🐾 August 8th is the International Cat Day, perfect timing to share the stories of two cats who made history as research paper authors, earning a surprising number of citations. Read more in my new blog, "Cite Me Not": : open.substack.com/pub/vergouli...

Today Thessaloniki is welcoming all researchers for the #elixir25 All Hands Meeting. Can’t wait to share insights in my upcoming talk, "Cracking the Code: Tackling the Challenges of Estimating the Impact of Research Software," on June 4th! Check the agenda for more details. 😎

🚀 The #WOOC2025 Short Talk session is live! 🔬 Ioanna Grypari on PathOS and real-world OS impacts 🏛️ Nees Jan Van Eck on affiliation accuracy in OpenAlex/OpenAIRE 📚 Tomasz Umerle and Angelo Di Iorio on OpenCitations & SSH 🔎 Thanasis Vergoulis on GraspOS for research assessment

It was a pleasure to present the GraspOS (graspos.eu) infrastructure, designed to enhance the discoverability of open resources for responsible research assessment, in this majestic room, as part of the Workshop on Open Citations & Open Scholarly Metadata (WOOC '25). #openInfrastructures

🧵 Really happy to contribute to the release of RA-SKG (skg-if.github.io/ext-ra-skg/), the first SKG-IF model (skg-if.github.io) extension, focusing on supporting missing concepts that are important for research assessment. SKG-IF is a metadata standard for the interoperability of Scientific [1/2]

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the International Day of Girls and Women in Science. Several exciting events are being organized around this occasion. One I’m looking forward to attending is a webinar by Science Europe starting in just a few minutes! www.scienceeurope.org/events/women...

Connecting the Dots: The Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information – Openness of research information as a prerequisite for research assessment reform graspos.eu/connecting-t... @barcelonadori.bsky.social @vergoulis.bsky.social @jpolonen.bsky.social

Connecting the Dots: The Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information – Openness of research information as a prerequisite for research assessment reform graspos.eu/connecting-t... with contributions from @msphelps.bsky.social @vergoulis.bsky.social @jpolonen.bsky.social #GraspOS #CoARA

Hello world! After >14y on Twitter, I’ve come to feel that, in its current state, it no longer offers me the joy it once did. Most of the interesting voices I used to follow are now on BlueSky (sometimes exclusively). Hence, from now on, I'll also start using this platform for sharing my thoughts.