It'll be very interesting to see where this case goes - particularly since it's pursuing a different avenue to the usual copyright/monopoly/consumer harm route. I will be following it with great interest.

Juan Pablo Alperin@juancommander.scholcommlab.ca · 2d ago

1/ In 2024, I filed a false claims act lawsuit against Elsevier, Springer, Wiley & Informa alleging they systematically overcharged US federal grants for article processing. The gov declined to intervene and now it's public. Some thoughts on what this is, and what it isn't:

1/ In 2024, I filed a false claims act lawsuit against Elsevier, Springer, Wiley & Informa alleging they systematically overcharged US federal grants for article processing. The gov declined to intervene and now it's public. Some thoughts on what this is, and what it isn't:

Can now share I'm involved in this case!

Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com · 5d ago

A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Informa of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant article processing charges.

A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Informa of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant article processing charges.

Federal lawsuit accuses four major publishers of extorting article processing charges

iStock A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses four major publishers of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant article processing charges…

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🚨New publication in @estsjournal.bsky.social! How do preprint servers decide what gets posted—and why do those decisions matter? With @irenepasquetto.bsky.social @fleerackers.bsky.social @stephenpinfield.bsky.social @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca & Melanie Benson Marshall 1/

Indeed, everything @nataschachtena.bsky.social says here about this paper on #preprint moderation. If you've appreciated our preprint on the topic from what feels like ages ago, check out this journal version. It's been quite a journey—one I have learned a lot from.

Natascha Chtena@nataschachtena.bsky.social · 3w ago

🚨New publication in @estsjournal.bsky.social! How do preprint servers decide what gets posted—and why do those decisions matter? With @irenepasquetto.bsky.social @fleerackers.bsky.social @stephenpinfield.bsky.social @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca & Melanie Benson Marshall 1/

The world cup is going to be the end of me

📚 Pendant l'événement « Vers l’horizon diamant », Margot Mellet a évoqué les avantages du libre accès diamant pour les responsables de revues savantes. 💎 During “Advancing Diamond”, Margot Mellet told us about the benefits of #diamondOA for researchers and journal editors. 📌 shorturl.at/MGVmL

🏣 Pendant « Vers l’horizon diamant », Maude Lethiecq-Normand a évoqué le rôle des bibliothèques dans le soutien du #libreaccesdiamant 📌 shorturl.at/MGVmL #OA #libreaccès

A bit US-centric, but still useful perspective. I'd be in the #OpenScience camp, but not the way described here, which focuses on transparency, instead of OS an embrace of the public. Also missing is a place for those concerned function of Higher Ed and academic careers as a site for reform.

Stephen Curry@scurry.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Interesting perspective of the 6 camps within the growing ‘discourse coalition’ that is metascience. open.substack.com/pub/macrosci...

Thanks for this reflection, which clearly articulates so many of my concerns, misgivings, and disappointment with the decisions of people I deeply respect

Tim Elfenbein@timelfen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The editors of JROR have a new post up, mostly summarizing what they wrote in the journal’s opening editorial, but w/ a few bits of more information. They don’t really deliver on the “what it cost us” title, but good to see nonetheless. If you only have a little reading time, just read the post.

-> Advancing Diamond : A Portrait 🎥 Last April, “Advancing Diamond” brought together nearly 80 experts in scholarly publishing for two days of friendly and productive discussions. 📌 shorturl.at/oac74

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Really happy to read Max's take on this because it's calmed my ire a little. So fucking easy to get worked up these days. (It's always a good day to subscribe to the Observer, an independent national paper with a bent toward the climate and social justice.)

Max Fawcett@maxfawcett.bsky.social · 3mo ago

No, Mark Carney isn't just like Stephen Harper on climate and the environment, as some have argued lately. But he's not like Justin Trudeau either. That's a good thing, as far as climate policy is concerned. Today's announcement proves it. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/15/o...

giving this posting a re-up! Come join the PKP Leadership team as an Associate Director, leading the Publishing Services Team!

Juan Pablo Alperin@juancommander.scholcommlab.ca · 3mo ago

PKP is hiring! Associate Director of Publishing Services Bring your leadership experience and business savvy to our team. Help advance the world's most widely used scholarly publishing platform! If you don't fit the job description 100% you should apply anyway! pkp.sfu.ca/2026/05/07/p...

PKP is hiring! Associate Director of Publishing Services Bring your leadership experience and business savvy to our team. Help advance the world's most widely used scholarly publishing platform! If you don't fit the job description 100% you should apply anyway! pkp.sfu.ca/2026/05/07/p...

PKP is hiring an Associate Director of Publishing Services - Public Knowledge Project

The Public Knowledge Project (PKP), a Core Research Facility of Simon Fraser University (SFU), invites applications for the position of PKP Associate Director in charge of the Publishing Services port...

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📢 Excited to share a new preprint by our colleague Kathleen Gregory and Dorothea Strecker from Humboldt University of Berlin on the financial sustainability of open data infrastructures. 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2604.27580

Thinking like a business: Reconfiguring relationships to sustain open data infrastructures

Sustaining open data infrastructures over time is a complex puzzle, involving dynamic funding models and relationships with customers, collaborators, and competitors. Despite their importance, these m...

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Just after @avilewis.ca was elected, the media mischaracterized his call for Public Options as nationalization. But public options and markets have coexisted in Canada for generations—and we're better for it. I tried my hand at an op-ed in @natobserver www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/05/o...

Markets serve customers. Public options serve citizens

NDP Leader Avi Lewis promoted public options for groceries and precipitated a debate about nationalism, a concept that is misunderstood.

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NEW: On Monday evening members of the Coalition of Progressive Electors voted unanimously to ratify the unity agreement with the @vangreens.bsky.social & @onecityvan.bsky.social to limit candidates in order to defeat Ken Sim & ABC. The election is October 17th. We got this. #EvictKenSim

Tagging our other wonderful co-authors: @irenepasquetto.bsky.social @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca @stephenpinfield.bsky.social and Melanie Benson Marshall And the (preprint) study this story was based on: osf.io/preprints/me...

Nice to see this interest our work on preprint moderation (led by @nataschachtena.bsky.social): "Why preprint servers are increasing moderation — and what that means for researchers". www.nature.com/articles/d41... [archive without paywall here: archive.is/x98qF]

Why preprint servers are increasing moderation — and what that means for researchers

Repositories are adapting in response to AI-generated content and junk science, leading some people to question how much moderation is too much.

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If you’re talking about democracy you need to be talking about class power, or else you’re just chasing your tail.

Good evening: this is your semi-regular reminder that you can’t preserve or strengthen democracy without democratizing the economy and giving workers a greater share of wealth and control in the workplace.

Who is coming to Vancouver for the World Conference on Research Integrity next week? If you'd like to meet up to talk #scholcomm, learn about what we're doing at the #scholcommlab and at @pkp.sfu.ca, drop me a DM or an email and we'll get a coffee! #WCRI2026

Yup. I've been raising this alarm bell for a while, with OpenAlex our best next bet for an alternative of an inclusive index for discovery and source of data for bibliometrics/assessment.

Philip N Cohen@philipncohen.com · 5mo ago

While you're at it, may as well kiss Google Scholar goodbye, a money-losing time suck that no one but academics (so, no one) cares about.

Preprint Moderators "Moderation is neither a neutral checkpoint nor a simplified version of peer review, but a site where epistemic and institutional judgments converge in shaping what becomes admissible as early-stage scientific communication" doi.org/10.31222/osf...

💎 « Vers l'horizon diamant » se poursuit avec le panel « Le Canada dans un contexte international » Our event « Advancing Diamond » continues with the panel "Canada in an international context" 👥 Tanja Niemann, Mylène Deschênes, Sharla Lair, @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca & @lariviev.bsky.social

How Stephen Lewis helped changed the world's mind about HIV/AIDS. Excerpts from his 2005 CBC Massey Lectures, titled “Race Against Time." www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... via @cbcnews.ca

LOL, trying to stay offline and do my work, and friends are sending me "LOOK AT THIS NEW PIC!" texts .... This one is worth it. First PoC and first woman to go around another world. Don't stop talking about this point. It's important. #ArtemisII

I just took the most amazing 30 mins break in my day... you should too.

Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠@scaredy.fish · 4mo ago

Love this video from @hankgreen.bsky.social - beautiful photos made all the more beautiful when you understand what's going on youtu.be/oaXRREHVkHo?...