These British announcers had me convinced for a second Belgium had a player called Poirot.

The Netherlands' new open access strategy specifically name-checks 'scaling small' & puts community-driven publishing at its core - the very ethos the OBC was built on. Fantastic to see scholar-led values embedded into national policy! #OpenAccess #OAPolicy #ScalingSmall

Gonna have to install Kagi at work, so I can see how if our IR pages show up, I guess...

Our library has "summer camp" for staff to share their skills and passions, so I got to hear a concert of 17th c Scottish lute music by one of my colleagues. He's sitting in a chair he salvaged from an old barn and wove the seat himself (obviously).

"Summer cold" sounds fun, light, easy-peasy, but my family doesn't understand why I'm boiling myself in a hot bath in a heatwave.

It's a good time to announce this while we are all sweltering. We can... imagine Churchill?... instead of benefitting from shade and trees.

I was pleased to contribute to this collectively-authored book and to receive my physical copy earlier this week! The book was published using an experimental technical infrastructure and was one of the pilot projects that we nurtured over the course of the Open Book Futures project.

Reject trumpist & fifa corruption, RETVRN to Original Rules Football (half of a whole working class town against the other half, played over several miles on Pancake Day, you're allowed to shank your neighbour if you write an apology to the pope, chance of the game starting a 6 month civil war)

Seems like a good day to re-up this...

It is of course inevitable that, since I sung the praises of Qulipta this afternoon, I now have a crushing migraine.

I wonder if the City keeps track of hits on their mosquito control page, as a complement to the mosquito head count. Anyway, if you don't want to feed wildlife, don't go outside.

Ok, we use PlantNet for plants, and Merlin for birds - what is the insect equivalent?

Ok fine I'm in

Remarkable that my alma mater, the University of Winnipeg, has such extensive and ongoing Indigenization initiatives and yet makes the top 5.

Moral rights shouldn't be waivable in Canada. And if you are a publisher, you should have enough belief in *your* integrity that you don't require an author to waive theirs.

no shit www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

You know how sometimes I talk about how libraries and universities should work together to build their own digital infrastructure so we aren't reliant on vendors? Yeah, it applies to the whole country too, I just feel like universities might be able to do it, if we bothered to work together and try.

Some reading for these grim times for UK universities - on how critical thinking and pedagogy might exist outside of these crumbling institutional structures. Richard Hall, The Dissolution of the Universities mayflybooks.org/the-dissolut...

The #impactfactor "mostly shows commercial value, current trends, and geopolitical advantage, seldom methodological rigour. " Journal impact factor: The illusion of scientific excellence: https://ijfcm.org/archive/volume/13/issue/2/article/27107

In this house (etc) it is canon that foxes are cats (and cats are liquid).

A thing I keep relearning (and forgetting) is that you can still buy smelling salts, but now they are marketed towards gym bros.

Synchro as body horror remains unchallenged.

I kinda want to be at the publisher conferences where they are advising each other on making more and more ridiculous contract terms. "Oh, we absolutely need authors to waive moral rights in order for us to publish their book. Otherwise they might demand to be recognized as the author!"

#OER26 panel discussing feeling betrayed by our broken institutions and the promises of openness they have failed to uphold. Resonances with the Radical Open Access Conference last year and their publication, Publishing Activism within/without a Toxic University.

Here is me, pleading with museum shops. We do not want yet another bookmark and eraser with your logo for 11 euros. We. Want. Replicas. Of. Your. Nerdy. Stuff.

Sorry for the self promotion, but I've written a blog post on alternatives to Google Scholar librarykirsten.wordpress.com/2026/06/18/t...

In a very scientific study, I asked two uncles and three local wildlife experts who would win in a fight - a raccoon or a Canada Goose. 2/2 uncles said raccoon, 3/3 wildlife experts said Canada Goose. I think the results are conclusive.

Man oh man. Canada really is a couple telecom companies and a grocery chain in a trenchcoat. We've totally forfeited this country over to the capitalist overlords and it's such a shame.

It's not an OER conference presentation without a menti.

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Ebony Novakowski kicking off Open Horizons reminding us that after fires (last year's conference) and destructive thunderstorms (this year), ecosystems have rebirth and regrowth. A reminder to be the fast growing seeds in Open Ed, as we deal with the destruction of Campus Manitoba.

One of my most consistent library positions is loving the Public Lending Right here in Canada. Sure, it could be even better - expand it to University libraries, for example! - but it's overall just such a positive thing.

Imagine if they were fighting for the kind of Public Lending Right setup that's common in other countries, which allows authors to be paid for being in libraries, rather than setting up libraries as the enemy. This is WILD. publiclendingright.ca/about/overview

An important read 👇

Why am I getting a migraine NOW?!?! The storm is already here, it's not exactly an early warning. 😭

The CORE/COAR disambiguation course.

The real eternal repository issue is disambiguating CORE/ COAR.

Such a crucial point from Omo Oaiya re: repository infrastructure and governance: low cost is a design constraint that produces better, more resilient infrastructure. Not hostage to project/ funder cycles. We need to decentralize & federate as soon as possible.

I have a new piece in @truthout.org today about autonomous libraries and the collections and spaces they create for political movements. truthout.org/articles/as-...

I don't think I'm prepared for it to be a municipal election year.

Well I picked the wrong Open Repos workshop for this morning :/ BUT I can watch lightning talks or the earlier workshops which are already posted!

The World Cup, a tournament I have been obsessed with since I was old enough to know what football is, starts in three days, and I genuinely find myself completely uninterested. The vibes for this tournament are so rancid.

Another week, another few additions to the list of bot User Agents that I need to prevent taking down our open publishing sites and distorting all our usage statistics. This is a huge and under-discussed issue for open research infrastructure.

I finished this over the weekend. Happy summer, happy Pride. 🌈🌄🌳💜

Back in North America, so had some sugary cereal to go with my feelings of ambivalence about my hometown this morning.

Here's the first of my Spoonie Bestiary designs for June's Pin Quest: Fighting Migraine dragon. #artShop #ChronicMigriane

winnipeg is canada's most magical and esoteric city

Wouldn't it be crazy if Knowledge Commons currently existed and let academics have fully-featured websites absolutely for free? Imagine being able to just, like, have a WordPress site, without having to do the admin stuff. And maybe even put your papers or talks in KC Works?!

I want to do a PhD on the file sharing norms of Soulseek circa 2002.