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The research fairy  

A fork of GIMP that's just GIMP with a better name when

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Vincent Tunru  

Big news in :

- No more embargoes
- No more copyright transfer
- No hybrid journals
- A cap on APCs

...for practically all European-funded research from 2020 onwards. It's called , and it's fantastic!

scienceeurope.org/coalition-s/

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Thibault  

I'm still amazed by the state of that industry. Why paying for an eBook for nearly the same price as a printed book gives you a file you don't own and you can't use, while piracy gives you a file you can use like an actual book?

When buying a book, I can read it where I want, in as many places I want, on as many couches I want, and I can even lend it to a friend. And that's legal.

Wasn't technology supposed to make the future better?

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#phdchat, academia, taking breaks Show more

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Achintya Rao • ಅಚಿಂತ್ಯ ರಾವ  

We just had a plenary by Drew Barry from wehi.tv about his biology animations. Very cool stuff.

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Achintya Rao • ಅಚಿಂತ್ಯ ರಾವ  

I'm attending in Dunedin, NZ. I need to remind myself to use this platform as much as I use Twitter. But do check out the tweets over there for discussion on science communication.

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Sargoth (skateboard aspect)  

Become the annotated bibliography you want to see in the world

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