In which, on the occasion of my 3-year migration anniversary and the release of Mastodon 4.5, I assemble all my arguments as to why Mastodon is great and why anyone else on a service that’s becoming less fun/safe/useful should migrate to Mastodon and do it now, in late 2025 […]

Important reading from OIPA member @theblochian.bsky.social at @openlibhums.org! 👏 Read here: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

"Reclaiming scientific discourse, one conversation at a time." The Open Science Network aims to rebuild “Science Twitter” — but this time as a federated, community-governed platform built and owned by researchers and scientists. 👉 openscience.network #OpenScience #ScholComm #Infrastructure

Libraries: Advocating for #RightsRetention is key for #OpenAccess. It provides immediate OA/reuse, accelerates OA, and clarifies copyright. Make every article accessible! 💪📚 Use the flashcards: tinyurl.com/3385jfhz

For those unfamiliar with the heady world of fanfiction, AO3 is community-owned, open source, run entirely by volunteers. So APCs, no paywalls, no $$$$ profits (imagine that!) - just shared infrastructure built by people who actually use it. Just imagine if academic publishing worked like that...

Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'" I've saved her some time.

The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/

Pour one out for @wikipedia.org in my latest for @mcsweeneys.net

I have been analyzing the impact of Zero Textbook Cost courses at BCIT since we launched the initiative. Students can check the course outline system to identify ZTC courses before registration. In the 2025 Summer and 2025 Fall terms, 543 BCIT instructors marked 1,205 courses Zero Textbook Cost!

What an amazing little experiment! Highly recommend reading this post #OAWeek #AcademicSky

There’s a new #philosophy feed in town! 📣 #PhilosophySky combines the best philosophical discussion via the #PhilSky and area-specific hashtags with announcements from 250+ philosophy-related accounts making it the most comprehensive feed for academic philosophy on Bluesky! bsky.app/profile/did:...

I'm proud to be a co-PI on this project and member of the planning committee thinking about new and complementary ways to support the teaching and study of philosophy. www.futureofphilosophy.org/macarthur-an... #Acadsky #Academicsky #Edusky #MacArthur #Philosophy #Philsky

The good people behind the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure just released version 2.0. openscholarlyinfrastructure.org #Infrastructure #OpenInfrastructure #POSI #ScholComm

I just read a review of the best apps to do a certain job. I didn't know any of the apps but the review seemed competent. Then I saw that the author's byline included #Twitter and #LinkedIn handles, and no others. Now I wonder how much I can trust the review.

The White House’s new Compact asks universities to trade independence for funding. We believe that’s a dangerous precedent. Read our national statement: buff.ly/iZheO2v #AcademicSky #Academia #HigherEd

Experts who reviewed the document called the citation requirement “deceptive and despicable” and said it could carry a steep price for the journals involved, one of which is indexed in Scopus.

Be part of the conversation about how to #DefendResearch, support #OpenAccess, and protect #Education! Register for next week's SJSU OA Virtual Conference, where I'm very excited to share the keynoting privilege with @camitchell.bsky.social scholarworks.sjsu.edu/oa-un-confer...

It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring. Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.

“Free speech” only counts if you’re a white bigot.

The web has a memory — & we’ve saved 1 trillion pages of it! 🌐 Join us in celebrating the people, stories & technology that preserve our digital world. 📅 Oct 22 🎟️ In Person ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1626438133... 🖥️ Virtual ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1626431011... #Wayback1T

"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit." On robots.txt. www.heise.de/en/backgroun...

🚨BREAKING: Missouri state officials filed a lawsuit Wednesday aimed at blocking voters’ efforts to invoke their constitutional right to veto the state legislature’s new gerrymandered congressional map. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Yesterday with the META/e group at Eindhoven we discussed the draft of the new Dutch Code for Research Integrity: www.nwo-i.nl/en/news/2025... It is great to see how much transparency and FAIR data and code will become the default expectation to adhere to research integrity.

“Truth-seeking is at the heart of higher education. As public support erodes and scholars face growing threats, there has never been a more urgent time to rally and defend academic freedom.” ✊ Robert Quinn, Scholars at risk at our joint academic freedom conference with @eduinternational.bsky.social

Forgot about this moment in George Schuyler's 1931 novel *Black No More*, but whoa! 🤯 "You can't deport citizens, silly," Buddy remonstrated. "That don't stop you from advocating it. This is politics, Big Boy."

Across the country, airports are refusing to air a video from the Homeland Security chief blaming Democrats for the shutdown. trib.al/tw3Hd3X

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s: "I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

I just signed the Open Heritage Statement and hope you will too. openheritagestatement.org #CulturalHeritage #GLAM #OpenAccess #PublicDomain #TAROCH

I will call out anyone who makes generalisations about ‘boomers’ and their affiliation to the Right. We were the generation at the vanguard of the fight against racism, sexism, protested against Vietnam. There are multitudes of us who still hold those views and are horrified by what is happening

Hoping to give a "Lectures on Tap" talk (lecturesontap.com) in SF in December about #censorship to get more people helping to end it! We have so many resources for folks to use to #DefendResearch, research which is so critical to our shared welfare. defendresearch.org #SciSky #EduSky #ScholComm

Re-upping this from The Onion, 2018. theonion.com/man-with-20-... #USPol #USPolitics

Donald Trump is offering nine universities funding if they sign a compact that’s a “complete adoption of the MAGA high-education agenda,” Kevin Carey writes. The document is “shot through with the tensions that mark Trumpism in its latest form”:

@govpritzker.illinois.gov 37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois. This is assault.

The Trump Action Tracker is a British academic’s answer to Trump “flooding the zone” with anti-democratic and anti- rule of law behaviours. It’s a one-stop-shop for logging thd lot. And the neta-analysis of what is happening is very enlightening… darkly. See TrumpActionTracker.info

AAC&U Statement on the Trump Administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” https://bit.ly/3VOEJvx

New proof of "you can just do things" just dropped

Thought it might be useful to make a new starter pack - this is one of a somewhat eclectic accounts I follow for US politics go.bsky.app/N2Z5aMJ

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🌟The Library Open Science Office has organised a travelling poster exhibition titled ‘Who Owns Our Knowledge? Exploring Open Access through Voices of Change’ which will coincide with International Open Access Week 2025. See it first at Villa Salviati:29 Sep – 5 Oct! ℹ️ loom.ly/yG5c6r4 #OAWeek2025

I'm proud to be counted one of the "Voices of Change" by the European University Institute, along with so many close friends and allies. blogs.eui.eu/library/onli... #EUI #OpenAccess @eui-eu.bsky.social

🔛 We're co-creating a Practical Guide for Responsible Research Assessment (RRA) for Research Funding Organizations, in partnership with the Global Research Council RRA Working Group and @scienceeurope.org ! 📘 Learn more about the guide and our co-creation meetings 👉 sfdora.org/2025/09/23/p...

RESPONSES to the questions about the biggest unsolved themes at #OASPA2025

@gelliottmorris.com: "many people fundamentally underestimate how unpopular Trump is." Trump is currently underwater on all key issues, something our corporate elites should consider before capitulating to him.

Rapid Science, Stratos, and ICOR response to the NIH RFI on publishing costs. "It is only through convergence of ideas and collective action that we will achieve a dynamic paradigm that will accelerate the benefits of our collective investment in science." incentivizingopen.org/2025/09/rapi...

Glad I had deleted my account ages ago.. this is just 🤯

Learn more about automatic textbook billing or so-called inclusive access: www.inclusiveaccess.org. And read the fine print on agreements universities have with vendors in our textbook billing contract library: sparcopen.org/our-work/aut...

@txtbks.bsky.social of @sparcopen.bsky.social and Cailyn Nagle of Michelson 20MM Foundation talked with @thelever.bsky.social about automatic textbook billing. Great to see this problem getting news coverage. AND awesome to see funders doing something about it. #OpenAccess #OER #OpenFunder

This is an interesting way to view election data…

In a shocking on-air moment, a “Fox and Friends” co-host said homeless people suffering from mental health issues who refuse help should be killed