We're delighted to share news in the attached press release that the Open Journals Collective has received a major award of $711,900 from the Gates Foundation to grow support infrastructure for community-governed journals! Want to know more about OJC? Visit www.openjournalscollective.org
See also @simonxix.com's work such as opensauce.simonxix.com, opensauce.simonxix.com/eor2025/, and doi.org/10.17613/1rj....
small changes: taking back control of our universities through open software
Universities in the UK are hindered by exploitative corporate software ecosystems. For all the advancement of open research and open access, the use and distribution of open source software in univers...
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Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 4mo ago'Colleges and universities across the country have postponed final exams and due dates for assignments after Canvas, a learning management system used by 41 percent of North American higher ed institutions, temporarily went offline due to a hack.' 41% Et tu, UK? Time to take stock of HE Edtech.
“Our Three-Voiced Country”: 20th-century cross-currents in Gaelic & other Scottish writing 26–28 June, @sabhalmorostaig.bsky.social, Skye Tracing interconnections between Gaelic & other Scottish writing, from the Celtic Revival to the start of the new millennium www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/co-labhairt-...
2026 ASL Annual Conference - Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
The Association for Scottish Literature/Sabhal Mòr Ostaig Conference 2026 will be held at, and in association with, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on Friday to Sunday,
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Angus Archives is open on an appointment basis at its new home in Arbroath Library. Up to 4 visitors at a time. Items from the archives and local history collections by request. #skystorians #LocalHistory #genealogy #FamilyHistory 🗃️📚🏴 angusalive.scot/local-family...
Visit Us: Local Family History • ANGUSalive
What's OnHoliday ActivitiesVenue HireSchool VisitsFrom Tuesday 6 May
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[KEYNOTE] Join @joedeville.bsky.social @openbookcollective.bsky.social at CIVICA Open Science Conference! 📆 Wednesday 20 May 📍 LSE and online ▶️ Register via Eventbrite now
CIVICA Open Science Conference
A full-day conference open to the CIVICA network, featuring keynotes, panels, lightning talks and networking opportunities.
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"...will share concrete examples of building internal AI capacity, improving access and accessibility, and developing ethical guidance..." the way ethics keeps getting tacked onto AI training in libraries like an afterthought or a "we better at least say a couple of words" is driving me up a wall
Exhibition - Red Easterhouse: Building a people's archive. Stories of collective struggle in greater Easterhouse. The Easterhouse Living Archive is an ongoing community project to unearth, preserve and engage with the working class histories and struggles of Easterhouse..
"We presented a new problem posed by Open Access agreements: the phenomenon of value extraction, whereby institutional APC coverage for publication in major journals is leveraged to secure authorship in the absence of substantive intellectual contribution"
The phenomenon of ‘value extraction’ in Open Access
Open Access (OA) agreements were introduced to remove financial barriers to scientific dissemination and promote equity in knowledge access. As Article Processing Charges (APCs) have shifted from i...
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This is awful, horrible. I'm so sorry - for you, for the students, and for all of us. It looks like it was a magnificent, carefully, thoughtfully tailored course.
Plashing Vole@plashingvole.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhether I'm there or not next year, here are the things that have been replaced by a generic skills module including 3 weeks on Using AI: 1. My linguistics colleagues on accent and dialect change, and atittudes towards the local accent. Led by the accents in the room.
Interested in Caroline Minuscule or in things Celtic or in Alfred the Great? Then come and hear Dr Jason Chess at the latest London Palaeography Seminar @ies-sas.bsky.social: Tuesday 28th April, 5:30pm. Book here for in person or online attendance: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
The Celtic reception of Caroline and its contribution to the Alfredian Renaissance
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The most famous warm-up in football history. On this day in 1989, Napoli faced Bayern Munich at Olimpiastadion in Munich and Diego (inadvertently) created a piece of art for the ages 🥹
Good piece. “If your problem with open access is that commercial publishers are hoovering up all the money, design open access interventions that specifically prevent commercial publishers from receiving your money.”
Samuel Moore@samuelmoore.org · 5mo agoNew from me: Why funders shouldn’t withdraw money from open access publishing www.samuelmoore.org/2026/04/14/w...
Got lots of @radicalglasgowtour.bsky.social tours coming up this month including a new Migrants Made Glasgow tour and some Revolutionary Glasgow tours as part of the Glasgow Trades Council's May Day programme radicalglasgowtours.com
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It is great to see these principles on open monograph acquisition from RLUK. My only criticism is of "there should be evidence that the initiative is financially viable (or established for at least two years)". So how are new models supposed to start? www.rluk.ac.uk/shared-princ...
Shared Principles for the Evaluation and Acquisition of Open Access Monograph Models - Research Libraries UK
RLUK's Collections Strategy Network (CSN) has developed a set of principles to guide RLUK members when evaluating future investment in Open Access Monograph models. These take into account the need to align investments with local strategy and activities but also recognise the opportunity libraries often have to influence a wider agenda by pushing
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New: France said it plans to move its government computers currently running Windows to the open-source software Linux to further reduce its reliance on U.S. tech. Comes at a time of growing instability and unpredictability on the part of the Trump administration and weaponization of sanctions, etc.
France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech | TechCrunch
France's move to ditch Windows for Linux is its latest effort to reduce its reliance on American tech giants.
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Today is (the very first) National Black Bookstore day! Celebrate with a treat from a Black-owned indie bookstore. Brittany Allen lithub.com/today-is-the... #books #literature #blacklivesmatter #NationalBlackBookstoreDay
Today is (the very first) National Black Bookstore day!
The National Association of Black Bookstores (NAB2), a group launched last Juneteenth by Kevin Johnson of Sacramento’s Underground Books, has announced a new holiday: National Black Bookstore…
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Miranda's short thread makes excellent points, particularly about how Substack's whole game is locking in you & your audience. If you're looking for more alternatives & how to move to something better (maybe Buttondown or Ghost?), here's a website with options & ways to migrate.
You Should Probably Leave Substack
You should probably leave Substack. Here’s why and how.
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Miranda Dubner@mirandadubner.bsky.social · 6mo agoPlease stop using substack. Please stop launching substacks. Please stop. They're not good. It's not good. They are only refining their techniques at locking down your subscriber base away from you and punishing you for ever leaving.
Decided to start logging and perhaps reviewing my reading here. This'll cheer you up no end when it's raining outside. Best read with a glass of water they couldn't keep the dust off.
It's me in the Financial Times, detailing the deep and pernicious influence of one-size-fits-all management consultancy in our universities... Take a look! 👇 www.ft.com/content/5032...
Management consultants are ruining UK universities
Relentless off-the-peg commercial rewiring has undermined British higher education
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All finished! The full text of my presentation is available at opensauce.simonxix.com/eor2025/ #UKSG2026
small changes: taking back control of research through open software
This is the text of a paper I delivered at Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2025 on 2025-06-04 led by the conference question "What's stopping you?". It has been edited from the original to incorpor...
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Lucy Barnes@alittleroad.bsky.social · 6mo ago. @simonxix.com is up at #UKSG2026!
Job opportunity: Curator (European Art) at Glasgow Life in Glasgow, UK myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/gla...
The two types of librarian conflict management as illustrated by Richard Scarry. Which are you?
For all the @warburginstitute.bsky.social fans out there…
Institute of English Studies@ies-sas.bsky.social · 6mo ago🔦 Today's LRBS course spotlight is The Book in the Renaissance, led by Dr Paolo Sachet. 🎟️ Book your ticket here by 31st May 👉️ buff.ly/dBXo2UY 💸 Bursaries are available - apply by 7th April #rarebooks #LRBS26
Thanks to the efforts of the international ai haters union, specifically @valluanino.it, I Am An AI Hater has now been translated into Italian. Pretty sure my Sicilian grandfather would have been pleased. Solo noi esseri umani siamo in grado di odiare. Rivendico la mia umanità.
Odio l’IA
Odio l’IA. Forse sembro cattivo, ma sinceramente la odio così tanto che non m’interessa.
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So I discovered that the bagpipe song I really like times perfectly with the Napoleon Dynamite dance. Then a bunch of other stuff happened and I am so sorry but this exists now and I'm far less sorry than previously implied.
[ bagpipes intensify ]
YouTube video by Z. Mann Zilla
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📢Job alert! We’re looking for 3 new full-time graduate trainee Archives & Special Collections Assistants to join our innovative, user-focused engagement team. See more details and apply: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/archives... 🗓️Closing date: 16 April 2026
