Devika Madalli describes the Bharat Open Science Platform during her One Nation, One Subscription presentation at the Global #DiamondOA Summit. BOSP is the new OA publishing infrastructure by INFLIBNET for Indian Journals based on #OJS from PKP (@pkp.sfu.ca) for open research for all Indian research

We the same many of the same challenges and principles at @pkp.sfu.ca

Big congratulations to @ellenforget.bsky.social, who has just, I see, won a fellowship from SHARP (The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) for a project on “A History of Tactile Writing and Reading”!

📰 PKP's community newsletter, Archipelago Issue 8, came out at the end of November -- check out this feature! 📌 Regional feature: Canada’s leadership in diamond open access pkp.sfu.ca/2025/11/28/r... #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOA #OpenAccess #ScholComm #CanadianPublishing #AcademicSky

Workers in the gig economy face precarious working conditions, low pay, and no protections. Meanwhile, trillion-dollar tech corporations are profiting off artists, journalists, musicians, writers, and filmmakers – while paying little or nothing. We need a new vision for the digital economy.

The NDP must be a political home for every worker – white collar, blue collar, or no collar. That means defending workers’ rights that have been under attack for decades while confronting new threats posed by app-based gig work, AI, and precarious jobs. Our plan → https://lewisforleader.ca/

Do you work in a UK HE library? Are you early-career? Would you like a sponsored place to attend the Copim Conference at the end of February? Find out how to apply for these sponsored places, which are offered in memory of our beloved friend and colleague, Elaine Sykes: buff.ly/sbU2eRP #OAbooks

@cometadata.bsky.social has been demonstrating it's possible to do big things! Matched over ~400K preprints 1/ ~2 MILLION authors to RORs—now in an openly available dataset. Come learn what we've been up to, what's next, and how to get involved. Next community call next week. Details below.

**SPOTTED** @OpenAlex gets a mention in the New York Times today: "The center at Leiden has begun producing an alternative ranking that is based on a different academic database, called OpenAlex. Harvard is No. 1 in that ranking, but the trend is the same: 12 of the next 13 schools on the […]

We would like to extend a warm welcome to the six new members of the ASAPbio Board of Directors! Let's welcome @amamotoryoji.bsky.social, @jeremymberg.bsky.social, Stefano Bertozzi, @nataschachtena.bsky.social, @rnls.bsky.social, and @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy!

To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave | Marie Le Conte www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Do Canadian MPs actually connect with the public on X? I looked at RTs and views for every tweet* sent by Liberal MPs yesterday Out of 46 tweets, 21 Liberal MPs racked up a combined 475 retweets 34% had zero RTs. Only 17% got more than 10 RTs 3 tweets accounted for over half of all engagement

If the NDP really wants to set themselves apart, this should be a no brainer for them.

On Jan 11, join me and an incredible line-up of special guests for an all-day outreach party to bring thousands of new members into the NDP before the Jan 28 deadline. Drop in anytime and help build the movement: https://act.lewisforleader.ca/january-11

Next stop: Vancouver, January 18! Find us in a city near you:

Thanks to support from thousands of people in cities and towns across the country, we're breaking records for fundraising in an NDP leadership race. Our movement's only growing. Now’s the time to jump in and be a part of it. Join us. avilewis.link/join

Happy to be quoted in this overview looking at the complex problem of who pays for scientific #publishing. Appearing with @samuelmoore.org , @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca , @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy by @peterandreysmith.com for @undark.org undark.org/2026/01/07/a...

1.9 million author entries. 2.1 million affiliation entries. 1.75 million matched to ROR IDs. That's what our fine-tuned open-weight model extracted from 430,000 arXiv preprints. Join us on 21 Jan to discuss the results. 📅 Register: datacite.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I wasn’t sure they were going to publish this. So good for them.

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.