Alex Holcombe✓

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Collabra: Psychology is published by UC Press, a non-profit publisher. It's #openaccess and is the official journal of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science. Worth supporting!
(read: resign from the profiteering corporate publisher you're editing for and apply to join Collabra!) https://lnkd.in/gq6qJqYN

12 views Collabra: Psychology is published by UC Press, a non-profit publisher. It's #openaccess and is the official journal of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science. Worth supporting! (read: resign from the profiteering corporate publisher you're editing for and apply to join Collabra!) https://lnkd.in/gq6qJqYN

"Who do I review for?", a session of lightning talks and open discussion, is happening on the 26th. My lightning talk will discuss my partial boycott of profiteering publishers and my buy-cott of academic-led and nonprofit journals and review platforms. Come along for an interesting discussion!
Register here: https://t1p.de/wdirf

9 views "Who do I review for?", a session of lightning talks and open discussion, is happening on the 26th. My lightning talk will discuss my partial boycott of profiteering publishers and my buy-cott of academic-led and nonprofit journals and review platforms. Come along for an interesting discussion! Register here: https://t1p.de/wdirf

📊 Post engagement

Avg engagement / post

0.6%

Engagement vs followers

Nov 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: Because of the increase in submissions due to AI, the peer revie · 35 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

0.89 / week

A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

3.2×

Follows 610 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Because of the increase in submissions due to AI, the peer review system will collapse. The AI flood is happening at different rates for different fields and subtitles, so you might be spared so far. Other than falling back on old boys network, prestigious institutional marker t… ★ 35

Anybody who's not a fraudster or pub mill-ster used an AI agent yet to submit a manuscript to a journal? I got 74 co-authors' worth of info to enter. I asked for permission to upload the author info later, but I'm stuck emailing for month… ★ 2 Contributorship is the way! Authorship is outdated, a legacy of the lone-aristocrat origins of modern science, plus publishers' interest in copyright only – who wrote the work – rather than who did the work. Good to see that the National N… ★ 3 A new online course, Wikipedia for Researchers, "equips academics with the knowledge and practical skills to contribute peer-reviewed citations to Wikipedia responsibly, critically, and with lasting impact." https://learn.wiki/courses/cour… ★ 28

"Who do I review for?", a session of lightning talks and open discussion, is happening on the 26th. My lightning talk will discuss my partial boycott of profiteering publishers and my buy-cott of academic-led and nonprofit journals and rev… ★ 9

Collabra: Psychology is published by UC Press, a non-profit publisher. It's #openaccess and is the official journal of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science. Worth supporting! (read: resign from the profiteering corporat… ★ 12 Opensource code and libraries to fall behind as Anthropic seems to be giving only large corporations access to Mythos, including to find their software's security vulnerabilities. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/opinion/mythos-open-souc… Google's gotten a lot more aggressive in their steps to kill the internet - now on my phone from Google.com webpage when I search for something, I only get AI results until I dismiss the AI window. ★ 3 "I prefer the publish-review-curate model over the traditional submit-get rejected-submit somewhere else-get rejected-submit somewhere else model." Found myself writing the above when a journal editor asked me to weigh in on accept/reject … ★ 19 "Improving Acknowledgments Sections To Better Credit Research Contributors" v2 is now available on MetaArXiv https://osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/t2uwe Took 2.5 weeks for MetaArXiv to approve the a new version, which I assume will get longer… ★ 4 I was interviewed by Oakleigh Wilson of @sortee about why our scholarly publishing system is the way it is and how to fix it. Thanks to Oak for doing a LOT of "editing for clarity"! 😀 https://sortee.org/blog/2026/03/03/2026_ecr_asks_alex_… ★ 3 Nietfeld, E. (2025.). What the most famous book about trauma gets wrong. Mother Jones. https://www.motherjones.com/media/2024/12/trauma-body-keeps-the-score-van-der-kolk-psychology-therapy-ptsd/ Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_… ★ 6

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On Mastodon since

Nov 2022

Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.

👁️Averages 11 views per post.

📤Posts about 0.9× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

75/100

Good Credibility score

92%

Real Real audience

Low Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Engagement (~0.6% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
Verified account.
Established account (3+ years old).

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

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Science do-er and reformer in Sydney, Australia. human object tracking book: https://tracking.whatanimalssee.com/intro.html#summary Biases include @siminevazire (for), cats (against). #metascience #perception #visualattention