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...

What projects have been funded as part of the Netherlands Open Science programme? Look here! www.openscience.nl/en/projects

What kind of skills does a Data Steward need? Nida van Leersum and colleagues from her EU project have developed a training curriculum skills4eosc-dscurriculum.github.io/DataSteward-...

I love both the information and lo-fi design of HELibTech (Higher Education Library Technology) I often do unsuccessful google searches for the kind of information gathered here (on repositories, CRIS systems etc) www.helibtech.com

In the guise of protection from AI, academic publishers seem to be moving to more restrictive licences. Such licences actually take away control from scientists, and give more power to publishers. My colleague Louise Otting writes about it here library-collections.tudl.tudelft.nl/2025/06/they...

In the guise of protection from AI, academic publishers seem to be moving to more restrictive licences. Such licences actually take away control from scientists, and give more power to publishers. My colleague Louise Otting writes about it here library-collections.tudl.tudelft.nl/2025/06/they...

Enhancing Research Data Management in Chemistry, report from a joint Dutch / German workshop, held in 2024 zenodo.org/records/1505...

"Academic Databases and the Art of the Overcharge" Katina magazine looks at the prices paid for services such as Scopus and Web of Science. The title and accompanying image tell a lot. katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

"Pathways to open: University Libraries in a changing environment. Positioning academic libraries using the principles of Open Science?" @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social Utrecht University Library invites international delegates for Staff Training Week 2025: 3-7 November www.uu.nl/en/news/path...

The Dutch National Research Software day is open to anyone interested! It will take place in Delft on 25 November The call for proposals is now open nl-rse.org/pages/nrsd-2...

Hearing radical presentation from Amelie Church, librarian at the Sorbonne. Here's a slide of licences they have cancelled under banner of Open Science #rinn2025

Metadata expert? Then apply for the position of Ontology Engineer at TU Delft careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-On...

"Display Europe is a multi-lingual news hub ... enables users across multilingual Europe to follow, comment on and engage with their favourite news sources – all in their preferred language." displayeurope.eu/en

Call for funding proposals for 'Research on Open Science' from @opensciencenl.bsky.social Would be more than happy to share perspectives on Open Science from TU Delft if needed! www.openscience.nl/en/news/rese...

Attending the Public Spaces conferences in Amsterdam How can we build a better Internet, without relying on systems owned by oligarchs with dodgy political ideas. conference.publicspaces.net/en/date/2025...

Current Microsoft Cheatsheet (may change soon!) OneDrive: resolves to --> SharePoint Office com: resolves to --> CoPilot Thanks for making things straightforward MS!

This looks like a very interesting conference, with an impressive line up.

A three day retreat for anyone interested in research data and software in the natural and engineering sciences. August 2025. The location, just by the Dutch dunes and coast, sounds amazing. nescollab.nl

The most laughable part of the new US govt's 'Gold Standard' for scientific good practice is that there are no references to back up their claims.

Our current AI agents and chatbots are the digital equivalents of the literary 'unreliable narrator', such as in Vladimir Nabokov's Look at the Harlequins. availableonline.wordpress.com/2025/05/25/u...

Nice to see that the wonderfully named PIDfest will be held in Leiden in 2026 "Are you working to improve the visibility, accessibility, and reliability of research information? Then PIDfest 2026 is the place to be" communities.surf.nl/open-researc...

Exciting PhD opportunities resulting from the recently established collaboration between IHE Delft and @cwts.nl! Supervision by @utawehn.bsky.social together with @thomasfranssen.bsky.social, Ingeborg Meijer and Tjitske Holtrop.

The International Criminal Court in The Hague has had its access to Microsoft-hosted emails blocked. No clearer demonstration of why digital sovereignty is needed. www.techzine.eu/news/privacy...

Vincent Delecroix's Small Boat is a compact novel but asks big questions about migrants, and channel crossings and drowning. Who is really responsible? availableonline.wordpress.com/2025/05/04/s...

Even a simple thing like a keyboard selection seems to get MS Windows design in a twist. What the flip is going on with these choices? (Or is it a sign of changing geopolitical powers?)

It's amazing how quiet the right wing newspapers in the UK are over the Orange Clown. They know he's in the wrong, but they can't bring themselves to say it.

On managing websites: At TU Delft Library we are doing a big website change. Keeping the design fresh is important, but so is content management. We are aiming to reduce the broccoli-like 540 pages to a much more manageable 150.

So distressing to see. The Office of Digital Humanities did amazing, innovative, wide ranging work across many different disciplines, influencing countless groups, nationally and internationally And then it's gone.

If you love maps and charts and are, um, interested in drugs consumption, the Global Cocaine Report is a fascinating read. www.unodc.org/documents/da...