⏰⏰⏰LAST CALL⏰⏰⏰ Today is the very last day for proposals for the @uksg.bsky.social 2027 conference - submissions close at midnight UK time. www.uksg.org/annualconfer...

PSA 📢 the deadline to submit a proposal for #UKSG2027 is 17 July! So if you have an idea for plenary, a breakout session, workshop or lightning talk, don't delay, submit today! 🔗 www.uksg.org/annualconfer...

From reviewing @countermetrics.bsky.social 2026 conference to thinking about @uksg.bsky.social 2027. You've got until this Friday, the 17th of July, to get your proposals in! www.uksg.org/annualconfer...

It's true, I can't draw. But I can explain why dates in @countermetrics.bsky.social reports need to be text strings and not in Excel's date format, and that's what today's post is about.

Love that the new Pathway to Compliance for very small publishers is now part of the main @countermetrics.bsky.social Code of Practice!

I've a Friendly Guide to COUNTER for Repositories in my long list of projects for later this year. Might have to run a poll to ask the community to prioritise things for me!

If you think we're missing bots in the @countermetrics.bsky.social repo, now you can put a pull request in. We'll be reviewing and updating the repo quarterly.

I'll be sharing news posts about the new features in R5.1.1 from @countermetrics.bsky.social over the next few days!

As well as our @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social post, we created a synthesis report about the @universitypress.cambridge.org-hosted workshop. You can find it at www.countermetrics.org/ai-workshops/

One of the questions that @tashamc.bsky.social gets fairly often is about when Release 5 will be retired. It depends on what you mean by retired, so she's put up a post to explain: www.countermetrics.org/retire-r5/

I had forgotten how much pleasure a spirograph can provide - excellent desk toy, highly recommended.

Don't forget to submit a proposal for @uksg.bsky.social 2027! The conference is in Glasgow from 5-7 April. We love proposals that give us something to take back to our day jobs, whether that's a hot tip on managing up or practical suggestions for setting AI policy. www.uksg.org/news/2026/05...

Personal achievement finally unlocked: 80kg deadlift! I'm getting a cheese toastie on the beach to celebrate. And to provide sufficient calories to get home.

If you're involved with metrics aggregation, please do take a look and share your feedback on the latest @countermetrics.bsky.social consultation.

I'd not expected quite this level of participation in the @countermetrics.bsky.social conference. Love this community!

One of the best reflections of why the knowledge community needs to come together in spaces like @uksg.bsky.social and not stick to our silos, from Dr Tiberius Ignat: www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...

@countermetrics.bsky.social conference is over for another year, and I'm celebrating a cracking event with a glass of wine and my comfiest hoodie!

HUGE credit to the @countermetrics.bsky.social education committee for putting together a fantastic programme!

@uksg.bsky.social conference videos are live, and the @countermetrics.bsky.social conference is happening this afternoon, so there's lots of new information for me to get my teeth into!

Always good to talk to Becky, but I particularly appreciated that she sent me the questions ahead of time so I could think about my answers instead of responding on the fly!

There have been a couple of press releases this week about @countermetrics.bsky.social compliance (or "conformance", which is a new one on me). To the lovely librarians asking me whether those publishers are actually compliant, this reminder is for you!

New tech support post today: how can text and data mining activity be audited? www.countermetrics.org/tdm-audit/

We've had a question about COUNTER and GDPR, and what can or cannot be shared between data centres in different jurisdictions. Check out the answer on today's post: www.countermetrics.org/usage-gdpr/

After a fab day in London with @uksg.bsky.social, it's about time I share the call for topics for the 2027 (!) conference. 2027 is our 50th anniversary and we've got cracking plans to make the conference better than ever, so get your skates on and submit a proposal! www.uksg.org/annualconfer...

📣📣"demanding perfect reproducibility from AI tools while accepting opaque results from legacy systems is in some respects a double standard that deserves a bit more examination"📣📣 Thanks @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/05/22/g...

I enjoyed playing with Datawrapper to create the interactive map on the @countermetrics.bsky.social website! www.countermetrics.org/footprint-26/

There's a lovely quote from Heather Loehr on the @countermetrics.bsky.social news page today, reflecting on her time with the Board. We're lucky to have had her insight and advice for 6 years! www.countermetrics.org/quoting-heat...

@countermetrics.bsky.social newsletter is as packed as usual, with best practices, a link to register for the free members-only Conference, and more.

Figuring out how to report usage when 1 person can be tied to multiple institutions was surprisingly tough. My definition of compromise definitely came into play: everyone left our discussions equally aggrieved! Provided they were annoyed with me, not each other, I'm fine with that 😉

Two down, one to go! The 2nd of 3 best practices we were working on simultaneously went live this morning. This one, called Pathway to Compliance, was all about making it possible for smaller publishers to get on board with @countermetrics.bsky.social

If you're looking for the context behind @countermetrics.bsky.social new AI guidelines, this @researchinfo.bsky.social article is for you!

This has been a massive project for me and for @countermetrics.bsky.social generally. I'm really proud to see our AI usage guidelines go live today!

A quick reminder that the deadline for proposals for the COUNTER conference is this Friday. If you've got an idea you'd like to talk about then do submit it. And if there's someone you want to hear from then do encourage them too. www.countermetrics.org/conference-p...

Day two at #uksg2026. If you've not already swung by @countermetrics.bsky.social at booth 46, come and find us to help eat all the chocolates I bought with me!

Well-written piece in @theguardian.com today from David Davidi-Brown, responding to the antisemitic attack in London last night which destroyed four ambulances. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Thread to follow written as me, not representing any organisation... [1]

📣📣📣 LAST CALL📣📣📣 Today's the very last day to register for the UKSG 49th annual conference. Better get your skates on! www.uksg.org/events/confe...

Talk about context switching! This morning I drafted @countermetrics.bsky.social best practice on #AI usage reporting. At lunch I moved 800kg of garden stepping stones from the front yard, through the house, down the stairs, and into my garden. Next: #OA workflows with @nisoinfo.bsky.social. 😵‍💫

Chaos monkey vibes as envisioned by AI, courtsey of my oldest friend.

Does the world need another me? I'd say probably not the chaos monkey vibes, but we definitely could use more people who care about @uksg.bsky.social and want to help us succeed. If that's you, consider standing as a trustee!

Continuing my tour through the conference themes at @uksg.bsky.social 2026, we have open educational resources and pedagogy. I'm particularly interested in the OER and open books session! www.uksg.org/events/confe...

Inspired by Jeff Lang on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social , I finally wrote out my thoughts about why #FAIR isn't fair unless it includes Preservation. www.linkedin.com/pulse/fair-n...

Yesterday's @uksg.bsky.social Conference theme of the day was AI and misinformation, so today has to be research integrity and trust. I'm looking forward to the session about community building and trust with @orcid.org and @jisc.bsky.social! www.uksg.org/events/confe...

Any 2026 conference worth its salt needs to showcase AI! @uksg.bsky.social has a whole theme on AI, misinformation & emerging technologies. Register at www.uksg.org/events/confe... to join us ps Whatever's keeping CISOs and librarians up at night, may I suggest valerian tea as an antidote?

The UKSG Merriman Award offers a library /information professional the chance to attend both the NASIG Conference (Madison, WI) and the UKSG Conference (Glasgow). Applications close 15 Feb 2026 Find out more and apply: www.uksg.org/merriman/

If you aren't interested in research infrastructure, how about leadership and career development @uksg.bsky.social #UKSG2026? I'm looking forward to debate club! Register at www.uksg.org/events/confe...

Are you going to be @uksg.bsky.social Annual Conference? To make it easier to plan your days we've curated session themes. I'm speaking for @countermetrics.bsky.social in the research infrastructure theme! Register at www.uksg.org/events/confe...

📣 New COUNTER listserv📣 A new space to discuss issues related to @countermetrics.bsky.social, from the Code of Practice, publisher implementations, library uses, supportive technologies, and more. Join at www.countermetrics.org/listserv/

Don't wait any longer - there are only *two* exhibit places left for #UKSG2026! Looking forward to welcoming everyone back to Glasgow in March :)

Collaboration is key! I'm taking @countermetrics.bsky.social usage expertise & recent work on AI to @nisoinfo.bsky.social. We've extended the AI metrics consultation to 23-Feb (after NISO+), so you've got extra time to consider the proposals. More at www.countermetrics.org/niso-ai/

Since Jan 1 2025, which feels like four trillion years ago, research has been shared on here 5 million whole-ass times. Bluesky recently passed 2 billion posts IN TOTAL. So 0.25% of the entire site's traffic was citations to research. That is actually massively high. Is it? Yes. Here's why.