Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026Serious kudos to the Royal Institution (aka The RI). Lovely of them to provide an excellent air-conditioned working space with free WiFi in uber-expensive central London, during the summer holidays. Makes it easy for parents to get work done whilst the kids […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 000 0
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026me: define the word 'stationary' (for my daughter) Google AI overview: Stationery is a noun that means writing materials. This includes paper, envelopes, pens, pencils, and notebooks. Always interesting to see examples in which LLMs fail at really simple tasks. 010 1
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026There are definitely benefits to being a smaller sized university press publisher... For example when @lsepress.bsky.social puts out a book I actually pay attention to it a) it's open access so I can actually read it b) they're not publishing a flood of […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 062 6
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026Cool to see Arcadia up there in the $5million PLUS bracket, awarded to the Wikimedia Endowment wikimediaendowment.org 000 0
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026@lsepress.bsky.social who knew the LSE law school had a half pipe in the entrance hallway? 🛹 🪄 I have plans... 🤣 010 1
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026I’m sure most sane people would fix a half torn rucksack strap with needle and thread 🪡 but me... I love my staple gun 🤣 let’s see how long this fix lasts... 020 2
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026Some simple spreadsheet research using @OpenAlex and the R package openalexR Counting from 2020 to 2025, there have been over 58,000 items published under the Subscribe to Open model and it's roughly doubling every year. #S2O #SubscribeToOpen 110 1
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026love this graphic. source: www.himthe.dev/blog/microsoft-to-li… 034 4
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026I just declined to review for a paywalled/hybrid Wiley journal... and was given absolutely no means of communicating why I declined in the process. Just a pathway through to: "thanks for letting us know" (byeee!!!) I was locked and loaded, ready to tell the […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 001 1
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026Campus selfie (weather really not great 🌧️) 000 0
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2025Visiting Slovenia next Easter. Anyone been? Looking for inspo... 200 2
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/11/2025Ah Microsoft Outlook... is email really that hard? 000 0
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025Anyone good at getting Android phones to do slightly unusual things? Read on... When I attach this to my Nothing 3a Pro phone, it kinda works... the USB-A for instance works - I can read&write to a thumb drive. But I can’t get it to use Internet via RJ45 […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 100 1
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025Great to see the inclusivity & recognition of @OpenAlex improve with the recent 'Walden' (codename) data update. You can compare old vs. new data at the OREO site (OpenAlex Rewrite Eval Overview) oreo.openalex.org The screenshot I'm looking at here […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 001 1
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025Imagine a university in a wealthy country where less than 50% of the recent research output is openly accessible to the public? 😢 000 0
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025lots of room for improvement at US universities on open access. Rockefeller & Caltech doing the best at the moment? MIT, unsurprisingly high-up the US leaderboard 👍 100 1
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025eyeballing the new CWTS Leiden university rankings from an open access perspective... Indonesian universities dominate the top 100 (of most OA universities), with >95% open access. It goes to show that when a country system isn't embroiled in the […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 111 1
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025Doing some light "research" on Grokipedia. It's not enough to just laugh it. I've gotta try it out to see it for myself... So I looked up the article on Cheese. grokipedia.com/page/Cheese Lots of immediately obvious errors/issues including: * […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 100 1
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2025RED ALERT. Wiley's servers are down. You cannot now access knowledge timestamp: 2025-10-14 10.21am (British Summer Time) 🙃 #WIleyDown 201 2
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2025Uncovering further AI-made, not sufficiently human-checked, graphical abstracts in Elsevier journals. Note the background colour. Which GenAI tool often gives that background colour? ➡️ CONCERNN ➡️ SURRUCE WATR further issues in the rest of the paper too […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 100 1
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2025If y'all thought the graphical abstract was wacky. Wait til you see Figure 6 I've highlighted at the bottom (in yellow squiggle) where extra text has been badly cropped off. The whole figure is complete nonsense. I wonder if the authors are doing a Sokal type hoax? 000 0
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2025Elsevier "hybrid" journal called _Ecological Modelling_ which charges an APC of USD 3,040 (excluding taxes)... ...publishes THIS abomination as a graphical abstract. 🤣 Source: Zhao et al (2025) Designing Ecological Networks to Foster Regional Economic […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 3119 19
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2025Like "Linux on the Desktop" will 2025 be the year that academics finally realise that choosing to publish with Elsevier isn't a good idea? key quote from Elsevier rep: "rights of papers are owned by the publishers hence, there is no consent needed from […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 012 2
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2025Urgh. Look at this dodgy journal marketing from IWA Publishing: No Author Fees* *No author fees: where institutionally supported, for authors from low-income countries, or for articles with significant societal impact I think what IWA Publishing meant to […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 202 2
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2025is this "platinum open access" ?? Maybe we can all just choose our own meanings for words from now on? Up means down and right means left? 100 1
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2025Weird side-benefit of in-person attendance at conferences... access to paywalled material even a month after you were on campus. No "hacking" on my part. I wonder how long it will last? #OpenAccess 000 0
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2025Read of the day: Clark J, Zuccala E (2025) Gender pay gaps and inequity at science publishers. PLOS Glob Public Health 5(6): e0004673. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0004673 "Eight years ago Elsevier stood out among publishers, with a median pay gap […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 021 2
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2025the amusement from trying to use AI for low-stakes creativity continue... Prompt: The four letters B O A I in an impressive way Results generated: Not one contains those four letters asked for 🙃 011 1
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2025whereas, I don't even get served an AI summary when I type in [surname] [model name] with Direct To Open. Maddening inconsistency! 000 0
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2025Je vous présente: "Grady Opening the Future" AI summaries in search engine result pages... 🤣 The man, the myth, the legend Tom Grady has been merged into the word soup model. A statistically-likely word that probabilistically fits. Let's just hope CEO's […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 241 4
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2025Spot the amusing typo (yes I know the plural of ass is actually asses but... it’s more funny if you just go with it) Cold bottoms 🥶 [not going to link to it as it will inevitably be corrected very soon...] 150 5
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2025Rafael Luque in the news again... cen.acs.org/people/Russia-honors-ch… No mention of Elsevier's role in his prodigious output 🤷♂️ #Elsevier #ScienceFraud #Russia 000 0
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2025ChatGPT managed to find 5/20 wikidata Q numbers, after nearly 2 minutes of reasoning. Hardly helpful. 🙃 000 0
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2025Prompt: "What is the wikidata Q number of the journal associated with this ISSN: 1755-2923" DeepSeek: The Wikidata Q number for the journal with ISSN 1755-2923 (Anthropological Journal of European Cultures) is: Q104857253 Ross: WRONG! That Q number is […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 201 2
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2025What a brilliant advert for open source software. Today, the lead article on the BBC News website: “Not owning crucial code has meant it has been unable to replace the system that led to a scandal.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgm8lmz… #OpenSource #PublicIT 2511 11
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2025Love this #OpenScience artwork :heart_fire: La ciencia es de Todos (en: Science belongs to everyone) Credit: Vera Morales & Ivonne Khuri Source: Galeria Virtual: "Diseñar el derecho a la ciencia" saberesenterritorio.conusur.org.ar/… Found […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 012 2
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2025The picture by discipline is also very interesting... Religion and Theology scholars take note! OpenAlex has significantly better coverage of OA journals in this area. (I bet Religion and Theology scholars are already aware that Scopus and Web of Science do […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 100 1
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2025Asian journals hugely underrepresented in Scopus and WoS relative to OpenAlex. Journals from Oceania "over-represented" in all three. I wonder how/why that happens? Scopus and Web of Science actually care about ANZ representation? 100 1
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2025...and it all pulls through into my profile page, in the KC Works section. Nice. 000 0
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2025Testing out Knowledge Commons by uploading some of my works there... I like it! Nice to be able to re-use my blog posts that have DOI's and have a platform that recognises that blog posts _can_ have DOI's works.hcommons.org/records/z0ktf-ne… What […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 104 4
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2025Thanks Barclays for confirming I'll get an Amazon Gift Card of "£null" in value for opening up a credit card with you. I feel very reassured about your cybersecurity... 🙃 #Error #NullError 000 0
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2025Imagine paying a $3,750 APC and then also choosing to pay an extra $5,000 to have someone (or some LLM?) write a plain language summary of your work for you. I know this is April Fool's Day but this is actually real 🤯 source […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 010 1
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2025reading: Open But Hidden: Open Access Gaps in the National Science Foundation Public Access Repository Figure 3 very interesting. CHORUS members like AIP & Wiley making it arguably harder to find free access to full texts of NSF funded research :( […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 100 1
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2025I found this ?cocoon? / ?egg mass? in Xiamen botanical garden (Fujian Province, China) last week. It's up on iNaturalist. Anyone have any idea what it might be? It's really quite distinctive...! uk.inaturalist.org/observations/257… #iNaturalist #iNat #China 000 0
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2025Spotted this excellent book on my travels, translated into Chinese, in a Ningbo (Zhejiang province) bookstore. Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World by Carl Bergstrom and @jevinwest Publisher: CITIC Press (state-owned) ISBN […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 040 4
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2024Cool. Mastodon _not_ blocked in mainland China it seems? 011 1
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2024Happy Christmas $RELX I know exactly who I'm paying when I pay Reed Exhibitions Limited for a ticket, so I do my best to pay as little as possible and so I'm booking the "early bird" price ticket. 😐 See you there? #LondonBookFair 000 0
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/12/2024@mike It might be specific to my instance, I don't really know. Here's what it looks like - it appeared in my stream. Great UX/UI, very slick. 100 1
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/12/2024I love this #Wrapstodon feature (Year in Review). No surprises what my most used hashtag is! 220 2
Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/11/2024I'm genuinely impressed with how many wrong things Scopus (Elsevier) can state about a journal... www.scopus.com/sourceid/28442 This page appears to amalgamate information about 3 or more different journals into one mishmash * The U.S. periodical […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 111 1