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#letterstotheeditor

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petersuber

I like this idea for a #LettersToTheEditor #preprint server.
link.springer.com/article/10.1

"Such a preprint server would offer three major benefits…: format-free ease of swift communication, increased author visibility and accountability, and avoiding the homelessness of unpublished [letters]."

PS: I've sent letters to journals that had policies not to publish them, but without saying so anywhere. Once I sent a letter to a new journal that had never received or published one and needed time to think about it. Right now #SocialMedia takes up this slack and does a pretty good job. But posting letters as preprints would give authors more space, prevent even published letters from languishing behind #paywalls, and offer better opportunities for #PIDs, #metadata, and #discoverability.

SpringerLinkReinventing the Letter to the Editor in Science: A Dedicated Preprint Server - Publishing Research QuarterlyAlthough letters to the editor (LTEs, or Correspondence) have a wide range of communicative functions within science, they also present several drawbacks, three of which we highlight: editorial ambiguity, technological limitations and skewed perceptions about their format. An assessment of Scopus (September 16, 2023) indicated that letters account for 1.7% to 3.2% per year, relative to articles and reviews, suggesting that the LTE field is undeveloped. We argue that the creation of a new preprint server, which we name CoArXiv or LettersArXiv, would allow LTEs—with timely and valuable knowledge and insight—to be posted in much the same way as other preprints, and would be one way to overcome needed reform of LTE-publishing culture, ultimately expanding the range of science communication channels for multidisciplinary research. We consider that such a preprint server would offer three major benefits for scientific research: format-free ease of swift communication, increased author visibility and accountability, and avoiding the homelessness of unpublished LTEs.
#ScholComm
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Book

An interesting read about "transvestites" in the '60s and social ephemera surrounding those exploring such feelings.

Dear Abby was based before based was a thing.
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Reads: Dear Abby
By Abigail Van Buren. 7/9/69

DEAR ABBY: This is for "Too Much Ironing," who com-plained about having to iron her husband's undershorts:

Dear Madam: You really have high-class problems. I wonder if you know how lucky you are? I would gladly iron 7, 10, or 20 pair of shorts every week if my husband would leave my panties alone.

When I first found out that my husband was snitching my panties to wear under his shorts, I was bewildered and sick. How long he had been doing this I didn't know, but I'm sure it must have been most of the 11 years we had been married because when I look back, a lot of things make sense now that didn't some time ago.

My first reaction was to pack my bags and leave him, but there were three good reasons why I staved. They are three adorable children who deserve a father and mother, and as long as God gives me strength, I'll keen my home together until our children are on their own.

I am not a martyr, nor do I enjoy being married to one I consider less than a man. Love and respect for him have flown out the window, and my marriage has become a "job" and nothing more.

So, to "Too Much Ironing," I say, "Keep that iron hot, lady, and don't complain."

"OLD AT 35"

DEAR OLD: Since this problem is so close to you, I am amazed that you have not made an honest effort to learn more about it instead of flatly condemning that which you do not understand.

A man who secretly wears feminine attire is a "transvestite." And though it may seem unbelieveable to you, a transvestite is NOT necessarily a homosexual. So when you describe your husband as something "less than a man" you may be doing him a disservice.

#LGBTQIA#lgbt#transvestite
Continued thread
Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈

#LetterstotheEditor: #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump is actually a #threat to #democracy. It’s #OK to #speak the #truth

While I’ve been #critical of #columnist #JonahGoldberg in the past, he hit the nail on the head regarding #political #rhetoric in this year’s #election, particularly regarding the #truth behind former President #Trump being a “#threat to #democracy.”

latimes.com/opinion/letters-to

Los Angeles Times · Trump is actually a threat to democracy. It's OK to speak the truthCalls to tone down the rhetoric about Trump ignore that he's actually done and said so many things that threaten democracy.
John Arnold

_The Evening Post_, 21 June 1924:
       PUSH-CARTS AND TRAMS
             TO THE EDITOR.
  Sir,—Half-past two, and just about to board a tram to town, a conductor called out to me: “Madam, you cannot lake your push-chair on this car.” Well, Mr. Editor, rather than take a ride to town on business and leave my push-chair at any old place, I decided to return home. Tramway authorities in #Wellington want to wake up and adopt the Christchurch system of collapsible carriers fitted to the trams for this purpose. Failing this, will they publish measurements of chairs allowed on trams?—l am, etc.,
          OVERWORKED MOTHER
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/news
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #Trams #Pushchairs #Buggies #Strollers #LettersToTheEditor #NewZealand

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