Some academics intent on running to Bluesky when there's a technically better option owned and run by their own community. Makes me think publishing reform is doomed: we'd just end up paying a fortune to the first company that comes along to sell us something we already have.
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Some academics intent on running to Bluesky when there's a technically better option owned and run by their own community. Makes me think publishing reform is doomed: we'd just end up paying a fortune to the first company that comes along to sell us so... -
Scientific conferences:@elduvelle @ngaylinn in principle hybrid can work but not if it's after thought like this.
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Scientific conferences:@elduvelle at their best, I found online conferences during COVID better than in person ones before and since, because there was so much more engagement with people chatting excitedly in the comments section, questions from not the usual suspects, etc. That has largely stopped now because people got oversaturated and less engaged. I think if you want to do an online conference right now you can't try to approximate an in person conference you have to do something new, or at least a bit adapted to the format.
For SNUFA (http://snufa.net/) we have just two short daily sessions only on a focused topic, and it works really well. It's also easy and cheap enough to run that two of us can do it easily (total budget this year is about $60 and I'll probably spend about 12h total on the organisation). I think it's a good model because even though it's so little work we get around 700 participants each year and it's a small community so you're reaching a significant part of it by participating.
I suspect there's a lot of mileage in doing innovative stuff that looks even less like a conference and more focused on meeting people.
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Pet peeve 452: Conference speakers who decide to give a 40 min keynote talk when they’re supposed to only give a 15 min talk with other speakers waiting to go after.@elduvelle @NicoleCRust @tdverstynen I wrote an app for this (just needs a browser, and not even an internet connection if you download the html file). Just stick this on a laptop that faces them. It works surprisingly well at keeping people on time (and easily configurable).