Anne- what we need from publishers is transparency, and evidence of impact. Explain to us why you need the money you do. Seems overly difficult to get/ understand usage - need both data and user stories about impact. Helps make case to administration. #OASPA2025

Imagine the righteous rage I'd be spewing!

Chonky boi clearly prefers sausage rolls to dainty sandwiches. Like a proper Yorkshire lad. @wrunipress.bsky.social

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🎬 Today’s the Day! – Screening the Fleet Join us this evening for drinks, nibbles, and good conversation as we celebrate Screening the Fleet. Don’t miss out!

I treated myself to a bottle of fizzy wine tonight, cause I deserve nice things. Just opened it and the cork exploded out of the bottle without me touching it, wine went everywhere and I've somehow sliced my finger open in quite a blood spurty manner on the muselet. Good mood, ruined.

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

To call any research hobbyist is to deliberately demean it, as if what really has value is 'stuff which flatters the plans of a here to day gone tomorrow Minister' Specialisation is one thing, but what of breadth, of truly supporting a community? You can't build a University for Current Fads & hope

🚨 Reminder! We still have tickets available for Screening the Fleet – 50 Years of the Navy on Screen 🎬 If you—or anyone you know—are interested in media, military history, or British TV, don’t miss this one. Come along and get signed up!

Won the conference pub quiz, as is right and proper. My competitive nature was on full show and now I have chocolate for my prize. WINNER! #Icepops25

I chose Ares cause I am a big fan of debating/fighting. #Icepops25

A very exciting day today where my daughter has her first day at big school. And by big school I mean the BBC, where she’s going to spend the next two years doing an apprenticeship in production. She refuses to send me a photo of herself on her doorstep in her smart clothes, though, which is sad.

Just read that Bridget Phillipson is considering entering the deputy Labour leader race, and you’d think she might want to focus on her main job, ignoring the crisis in the university sector.

In town for work today so stopped to listen to Sheffield Palestinian Solidarity Campaign read out the names of the children killed in Gaza. 6 hours of reading and they were still on the 3 year olds, if you want to know the scale of the devastation

Yeah well whose fault is that??

The four UK higher education funding bodies confirm the pause in the criteria setting and publication of final guidance for REF 2029 for a short period, as announced by the UK Science Minister Lord Vallance today at the Universities UK conference. 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/pause-t...

Today I have had to think properly about the REF OA policy details and exceptions. I was under the impression my current job had rid me of such nonsense, yet seemingly not.

Potatoes for every meal!

Always a pleasure to hear @simonxix.com @kjsanders.bsky.social and @samuelmoore.org articulate their vision of open access publishing - also thanks to Hannah Hillen from @thoth-metadata.bsky.social & @reddite.bsky.social for being an excellent chair

Librarians assemble, our time has come #Library #LibrarySky

Possibly not genial per se, but far more entertaining so far than most event hosts! #OpenFest25

Libraries, publishers, and authors should all be concerned about the political censorship (especially of LGBTQ+ work) enabled by the UK's Online Safety Act.

There will be many casualties from UChicago ending ('pausing') PhD admissions in Humantities, but one which I am keenly aware of: this is close to a death sentence for teaching cuneiform in the United States (esp. Sumerian, Hittite, Elamite, Eblaite, Luwian) and it will affect the whole world.

As I slowly download 32 chapters of a single work, I can only ask: who hurt you, JSTOR Books?

Bought myself a fantastic hoody today with this label. Am I to assume that whilst it does not contain cashmere it may still, in fact, be made of cupcakes?

At the nail salon and having a total meltdown about what colour to go for, so have resorted to the standard question I ask at any moment of panic - what would Wayne Coyne do?

Investing in and partnering with open software, open infrastructures, and open publishing is how to develop a viable future to mitigate the instabilities of the contemporary context. We need to work collaboratively rather than competitively.

Got to love an email about an upcoming training session for library staff on AI that says 'I've tried to take a neutral stance with my part but do feel free to be more polemical'. Oh, I shall my friend, I absolutely shall...

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

There are many issues with The Hundred, but watching Livingstone smack sixes about the ground makes me almost prepared to accept it. (This is a skeet about cricket, for my US chums)

Bought two bunches of flowers today cause they were heavily reduced to less than £2 each. And the red roses are so much nicer which is good cause Lancashire is so much nicer than Yorkshire and this is the hill I am willing to die on.

this is widely thought to be because on the current trajectory no one believes there will be any people, culture, or environments to measure in 2029

And lovely to see the data and code available under a CC0 licence too! doi.org/10.5061/drya...

"We know this will create inequality and we're doing it anyway for money." The words of someone who should be hounded out of polite society.

It is over 3 yrs since my dad died. Today I got a letter saying his pension fund want to pay me some money that should've come in the original payout. All well and good, but having to STILL be dealing with death admin this long after he actually snuffed it has definitely caused me to have a wobble.

For tedious reasons I have spent a lot of today reading articles on SKitch and now I want to give my brain a bleach bath.

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It would be great to see libraries leading the charge and divesting from proprietary systems providers that have HQs on occupied Palestinian land, for example, but I do appreciate that might be seen as somewhat "political" for library management...

Libraries should boycott Ex Libris: acrlog.org/2025/07/21/w...

I repeat, never doubt Kelly!

Scholarly publishing and cancel culture. Genocide and cowardice. Institutional publishing and politics: www.theguardian.com/education/20...

PENALTY! I am so here for this kind of drama!

I've now written a piece about why the internet hates my apostrophe, which you can read here: www.ft.com/content/48d4... Huge thanks to everyone who replied to me about it!

Part of the reason I bang on about open source software is because it should be seen as a necessary tool in political organising. How can you organise against capital when capital owns the tools you're using to organise?

I've said before at conferences that community-led publishing would benefit from being more experimental and focussing more on getting good work out into the world rather than replicating the workflows, systems, and outputs of commercial publishing.

🚨 OBC is hiring! We are looking to appoint a Community Engagement Lead to support our outreach work. The role would suit someone passionate about delivering a fairer, sustainable future for #OAbooks. Deadline August 17th. Please spread the word! openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-pos...

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We’ve got a job going. You get to work with me and quite frankly I am an exceptionally hilarious* and brilliant** person to work with, honest. * Moderately funny on occasion ** Shouty about big publishers but in a knowledgable way

Please RT far and wide, I have no advertising budget! Can I interest you in working with me? Excellent entry level opportunity in an FE library, happy to have an informal chat ce0115li.webitrent.com/ce0115li_web...

Ça me fait penser à un rdv pro que j'ai eu il n'y a pas longtemps et qui s'est transformé en débat sur l'I.A. dans la création artistique. Ici, il n'était même pas question de création totale mais "d'aide" à la création. Petit thread 🧵