Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A Poetics of Infrastructural Salvage is now published at FLL: fll.pubpub.org/pub/apois/re...fll.pubpub.orgA Poetics of Infrastructural Salvage 022
Reposted by Dan RudmannBart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Back of the envelope calculations: 3600 years of research time went into the collective application process. The research will fund 3200 years of research. We are 400 research years poorer as a result of this. 1/2 316386
Reposted by Dan RudmannEric Schares @eschares.bsky.social · 31/08/2026🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm 6179147
Reposted by Dan RudmannDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"...AI and Tumblr cannot give you what schooling and education gives you, which is a container for the possibility of a greatness we have not yet imagined but that we have nevertheless built the foundation to exist" I don't have the words, I just keep playing this one over and over 321448
Reposted by Dan RudmannDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Society helps create a Dolly Parton, a Prince Rogers Nelson 19712
Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026youtu.be/JXukJyzTA7A?...youtu.beDolly Parton - The River UnbrokenYouTube video by DollyPartonVEVO 000
Reposted by Dan RudmannJ. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026There are too many songs that I love, but Bargain Store really hits: Why, you take, for instance, this old broken heart If you will just replace the missing parts You would be surprised to find how good it really is Take it and you never will be sorry that you did Love you, Dollyyoutube.comBargain Store - Dolly Parton - Live from Opryland 1975YouTube video by raredolly 014329
Reposted by Dan RudmannBill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I feel like the kids who did poorly in science and history class are trying to get revenge on the kids who did well at science and history class and now we’re all going to die 20492131761
Reposted by Dan RudmannBree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 18/08/2026Quick PSA. Looking at you, local orgs and small businesses. 1061502462
Reposted by Dan RudmannSamuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 13/08/2026"The journal roughly doubled its publication volume from nearly 5,000 articles in 2023 to over 9,600 in 2024, and published over 10,300 articles in 2025." Good illustration of why commercial publishers are not passive victims of fraudulent behaviour but have actively created the conditions for it. 13924
Reposted by Dan RudmannBuckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 11/08/2026slow day in the office so we're starting beef with archaeologists 1302278558
Reposted by Dan RudmannSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026It requires expertise to be able to say, “I do not know the answer to that question, and that is becauae thus far scholarly consensus is that we do not have the knowledge needed at this time to answer that question.” Sometimes “I don’t know” is a far more rigorous answer than people might think. 735081
Reposted by Dan RudmannResearchEquals @researchequals.com · 03/08/2026Thanks @danrdmnn.bsky.social 🙌 We encourage people to check out your "Seven Theses for a Diverse and Inclusive Research Data Ecosystem" doi.org/10.53962/jw8... 022
Reposted by Dan RudmannJuan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca · 03/08/20261/ In 2024, I filed a false claims act lawsuit against Elsevier, Springer, Wiley & Informa alleging they systematically overcharged US federal grants for article processing. The gov declined to intervene and now it's public. Some thoughts on what this is, and what it isn't: 12622
Reposted by Dan RudmannMatthew Murray 🦇 @midnitelibrary.bsky.social · 19/07/2026The "sequel"(?) to "You Are Reviewer 2" is now available to download for free. "So You've Been Told to Publish Your Data" is a solo d6-based "game" to "learn" about Research Data Management and Data Publishing. midnitelibrary.itch.io/publish-your... 📚 13416
Reposted by Dan RudmannDr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 17/07/2026And this is why I am against AI, as well as the environmental concerns and the intellectual property theft and the dumbing-down of society. THERE ARE ENOUGH HUMAN-GENERATED CONFECTED SOURCES OUT THERE ALREADY. WE DON'T NEED ANY MORE. 2698
Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026How we took our eyes off the ball and allowed the wrong entities to remake the playing field of Open Access: 131
Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Setting universities up to fail is a longstanding tactic known as 'starving the beast' - a university's resources are undermined so it cannot live up to its obligations and is then punished for that by further resource cuts. See Steve Mims' 2016 documentary film: youtu.be/4IlFhJ78QdU?...youtu.beSTARVING THE BEAST TrailerYouTube video by Starving the Beast 021
Reposted by Dan RudmannSamuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 30/06/2026The most broken part of academic publishing is the failure to imagine a way of fixing it beyond the posts on Substack complaining about how broken it is. 0122
Reposted by Dan RudmannSabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · 27/06/2026This is a key node in the battle for democracy and the survival of our planet - fostering education and research on HOW humans assign meaning to facts, how we create and contextualise information, how we infuse knowledge into everyday decisions and interventions. 2215
Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 15/06/2026My small take about Subway Takes as a lesson for how to be together again: bruderrudmann.org/2026/06/15/a...bruderrudmann.orgBruder & Rudmann - A Map for a Dialectic: Kareem Rahma's Subway Takes 000
Reposted by Dan Rudmannlaura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Everyone who is scared of cities and multiculturalism is a loser. 63125122558
Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 19/05/2026We were having the same conversation 10 years ago. Lady Gaga spoke at #SXSW and said we couldn't have shows in Austin anymore unless Doritos was sponsoring them. www.kut.org/life-arts/20...kut.orgAustin music leaders rethink the idea of 'selling out' as business support becomes a necessityOnce considered evil, panelists agreed corporate support might be one of the best ways to protect the artists and venues that make Austin unique. 100
Reposted by Dan RudmannMegan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 11/05/2026this isn't correct lots of eliminated Humanities departments were overfilling classes and effectively subsidizing STEM programs that cost universities money it was never about majors it is about what they could effectively fundraise for which includes this AI bullshit 11777140
Reposted by Dan RudmannAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 08/05/2026universities have the brainpower, resources,+ community obligation to develop on-site secure NON PROFIT learning management systems + ed tech overseen by actual educators, not data-extraction censorious surveillance profiteers! VOID THE CONTRACTS theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...theamericanvandal.substack.comMamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge ProductionLet CUNY socialize EdTech for all of us. 10417128
Reposted by Dan RudmannSimon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 20/04/2026My previous research centre was among the highest performing in terms of REF at the university. It didn't stop senior management from gutting it. You can play their game perfectly, obey all their rules, and buy into their metrics... and still lose. 3207
Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 26/04/2026A heart-filled optimistic piece about the commodification of knowledge, our birthright, and the unending effort toward truth and freedom by Anton Bruder: bruderrudmann.org/2026/04/26/l...bruderrudmann.orgBruder & Rudmann - Liquid Intelligence 000
Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 21/04/2026The Institute for Human Sciences now has a education program called Library School, a journal entitled Utopian Scholastic, and a progressing imprint under the name Language Arts. There's more in the works... 021
Reposted by Dan RudmannAnn Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Still and always unrivaled. www.npr.org/sections/the...npr.orgListen To My Body Tonight: How Prince's Transgressive Spirit Broke BoundariesIn the nearly four decades of music Prince made, propriety and prejudice were regularly vanquished by good humor and elegant lust. 0369
Reposted by Dan RudmannInstitute for Human Sciences @humansciences.bsky.social · 21/04/2026We are pleased to present volume 8 of Utopian Scholastic, the journal of the Institute for Human Sciences, here on the issue of Echoes. Listening to the past, feeling time, doesn't mean going back in time: it means experiencing a moment of past time in the present. www.zotero.org/groups/64299... 001
Reposted by Dan RudmannLori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 25/03/2026OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚 562686776
Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Here's me giving a talk at Oxford University yesterday at the Forum for Open Scholarship called A Poetics of Infrastructural Salvage. It's about ways to open a university for more people and more forms of knowledge. 151
Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Brilliant discussion rethinking governance in publishing and research from @kirahopkins.bsky.social and @kjsanders.bsky.social at The Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship #OXFOS26 0105
Reposted by Dan RudmannSarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 28/02/2026“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin 1129821166
Reposted by Dan RudmannSamuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 16/02/2026New report urges broader definition of “open research" to include arts, humanities and social science practices. @morphss.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social @camdighum.bsky.sociallib.cam.ac.ukNew report urges broader definition of “open research" to include arts, humanities and social science practicesAs Open Research gains traction across the research landscape, a new report challenges funders and institutions to expand their understanding of openness to better reflect arts, humanities and social ... 0147
Reposted by Dan RudmannInternet Archive @archive.org · 28/01/2026What happens when we build a commons-based, scholar-led publishing landscape? On this episode of the Future Knowledge #podcast, @SamuelMoore.org & @HJoseph.bsky.social discuss PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET & reimagining open access. 🎧 Tune in ➡️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/pub... 110824
Reposted by Dan RudmannTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I have been of the opinion for about five years now that we are all mostly clinging to the *idea* of social media. But that it has not existed, as we mean it, since Jack sold Twitter. The minute capital lined up to fold social media into its technocratic political consolidation, it stopped existing. 4648139
Reposted by Dan RudmannRoopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 26/01/2026All the “leaders” who think that what they are doing now is safeguarding the long-term health of their institutions really should be asking themselves what someone is going to write about them in a century. It’s not just an abdication of morality — it’s a baaaad look. 1123
Reposted by Dan Rudmannkonnaire @konnaire.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds 77120614628
Reposted by Dan RudmannSamuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 05/01/2026Regular reminder that research assessment reform is, above all, a labour issue. 12513
Reposted by Dan RudmannMartin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 28/12/2025"There are some things we ought not to do even though people will pay us to do them" - Joseph Weizenbaum, the creator of the ELIZA chat bot in 1965, advising computer scientists on AI. Cited in McCray's README, p. 93. 1121
Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 17/12/2025"Friction too, let it be said, is how fire is made." Reflecting on a couple great articles on knowledge creation. bruderrudmann.org/2025/12/17/f...bruderrudmann.orgBruder & Rudmann - Fact and Friction 160