Do you know a researcher or research team that makes research data (and if apl. accompanying software) FAIR in an outstanding way? Nominations for the RDNL Dutch Data Prize 2026 are now open. Winners receive €3,500 to further improve the FAIRness of their research data. Nominate now: edu.nl/p6kex

Simple binaries of open access vs closed paywall are useless. The case of Open Peer Review. availableonline.wordpress.com/2026/06/07/i...

It’s not just open vs closed.

Open access started with a simple premise: journal articles published online should be freely available to all. No paywalls, no barriers. A clear distinction between science being accessible to any…

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What do Elsevier, Springer and other big publishers say about the use of licenced ebook in generative AI From ETH Zurich university (@ethz.ch) unlimited.ethz.ch/spaces/WWE/p... (in German, but translatable :)

Bookmarking: gptzero.me "GPTZero detects AI content from ChatGPT, GPT-5, Claude, Gemini, and checks writing quality to make every word worth reading." 99% accuracy (according to website)

THIRD SPACE: the people who work in research but not credited www.nature.com/articles/d41... I agree - my 2022 coauthored similar argument in Nature Careers "Time to re-think the divide between academic and support staff" www.nature.com/articles/d41... OA - repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/ob...

How hidden contributions power modern research

The people who work behind the scenes to keep research moving say that there should be more recognition for their roles.

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There's much bogus hype about vibe coding; so it's good to read a cool headed analysis by Paul Taylor in @lrb.co.uk But he remains convinced: "it is possible​ that the first profession to be replaced by artificial intelligence will be that of computer programmer." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Paul Taylor · Diary: Ask Claude

Creating software using AI feels like pure metacognition: most of your time is spent worrying about whether you’ve...

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📢 We're hiring! Join our team at @4turesearchdata.bsky.social to help make research more accessible, reusable, and impactful for science and society. We have two vacancies open: 👉 Data Curator 👉 Community and Partnerships Manager Apply by 1 June 2026! community.data.4tu.nl/2026/05/08/j...

Join Our Team at 4TU.ResearchData

At 4TU.ResearchData, we work at the intersection of open science, FAIR data, research software, and digital research infrastructure. Together with researchers, universities, and international partn…

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Are you working on open science and eager to share your work with the wider community, engage in dialogue, or spark new collaborations? Mark your calendar: the call for contributions to the 2026 Open Science Festival will open late May. 💡https://opensciencefestival.nl/pre-announcement-2026

The organisations that make the best use of AI will be the organisations that take the most care of their data and information wp.me/p44ML-lP

Which organisations will make the best use of AI?

The organisations that make the best use of AI will be the organisations that take the most care of their data and information. The contemporary blossoming of AI agents such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Cla…

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Doris Leading and Sudden Collapse availableonline.wordpress.com/2026/03/20/h...

Hans Ulrich Obrist and Doris Lessing, and Sudden Collapse

Hans-Ulrich Obrist is a very cheerful namedropper. En vogue artists and thinkers flow off the page of Ways of Curating (link) like so many blooms merrily plucked from the garden of ideas. He’…

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A persuasive argument by Dave Hansen that libraries should not resort to old bad habits about restricting access to collections in the face of AI. Rather they need to work together www.authorsalliance.org/2026/03/16/l...

Library and Archives 101: AI and the False Promise of Control

This is the first in a series of essays about the choices that knowledge institutions face as AI reshapes how their collections and resources are used. The people on various sides of these debates …

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How to we ensure that science done with AI is reproducible? @4TU.ResearchData has two jobs at TU Delft on this topic FAIR for AI Project Coordinator - careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-FA... Software Engineer (Open Science / Open Source) - careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-So...

FAIR for AI Project Coordinator

FAIR for AI Project Coordinator

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Does switching your mobile phone to grayscale help with reducing smartphone engagement? Yes, apparently. doi.org/10.1177/2050...

Introducing the ORI Monitoring Framework: a starting point for monitoring the Dutch Open Research Information landscape (and other countries!) by @msphelps.bsky.social and @mauricev.bsky.social communities.surf.nl/en/open-rese...

The National Library of the Netherlands will be moving to a temporary location in The Hague for five years. After renovation, it aims to be back its original building near the main city station by 2033 www.kb.nl/nieuws/kb-na...

Turn your browser into a powerful research workstation. With the #EOSCEUNode #InteractiveNotebooks service, you can write code (#Python, R), add notes, and create plots, all in one reproducible document. Built on #Jupyter for #OpenScience. 🔗 go.egi.eu/Vkk7Y #EOSC #OpenScience

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Blog - The TUD guide to open publishing with JupyterBook

This is a manual for open publishing with JupyterBook (2) for Delft University of Technology.

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TU Delft Open publishes its 150th open book www.tudelft.nl/en/2026/libr...

Milestone for TU Delft OPEN Publishing with the publication of its 150th book

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SharePoint itself acknowledges that the crazy URLs it generates 'bypass reason'

Oldest rock art in the world discovered, c.67,800 year old stencil in Indonesia www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi - Nature

A hand stencil painted on a cave wall on a small island off the coast of Sulawesi more than 67,800 years ago suggests a very early occupation of Wallacea.

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University contracts with the publisher ACS (American Chemical Society) are proving tricky The Irish consortium could reach no agreement for a read and access deal. irel.ie/acs-readonly...

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The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing

Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.

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From 2018, but a good historical perspective over worries of 'the end of reading'. Reading has always taken many forms; we also need to be attent to the ways that we are actually reading more albright.wellesley.edu/about/blog/4...

The End(s) of Reading | Albright Institute

Is reading finally dead?

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Museums, unsurprisingly, defend the authenticity of the objects in their collections But the Met in New York is using AI to imagine the great quantity of works that have been lost to time, "imagining a third thing between two known things." www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...

How Artificial Intelligence Sees Art History - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

For one group of artists and technologists, AI can help us view The Met’s collection in new—or possibly ancient—ways.

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Chat with Epstein Files chatwithepstein.com

@proton.me, a European alternative to US offerings from Google and Microsoft, has now added a spreadsheet option alongside the word processing tool It will take time to catch up with all the functionality that the established competitors offer, but it's a solid start proton.me/blog/sheets-...

Introducing Proton Sheets: Secure spreadsheets for business | Proton

Proton Drive now includes Proton Sheets, giving you secure, encrypted spreadsheets for safer collaboration, organized data, and aligned teams.

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The @barcelonadori.bsky.social Barcelona Declaration has implications for research libraries: how they harvest, manage, share metadata, and in suppliers and infrastructures they engage with. A quick update on action from TU Delft Library library4research.tudl.tudelft.nl/2025/12/11/u...

Great snapshot of the lack of coherent thinking about Brexit from the UK's Daily Telegraph

"The underlying code and other parameters [are] freely available to scientists, and it quickly became possible for them to run the software themselves at scale." The success of Google's AI tool is partly due to being accessible to scientists around the world.

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Five years ago, researchers at Google DeepMind unveiled AlphaFold2 go.nature.com/3LUDauu

This is an astonishing story. Journal 'Science of the Total Environment' published *10,000 articles a year* Many were bogus. Great summary of why our publication culture needs to be changed.

Samuel Moore@samuelmoore.org · 9mo ago

Interesting investigation into a dodgy Elsevier journal -- with the additional nugget that the CEO of Elsevier's parent company made more than €15 million in total compensation last year. english.elpais.com/science-tech...