What next for open access as Coalition S scales back its ambitions? www.chemistryworld.com/news/what-ne...

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Are you involved in health research or social care research? Check this out. Great work being done by OHRIN (Open Health Research Ireland Network). This is a practitioner network committed to advancing open health research.

Completely agree with this 🔽 Also gift a book! Share a story you love, or something you'd like to read, and make time to discuss it with the person you gift it too. This can make reading so much more enjoyable. 📚💙 #Booksky

It's Library Ireland Week! Let us know how libraries light the way for you and the best entry will win an iPad! We want to hear from you! And remember to use the hashtag so we can find your submission! Visit https://libraryirelandweek.ie/ for further details! #LIW25

“I started reading this article and found some interesting references that I decided to read as well,” Moore told Retraction Watch. “To my surprise, those articles didn’t exist.”

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

With AI companies exploiting our collective knowledge for profits, we fear that people and platforms will stop sharing openly. We’re building a solution to protect the commons and create checks and balances on AI. Support this ambitious project with a gift today. www.classy.org/give/313412/...

I've been busy reading over the last while because I've been asked by @dublincitylibs.bsky.social to give a talk about books to brighten up the winter evenings! 📚 💕 I'll be in Raheny Library on Wed 10th and Cabra Library on Thurs 11th Dec at 6.30pm Please share 🙏 www.dublincity.ie/events/books...

Rest easy Tom. Your wonderful legacy will live on for my years to come.

“What is that unforgettable line?” ― Samuel Beckett

"In the solitude of a book, we find ourselves a little more willing to be vulnerable to having our mindset challenged." - Nick Raines The main difference between people who want to ban books and me: They would feel threatened by that quote. I feel *energized* by it.

More on our microcredential, this time HEAnet! Interested? Closing date: 25th Jan 2026 Apply: lnkd.in/eg5njqXq Get in touch: [email protected] hashtag#datastewards hashtag#datastewardship hashtag#openresearch hashtag#microcredential hashtag#FAIRdata hashtag#CARE www.heanet.ie/news/heanet-...

US Unesco withdrawal puts open science at risk - Research Professional News https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe-views-of-europe-2025-11-us-unesco-withdrawal-puts-open-science-at-risk/

Very concerning 🔽 #AI

NASA astronaut films Northern Lights from space. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

I have loved books as Christmas presents ever since I was a small child both giving and receiving. These days bookshops as much as the books are a delight for me from small and intimate to large where I can sit with a coffee like this one. A favourite

Common myth conceptions informationisbeautiful.net/visualizatio...

European Court of Justice ruling slams Ireland on water quality, a ‘national embarrassment’. How long more will the people of this country put up with our rivers being destroyed for private profit? share.google/xzTWNuALN6PE...

UCC's FAIR Data Forum – Establishing a Data Culture Using Frameworks to Navigate the Waves of Marine Data. Online on the 21st of November 12.30 to 13.30pm. More about The Marine Insitute and FAIR: datascience.codata.org/articles/10.... Register for the event here: libcal.ucc.ie/calendar/Eve...

Join us next year (26-27 February 2026) to explore the future of community-led open access book publishing 🔮 📍 Loughborough University | London or online 🥳 Registration is now open! 🎫 Get your ticket now! buff.ly/DhtaOAJ #CopimConference

Great blog post here from @openaire.bsky.social on our packed workshop at #NORFest2025, which brought together librarians, data stewards, and #OpenScience practitioners to shape the next phase of Ireland’s #OpenResearch monitoring! @norfireland.bsky.social #NORFest

Why isn't public research truly open? 🛑 Barriers to open access publishing include👇 💬 What other barriers to open access publishing have you encountered?

Attn: Schools & Libraries! Do you have any of these old book carts / library trolleys going unused? Little Deer wants them! We lucked into a few at the start and then bought a few over the years. Now I want more!

Hi #medlibs et al who is providing guidance for systematic reviews of incidence and prevalence these days? I thought it was JBI but I am missing something. TYIA

Fairytale stuff! IRLvHUN

Troy Parrott you legend!!!!! 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪 Happy tears today!!!! 😁😁🍾😭

A paper critiquing post-publication peer review has numerous made-up references, including a @nature.com article falsely attributed to our Ivan Oransky. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Ole ole ole ole!! Our lads gave their all tonight! Lots of great performances - Coleman, Cullen, Kelleher, Ogbene & of course Parrott to name but a few!! 🇮🇪

Great to see a few goals on our scoresheet! Come on Ireland!! 🇮🇪 #COYBIG Ire V Por #WorldCupQualifiers

The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative. The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.

Tim Sweeney, creator of Epic Games and Fortnite, has made a powerful move for nature by purchasing extensive land in North Carolina dedicated to conservation efforts. This initiative will protect vital ecosystems for generations to come! 🌳 #Conservation #TimSweeney #EpicGames #NorthCarolina

I’ve seen this shared several times with the header and footer not visible, so you can’t see the artists’s name. Credit: Leo the Alien — alienyrox on redbubble and other platforms.

⭐Well, she's arrived—the 2026 Irish Writers Handbook⭐ Find yours here ⬇️ ⬇️⬇️ and in all good bookshops imminently! wordwellbooks.com/index.php?ro... @stomaselli.bsky.social @janecasey.bsky.social @niamhgarvey.bsky.social @oliviahopewriter.bsky.social @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social

"We’re entering uncertain times; a chaotic transition is coming as universities shift away from commercial models to cheaper, more sustainable, non-profit alternatives. As with any publishing revolution, there will be winners and losers." @theblochian.bsky.social on community-led publishing.

What are the differences between #RightsRetention and #SecondaryPublishingRight? Both help achieve #OpenAccess, but the mechanisms differ. #OA100 🎓💪 Librarians: Your authors and institutional leaders need you to clarify this distinction!

The Getty Museum has made 88,000 artworks available for free under CC0 licenses! This is a huge win for open culture—for art lovers, creators, educators, learners, researchers, and all future generations. Huge congratulations to the Getty for this big step! getty.edu/art/collection 🖼️

Fresh preprint from @alittleroad.bsky.social, @scholtom.bsky.social, @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, and I: From Mission to Market: The Commercialisation of Institutional Publishing zenodo.org/records/1754... (We have some ideas of where to submit...)

"We had never read anything quite like it," said Roddy Doyle www.npr.org/2025/11/10/n...

@springer.springernature.com produces another example for my presentation subtitled "what to be aware of when you decide where to publish" to academics and researchers. www.linkedin.com/posts/guilla...

Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat with guests Mirjam Sophia Glessmer (@mirjamglessmer.bsky.social) and Robert Kordts (@robertkordts.bsky.social) on Wednesday, 12th November 2025 at 20:00 GMT to discuss How to teach for sustainability lthechat.com/2025/11/07/l...

⚙️ How best to facilitate interoperability between #OpenInfrastructure? 📣 Join us and @copim.bsky.social @scossfunding.bsky.social at this important workshop: “Beyond technical interoperability? The future of open infrastructures and open access.”

Wikipedia HERO A guy discovered a faked photo of a rare blue gas on Wikipedia. So he SYNTHESIZED THE GAS HIMSELF so that he could photograph it. Yesterday he updated the article with this real photo of trifluoronitrosomethane:

The recording for Webinar 1 of the SEDA Autumn Event Series 2025 "An Educators’ Guide to Multimodal Learning and Generative AI" is now available. www.seda.ac.uk/seda-events/...

Challenge accepted Arne 💪 Delighted for Bradley #LFC

I suspect Courtois’ arms are not legal. FIFA have a maximum arm length and he’s pulling Inspector Gadget shit out there. #LFC

A network of peer reviewers in Italy is targeting medical journals, threatening “both the scientific record and patient safety,” a team of researchers including @deevybee.bsky.social report.

If you work at an academic institution, are a funder, or an Open Science policymaker, please join us at the 7th meeting of the European #RightsRetention Community of Practice! We will hear perspectives from Slovenia on the implementation of a rights retention obligation and from Sweden on RR & SPR.

Worth a read ⬇️ Not something I had considered before...