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Next event is 5 February at Little Andromeda (Note the venue!)

5 February Speakers

“Russell J Stanford and the Enshittification of the Creation of Knowledge”
by Anton Angelo

Scholarly communication – the way we tell each other about new knowledge – is very broken, and Russell J Stanford is a big part of the problem.  With trust in science at an all time low, we need to cancel Russell, and start a new, more gentle, robust and humane path to improving the way we publish our research.

Anton Angelo is a long time snarky knowledge boffin (read: Librarian) at the University of Canterbury.  Rampant ADHD means he hasn’t held a job anywhere for long, and collected far too many degrees, but a career in service helping people access knowledge through the entire protocol stack means he has a ‘certain set of skills’.  Currently hyperfocussed on scholarly publication he’s discovered a bit of a scandal, and has a plan for improving the trust and robustness of academic publishing.

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Survivor
by Henry Hickman

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“Steganography in music”
by Judith Bell