I’ve been an idiot for three years; or, goodbye Brexit, hello Open Access! | Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

peter.suber's bookmarks 2020-02-28

Summary:

"I’m not going to rehearse all the reasons why Brexit is awful — not now, not ever again. (If you have a taste for that kind of thing, I recommend Chris Grey’s Brexit Blog, which is dispassionate, informed and forensic.) I’m not going to follow Brexit commentators on Twitter, and read all the desperately depressing analysis they highlight. I’m certainly not going to blog about it myself any more. More importantly, I’m not going to let the ongoing disintegration of my country dominate my mind or my emotions. I’m walking away: because obviously absolutely nothing I say or do about it can make the slightest bit of difference.

But there is an area of policy where I can hope to make some small difference, and that is of course open science — including but not limited to open access, open data, open reviewing and how research is evaluated. That’s where my political energy should have been going for the last three years, and it’s where that energy will be going from now on...."

Link:

https://svpow.com/2020/02/27/ive-been-an-idiot-for-three-years-or-goodbye-brexit-hello-open-access/

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Date tagged:

02/28/2020, 12:46

Date published:

02/28/2020, 07:46