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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 28/09/2026

My phone reminded me that it's three years since I took my 3yo daughter's favourite toy to the library to show her what I do all day.

A picture of a toy doll on the grass with please keep of the grass behind it

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 25/08/2026

Heard today that UKRI's RED Fund is officially no more. They funded our project (@morphss.bsky.social ) and lots of others in the open research space. Very much hoping that UKRI launches something similar asap!

Completed area of investment and support
The fund is no longer accepting proposals. We will continue to support existing projects through to completion. Research England continues to recognise and value the importance of time-bound funding to support institutional strategic development. We will publish information about any future programmes and funding opportunities on this website.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 14/08/2026

First story: *crowd cheers!* Second story: *crowd boos!*

Text reads: CWTS takes next step in open research information transition
As a next step in its open research information transition, CWTS will discontinue its use of data from the Clarivate Web of Science database.

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Clarivate selected by Abes to modernize French national academic library system
The new Clarivate solution will bring together library services, resource sharing and AI-powered discovery in one cloud-based platform. It will replace legacy systems used for the national union catalog and the interlibrary loan service used by thousands of academic libraries and institutions nationwide.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 12/08/2026

I think Herbie Hancock would like this.

A picture of a fan designed like a watermelon, a watermelon fan if you will

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 02/08/2026

I mean, a spam journal will publish literally anything if you give them money. I really don't think we need a research article to answer this question.

Predatory Journals: Do They Publish Undergraduate and AI-Generated Papers?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 July 2026

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 21/07/2026

Love to be contacted by a shonky service called Bookbub that has scraped a bunch of bibliometric data and is assuming I'm Samuel Moore the first translator of Das Kapital.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 13/07/2026

Not sure anyone should be drinking pints of coffee, personally

Headline reads: First the £10 pint, now the £6.50 flat white: coffee industry faces inflationary pressures

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 07/05/2026

I love having one of those chilled supermarket soups for lunch. So many flavours of the world.

An image from the Simpsons of a vat of "all purpose meat"

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 01/05/2026

Striking a blow for organised labour on my morning run.

A badge that reads international workers say 2026
Record an activity on international workers day

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 31/03/2026

This is excellent on journal cascading.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 07/02/2026

Sad news but honestly a good innings for an APC-free, community-led open access journal.

First Monday has never charged --- in its entire history --- article processing charges (APC). First Monday has never subscribed to the notion that the article processing charges (APC) model is a version of open access publishing. First Monday has never leveled subscription fees or charges in its long history. First Monday has never tolerated advertisements in any form on its virtual pages. First Monday is truly openly accessible at all levels and has always been so, from its beginning with its first issue released on 6 May 1996.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 03/02/2026

This doesn't feel fair to the arXiv. Maybe a community form of governance (albeit a blunt one like personal recommendations) is a better approach than investing millions in research integrity tools with mixed success. newsletter.journalology.com/p/journalolo...

According to the 2024 annual report, the total budget for arXiv was around $7m. The majority of that was for personnel costs ($3.5m) and indirect costs covered by Cornell (for HR, building costs etc; $2.3m).

Publishing companies are investing millions of dollars into research integrity tools and teams to try to protect the academic record; arXiv doesn’t have the same access to those funds and so has no choice but to resort to blunt measures like this one, which makes arXiv feel a bit like an old boys’ club.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 16/12/2025

It's very good on open science and research culture reform too.

Framing the dysfunction as “Goodhart’s Law” constrains what questions you can ask. It leads, inevitably, to the search for better indicators—exactly the program that metascience reformers have pursued for the past two decades through pre-registration, registered reports, open science initiatives, DORA declarations, altmetrics manifestos.15 These are not trivial interventions, and some of them may help at the margins and for a little while before the players in the game figure out how to manipulate them. But they remain inside the frame, tinkering with measures while leaving the organizational form untouched. The measures don’t just assess science; they reshape what kinds of projects researchers choose to pursue, what questions seem worth asking, what work seems worth doing.16 Fixing the metric doesn’t fix that.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 07/12/2025

Went out for an afternoon pint at our local and my daughter gave the bar staff this Christmas card.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 17/11/2025

Shabana Mahmood is looking for the Shabana Mahmood that did this.

Two stories side by side:
The first: Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister
The second:
Shabana Mahmood warns Labour MPs ‘dark forces are stirring up anger’ over migration

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 20/10/2025

You know you've hit the jackpot when you land on a webpage that looks like this.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 20/10/2025

Nice illustration of how truly horrible the Labour party is. www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

These are all real policies and pledges. Migrant NHS doctors for example, labouring for long work days beyond what they are paid for will now have to prove that they “contribute to society” to earn permanent settlement in the UK. The benchmark for that contribution is volunteer work (sorry, more volunteer work) in the community. The five-year route to settlement is now being extended to 10, to make absolutely sure that in addition to being in work, paying taxes, making national insurance contributions and paying a hefty charge to use the NHS, you’re not taking the piss. The latest demand is that some migrants must be able to speak English to A-level standard because, according to home secretary Shabana Mahmood, “it is unacceptable for migrants to come here without learning our language, unable to contribute to our national life”.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 03/10/2025

"This issue of PARSE Journal starts from the tangled and mesmerising fabric of collective artistic practice, particularly from the frictions that keep coming up when sharing work that was collectively produced or while reusing works made by others." parsejournal.com/article/ecol...

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 19/09/2025

This headline makes it sound like being found naked and on drugs was the thing that kept him out of jail

Headline reads: flight attendant avoids jail after being found naked and on drugs

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 10/09/2025

Got my author copies and have promptly given them to my ten most influential friends and colleagues. (They're all just out of frame, laughing too.)

A picture of my ten copies of my book stacked on top of our another

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 08/09/2025

Woke up early to have a cup of tea outside but forgot that the spiders had taken over and it's their garden now.

A picture of a spider in a web with a garden in the background

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 06/09/2025

"in the name of Scopus!" sounds like something a frustrated scientist would say to avoid swearing in front of their kids.

Heading reads "Guest post: In the name of Scopus, one hijacked journal easily tricks authors"

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 26/08/2025

Cambridge University plumbing update (not sure what I'm supposed to do though)

A pot of water next to a sign saying use me to flush

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 26/08/2025

Received the print copy of my book (out next week!). Obligatory shot with @theul.bsky.social in the background.

A copy of a book in front of Cambridge university library.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 09/08/2025

Don't know about you, but I'm certainly ready for AI tools that are reshaping scholarly publishing and investor confidence

AI-Driven social media tools: reshaping scholarly publishing and investor confidence in tech-enabled media platforms

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 24/07/2025

Gotta love economists. This is from a paper about researcher views on open peer review:

If the journal is myopic about b(r, t), it treats s as follows:
s = q + ε′, with ε′ ∼ N (0, σ2
s ) and σ2
s = σ2
ε (e) + σ2
b(r,t)
The journal’s posterior belief about q is therefore:
E[q | s] = λs + (1 − λ)¯q, where λ = σ2
q
σ2
q + σ

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 26/06/2025

Really hoping there's air conditioning at the Metascience meeting

A picture of the London weather forecast for Monday saying 34 degrees

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 16/06/2025

Still funny that this was PLOS's response when Nature copied its APC-based megajournal model back in 2011.

Welcome,
Nature.
Seriously.
Welcome to Open Access, the most exciting and important
development in science communication since journals were invented.
And congratulations on your new journal
Scientific Reports—an
important step towards comprehensive Open Access to research.To realize
the full power of Open Access, we urge you to permit your content to be
re-used without restriction and to extend the Open Access model to all
your journals.
Putting real knowledge into the hands of everyone will change
the way people work, think, learn, and communicate. Openly sharing
research encourages faster progress in solving some of the world’s toughest
problems—from protecting the biodiversity of our planet to finding more
effective treatments for diseases such as AIDS and cancer.
As a result, Open Access is fast becoming the publishing model of
choice for the scientific and medical community.
We’re delighted that Nature and other publishers have recently
announced journals modeled on
PLoS ONE—a peer-reviewed journal that
judges articles on scientific rigor rather than potential impact. Last year,
PLoS ONE published 6,749 articles, making it the world’s largest peer-
reviewed journal.
We look forward to responsible partnerships in the massive effort to
increase Open Access research throughout the world.
Because what we are doing is bringing about social change and
accelerating progress.
Welcome to the challenge

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 12/06/2025

Quite good this. There's a real emphasis on supporting ethical alternatives to commercial publishing.

Exploring shared infrastructure and supporting enhanced green open access proactively through institutional repositories’
Investing in non-profit tools and platforms that support open research and transparent publishing
Engaging researchers in conversations about the impact of their publishing choices
Sharing best practices with the wider library and research sector
Championing a positive research culture through open access, responsible metrics, and inclusive infrastructure

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 10/06/2025

Our pamphlet 'Publishing Activism within/without a Toxic University' is now live on the @openhumanities.bsky.social site: www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...

The cover of the pamphlet which reads "publishing activism within/without a toxic university"

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 21/04/2025

The nice people at University of Michigan Press have sent over a code you can use to pre-order my new book with 30% off. Out in September. press.umich.edu/content/down...

Book cover for Publishing beyond the market: open access, care, and the commons

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 19/03/2025

At least Springer Nature is doing well while higher education is collapsing all over the place. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

The company said it expects further growth in 2025, with revenue of €1.89bn to €1.94bn and an adjusted operating profit margin at least at the level it reached in 2024, which was 28 per cent.

Its results come as the academic sector in many parts of the world is struggling financially and expressing concern about the growing costs of scholarly publishing.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 15/02/2025

Nice to see that Retraction Watch is keeping an eye on the football manager retractions now too.

Highlighted text reads "“Leyton Orient Head Coach Richie Wellens wishes to retract a comment made in a post-match interview.”

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 22/01/2025

Thanks also to everyone pointing out our main inspiration for the project.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 03/01/2025

I don't think it's enough to simply change the terminology if you're not going to also address how the practices that fall under the open umbrella are more reflective of scientific ways of working. If anything, the idea of openness needs to shift as much as the science part.

At the same time, we know there remains much work to do to make open science more inclusive. One way to do this is to broaden the conversation and terminology, such as discussing “open scholarship” as opposed to “open science”. This subtle but significant change enables a wider community of researchers, such as those in the arts and humanities, to participate, and it defines how practices such as data sharing and preprints can be started, scaled and sustained.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 20/12/2024

Really enjoying the collective breakdown we're having around open access publishing

Finland downgrades MDPI and Frontiers – will others follow suit?
Decision to downgrade 271 journals on quality and operating

Headline reads: Over 100 German universities sign national open access deal with MDPI to support open science

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 13/12/2024

Wore a garish green jumper to stand out at the Carols from King's service. Ended up on the front row so look out for me on the telly.

A picture of kings college chapel in the dark

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