Jean-Sébastien Caux @jscaux@scipost.social
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Professor of Physics, University of Amsterdam.
Theoretical condensed matter physics.
Founder, chairman and tech lead of SciPost https://scipost.org
Toots on science and scientific publishing.
My personas:
- Science: https://fediscience.org/@jscaux
➡️ Open Access: https://scipost.social/@jscaux
- FOSS: https://fosstodon.org/@jscaux
- Photography: https://mastodon.art/@jscaux
- All the rest: https://mastodon.social/@jscaux
Joined Apr 2022
@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.
@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).
@telescoper we were given the "Metadata Game Changers" award in 2020 from having the most complete metadata of ~1700 publishers at Crossref. See https://metadatagamechangers.com/work-with-us-blog/2020/12/23/measuring-metadata
@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.
In recent years, #SciPost 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.
https://jscaux.org/blog/post/2025/05/13/scipost-at-a-crossroads/
@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.
- Homepage
- https://jscaux.org
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- SciPost docs
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- Blog (publishing)
- https://jscaux.org/blog/category/publishing/
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Professor of Physics, University of Amsterdam.
Theoretical condensed matter physics.
Founder, chairman and tech lead of SciPost https://scipost.org
Toots on science and scientific publishing.
My personas:
- Science: https://fediscience.org/@jscaux
➡️ Open Access: https://scipost.social/@jscaux
- FOSS: https://fosstodon.org/@jscaux
- Photography: https://mastodon.art/@jscaux
- All the rest: https://mastodon.social/@jscaux
Joined Apr 2022
