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2023 is the year of #OpenScience! NASA and other federal agencies are advancing opportunities to broaden scientific participation and increase accessibility to knowledge—here's how you can get involved: go.nasa.gov/3GCUtK5

Believe it or not, in the years 1950-1951, the A. C. Gilbert Company distributed the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab, a toy kit allowing kids to make nuclear reactions at home using actual radioactive material. It was taken off the shelves in 1951 [more: bit.ly/2BTzsZW]

📣 Paperity has hit the 10 million articles mark! 🎉 Discover a wealth of knowledge from various journals, all easily accessible in one place. paperity.org #openaccess #research #academicarticles #10millionarticles

For those of you following the escalating situation at 145 UK Universities: University management has now decided not to graduate students and hand out participation certificates instead. Yes you read that correctly. It's beyond absurdity. I'm lost for words.

Matt Baker's poster Evolution of the Alphabet looks at nearly 3,800 years of the alphabet’s evolution, tracing it from Egyptian hieroglyphs to the present forms we use today [source, read more: buff.ly/3t9qEvq]

What the hell is an ampersand and why does it look like that?! The first thing you need to know is that "&" used to be the 27th letter of the alphabet... But there are three parts to this story. And the first begins over two thousand years ago in Ancient Rome with a single

The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus is the oldest manuscript written in algebra and trigonometry, dating back to 3,550 years ago. It shows that the Egyptians used first-order equations, geometric series and a second-order algebraic equation, related to the Pythagorean theorem a² + b²

Let me tell a story about free books. In the mid 1990s, I started a project called DjVu at AT&T Labs. The purpose was to devise a new image compression format so that printed documents could be scanned at high resolution and distributed efficiently over the newly expanding

I find it interesting that the word "science" in English has acquired a rather narrow meaning, usually referring only to the natural sciences. I have been wondering for some while now if not the shift of the meaning and use of the word "science" has had an impact on how the

The mankind’s knowledge lasted better when it was printed on paper. 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible. pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024…

🎉Exciting news! We've surpassed 20,000 journals indexed at Paperity, making more #openaccess content available than ever before!📚✨ ➡️ paperity.org #Research & #academic community: your work is changing the world. Thank you for letting us be part of it!

The importance of punctuation (Commas save lives)

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🚨Amnesia Generation. The Internet will lose over 500,000 books. The Internet Archive has been ordered to delete them. The Internet Archive is appealing and essential for libraries to lend, preserve ensure access to out-of-print books. Sign a protest: change.org/p/let-readers-…

That's correct. Publishers removed '1984' from our library. 🕳️

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We shall measure stellar brightness logarithmically, and it will be called the "magnitude." - Sir, will that logarithm be base 10, or based on Napier's constant? Neither. It shall be of the base of the fifth root of one hundred.

Academics are paid nothing for peer review. Yet journals made a total of over $8.3 billion on article processing charges alone between 2019-2023. Make it make sense.

Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above

Scientists’ suit against top academic publishers lays bare deep frustration over unpaid peer review buff.ly/06TVgRk