[breck]

Also please post somewhere your support of her with your real name, and reach out with kind words. Every PhD I know relies on this site, but more importantly 10x+ more people I know who are otherwise "outside" academia rely on this site. How many of the world's best researchers in 30 years will have turned out to get their start in research not thanks to Academia but thanks to SciHub? My guess is most of them.

And make no mistake, people are trying to have her killed.

"Elbakyan may be working with Russian military intelligence. The story says she may have been stealing US military secrets from defense contractors"

I just copy/pasted this horseshit from Elsevier’s website right now.

Let's provide her with the support and strength to win this war.

[_Wintermute]

I mentioned Elbakyan and sci-hub in my PhD thesis acknowledgements. Hardly anyone will see it but it still felt like a little two-fingers to academic publishing.

[vslira]

Citing

"Sci-hub", Elbakyan A. et al

is definitely an academic trend I'd support :)

[chpill]

The page from elsevier website for those who want to check

https://www.elsevier.com/connect/allegations-linking-sci-hub...

[hagibborim]

Very good point, and I didn't know that bit of slander against her.

[mariuolo]

> "Elbakyan may be working with Russian military intelligence. The story says she may have been stealing US military secrets from defense contractors"

And how is sci-hub connected to that?

[hedora]

The same way the false [1] allegations against Julian Assange are related to Wikileaks.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22201381

[rarefied_tomato]

I'm not aware of any facts supporting Elsevier's accusation, and I would characterize it as intentional disinformation.

Elbakyan runs Sci-Hub.