Devin Berg 
@drb@scholar.social
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Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Working to make engineering knowledge and education more accessible.
Joined Jan 2018
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"Releasing a preprint is associated with more attention and citations for the peer-reviewed article"
New paper published, privilege, service learning
@mplouffe
Anything that I've given up on or never intended to submit anywhere I just list as "non-peer reviewed publications". Then point the link to the preprint.
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There's a petition to Save the .org top level domain. Apparently, ICANN could still stop it from being sold.
https://savedotorg.org
I know, petitions rarely work, but I also know that _sometimes_ they do.
Please consider signing if you _run_ anything there, or if you _use_ or _care about_ anything that's on a .org domain. Also, boosting this to others who follow you, would be very much appreciated.
#SaveDotOrg
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If you have a .org domain name: go renew it now. For the full 10 years.
Registration rights for .org were just bought by a private equity firm. And as part of that contract, the price caps were removed.
Anything in .org will get much more expensive, soon.
A ten year renewal will cost you a bit over a hundred bucks. Which is probably less than one year will cost you in the very near future.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/org_registry_sale_shambles/
It looks like as of January my administrative chain will include an interim associate dean, interim dean, interim provost, and interim chancellor.
I guess at least my department chair is in an elected position.
Sometimes I wish I had come up with a cool moniker back in my early internet days.
@VictorVenema
For sure, that is probably true. I just don't particularly agree with the notability criteria. And that criteria is very randomly applied/enforced.
This article is bad and the authors should feel bad.
"...we can all but guarantee you won’t be going back [to Machu Picchu] there again unless you were begged." Definitely not true for me.
https://www.thetravel.com/machu-picchu-and-24-other-tourist-attractions-that-are-not-worth-the-trip/
Any wikipedians want to help flesh out an article? I got in trouble...
@VictorVenema
I saw you post on someone else's thread.
Not sure I need another journal to worry about at the moment. Already struggling with one as it is: tjoe.org
I do appreciate efforts for alternative forms of publishing though.
I love Wikipedia, but sometimes I really hate Wikipedia.
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Engineering Archive has surpassed 250,000 downloads of preprints hosted on the server. That's a lot of free access!
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Learn some of the ways you can help advance open access to engineering scholarship!
Sabbatical, Perú, water management
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Huge thank you to @HarvardLibrary@twitter.com for supporting open engineering scholarship by becoming the newest member of the Engineering Archive Membership Circle!
I have a really hard time holding a grudge. Sometimes I feel like this is a handicap in academia.
- Director
- @engrxiv
- Non-profit
- https://www.openengr.com/
- Website
- https://www.devinberg.com
- Ko-fi
- https://ko-fi.com/devinb
Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Working to make engineering knowledge and education more accessible.
Joined Jan 2018
