I'm happy to announce the going live of the Swiss Natural History Collections portal swissnatcoll.ch, a project, I had the pleasure to contribute to over the past few years. It's hosted by @gbif.org and provides open access to biological & paleontological specimen data. youtu.be/KgHyJqWjLvo?...

I wrote some words for this.weekinsecurity.com about the security and privacy risks with AI browsers, like Perplexity's Comet and OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas, and why they should really come with enormous warning labels: "⚠️ Use at your own risk! ⚠️"

Another day another study showing that "AI assistants" do not work reliably for cognitive tasks. "Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory" www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Something I was able to experience time and time again. Leading with kindness and integrity should be normal, and not something special. "With great power comes great responsibility" is very true in supervising theses.

For #OAWeek, the OABN & @uolpress.bsky.social bring you a resource focused on how to include material that you *don't* own in your #OA book. 'Frequently Asked Questions on Third-Party Materials in Open Access Books': openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/10/22/f...

Watch the video to learn how the first project of the EU-level Copyright Infrastructure Development Network (CITF) explored how copyright data must evolve for the future. ©️✅ 💡 Want to know more? Check out the full project report and watch the #CITF seminar on Youtube! Links to both in the comments.

Our #LIBER working group on #RDM will be hosting a free #webinar on managing research software. Spread the news and join us if you have time.

Das Brainstormen kann starten: Der Call for Papers für die 114. BiblioCon 2026 ist offen 🚀 Einreichungen sind bis zum 30.11.2025 möglich. Die #BiblioCon26 findet unter dem Motto "Analog trifft Algorithmus" vom 19.-22.05.2026 in Berlin statt. 2026.bibliocon.de/call-for-pap...

EPFL, ETH Zurich, and CSCS today released Apertus, Switzerland's first large-scale, multilingual language model (LLM). As a fully open LLM, it serves as a building block for developers and organizations to create their own applications. ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

💡Interesting training for all research support staff, including #researchlibrarians. Sign up as an organisation to train up to three members of staff!: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/developing...

🇨🇭 Switzerland strengthens its commitment to the Barcelona Declaration! The University of Zürich has joined @cern.bsky.social and the @swissrn.bsky.social as signatories, showing Switzerland’s growing commitment to open and transparent research information.⬇️

Anmeldung geöffnet! ‘Grundlagen Forschungsdatenmanagement’ (Beginn: Oktober 2025): Überblick über alle wichtigen Themen, Konzepte und Begriffe des FDM - und das ganz ohne Vorkenntnisse! afww.uni-konstanz.de/de/microcred... #Forschungsdaten #Forschungsdatenmanagement #FDM #RDM #OpenScience

Our #LIBER2025 poster is now on Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

A milestone for open AI: ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a fully open multilingual language model, trained on CSCS’s “Alps” supercomputer. Built for the public good, this model promotes transparency, inclusion, and innovation. Read more:

Looking forward to contributing to the #LIBER AI Taskforce together with colleagues.

Hervorragendes Interview mit @tante.cc Nur eine von vielen zitierwürdigen Aussagen: "KI wird als Ausrede benutzt, um jahrelang aufgeschobene Transformationsprozesse endlich anzustoßen. Aber was dann wirklich nötig ist, sind gute Softwarelösungen, klarere Abläufe, bessere Kommunikation." #KI #AI

Libraries are very much needed in large scale projects #liber2025

Via LinkedIn by @martinepronk.bsky.social - LIBER launched the Taskforce AI today at #LIBER2025 . Grateful to be a part of it and looking forward to working with my colleagues from other working groups on this important topic!

“Where is the money going?”💸 This morning at #LIBER2025, Lorenza Salvatori and Lorenzo Di Sopra presented their insightful study on the evaluation of Open Access publishing costs at EPFL. Interested in the data and analysis? 📊💬 Vist our dedicated webpage: www.epfl.ch/campus/libra...

Today’s keynote is from Thanos Giannakopoulos taking about the roles of libraries in supporting Actions 29-33 relating to Science, Technology, Innovation & Digital Cooperation from the UN Pact for the Future www.un.org/en/summit-of... with examples inspired by the UN Hammarskjöld Library #LIBER2025

Proud of my students (Silvan Wiedmer & Sangeeths Chandrakumar in picture, Florian Klessascheck at a summer school), presenting their work, supervised by me, on small open LLMs and their use for RDF Triple extraction. Poster pdf soon to follow at the Zenodo space of the conference. #LIBER2025

A glimpse into workshop 1.5 at #LIBER2025 liberconference.eu/workshop-1-5/ My Group was discussing the properties an ideal research assessment tool would have.

Want to know more about how small and open LLMs can help libraries extract RDF Triples and outperform GPT-4o, come by poster 4. at #LIBER2025 Thanks to my students Sangeeths Chandrakumar and Silvan Wiedmer for pitching out work.

Marie Buesink from KB presenting the amazing ‘Retro Tool’: AI-Powered Automated Metadata Creation in Practice #LIBER2025 youtu.be/r9_NJ_6Onew?...

Interested in what pre-trained LLMs can do? Anda Baklāne tells more at #LIBER2025 For similar work, check out our SRDD 2024 conference olos.swiss/srdd2024#pro... presentation on multi-class lyric classification with LLMs drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/...

Lidia Uziel from #UCSB talking about The Blue Marble: A Human-AI Knowledge Synthesis Platform for Environmental Research at #LIBER2025

Wonderful #LIBER2025 opening keynote by @frederickaplan.bsky.social Vision of libraries saving the world and reshaping #AI

Looking forward to the kick-off of #LIBER2025. Join my students and me at our poster on RDF triple extraction with small LLM, & my colleagues from the LIBER RDM WG and me at our workshop on the Role of Libraries in Research Assessment for FAIR Data and Open Research liberconference.eu/workshop-1-5/