Excited to join @braccolaetitia.social.sciences.re.ap.brid.gy & team at Open Science Monitoring Inititative (OSMI) as steering board member. Looking forward to work w/ Cécile Coulibaly, Moumita Koley, @susannanykyri.bsky.social & @jeroenson.bsky.social open-science-monitoring.org/meet-the-fiv...

Ha! Just thought: "ooh, that sounds interesting! and super related to that work we did!" only to realize that this is a link to our paper

1/ The Carney government has fallen hard for AI hype, and it's endangering us all. This unprecedented invitation of data-hungry tech execs inside our house (where all our confidential data is stored) is a disturbing betrayal of public trust. dub.link/NDYvJU0

Simon Fraser University wants only non-union faculty at its new medical school. SFU contends that it's so new and different that the existing collective agreement with university faculty doesn't apply. pressprogress.ca/sfu-medical-...

📣 Our friends at the #ScholCommLab have published a preprint, "The Drain of #ScientificPublishing", and are calling for #research communities, funders, governments, and #universities to "re-communalise publishing to serve #science not the market" doi.org/10.48550/arX... #ScholComm #AcademicSky

🚀 Big news for open research information! From 2026, @cnrs.fr will no longer have institutional access to Web of Science. This move aligns with the vision of the Barcelona Declaration and shows how institutions can operationalise the transition to open systems. 🔗 www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cn...

COMPREHENSIVE and excellent set of slides here - explaining why WoS and Scopus are no longer fit for purpose, describing the changing nature of publishing globally. Relevant for OJS work and diamond OA as well. From @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca scholarworks.uni.edu/cgi/viewcont...

"This new release of OJS (3.5) improves the backend experience of the site, making publishing operations easier and increasing the overall security of the software." Thank you for sharing, and for updating, @archimedeict.bsky.social. We hope you will enjoy 3.5 :D #OpenJournalSystems #OJS

I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen

📚 PUB 611 – Making Knowledge Public: January 4 – April 26 2026 with Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca 📚 PUB 604 – Technology and Infrastructure: January 4 – April 26 2026 with Alison Moore 📚 PUB 603 – Journal Management and Editing: May 11 – August 23 2026 with Jennifer Zerkee 🧵

🚀 Ready to launch into the future of #OpenPublishing and endless opportunities? Your cutting edge professional development chance is here! PKP + SFU are offering 3 new courses that will help set you up for success in today's growing #ScholarlyPublishing world: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/10/01/r...

Register now for our new courses on Public Knowledge, on Scholarly Infrastructures, and on Journal Management! pkp.sfu.ca/2025/10/01/r...

🎉 PKP has launched its 2026 - 2030 Strategic Plan! Check out our mission, mission, values, and key priorities: 🔗 Get the full plan here: pkp.sfu.ca/2026-2030-st... #OpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOA #FOSS #OpenInfrastructure #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #ScholComm

Ken Sim hopes you don't see this screenshot from the City's 2026 Budget Feedback report. By a more than 4-to-1 margin, residents of Vancouver preferred a tax rate that maintained public services to ABC's reckless 0% tax gimmick. #vanpoli #StopTheCuts #Budget2026 #FightForVancouver

Who owns our knowledge? And how is CRAFT-OA helping communities reassert control over their knowledge production? Hint: It has to do with developing Open-Source software. @pkp.sfu.ca 's recent blog post is a great read: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/10/16/o...

Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +

Here’s my humble pitch: we stop calling Vancouver’s housing market a “slowdown” or “slump”, implying that it was a great time before. And instead, consider that after three years of similar numbers, acknowledge a new reality that everyone should adjust to.

NDP leadership candidate Avi Lewis is meeting the moment.

Gifted article Stop the anti-DEI campaign against Canadian researchers — what amounts to a hunt for personal information that could enable individuals be targeted, bullied and harassed #cdnpse #cdnpoli #research #SSHRC #CIHR www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/836f94c...

If the idea of Musk’s empire crashing and burning makes you happy, find a Tesla Takedown near you! 🔥🔥🔥 @teslatakedown.com @teslatakedownuk.bsky.social @everyonehateselon.bsky.social @tesla-takedown.bsky.social

Thanks for writing/highlighting this. I agree with the thinking. It also reminds me of something I wrote about 9 years ago: danielskatzblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/25/c... where I think I was trying to get at some of the same points, though likely not as clearly

Worth highlighting this post, which communicates a key tension in the #OpenSciene movement.

The wealthy have benefited far too long from a tax code that favours wealth and penalizes work. This is upside down. Great societies are built by its working population. Create a tax code that reflects this. #taxwealthnotwork

Such a pleasure to speak with INCT-CPCT about our recent research on how science journalists navigate predatory publishing study w/ @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca & @lauramoorhead.bsky.social available here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

LAST CHANCE! Only a few days left to throw your hat in the ring for this amazing job opportunity at @pkp.sfu.ca . Come work with me!

🔊 Contributors sustain and grow essential work towards equitable future for #ScholarlyPublishing – support the #OpenInfrastructure you use Become a PKP Development Partner, Financial Contributor, In-Kind Supporter, or Research Funder: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/10/16/o... #OAWeek #OpenAccess

If you're in Ottawa, head to uOttawa Bibliothèque to hear @pkp.sfu.ca @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca (also online via Zoom) 🎯 Who owns our knowledge? From closed to open infrastructures for research assessment and meta science 🕰️ 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. EDT 🔗 buff.ly/K9iYN7k 3/5

Of particular interest to those interested in #preprints and #openscience , or anyone who has been thinking about the Engagement with Society aspects of OS cc. @asapbio.bsky.social @ludowaltman.bsky.social @stephenpinfield.bsky.social @jacoates.bsky.social

The #OpenScience movement aims to transform how scientists work with each other and with society. These shifts pull in different directions — and “scientific cultures” helps make sense of the tension. NEW BLOG: Tensions in Open Science and Scientific Culture www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/10/21/t...

Creating this festschrift reminded me of a basic truth: you can do something nice for someone whenever you want. Don't wait until people are dead to praise them. Don't hold out for someone else to do it. Nominate people for prizes. Write someone a note of appreciation. Today's the day.

There's so much happening this #OAWeek! Seems everyone felt jazzed about organizing this year! I'm doing a few events, including one at 9PT/12ET. See thread below for how to register.

With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.

After all the fancy rollout of the new UI, the @cos.io interface still fails at doing some basic scholarly infrastructure stuff correctly. Tried importing an OSF preprint into Zotero and it gets added with no authors.

There is considerable discussion about the (lack of) openness of metadata of journal articles, but how do preprint servers perform in terms of openly available metadata? @neesjanvaneck.bsky.social and I report our findings in a new @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social blog post doi.org/10.59350/te7....

Who owns our #knowledge? How can #scholarly communities take control? It's #OpenAccess Week October 20 - 26, 2025. PKP is taking time to reflect, celebrate communities and contributors, and invite folks to take action. pkp.sfu.ca/2025/10/16/o... #OAWeek #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOA #AcademicSky

Talking Points Memo is turning 25 and I wrote a little encomium to early blogging, which I sometimes miss: talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...

NEW COURSES: Registration is open SFU + PKP Open Publishing courses! Open to all, so please share with anyone interested in some professional development! Webinar coming up Oct 30th to meet instructors (including. me!) Read more and register for webinar and courses here: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/10/01/r...

Maybe because of this year's #OpenAccessWeek theme, I ended up invited to do a bunch of events. Who Owns Our Knowledge? All are open to the public, registration online. Here's a thread of where to find me! 🧵👇

TWO WEEKS LEFT! posting closes Oct 31 🎃! Spread the word so that we get an amazing person in this important role for @pkp.sfu.ca #scholcomm #openaccess #openscience pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform? Is it...requesting content moderation?

Join us Oct. 20 from noon to 1pm Central for our #OpenAccessWeek keynote lecture by @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca, co-hosted by the three Iowa Regent universities. Learn more and register to attend: iastate.libcal.com/event/15425542

What @hankgreen.bsky.social said www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz0o...

On Oct 14th, the Lewis for Leader Campaign is hosting our first National Mass Organizing call—and you’re invited! Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @anjaliappadurai.bsky.social and others to hear how you can get involved in our people-powered campaign. RSVP: lewisforleader.ca/organizercall

It is *so* exciting to see HHMI's new preprint policy. HHMI researchers are now required to post initial and revised preprints under CC-BY licenses. Best of all - the policy lets HHMI put preprints at the center of its research assessment strategy. Learn more: asapbio.org/hhmi-enacts-...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO TYRANTS Vancouver BC Canada” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/democracy12/... #NoKings

Reminder to spread the word about exciting OPPORTUNITY as PKP's Managing Director! It's a very exciting time at @pkp.sfu.ca. So much going on! A true scholar-led open infrastructure project, supporting 55,000+ journals. Read more: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h... #scholcomm #openaccess #openscience

#OpenAccessWeek (Oct 20–26) is coming! Theme: “Who Owns Our Knowledge?” Join us on Oct 23, 1 – 2:30 p.m., with @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca & Dr. Juan Pablo Alperin to discuss equity and transparency in scholarly communication: www.uottawa.ca/library/even... @uottawaarts.bsky.social @uottawa.ca

Anyone have experience submitting support requests to @signal.org ? I didn't get an email confirmation that it went through, and no idea what to expect in terms of turnaround time

Community call starts in 10min. See you there!

"Science is bad for tyrants, and always has been...and that is why the scientific infrastructure of this country is currently being sledgehammered to death." #StandUpForScience #Resist #NoKings