Jean-Sébastien Caux

@egonw @scipost @chemistry these two things are distinct but not unrelated.

It's completely normal (and useful) for bigger breakthroughs to reach a wider audience.

It's useful and economical of everybody's time to have claims of groundbreaking discoveries be subjected to tougher refereeing.

It's simply practical to enable publishing more straightforward results in a more streamlined way.

That's exactly what SciPost tries to do. Many scientists have in fact pushed us to indeed do that.

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Jean-Sébastien Caux

@egonw @scipost @chemistry well opinions differ on this one, and that's OK.

Here is my take: you don't want multi (numerous!)-layered things. But having 2 layers isn't like having 10.

I for one can take my own papers, and extract the 10% of them which achieve something special and which I think everybody should read, the rest being better reserved for the specialists "inside" my field (the core).

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Jean-Sébastien Caux

@telescoper we were given the "Metadata Game Changers" award in 2020 from having the most complete metadata of ~1700 publishers at Crossref. See metadatagamechangers.com/work-

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Jean-Sébastien Caux

@telescoper I really admire all you've done with @ojastro.bsky.social.

Perhaps a fairer statement would have been "struggling financially because sponsorships don't match their level of activity"?

Perhaps also "switch to an arXiv overlay model and abandon their independent open infrastructure, open refereeing, recognized metadata facilities and uniquely complete and transparent financial information systems"?

Dunno, 🤔 just thinking out loud here.

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Jean-Sébastien Caux

In recent years, has grown into an essential open science infrastructure.

Our sustainability is however under threat.

Only 147 out of 1351 (a mere 11%) benefitting organizations have supported us.

This ongoing level of freeriding means we are now at a crossroads.

Academic organizations urgently need to change tack and fulfil their promise to sustainably support scientists-led, not-for-profit publishing infrastructure.

Help us convince them to support us.

jscaux.org/blog/post/2025/05/1

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Jean-Sébastien Caux

@gleet Hi Paul, I dropped Mac years ago but when I used it, my disk was regularly getting clogged up by Spotlight's automatic indexing. It's very dumb (in particular it doesn't check for available space before indexing). If you block that and remove the associated files, it might solve your problem.

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How can we inoculate academic publishing against bad business practices?

How can we build a more affordable and equitable system, for the sake of academia?

Like this: scipost.org/finances/business_

Look into it.
Let others know about it.
Help us build it.

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The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure embody a set of guidelines through which research community-serving organizations can be operated and sustained.

As part of our campaign, we have published a detailed self-audit describing the relevance and implementation status of these principles.

The situation is very good to excellent on the governance and insurance side, but some aspects of the sustainability side need urgent attention.

scipost.org/posi

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I don't want to offend anybody, but I think there is a need for more honesty regarding how it's all going with the reform of publishing.

I think it's not going well.

There is so much more good that could happen so rapidly. Instead, reform seems to be stuck in an illusory "tragedy of the commons", while a very real "treachery of the private" is happening. Academia is manifestly being outsmarted by corporate-directed forces.

I'd love to be proved wrong.

jscaux.org/blog/post/2024/03/0

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Today we are launching SciPost's Sustain Our Services Campaign.

This campaign has the following primary objectives: to ensure continuity of support for our services; to engage organizations which have benefitted from our activities, but not yet supported us; to reduce our financial uncertainty; to empower our growth and widen the positive impact we have.

We look forward to engaging with you during the course of this campaign!

scipost.org/news/newsitem/126/

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We've just published a post on our blog scipost.org/blog/, looking back at our operations in 2023.

2023 saw us publish 748 papers, with a unit average expenditure of €495.

We grew our team to keep up with increasing demand on our Genuine Open Access services; though this reduced backlogs, it depleted our financial reserves. Our growth is stunted and our long-term financial sustainability remains a distant perspective due to challenges in gathering support.

Our mission is far from over!

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New publication

Our 2000th publication is out today!

Universality class of the mode-locked glassy random laser

Jacopo Niedda, Giacomo Gradenigo, Luca Leuzzi, Giorgio Parisi
SciPost Phys. 14, 144 (2023)
scipost.org/SciPostPhys.14.6.1

We are grateful to all our scientific community for the quality content they have contributed over the years. This milestone give us renewed motivation to provide a quality-focused, and affordable Genuine OA publishing solution.

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New publication
Higgs decays to two leptons and a photon beyond leading order in the SMEFT
Tyler Corbett, Thor Rasmussen
SciPost Phys. 13, 112 (2022)
scipost.org/SciPostPhys.13.5.1
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Jean-Sébastien Caux

@akohls nice to be in touch! Enjoy the (hopefully long-lasting) absence of manipulative algorithms here.

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Jean-Sébastien Caux

Just plunged the 🗡️ into my account. Will keep/block the handle, but I'm now a 🧟‍♂️ there, so don't expect any 💓.

I've kept following 1 account though: 😉

The CEO's recent tweets did it for me. Anyway, I've always found their algorithms very biased, and thus not useful. It's only going to get (way) worse now.

Apologies to all those I used to follow there, I'll find you again somewhere in the !

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To get the #akademienl server going I just wired a symbolic fee of €8,01 (= $8) to @RHoogstraat.

Just a suggestion.

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Those of you letting go of the #birdsite (permanently or not), you should download your Twitter archive before the new (clearly ill) boss screws it all up.

You'll find instructions at help.twitter.com/en/managing-y

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#MastodonTips If you're a new user of #Mastodon, you should take a look at the "Hotkeys" in the "Getting started" footer.

Lots of handy shortcuts here, like (among a few dozen):

- r: reply to post
- p: open author's profile
- b: boost post
- backspace: navigate back
- s: focus search bar
- ?: display hotkeys legend

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JOB!! Open position in my research group to work on really exciting projects studying #reproducibility and the impact of #openscience - please share, and anyone interested please just get in touch!

know-center.at/career/research

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With everyone doing introductions again...

I'm Esther! I work as a Data Steward at the Delft University of Technology, where I support researchers with managing and sharing their research data/software, and anwser #OpenScience questions. Next to that I'm involved in several open science communities (@turingway, Open Life Science, IsoArcH), I like to cross the supporter/researcher boundary and eat pie.

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