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

Story by the wonderful @naseemmiller.bsky.social , research by the wonderful @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca and @lauramoorhead.bsky.social

PKP is behind Open Journal Systems, the most widely-used free open source journal management system, which can be used to liberate us from Elsevier and all the rest of the profiteers! #openaccess

JOB OPPORTUNITY: @pkp.sfu.ca is looking for a Managing Director! This is a rare opportunity to lead a highly impactful #scholcomm organization. Role works closely with me (Scientific Director) to provide strategic and operational leadership. Help us spread the word! pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...

SWEET SPOT: 50% open access is the sweet percentage for publishers. They can charge 50% APC and stil charge 100% subscriptions, because the subscription never goes down. Also different countries have different concerns and languages. This is an issue for more than 50%OA globally #OASPA2025

Can you help assess how our project advances the COMET model? We've connected arXiv preprints to published articles with 95%+ precision. Join our community evaluation of this demonstration project. 🗓️ 3 October - Community Project Assessment Register: datacite.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The academic system needs to take the work of building community-led, open source/access initiatives much more seriously as a valid and vital form of academic labour

Very much appreciate @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca's reminder to us, at the start of what promises to be a dynamic post-lunch panel at #OASPA2025 that @pkp.sfu.ca is, at root, a scholar and research led initiative

One of Janne Pölönen's presentations on the centrality of diamond journals in multilingualism in scholarly publishing, referred to in a question: zenodo.org/records/1109... #OASPA2025

I couldn't agree more. This is the top leadership role at **humble brag** one of the most impactful organizations in #scholcomm. Reach out if you have questions! (cc #OASPA2025)

Nice to see our paper "On the open road to universal indexing" cited in today's keynote about "Enabling 100% open access". In it, we explore the role of DOIs in global scholarship, and the questions they raise: Read it here. #OASPA2025 doi.org/10.1162/qss....

📢Employment opportunity at PKP! PKP is hiring a Managing Director, who will be responsible for ensuring PKP’s long-term sustainability and continued global impact. If you are interested, learn more at: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...

QUESTION: from @theblochian.bsky.social at #OASPA2025 "Why is Wiley making such big profits off free labour?" The answer talks about infrastructure investment & in peer review. Yawn. Nothing about unsustainable profit margins. This inertia from organisations that claim to be innovative is exhausting

NOT MUCH FLIPPING - this was from a 2017 presentation "So did it work? Considering the impact of Finch 5 years on", London Information International, www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/...

Hearing from Wiley only reaffirms my disdain for large commercial publishers. Zero alignment with academic values. Just doublespeak to extract resources from the public. #oaspa2025

Everyone that uses the term Transformative Agreement should put out a list of all the journals that stopped charging subscriptions. It's disingenuous. It's just double dipping #OASPA2025

Prof. Demmy. Verbeke explaining that KU Leuven Library has made a stand & spends zero budget on APCs or TAs. Instead, the library invests in nonprofit #openaccess publishing & infrastructure #OASPA2025