This isn't really a judgment on Openrxiv, which just reflects the reality of sustaining non-profit infrastructure right now, but it probably shows the need for institutions to get involved in funding the preprint landscape before it's all commercialised rather than community governed.

I wonder if the differing responses to AI are down to arXiv having a sustainability model that's more mature and dependent on institutional funding, while Openrxiv is newer and looking to more to commercial services and partnerships for sustainability.

This is why we can’t have nice things

new exhibition 'robotron: code and utopia' on the history of gdr computer technology looks great gfzk.de/en/aktivitae...?

AfD here, but presumably would be same in other countries too: "mainstream parties had increasingly reshaped their communications to respond, boosting the spread of these ideas and signalling to voters that these ideas and stances were legitimate." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

I just updated my Keywords Index and it now links to over 550 short essays (sometimes articles) on concepts and terms that are necessary for studying media, information, and culture. A great place to start for literature reviews. textaural.com/keywords/

Our amazing president and the American farmer he bailed out! 😍

Puerto Rican musician Bad Bunny said in an interview that he did not include the United States in his 2025-2026 concert tour because of fear that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement would raid the concert venues. https://cnn.it/4nkARya

"The current approach to AI cannot sustain itself indefinitely. The question becomes not whether current AI slop economies will destroy themselves, but when." By @katecrawford.bsky.social www.e-flux.com/architecture...

As a former assistant at the IR Chair (1993-1998) and Managing Director of the Institute (1998-2002) I kindly ask you to sign

Skeet a PERFECT Album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details: LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... (This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

📄 Facing pressures to stay competitive, researchers publish ever more, often at the cost of quality. Sagartirtha Chakraborty shows how this situation compares to a prisoner’s dilemma, explains the connection with predatory journals, and outlines solutions. www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/aca...

ich habe eine gute (PostDoc-)Stelle zu vergeben 100 % E13, zunächst 1 Jahr, ziemlich sicher aber sehr viel länger ab 1.12.2025 Soziologie & Gender Studies deadline: 15.09.2025 job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...

We built the simplest possible social media platform. No algorithms. No ads. Just LLM agents posting and following. It still became a polarization machine. Then we tried six interventions to fix social media. The results were… not what we expected. arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385

Have you already checked out this article by KHK c:o/re team member @preprintculture.bsky.social? 👀 You can find it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Formalizing Informal Communication: An Archaeology of the Early Pre-Web Preprint Infrastructure at CERN https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12812 This article deals with the early development of preprint communication in high-energy physics, specifically with how preprint communication was formalized ...📈🤖

Just posted this paper to the archive! It explores the socio-cultural factors of physics communication that were inscribed into the first formal preprint infrastructure set up in the 1960s at @cern.bsky.social. (@carlbergstrom.com thanks for endorsing!)

#PublicationDay In the article, my co-authors and I ask how biomedical and social contagion was entangled on social media during the #Covid pandemic, looking specifically at the #LongCovid community www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

And hey, I've got the handbook press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

stop doom scrolling for a moment and watch this instead

Der geschätzte Schaden durch Sozialbetrug beim Bürgergeld beträgt rund 270 Millionen Euro pro Jahr, durch Steuerbetrug 100 Milliarden. Man fragt sich langsam, ob diese Regierung willens oder in der Lage ist, reale Probleme zu lösen, statt nur Scheinproblemen nachzujagen.

There is no "science-wide replication crisis" because every word in that phrase carries unfounded assumptions. 🧵 1. There is no evidence that progress has generally stalled in the sciences. Also, no one has actually tried to estimate replicability across fields.

Ein neuer Artikel von mir ist in der ZfS erschienen: „Im Imitationsspiel. Über die Kommunikation mit Maschinen und das Streben nach Artificial General Intelligence“ www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... 💡 Wie wird aus Technik KI? Wann wird aus KI ein gesellschaftlich akzeptiertes Gegenüber? 🧵👇

How does the adoption of preprinting differ between European countries? Preprint adoption is significantly higher in Western and Northern European countries than in their Southern and Eastern European neighbors. Switzerland has the highest preprint adoption in Europe.

This is revolting. www.facebook.com/auschwitzmem...

Gerade ist ein Riesenkarton mit Ausgaben der #Exponentialgesellschaft angekommen, entsprechend große Freude beim unboxing. Danke, @suhrkamp.de! Ich verlose hier zwei Exemplare unter allen, die diesen Post bis Freitag teilen. Viel Glück! 🤞

Researchers paid $9 billion over 5 years for their findings to be freely accessible. This is based on a study of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

The publishing industry currently prioritises its needs over the research community. In a new article in @learnedpublishing.bsky.social, eLife’s Damian Pattinson and George Currie explore how scholarly communication can move towards science-led publishing. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

LSE Impact blog erite: “Want to #write for the LSE Impact Blog? Patrick Dunleavy breaks down how to turn your journal article into a blogpost, in 11 easy steps”. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

📖 We are pleased to announce the publication of "Making Media Futures. Machine Visions and Technological Imaginations". The book is edited by KHK c:o/re team members @preprintculture.bsky.social, Ana María Guzmán Olmos, Alin Olteanu and Stefan Böschen. 🔗 www.routledge.com/Making-Media...

Belatedly getting around to this characteristically fantastic talk by Lisa Gitelman (one of my favorite thinkers!) on formal + logical parallels btw type specimen books and GenAI

"Das sind alles Dinge, vor denen die Klimaforscher seit Jahrzehnten gewarnt haben. Auch ich seit den 1990er Jahren. Weil das ist ja alles auch so vorhergesagt worden, auch, dass zum Beispiel sowohl Starkregenereignisse als auch Dürren zunehmen durch die Erwärmung." @rahmstorf.bsky.social.

We cordially invite you to our workshop “After Networks: Reframing Scale, Reimagining Connections”, featuring a great program including a talk by Eduardo Kac, a keynote by @loriemerson.net and a round table on a community-centered perspective of networks. ➡️ khk.rwth-aachen.de/event-worksh...

> I had a pleasure of interviewing @pbory.bsky.social about his book "The Internet Myth", network ideology and AI imaginaries. It was fun, the full interview is here! matterofimagination.neocities.org/blog8

Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science www.wired.com/story/inside...

📖 We are happy to share that the special issue of Cybernetics & Human Knowing entitled "(Dis)entangling Cognition, Meaning, Modeling, and Environments" is out now! The issue is guest edited by Alin Olteanu, Phillip H. Roth, and Gabriele Gramelsberger. 🔗 Take a look here: chkjournal.com?q=node/490

I’m sad to hear about the passing of Jonathan Sterne. I was on a panel with him once during the pandemic and felt I had achieved something important by virtue of digital proximity 😅 To those who didn’t know his work, this post from Duke will lead you to discover this stellar media theorist.

I did something different and worked on an exhibition (with lots of fantastic people!) for a change. "Fixing Futures: Planetare Zukünfte zwischen Spekulationen und Kontrolle" will open on April 5 at Museum Giersch in Frankfurt. Come by if you are in town!

Amidst broad article retractions + editorial board resignations, "the $19B academic publishing industry is increasingly turning to AI to speed up production +, advocates say, enhance rsch quality 🙄... Wiley, Elsevier + SpringerNature have all announced the adoption of gen AI–powered tools..."

Check out our special issue in Cybernetics & Human Knowing looking at some of the “dynamics between #environments that facilitate #meaning-making and practices of #knowledge-making,” especially, but not exclusively, in #science chkjournal.com/node/490

my wonderful department @cumediastudies.bsky.social is thinking ahead to fall 2026 and we would love your help getting the word out about our MA and PhD programs! Boulder remains a safe place to weather political storms & students can join any of our labs/centers docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Fascinating 1986 film on expert systems from Bell Labs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMN3...

Vorderseitigkeit. Heute auf POP Online: Wolfgang Hottner mit Überlegungen zur Ästhetik des PDFs. pop-zeitschrift.de/2025/02/25/v...

📣 A media history of preprints in particle physics - that will be the topic of our next seminar by @preprintculture.bsky.social from @core-rwth.bsky.social, @rwth.bsky.social 🎧 Make sure to tune in! 📅 Friday, 28.02.2025 | 3:00-4:15 PM (CET) 📌 At CWTS & online www.cwts.nl/seminars/ann...

"The scientific literature is an essential ocean of knowledge, in which floats an alarming amount of junk." Reflecting on RFK Jr.'s use of scholarly papers in his confirmation hearings.

Freie Bilder! Foto Marburg stellt Fotos #openaccess www.uni-marburg.de/de/aktuelles...

Großartiger thread!

And... If you're interested in the history of the PDF - and how it was almost cancelled in development - see Eve, Martin Paul. "New Leaves: Riffling the History of Digital Pagination." Book History, vol. 25 no. 2, 2022, p. 479-502. Project MUSE, dx.doi.org/10.1353/bh.2...

Interesting piece by Robert Hassan on the impact of the typewriter on Nietzsche’s style of writing and thinking