Exhibition - Red Easterhouse: Building a people's archive. Stories of collective struggle in greater Easterhouse.  The Easterhouse Living Archive is an ongoing community project to unearth, preserve and engage with the working class histories and struggles of Easterhouse..

"We presented a new problem posed by Open Access agreements: the phenomenon of value extraction, whereby institutional APC coverage for publication in major journals is leveraged to secure authorship in the absence of substantive intellectual contribution"

This is awful, horrible. I'm so sorry - for you, for the students, and for all of us. It looks like it was a magnificent, carefully, thoughtfully tailored course.

Interested in Caroline Minuscule or in things Celtic or in Alfred the Great? Then come and hear Dr Jason Chess at the latest London Palaeography Seminar @ies-sas.bsky.social: Tuesday 28th April, 5:30pm. Book here for in person or online attendance: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

The most famous warm-up in football history. On this day in 1989, Napoli faced Bayern Munich at Olimpiastadion in Munich and Diego (inadvertently) created a piece of art for the ages 🥹

Good piece. “If your problem with open access is that commercial publishers are hoovering up all the money, design open access interventions that specifically prevent commercial publishers from receiving your money.”

Got lots of @radicalglasgowtour.bsky.social tours coming up this month including a new Migrants Made Glasgow tour and some Revolutionary Glasgow tours as part of the Glasgow Trades Council's May Day programme radicalglasgowtours.com

It is great to see these principles on open monograph acquisition from RLUK. My only criticism is of "there should be evidence that the initiative is financially viable (or established for at least two years)". So how are new models supposed to start? www.rluk.ac.uk/shared-princ...

New: France said it plans to move its government computers currently running Windows to the open-source software Linux to further reduce its reliance on U.S. tech. Comes at a time of growing instability and unpredictability on the part of the Trump administration and weaponization of sanctions, etc.

Today is (the very first) National Black Bookstore day! Celebrate with a treat from a Black-owned indie bookstore. Brittany Allen lithub.com/today-is-the... #books #literature #blacklivesmatter #NationalBlackBookstoreDay

Miranda's short thread makes excellent points, particularly about how Substack's whole game is locking in you & your audience. If you're looking for more alternatives & how to move to something better (maybe Buttondown or Ghost?), here's a website with options & ways to migrate.

Decided to start logging and perhaps reviewing my reading here. This'll cheer you up no end when it's raining outside. Best read with a glass of water they couldn't keep the dust off.

It's me in the Financial Times, detailing the deep and pernicious influence of one-size-fits-all management consultancy in our universities... Take a look! 👇 www.ft.com/content/5032...

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All finished! The full text of my presentation is available at opensauce.simonxix.com/eor2025/ #UKSG2026

Job opportunity: Curator (European Art) at Glasgow Life in Glasgow, UK myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/gla...

The two types of librarian conflict management as illustrated by Richard Scarry. Which are you?

For all the @warburginstitute.bsky.social fans out there…

Thanks to the efforts of the international ai haters union, specifically @valluanino.it, I Am An AI Hater has now been translated into Italian. Pretty sure my Sicilian grandfather would have been pleased. Solo noi esseri umani siamo in grado di odiare. Rivendico la mia umanità.

So I discovered that the bagpipe song I really like times perfectly with the Napoleon Dynamite dance. Then a bunch of other stuff happened and I am so sorry but this exists now and I'm far less sorry than previously implied.

📢Job alert! We’re looking for 3 new full-time graduate trainee Archives & Special Collections Assistants to join our innovative, user-focused engagement team. See more details and apply: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/archives... 🗓️Closing date: 16 April 2026

With Gaza's Libraries in Ruins, Palestinians Fight to Preserve Historical Memory #archives #library 📚 truthout.org/articles/wit...

Very excited to be involved in organising an upcoming PGR-led Symposium hosted at @glasgow.ac.uk on 11th June 2026 with some really talented peope, titled 'A Kingdom in Perplexity: Voices from Seventeenth Century Scotland'. Do give us a follow @scot17thcentury.bsky.social

I’m out here now on the roof. Look! I had to get nearer the sky, For the city was too full of rooms And I can’t be content with a window… —Margaret Tait, “A Poem for a Morning” from Margaret Tait: poems, stories & writings, @carcanet.bsky.social 2012 #poem #poetry www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017379...

I'm so delighted to be involved in setting up a symposium on 17th C Scotland. It now has a @bsky.app presence. Early-modern researchers, please give us a wee follow, and consider joining us on 11 June @scot17thcentury.bsky.social

Don't use Zoom.

Join Thoth & @copim.bsky.social at #UKSG2026. Take a look at the programme for sessions we'll be speaking at, and come and find us at stand no. 66 👉 buff.ly/faReDap Plus we're hosting the legendary #CopimCorner on Monday 30 March - all welcome! 📚 🤝 🍻

Star Formation xkcd.com/3222/

RLUK's new principles call for collective funding, not-for-profit governance protected from commercial acquisition, bibliodiversity, and transparency. For us here at the OBC, these principles are at the core of our operating model. 📚 #OpenAccess #DiamondOA

Ah yes so I did

The Ghost of White Hart Lane, a play about John White, is coming to Musselburgh (near Edinburgh) this summer. www.tickettailor.com/events/musse...

Currently reading one of Jane Jacobs' lesser known books, written decades after Death and Life. Her loathing for cars (and Robert Moses) did not diminish with age. "Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities."

When a Community Comes Together: People Power and the Lessons of Kenmure Street by Gerry Hassan bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/03/19/w...

Hey everyone, a collective I'm part of is starting a radical bookshop and community space in Newcastle, a city where the last radical bookshop closed around 40 years ago. We've just launched our crowdfunder. Please take a look a share widely! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

We are HIRING! The Open Library of Humanities is seeking a PhD student to assist with editorial, marketing and technical duties. The position is fully funded and open to funded PhD students at CHASE institutions. Deadline 📅 31/03: www.openlibhums.org/news/883/

I've been given this graphic to promote my upcoming lightning talk at UKSG 2026 in Glasgow so please look at this graphic and, if you're attending the conference, come to the session.

Thursday this week is the deadline for comments on Historic Environment Scotland's proposal to designate the site of the first Hampden Park as a scheduled monument - giving formal protection to a key football heritage site. All the info you need is at portal.historicenvironment.scot/apex/f?p=150...

On today's episode of "Instantly Believeable"...

#OTD 13 March 1873 the Scottish Football Association was founded at Dewar's Temperance Hotel in Glasgow, where eight clubs resolved to 'form themselves into an association for the promotion of football according to the rules of the Football Association'. www.scottishsporthistory.com/sports-histo...

Today in academic publishing nuttiness: I went to look for a book from 2010 from U Penn Press on a relatively popular topic. It's available at $60 in hardcover and ebook. No paperback. Went to look for the author's newer book from U Iowa Press. $85 paperback or ebook. What are we doing here?

We are delighted to share an update from the second project funded by our Collective Development Fund in 2025: 'Knowledge accessible to the community’: CLACSO as a platform to democratize scholarly publishing in Latin America and the Caribbean’ obc.copim.pub/update-on-cd... #OABooks

#OTD 11 March 1936, death of Robert Walker, pioneering black football player. Born in Sierra Leone, raised near Dumfries, a Scottish Cup finalist in 1876 with Third Lanark, team mate of Andrew Watson at Parkgrove, a fascinating character. www.scottishsporthistory.com/sports-histo...

1 of 5 If you care that #scotsfoundedfootball then take yourself along to tinyurl.com/2x6r453u The Historic Environment Scotland page which is ‘seeking your views on a proposal to designate the remains of First Hampden...’ This matters, for many reasons. Note that it is for ‘scheduling’.

I did a conference presentation about a year ago about community-owned infrastructure for library systems, a better alternative to pissing money away paying private companies, and one of the questions afterwards was "But how do you scale that?" My answer was, "You don't."

With support from OBC's Collective Development Fund, Professor Tilahun Shiferaw and his team at Haramaya University is transforming how Ethiopian universities understand and adopt open book access, through efforts from policy to multilingual publishing. #OpenAccess #AcademicSky Read his update 👇

Are you a doctoral researcher in Arts & Humanities in Scotland? Apply to showcase your research at our 2026 Research Showcase. ✨ ✔ Up to £1000 funding ✔ Creative formats welcome ✔ Open to all PhDs at SGSAH member institutions Apply by 27th March ⏳ 🔗 Full details: www.sgsah.ac.uk/about/news/h...

A landmark day today for the British Newspaper Archive, which has reached an astonishing 100 million pages with the addition of several years of the Dundee Courier. It is my go-to place for any kind of research, whether sport or genealogy. www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

Interesting wee project on Hibs history, to write a biography of every player from the early years. I've enjoyed doing a few of these, more volunteers are needed! If you are interested, email is in the image.

Repair Manifesto: If we can't fix it, we don't own it. - Repair is better than recycling. - Repair saves us money. - Repair teaches basic engineering. - Repair saves the planet. - Repair connects people and things. - Repair is sustainable. #Minimalism