Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Toto mi dnes udělalo obrovskou radost! Blýská se na lepší časy ⚡️

For the first time representing my new home institution, @sparc-eu.bsky.social, at a conference 🥳 #OPERASconference #operas2026

#OpenScience is core to a modern, effective, and secure research and innovation system and we urgently need to reduce the economic, organisational and legal barriers to it. The ERA Act offers a timely opportunity to make progress towards this goal.

#OpenScience isn’t really about economic efficiency – this is about who controls access to publicly funded knowledge and how moving the public subsidy of academic endeavour away from the hands of private publishers remains a key driver for change. 👉 scholarlyfutures.substack.com/p/economies-...

"Diamond OA journals struggle for legitimacy not because they lack quality, but because they are poorly integrated into prestige-based evaluation frameworks." #DiamondOA #scienceaspublicgood codata.org/blog/2026/02...

"If we’re being honest, a system that extracts value from global knowledge while concentrating prestige, access, and profit in the North looks like colonialism slipping in through the back door." -- yet another point for #DiamondOA! (from discussion under scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/03/06/g...)

Tom shares a quote from Elaine in closing #UKSG2026

"The story here isn't that publishers profit from research. It is that they are quietly occupying the infrastructure around it. (...) Universities are slowly becoming tenants in commercially governed scholarly infrastructures." Great analysis by @openlibhums.org: www.openlibhums.org/news/931/

We are HIRING! The Open Library of Humanities is seeking a PhD student to assist with editorial, marketing and technical duties. The position is fully funded and open to funded PhD students at CHASE institutions. Deadline 📅 31/03: www.openlibhums.org/news/883/

Regular reminder that RELX -- owner of academic publisher Elsevier -- is one of those brokers providing data to ICE.

OMG, the book bans are coming from US to Europe 🤯

The Northern lights were spectacular last night!

New year, new project! I am glad to be part of this wonderful #DiamondOA community! 🩷

Have a look for support resources in Book 9 of #CopimCompass Thanks to @jofitz.bsky.social @jordyfindanis.bsky.social @rupertgatti.bsky.social for creating and updating! 👉 compass.copim.pub/books/09-ope...

This. Here. Is the crux of the matter! Scholars while being the main recipient - or victims - of most decisions in the scholarly communication space, are at the same time, the least involved in co-creating these frameworks that impact them. Credit: @openreflections.bsky.social #CopimConference

Guest Post — Diamond Open Access Needs Institutions, Not Heroes - The Scholarly Kitchen

OASPA is delighted to share the recording of our lively "Beyond the Ivory Tower” webinar about the real world importance of open access today: bit.ly/4bKiHmZ Huge thanks to our speakers for showing why there has never been a better time to engage with the potential of OA as a real world benefit.

Lots of groups are responsible for the mess that open access has become, but special recognition goes to publishers creating journals to capture as many APCs from "growth areas" as possible.

New Report Urges Broader Definition of “Open Research" to Include #Arts, #Humanities and Social Science Practices (via @theul.bsky.social) www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/morp... #openresearch #socialscience @morphss.bsky.social

"Through this special issue, we invite broader discussion on Diamond OA and its future(s), from the highly conceptual to the deeply infrastructural. What is next for Diamond OA as it oscillates between the potential for either a technocratic or community-led and commons-based future?"

🚀 GRAPHIA’s Call for Pilots is live! GRAPHIA is inviting industry & commercial organisations in #SSH based in the European Research Area to explore use cases for an open knowledge graph: early access, co-design, & visibility included. 👉 https://graphia-ssh.eu/call-for-pilots/#SSH #KnowledgeGraphs

Guest Post — Putting the “U” in FAIR scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/10/g...

📢 🆂🅰🆅🅴 ​ 🆃🅷🅴 ​ 🅳🅰🆃🅴!! The OASPA 2026 annual conference will be held in Zagreb, Croatia from September 21 - 23 2026. OASPA conference page: www.oaspa.org/events/annua... Get in touch to hear about being a conference sponsor. Registration will open soon - we hope to see you in Zagreb!

"We stopped thinking about the value of the research itself and we think ‘Is this publishable?’ instead. Yes, it goes to that extent." Yensi Flores Bueso at the 3rd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access on the need of #ResearchAssessmentReform

"Most of the science is publicly funded and therefore we have a social contract to ensure that everyone can benefit from science." Yensi Flores Bueso from Global Young Academy in her contribution on #DiamondOA and #ResearchAssessment during the 3rd Diamond Summit.

"If we don't get the incentives in the right direction, #DiamondOA will not happen." Henk Kummeling, chair of @coarassessment.bsky.social, at the 3rd Diamond Summit on the need to reform #ResearchAssessment.

Not saying it was me, but… it was me. 🥳

It was always going to be a hiding to nothing, but the lawsuit accusing six major publishers of anti-competitive practices has been dismissed by a judge.

Preliminary Evidence Linking Open Science to Research Integrity scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/01/28/p...

🌎 Check out these newly published #DiamondOA resources from the @almasiproject.bsky.social If you work on open access, research policies, advocacy or community-led, non-profit publishing mechanisms, these are well worth your time 👇

I just filled the #ERAAct public consultation questionnaire - and you should too! ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

“We have the most expensive formats, the smallest print runs, the most demanding authors – and yet we still exist and thrive.” Kudos to all #HSS publishers by Ove Kähler from @mohrsiebeck.bsky.social at #APE2026.

"It's bad for people to not give us money," spokesperson for receiving money said.

"Open Access is not a business model, it's a prerequisite for science to work at its best." @colleencampbe11.bsky.social at #APE2026

Take part in an experiment in collective review & join our Experimental Publishing Group for an online peer review party on 29 Jan 2026!! 🥳 Together, you'll review Deep Maps: Blue Humanities alongside author @scrivenersmith.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy Find out more 👉

New year, new conference. Let’s see what Academic Publishing in Europe is about! #APE2026

Our public forum at University of Cambridge is officially *sold out* Looking forward to interesting discussions around the future of publishing with @ludowaltman.bsky.social and others @peercommunityin.bsky.social @elife.bsky.social @metaror.bsky.social - coar-repositories.org/news-updates...

🌍 In a turbulent world, today’s keynote at #Munin2025 “Open science in a closing world” by Kenneth Ruud hit hard. Knowledge is both tool and weapon 🧠⚔️ — and trust is our strongest shield. 🤝✨ #OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity #FFI #KnowledgeMatters

I really enjoyed the “Zine Making & The Radical Possibilities of Publishing” workshop organised by Zoe from @radishpress.bsky.social! Coming from a very traditional academic publisher, this was widely refreshing and eye opening for me! Thanks, Zoe! #Munin2025

🚀 Ready to launch into the future of #OpenPublishing and endless opportunities? Your cutting edge professional development chance is here! PKP + SFU are offering 3 new courses that will help set you up for success in today's growing #ScholarlyPublishing world: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/10/01/r...

Working in the field of #scholcomm means having opportunities to learn something interesting from so many different fields of human activity ✳️ Now, for example, I am learning about drone usage in reindeer husbandry and challenges of related data management 🤔 Wow! @muninconference.bsky.social

"Metadata is something that happens TO researchers, not FOR researchers," says Mike Nason from @pkp.sfu.ca 😆 And yet, without #metadata #scholcomm is not happening 🤷‍♀️ A to-do for all of us communication professionals to highlight their importance and help researchers handle the difficulties 💪

It has been at least 5 years since I wanted to visit the @muninconference.bsky.social. And now here I am for its 20th anniversary! 🥳 So happy!

🤞 Presenting tomorrow the @craft-oa.bsky.social & @eudch.bsky.social & the emerging Czech National Capacity Center for #DiamondOA during #OpenScienceWeek2025: www.akvs.cz/akce/akce-20...

Discover the Diamond Discovery Hub - #DDH 💎 The DDH brings Europe’s Diamond OA journals together — verified, trusted, visible — part of the @eudch.bsky.social services. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty84... @doaj.bsky.social Visit the #DDH: ddh.diamas.org/en #OpenAccess #DiamondOA

“The very idea of #OpenScience is to place the society as the main beneficiary of science. #DiamondOA seems like the only model of #scholcomm that can do it.” — @dolivauribe.bsky.social at the #CRAFT_OA2025

Proud to be part of the @craft-oa.bsky.social consortium 💜

I would never believe that this can be happening right now 🤐https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/10/pen-americas-new-censorship-report-a-disturbing-normalization-of-book-bans/ #bannedbooks #bannedbooksweek

"The university will stop sharing the data required to be included in the ranking as of 2026. As a result, Sorbonne University will no longer feature in future rankings produced by THE, which include the World University Rankings, the Rankings by Subject or the Impact Rankings." Excellent!