Dan Rudmann

Dan Rudmann

@danrdmnn.bsky.social

Librarian at Utrecht University profile photo by @raymonddekker.bsky.social

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Ingrid Robeyns
@ingridrobeyns.bsky.social

The Utrecht School of Economics is hiring an assistant professor who can teach "the history of economics, economic history, philosophy of economics, and economic/-etric methodology, such as f.ex. the courses “Contemporary Economics in Historical Perspectives” or “Ethical and Historical Reflections”.

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Bart Penders
@penders.bsky.social

Back of the envelope calculations: 3600 years of research time went into the collective application process. The research will fund 3200 years of research. We are 400 research years poorer as a result of this. 1/2

Anna Neumaier@annaneumaier.bsky.social

Alter. 21627 Einreichungen auf ein Fellowship-Programm. Wer soll das alles begutachten? 😶‍🌫️ Wer jetzt nicht für mehr Grundförderung und weniger Drittmittel argumentiert, der ist doch nicht gescheit.

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Eric Schares
@eschares.bsky.social

🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm

Eric Schares@eschares.bsky.social

🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years. A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD) $2.5B in 2023 alone. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci

arxiv.orgEstimating global article processing charges paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023This study presents estimates of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. APCs are fees charged for publishing in some ...

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Bill Amend
@billamend.bsky.social

I feel like the kids who did poorly in science and history class are trying to get revenge on the kids who did well at science and history class and now we’re all going to die

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Sonja Drimmer
@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social

It requires expertise to be able to say, “I do not know the answer to that question, and that is becauae thus far scholarly consensus is that we do not have the knowledge needed at this time to answer that question.” Sometimes “I don’t know” is a far more rigorous answer than people might think.

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Juan Pablo Alperin
@juancommander.scholcommlab.ca

1/ In 2024, I filed a false claims act lawsuit against Elsevier, Springer, Wiley & Informa alleging they systematically overcharged US federal grants for article processing. The gov declined to intervene and now it's public. Some thoughts on what this is, and what it isn't:

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Dr Spookie Michell
@sophiemhistory.bsky.social

Replying to @sophiemhistory.bsky.social

And this is why I am against AI, as well as the environmental concerns and the intellectual property theft and the dumbing-down of society. THERE ARE ENOUGH HUMAN-GENERATED CONFECTED SOURCES OUT THERE ALREADY. WE DON'T NEED ANY MORE.

Dan Rudmann
@danrdmnn.bsky.social

How we took our eyes off the ball and allowed the wrong entities to remake the playing field of Open Access:

Martin Paul Eve@eve.gd

Rereading Suber (2012) this AM for a research article. doi.org/10.7551/mitp... Have we abandoned his definitions -- thought fairly canonical -- with terms like diamond? A short thread. Suber: all “OA delivered by journals is called gold OA, and OA delivered by repositories is called green OA” (6)

doi.orgOpen AccessA concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isn't) and showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and beneficia
Dan Rudmann
@danrdmnn.bsky.social

Setting universities up to fail is a longstanding tactic known as 'starving the beast' - a university's resources are undermined so it cannot live up to its obligations and is then punished for that by further resource cuts. See Steve Mims' 2016 documentary film: youtu.be/4IlFhJ78QdU?...

youtu.beSTARVING THE BEAST TrailerYouTube video by Starving the Beast
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social

'Academics fear they are being “set up to fail” after several institutions finished the academic year by announcing fresh job cuts, casting doubt over who will return after the summer break, and what courses they will be teaching.' 1/3

timeshighereducation.comSummer of ‘chaos’ predicted as mass job cuts close academic year‘Impossible to plan’ for research and teaching, say staff, as threat of redundancy looms large over summer breaks

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Sabina Leonelli
@sabinaleonelli.bsky.social

Replying to @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social

This is a key node in the battle for democracy and the survival of our planet - fostering education and research on HOW humans assign meaning to facts, how we create and contextualise information, how we infuse knowledge into everyday decisions and interventions.

Dan Rudmann
@danrdmnn.bsky.social

Austin became what it is because every tech company that moved to town promised their workers an incredible art-focused town- where people were happy and singing songs to each other on these uncanny cowboy-hippy hills. They have a stake in keeping Austin weird on its own terms. Pay up and sit down.

Dan Rudmann
@danrdmnn.bsky.social

Selling out is still selling out - it's still diminishing an artists' creative power to someone else just because that person has has money. It confuses money with taste, but we know better.

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Megan Goodwin
@mpgphd.bsky.social

this isn't correct lots of eliminated Humanities departments were overfilling classes and effectively subsidizing STEM programs that cost universities money it was never about majors it is about what they could effectively fundraise for which includes this AI bullshit

Paul Matzko@paulmatzko.bsky.social

This isn't correct. The decline of the humanities is a product of falling demand -- particularly the collapse in enrollment & majors -- and not technological substitution for labor. That said, it's true that AI, although it will help historians do better work, will not solve that crisis.

Dan Rudmann
@danrdmnn.bsky.social

The Institute for Human Sciences now has a education program called Library School, a journal entitled Utopian Scholastic, and a progressing imprint under the name Language Arts. There's more in the works...

Institute for Human Sciences@humansciences.bsky.social

We are pleased to present volume 8 of Utopian Scholastic, the journal of the Institute for Human Sciences, here on the issue of Echoes. Listening to the past, feeling time, doesn't mean going back in time: it means experiencing a moment of past time in the present. www.zotero.org/groups/64299...

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Kevin Sanders
@kjsanders.eurosky.social

I was reading more on polycrisis in relation to universities: doi.org/10.1007/s100... (Tagging @danrdmnn.bsky.social as I recall he mentioned also mentioned polycrisis at #OxFOS26.) The global minority could learn from indigenous people's techniques for resisting polycrisis. (We won't, but could.)

doi.orgUniversities, polycrisis and regional redistribution - Review of Regional ResearchAs humanity faces a worsening polycrisis, the need for systemic change in society is becoming more widely recognized. This time of increasing disruptions of all kinds comes with new opportunities for ...
Dan Rudmann
@danrdmnn.bsky.social

Here's me giving a talk at Oxford University yesterday at the Forum for Open Scholarship called A Poetics of Infrastructural Salvage. It's about ways to open a university for more people and more forms of knowledge.

Kevin Sanders@kjsanders.eurosky.social

Dan Rudmann
@danrdmnn.bsky.social

The talk is about the people I met in Austin who know kindness and sincerity. It's about the people I met in Portugal who dream without hesitation. It's about the people in the Netherlands who come from all over because they believe in the possibility of a better University.