1/5 🧵 🔈 A Call to Libraries: Redirect Funding, Rebuild Scholarly Publishing As some research funders move away from funding APCs and hybrid publishing, now is the time to invest in community-owned academic publishing. 🔗 Read our latest blog post: www.openlibhums.org/news/972/

Please sign or share this call to stand up for the Internet Archive. The Internet Archive is crucial for preserving history and strengthening transparency. It is part of the struggle for a better internet, and, by extension, hopefully, a better world.

We’ve signed the @DigiPovAlliance Charter for Digital Inclusion: a national framework for action on digital access and equity. It sets out clear principles to guide organisations in closing the UK’s digital divide. Learn more: https://shorturl.at/eDYf5

Theory & Society has been intellectually hollowed out since the editorial takeover a few years ago A cautionary tale about what happens when politics replaces rigour. Early career scholars if you are unaware, please avoid this journal. Your work is worth more than a compromised venue. #AcademicSky

💪 Protect our archives! Physical and digital records serve critical roles in society by preserving our history and culture. 🏛️ 🌐 The Wayback Machine helps to archive the history of the web, which is critical for @wikipedia.org: without it, link rot erodes the verifiability of information online.

New Wikipedia tool: "Scans Wikipedia biographies of women for common gender bias patterns and flags specific passages for editorial review." No AI. Developed by Netha Hussain. nethahussain.github.io/wikipedia-ge...

Brilliant essay in The Guardian by Cory Doctorow, about why AI will fail and how while doing so it will make everything worse for everbody except the oligarchs. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

"The academic community must confront an uncomfortable truth: we have systematically failed our greatest knowledge commons […], the only major platform on which truth emerges through transparent debate, rather than algorithmic opacity or corporate interests."

Really delighted to welcome @adamharangozo.bsky.social to LSE @lselibrary.bsky.social as our new *Wikimedian in Residence* and research visibility champion - crucial roles for raising awareness and understanding of #SocialScience #SHAPE in a world where trusted (and trust in) #research is crucial.

Delighted to share that we have appointed @adamharangozo.bsky.social as Wikimedian in Residence & Research Visibility Champion at @lselibrary.bsky.social. Our exciting new venture will raise awareness & understanding of social science, support open scholarship and develop training resources.

Prologue was Béla Tarr's contribution to the Visions of Europe anthology. Shot in 2004, the same year Hungary joined the EU, it's a sobering one-shot look at what "being European" really means, at the hollowness where there should be a beating heart.

Wiki entries on medical & health-related topics are generally accurate & reliably sourced. However, other aspects aren’t so straightforward. Adam Harangozó shares insights from his experience as Wikimedian In Residence at the National Institute for Health & Care Research: More: tinyurl.com/2c2xjhbm

Researchers can recognize a reliable source of information, making them ideal contributors to Wikipedia, the free global online encyclopaedia https://go.nature.com/3D5G0Zi

Nuanced and expressive take on Gaza in comics form. read the short comic: www.theguardian.com/world/pictur... #comics #gaza #israel #maus

The Angriest Dog in the World by David Lynch

Join us and the Archaeology Data Service to create connections between Wikipedia articles & archaeological research. Whether you're a seasoned Wikipedian or new to editing, you'll learn how digital fingerprints make archaeological knowledge discoverable. https://buff.ly/3WpUtGe #archeology #data

Proud to have co-facilitated the workshop for this with @tatjana-baleta.bsky.social The resulting article is the work of a great group of experts, enthusiastic about sharing important climate change and health info on Wikipedia.

No doubt, Zuckerberg ditching Meta factchecking to please Trump is shameless. Meta will become evermore like fascoid cesspit, X. But it's also beyond time to retire liberal stories about disinfo & fact checking as a weapon against fascism. @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/01/07/f...

Very harmful practice. One person dies (who stopped taking the meds) so millions need to be scared about a side effect emphasised in the patient leaflet. How many people who might need help won't trust SSRIs as a result? Also, shouldn't @theguardian.com have put this in a more critical frame?

The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information. Why do they hate it so much?