Hugh Sexey's Thing

Replace every how-to-publish panel with one on the material realities of publishing. This is where I’m at.

First evening out together without the kids for four years! Had noodles, beer and saw some lesbian ballet (Northern Ballet's 'Gentleman Jack') 10/10 evening 😍

Nah it was pretty good

7yo on kids youtube "Em look, they're making a chocolate QR code!"

My partner just said "is it queer to date an AI" and I really miss the heyday of twitter where you would have been able to amuse yourself for hours reading discourse about just this type of thing

I guess that's the point of a provocation but academic authors aren't a monolithic group...

Here are my reflections on the #CopimConference - thanks again for the bursary to attend 🥰

In the first of a series from our #CopimConference bursary attendees, @meganeve.eurosky.social (Copyright & Scholarly Comms Librarian [email protected]) shares: 🧠 reflections on the event 🔜 next steps after the conference 🤝 advice on getting involved w/Copim Read & share: buff.ly/0gwiYQR

Love an endlessly adaptable vehicle for baked beans

Oh look! @alittleroad.bsky.social has posted the @copim.bsky.social 'Reflections of the Copim Conference': copim.pub/exploring-th...

Solidarity with the school librarian in this article, subject to disciplinary action and marked as a safeguarding threat for just doing her job :-(

Sometimes my partner and I try and introduce a song into the tightly controlled car playlist and it never goes down well

Join @morphss.bsky.social for their catalogue launch event and panel discussion next week! The panel of experts features @openreflections.bsky.social from our Experimental Publishing Group! 📆 Thurs, 19 March ⏲️ 3-4:30 pm GMT 📍 Online Register now! buff.ly/q3tc1UH #OpenResearch #AHSS

Tig has persuaded me it is their "birthday eve" so we can have a beer even though it is monday. Living the high life

happy mothers day - the kids are screaming at each other again and 3yo has embarked on trying to make a cake with real eggs without us noticing 🌸🍳

Watched the last epidode of Call the Midwife - end of an era!

Very much looking forward to speaking on a panel with @aileenfyfe.bsky.social and @eve.gd on 'Open Access Books: Rights, Ownership and Control' on Monday 20 April at the London Open Science & Scholarship festival! Find out more: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/...

Looking afresh at these reviewers' comments on our paper on trans disabled people, it's even more obvious that the paper was rejected because of transphobia

It is a shame when old ladies on the tram inform me that 3yo is licking the windows because then I have to make a big show of stopping her licking the windows and once she knows I don't want her to she only wants to lick the windows MORE

Only a few days after @scholtom.bsky.social informed me he had screenshotted one of my bluesky posts about wiley to use at appropriate moments, my heady days of fame have arrived

A librarian cited my thesis in their presentation and I am very happy as I assumed no one had ever read it 😂😂

Someone recommended this lovely experimental open access book at the #CopimConference and I added it to my training session on OA books today developmentserver.ravenspacepublishing.org/as-i-remembe...

The Artistic Journey: 2021: celebrated as I published one of the best books of my career. 2025: watched Anthropic steal it, with millions of others, to train its model, without compensation. 2026: watched Anthropic sell that model, an AI killing machine, to the US government. Human progress!

Particularly loud pro life guy with a Bible outside Sheffield Cathedral this morning providing vivid descriptions of what the punishment in hell would be like for women who had had abortions 😬😬

Accessibility is a shared responsibility across scholarly communications; everyone needs to ensure that it is embedded in their workflows and that resources meet the needs of disabled users #CopimConference

Still a huge queue of Harry Potter fans at Kings Cross posing with wands by the platform 9 3/4 sign!

This is what I think about when people say we need to give people "AI literacy". How do you AI literacy out of this exactly? This shows how absurd the concept is, this is what the goal of AI is for every worker.

As a PhD student studying open access and then an OA librarian I have been v disillusioned with the whole project but the work produced by Copim over the last few years has really provided something to enage with again #CopimConference

Excellent keynote by Siddharth Soni linking the colonialism of genAI to the colonialism of knowledge production now and throughout history #CopimConference

Mattermost and Nextcloud FTW. Open source infrastructure is the best infrastructure. #CopimConference

Rupert Gatti @rupertgatti.bsky.social giving the closing remarks on the trials of trying to persuade IT departments that Copim didn't want to use MS Teams

So pleased to see Siddarth Soni referencing Brian Friel in his discussion of the commons and data colonialism. Absolutely fascinating keynote at #CopimConference

Love to hear @radishpress.bsky.social talk about scholarled publishing & enthusiasm for radical wealth distrubution and taking money off billionaires to fund small presses

Second day of the #copimconference and it was nice to see the daffodils and all the kids cycling to school through the Olympic Park

Interesting first day at the @copim.bsky.social conference, hearing about all things diamond OA books - thanks team!

If you’re at #CopimConference, don’t forget to pick up one of our new stickers! 💎💎💎

Bonnie is into the new CBeebies show, Rafi the Wishing Wizard, which has great queer parent rep in that Rafi's gay dad lives in Manchester and wants to finish his fancy coffee and book in peace

Dedicated watchers of 'How to get to Heaven from Belfast' over the last few days. So good!

Why oh why am I trying to explaim the plot of Les Miserables to 7yo at bedtime?

the fish and chip shop in my parents' village is closing! devastating times

The main things that stuck with me from my GCSE history was how people used to do this to their neighbours in Nazi Germany. My history teacher really hammered it home that this is how a fascist state was upheld & I've always remembered it when I see a hotline for reporting people here. Pure evil.

“Making Innovative Collaborations with Alison Buxton feat. @emilyennis.bsky.social”, the latest episode of #CrippingRearchCulture, is now out! open.spotify.com/episode/4EQW... Transcript: shef.ac.uk/ihuman/waarc/cripping-research-culture-podcast

In the latest in a string of privacy abuses from the chatbot, Grok provided porn performer Siri Dahl's full legal name and birthdate to the public, information she'd protected until now.

DOG AT THE OLYMPICS FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS

I think it's really fun how ChatGPT responded to complaints about 4.0 not by making their LLM sound like a neutral, non-sentient tool but instead made it sound like a fully sentient asshole

"Through this special issue, we invite broader discussion on Diamond OA and its future(s), from the highly conceptual to the deeply infrastructural. What is next for Diamond OA as it oscillates between the potential for either a technocratic or community-led and commons-based future?"

Excited to hear I am going to London for the @copim.bsky.social conference next week! 🥰 can't wait to hear about all my favourite kinds of open access in person

Their "student experience" was adversely affected by the pandemic emergency? Everyone's fucking life experience was adversely affected, and millions died. The rhetoric of this being a customer service dispute is offensive.

It's telling that she was prompting chatGPT for her master's thesis research and it went right on ahead into creep mode; she did not set out looking for affirmatio and conspiracy theories.