Africa is under-represented in global governance structures, sidelined from decisions that directly affect its populations. Its demands are clear: a greater role in rule-making and agenda-setting within existing global institutions.

Right. A bit more about what we’re up to. Would love feedback, do stick a comment at the end. And do please consider signing up to find out more www.thenerve.news open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

The @realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive for this week is Postcolonial African sci fi and fantasy meeting western anglosphere markets. Whether it’s district 9, Nnedi Okorafor novels, Black Panther, the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, give me your recommendations!

Of course Nine Inch Nails would have a Linux command as a song title in their soundtrack to Tron 3.

"Well what a huge surprise" - no woman, ever

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

No no not scary at all.... www.ft.com/content/8752...

“They want our ideas. They just don’t want us.” Kenyan 'shadow scholars' writing essays for UK university students www.theguardian.com/education/20...

A quick reminder to all those who care about open research to consider joining us for the FOR2026 Conference in the Future of Open Research at the Technical University of Munich in May 4-6, 2026! Deadline for paper and poster proposals: 30 September opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-con...

A huge pleasure to be talking at the Public Hearing of Making Sense Of Open Science at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague.

I was standing talking to a friend today outside this new restaurant in chapel market. Some drunk prick came over and gave them a load of abuse, popping their balloons. Anyway, it looks very nice if anyone wants to eat Japanese

Teachers are so often a glue that holds society together.

⚠️📣 An excellent opportunity for those seeking ways to work toward reforms in scientific publishing! ASAPbio seeks new board members to support our mission of driving positive change in science communication!🚀 We welcome ECRs and people from all around the world! 📅Deadline: Sep 5

We Have AI Now www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...

Listen if you have tiny kids I'm here to tell you you have *no idea* how many work/social days will be lost to chickenpox in the coming years if you don't get this jab. How many days you will pay for but not use at nursery. Get the jab.

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

I do wish that instead of researchers saying "Graph theory is a marvellous tool for analysing connected data" they admitted "Graph theory is the only tool we're aware of to analyse connected data".

Going to college and getting ChatGPT to write your essay is like going to the gym to watch YouTube videos of other people working out

Mad post alert: if any of the good people of Bath find a really great royal blue cardigan, lost in the street by someone distracted by gawping at the stone in the sunlight, it's mine 🥲

Hi @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social - hmmm. Any thoughts on this opinion here? I'm not trying to lay landmines for you but it would be good to know what you think.

Discover DANS’ reusable training materials on RDM, FAIR, and open science, published on Zenodo with licenses and citation info. Benefit from lesson plans, slides, and guides designed to support data professionals and researchers alike: edu.nl/v869m #RDM #OpenScience #FAIRdata

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F*** Yeah!!! #IAreMapNerd www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

🎓New data shows top unis are enrolling more UK undergraduates due to “uncertainty” over international recruitment and mounting financial pressures, outperforming lower-ranking institutions which are typically more reliant on the domestic market on.ft.com/46REXsB

Final opportunity to apply for free UK Reproducibility Network Open Research training! 📣 Do you want to support openness, stronger research with greater impact, knowledge equity and social justice? Find out more and how to apply: staff.sussex.ac.uk/news/article... #SussexUni #OpenResearch

Worth paying attention to here. GitHub is going in under Microsoft's AI umbrella. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

It's Perseids time again. Also, you can curse at the moon this round. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

Assistant Professor - Knowledge Systems, Infrastructures, Communities, and Cultures. Another job at the University of Toronto Faculty of Information. www.ischools.org/post/assista...

The Journal of Open Source Software (@joss-openjournals.bsky.social‬) is looking for editors. Come join our team! I've only been an editor for a few months, but I love working with JOSS. Our peer review process is actually collaborative, and we're Diamond Open Access. #AcademicSky 🧪 ⚗️ #CompChem

The worst thing that Trump has done is under-publicised: USAID cuts will kill 14 million people by 2030, predicts @TheLancet . It thinks USAID saved an unimaginable 92 mn lives in 20 years through 2021. Very worth your time reading this by @davidpilling @financialtimes.com on.ft.com/4mv30SP

I am not sure I have "non-political opinions“. But here we go. 1) Marmite is awful. (Sorry)

Dad’s Rock #PrideAndPrejudice

am officially hyper-ventilating now.... www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

This is exactly the kind of ” Metascience of AI for Science" I long hoped to see. www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s...

A provocative piece on science reform... elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...

Forgot it's still before sunset it's been dark for 3 hours. Keep an eye out for that sunset.

Trump spoke of “shylocks,” which is one of the most recognizable antisemitic terms in modern English. Watch who tries to explain this away.

Jesus

Big story breaking this evening. Alan Turing Institute told to focus on defence or lose funding. The science secretary Peter Kyle has threatened to pull defence R&D funds, while reforms could see EPSRC grant revisited. Free to read. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

The resurgence of violence in South Sudan has seen 165,000 flee their homes and 100,000 take refuge in neighbouring countries. The civilian death toll has just reached a five-year high. These migrants ⬇️ don’t even have a connection with South Sudan.

Attending the session on leading by example within the metascience community. We've been told that all difficult questions will be answered. #Metascience2025

Big question of the day seems to be - How do we balance crit of science & sci methods with those out in the world who want to use that to use that to discredit science. I liked response in keynote explaining that when the public are told about uncertainty they actually trust more. #Metascience2025

just rereading a message which had the following typo "...but nothing is 10% safe." am now disappearing down an epistemological rabbit hole. I may be some time.

....and then Olivia Rodrigo and Robert Smith did a duet and the world was momentarily all good again. 👍 💖

Really feeling the love here 🤨

We need a noun for the phenomenon of endlessly clicking like and share on LinkedIn because they’re your mates and you don’t want to let them down.

View across The Meadows to Marchmont this evening.

Open science nerds might find this interesting, on the retracted research of Hans Eysenck, the "people's psychologist." helenlewis.substack.com/p/the-flawed...