We had the opportunity to interview @kaythaney.bsky.social on the importance of #OpenAccess in research. Her insights highlight how open access can drive innovation and collaboration. Read the full interview: spkl.io/63329AgP65#OpenAccess #Research #AcademicPublishing #Innovation

Our end-of-year report is here! Read about what we've achieved and how we can work together in the coming year. Explore the full report: investinopen.org/blog/what-we...

At IOI, we believe lasting open infrastructure needs more than funding — it needs strategy, governance, and collaboration. Through the IOI Fund for Network Adoption, we’re partnering with LA Referencia and UbuntuNet Alliance to strengthen open research. Learn more investinopen.org/blog/beyond-...

The best guide to spotting AI writing comes from @wikipedia.org techcrunch.com/2025/11/20/t... via @techcrunch

Exciting news! LA Referencia and UbuntuNet Alliance have been selected as the first grantees of the IOI Fund for Network Adoption, with each receiving up to $1.5M in funding to expand open infrastructure for research across 35+ countries. Learn more: investinopen.org/blog/empower...

🌟 Exciting news: The inaugural grantees of the Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) Fund for Network Adoption are: LA Referencia (Latin America) & UbuntuNet Alliance (Africa). Digital Science is proud to be a founding contributor to the IOI Fund. 🔗 See more: https://ow.ly/jIua50XsX0j

Library consortia are key architects of resilient scholarly infrastructure. Our latest ORBIT report explores how US consortia are shaping the future of open infrastructure — from hosting shared systems to coordinating funding and building collective capacity. More investinopen.org/blog/how-lib...

Open and commercial don’t have to be at odds. At the recent #OSFair2025, IOI’s Emma Green led a panel exploring how bridging open and commercial perspectives can create more sustainable research infrastructure. Read the recap

If you’re not on @openstreetmap.bsky.social do you even exist? 😆 Well, now the Internet Archive Europe is officially on and off line! 🙌 Come visit us when we have reading room hours and open events. Stay tuned for more into about that later on.

Colbert nailed Brendan Carr right between the eyes.

At this #ALPSP2025 session on community engagement in academic publishing, @samuelmoore.org & @copim.bsky.social's work on 'scaling small' raised by @kaythaney.bsky.social in response to a question about how to 'scale' community engagement 👏 Find out more: www.westminsterpapers.org/article/id/9...

"It suggests that developing a commons-based, scholar-led publishing landscape through [presses] managed by working academics cld offer a productive counterpoint to marketised systems of open access + subscription publishing [—] a counter-hegemonic project based on mutual reliance and care"

Welcome news. share.inquirer.com/cNbytQ

I tested it in Primo Research Assistant, not surprising, I got similar results since Summon Research Assistant is sister product and both work the same by using LLM to generate Boolean search strategy. Gaza war shows no results. Tusla Race riots get a scary error message but does generate answer(1)

Just read this - it was shared on LinkedIn. ‘To my users, “we couldn’t generate an answer for your question” translates to “your topic is not worthy of pursuing—change it.”’ While it’s nice to think that students will come & ask when they don’t find results, many won’t. And the blocking of content…

This.

Do not let any LLM serve as a form of epistemic grounding for society.

“In 2021, basic science funding from the US federal government was almost $50 billion. By contrast, philanthropy provided approximately $5 billion each to universities + to nonprofit research institutes.” More from Adam Falk, recent pres of the Sloan Foundation 👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Just found an AMAZING mystery 2015 spreadsheet in my files: "Productivity Loss for Anything in the Universe," WITH citations. I could not for the life of me figure out why I had this data. AND THEN I saw it: a sadly incomplete project w/ @kaythaney.bsky.social on the economic cost of mansplaining

Tonight NYC recorded two inches of rain in less than an hour — for only the 6th time in city history. (Central Park records begin in 1869.) The city's drainage system is built to handle just 1.75"/hour. Increasing rainfall intensity is one of the most damaging aspects of climate change.

CoRAMM is a new open-source repository co-created with Mapuche women in Chile, preserving their stories, history, and ancestral knowledge. Powered by IOI's Open Infrastructure Fund, this project blends tech and tradition to serve generations to come. Read more: investinopen.org/blog/highlig...

Dr. Carla Hayden has landed w/ @mellon.org as a Senior Fellow ... www.mellon.org/news/mellon-...

If you're looking to counter a friend or family member's misconceptions about Zohran Mamdani, we did a convenient rundown debunking all the smears (so far):

When canceling hundreds of grants in an anti-"DEI" crusade, NIH officials couldn't even define the acronym, a federal judge found. It was just a "boogeyman." That and more in my legal roundup @AllRiseNews.com www.allrisenews.com/p/trump-inva...

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has not yet rescinded directives that led to the cancellation of more than 2,400 research projects it funded, NIH staff members say, even though a US judge last week ruled the directives illegal. https://go.nature.com/46jAe2u

"If the United States seeks faster breakthroughs, it must simultaneously consider ways to open the system to wider participation while ensuring that the public—as providers of research funding and data—benefits from research." - @alondra.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I am exhausted from these extractionary practices.

Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"

How are US research institutions preparing for public access? We worked with 25 institutions & just published: 📄 Survey summary 🗺️ 25+ sponsored project workflows 📘 Full guide for institutions Takeaways? Libraries lead, gaps persist, workflows matter. Explore: investinopen.org/blog/reasona...

Mamdani Mayor, Lander Senator. Let’s go.

YESSSSS

As always, Sam and the Copim community’s take on the recent news from KFG about sunsetting PubPub is nuanced, informative, thoughtful — and well worth a read if you’re just catching up to some of the complexity that’s been at play for over a year. 👇

Our team is on the road! 🛣️ Lauren Collister is at #OpenRepos2025 this week! She's sharing lessons from our "Reasonable Costs for Public Access" project TODAY at 11:00am. If you're at the #UNOpenSourceWeek, please say hi to our Executive Director @kaythaney.bsky.social + Product Lead Chrys 🚀

I am wondering why Lisa Leher from the @nytimes.com did not discuss the data that suggests political violence in the US in the current era mostly comes from the right. Seems like a strange fact to ignore. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

Such a devastating loss. Atul was such a powerhouse and a joy back in the early days of Science Commons and Sage Bionetworks. My love to Gini and their family.

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

It's happening again. We have a big Memorial Day backlog. Any bioRxiv Affiliates around to screen papers, we'd be forever grateful! 🙏

A great point about how support for open source has outsized impacts.

This isn’t just another report—it’s a tool for action that brings together rigorous data analysis, expert insights, and forward-looking perspectives to inform how to invest in, adopt, and support open infrastructure across the globe.

Explore the characteristics funding dashboard: investinopen.org/data-room/ch...

We have created 2 interactive dashboards that allow you to develop your own custom analyses on our data on open infrastructure grant funding and characteristics. Explore the grant funding dashboard: investinopen.org/data-room/gr...

The report presents valuable insights from interviews with leading experts across diverse stakeholder groups in open infrastructure investment and adoption globally, tailored research by the IOI team, and thorough trend analysis on topical issues related to open infrastructure.

It’s launch day! 🚀 Check out the latest on the open technology powering research 👇

The pope isn’t on here, so I’ll post the screenshot:

Pushback works

I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.

Analysing open infrastructure funding data is a complex process. Our latest blogpost delves into the complexities of this task, highlighting challenges like data de-duplication and the intricacies of classifying grant awards. Read more in our article: investinopen.org/blog/sooi-20...