🌍 Knowledge Equity & Open Scholarship Week | 19-21 May 2026 We’re asking: How can we bridge the Opens? Join partners from North Africa, Europe & South Africa, and colleagues globally. Want to collaborate in our global co‑creation experiment? 👉 Info here: knowledgeequitynetwork.org/casestudies/...

Recommended reading for all who care about universities and their role in society. Yesterday Iris Lechner defended her PhD thesis on the epistemic responsibilities of universities in a sparkling discussion with her opponents. PhD thesis is available at: bit.ly/45EDkNz @wcrifoundation.bsky.social

📣 Sorbonne Université quitte le classement international des universités du Times Higher Education ! 🎓 Plus qu'une démarche symbolique, ce retrait s’inscrit dans une stratégie plus vaste visant à promouvoir la #scienceouverte et à repenser la manière dont la recherche est évaluée.

Citing openness and validity issues, Sorbonne University in France decides to no longer supply data to the THE-ranking and thus get delisted. This is 4th major European university to take this step, after Utrecht, Zürich and Lorraine. #universityrankings www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en/news/sorb...

@osfair.bsky.social anyone knows what is today's livestream link?

Utrecht University Library will not renew their Web of Science license. Access to this database with closed, proprietary data ends in 2026. www.uu.nl/en/news/acce.... Step by step we foster a science system with open metadata. We committed to that by signing the @barcelonadori.bsky.social

After two really enjoyable days at #Metascience2025, I wrote about how one 🌶️ moment encapsulated the controversy over metascience's issues 📑, inclusivity 🤗and future public value 🔮 #STS #AcademicSky All feedback welcome on here, or by email 😀 warrenpearce.pika.page/posts/what-i...

We need to take care, collectively, not to allow a few dominant actors to impose social, political and economic conditions in which this process of meaning-making is captured for their benefit. 2/2

Thanks for the report on what was a troubling moment. For me the lesson was that the Metascience ‘discourse coalition’ absolutely has to question/critique the shifting power dynamics as more private organisations enter the open science space. And associated questions of trust. 1/2

For publication metadata nerds: viz of the generation of various metadata and their flow through the scholarly publishing system. The link goes to the online version that is fully animated, and has additional versions. Wonder if you think this is useful. docs.google.com/presentation...

Science, researchers and research communities increasingly need to be resilient to threats and actual incursions relating to budget, academic freedom, safety in the public arena, science databases and infrastructures and more. We created this framework to inspire communities in their resilience.

It pains me to say this, but if you are not a US citizen, you should not attend scientific conferences in the US, visit US institutions, or otherwise travel to our country. Right now it's not worth the risk. Hopefully that will change. If it doesn't, science in the US is sunk anyway.

1. It's Fustilarian Friday and today's drop is the "Restoring Gold Standard Science" executive order. My read is that this is designed to (1) protect far-fringe figures such as the antvaxxers now heading our health agencies, and (2) kneecap efforts to use scientific evidence in regulatory policy.

🚨Hiding under 6 sections of science sounding rhetoric is an edict to appoint officers at each agency that will be responsible for detecting research that isn't "Gold Standard Science" as defined by the White House🚨 Stay tuned for rapid response action! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Here the Administration lays the groundwork for weaponization of scientific principles to justify rollback of science-based policy actions. This isn't just hypothetical, its what the first-term Trump Administration and members of Congress have done for years. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The Trump administration just dropped an executive order, "Restoring Gold Standard Science" and there's lots to unpack. This EO reveals more about how the Administration will approach scientific integrity and science in regulatory contexts. Some initial thoughts. 🧵 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Science doesn't disappear - but when misinformation spreads and evidence is buried, the risks only grow. #JCRR is the first #DiamondOpenAccess journal dedicated to #CatastropheResearch. A platform for experts to share knowledge without political or corporate interference: https://journalofcrr.com/

Last in a series on using ecological network analysis & resilience science to understand & build community well-being. Here I review the adaptive cycle model of community dynamics & what it tells us about where we are & how to navigate the challenges ahead. deepweave.substack.com/p/adapt-resi...

"if you're a fan of #PIDs, or indeed of dinosaurs, you will be interested to know the #PIDfest2026 will be held by @SURF at the #Naturalis in Leiden in Oct 2026" - Eileen Wagemaekers at @euroCRIS #MM2025Leuven www.pidfest.org

A more concise entry on @opensciencenl.bsky.social to our (with @jeroenbosman.bsky.social) longer blog post on @upstreamblog.bsky.social post of this morning: www.openscience.nl/en/cases/the... #openscience #resilience

Science is under attack. In this post "The resilience of open science in times of crisis" @jeroenbosman.bsky.social and I detail events around 5 types of threats, and we propose a resilience model to safeguard scientific communities and open infrastructures. upstream.force11.org/the-resilien...

Utrecht University in the Netherlands has withdrawn itself from the World University Ranking provided by Times Higher Education by not sending that company data anymore. As this has generated quite some reactions - praise, questions, some doubts, I want to provide some context. Hence this thread 1/n