Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Really happy to read Max's take on this because it's calmed my ire a little. So fucking easy to get worked up these days. (It's always a good day to subscribe to the Observer, an independent national paper with a bent toward the climate and social justice.)

giving this posting a re-up! Come join the PKP Leadership team as an Associate Director, leading the Publishing Services Team!

PKP is hiring! Associate Director of Publishing Services Bring your leadership experience and business savvy to our team. Help advance the world's most widely used scholarly publishing platform! If you don't fit the job description 100% you should apply anyway! pkp.sfu.ca/2026/05/07/p...

📢 Excited to share a new preprint by our colleague Kathleen Gregory and Dorothea Strecker from Humboldt University of Berlin on the financial sustainability of open data infrastructures. 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2604.27580

Just after @avilewis.ca was elected, the media mischaracterized his call for Public Options as nationalization. But public options and markets have coexisted in Canada for generations—and we're better for it. I tried my hand at an op-ed in @natobserver www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/05/o...

NEW: On Monday evening members of the Coalition of Progressive Electors voted unanimously to ratify the unity agreement with the @vangreens.bsky.social & @onecityvan.bsky.social to limit candidates in order to defeat Ken Sim & ABC. The election is October 17th. We got this. #EvictKenSim

Tagging our other wonderful co-authors: @irenepasquetto.bsky.social @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca @stephenpinfield.bsky.social and Melanie Benson Marshall And the (preprint) study this story was based on: osf.io/preprints/me...

Nice to see this interest our work on preprint moderation (led by @nataschachtena.bsky.social): "Why preprint servers are increasing moderation — and what that means for researchers". www.nature.com/articles/d41... [archive without paywall here: archive.is/x98qF]

If you’re talking about democracy you need to be talking about class power, or else you’re just chasing your tail.

Good evening: this is your semi-regular reminder that you can’t preserve or strengthen democracy without democratizing the economy and giving workers a greater share of wealth and control in the workplace.

Who is coming to Vancouver for the World Conference on Research Integrity next week? If you'd like to meet up to talk #scholcomm, learn about what we're doing at the #scholcommlab and at @pkp.sfu.ca, drop me a DM or an email and we'll get a coffee! #WCRI2026

Yup. I've been raising this alarm bell for a while, with OpenAlex our best next bet for an alternative of an inclusive index for discovery and source of data for bibliometrics/assessment.

Preprint Moderators "Moderation is neither a neutral checkpoint nor a simplified version of peer review, but a site where epistemic and institutional judgments converge in shaping what becomes admissible as early-stage scientific communication" doi.org/10.31222/osf...

💎 « Vers l'horizon diamant » se poursuit avec le panel « Le Canada dans un contexte international » Our event « Advancing Diamond » continues with the panel "Canada in an international context" 👥 Tanja Niemann, Mylène Deschênes, Sharla Lair, @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca & @lariviev.bsky.social

How Stephen Lewis helped changed the world's mind about HIV/AIDS. Excerpts from his 2005 CBC Massey Lectures, titled “Race Against Time." www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... via @cbcnews.ca

LOL, trying to stay offline and do my work, and friends are sending me "LOOK AT THIS NEW PIC!" texts .... This one is worth it. First PoC and first woman to go around another world. Don't stop talking about this point. It's important. #ArtemisII

I just took the most amazing 30 mins break in my day... you should too.

This is so well done. 👌

→ Reminder: #CoalitionPublica Scholarship Program 👩‍🎓 Are you studying #scholarlycommunication, research dissemination or doing a research project in #digitalhumanities ? Apply by April 19: www.coalition-publi.ca/scholarship-... @pkp.sfu.ca

Last night, CBC Ideas broadcast selections from Stephen Lewis's 2005 Massey Lectures "Race Against Time." Just amazing. Have a listen: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Bombing infrastructure is totally sick. Hospitals, for instance, rely on power and water. Short-term generators can only last so long. Without supplies, they have no meds. You are killing those with cancer, kidney failure, and heart disease - taking away their final moments on Earth.

The President of the United States is openly threatening to commit genocide against 90 million people. Prime Minister Carney: if there was ever a moment to denounce this illegal war, withdraw your support, and call for accountability for war crimes—it’s now.

100% accurate guide to the types of Open Access #academicsky 📚

"si les grands éditeurs restent très présents dans l’écosystème, leur poids relatif diminue" YES, BUT "ils continuent de contrôler les revues considérées comme les plus prestigieuses" superbe analyse de @simonvbellen.bsky.social @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca & @lariviev.bsky.social pour @acfas.ca

Le « Big Five » : un oligopole en perte de vitesse www.acfas.ca/publications... avec @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca @simonvbellen.bsky.social @acfas.ca @chaire-dcsf.bsky.social

When people of differing views can all find a home in the NDP & hear their views articulated by various leaders, the tent grows. Conversely, when people who hold views that diverge from the leader are told to bite their tongues, they leave. Full piece here: sethdklein.substack.com/p/why-im-hea...

The statement Carney coulda made but chose not to.

Incredible commentary from this Swiss announcer, who accurately characterizes the Israeli team as "Self-defined zionist to the core...who posted several messages in favour of the genocide in Gaza...calling it ‘the most morally just war in history.’” Solidarity to a real one.

A post i made back in August, reply to someone, occasionally gets liked (up to 80). But the likes comes in waves--10 in the last 24 hours, after months of no activity. Is that just a like refreshing the post in other's feed? Seems odd.

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...