There's still time to register for this Wednesday's #DefendResearch webinar with @georgecoops.bsky.social: "Conditions of Censorship Complicity in Scholarly Publishing: A China case study" us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Conditions of Censorship Com
Speaking of great events, the next #DefendResearch webinar on 4/8 with @georgecoops.bsky.social will look at #censorship from an international perspective: "Conditions of Censorship Complicity in Scholarly Publishing: A China case study" us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join us for the next #DefendResearch webinar on April 8th with @georgecoops.bsky.social discussing his research on the "Conditions of Censorship Complicity in Scholarly Publishing in China" and what we can learn about government #censorship in the U.S. right now. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Looking forward to learning more at this 4/8 #DefendResearch webinar where @georgecoops.bsky.social will discuss #censorship in China and the role publishers have played, and what we can learn about the current U.S. experience. Registration info here: www.defendresearch.org/events/webin...
I’m excited to share that I’m starting a new role as Lecturer (Publishing Practice) at UCL! Alongside ongoing research on censorship, I’ll be exploring practice-oriented projects, so if you work in publishing and want to discuss ideas for a potential collaboration, get in touch!
Powerful Scholarly Kitchen piece re centrality of diversity to research & the importance of collaboration to protect scholarship. @tteleen.bsky.social, @rouhiroo.bsky.social, @georgecoops.bsky.social et al
#DEI #DefendResearch scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/12/22/g...
What drives #censorship complicity in scholarly #publishing? New preprint from my recent PhD shows how structural, commercial & organizational pressures pushed Western publishers to acquiesce to censorship demands in China—and the obstacles facing collective action: bit.ly/3lfraqt #PublishingEthics
The allegorical figure Veritas (Truth) is depicted in a print from 1611 reading -because the act of reading symbolizes the act of interpretation. The goddess is sitting on a horse, and all this is a detail from a larger print that can be found as a digital copy over here: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1923-1016-27-21
Why not be like the goddess Veritas (Truth) today? Wear a fancy reading hat with flames, read a physical book, and maybe also ride a horse meanwhile. #booksky #bookhistory
There are people among us who fill out event registration forms entirely in lower case. Who are you? Explain yourselves.
Sally Rooney is clearly an excellent writer and arguments to the contrary are a cheap way to make edgy copy for literary magazines
Is #openscience being co-opted by the US govt? To what ends? Enormouse privilege to share a platform with such incredible pannelists (Michael-Anne Kyle, Dan Rudmann, Christopher Marcum) at #OSfair25, expertly moderated by Sara Rouhi (rouhiroo.bsky.social) + blessed with a very engaged audience!
VeriXiv Webinar: "The Gates Foundation's 2025 Open Access Policy Refresh: Introducing VeriXiv", 24th September 2024. Speakers: Dr. George Cooper, Senior Associate Publisher, F1000; Dr. Augustino Hellar, CEO, Prime Health Initiative Tanzania (PHIT).
Are you a Gates-funded researcher? Want to learn more about preprints?
Join us for our webinar 'The Gates Foundation's 2025 Open Access Policy Refresh: Introducing VeriXiv'.
📆 24th September
🕒 09:00 BST
Sign up today: spr.ly/63325ABpvc
@georgecoops.bsky.social
a rare and precious thing
At The British Book Awards on Monday, I made the point from the stage of how human this sector is [...] books train us, not computers, and they make us into the better humans we need to be, says @philipdsjones.bsky.social in this week's editor's letter 👇 #BookSky
Thanks Stephanie! Was a fun session and good discussions afterwards.
@fulhamish.bsky.social Can you untag me from these posts - you’ve got the wrong George Cooper…!
Can you untag me from these posts - you’ve got the wrong George Cooper…!
Can you untag me from these posts - you’ve got the wrong George Cooper…!
Can you untag me from these posts - you’ve got the wrong George Cooper…!
Can you untag me from these posts - you’ve got the wrong George Cooper…!
"Developing a device that could treat severe bleeding. It seems to have caught the committee’s attention for using the words “victims” — as in gunshot victims — and “trauma.” Creating biosensors to detect infectious diseases. The grant appears to have been tagged for the repeated use of “POC,” an acronym often used for “people of color” but in this context meaning “point of care” — that is, the place where people receive medical treatment — and “barrier,” referring to a part of the biosensor itself. Designing eye-tracking technology for diagnosing and treating concussions. It appears to have gotten flagged for referencing “traumatic” brain injuries and the “status,” meaning the condition, of patients."
ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh.
This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...
something weirdly cleansing about passing through airport security esp. now I’ve cleared all the dry baby wipes out of my big coat
The collective resolve of the medical publishing industry is being put to the test, says George Cooper 👇 #BookSky
#censorship in health research affects us all. We share a responsibility to stand firm and decry Trump’s war on "gender ideology" as a full-scale assault on the scientific method.
A comment in @the-bookseller.bsky.social
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fully support X-Bluesky migration as a general thing but… I think you have the wrong George Cooper…? No Fulham FC connections I can exploit I’m afraid.
Alleged #DeepSeek censorship part of a broader trend towards the export of China’s censorship controls to global forms of online communication and media, involving the coercion of private firms acting as agents of the state - a comment in @dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...
I predict more and more of these abusers will be exposed. We'll look back this time when it's considered normal to film your kids 24/7 and think "WTF"
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
it’s cold up north
getting into Lemsip in a big way
If you’re working on a topic related to academic publishing and might be interested in writing a short-from monograph like Matt’s, I’d be very happy to discuss a proposal with you (as editor of the academic strand in the CUP Publishing and Book Culture series). In the meantime do read Matt’s book!