I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Likely of little interest, but thought I'd share that yesterday I put up a little weather station in my garden. I now have data to prove it's mild, grey and rainy. preview.wunderground.com/dashboard/pw...

The 10th anniversary edition of the State of Open Data report shows open data has become strongly embedded into research practice with FAIR awareness now widely recognised & AI is reshaping workflows: spklr.io/6332984LsH #OpenData #OpenScience @digital-science.com @figshare.com

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Great research does not come free. "Throughout history, laureates have given us the blue LEDs that light our phones, fiber optic cables that carry internet traffic, and neural networks that power artificial intelligence... there's another unsung winner: federal funding." www.aps.org/apsnews/2025...

Congratulations to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis for winning the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit. journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... [Free access]

⏳ One week to go! OSFair2025 starts on 15 Sept at @cern.bsky.social Science Gateway! 3 days of keynotes, debates, workshops & demos, all shaping the future of Open Science. #OSFair2025 #OpenScience #Research #CERN #OpenAIRE @openaire.bsky.social

looking forward to Science and Technology Indicators conference in #Bristol this week! @stienid2025.bsky.social

PRX Energy is piloting transparent peer review. This will help us develop our open peer-review processes for our journals. Find out more and take part. - journals.aps.org/prxenergy/20...

Nice article on the path to Open Science. "If it is our aim as a discipline to create a lasting impact, we need to conduct research with reliable findings, which requires exposing ourselves to open science practices." #openscience link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Many authors don't share data, even when encouraged or asked to. Data statement requirements are often misunderstood and revert to 'On reasonable request'. How can we improve this? Is the importance of Open Data getting to researchers and do they know how? Whose job is it to 'enforce'? #OpenScience

NIH to cap APC fees. Where will they put the line? Feels likely to push more institutions/publishers into doing read and publish agreements across America, and cause issues for high quality / high threshold journals that have higher APCs. www.nih.gov/news-events/...

OSTP have published a new memo in response to the 'Gold Standard Science' order. www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

📢 Good news! The sponsorship application deadline for #OSFair2025 has been extended to June 15! Support #OpenScience and boost your visibility in the global research community. 🔗 www.opensciencefair.eu/2025/call-fo... @openaire.bsky.social @cern.bsky.social

#OpenScience in Canada - practicing or just curious ? Join us at #osCanada2025 — Abstracts due *June 30* for the 1st Canadian Conference on Open Science and Open Scholarship — Oct 9-10 in Montreal oscanada.github.io Cc @kbyers.bsky.social

Researchers publishing in @apsphysics.bsky.social journals will now receive a DOI for their article immediately upon acceptance, allowing for improved discoverability and citation of their work.

Wonderful initiative to boost metadata uptake!

Europe Unveils $565 Million Plan to Attract Scientists From U.S. as Trump Defunds Basic Research "Europe will always choose science," said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. gizmodo.com/europe-unvei... Their gain, U.S. loss.

The first SCOAP3 assessment of open science practices gave our journals high marks. A review of @PhysRevLetters, @PhysRevC, and @PhysRevD earned nearly double the total score of the next-highest publisher, showing our commitment to #OpenScience. 🔗 www.aps.org/about/news/2... @cern.bsky.social

@apsphysics.bsky.social earns the top score in @cern.bsky.social / SCOAP3 Open Science metrics - measuring and promoting open science initiatives in physics. www.aps.org/about/news/2...

PIDs for all! scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/10/n...

@cern.bsky.social have announced the SCOAP3 Open Science Elements results for 2025. Physical Review journals have scored very highly, showcasing @apsphysics.bsky.social ongoing commitment to Open Science initiatives in publishing. PIDs, Metadata, Data, Accessibility, more. scoap3.org/journals-202...

“Everybody in math and physics uses it.” Nearly 35 years ago, Paul Ginsparg created arXiv, a digital repository for sharing research. It changed science for good. Three decades in, Ginsparg reflects on its legacy—and its future.

Perhaps most importantly, when you support arXiv, you support . . . your own work! 🧑🏻‍🔬 arXiv promotes scientific advancement by making it fast, easy, & free for you to share your research & discover new science every single day. 🤓📬🌞 #openscience https://givingday.cornell.edu/campaigns/arxiv

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

As part of the Munin Committee, I’m excited to share the 20th Munin Conference (Nov 18-20, 2025) in Tromsø! 🌍❄️ Submit papers on Open Science, Indigenous rights in research, transparency, and more! 📅 Deadline: June 8, 2025 #Munin2025 #OpenScience #ScholarlyPublishing #Research #CallForPapers #Tromsø

A message from the American Physical Society. APS campaign to protect science and support physicists. www.aps.org/about/news/2...

Folks, #StormEowyn is no joke; this will be a major event through its track, with 100mph+ gusting winds through the day. Stay safe out there, have your supplies, torches, coats at hand especially in rural locations. The light pink is over 100mph.

BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce: We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky! We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct. Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions. Let's get into it!

For my first post, a little note that journals.aps.org has just been upgraded with a slew of accessibility features to make the experience easier for readers with a wide range of needs. We'll be continuing our work in this space and ensuring our journals are published to the highest standards.