests paying ransom is, in fact, pretty good idea.
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Thank you, UPenn AAUP, for your powerful response to the administration's "invitation" (correctly renamed "threat") to join their academic compact. #academicfreedom #defendhighered @aaup-penn.bsky.social @aaup.org
October 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Thank you, UPenn AAUP, for your powerful response to the administration's "invitation" (correctly renamed "threat") to join their academic compact. #academicfreedom #defendhighered @aaup-penn.bsky.social @aaup.org
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This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.
September 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.
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You've got to love #openaccess for books (if you can fund it). Now ~19,000 downloads for A History of Scientific Journals: publishing at the Royal Society 1665-2015. Unbelievable figures, compared to traditional academic book publishing! From @uclpress.bsky.social or www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv...
September 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM
You've got to love #openaccess for books (if you can fund it). Now ~19,000 downloads for A History of Scientific Journals: publishing at the Royal Society 1665-2015. Unbelievable figures, compared to traditional academic book publishing! From @uclpress.bsky.social or www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv...
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In Project 2025, Brendan Carr [current the FCC Chairman] wrote "The FCC should promote freedom of speech... [and] pro-growth reforms that support a diversity of viewpoints." (p.877).
September 18, 2025 at 3:59 AM
In Project 2025, Brendan Carr [current the FCC Chairman] wrote "The FCC should promote freedom of speech... [and] pro-growth reforms that support a diversity of viewpoints." (p.877).
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I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
September 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
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How to delete your account without agreeing to the new TOS:
In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.
In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
How to delete your account without agreeing to the new TOS:
In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.
In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.
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Essential reading: “AI Scraping of OA Content Warrants a Collective Response” doi.org/10.21428/ae6... from @punctumbooks.bsky.social
AI Scraping of OA Content Warrants a Collective Response
doi.org
September 14, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Essential reading: “AI Scraping of OA Content Warrants a Collective Response” doi.org/10.21428/ae6... from @punctumbooks.bsky.social
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What might seem like a small announcement—it’s just one institution—actually carries substantial weight and has a strong symbolic meaning.
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, has taken another bold step: it won't renew its Web of Science license. www.uu.nl/en/news/acce...
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, has taken another bold step: it won't renew its Web of Science license. www.uu.nl/en/news/acce...
Access to Web of Science will end on 1 January 2026
The university library has decided not to renew the licence for access to the Web of Science citation database (including Journal Citation Reports).
www.uu.nl
September 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
What might seem like a small announcement—it’s just one institution—actually carries substantial weight and has a strong symbolic meaning.
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, has taken another bold step: it won't renew its Web of Science license. www.uu.nl/en/news/acce...
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, has taken another bold step: it won't renew its Web of Science license. www.uu.nl/en/news/acce...