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Academia.edu is telling me that R*ssi is now in the .1% of most downloaded scholars on the site. See her latest at academia.edu/94617951/IN_RE…
Doubling down on doubling down. #receptiogate.
Doubling down on doubling down. #receptiogate.
It's an astounding document, for what it does and does not say.
23 pages, entitled "In response to the false allegations..."
pages 1-13 not at all relevant.
Tone changes abruptly at p. 14.
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23 pages, entitled "In response to the false allegations..."
pages 1-13 not at all relevant.
Tone changes abruptly at p. 14.
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Pages 14-18 are a masterclass in professional disrespect. It actively misrepresents the series of exchanges since Christmas, makes selective claims and uses, let us say, prejudicial language, while claiming to prefer "civilised conforntation" (14).
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Today pridie kalendas Ianuarias MMDCCLXXV AUC I offer up some posts/threads/links of philological interest I have lately seen. They are *not* ranked. Maybe I add to in new year. Said #philology is very BROAD church in the truest sense. Please, enjoy 🧵
1. Lovely little podcast with @OlaWikander which gives great example led discussion of the study on ancient langs/cultures. At the very least listen to his exegesis on his specialty, Ugaritic.
2. Here is @DrMichaelBonner (yes, another podcast). Worth listening to as he is a practicing philologist beyond the academy
I haven't commented on #receptiogate so far and once in a while even felt pity for Carla Rossi in the last few days, as her career seems to have been self-destroying in only a few days. Her latest post on academia however is again so full of lies and falsehoods.
A Thread. 1/10
A Thread. 1/10
If you don't know what #receptiogate is, read this thread by @paulacurtis and the blogposts by Peter Kidd (@mssprovenance) at mssprovenance.blogspot.com whose work has been plagiarized by Carla Rossi. 2/10
Carla Rossi has shared several PDFs on Academia to refute the accusations brought against her. As far as I see, she deleted the first two, leaving only her latest response online: academia.edu/93967256/Kidds… 3/10
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1. Registering a company at a correspondence address is utterly normal commercial practice (although expressly describing it as a physical office is not).
2. Using stock photos to represent employees seems to be common, even by otherwise legitimate companies. 1/
1. Registering a company at a correspondence address is utterly normal commercial practice (although expressly describing it as a physical office is not).
2. Using stock photos to represent employees seems to be common, even by otherwise legitimate companies. 1/
3. Plagiarizing text & photos from a blog or other online sources without acknowledgement is dishonest and appalling scholarly practice, but generally not criminal.
4. Obtaining grant money for what turns out to be shoddy or academically flawed work is not per se criminal. 2/
4. Obtaining grant money for what turns out to be shoddy or academically flawed work is not per se criminal. 2/
The relevant authorities - and the mainstream media - are now aware of the matter. Criminal justice - if that's what Rossi should face - should be pursued soberly & carefully by the police & the Swiss courts, not by a gleeful online mob who are seeing it all as entertainment. 3/
I haven't tweeted about #Receptiogate since the 27th because I think this has now morphed from - quite correctly - calling out plagiarism, to gleeful internet bloodsport. Rossi (& later her husband too) have lied & behaved appallingly, both initially and since the story broke. 1/
Peter Kidd was absolutely right to call this out, and his subsequent blogposts accurately summarize the situation.
But on Twitter there's now a gleeful quality to the whole affair that doesn't sit right with me: people are laughing at the destruction of someone's livelihood . 2/
But on Twitter there's now a gleeful quality to the whole affair that doesn't sit right with me: people are laughing at the destruction of someone's livelihood . 2/
Rossi and her husband seem now to me, more than anything else, bewildered and frightened. Rossi's behavior has been grossly unprofessional, unscholarly, rude and dishonest, but has it been criminal? I don't think I've seen evidence of that. 3/
I know we're all obsessed with the stream of discoveries about #receptiogate, the revolving-door website updates, & Rossi's doubling-down claims of innocence that are easily disproven, but I also want to talk about her #fragmentoogy work, which is troubling in several respects...
As many of you know, I have been working closely with @FragmentariumMS and many other scholars for decades to develop best-practices for cataloguing, data-modeling, and digital reconstructions of dismembered manuscripts, i.e. #fragmentology
To her credit, Rossi is doing that too, working to recontruct recently-dismembered Books of Hours, transcribing them to allow for deep analysis of the recovered liturgy. This is a very worthy goal, & the transcriptions, while not always correct, are useful. So that’s great! But…
Okay, so #Receptiogate is trending in multiple countries. If you missed the beginning of this (still unfolding) drama over plagiarized research, fake research institutes, and medieval manuscripts, here's a compilation to get you started with your bowl of popcorn. ⬇️🍿
There's so many subthreads and additions to various things from the Twitter community that I'll inevitably miss some stuff stuff (and some is slightly out of chronological order), but here it goes!
This began with Peter Kidd (@mssprovenance), an independent scholar, finding that portions of his work on his blog and in other formal published venues had been taken without credit by a woman named Carla Rossi of Receptio. He wrote about it on his blog:
Let's take a look at Carla Rossi's claim that she didn't take the colour image of a miniature of St Mark from Peter Kidd's @mssprovenance blog. Kidd had pointed out (mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/nobody…) that the only possible source of the colour image was from his site. [cont]
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@mssprovenance Rossi responded on Academia.edu that she "obtained a bw image" from the German dealer Hartung and "colourise[d] the black and white pictures using the "Colorize picture" application, as you can see on page 253 of my edition." [cont]
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@mssprovenance Even so, Rossi removed the colour image from her book, replacing it with the black-and-white image that she *claimed* had been supplied by Hartung. [cont]
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Carla Rossi's representative seems unfamiliar with copyright: "we have not taken anything from your site, but [...] these are images obtained from dealers, retrieved via WayBack Method from auctions & sales, as well as from paper catalogues"
mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/nobody…
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mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/nobody…
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"Sotheby's owns [...] all right, title and interest in and to the Digital Platforms [...] including: all the content (including without limitation audio, images, photographs, illustrations, text"
(sothebys.com/en/terms-condi…) Rossi's book does not respect copyright. #Receptiogate
(sothebys.com/en/terms-condi…) Rossi's book does not respect copyright. #Receptiogate
Sotheby's continue: "Any commercial distribution, publishing, use or exploitation of the Digital Platforms or any element thereof [...] is strictly prohibited unless you have received the express prior written permission of Sotheby's or the applicable rights holder" #Receptiogate
More #Receptiogate fun is when you see what Google has cached from the however many changes to the website over the past few days
For instance, webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?cd=1&ct…
brings up those beloved photos, the ones that are uses all over the place
For instance, webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?cd=1&ct…
brings up those beloved photos, the ones that are uses all over the place
#Receptiogate the message text sent to Peter Kidd was odd. A mix of threats and definitions of manuscripts.
Jury is out on the double "Dear Customer"
Jury is out on the double "Dear Customer"
#Receptiogate I copied parts of the text and tried to see where it came from. Unusually that came up blank.
Then I spotted a recurring phrase which looked familiar.
"Regenerate Response"
Then I spotted a recurring phrase which looked familiar.
"Regenerate Response"
#Receptiogate on a hunch I went to ChatGPT ( @OpenAI's openai.com/blog/chatgpt/ )
and asked "what can you tell me about medieval manuscripts"
and asked "what can you tell me about medieval manuscripts"
some #Receptiogate finds.
@mssprovenance had been receiving some emails from an address with a particular word, "cercamon".
It's medieval Occitan for "world searcher"
Now, where else would I find someone using the username 'cercamon' ?
morrissey-solo.com/article.pl?sid…
@mssprovenance had been receiving some emails from an address with a particular word, "cercamon".
It's medieval Occitan for "world searcher"
Now, where else would I find someone using the username 'cercamon' ?
morrissey-solo.com/article.pl?sid…
David LM, that sounds familiar.
Lugano, wait, what ?
Could it be ?
Lugano, wait, what ?
Could it be ?
I know most of my followers aren’t here for academic beef, but if you want to end 2022 on a jaw-dropping saga of (alleged) plagiarism, (alleged) sock-puppeting and COLOURISING MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS (😱), you could do worse than check out #Receptiogate & super sleuth @mssprovenance
What are the underlying issues that make it such a compelling drama on academic Twitter? Well…
The alleged deception feels like an extension of academic grifting that is all too widespread: editors & authors in peer-review cahoots; souped-up websites featuring big names who turn out to have minimal involvement; figures with big titles stealing the work of ‘little people’
Un scandale qui allie l'incongru à l'hilarant agite le Twitter de la recherche médiévale : une sombre histoire de plagiat d'un institut qui peut-être... n'existe pas ?
C'est le #ReceptioGate et ça devient assez mythique pour que je vous en parle :D
C'est le #ReceptioGate et ça devient assez mythique pour que je vous en parle :D
Tout commence avec ce blog : mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/nobody…
Peter Kidd, spécialiste des manuscrits médiévaux, tient un blog sur des reconstitutions numériques de manuscrits découpés par leurs propriétaires. Il s'avise que son blog a été... source d'inspiration, allons-nous dire.
Peter Kidd, spécialiste des manuscrits médiévaux, tient un blog sur des reconstitutions numériques de manuscrits découpés par leurs propriétaires. Il s'avise que son blog a été... source d'inspiration, allons-nous dire.
Une professeure*, Carla Rossi, de l'Institut RECEPTIO basé à Lugano, a publié une reconstitution numérique d'un manuscrit traité sur le blog de Kidd. Des passages sont étrangement proches de ses textes. Et aucune marque de citation, aucune mention de son nom !
* c'est important.
* c'est important.
One of the astonishing parts about this update is that Rossi admits to "colourising" b/w photos! Plaigerism aside, & whether the "colourising" really happened in this case or not, the idea of taking a b/w photo and quietly colorizing it is incredibly misleading!
Tacitly editing images of fragments seems to be her MO: adding borders where there are none, cropping for consistency of size, inserting a mis=matched binding, adding fake flyleaves, colorizing b/w images. How can readers trust such a deceptive author?
I've never encountered anything quite like it in the digital realm. It is analogous to the tacit "restoration" work 19th-century forgers practised on illuminated mss, like the one I describe here (a forgery Peter identified!): manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2019/08/28/man…
This is a great summary of #Receptiogate so far. In this morning's developments, the "scientific operational staff" page on the Receptio site has been taken down!
Wait, now it's back...I think it was being updated (again). Hard to keep up with this developing story!
And...it's gone again.
