Exploring Data Spaces in Scholarly Communications by Christina Drummond scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/17/g...

Generally Recognised Standards for use in the data protection purpose ‘archiving purposes in the public interest’ [UK] www.archives.org.uk/generally-re...

How ‘Tiny Shortcuts’ Are Poisoning Science: Seemingly harmless data tweaks are undermining the integrity of the entire field. We must define the problem to prevent it By Thomas Plümper and Eric Neumayer nautil.us/how-tiny-sho...

Text & Data Mining – E-Resource Licensing Explained berkeley.pressbooks.pub/eresourcelic...

Crossref is sunsetting Event Data: Strengthening support for data citations and saying goodbye to Event Data doi.org/10.64000/rzb...

What is an email address? proton.me/blog/what-is...

Born Private: Reserve your child’s first email address with Proton proton.me/blog/born-pr...

Why ISO 27000 is a foundation for security and compliance proton.me/blog/iso-27000

Also in version EN: Can You Brexit? A role-playing game dogsandmunsters.github.io/Can-You-Brex...

Can You Brexit? A role-playing game dogsandmunsters.github.io/Can-You-Brex...

Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity “Simplicity is a great virtue, but it requires hard work to achieve and education to appreciate. And to make matters worse, complexity sells better.” — Edsger Dijkstra terriblesoftware.org/2026/03/03/n...

Exclusive: Unrest at Wiley journal whose EIC is cited in more than half of its papers retractionwatch.com/2026/02/26/e... #RetractionWatch

Keeping Knowledge Connected – at #PIDfest 2026! scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/26/k...

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change by Colin Gorrie www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Europe is ready to ditch US tech for private alternatives proton.me/blog/europea...

Octopus is designed to change the incentives in research to ensure that what is recognised, rewarded & encouraged is what will best drive best practices * Sharing Research * Addressing Biases * Research Quality * Research Culture * Fair credit * Finding relevant research www.octopus.ac/octopus-aims

The leaders of four major physics infrastructure projects due to receive over £280m from UKRI were told in December they have “not been prioritised” for funding The projects include an upgrade to the LHC at Cern and a new US particle accelerator ...

Guest post: Forget pickles and ice cream. I published a fake paper on pregnancy cravings for prime numbers retractionwatch.com/2026/01/30/g...

@eve.gd "Institutions shifting away from big tech", eve.gd, January 25, 2026, doi.org/10.59348/bs2...

The future of software engineering is SRE When code gets cheap operational excellence wins. Anyone can build a greenfield demo, but it takes engineering to run a service. swizec.com/blog/the-fut...

A Path Forward for PubPub by Knowledge Futures www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2026...

The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing by Martina Linnenluecke & Carl Rhodes theconversation.com/the-5-stages...

From Retraction Watch: Dogged by retractions, Iraqi researcher and publisher uses a different name retractionwatch.com/2026/01/06/d...

Why self-improvement starts with maintenance by Tim Harford timharford.com/2026/01/why-...

A tale of three norths in three photos 1️⃣ The pier at Berwick-upon-Tweed, where the rare triple alignment of the Three Norths (True North, Grid North, Magnetic North) left England in December 2025, drifting out into the North Sea. 📸 Lewis Clarke (CC BY-SA 2.0)

you say "i asked chatgpt" i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]" an improv group wrote this report instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

My 2025 end-of-year reading and writing roundup eve.gd/2025/12/16/m...

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

the brexit referendum remains one of the craziest fucking things a country has ever done

LOL. No.

The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI by Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

Bag of words, have mercy on us OR: Claude will you go to prom with me? by Adam Mastroianni www.experimental-history.com/p/bag-of-wor...

The Evolving University Library: What’s gained, what’s lost. by Steven Mintz www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Excellent news from Proton Introducing Proton Sheets: Protect the data that drives your business proton.me/blog/sheets-... #Spreadsheets #Privacy #AlternativesToGoogle

And the Oxford Word of the Year 2025 is… rage bait corp.oup.com/word-of-the-...

We’re offering 2 years of Proton Pass to cultural institutions worldwide proton.me/blog/free-pa... Please repost to spread the word #PasswordManager #EuroStack

What Happened to Piracy? Copyright Enforcement Fades as AI Giants Rise "Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught." - Balzac by Lee Fang www.leefang.com/p/what-happe...

A Gentle Crash Course to LLMs by Blaise Brignac specterops.io/blog/2025/10...

20 Ways “AI” Has Created More Work for Me by @hedgielib.bsky.social hedgehoglibrarian.com/2025/10/27/2...

Wellington weather update: our weather station blew away overnight

AWS outage takes down half the internet. Here’s how we fix it. by Elena Constantinescu proton.me/blog/aws-out...

Out today! One of the best things I have done this year is to edit, with @laurajwilkinson.bsky.social, a book-length festschrift for @gbilder.com. The book is available to buy at Blurb (www.blurb.co.uk/b/12575812) but also, of course, OA at zenodo.org/records/1737... Let me tell you about it...

Can you guess who… - can blow up a computer from the command line? - managed the tech for an archeological dig from a tomb - advocated for persistent IDs as infrastructure for scholars, not just about them - cares about provenance and history for schol comm infra as for cheese

Rights Reservation Guidance on practical tools and protocols to help publishers reserve rights and protect content from unauthorized AI training stm-assoc.org/ai-trusted-r...

Acoustic analysis of Taylor Swift's dialect changes across different eras of her career by Miski Mohamed & Matthew B. Winn J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 158, 2278–2289 (2025) doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

This is a must read to understand the context of Britain's universities and their finances.

"Every Noise at Once was a long-running attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space... in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier."

dang, i love the UI on this, too! Each stitch and its name on a little purple button. It's an excellent way to organize the information and make it easy to scroll through/find something specific.

The Royal School of Needlework (RSN)'s Stitch Bank aims to digitally conserve and showcase the wide variety of the world’s embroidery stitches and the ways in which they have been used in different cultures and times. rsnstitchbank.org/wall #Pattern #Handcrafts #Sewing

Dr. Carla Hayden continuing to advance public knowledge as new senior fellow at Mellon Foundation www.wypr.org/show/midday/...