Jeroen Bosman

@jeroenbosman.bsky.social

scholarly communication specialist at Utrecht University library

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Partners from North Africa, Europe and South Africa Launch the Knowledge Equity and Open Scholarship Week 2026

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We need to take care, collectively, not to allow a few dominant actors to impose social, political and economic conditions in which this process of meaning-making is captured for their benefit. 2/2

Thanks for the report on what was a troubling moment. For me the lesson was that the Metascience ‘discourse coalition’ absolutely has to question/critique the shifting power dynamics as more private organisations enter the open science space. And associated questions of trust. 1/2

Science, researchers and research communities increasingly need to be resilient to threats and actual incursions relating to budget, academic freedom, safety in the public arena, science databases and infrastructures and more. We created this framework to inspire communities in their resilience.

A visualization of resilience strategies connecting prevention to potential threats, protection to actual threats, resistance to encounters/attacks, withstanding to incursions and repair to destruction. For the prevention strategy we suggest mutual interest and agreements/contracts. For protection we suggest (double) walls and sovereignty/control. For resistance we suggest action/fighting back and in/external solidarity. For withstanding we suggest elasticity and redundancy. For repair we suggest jugaad (=hindi for 'make do') and resources. The are generic strategies that need to be customised to specific contexts and threats.

1. It's Fustilarian Friday and today's drop is the "Restoring Gold Standard Science" executive order. My read is that this is designed to (1) protect far-fringe figures such as the antvaxxers now heading our health agencies, and (2) kneecap efforts to use scientific evidence in regulatory policy.

Restoring Gold Standard Science

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

whitehouse.gov

🚨Hiding under 6 sections of science sounding rhetoric is an edict to appoint officers at each agency that will be responsible for detecting research that isn't "Gold Standard Science" as defined by the White House🚨 Stay tuned for rapid response action! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Restoring Gold Standard Science

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

whitehouse.gov

The Trump administration just dropped an executive order, "Restoring Gold Standard Science" and there's lots to unpack. This EO reveals more about how the Administration will approach scientific integrity and science in regulatory contexts. Some initial thoughts. 🧵 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Restoring Gold Standard Science

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

whitehouse.gov

Utrecht University in the Netherlands has withdrawn itself from the World University Ranking provided by Times Higher Education by not sending that company data anymore. As this has generated quite some reactions - praise, questions, some doubts, I want to provide some context. Hence this thread 1/n

Utrecht Ranking data in the THE ranking