Kaitlin (Kay) Thaney
@kaythaney.bsky.social
executive director, Invest in Open. cares a lot about governance + infrastructure. makes things out of clay.
IOI's @kaythaney.bsky.social and @datadryad.bsky.social Jennifer Gibson recently were on The Ongoing Transformation podcast, where they discussed the challenges facing the infrastructure that supports open science and what it will take to keep it resilient for the future issues.org/making-sure-...
Making Sure Open Science Stays Open
Digital research infrastructure is essential to open science, but it is often overlooked and vulnerable to policy changes and funding cuts.
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Who will keep research data infrastructure open and running? Jennifer Gibson (@datadryad.bsky.social) and IOI's Kaitlin Thaney (@kaythaney.bsky.social) break it down in an article in Issues in Science and Technology (@issuesinst.bsky.social). issues.org/open-data-re...
Who Will Keep Research Data Infrastructure Open and Running? | Real Numbers
The scientific community must consider the longevity of open research infrastructure—why it might fail and how to prevent it.
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Most nonprofits have financial reporting. Far fewer have a framework to know when to act on what it's telling them. We built one. Here's what we learned — and what surprised us most. investinopen.org/blog/when-to...
When to act: Building a financial risk monitoring framework
How IOI moved from financial reporting to financial decision-making, and what we learned.
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Scientific datasets built over decades can vanish when access has a single point of failure. IOI secured funding from Global Impact to help coordinate resilient open infrastructure solutions. More on this project: investinopen.org/blog/investi...
Investing in resilient infrastructure to safeguard scientific knowledge
Political threats to scientific data demand coordinated, resilient open infrastructure — IOI is helping build it.
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We had the opportunity to interview @kaythaney.bsky.social on the importance of #OpenAccess in research. Her insights highlight how open access can drive innovation and collaboration. Read the full interview: spkl.io/63329AgP65 #Research #AcademicPublishing #Innovation
Kaitlin Thaney on Open Access
We had the opportunity to speak with Kaitlin Thaney at the ALPSP Manchester Conference, where she shared her inspiring journey into the world of open access, open infrastructure, and scholarly comm…
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Our end-of-year report is here! Read about what we've achieved and how we can work together in the coming year. Explore the full report: investinopen.org/blog/what-we...
What we achieved together in 2025: IOI’s year in review
Our 2025 Impact Report is live! Read about what we've achieved and how we can work together in the coming year.
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At IOI, we believe lasting open infrastructure needs more than funding — it needs strategy, governance, and collaboration. Through the IOI Fund for Network Adoption, we’re partnering with LA Referencia and UbuntuNet Alliance to strengthen open research. Learn more investinopen.org/blog/beyond-...
Beyond funding: Building the capacity for sustainable and resilient open infrastructure
A deeper dive into IOI’s unique approach to grantmaking that couples long-term funding with targeted strategic guidance and operational support.
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The best guide to spotting AI writing comes from @wikipedia.org techcrunch.com/2025/11/20/t... via @techcrunch
The best guide to spotting AI writing comes from Wikipedia | TechCrunch
Wikipedia's guide to “Signs of AI writing” is a great resource for learning to spot LLM-generated prose.
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Exciting news! LA Referencia and UbuntuNet Alliance have been selected as the first grantees of the IOI Fund for Network Adoption, with each receiving up to $1.5M in funding to expand open infrastructure for research across 35+ countries. Learn more: investinopen.org/blog/empower...
🌟 Exciting news: The inaugural grantees of the Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) Fund for Network Adoption are: LA Referencia (Latin America) & UbuntuNet Alliance (Africa). Digital Science is proud to be a founding contributor to the IOI Fund. 🔗 See more: https://ow.ly/jIua50XsX0j
Library consortia are key architects of resilient scholarly infrastructure. Our latest ORBIT report explores how US consortia are shaping the future of open infrastructure — from hosting shared systems to coordinating funding and building collective capacity. More investinopen.org/blog/how-lib...
How library consortia are building resilient open infrastructure in times of crisis
New research reveals how US library consortia are evolving from service providers to critical bulwarks, using collective action and open infrastructure to help members navigate unprecedented…
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Open and commercial don’t have to be at odds. At the recent #OSFair2025, IOI’s Emma Green led a panel exploring how bridging open and commercial perspectives can create more sustainable research infrastructure. Read the recap
Finding common ground: When commercial and non-commercial meet in open science
We moderated a panel at Open Science FAIR 2025 to explore pragmatic collaboration between commercial and non-commercial actors in open science.
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If you’re not on @openstreetmap.bsky.social do you even exist? 😆 Well, now the Internet Archive Europe is officially on and off line! 🙌 Come visit us when we have reading room hours and open events. Stay tuned for more into about that later on.
At this #ALPSP2025 session on community engagement in academic publishing, @samuelmoore.org & @copim.bsky.social's work on 'scaling small' raised by @kaythaney.bsky.social in response to a question about how to 'scale' community engagement 👏 Find out more: www.westminsterpapers.org/article/id/9...
Scaling Small; Or How to Envision New Relationalities for Knowledge Production
Within the field of open access (OA) publishing, community-led publishing projects are experimenting increasingly with new forms of collaboration and organisation. They do so by focusing on setting up...
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"It suggests that developing a commons-based, scholar-led publishing landscape through [presses] managed by working academics cld offer a productive counterpoint to marketised systems of open access + subscription publishing [—] a counter-hegemonic project based on mutual reliance and care"
Samuel Moore@samuelmoore.org · 11mo agoYou can now download the book on the publisher's website: press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ... (open access of course)
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Researchers are resurrecting billion-dollar-disaster tool Trump killed
The database that tracked the financial toll of big weather events is set to return this fall from nonprofit Climate Central. The database is a key tool for insurance companies.
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I tested it in Primo Research Assistant, not surprising, I got similar results since Summon Research Assistant is sister product and both work the same by using LLM to generate Boolean search strategy. Gaza war shows no results. Tusla Race riots get a scary error message but does generate answer(1)
Alice Cann@alicecann.bsky.social · last yr.Just read this - it was shared on LinkedIn. ‘To my users, “we couldn’t generate an answer for your question” translates to “your topic is not worthy of pursuing—change it.”’ While it’s nice to think that students will come & ask when they don’t find results, many won’t. And the blocking of content…
Just read this - it was shared on LinkedIn. ‘To my users, “we couldn’t generate an answer for your question” translates to “your topic is not worthy of pursuing—change it.”’ While it’s nice to think that students will come & ask when they don’t find results, many won’t. And the blocking of content…
“We Couldn’t Generate an Answer for your Question” - ACRLog
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Jay Singley, Document Delivery and Circulation Desk Manager at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. In March 2025, Ex Libris unveiled thei...
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Do not let any LLM serve as a form of epistemic grounding for society.
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · last yr.New Trump EO: "when ideological biases or social agendas are built into AI models, they can distort the quality and accuracy of the output" ...so henceforth the US government won't do business with you unless your LLM is built to echo our ideological bias and promote our social agenda.
“In 2021, basic science funding from the US federal government was almost $50 billion. By contrast, philanthropy provided approximately $5 billion each to universities + to nonprofit research institutes.” More from Adam Falk, recent pres of the Sloan Foundation 👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Science philanthropy faces a new reality
As the ground under American science shifts in troubling and unpredictable ways, questions have arisen as to how philanthropies should respond. Having recently led a private foundation that supports s...
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Just found an AMAZING mystery 2015 spreadsheet in my files: "Productivity Loss for Anything in the Universe," WITH citations. I could not for the life of me figure out why I had this data. AND THEN I saw it: a sadly incomplete project w/ @kaythaney.bsky.social on the economic cost of mansplaining
Tonight NYC recorded two inches of rain in less than an hour — for only the 6th time in city history. (Central Park records begin in 1869.) The city's drainage system is built to handle just 1.75"/hour. Increasing rainfall intensity is one of the most damaging aspects of climate change.
New York City's 2.00" (50.8 mm) or above hourly rainfalls. #nywx #nyc #rain
CoRAMM is a new open-source repository co-created with Mapuche women in Chile, preserving their stories, history, and ancestral knowledge. Powered by IOI's Open Infrastructure Fund, this project blends tech and tradition to serve generations to come. Read more: investinopen.org/blog/highlig...
Highlighting the importance of cultural preservation in Chile: The Mapuche women case study
An overview of how open infrastructure is helping in the preservation of ancient cultural practices and traditions by Mapuche women in Chile
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If you're looking to counter a friend or family member's misconceptions about Zohran Mamdani, we did a convenient rundown debunking all the smears (so far):
Debunking All the B.S. About Zohran Mamdani
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, is facing a wave of Islamophobic misinformation attacking his character and politics
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When canceling hundreds of grants in an anti-"DEI" crusade, NIH officials couldn't even define the acronym, a federal judge found. It was just a "boogeyman." That and more in my legal roundup @AllRiseNews.com www.allrisenews.com/p/trump-inva...
