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PLOS @plos.org · 15/09/2026

In our Redefining Publishing report, we propose a new integrated publishing solution called the knowledge stack. The goal is to ensure research outputs, including data & code, are recognized alongside traditional articles. 🔗 buff.ly/hN8ycqN #OpenScienceWeek

Conceptual "Knowledge stack" showing stacked layers of research artifacts—from Research plan at the top, then Protocols, Resources, Data, Code, Preprint, Article down to New outputs—visualizing how research components build on and support each other.

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APS journals @apsjournals.aps.org · 10/06/2026

A review of @physrevlett.bsky.social, Physical Review C, and Review D earned the top score in the 2026 SCOAP3 assessment of #OpenScience practices for a second consecutive year, showing our commitment to #OpenScience. Learn more: go.aps.org/4eAq2Gs

A burst of glowing golden particles radiates outward from a central point, symbolizing the Higgs boson and the energy of particle collisions in high-energy physics.

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Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information @barcelonadori.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

📢 Last week, we published 𝐼𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑄𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑂𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝐹𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑀𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎: 𝐴 𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝐴𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 Thank you to everyone who has shared, discussed, and amplified the work so far 🌍 📣 Call to Action: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 📘 Background document: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Improving the Quality of Open Funding Metadata: A Call to Action

This Call to Action is the result of a roundtable workshop co-organized by the Barcelona Declaration Working Group on Funding Metadata and Crossref to discuss the challenges and opportunities for impr...

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 08/02/2026

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

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Bluesky Map

Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

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Colin Adcock @colinadcock.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Likely of little interest, but thought I'd share that yesterday I put up a little weather station in my garden. I now have data to prove it's mild, grey and rainy. preview.wunderground.com/dashboard/pw...

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Local Weather Forecast, News and Conditions | Weather Underground

Weather Underground provides local & long-range weather forecasts, weather reports, maps & tropical weather conditions for locations worldwide

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Springer Nature @springernature.com · 26/01/2026

The 10th anniversary edition of the State of Open Data report shows open data has become strongly embedded into research practice with FAIR awareness now widely recognised & AI is reshaping workflows: spklr.io/6332984LsH #OpenData #OpenScience @digital-science.com @figshare.com

Flyover view with "Springer Nature", "Digital Science", and "Figshare" logos. Text reads "Now available The State of Open Data 2025 A Decade of Progress and Challenges Read the new report".

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below.

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.

A figure detailing the drain on researcher time.

1. The four-fold drain

1.2 Time
The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce,
with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure
1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material
has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs,
grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for
profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time.
The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million
unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of
peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting
widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the
authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many
review demands.
Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of
scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in
‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow
progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to
volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier,
local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with
limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging
with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks
intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision.

A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below:

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.

The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised
scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers
first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour
resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.

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Colin Adcock @colinadcock.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Great research does not come free. "Throughout history, laureates have given us the blue LEDs that light our phones, fiber optic cables that carry internet traffic, and neural networks that power artificial intelligence... there's another unsung winner: federal funding." www.aps.org/apsnews/2025...

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The quiet winner of the Nobel Prizes in science

Great research does not come free.

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Colin Adcock @colinadcock.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Congratulations to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis for winning the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit. journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... [Free access]

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Measurements of Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling out of the Zero-Voltage State of a Current-Biased Josephson Junction

The escape rate of an underdamped ($Q\ensuremath{\approx}30$), current-biased Josephson junction from the zero-voltage state has been measured. The relevant parameters of the junction were determined ...

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Open Science Fair @osfair.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

⏳ One week to go! OSFair2025 starts on 15 Sept at @cern.bsky.social Science Gateway! 3 days of keynotes, debates, workshops & demos, all shaping the future of Open Science. #OSFair2025 #OpenScience #Research #CERN #OpenAIRE @openaire.bsky.social

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Colin Adcock @colinadcock.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

looking forward to Science and Technology Indicators conference in #Bristol this week! @stienid2025.bsky.social

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Colin Adcock @colinadcock.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

PRX Energy is piloting transparent peer review. This will help us develop our open peer-review processes for our journals. Find out more and take part. - journals.aps.org/prxenergy/20...

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<i>PRX Energy</i> to pilot a transparent peer review process

“Open Reports” will allow details from the peer review process to be published alongside articles.

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Colin Adcock @colinadcock.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Nice article on the path to Open Science. "If it is our aim as a discipline to create a lasting impact, we need to conduct research with reliable findings, which requires exposing ourselves to open science practices." #openscience link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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A Tale of Open Science: Emergence of a New Normal - Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research

This paper explores the transformative journey of open science in reshaping research credibility and replicability. Using psychology’s “replication crisis” as a cautionary tale, we discuss the emergen...

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Colin Adcock @colinadcock.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Many authors don't share data, even when encouraged or asked to. Data statement requirements are often misunderstood and revert to 'On reasonable request'. How can we improve this? Is the importance of Open Data getting to researchers and do they know how? Whose job is it to 'enforce'? #OpenScience

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Colin Adcock @colinadcock.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

NIH to cap APC fees. Where will they put the line? Feels likely to push more institutions/publishers into doing read and publish agreements across America, and cause issues for high quality / high threshold journals that have higher APCs. www.nih.gov/news-events/...

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NIH to crack down on excessive publisher fees for publicly funded research

Effort is part of NIH’s ongoing commitment to scientific transparency and responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars.

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Open Science Fair @osfair.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

📢 Good news! The sponsorship application deadline for #OSFair2025 has been extended to June 15! Support #OpenScience and boost your visibility in the global research community. 🔗 www.opensciencefair.eu/2025/call-fo... @openaire.bsky.social @cern.bsky.social

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Open Science FAIR - Call for Sponsorship

open science, open access, open data, publishing models, cloud, infrastructure, conference

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Colin Adcock @colinadcock.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Researchers publishing in @apsphysics.bsky.social journals will now receive a DOI for their article immediately upon acceptance, allowing for improved discoverability and citation of their work.

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Colin Adcock @colinadcock.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Wonderful initiative to boost metadata uptake!

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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Europe Unveils $565 Million Plan to Attract Scientists From U.S. as Trump Defunds Basic Research "Europe will always choose science," said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. gizmodo.com/europe-unvei... Their gain, U.S. loss.

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Europe Unveils $565 Million Plan to Attract Scientists From U.S. as Trump Defunds Basic Research

"Europe will always choose science," said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

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American Physical Society @apsphysics.aps.org · 17/04/2025

The first SCOAP3 assessment of open science practices gave our journals high marks. A review of @PhysRevLetters, @PhysRevC, and @PhysRevD earned nearly double the total score of the next-highest publisher, showing our commitment to #OpenScience. 🔗 www.aps.org/about/news/2... @cern.bsky.social

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Colin Adcock @colinadcock.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

@cern.bsky.social have announced the SCOAP3 Open Science Elements results for 2025. Physical Review journals have scored very highly, showcasing @apsphysics.bsky.social ongoing commitment to Open Science initiatives in publishing. PIDs, Metadata, Data, Accessibility, more. scoap3.org/journals-202...

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SCOAP3 Open Science Elements – SCOAP3

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WIRED @wired.com · 31/03/2025

“Everybody in math and physics uses it.” Nearly 35 years ago, Paul Ginsparg created arXiv, a digital repository for sharing research. It changed science for good. Three decades in, Ginsparg reflects on its legacy—and its future.

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Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science

Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.

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arXiv @arxiv.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Perhaps most importantly, when you support arXiv, you support . . . your own work! 🧑🏻‍🔬 arXiv promotes scientific advancement by making it fast, easy, & free for you to share your research & discover new science every single day. 🤓📬🌞 #openscience givingday.cornell.edu/campaigns/arx…

This is a picture of a tweet where someone posted "No arXiv today? what is the point of waking up!?"

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

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Homepage - openRxiv

openRxiv is an independent non-profit, the new organizational home for bioRxiv and medRxiv, enabling researchers to instantly share groundbreaking findings with the global scientific community.

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terjehaakstad.bsky.social @terjehaakstad.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

As part of the Munin Committee, I’m excited to share the 20th Munin Conference (Nov 18-20, 2025) in Tromsø! 🌍❄️ Submit papers on Open Science, Indigenous rights in research, transparency, and more! 📅 Deadline: June 8, 2025 #Munin2025 #OpenScience #ScholarlyPublishing #Research #CallForPapers #Tromsø

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Colin Adcock @colinadcock.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Folks, #StormEowyn is no joke; this will be a major event through its track, with 100mph+ gusting winds through the day. Stay safe out there, have your supplies, torches, coats at hand especially in rural locations. The light pink is over 100mph.

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 03/12/2024

BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce: We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky! We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct. Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions. Let's get into it!

Blueksy Mentions are now in Altmetric.

It's been 84 years meme

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #MedSky #HMSky #Altmetrics #Medlibs #Metascience

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Colin Adcock @colinadcock.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

For my first post, a little note that journals.aps.org has just been upgraded with a slew of accessibility features to make the experience easier for readers with a wide range of needs. We'll be continuing our work in this space and ensuring our journals are published to the highest standards.

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Physical Review Journals

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