From 2018, but a good historical perspective over worries of 'the end of reading'. Reading has always taken many forms; we also need to be attent to the ways that we are actually reading more albright.wellesley.edu/about/blog/4...

Museums, unsurprisingly, defend the authenticity of the objects in their collections But the Met in New York is using AI to imagine the great quantity of works that have been lost to time, "imagining a third thing between two known things." www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...

Chat with Epstein Files chatwithepstein.com

@proton.me, a European alternative to US offerings from Google and Microsoft, has now added a spreadsheet option alongside the word processing tool It will take time to catch up with all the functionality that the established competitors offer, but it's a solid start proton.me/blog/sheets-...

The @barcelonadori.bsky.social Barcelona Declaration has implications for research libraries: how they harvest, manage, share metadata, and in suppliers and infrastructures they engage with. A quick update on action from TU Delft Library library4research.tudl.tudelft.nl/2025/12/11/u...

Great snapshot of the lack of coherent thinking about Brexit from the UK's Daily Telegraph

"The underlying code and other parameters [are] freely available to scientists, and it quickly became possible for them to run the software themselves at scale." The success of Google's AI tool is partly due to being accessible to scientists around the world.

This is an astonishing story. Journal 'Science of the Total Environment' published *10,000 articles a year* Many were bogus. Great summary of why our publication culture needs to be changed.

With the proliferation of new AI tools, it's difficult to know how to evaluate tools for searching and reviewing scientific literature. Do generic tools (ChatGPT etc) outperform tool specifically based on scientific content? @aarontay.bsky.social is a very useful guide through this new jungle.

Australian and New Zealand universities in battle of the century' with publisher Elsevier www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

US immigration officials are worried about the archiving of messages that might later be incriminating for them later on. But they still need to comply with Federal archiving laws And they're creating weird workarounds for this

"Training in academic skills will need to be fundamentally reconsidered in an era of AI." "Data analysis and literature synthesis, might need to take a back seat so that researchers can focus on critical evaluation of AI-generated code and analyses"

The chief executive of the British Library has resigned less than a year into her job The current strike by some staff has, I guess, a lot to with it www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...

"We need to be bolder: It is our duty to ensure library collections remain open to the public in a form that empowers 21st-century readers. If our intellectual heritage gets enclosed in proprietary tools, we will find ourselves making the same bad bargain we made with scientific publishers"

International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software www.euractiv.com/news/interna...

Ophelia has been a popular meme cultural history for a long time it seems www.europeana.eu/en/search?pa... #swifties

Job: Senior Software Engineer for Open Science - with a focus on our research data repository careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-Se...

Guidance, training and tools for writing research software in the sciences (specifically natural and engineering sciences) Funding by @nwonieuws.bsky.social as part of its Thematic Digital Competence Centres ss-nes.github.io

Online Event: Integrating Repositories into the broader Open Science Landscape Thursday 30th October, 4pm

How much are you spending on collections and publishing? Here's a breakdown of TU Delft's projected collections and publication costs for 2026. (Roughly 7.6m Euros in total) (Thanks to Louise Otting for collating figures)

What is Ricgraph? Ricgraph, also known as Research in context graph, enables the exploration of researchers, teams, their results, collaborations, skills, projects, and the relations between these items. www.ricgraph.eu/what-is-ricg... Developed by Rik Janssen from University of Utrecht

DH Benelux will take place in beautiful Maastricht in early June 2026 The call for papers is now open 2026.dhbenelux.org/call-for-pap...

Great to see Barcelona Declaration team tackling openness of publication metadata Lack of clarity in this area has really hampered efficient sharing and discovery

Advocacy Kit for Open Science And EU project (Skills4EOSC) has created an Advocacy Kit to empowers users to promote Open Science skills to policymakers and funders to help foster steady policy support.

@4turesearchdata.bsky.social are piloting Codecheck ✅ This helps verify that the code behind research outputs runs and successfully reproduces the key results from the related publication. data.4tu.nl/info/about-y...

Congrats to three nominees for Leo Waaijers Open Science award! - Barcelona Declaration (www.researchequals.com) - ResearchEquals (www.researchequals.com) - EnvisionBox (envisionbox.org) ukb.nl/nieuws/de-sh...

Come and work with a great team!

Not quite sure what to make of Unesco's Museum of Stolen Heritage website museum.unesco.org It feels like some art wellness app by a developer who's revisiting his 2007 love of Adobe Flash Why not just use web standards?

Our Diamond OA publisher, TU Delft Open, published 45 books in 2024 20 textbooks, 18 edited volumes, 4 conference books, 3 monographs One significant growth area: interactive textbooks (25% of the textbooks) openpublishing.tudl.tudelft.nl/tu-delft-ope...

🎉Great to see @internetarchive.eu developing in Europe. 💪We're going need 'em!

Some early (slightly bland?) research on how ChatGPT is used. “Practical Guidance,” “Seeking Information,” and “Writing” are the three most common topics and collectively account for nearly 80% of all conversations. www.nber.org/system/files...

Interested in coordinating a two year project to improve digital skills for researchers in the sciences? Then apply for this position @4turesearchdata.bsky.social careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-Pr...

This is a thoughtful article on standing firm on CC licences and reuse in the AI scraping era. Also, was / is CC-BY a mistake?

Loving the concept and content on News Minimalist: newsminimalist.com Using ML to rank news stories by "importance" (scale, impact, novelty, credibility, legacy) and gives you a feed of only high scoring items. At first glance, better quality than the front page of the BBC, Guardian, or NYT

Research Software Training NL has got a new lease of life! A network bringing together and facilitating training organisations in the Netherlands in the areas of research software, programming skills, applied data science, computational skills and open source. researchsoftwaretraining.nl/about/

Great to see Utrecht University Library decide to stop with Web of Science. And also good to see that their ageument centres on the importance of open.

Here's Google's commitment to the Digital Humanities, from 2010 I wonder how well it is holding up

CRIS tenders, Open Science projects, Scholarly Communications Principles and more Quick list of work being done by TU Delft Library Research services in autumn 2025 library4research.tudl.tudelft.nl/2025/09/03/w...

💻Good software development is essential for more than half of scientific research (probably even more) 🏛️How do institutions deal with issues around ownership, sharing, archiving of such software? 🗒️A good list of policies from @researchsoftware.bsky.social www.researchsoft.org/institutiona...

We had a couple of false starts at TU Delft in using the iRods software for research data management. But now we are finally getting somewhere with using it with various different interfaces, to suit different use cases and user skill levels. Explanation of why iRods: vmblog.com/archive/2024...

The mere existence of the phrase 'Holocaust AI slop' is a terrible indictment of current technological position "BBC reveals web of spammers profiting from AI Holocaust images" www.bbc.com/news/article...

In 2021, CC Certificate alum and Learning Developer at the Delft University of Technology, Bea de los Arcos, started a project called “We Like Sharing”, a bank of over 1,000 photos taken by TU Delft staff, students, and alums under a CC license. Check it out: www.flickr.com/people/welik....

Ernst Kuipers, who was the public face of Dutch hospitals during the Covid-19 outbreak, is appointed to be Chair of TU Delft's Supervisory Board www.tudelft.nl/en/2025/tu-d...

🎻Trying out the browser 'Vivaldi' 🇳🇴According to their website the Norwegian team behind it are "fighting to end the relentless exploitation of the web and civil discourse for corporate profit." vivaldi.com/for-a-better...

Common mistake among less digitally literate managers: mistaking back up for good information management. Having a reliable second copy of files and data barely meets needs for good digital preservation, let alone vibrant information management.

Back to work after a break in Scotland, and a visit to Jupiter Artland - a rarity amongst museums in having a (very colourful) swimming pool for visitors

I scan and edit a lot of people's texts and documents and emails as part of my job. "Did you get AI to write this?" nearly always pops into my head.

I've been experimenting with moving away from Google services to European variants like @proton.me It's hard work. Even for a service like Calendar, where the technical interoperability is quite low. But the social interoperability is much higher, because of all the shared calendars on Google

Fears about AI are allowing academic publishers to grab control of the scholarly ecosystem. My colleague Louise Otting has written about this here: library-collections.tudl.tudelft.nl/2025/06/they...

Map: Where you can find sheep in Europe? brilliantmaps.com/where-you-ca...