As noted in the piece, "We need to rethink the ecosystem, and the incentives that are applied...Too many submissions are funnelled through a limited pool of reviewers, creating unsustainable workloads and threatening the effectiveness, speed and fairness of peer review."

This one might cause many of us to clutch our pearls. www.axios.com/2025/11/12/c...

Legal filing with the Supreme Court by Copyright Office's Sherla Perlmutter seeks to overturn her removal by current administration. rollcall.com/2025/11/10/c...

Reformation of Science Publishing: "It is high time to reevaluate current publishing models and outline a global plan" that over time will ensure trustworthiness and integrity. Worth a read. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

IT’S ELECTION DAY, AMERICA! Remember to get out and VOTE!!!

British Library Chief Executive steps down after less than a year: www.bl.uk/about/press/...

It's not about agreeing with it or disagreeing with it. This is a must-read. It's indicative of a particular mindset associated with preparing for an AI-driven digital information environment.

Catch the replay of Delta Think’s 2025 Market Sizing Update and dig into the data behind shifting business models and what’s next for OA. 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lcU... Stay ahead of the trends — subscribe to DAT for continuous insights and updates. #OA #ScholComm #DeltaThinkData

Oxford University Press announces agreement to acquire Karger www.researchinformation.info/news/oxford-...

This does not surprise me at all. What did surprise me was someone at lunch saying he didn't realize that #scholarlypublishing was having to spend so much time and effort weeding out fake #AI generated papers. & arXiv has fewer staff to deal with this than groups such as Springer Nature Publishing.

Quote: "This generation of AI is the most transformative technology we’ve seen since the Internet, and it’s enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before." Well, that's one way of rationalizing it.

"In this constellation, bioRxiv & medRxiv serve organizing and empowering functions for bringing the ecosystem together linking with repositories, data stores, open APIs, and supporting platforms for replication, verification, validation, and peer review" curvenote.com/blog/czi-ope...

Congratulations, Jason! opensciencehardware.org/2025/10/oshf...

Scroll past this if you're avoiding political posts, but this is the interview with Steve Bannon that The Economist did. Speed ahead to the roughly 6 minute point. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijf7...). Words fail me, but horror, shock, outrage, are all churning about.

We join others in mourning the loss of Dr. Greg Newby, Project Gutenberg’s leader. We are indebted to @gutenberg.org 's essential and historic role to make published materials available online and to Greg's leadership for helping digital libraries evolve and thrive throughout the decades.

While the headline is confrontational, the body of the piece is a constructive form of engagement, re Vanderbilt University and response to the "Compact" vanderbilthustler.com/2025/10/22/r...

This is the emergent "next step" for mainstream users. Do we need AI browsers? How do they aid the user? What are the pitfalls? Read the piece (gift article) from the Wall Street Journal.

Hi, we would really like to grow our following a little here in the skyblue realm. If you think you have followers who might appreciate our posting of beautiful and interesting books please do consider reposting this so they can consider giving us a follow. Thank you...

Can't decide how I feel about this one: www.axios.com/2025/10/21/o... Is it necessary? Or is it just bells and whistles to disguise shortcomings of the technology?

That's quite a lot.

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

Read this one from the NYTimes. At least this guy is trying to do something approximating the right thing. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

So @missfreda.bsky.social and I have discussed this and decided Paul McCartney’s Frog’s Chorus needs to get trending. ‘We all stand together’. An anti-fascist anthem if ever there was one ✊🐸 youtu.be/6PMiP90ntZ8?...

Billerica Unitarian church gets in the spirit of Good Trouble. #nokings #massimpact

We've been shaped so strongly by Star Trek and how fictional characters engaged with technology. They're trying to replicate the experience. *sigh* www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

⏳Just a few days left to comment on the draft of our #OpenAccess Business Processes Recommended Practice! Access the draft on our website, review comments made to date, and leave your own feedback by Friday, October 17: niso.org/standards-co... #OA #standards

For the past four years, Silverchair & Hum have collaborated with leaders to track the shifting landscape of scholarly publishing technology. As we prepare the 2026 report, we took a look at what patterns have emerged. https://www.silverchair.com/news/four-years-of-scholarly-publishing-tech-trends/

Let's Go, you fighting Quakers! Penn Rejects White House Proposal for special funding treatment. www.thedp.com/article/2025...

Truly remarkable story.

Good move. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The AI Ouroboros prospect.org/power/2025-1...

Digital Science today announces that Altmetric has added a new attention source: Podcasts. Altmetric is the first in the world to include podcasts amon tis measures of research impact. www.digital-science.com/blog/2025/10...

"Unlike closed ecosystems that require researchers to adopt proprietary tools, Wiley AI Gateway prioritizes intentional interoperability, seamlessly integrating scholarly content and data subscriptions with today’s leading AI platforms." newsroom.wiley.com/press-releas...

🧵 The Open Book Collective is pleased to announce publication of our new report: Collective funding models for open access books: Librarians’ experiences and barriers to participation across six European contexts openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/report-o...

Folks, if you follow me, I check out your thread. If all I see there are repostings and nothing in your own voice -- then I am going to assume you're a 'bot and block you. Why do people here use the same bad habits encountered on other social platforms. Try To Be Authentic. You're pissing me off.

it’s delightful to be receiving this book when i’m wrestling with another essay about close reading because opening to virtually any page of this book and reading some or all of is a guaranteed win, clarifying and inspiring!

B&T is a book distribution company that has been around for more than a century in support of public libraries book acquisition and collection management. That they are closing on such very, very short notice is creating new pressures on both libraries and other vendors in the space. Bad news.

I wrote about the “compact” for higher education newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Quote: "The new policy thus recognizes the importance of peer review, but as a process in which authors receive and respond to feedback from other experts, rather than as a certification decision by a journal editor based on this." Read the full thing. openrxiv.org/preprint-man...

In the category of good things entering the world of ideas: this smart and beautifully conceived collection of essays close reading superlative close readings from @johannawinant.bsky.social @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social from @princetonupress.bsky.social

A riddle for @theguardian.com books page. p.s. My new book 'Physics for Cats' is out this week in bookshops and online. Details at www.tomgauld.com

This is interesting. Well, interesting may not be the right word. It's worth consideration by those concerned with how information is packaged and processed. 24/7 might not have been a good model to adopt. news.gallup.com/poll/695762/...

BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

Remarkable story. My takeaway has to do with the time required to properly assess the place and value of a work of art and how that is threatened in an age of acceleration. newrepublic.com/article/2010...

‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... Changing the rules on grad students mid-stream.

As you sip this morning's Pumpkin Spice latte, read this essay on the nature of the Gothic (culturedump.substack.com/p/defining-g...) A nice autumnal vibe.

The alarm bells are ringing for EU basic research funding www.leru.org/news/eu-basi...

Also interesting. Crossref is seeking input on two questions having to do with registering DOIs. www.crossref.org/blog/innovat...

This is an interesting write-up as a benchmark for where we currently are with AI and robots. Watch the video that is included. www.skild.ai/blogs/omni-b... Yes, we're talking about technological tools and the tool is good or bad depending upon who is operating it, but the thing requires thought.