iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Andy Byers @ajrbyers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Very disappointing that both Apple and Google have renamed Lake Ontario on their maps. Time for an alternative navigation app?

000

Andy Byers @ajrbyers.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

How is that not a penalty? No contact with the ball. Wtf is var for?

010

Andy Byers @ajrbyers.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Morocco players diving all over the place here. Embarrassing to watch at a World Cup.

010

Andy Byers @ajrbyers.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

1-1 in the Morocco - Brazil game is the perfect result for Scotland.

000

Andy Byers @ajrbyers.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I think this is probably the first place other than @openlibhums.org annual report that mentions @plos.org are contributing to @janewayolh.bsky.social and will be utilising it as part of their workflow. It’s pretty incredible that a project I started with @eve.gd has come so far.

1227

Reposted by Andy Byers

Janeway @janewayolh.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Many thanks to everyone who joined #JanewayOA26 online and in person, and to all the speakers, for two wonderful days at Dublin City University discussing Janeway, open infrastructure, and community-led scholarly publishing.

Group photo of the Janeway conference attendees

186

Andy Byers @ajrbyers.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Where is @theblochian.bsky.social? I was abandoned to open #JanewayOA26. Public speaking - not my forte.

120

Reposted by Andy Byers

Janeway @janewayolh.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Kicking off Session 1: Migration & Workflow, with Lauren Stachew from Michigan Publishing on Navigating the Challenges of Migrating a Subscription- based Journal to Janeway #JanewayOA26

133

Andy Byers @ajrbyers.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I'll be giving two talks at this thing so if you want to listen to that... sign up!

021

Reposted by Andy Byers

Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 08/05/2026

🚨 Programme now live for The Lower Decks 2.0: A Symposium on Janeway and Open Access Publishing 🚨 📅 21–22 May 2026 📍 Dublin City University Library 💻 Online registration open Join the Janeway community to discuss user experience, innovations, and more. thelowerdecks.janewa... #JanewayOA26

Graphic for “The Lower Decks 2.0: A Symposium on Janeway and Open Access Publishing,” taking place 21–22 May 2026 at Dublin City University, Ireland.

012

Andy Byers @ajrbyers.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Classic BBC giving council elections higher billing that either the Scottish or Welsh parliamentary elections.

Shows the BBC landing page which shows English council elections as the default results.

010

Reposted by Andy Byers

Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 27/03/2026

Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers This piece explores how major academic publishers are becoming “infrastructure landlords”, not just publishing research, but owning the systems around it. 👉 www.openlibhums.org/news/931/ #OpenAccess #ScholComm

openlibhums.org

THE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers

THE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers This piece has been written by a friend of the OLH who wishes to remain anonymous. Figure. Pyramid …

14837

Reposted by Andy Byers

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 18/02/2026

Also cool: @c21literature.bsky.social runs on the software I co-created with the mighty @ajrbyers.bsky.social and uses the funding/business model I co-designed and built with the excellent @theblochian.bsky.social, making it all free for readers to access, thanks to 300+ global libraries.

0116

Andy Byers @ajrbyers.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

If anyone wants to know how my week is going I just stood on an upturned plug.

100

Reposted by Andy Byers

Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Feeling quite emotional today - it's the OFFICIAL LAUNCH of @ojcollective.bsky.social! It's taken 14 months of hard work to get here & I'm incredibly proud of our brilliant team. This is just the beginning - more announcements coming soon from the collective! drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...

drive.google.com

OJC Press release Jan 2026.pdf

1218

Reposted by Andy Byers

Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

We've done it again! @openlibhums.org has flipped another flagship journal to #diamond #openaccess! This follows the mass resignation of the Journal of Philosophical Logic's editorial boards from Springer Nature. The JPL editors will launch Philosophical Logic: www.openlibhums.org/news/875/.

openlibhums.org

Flagship Springer Nature journal flips to diamond open access at the OLH

We’re excited to announce the launch of a major new journal, following news of another mass editorial resignation (read open letter) at Springer Nature. This week, the Editors-in-Chief and Associate …

12010

Andy Byers @ajrbyers.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

This is hilarious. Don’t people realise the floppy part is inside? The outside isn’t disk shaped.

010

Reposted by Andy Byers

Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 14/11/2025

We don't share our expertise with right-wing rags.

Dear Simon

Apologies for barging into your inbox like this but I'm a journalist with the Daily Telegraph and Ive been asked to write about the ongoing problems at the British Library. Partly it's about the staff discontent in light of the recent departure of Rebecca Lawrence and the strikes, but its also necessarily about the ongoing ramifications of the cyber attack. As someone who knows an awful lot more about IT systems in academic environments than I do, would you be willing to talk to me about what has happened at the BL, and what it means for the future of academic research in general? I realise its now Friday afternoon, but I'm around Monday for most of the day if you are willing and that time suits you. I'd be extremely grateful if so.

Many thanks and best wishes

Redacted

Hi Redacted,

Thanks for getting in touch. I'm a great person to talk to about this but I have no interest in talking to someone writing for the Daily Telegraph nor do I trust your paper to represent the story accurately.

Have a good weekend,

Simon

717932

Reposted by Andy Byers

Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 03/11/2025

Our annual report 2024–2025 is OUT! It highlights collaborations, journal flips, latest dev work from @janewayolh.bsky.social, new staff and more! Library memberships grew by 25%, an incredible achievement at such a difficult time for higher education!

openlibhums.org

OLH annual report 2024-2025

We're delighted to be publishing our 2024-25 annual report, which outlines the fantastic successes of the entire OLH team over the past financial year from 01 August 2024 to 31 …

075

Reposted by Andy Byers

Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 30/10/2025

It’s spooky season… 🧟‍♂️ Don’t feed the zombies. Support diamond open access! The zombie poster is back! #DiamondOA #OpenAccess #Halloween

Comic-style poster warning that commercial publishers are “eating your journal’s brains,” promoting the Open Library of Humanities.

02013

Reposted by Andy Byers

Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre

Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast)

Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

99157845007

Andy Byers @ajrbyers.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

@aggrend.bsky.social any chance you know if they plan to fix the issue with the phase 8 weapon enchant procs?

000

Andy Byers @ajrbyers.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

@aggrend.bsky.social I know Blizzard have dropped SoD... but please can someone allow us to reactivate the SE buff? It can't be that hard to add.

100

Reposted by Andy Byers

International Labour Review @ilr-rit.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

We’re tearing down the paywalls! 🚀🔓 The International Labour Review is going Open Access—100+ years of world-of-work research, now free for all. No barriers 🚧, no limits 🚀, just knowledge 📚✨ Proud to team up with @openlibhums.bsky.social to make this happen! 👀 More: ow.ly/e41850VuqAV

0156

Reposted by Andy Byers

daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025

An Open Source sustainability story in two slides. (for a coming talk of mine) Slide 1: car brands using #curl Slide 2: car brands sponsoring or paying for #curl support

16223372

Andy Byers @ajrbyers.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

So. Texas Republicans are actively trying to have Democrats arrested. Where have we seen that before?

000

Andy Byers @ajrbyers.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

@aggrend.bsky.social what are the chances we might get SoD server merges?

000

Reposted by Andy Byers

Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

To celebrate this (urp 🤢) exciting new journal series, we made a mini game! Can YOU guess which journals are Discover, MDPI, or both? No cheating! There's even the challenge mode "APC Ladder." Share your high score with the hashtag #ResearchIntegrity pagoba.shinyapps.io/publi_guess/ FUN!! 🤮 6/n

23416

Reposted by Andy Byers

Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

@gwynnefitz.bsky.social and Ben Fractenberg capture vignettes all day from the check-in at an ICE office in Manhattan.

2:41 p.m.: Four men are walked out in handcuffs by masked agents. One is Jaen, Ambar’s husband. Her 12-year-old daughter screams and runs after him.

Ambar wails in agony and collapses onto the sidewalk.

As the SUVs pull away Ambar leans over a nearby fence sobbing, “My love, my love,” she murmurs over and over again.

[photo of a woman on her hands and knees on the sidewalk, her face contorted in a grimace. The hand of another woman reaches down, touching her on her back.]

A woman falls to the ground after her husband was detained by ICE agents in Lower Manhattan, June 4, 2025. Credit: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY

14527

Andy Byers @ajrbyers.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

@aggrend.bsky.social thanks to you and the team for SoD, dude. It brought me back to WoW and may be the last version of it I play but it was really fun.

010

Reposted by Andy Byers

Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 20/05/2025

We're HIRING an Editorial Officer to start in August 2025! 📅 Deadline for applications: 8 June 2025. If you're an academic passionate about open access publishing, we encourage you to apply. Fully remote position! cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/edit...

cis7.bbk.ac.uk

Editorial Officer (2137) - Birkbeck, University of London

Birkbeck

01123

Andy Byers @ajrbyers.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

@aggrend.bsky.social Got Mantle of Faith from Naxx last night (yay) but the light effect is super weird viewed from the back... is this a bug?

030

Andy Byers @ajrbyers.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

This is what I have to do in order to find time to write software these days.

010

Reposted by Andy Byers

Red de Bibliotecas y Archivos del CSIC @bibliotecascsic.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Hoy destacamos la Open Library of Humanities Journal, un recurso electrónico de interés en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades. Accede a través de nuestra Biblioteca Virtual. ▶️ olh.openlibhums.org #recursosdeinformación

073

Reposted by Andy Byers

World of Warcraft @worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com · 11/04/2025

Nobody expects the Scarlet Crusade!

1840470

Reposted by Andy Byers

Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 07/04/2025

Pleased to announce that the International Labour Review / @ilr-rit.bsky.social, one of the world’s leading publications on world-of-work knowledge and research, transitions to #diamondOA with the Open Library of Humanities: www.openlibhums.org/news/797/

openlibhums.org

International Labour Review transitions to open access

The International Labour Review, one of the world’s leading publications on world-of-work knowledge and research, transitions to open access with the Open Library of Humanities. GENEVA (ILO News) – Th...

01411

Reposted by Andy Byers

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 02/04/2025

Some context here from my years of work on the Open Library of Humanities. Open Journals Collective is the opportunity we need to spread no-APC OA widely. Cancel Transformative Agreements (which aren't working). Use that money to fund this package of hundreds of OA journals. eve.gd/2025/04/02/o...

eve.gd

Open Journals Collective: Making Open Access a Reality at Scale

tl;dr: cancel your big deals and transitional agreements (they’re not working) and invest in a set of hundreds of non-APC, OA titles offered by Open Journals Collective, which derives from the OLH mod...

25633

Reposted by Andy Byers

Philippa Grand @philippagrand.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

So thrilled @lsepress.bsky.social is part of this new initiative for journals - being launched by @theblochian.bsky.social at #UKSG2025 today @ojcollective.bsky.social

Caroline Edward’s launching the Open Journals Collective at UKSG 2025 conference.

02210

Reposted by Andy Byers

Aberdeen University Press @abdnunipress.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Great to see @michiganpublishing.bsky.social at #UKSG2025 - @abdnunipress.bsky.social's publishing partner 📘📖

Michigan Publishing Services stand at UKSG 2025, showing recent publications and Fulcrum pen merch

053

Andy Byers @ajrbyers.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

How do I know that @uksg.bsky.social is on? I haven't received an email since 0800 this morning.

161

Reposted by Andy Byers

Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 31/03/2025

"Today, Monday 31st March 2025, is therefore a timely moment to be launching the Open Journals Collective (OJC) – an equitable, sustainable, community-led alternative to the big deals offered by corporate academic publishers." blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

blogs.lse.ac.uk

11110

Reposted by Andy Byers

Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 31/03/2025

Read more about the OJC here: www.openjournalscollective.org

openjournalscollective.org

Open Journals Collective

021

Reposted by Andy Byers

Philippa Grand @philippagrand.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

We at @LSEPress are delighted to be part of this game changing initiative.

042