Why not? Why couldn’t they put their articles on their own sites or even those of the libraries of their institutions where others might read and evaluate them? annotate them? argue over all the fine points?
This is also an interesting use case where scare quotes should be placed around simply because it actually could be that simple…
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They cannot simply put this article online on their blog: to be recognised as research work, it must be published in a respectable peer-reviewed journal. 1
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[[An Interview With Sci-Hub’s Alexandra Elbakyan on the Delhi HC Case]] https://hypothes.is/a/cYlG8ne3Eeu4oKe_fZN85g↩︎
These few paragraphs do a great job of outlining the idea of slavery in an academic setting.
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Researchers do the actual work: they invent the hypothesis, do the experiments and write the articles describing the results of these experiments. Then they publish this article in an academic journal. They cannot simply put this article online on their blog: to be recognised as research work, it must be published in a respectable peer-reviewed journal. So they send their articles to publishers like Elsevier, Wiley or Springer. Publishers send articles they have received to other scientists for peer-review. Reviewers give their opinion on whether the work should be accepted in a journal or not, or if some additional work must be done. Based on these reviews, the article is published or rejected. Both reviewers and scientists work for free. They do not earn any compensation from the academic publisher. Here, academic publishers work as organisers of the academic community, but not as creators. The work of the academic publisher is organisational and not creative. 1
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Is online cancel culture just an instantiation of pushing people beyond the pale in an online space since they’re not in our physical neighborhood?
How does this relate to the idea of the Dunbar’s number and whether one is local or distant from the perspective of modern people versus pre-modern/pre-connected from an anthropology point of view?
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In his first interview since voting to acquit Trump, GOP Sen Thune:
— amna (@IAmAmnaNawaz) February 19, 2021
“If we’re going to criticize the media and the left for cancel culture, we can’t be doing that ourselves.” https://t.co/Ev2xIJxBNf
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How might thermodynamics have evolved differently? #openquestion
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It seems to me that if the absolute temperature had been defined after the development of the kinetic theory of gases, and recognized as a measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles, it would have been bestowed with the units of energy.3 These units are more “natural” and more appropriate units for the temperature. Having temperature in units of energy would automatically render the Boltzmann constant superfluous and the Boltzmann entropy a dimensionless quantity. Such a dimensionless quantity would still be a state function. In this case, it would be easier to accept the interpretation of entropy as information.1
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Arieh Ben-Naim’s defintion of entropy is the number of binary questions one needs to ask to acquire the missing information (about a system).
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In Section 3.3, we shall see that the most appropriate interpretation of “entropy” is the number of binary questions that one needs to ask to acquire the missing information. 1
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Let entropy be a measurement of information and be dimensionless.
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If entropy had been recognized from the outset as a measure of information, or of uncertainty, then it would be dimensionless, and the burden of carrying the units of energy would be transferred to the temperature T.1
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