Science is better together 🤝! A massive thank you to the Beilstein Online Talks community for 11 inspiring sessions in 2025 with over 490 participants! Most of the talks have been recorded and the videos 🎥 are part of the Beilstein Talks series in the video […] [Original post on hessen.social]

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There’s still time to register for TODAY’s FREE online #BeilsteinTalk “The value of data-sharing for reaction discovery and development” with Simon Coles and Sally Bloodworth, University of Southampton. 📅 Dec 4, 2025 🕒 3–4 pm CET 🔗 […] [Original post on hessen.social]

As an organic chemist, how can you get extra value from data without having to transform your research into something else? Find out in this Beilstein webinar, "the value of data-sharing for reaction discovery & developmen" (Simon Coles, Sally Bloodworth) www.beilstein-institut.de/en/talks/org... ⚗️

Are there examples of successful academic boycotts? I can think of several unsuccessful examples, like the PLoS petition and the Cost of Knowledge boycott. Getting academics to make and stick to collective agreements is like herding cats […]

Coming up next week: Online #BeilsteinTalk “The value of data-sharing for reaction discovery and development” with Simon Coles and Sally Bloodworth @unisouthampton.bsky.social#BeilsteinTalk 📅 Dec 4, 2025 🕒 3–4 pm CET Register for FREE 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/28t68s9w #FAIRdata #DataSharing #BeilsteinTalks

💯. The enormous drain caused by for-profit publishers persists b/c (a) they have a monopoly on the high-prestige journal titles; and (b) researchers and evaluators (e.g., T&P committees, deans, letter writers) use journal prestige as indicator of quality. We have met the enablers and they are us.

Happy to support the great work being done by the @inchi-trust.bsky.social team. There is an online call tomorrow at 6 pm if you are interested in learning more. Let me know and I can send you the link.

🚀 Explore #DiamondOpenAccess and its impact on #ScientificPublishing 🎓. Join Dr. Barbara Hissa @barbarahissa.bsky.social as she unpacks this equitable model and tackles your top questions at #NanoBW. 📅 Dec 9–10, 2025 | Bad Herrenalb, Germany ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/mtky9mjm #EDITOURS #BJNANO 💎🔓

And it's a wrap! #Ontologies4Chem Workshop took place in Limburg, Germany. Thank you NFDI4Chem, Beilstein-Institut and NFDI for Catalysis-Related Sciences - NFDI4Cat for making this event a success. Picture credit: Oliver Koepler

From #marialeptin, president of the European Research Council (#erc, @ERC_Research). There are two threats to #academicfreedom. One is the kind of direct ideological pressure from heads of state like Viktor Orbán and Donald Trump. The other is a more insidious "web of incentives" self-imposed by […]

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

Excellent new paper. https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 "The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science; we need the most powerful members of the research community – funders, governments and Universities – to lead the drive to […]

Oooh I like this... let's print and hand out at conferences!

Applying a license to your research data is essential to clarify how it can be used, shared, and reused. This video guides you through defining usage rights and aligning with FAIR principles and funder mandates. youtu.be/8-R1psZbOpc?...

Invitation to join the online #BeilsteinTalk “Micro- and nanoscale adaptations in insect-attachment pads: Evolutionary insights from stick and leaf insects” with Thies H. Büscher @tbuescher.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de#BeilsteinTalkon 📅 Nov 14, 2025 🕒 3–4 pm CET: 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/327fvxum  #BeilsteinTalks

🤯 Electronics that disappear? Forget e-waste and risky long-term implants. Transient electronics are here, built to dissolve when you're done ♻️ ➡️ https://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjnano/articles/16/109?B=y #TransientElectronics #bioelectronics #sustainability #TechInnovation #BJNANO 💎🔓

Recording now available - Mainstreaming Diamond: Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpnt... 🔸 @kirahopkins.bsky.social 🔸 @rupertgatti.bsky.social 🔸 @joedeville.bsky.social 🔸 @joannaball.bsky.social 🔸 @theblochian.bsky.social Chaired by @paulaclemente.bsky.social

Last drawing for the 2025 Nobel prize in #chemsky done. And last book of the series submitted. Next week it should be available online :)

#OAWeek is coming up! Don’t miss our webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond – Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures With @joedeville.bsky.social, @theblochian.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @rupertgatti.bsky.social & @joannaball.bsky.social 🗓️ 24 Oct | 🕐 1 pm BST 🔗 www.openlibhums.org/...

Wei Zhang (Zhejiang University, previous head of NSFC, UNESCO OS) declares 4 hurdles to #OpenAccess adoption #OASPA2025: 1) JIF (cf. @DORAassessment.bsky.social); 2) publisher double dipping; 3) non-transparent pricing; 4) one size fits all models/ignoring global south

Find out more about @thoth-metadata.bsky.social on their website 🔗 thoth.pub

Invitation to join the FREE online #BeilsteinTalk “Tungsten aldehyde #oxidoreductase – a new type #hydrogenase” w/ Maciej Szaleniec from @polskaakademianauk.bsky.social#BeilsteinTalk🇵🇱 on Oct 23, 2025 🕒 3–4 pm CEST. Just register 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/25e8vpyt #biochemistry #biocatalysis #enzymes #BeilsteinTalks

DataCite #Metadata is Now Integrated in #OpenAlex datacite.org/blog/datacit... @datacite.org #libraries #scholcomm

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-...