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Julián Moyano Di Carlo @jmoyanodicarlo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The thread mentions the word “parasitic”, which is probably the best word to describe big academic publishers. And here we are, everyone waiting for something to happen magically…

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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The Museum of Cultural History @uio.no is hiring a PhD candidate in Nordic #Archaeology, linked to the museum’s research on the #VikingAge. As icing on the cake, you’ll be working in the environment of the new Museum of the Viking Age, part of MCH, opening in 2027! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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PhD research fellow in Nordic Archaeology (301195) | University of Oslo

Job title: PhD research fellow in Nordic Archaeology (301195), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, July 31, 2026

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Julián Moyano Di Carlo @jmoyanodicarlo.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

My project “Maritime Congregations, Rituals, and the Evolution of Rock Art Styles in the Nordic Bronze Age (MARE)” got funding for three years 🥳. Lots of cultural evolution, modeling, and cross-cultural comparisons 🤓. What better way to celebrate than with some good rock? youtu.be/AZHtZrfFuhU?...

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Foo Fighters - Congregation

YouTube video by Foo Fighters

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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Call for sessions is out! 🗣️ The 17th Nordic Bronze Age Symposium will be held in beautiful Visby, Gotland in June 2027. For the 50‑year anniversary, all topics on the Nordic #bronzeage are welcome. Spread the word! www.uu.se/institution/...

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17th Nordic Bronze Age Symposium – Institutionen för arkeologi, antik historia och kulturvård – Uppsala universitet

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Zena Kamash @zenakamash.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

It is with deep sadness that Dr Marianne Moen and I resigned our positions as Editor-in-Chief and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Archaeology this morning. What follows is the letter we sent to the EAA's executive board, outlining the reasons for our resignation 1/n

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Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

New episode!! 🎙️🎉 A chat w/ @izzywisher.bsky.social about Paleolithic art. The questions surrounding cave art are old: Who made it? What did it mean to them? But with new methods and frameworks, scholars are starting to see these enigmatic works in a new light. Listen: disi.org/illuminating...

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Lasse Lukas P Herskind @ll-herskind.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

🏵️ ❗ 🧠 🖌️ 📝 'Cognitive affordances of South Scandinavian Mesolithic portable art as inferred from complexity and entropy measures' ➡️ doi.org/10.1016/j.ja... I have invested sooo much energy on this paper, so I hope you will give it a skim Our findings expertly summarised here by co-author Riccardo:

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Julián Moyano Di Carlo @jmoyanodicarlo.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

My grandma had one of this and I used to play a lot with it when I was a child. There is a hard-to-explain pleasure in watching that damn thing spin 😅. Cool stuff!

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Julián Moyano Di Carlo @jmoyanodicarlo.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Modeling and pizza. I have never heard anything more perfect 😍

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Julián Moyano Di Carlo @jmoyanodicarlo.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Replace [lithics] with almost everything else and still applies…

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 13/01/2026

Sailing Rigs xkcd.com/3193/

Comic: Common Sailing Rigs. [18 boats with different sail types, labeled.] Lateen; Bermuda rigged sloop; Ketch, Gaff rigged sloop; yawl; schooner; Ketch-rigged Gaff; Kloop-rigged sketch; bunkbed rig; Flettner rig; Oops, all Spinnakers; keel rig; kite rig; longsail rig; deckhand obliterator; offset rig; mastless rig; unclassifiable chaos rig.

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

The "Szilard Point." When we talk about The strain and the drain on scientific publishing, it's this. Researchers working just to stay afloat, and not on what we actually want them to do: research, discover, innovate. Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820

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The strain on scientific publishing

Abstract. Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. The total number of articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science has grown exponentially in recent years; ...

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

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: a 🧵 1/n 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.

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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The anonymous fate of the silenced

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The Black Trowel Collective @blacktrowel.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

BTC Call for Action - EAA EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns. Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...

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Julián Moyano Di Carlo @jmoyanodicarlo.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Particularly without serious regulation…

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Here's a paper with a skeleton of the idea, but there is really lots of research to do on the structure of workflow networks, now to make them robust, how to development diagnostics and calculi for steps within them. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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Bridging theory and data: A computational workflow for cultural evolution | PNAS

Cultural evolution applies evolutionary concepts and tools to explain the change of culture over time. Despite advances in both theoretical and emp...

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 12/06/2025

Good Science xkcd.com/3101/

5-panel comic. (1) [teacher with long hair next to whiteboard] TEACHER: I’m supposed to give you the tools to do good science. (2) [teacher addressing students] But what *are* those tools? Methodology is hard and there are so many ways to get incorrect results. What is the magic ingredient that makes for good science? (3) TEACHER: To figure it out, I ran a regression with all the factors people say are important: [embedded list in sub-panel, cut off at end] Outcome variable: correct scientific results. Predictors: collaboration; skepticism of others’ claims; questioning your own beliefs; trying to falsify hypotheses; checking citations; statistical rigor; blinded analysis; financial disclosure; open data (4) TEACHER: The regression says two ingredients are the most crucial: 1) genuine curiosity about the answer to a question, and 2) ammonium hydroxide. (5) STUDENT: Wait, why did *ammonia* score so high? How did it even get on the list? LONG HAIR: ...And now you’re doing good science!

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Mikael Fauvelle @mfauvelle.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Check out our new book on the maritime prehistory of Atlantic Europe. It's the first volume in our Maritime Encounters series and is available open access! www.oxbowbooks.com/979888857184...

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Presenting Counterpoints to the Dominant Terrestrial Narrative of European Prehistory - Oxbow Books

Challenges the terrestrial focus of European prehistory, emphasizing the significance of seascapes, maritime networks, and coastal societies in shaping prehi...

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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Major JOB ALERT! I and close colleagues have 4 (!) positions open. So if you're looking for a postdoc or PhD, do read on:

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Julián Moyano Di Carlo @jmoyanodicarlo.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

This should be happening in many journals until the madness stops

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Knut Ivar Austvoll @kiaustvoll.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Our book on the Nordic Bronze Age is finally out! It is open access here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

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Nordic Bronze Age Economies

Cambridge Core - Archaeology: General Interest - Nordic Bronze Age Economies

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Dr Izzy Wisher @izzywisher.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

New paper out! Children actively made hand-stencils and flutings in the Upper Palaeolithic, but can we identify children's cave art without anatomical measurements? We present a new framework using universal features of young children's drawings 🏺 www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3...

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Children as playful artists: Integrating developmental psychology to identify children’s art in the Upper Palaeolithic: Hunter Gatherer Research: Vol 0, No 0

Children’s agential behaviours in the archaeological record have often been overlooked. Despite efforts to centre children in the past through ‘an archaeology of childhood’, there remains a fundamenta...

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