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The Stockholm Declaration appears to currently be inaccessible via the DOI (but it remains accessible via PubMed):

Today, we launch our debate “Enabling Access, Fostering Innovation: Towards a Digital Knowledge Agenda in Europe”. CHRISTOPHE GEIGER and DAMIAN BOESELAGER open the discussion, highlighting why reforms of the EU copyright law regime are essential. verfassungsblog.de/eu-digital-k...

Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill

If library workers and library management want to do things differently, then they have to do different things. That means exploring new rationales and experimenting with new choices, and restructuring budgets budgets to support the desired change. These systemic issues.

It is amazing how libraries cannot afford scaled-up products and services as they threaten the economic sustainability of the library, but the market continues to innovate scaled-up products and services. Meanwhile, the "sustainability" of scaling-small is itself questioned. Can we join the dots‽

'Members of the University and College Union...are unhappy about the threat of compulsory redundancies, as the university seeks to cut 400 full-time posts as part of efforts to save £30m, amid rising costs and a fall in international student numbers.' "are unhappy about" an existential crisis?

Reading Gelderloos' 'Anarchy Works':

Beware of the ongoing community-washing in scholarly publishing.

@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...

I live in a world where scholarly publishing is operated as a market, and that market is controlled by conglomerate publishers, some of whom are "non-profit".

I'm dead serious y'all, you can keep being fooled into thinking that politicians are here to help you, or you can get to work building a world that isn't dependent on the abusive relationship that is government.

no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy

I got up early on a Sunday to have a shower and do all the laundry etc. all sorted now, all so that I can spend Sunday collaborating on a conference submission 🤣🤣🤣

Still can't get over the "my Israeli online Domme has been too distracted to respond to me" post and how someone reposted saying they didn't acknowledge the BDS in BDSM. Masterclass in posting.

“Where’s your fucking poppy?”

Every night is a good night to listen to Chop Shop.

Having raised bed on a boat is the best. You get to look out and down onto the water, and also: heat rises.

“And then you have librarians who are experiencing a real existential crisis because they are getting asked by their jobs to promote [AI] tools that produce more misinformation. It's the most, like, emperor-has-no-clothes-type situation that I have ever witnessed.” - Alison Macrina

There needs to be a program for old farts on dating apps.

It is disappointing that the main drivers behind most policies and approaches to OA focus on a publication's OA status, and less on the participatory production and dissemination of scholarly knowledge. Omitting such facets is to the great detriment of the research and publishing environments.

Long overdue new release. A collaborative full-length with @thegnarrator.bsky.social: hairdryerexcommunication.bandcamp.com/album/no-sta... all free/PWYW digitally, and a few cdr copies w/ 5" lathe cut single are available to buy if that floats your boat.

Austere insincerity

Apropos of .... nothing at all..... The postdoctoral laborers bill of rights is a project I collaborated on way back in 2019. It aims to clarify some of the purposes of postdoctoral positions and offers guidelines for designing successful positions. works.hcommons.org/records/9twr...

So, after reading how 20th C intellectual stallwarts have effectively gaslit everyone about anarchist thought, I am sat on the floor of a privatised train service just trying to get home without doing a series of reactive crimes against the world. Happy Friday, my loves. Happy. Fucking. Friday.

Emptying out yr floating signifiers with this one weird trick

National funders really need to sort out their own agendas before rolling out policies and gesturing around their direction of travel. If you think cultural changes around research and publishing will bend in but a few short years without sufficient support and evidence, try again.

Well. wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...

HUZZAH! Community-led #OpenAccess book platforms that attend, not to scale, but to systems designed for resiliency and bibliodiversity will not only succeed, but are already succeeding. We helped build the OBC & we're proud as hell of it.

They f*ck you up, your OVC They mean to and they do They kill you with their weird ideas And add some extra, to screw you. But they were buttered up in their turn By consultants in sharp suits, Whose plans all make me churn And woe betide any kid who really wants to learn.

I'm sure I'll lose sales to those pesky mountainous goats.

🎉 Thrilled that the first ever issue of the Scottish Journal of Open Research has published today, #DiamondOA of course! This will be such a great venue to share good #OpenResearch practice. Plus I had my first experience of editing a journal article! 👉https://doi.org/10.36399/f74t5k88

Curious little story this one. REF Team telling everyone they can't use REF 2029 logo any more. Seems to contradict previous years' guidance, and could make work for people.

we should all fully internalize (if we haven't already) that google chrome/drive/docs/search are broken bloatware and that google is the microsoft of the 2020s. using a google service should be a punchline at this point

Long overdue new release. A collaborative full-length with @thegnarrator.bsky.social: hairdryerexcommunication.bandcamp.com/album/no-sta... all free/PWYW digitally, and a few cdr copies w/ 5" lathe cut single are available to buy if that floats your boat.

The perfect photo to challenge narratives of progress.

Neocrust on the bus. (The My Name is Satan record crushes 24 years after it was released: www.youtube.com/watch?v=czAq... thanks to @kirahopkins.bsky.social for calling me Satan earlier which prompted me to find a full-length digital copy of the record while traversing the motorways up to Coventry.)

It feels like I have travelled backwards in time, because we have been talking about the rationales behind things like FLOSS, OA, data archiving. Yet more bland statements, initiatives, and declarations emerge that seek to limit open to exactly that. Just being open. As though that is an intention.

Moulding open digital publishing through the violence of policy and mandates is a surefire way to limit its capacity for any radical change or impact beyond state and capitalist machinery, eh.

One can only dream of case law evidencing the legal viability right to hurl bread at cops.

Living on colonial TERF rainy fascist island is only bearable because of the absurdity of existence

Even honest progressive candidates are entangled with positions of authority and pressured from all sides by elites and bureaucrats. Sooner or later, Mamdani’s supporters will be disappointed when he fails to deliver on his (moderately) socialist promises. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/06/n...

You don't need their state, their laws, their policies, or their mandates, etc.

Recommended reading: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ova... (not just because Malabou's book evidences how anarchist thought has been stolen -- and that that theft was also concealed, masking anarchism's influence on 20th C intellectual thought, but because this is relevant to community organising.)

Reading 'Stop Thief! Anarchy and Philosophy' by Catherine Malabou. (One can only imagine it is available through your preferred dark archive of choice if you don't have a copy to hand.) It starts with "If Marxism is a passion for history, anarchism is the love of geography."

That the Stockholm Declaration explicitly refers to journal titles but no other forms of scholarly outputs (books, code, design, software, art, audio, video etc.) is somewhat of a red flag.