AGREE furiously with @samuelmoore.org (Radical Open Access) the 2012 Finch report was a very destructive document for OA. The commercialisation of OA: journals need quick processing, publish as many as possible, little intervention of humans. This is an anathema to scholar led publishing #OASPA2025

Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social telling a room full of publishers that the lack of good faith in R&P agreements has to stop. What planet are commercial publishers living on? Constant grind for library staff to deal with what she describes as this “garbage”. #OASPA2025

Join us on October 21st to chat about "Data Standards in Chemistry" Free webinar organized by ChemSpider @rsc.org rsc.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #FAIRchemistry #openstandards #datastandards #chemistrystandards

Prof. Demmy. Verbeke explaining that KU Leuven Library has made a stand & spends zero budget on APCs or TAs. Instead, the library invests in nonprofit #openaccess publishing & infrastructure #OASPA2025

Coming up on Thursday 📅 Sept 25, 2025 🕒 3–4 pm CEST Join the FREE online #BeilsteinTalk “Single or double? A radical approach to frustrated Lewis pairs” with Rebecca L. Melen @rebeccamelen.bsky.social#BeilsteinTalkfrom Cardiff University. Just register🔗 https://tinyurl.com/25df8v5p #MainGroupChem #BeilsteinTalks

The video 🎥 of the #BeilsteinTalk “Computational approaches in improving spermine-based RNA #nanocarriers" with Olivia Merkel, LMU München @lmumuenchen.bsky.social , is NOW available 🔓 in the video portal of the TIB Hannover: 🔗 https://av.tib.eu/media/71537 #DrugDelivery #siRNA #BeilsteinTalks

just had this convo with my colleage @barbarahissa.bsky.social - we have too many examples of wonderful, open infrastructures that unfortunately are not being used by researchers - how to engage them?

Same with commercial proprietary software when we could have been investing in people and building our own infrastructures.

Chemistry: It is impossible to have equitable no-apc open access for high quality journals. High Energy Physics: Hold my bosons..

Check out my new op-ed urging NIH to disallow taxpayer dollars towards journal publication fees — something both publishers and scientists have played a role in perpetuating. 2/

It's so saddening to see how a movement with such good intentions has been co-opted and commercialised to such an extent that it's effectively now just a means for channelling public money in corporate pockets. For me, if it's not Diamond I don't want to know. #OpenAccess

What might seem like a small announcement—it’s just one institution—actually carries substantial weight and has a strong symbolic meaning. @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, has taken another bold step: it won't renew its Web of Science license. www.uu.nl/en/news/acce...

Final spots are still open to present at the 6th #EnzymeML Workshop! Got research on how to better share and standardize enzymatic data? This is your chance to share your work with the community.  Submit your abstract today and secure your spot! 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/4va7ay75 #EnzymeML2025 #STRENDA

DM: Incentivized reviewers had slightly higher positive response, and were a bit faster in sending in reviews. The incentivized manuscript surprisingly had a slightly longer time-to-acceptance. The peer review time, however, is just a small fraction of the total editorial time. #PRC10

#Stammtisch is coming up.⠀ ⠀ "Feeding Open Databases with AI-powered Literature Extraction Tools: The COCONUT–MARCUS Pipeline" Don't hesitate to register:⠀ 26.9.2025 14 CET⠀ ⠀ https://www.nfdi4chem.de/event/stammtisch/ ⠀##chemistry #rdm #fdm #research data #research data #fairdata #workshop

In today's episode of Why Standards Matter - chemists vent frustration about the lack of standards for abbreviation. #chemicalstandards #openstandards

We are pleased to welcome nominations for our annual Lectureship, which celebrates early career researchers, either in academia or industry, who have made significant contributions in the fields of medicinal chemistry and drug discovery. 👉 Details here: www.rsc.org/standards-an...

Coming up next week: Invitation to join the FREE livestream 🎥 of the Beilstein Enzymology Symposium 2025 “Natural and synthetic evolution of catalysis” in Rüdesheim 🇩🇪, 📅 Sept 9–11, 2025. 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/y37jc353 #BeilsteinEnzymology2025 #biocatalysis  @mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social‬

@brembs @ERC_Research Yes, in brief: - transparent, equitable, and open access to scholarly publications - not-for-profit, open access and multi-format, with no costs for authors or readers (Diamond OA) - encourage Member States to support the pilot programme Open Research Europe (to create a […]

This should have been big news! Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals: FWF 🇦🇹 RCN 🇳🇴 Forte 🇸🇪 ARIS 🇸🇮 SRC 🇸🇪 FCT 🇵🇹 CSIC 🇪🇸 DFG 🇩🇪 Formas 🇸🇪 ANR 🇫🇷 Only two of them issued press releases in […]

Registration is OPEN! The preliminary agenda for the 4th Ontologies4Chem Workshop 2025 in Limburg an der Lahn is online. The workshop will take place on 📅 11–13 November, 2025 and is jointly organized by ,@NFDI4Chem, @NFDI4Cat, Physical Sciences Data […] [Original post on hessen.social]

Are you ready to develop your bioinformatics skills? From #AlphaFold to microscopy data analysis, make 2026 the year you develop your knowledge with @training.ebi.embl.org and @events.embl.org. 👉 View the calendar: embl.org/about/info/c... #datascience #computationalbiology #lifescience 🧬🖥️

The August @inchi-trust.bsky.social newsletter is filled with exciting updates, progress and highlights. Check it out: mailchi.mp/inchi-trust/... #ChemicalDataStandards #InChI

"Further, it is also often stated that the quality of peer review is higher at high JIF journals, but we know of no good evidence to support this."

Summary of the the highlights of our recent technical InChI meeting: stereochemistry in molecular inorganics, atropisomers, polymer InChI, our development philosophy, governance / implementation, and tools / APIs / reference data. www.inchi-trust.org/shaping-the-... #chemsky @herreslab.bsky.social

Very good article and thread about open alternatives to google scholar, which clearly will go away when its founder retires. The @barcelonadori.bsky.social movement is getting a lot if attention and OpenAlex.org a lot of support. The Lens currently looking for new home about.lens.org/expressions-...

This is an excellent illustration of how useless the "Impact Factor" metric is. The most influential multidisciplinary chem journals are JACS and Angewandte. They did not make the list. In this short ad hoc 🧵 I will analyze in real time what made the list and why. I have a bad feeling about this.

A huge welcome to the newest member of our team, Dr. Christoph Müller! Christoph will be an invaluable addition to the Beilstein ChemInfo Labs and putting his skills to work to help us further develop the #InChI project. ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/yupwfa4c @inchi-trust.bsky.social‬

A reminder to please not use the JIF as an indicator of quality or at least consider presenting the metric in the context of a variety of journal-based metrics www.oajournals-toolkit.org/indexing/jou... @dorassessment.bsky.social and @coarassessment.bsky.social can provide guidelines here.

Guidance for Narrative CVs - New report out! Funded by @edicaucus.bsky.social, underrepresented researchers, trainers, research support staff, Narrative CV experts, and funders came together to explore what’s working well and where opportunities lie. Read the report at doi.org/10.15126/901...

VACANCY: OAPEN & @doabooks.bsky.social are seeking a Head of Technology to oversee the development & maintenance of our technical environments & other ICT-related tasks. Read the full job description and find out how to apply here: oapen.org/article/vaca... Application deadline: Friday 5 September

#OER #FAIRdata Directly before the #CORDI conference of @nfdi.de at @rwth.bsky.social ! enjoy a whole day with excellent talks by international guests and lively exchange! Contributions from @codata-isc.bsky.social and @psdi-uk.bsky.social and many more...

🚀 We’ve launched the new MassBank! — redesigned with a faster backend, better search, and powerful tools for exploring & sharing mass spectral data. Enjoy the fresh experience https://t1p.de/ar5yz ##chemistry #Chemie #rdm #fdm #researchdata #NFDI4Chem #fairdata #workshop #chemsky

The #NIH is calling for public comments on its plan to cap the use of grant funds to pay #APCs#nih It seeks comments on five listed options or suggestions for other options. https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-138.html The comment deadline is September 15, 2025. The NIH […]

🏆On July 31, the birthday of Primo Levi, it was announced that Jean-Marie Lehn will receive the Primo Levi Award. Presented by the German Chemical Society GDCh, the Italian SCI, and the International Center for Primo Levi Studies in Torino, this award will be conferred to Lehn on December 3 in Rome.

FREE participation: Online #BeilsteinTalk “Next-generation drug and vaccine delivery for global health” w/ Ana Jaklenec from the MIT @mitkochinstitute.bsky.social#BeilsteinTalkon 📅 Aug 5, 2025 🕞 3:30–4:30 pm CEST. Just register 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/2wxahpff #DrugDelivery #vaccines #GlobalHealth #BeilsteinTalks

Reporting uncertainty: an updated convention for organic chemists: zenodo.org/records/1641... A primer describing steps for researchers to calculate and format mean values, confidence intervals, and impactful plots that describe the reproducibility of any numerical reaction outcome.

💬 #EDCHVoices – What would a logo for #DiamondOA look like? There’s no shared symbol yet, but as #DiamondOA grows, so does the need for a clear visual identity. Something that reflects its values: #openness, #equity, #collaboration. Simple? Symbolic? Playful? 👉 Add your voice:

Thanks for posting - love seeing all these faces here. And many thanks for hosting and all that you do for this community and beyond @herreslab.bsky.social 🤗 #InChI is alive, making great progress and in great hands!

Diamond Open Access publishing is your topic and you want to network internationally? Then come to Göttingen and join the final @craft-oa.bsky.social conference 6-8 October 2025 www.craft-oa.eu/conference/ Program out soon, amazing line up of initiatives, publication strategies, publishing services.

Highly intense 1st day of our Technical InChI Meeting comes to an end - thank you so much for the productive energy by the people here and those joining online! And thanks for support by @volkswagenstiftung.de and @nfdi4chem.de ! The @inchi-trust.bsky.social advances #openscience !

Webinar targeting librarians: Using #OpenAlex to Support Campus OA Policy Outreach sparcopen-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Considering a CC BY-NC-ND license to prevent AI training? Due to exceptions AI tools can access copyrighted works. Your license choice only affects commercial and derivative use: translations, educational adaptations, etc. Watch a clip from our recent webinar to learn more: youtu.be/9TvQ8NtsV0c

Join the online #BeilsteinTalk "New electrophiles, strategies, and catalysts for cross-electrophile coupling" with Daniel J. Weix @weixgroup.bsky.social @uwmadison.bsky.social#BeilsteinTalkon 📅 July 24, 2025 🕓 4–5 pm CEST‬. Participation is FREE – just register 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/5e3kab6s #BeilsteinTalks‪‬‬

Many thanks to the participants of our workshop “Successfully navigating your career in research through collaboration” at the ESOC 2025 ⚗️ in Copenhagen 🇩🇰. Check out the photo gallery ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/5dy8cvh8 #BeilsteinESOC @esoc2025.bsky.social

(1) talk to the editor, not the authors (2) use functional language (3) don't speculate (4) put your strongest points first (5) make it as easy as possible for your points to be understood (6) do not reveal anything about yourself (7) cheer up, this is just Tuesday for some of us

Thanks @egonw.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy for starting this project to collect IUPAC and chemical names and especially for the choice to make this all available with a CC0 license. We look forward to contributing more to this in the future. Please share with others in the #FAIRchemistry community!

My own university has a "strategic goal" to increase research "outputs" by 10% annually (7 year doubling time). Your university is almost surely working towards the same. University rankings are now the main driver of this damaging institutional behavior. Publication is an out-of-control arms race.

⏰ 68 days left to apply! Researchers in maths, computer science & natural sciences (with university/institute affiliation) can apply to our “Innovative Research” funding line. Funding: €100–500 k | Deadline: 16 Sep 25 | Start from 06/26. Info & application: shorturl.at/DJv35

How do we support those behind the scenes in #DiamondOA? By helping them build skills, at their own pace, on their own terms. That’s the #EDCHTrainingPlatform. Summer’s the perfect time to: 🔹 Strengthen editorial workflows 🔹 Rethink how we publish 🔹 Improve discoverability 🔹 Learn to support others