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Marcos Fanton
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Professor de Filosofia na UFSM/Brasil. Me interesso por um pouco de tudo: modelos e mecanismos em filosofia da ciência, opressão e injustiça estrutural em filosofia social , análise estatística e programação em R em epidemiologia e +
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tomecicuta.bsky.social
uma casa comestível
November 17, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

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Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, 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 are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, 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 are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Reposted by Marcos Fanton
scottsantens.com
Fascinating new study here that suggests even an extremely high universal basic income would not have the labor supply impacts that UBI skeptics fear. It suggests that a ~$15,000/mo UBI might only reduce employment by 10% with no impact on those who remain employed.

drive.google.com/file/d/12iDs...
Labor supply responses to a Very Large Income Shock: Evidence from Daughters of Brazilian Military Officers. Marcelo Barbosa Ferreira∗ October 28, 2025 Updated version Abstract This paper provides estimates of income effects on labor supply by studying a large, permanent, and unconditional monthly cash flow. I leverage a unique setting in Brazil where adult daughters of military personnel receive a lifetime pension after their parent’s death. This transfer is exceptionally large, the median pension payment is 282% of the national median earnings, and truly unconditional, available regardless of their employment, earnings, or marital status. Using administrative pension records matched to linked employer-employee data, I find that this transfer induces a 10% decrease on the extensive margin of labor supply after seven years, with no effect on the intensive margin, and a marginal propensity to earn (MPE) of -0.08 after seven years. Labor supply adjusts gradually, driven by a large temporary increase in the hazard of separation and a persistent moderate reduction in the job finding rate. The marginal propensity to earn is greater for larger pension payments, consistent with adjustment costs, and larger for older daughters, consistent with binding liquidity constraints and desire for early retirement. Using a sufficient statistics model, our MPE estimate of -0.08 implies that the redistributive gains from a UBI in Brazil would outweigh its efficiency costs, resulting in net welfare gains, as long as the uncompensated elasticity of labor supply is less than 0.38, consistent with microeconomic evidence.
November 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Reposted by Marcos Fanton
naosouarutinha.bsky.social
--> New study alert!
Black, Latino, and Indigenous communities still face unfair access to healthy food — more food deserts, more food swamps.
Food justice is racial justice.
👉 doi.org/10.1007/s406...
Ethnic-Racial Disparities in Food Environments: A Systematic Review and Meta-analyses of Inequities in Food Access and Availability - Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
Ethnic-racial disparities in food environments contribute to food insecurity and diet-related health inequities. This systematic review and meta-analyses aimed to assess ethnic-racial inequities in th...
doi.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Reposted by Marcos Fanton
alinemghilardi.bsky.social
Nosso bebê nasceu 🥹

Uma nova espécie de pterossauro do Araripe, encontrada dentro de um vômito fossilizado de dinossauro 🤍. A natureza é linda! Kkk

Seja bem-vindo, Bakiribu waridza!

Acesse o artigo: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Digital paleoart scene showing two pterosaurs with long, comb-like teeth standing in shallow water, using their jaws to filter food. Several similar pterosaurs fly in the background and a large theropod dinosaur resembling Irritator walks along the shore chasing them. The landscape is semi-arid with distant mountains under a cloudy sky. Photographs and interpretative drawings of a fossil regurgitalite from the Romualdo Formation (Araripe Basin). Panels A and B show part and counterpart of an oval limestone concretion containing disarticulated and partially digested remains of pterosaur bones and fish. Panels C and D are line drawings highlighting bone clusters and digestive residue, illustrating the internal organization of the regurgitated mass.
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
tomecicuta.bsky.social
pessoal de humanas: comitê de ética e pesquisa só atrasa pesquisa pipipipi pópópó
também o pessoal de humanas fazendo questionário de pesquisa:
November 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Reposted by Marcos Fanton
elinhas.bsky.social
Fui atrás da notícia e, segundo a tia, o menino não tinha envolvimento com o crime e trabalhava de mototáxi

noticias.uol.com.br/cotidiano/ul...
October 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Reposted by Marcos Fanton
vozdascomunidades.com.br
Mais um relato de quem está ajudando na localização dos corpos no Complexo da Penha.
October 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
tomecicuta.bsky.social
fechem esse país
cecillia.com.br Cecília Olliveira @cecillia.com.br · 20d
Os MORADORES do Alemão passaram a noite inteira tirando corpos de dennteo da favela. Já são mais de 100 mortos.
October 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Reposted by Marcos Fanton
louiseseamster.bsky.social
I have a new paper out in @ersjournal.com, through a special issue on the mechanisms of racism, co-edited by @amandalewisphd.bsky.social and #EduardoBonilla-Silva. 50 free eprints at link
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2WFQ9...
Mechanisms, smoke and fun-house mirrors: when naming racism is not enough
In this paper, I explain how public discourse around racism can hinder understanding of racist processes, becoming its own mechanism of racism. The general attribution of Flint's water crisis as a ...
www.tandfonline.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Reposted by Marcos Fanton
carlbergstrom.com
1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.

There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
Three schematic diagrams. The first illustrates selective publishing of internal resection, the second selective causal focus, and the third selective access and funding for researchers.
October 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
tomecicuta.bsky.social
fala sério
Péricles : Tiny Desk Brasil
YouTube video by Tiny Desk Brasil
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October 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Reposted by Marcos Fanton
pwgtennant.bsky.social
The recording of @dingdingpeng.the100.ci's fantastic #CIIG presentation "Making Rigorous Causal Inference More Mainstream" is now available on YouTube!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL0c...
CIIG Seminar: Julia Rohrer | Making Rigorous Causal Inference More Mainstream | 20 Oct 2025
YouTube video by the Causal Inference Interest Group (CIIG)
www.youtube.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Reposted by Marcos Fanton
deusaenganadora.bsky.social
bom dia, queridos e queridos. hoje estarei presencialmente na UFAL oferecendo este minicurso. não haverá transmissão dos encontros, mas deixo aqui o link para uma pasta no drive com o material que preparei para o curso:

drive.google.com/drive/folder...
October 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Reposted by Marcos Fanton
davidludwig.bsky.social
The open access pdf has been out for a while but so much more exciting to hold the physical book in my hands!
October 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM
tomecicuta.bsky.social
Quem matou Laura Palmer > Quem matou Odete Roitman? Perdemos esse mashup maravilhoso
October 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Reposted by Marcos Fanton
douglasmack.bsky.social
doing journalism
me emailing Tori Amos to ask if she invented the pumpkin spice latte
October 16, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Reposted by Marcos Fanton
matti.vuorre.com
The quarto-preprint @quarto.org extension (github.com/mvuorre/quar...) for PDF outputs with #typst now includes proper appendices for reproducible #quartopub #rstats manuscripts, improved two-column layouts (and themes, incl. full-width content), better reference formatting & improved documentation.
October 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
tomecicuta.bsky.social
impressionado que um Galton board tá custando mais de $400 conto.
October 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
tomecicuta.bsky.social
querer fazer outro doutorado implica em fazer uma nova seleção de doutorado 🤢
October 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Reposted by Marcos Fanton
urbandemog.bsky.social
A tarifa zero pode ser uma política eficaz para tirar as pessoas do automóvel privado e usarem o transporte público? A gente mostra que a resposta é não nesse estudo que saiu publicado hoje no @jeem-econ.bsky.social
Link para o estudo abaixo, segue o fio 🧵
October 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Reposted by Marcos Fanton
schlawinerkreis.bsky.social
2/ Our central claim: Across his system, Hegel builds an account of colonialism as racial domination, linking world history, freedom, property, and statehood. It’s grounded in the four-stages theory and what he calls the absolute right of the Idea, vindicating colonialism in the name of liberty.
A colour lithograph published as a supplement to The Graphic for the Indian and Colonial Exhibition (24 July 1886), showing the British Empire in pink and centred on Greenwich. Britannia sits enthroned above the globe, framed by banners reading Freedom, Fraternity, and Federation. Around the border, allegorical figures represent the empire’s peoples: Indigenous hunters and labourers at the margins, traders, soldiers, and settlers nearer the imperial core. Insets list trade, population, and area statistics, fusing allegory with empirical data. Animals and crops – elephants and tigers for India, kangaroos and sheep for Australia – mark each region by its resources and stage of economic life (Driver 2010). Crane’s composition depicts a hierarchy of civilisation. Britannia embodies imperial authority, while her subjects appear as differentiated types of labour and culture. The blend of commercial data and moral imagery turns empire into a story of progress, where freedom, property, and self-government are equated with discipline and productivity. The bent “Asian porter” and Atlas labelled Human Labour expose the burden that sustains this freedom (Driver 2010). The map’s spatial order mirrors the stadial logic of Scottish four-stages anthropology that also shapes Hegel’s philosophy of world history. Hunters, pastoralists, agriculturalists, and commercial peoples occupy successive ranks in a teleology culminating in Europe as bearer of universal freedom. The banners of Freedom and Federation vindicate colonial domination, echoing Hegel’s historical theodicy in which the “absolute right of the Idea” is realised through European expansion (Driver 2010). Reference Felix Driver, “In Search of the Imperial Map: Walter Crane and the Image of Empire,” History Workshop Journal 69 (2010): 146–157. A black-and-white engraving depicting Hegel lecturing at the University of Berlin. He stands before rows of students, gesturing with one hand while holding a manuscript in the other. His face is animated, suggesting the intensity of oral exposition. The students below him sit closely packed, taking notes or gazing upward toward the lectern, where the philosopher appears framed by a dark wooden pulpit and a high window that lets in a diffuse light. The scene evokes, amongst others, Hegel’s lectures on the Philosophy of History in the winter term of 1822–1823, when he proclaimed that Europe represents the culmination of world history. In these lectures, Hegel argued that the principle of freedom had been fully realised in modern Christian Europe and that what lay outside it was “intrinsically overcome.” “For Europeans,” he declared, “the world is round” – the globe itself already encompassed by Europe’s spiritual and political dominion.
October 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Reposted by Marcos Fanton
soudapaz.bsky.social
📺 Enquanto o mistério sobre a morte de Odete Roitiman volta para as telas, na realidade brasileira, descobrir quem cometeu um homicídio ainda é exceção, não regra.
October 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM