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The writer and poet Robert Macfarlane argues that copyright laws should protect nature theguardian.com/environment/20
"As I think you know, [the Earth rights scholar] César [Rodríguez-Garavito], [the mycologist] Giuliana [Furci] and [the musician] Cosmo [Sheldrake] and I, as well as, of course, the Los Cedros cloud forest, have brought a case in the Ecuador court system to recognise the moral authorship of the cloud forest in the song that was written in the course of the book’s research [called Song of the Cedars]." #copyright #authorship #nature #animals

The Guardian · Rob Macfarlane : ‘Sometimes I felt as if the river was writing me’By Jonathan Watts

Keynote on author identity from @alicemeadows this morning on the final day at our conference in Oslo.

The recent STM Association report on trusted identity recommends institutionally verified identity and using ORCID trust markers:
stm-assoc.org/new-stm-report-t

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ease.org.uk/ease-events/18th-e

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Update, on the #CDC order directing staffers to retract pending journal articles that use now-prohibited terms like #transgender and #immigrant (earlier in this thread) …

Bravo to the #BMJ (@bmj_latest) for calling this order "sinister and ludicrous."
bmj.com/content/388/bmj.r253

"This is not how it works. Medically relevant terminology and inclusive language follow evidence based reporting standards or are matters of individual journal style and policy. They do not follow political orders. Similarly, co-authors cannot simply scrub themselves from articles. Authorship gives credit and accountability for the work, and an article’s list of authors does not ghost contributors. If authors wish to withdraw submissions under review at a journal, this process is feasible should all of their co-authors agree. However, if somebody who merits inclusion in the authorship group of an article requests to be removed, even with the approval of the co-authors, this is a breach of publication ethics."

Valuable insights on "Authorship for post/PhDers – author order" by Pat Thomson: patthomson.net/2025/01/19/auth
Long gone seems the time, when it was automatically alphabetically which i at least have experienced quite often. Now more value is given to order to acknowledge effort, which may lead to other problems. And then there are publication and bibliography systems that still default to alphabetical ... what are your thoughts and experiences? #wisskomm #scholarlycommunication #authorship

patter · Authorship for post/PhDers – author orderAuthor order is a pretty self-evident term. It simply describes the order in which authors appear on a publication. Who goes first, second and who is et al. Now author order might also seem like a …

Later today at #CHR2024, we are going to present our work on #Multilingual #Stylometry!

We isolated the influence of #language on #authorship #attribution #accuracy by translating multiple #corpora into each others' languages while keeping #corpus composition stable.

Interactive showcase: showcases.clsinfra.io/stylomet

Full paper: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/paper9.pd

This work was developed within the @CLSinfra project in #Trier, #Krakow and #Prague with Artjoms Šeļa, Evgeniia Fileva and Julia Dudar.

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@VeroniqueB99

If it's an act of interesting creation, worth mentioning widely, and especially in a school, I hope permission was sought. Rather than citing an anonymous student, I would hope that person was offered the opportunity to be named.

Perhaps they didn't want to be named, which is fine, but then just saying so would be good. That gives the anonymous person, when they see it spreading around, the ability to disagree about being asked or about that being their answer.

Not mentioning authorship makes it more deniable, like maybe it was an oversight, which is why we as a community should request authorship information even if the answer is "this space intentionally left blank" for any of a variety of reasons.

Too much meme stuff doesn't credit content creators, and that will only get worse with AI, whose stock in trade is uncredited plagiarism. Teachers may not be able to stop the march of AI, but they can still teach and to demonstrate good manners and ethical behavior.

#teachers #teaching #memes #education #citations #plagiarism #authorship #writing #WritingCommunity #ethics

h/t @dabeaz

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Our webinar this month is free & open to all. Join us, Tues 23 Jul, 1pm BST. Register: ease.org.uk/event/ease-webinar

@Lisalibrarian, ORCID Board Chair & a professor/librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will give an overview of ORCID's efforts to increase their reach & engagement, plus other persistent identifiers (PIDs).