Continuing my career-long habit and preference of not staying in the conference hotel (for costs alone, if not just a little separation), it always brings an enjoyable commute with the locals. Although my arrival in the high aircon after the humid 34C means I'm a hot mess for at least the first hour

I received a job description for a role a recruiter would like me to consider. It's a senior leadership role (insert fake blush emoji for a self deprecating LinkedIn style humblebrag) and a main quality required is, "Must be comfortable using Excel and Powerpoint." For the 1st time I feel qualified.

The #CharlestonAsia Conference comes at a good time due to not travelling to events in the USA. I'm excited to kick off 2026 in Thailand as Asia is a leader in the creation of open access knowledge. This will be a conference of listening, learning, and building the foundations for collaboration.

The last OPERAS Conference was excellent. I'm delighted that the organisers have forgotten how painful it was to host conferences and decided to do another one. @operaseu.bsky.social is a place of real community and innovative ideas that is hard to rival anywhere in European scholarly communication

🎆 What a way to close out 2025 as we celebrate PKP's Founder, John Willinsky, and his appointment to the Order of Canada for more than 25 years of dedication to #OpenAccess and #PublicKnowledge! -> www.gg.ca/en/media/new... Image from Muttercraig CC BY-SA at uottawa-mpsp.fandom.com/wiki/Order_o...

Reading year-end posts from some open initiatives has been extremely encouraging. But, I've also started to get a feel for which of those initiatives have signed up to and reflect the #POSI principles (openscholarlyinfrastructure.org), especially lobbying to cement their own narrow self-interest.

The inaugural article of Reviews of Economic Literature is fittingly titled "It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community" It argues that open access crucially needs to be coupled with a new non-profit publishing model rel.journals.sup.org/index.php/re...

Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it’s far more likely that autism causes vaccines.

Is Zoom just terrible for everyone this past month or two, or just me? I'm on a fully paid-up plan and running 128mbps/23mbps minimums on fully up-to-date versions of Mac OS and Zoom. But the image is laggy and about 4fps. Incoming sound is good but it is broken when I'm speaking. Just shocking.

"Geoffrey Bilder has made immense contributions to scholarly communications infrastructure over many decades, and his career shows no signs of slowing down. This volume is a collection of writings by a wide range of contributors to showcase the range and diversity of his enduring legacy."

Very excited for @craft-oa.bsky.social #CRAFT_OA2025 Tuesday Plenary highlights on #OpenJournalSystems Diamond Plugins & OJS Core Feature Development: #GDPR, #Multilingualism and Better #Metadata - & so much more! Program: www.craft-oa.eu/craft-oa-con... Streaming: www.craft-oa.eu/craft-oa-con...

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...

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

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)

Probably the best role in open scholarly publishing. pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...

📢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...

Kevin Stranack announces his retirement -- As Director of Operations and open access champion, Kevin’s impact has been profound! “This marks the end of a deeply fulfilling chapter... one filled with purpose, collaboration, and a shared commitment…" Read more from Kevin: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/08/07/r...

🗓️ 29 August 2025 @craft-oa.bsky.social, 2pm CET: Meet the Experts Webinar – #OJS 3.x to 3.5 release upgrade tutorial Designed for systems administrators and journal managers #OpenJournalSystems - get a walk-through, requirements checklist, and answers! Register: www.craft-oa.eu/29-august-20...

This piece by Ian Dunt is well worth your time. A fascinating look at comics as an outsider's medium, designed by and produced by outsiders. Superman is such an outsider, but a different kind of outsider with the hidden heroism of the socially anxious. iandunt.substack.com/p/immigrant-...

🚀 OJS, OMP, and OPS 3.3.0-21 and 3.4.0-9 released -- it's time to update! Head over to the PKP Community Forum to learn more and join to get announcements like this one as soon as they are posted: forum.pkp.sfu.ca/t/ojs-omp-an... #OpenJournalSystems #OJS #OpenMonographPress #OpenPreprintSystems

With today's sad news about PubPub, is it time to roll out the much-overused infrastructure image? A reminder that funders, agencies, ministries, and institutions continue to fund outputs and new projects that sit precariously atop software, projects, and community initiatives that go un(der)funded.

Extractive and not reciprocal. Findings from Cloudflare's latest Radar data, "The crawl before the fall… of referrals: understanding AI’s impact on content providers", show that AI bots crawl sites as many as 70,000 times for every single referral click. blog.cloudflare.com/ai-search-cr...

Updates are coming to PKP software. This post outlines changes in OJS 3.5 & 3.6 that lower costs, increase accessibility, and support new publishing models. Updates also apply to OMP & OPS 👉 https://pkp.sfu.ca/2025/06/30/production-changes-plans/

This new study, Scholarly Publishing’s Hidden Diversity (published at @plosone.org), reveals that the academic publishing oligopoly is under pressure from the rise of independent, OA publishers, signalling a shift toward greater global plurality in the scholarly record. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

This new study, Scholarly Publishing’s Hidden Diversity (published at @plosone.org), reveals that the academic publishing oligopoly is under pressure from the rise of independent, OA publishers, signalling a shift toward greater global plurality in the scholarly record. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

With today's sad news about PubPub, is it time to roll out the much-overused infrastructure image? A reminder that funders, agencies, ministries, and institutions continue to fund outputs and new projects that sit precariously atop software, projects, and community initiatives that go un(der)funded.

This is deeply sad news, especially for all the staff who have been immediately laid off. Please get in contact, and we'll all do our best to share your stories and try to help get you placed in a new role. PubPub had many exciting ideas and still... funding. www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2025...

Some thoughts on Nature's new open review process www.samuelmoore.org/2025/06/19/t...

This interesting new preprint on SocArXiv shows that "The landscape of academic journals is beyond the oligopoly: it is diverse and often grounded in public, academic-driven initiatives rather than market imperatives." osf.io/preprints/so...

Remember the language of the recent Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. acquisition by Sage? “With this acquisition, we will honor and build upon Mary Ann Liebert’s legacy while growing the portfolio’s reach and impact”? Sadly, we hear that many of the Mary Ann Liebert staff have been 'let go' by Sage yesterday.

The impending acquisition of Amsterdam UP (@amsterdamupress.bsky.social) by Tnf (@tandfresearch.bsky.social) is a stark reminder that almost everything within a commodified publishing industry is susceptible and vulnerable to the unquenchable demand for growth of the commercially imperative.

What Can We Learn From Open Access Journals in the Arab States? Emily Choynowski provides insight into the project to map the region’s open access journals, finds that open access faces endemic challenges, while offering a powerful example of how the diamond model can be successful and sustainable.

The DIAMAS Project (@diamas.bsky.social) Final Conference begins at the KBR (Royal Library of Belgium). I am really looking forward to the conversations in this space, packed with European leaders and the wider global #DiamondOA community. Allez!

The #PKPOslo2025 Sprint has started at @uio.no. Groups have been established to work on metadata workflows for indexing books with @thoth-metadata.bsky.social, #CRAFT-OA plugins, workflow improvements, and multilingualism for citations, metadata translation, and machine translation. @pkp.sfu.ca

The #PKPOslo2025 Sprint has started at @uio.no. Groups have been established to work on metadata workflows for indexing books with @thoth-metadata.bsky.social, #CRAFT-OA plugins, workflow improvements, and multilingualism for citations, metadata translation, and machine translation. @pkp.sfu.ca

The #pkpOslo2025 sprint has started! Follow us and the hashtag to keep posted about the work of our community in the upcoming days.

Please join us at our next Development News Update webinar, June 16 8 AM PDT! Topics: * OJS/OMP/OPS 3.5.0 release + features * Expanded tools for content organization * Customizable reviewer recommendation and more! Hope to meet you there! Registration: www.eventbrite.ca/e/pkps-devel...

My quote of the day E' più facile resistere all'inizio che alla fine. (It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.) Leonardo Da Vinci

"Multilingualism and discoverability of scientific content: the challenge of machine translation" assesses the promise of machine translation and how it could contribute to improving the discoverability of science in French. The tools struggle with nuance and complexity. www.acfas.ca/publications...

l'Université de Lorraine has reallocated the funds freed up when they stopped subscribing to Wiley's journals bundle, enabling univlorraine.bsky.social to increase its #scienceouvert contributions to €134,000 or 7% of the university’s subscriptions budget. scienceouverte.univ-lorraine.fr/en/home/

JOIN US! Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity on Preprints and Open Peer Review. Multi-year project. Come with work @nataschachtena.bsky.social, @mariomalicki.bsky.social, me, and the rest of #ScholCommLab. Apply by May 23rd! bit.ly/SCLpostdoc2025 Please share widely!

"True open access, managed by academics for academics, it follows our mass resignation from JES (Journal of Economic Surveys) ... [we] envision REL as part of a movement to restore scholarly publishing to the priorities & values of the academic community.” More details at pkp.sfu.ca/2025/04/25/s...

Reviews of Economic Literature has launched a year after the mass resignation of the Editorial Board from Wiley. Owned as a non-profit and published by @stanfordpress.bsky.social with @pkp.sfu.ca they "envision REL as part of a movement to restore scholarly publishing to ... the academic community."

A year on from the mass resignation of the editorial board at the Journal of Economic Surveys, the editors launch Reviews of Economic Literature, which becomes Stanford University Press' first journal in its 130-year history. A new era for OA Journals with @stanfordpress.bsky.social and @pkp.sfu.ca.

✨ ✏️ The final meerkat sketches are ready! Straight from the Open Science Retreat #OSR25 in 🇨🇭 1/8

3️⃣ @pkp.sfu.ca Docs for OJS get a German upgrade At the first-ever Translation Sprint, over 10K words of documentation for OJS were translated into German! This effort makes OJS more accessible to 80+ institutions using it across German-speaking countries. 🔗More: shorturl.at/MiTVV #OpenScience

📣 📸 We are looking for an emerging and vibrant communication agency from the #GlobalMajority to support #TheTechWeWant initiative with #video production and #design services. Is that you? Or someone you know? Share the Call for Proposals 👉🏾 buff.ly/XVHW4hx

"As the old aphorism puts it, Americans do the right thing only once we have exhausted every other possibility."

"Eight NZ universities spend $67 million annually on journal subscriptions and read and publish agreements. This money is almost all spent offshore. A small portion of it redirected towards diamond journals would enable sustainable, equitable open infrastructure and service." doi.org/10.31274/jls...

Good luck to all the small businesses, researchers, and consultants out there today. I am only a tiny cog in research and publishing, but I've had two contracts cancelled and an unpaid contract for $13,025 that will remain unrealised due to US action. These are difficult times. Good luck, everyone.