When two years of academic work vanished with a single click www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Give PhD archive attention it deserves,’ British Library urged www.timeshighereducation.com/news/give-ph...

Given all the news about ICE in the past few weeks, can I kindly remind you all that RELX (owners of Elsevier & LexisNexis) is "mission-critical" to ICE. ICE pays RELX Group and Thomson Reuters millions of dollars for the personal data it needs to fuel its big data policing program […]

The Art of Not Letting Go: The Mondrian Trust claims a 1930 painting is still protected—citing "dual copyrights," Spanish law, and the Uruguay Round Agreements Act. Familiar playbook. None of it holds up. Full story, up now on Copyright Lately: copyrightlately.com/mondrian-pub...

Move over #DryJanuary… By Beckybarnicomics on insta.

REF 2029 downgrades research culture, restores five output limit www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ref-202...

China academic intimidation claim referred to counter-terrorism police www.bbc.com/news/article...

I’m loving the celebrity traitors, but I’ve been saying from the start that it’s such an interesting case study on unconscious bias and race. This piece by Elizabeth day articulates it better than me: theelizabethday.substack.com/p/what-celeb...

New Blog Post: 'Who owns open knowledge? The two types of licence to consider when making books open access'. For OA Week, our senior editor Lucy Barnes writes about an issue of increasing concern to libraries: the implications of different types of open licence. buff.ly/7radka2

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Patrick Vallance hits pause on Research Excellence Framework www.timeshighereducation.com/news/patrick...

‘Guard rails needed’ as big tech targets students with AI tutors www.timeshighereducation.com/news/guard-r...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... As a parent this song haunts my dreams, but I'm always up for reading about an interesting copyright case!

Amazing! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The distress call "mayday!" has nothing to do with May. It's from French [venez] m'aider "[come] help me!" Sounds made up but it's true!

Word of the Day is ‘apricate’ (17th century): to turn your face to the sun and bask in its warmth.

See my Mastodon thread for many other examples of this mistake. fediscience.org/@petersuber/... #ScholComm

CILIP is concerned that the removal, hiding, and modification of data, research and other information resources by authorities in the USA is already starting to impede the vital work of UK information professionals. Read more👇 www.cilip.org.uk/news/693964/...

In a Jisc webinar, hearing that OUP have charged Manchester Uni more than £20,000 each for two OA books. Absolutely outrageous charges, and absolutely unsurprising to hear it was OUP. A Q abt cost breakdown wasn't answered, but you can bet the prestige premium makes up a hefty chunk of that money.

NEW on Wonkhe: Can we use things we already measure to examine research culture in REF 2029? For Elizabeth Gadd there is scope to make better use of existing measures to improve research culture for everyone https://bit.ly/3ErKxWn

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/difficu... This is really sad news, I was a proud nightline volunteer throughout university and the Nightline association gave us wonderful training. I hope individual campus Nightlines can remain open.

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜 The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization. Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

Women’s claims of sexual abuse must be heard – unless they’re about master storyteller Neil Gaiman, apparently | Marina Hyde

Germany faces questions over publishing agreement with MDPI: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/germany...

Here’s something to think about as you kick off 2025: ✨We are all stardust.✨ Every atom of oxygen in our lungs, of carbon in our muscles, of calcium in our bones, of iron in our blood—was created inside a star before Earth was born. Image: NASA Hubble Space Telescope, CC BY 2.0, flickr

UKRI developing new research data policy framework: www.ukri.org/news/ukri-de...

These are exciting times for us here at Shef - a move towards a world free from unsustainable, inequitable Big Deals may just be possible after all

Are we doing it right? #NewYorkerCartoons nyer.cm/CTZvmGD 🖊️ @jasonadamk.bsky.social