Julien again hitting the bullseye; it's OK if a press comes together to publish three books, it's OK to have a lifecycle of 48 months. The temporary and ephemeral can be highly valuable and sometimes the rhetoric of sustainability and scaling is a red herring. #CopimConference

Julien McHardy emphasising the importance of generosity and care in the scholar-led open access space. Julien wrote a wonderful piece on the value of love in publishing that I often return to. doi.org/10.17351/est... #CopimConference

"I just decided it would exist and now it does." - Zoe Wake Hyde on establishing the independent press, @radishpress.bsky.social #CopimConference

Loving @radishpress.bsky.social's enthusiasm for collaboration in/as publishing. New ways of doing things should be exciting rather than intimidating!

Love to hear @radishpress.bsky.social talk about scholarled publishing & enthusiasm for radical wealth distrubution and taking money off billionaires to fund small presses

Technological determinism is a total drag.

Finished writing a new "letterpress for all" 40-page #zine, "Just my type: finding, buying, or making your 1st letterpress type" as part of a forthcoming peer-reviewed article. Will be available for free online once issue is published (will share link here at that time!).

The @openbookcollective.bsky.social is just the best damn org in the world. Their importance to the open book ecosystem cannot be overstated & I am grateful for every single bit of it. Check out their testimonials vid and get ye to your institution to support them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev-O...

A frenzy of AI hype fuels trillions in spending on costly compute infrastructure. This piece details how real profits and transformative applications lag, revealing a bubble driven less by innovation than by capital reallocation and speculative excess. By @edwardongwesojr.com buff.ly/LBy7HyO

🤝 “... The more important something is to our functioning as citizens and communities, the more important it is to be free (as in freedom!)....” –Zoe Wake Hyde @radishpress.bsky.social, #OpenMonographPress (OMP) Coordinator, PKP Continue on for more: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/16/c... #SFD2025 #FOSS

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

🤝 « Plus quelque chose est important pour le fonctionnement de nos sociétés civiles et de nos communautés, plus il est important qu'il soit gratuit et libre ! […] » - Zoe Wake Hyde, coordonnatrice d'Open Monograph Press #OMP, #PKP @radishpress.bsky.social #SFD2025 #SoftwareFreedomDay2025

ICYMI: We are hiring an Associate/Full Professor in Digital Humanities at @camdighum.bsky.social. App deadline Sep 21. The position is for Deputy Director of CDH, and eventually Director on rotational basis. Please circulate/apply and let me know if you have any Qs! www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/n...

Just checking my itinerary for tomorrow.

Whooo, buddy.

Great to read the second update from the project 🎉 You can read their first update from earlier in the year too 🔗 openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/update-o...

Instead of using AI to be feminist, maybe read my feminist book about cyborgs mitpress.mit.edu/978026254755...

Great stuff from @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca #ScholCommLab on the #NIH caps proposal and its impact: www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/09/03/n... #AcademicSky #SciSky #PoliSky #ScienceSky #science #research #Scholcom

All the cool kids have newsletters, so we do too! 😎 The first few will be posted to tease you, then you'll need to subscribe (for free or not-free) for the rest. The format might vary but you can expect some cool links, news and a meme or two. Issue #1 is out now: outsidethelines.pub/newsletter-1/

“Every single company that offers AI-generated material should have some sort of transparency standards put in place so that people know what they’re getting." Our ED @littlewow.online on AI slop in libraries and our efforts to fight it. /1 americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/09/02/b...

it's aliiiiiveeeeeee! all 700 pages of my dissertation can be found here: hdl.handle.net/2429/92159

Proud to have played even a small role on this project! Great summary post and an excellent job by the entire IOI team. After two years of intensive research, IOI's project “Investigating "reasonable costs" to achieve public access to federally funded research and scientific data” has concluded.

Delighted to see my team’s article published about our work on ‘Living with Machines’ in the @learnedpublishing.bsky.social journal 🎉 Particular thanks to our @uolpress.bsky.social Publisher @emmagallon.bsky.social for her work on this 👏 Read the article below 👇 #OABooks @oipassoc.bsky.social

Just started @samuelmoore.org 's Publishing Beyond the Market and so far my notes are all within the YES THIS EXACTLY spectrum.

Yeah well whose fault is that??

Q. How does a Community Publishing Garden grow? 🌱 A. Together! 🤝 Find out how @radishpress.bsky.social @radical-reach.bsky.social Community Publishing Garden project is blooming with support from @openbookcollective.bsky.social Collective Development Fund! 🌺

I like that this piece argues for a democratising understanding of open science over the more neoliberal one they view as common. I've always felt that a more robust understanding of democratisation is needed for open movements, rather than just assuming that democracy is implied in free culture.

if you skim 100 ai-generated book summaries you have read exactly zero books 📚

The deadline for applications for this key position at @openbookcollective.bsky.social is now a little under a week away (end of Sunday August 17th). Looking for someone to really lead our work with a range of #OpenAccess books stakeholders bsky.app/profile/open... @copim.bsky.social

In case you missed it, this workbook is a guide to thinking through when and how to take risks as a higher ed worker. It aims to help us differentiate between danger and discomfort, while also offering some practical information about how to protect yourself while taking meaningful action.

Today in luxury surveillance.

Going to play this in every “back to school now use AI” meeting

Looking for a Substack alternative? What about @ghost.org? "Millions of people can discover, follow, like and reply to your posts from any supported social web client - including @bsky.app, Mastodon, Threads, @flipboard.com, @ghost.org, @wordpress.org, @surf.social, WriteFreely, and many more."

We’re proud to publish the inaugural issue of Theory & Social Inquiry— now fully scholar-led, #DiamondOA, and free from commercial control. Read the introduction by editors Greta R. Krippner and Monica Prasad to learn why this matters: doi.org/10.16995/tsi...

🚨NEW BLOG ALERT🚨 Read our latest interview where Brown University Digital Publications – OIPA’s newest member – celebrates 10 years of digital scholarly publishing! oipauk.org/2025/07/31/b... #OpenAccess #InstitutionalPublishing #OpenPublishing

In her new book "Abolitionist Intimacies," Eithne Luibhéid talks about how queer, trans, & other marginalized migrants experience deportation. Read a Q&A with her on the blog today. buff.ly/KWm79nA

We have had a century of “big data,” seventy years of “AI,” decades and decades of Bill Gates' bullshit and “computers in the classroom.” It's batshit to believe that this time this time, the ed-tech is going to be good 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/degenerate-a...

When did game studies start? 👾👾👾 And what & WHO is at the core of game studies? 🎱 Fields are defined as much by what they are NOT as by what they are & their borderlands can be hotly contested spaces. 🕹️🎲 Download for FREE this 780-page BRICK of a book & press PLAY. 🎯 tinyurl.com/2ucxjy8a #gaming

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method

For any BlueSky friends engaged in Digital Humanities projects, here's a place to apply for seed money www.acls.org/programs/acl...

🔊 We want your feedback on new PKP + @sfupublishing.bsky.social #OpenPublishing courses! Courses: * Making Knowledge Public * #JournalManagement and Editing * Technologies and Infrastructure for #AcademicPublishing Survey open 'till Aug 8 - please share! pkp.sfu.ca/2025/07/07/w... #OpenAccess

we reads is dropping a podcast. what you can expect ~ a conversation with producer imani spence www.wehere.space/news/the-we-...

I’m not engaging with art on an output level. I don’t care how fast the machine does a thing or how many paintings or books the machine can produce. I’m looking at art as the creative evidence of human creativity and depth. If a machine does it instead, it says nothing to me. It means nothing.

Such a useful and important article when assessing tech for accessibility Disability Dongle: Another Thinking Tool for the Technoskeptical Toolbox. Via @civicsoftech.bsky.social www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/disabil...

Hello, friends! We're Monarch Queer Literary Awards, a project of @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social. Monarch is a new anthology recognizing the best new queer writing and art published by literary magazines and independent presses. 🦋 Submissions open September 1. Until then, get to know us: monarch.gay

IT'S ALIVE!! Life happens, right? We're still trying to figure out a rhythm with this thing, but we're back with a few great pieces over the coming weeks. Stay tuned!