I recently reflected on the Royal Society Conference on the Future of Scientific Publishing and summarized my thoughts in an ISSP blog post: www.uottawa.ca/research-inn... #OpenAccess #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky

Into the underground at the National Library of Sweden, as well as the Devil’s bible/Codex Gigas. #kungligabiblioteket

Diamond Dreams, Unequal Realities: The Promise and Pitfalls of No-APC Open Access scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/15/d...

Slight spring throwback; presentations from the 2nd Nordic Bibliometric Infrastructure Spring Meeting can be found at Zenodo. Subjects included e.g. the Barcelona declaration, OpenAlex and more open and reproducible bibliometrics. zenodo-rdm.web.cern.ch/communities/...

Interesting! Modern hippos lived in Central Europe during the last ice age 🦏🦏🦣https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/pressreleases/detail/2025-10-09-hippos-lived-in-europe-in-the-last-ice-age #megafauna

Industrial Revolution Provides Millions Of Out-Of-Work Children With Jobs https://theonion.com/industrial-revolution-provides-millions-of-out-of-work-1819571223/

A different view of the KTH campus, from the clock tower. The first experimental TV broadcasts in Sweden were made from here in the 1950s.

So clearly time to now move the UN headquarters to a civilized, democratic country www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/w...

📄 Facing pressures to stay competitive, researchers publish ever more, often at the cost of quality. Sagartirtha Chakraborty shows how this situation compares to a prisoner’s dilemma, explains the connection with predatory journals, and outlines solutions. www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/aca...

What happens to democracy and academic freedom when public data disappears? Join us for a seminar on the Data Rescue Project – an initiative protecting U.S. federal datasets from disappearing. www.kth.se/en/bibliotek...

On using services with caution: www.techradar.com/ai-platforms...

Thanks for Stockholm Weezer! Would have loved to hear Simple pages though. @weezer.bsky.social

Underskatta inte EUs (och i synnerhet svenska regeringens) förmåga att fortsätta ”diskutera” (läs: förhala) eventuella åtgärder kring Israel-Gaza tills konflikten tagit slut av sig själv @utrikesdep.bsky.social www.dn.se/varlden/uppg...

Last week, President Trump removed key protections from a marine protected area that's home to coral reefs, whales, sea turtles, and countless fish. My op-ed for @us.theconversation.com explains why that's bad and we should not do that. theconversation.com/trump-is-str... 🧪🦑🌎🐟

Some thoughts on Jeff Bezos's idea of “personal liberties and free markets.” https://robertreich.substack.com/p/its-the-oligarchy-stupid

Worth remembering in these times of misinformation: EU as an organization + individual EU countries has provided more support in total to Ukraine than the USA, see e.g. data at statista.com/statistics/130…. Future pledged and allocated funds are also much higher.#WarInUkrainen#TrumpDisinformationon

Researchers can recognize a reliable source of information, making them ideal contributors to Wikipedia, the free global online encyclopaedia https://go.nature.com/3D5G0Zi

www.economist.com/by-invitatio... #supportUkraine #fucktheUSAdministration

Pretty disturbed by some of the Kremlin framing on the Trump talks being bought by parts of the media worldwide. It’s as if the genesis of the war is entirely forgotten. This isn’t a conflict which needs mediation. It was an unprovoked act of aggression. It could end tomorrow if Putin just withdrew.

Another reason to #boycottgoogle www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Depressing to see that #google is participating in fake news and humoring a deranged president. Nobody outside of the current US administration are calling this ”Gulf of America”, so why are you? maps.app.goo.gl/SBSaxoeCY5if...

Their aim is nothing short of a new Dark Ages. Anti-science, anti-education, anti-democracy, in favor of needless human suffering. NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...