@arifriedlander.bsky.social - Ari Friedlander

24 Sep 2023 13:10 +0000

Exciting to see momentum building to aggregate the different OA monograph efforts out there! The idea that collective action by the scholarly communication community is the way to square the circle of OA support and UP funding is very compelling! https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/09/20/guest-post-open-access-to-university-press-frontlists-a-call-to-action/

05 Sep 2023 00:38 +0000

Still thinking about how a person my age (40+) asked me yesterday, “What does heartburn feel like? I’ve never had it,” as if that was a completely normal thing to say and not like saying, “What is gravity?” or “What does water feel like?”

28 Aug 2023 12:08 +0000

Still thinking about this as I prepare to teach this morning [contains quote post or other embedded content]

28 Aug 2023 01:21 +0000

50 minute classes be like

27 Aug 2023 17:21 +0000

Let me tell you, you haven’t lived until you discover midway through a diaper change at a stranger’s house party that you have no baby wipes. The adrenaline rush! The physical contortions you undertake to avoid disaster! Watch for this stunt in the next installment of Mission Impossible.

27 Aug 2023 13:52 +0000

With some big academic SM accounts, this is obviously their whole thing [contains quote post or other embedded content]

27 Aug 2023 13:45 +0000

Yes these kinds of “open access” initiatives do not and are not intended to save students money but to shift where that money goes — and who is deemed qualified to decide that question. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

27 Aug 2023 12:27 +0000

And when that happens once every month, they call it a faculty meeting! [contains quote post or other embedded content]