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Ginny Hendricks

@ginsta.bsky.social
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Human, Crossref person, posts about open metadata and open infrastructure for scientific research and scholarly integrity. Also gardening and general North London capers.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 04/08/2026
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia It's been a year & people tell me they've changed their mind, feel safer now to sign, etc. So I'm sharing it again for them. We're almost at 2k & anybody from anywhere can add their names. openletter.earth/open-letter-...
We call upon you to:

• Resist the introduction of AI in our own software systems, from Microsoft to OpenAI to Apple. It is not in our interests to let our processes be corrupted and give away our data to be used to train models that are not only useless to us, but also harmful.

• Ban AI use in the classroom for student assignments, in the same way we ban essay mills and other forms of plagiarism. Students must be protected from de-skilling and allowed space and time to perform their assignments themselves.• Cease normalising the AI hype and the lies which are prevalent in the technology industry's framing of these technologies. The technologies do not have the advertised capacities and their adoption puts students and academics at risk of violating ethical, legal, scholarly, and scientific standards of reliability, sustainability, and safety.

• Fortify our academic freedom as university staff to enforce these principles and standards in our classrooms and our research as well as on the computer systems we are obliged to use as part of our work. We as academics have the right to our own spaces.

• Sustain critical thinking on AI and promote critical engagement with technology on a firm academic footing. Scholarly discussion must be free from the conflicts of interest caused by industry funding, and reasoned resistance must always be an option.
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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Everyone's talking about Pangram and other AI-detection software like GPTZero. They promise impressive accuracy at spotting AI-written text. Science journals are starting to use them. How good are they? @miryamnaddaf.bsky.social and I take a look for @nature.com 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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AI-detection tools have made huge leaps forward — how good are they?
Scientists and publishers are testing a new breed of software that promises impressive accuracy at spotting AI-written text.
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Crossref @crossref.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Good infrastructure is patient work. What does that look like where you are? Tell us in a 5–7-minute talk at the Crossref annual meeting and board election. Submit by 4 September: www.crossref.org/crossref-annual-me… #Crossref2026 #callforabstracts #CFA #Metadata
Call for abstracts for Crossref’s online annual meeting on 22 October 2026; submit 5–7-minute talk proposals by 4 September.
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Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information @barcelonadori.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
🧩 Open funding metadata is not a niche technical issue. Funding Metadata WG Coordinator @hldejonge.bsky.social recently explored why funding metadata should be a priority rather than an afterthought in a Research Professional News opinion piece: 🔗 www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...
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Funding metadata is no niche—it shows what research spending does - Research Professional News
Disclosing funding information, crucial for transparency, should be standard in publications, says Hans de Jonge
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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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gbilder @gbilder.com · 18/05/2026
If only there were a way for AI to check if a citation was hallucinated. Or to vet the provenance of a putative scholarly publication. If only there were some sort of infrastructure to support this: asimovaddendum.substack.com/p/the-collab...
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The Collaborative Exoskeleton of AI Science
There is a lot of hope that AI will advance the progress of science, but unfortunately, the collision between AI and scientific publishing has not gone well.
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Research Organization Registry (ROR) 🦁 @ror.org · 13/05/2026
At the May 19th ROR Community Call, we'll hear about the ROR-based Flemish Organization Registry and about @crossref.bsky.social's plan to implement automatic matching of funder names to ROR IDs. Join us! ror.org/events/#ror-...
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Events
Research Organization Registry (ROR) upcoming and past events
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Ginny Hendricks @ginsta.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Quite a pretty new council picture here in #Haringey!
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Jonathan Jacobs @bioinformer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Metadata as infrastructure Curation as design requirements not afterthoughts Reference materials as validation and benchmarking requirements This has to be the way moving forward
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Ginny Hendricks @ginsta.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
New joint guide from @crossref.bsky.social and @datacite.org, with practical information about the different #metadata elements supported by each to help consider the integrity of the scholarly record: doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... The upshot: richer metadata can help assess #researchintegrity.
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Why metadata matters for research integrity and how to contribute
This joint guide by Crossref and DataCite explains how metadata registered through open scholarly infrastructure helps preserve the rigour and integrity of the scholarly record. It details the specifi...
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Ginny Hendricks @ginsta.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Fans of BBC TV show #TheDetectorists might like to bid on this unique screenprint signed by my lovely neighbour #MackenzieCrook. Full proceeds go to my local primary school in London, and I will try to get it to whoever wins (bidding ends midnight tonight UK) www.jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta....
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Eva Amsen @evaamsen.com · 03/04/2026
In case you missed it when I posted it a few weeks ago: I updated the "From Science to SciComm" guide for 2026. It's aimed at PhD students/postdocs who want to transition to #scicomm payhip.com/b/zSQ0
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From Science to SciComm
From Science to SciComm is a guide and workbook for scientists who want to move into a science communication career. The first few chapters will also be of interest to researchers who want to get invo...
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DOAJ @doaj.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
📢Renewed partnership: DOAJ and Crossref focus on equitable scholarly metadata and global support @crossref.bsky.social @ginsta.bsky.social @joannaball.bsky.social #DOAJ #OpenAccess #Crossref #metadata #LMIC See details blog.doaj.org/2026/03/12/r...
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Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache! @pressfuturist.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Good news if true (and also rather a humiliating climbdown from a government that did not just have its thumb on the scales in its consultation but rather its entire body). www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...
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Labour ditches plan to let AI firms use copyrighted works
Ministers abandon ‘opt-out’ policy after backlash from Sir Elton John and Sir Paul McCartney over the ‘theft’ of creative material for software training
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Ginny Hendricks @ginsta.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
This is a very good interview
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Ginny Hendricks @ginsta.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
We are seeking two 🆂🅾🅵🆃🆆🅰🆁🅴 🅳🅴🆅🅴🅻🅾🅿🅴🆁🆂 at @crossref.bsky.social to work on our REST API and contributing to the Research Nexus, as well as our front-end tools for depositing and retrieving metadata, including community co-development projects. Please share! www.crossref.org/jobs/ #jobs #softwarejobs
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Jobs - Crossref
Help us achieve our mission to make research outputs easier to find, cite, link, assess, and reuse. We are ~51 fully remote people spanning 14+ countries from East to West (e.g. Hong Kong to Oakland) ...
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Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information @barcelonadori.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Join the Barcelona Declaration webinar: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈 𝐯𝟐 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐎𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 📅 2 March 2026 · 🕒 14:00–15:15 UTC · 🌐 Online, open to all With @crossref.bsky.social, @datacite.org, @doaj.bsky.social & @europepmc.org 👉 Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: How POSI v2 Guides The Sustainability of Open Infrastructure Organisations: a Barcelona Declaration webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmat...
This Barcelona Declaration webinar explores how POSI v2 has been applied and refined in real-world contexts, and what this means for strengthening the sustainability, governance, and long-term resilie...
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Crossref @crossref.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Where's the Data? Who is affiliated with which organization? 141M organization assertions in Crossref. 95M now have ROR IDs thanks to matching––1M were deposited by members. 🔗 Dataset: doi.org/10.13003/ich... 🔗 Blog: doi.org/10.64000/sy4... #LoveData26 #WheresTheData
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Crossref @crossref.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Explore real-world use cases and learn how relationship #metadata helps preserve the scholarly record. Join us for a webinar on 24 February 2026. crossref.zoom.us/webinar/register/9… #research #funders #librarians #community
Building the Research Nexus with relationship metadata in Crossref
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Crossref @crossref.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
How does matching actually work? Our matching blog series for your reading pleasure: ❤️ doi.org/10.13003/aewi1cai ❤️ doi.org/10.13003/zie7reeg ❤️ doi.org/10.13003/pied3tho ❤️ doi.org/10.13003/ief7aibi ❤️ doi.org/10.13003/axeer1ee #LoveData26
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SPARC @sparcopen.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Save the Date: International #OpenAccess Week will be October 19-25, 2026. #OAWeek is an opportunity to join together, take action & raise awareness of the benefits of openly sharing knowledge. www.openaccessweek.org
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International Open Access Week
International Open Access Week is held annually to inspire global momentum toward the open sharing of knowledge in order to address important social issues affecting people around the world. Open Acce...
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ASAPbio @asapbio.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
📣 Join us on March 5th for the Community Call, where we'll discuss the ins and outs of doing open peer review as part of a team. 🤝 ASAPbio and @prereview.bsky.social staff will discuss peer review crowds and clubs, PREreview platform & more. Register 👇️ buff.ly/5I0wC4l
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Public Knowledge Project @pkp.sfu.ca · 04/02/2026
Happy 3rd day of #DOASummit2026! Did you catch @crossref.bsky.social presentation on #metadata for #DiamondOA? Recording (1:52:00) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zjJ... PKP + Crossref Partnership for more rich, inclusive metadata in #OpenJournalSystems + #OpenMonographPress: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/22/c...
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3rd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access - 2026, Day - 1
YouTube video by ICAR Indian Institute of Horticultural Research
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Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Innovation in scientific publishing and its implications for Crossref DOI registration practices - MetaROR’s approach doi.org/10.64000/vfe... Together with @andre-brasil.bsky.social I just published this blog post about @crossref.bsky.social DOI registration practices for @metaror.bsky.social.
MetaROR’s approach to Crossref DOI registration
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Crossref @crossref.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
We just tipped over 24,000 active organisational members and also reached 165 countries with the addition of the *University of Nouakchott*, bringing representation and governance from *Mauritania* for the first time! A big welcome to them 🇲🇷 🤩
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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
In two weeks, I will be giving a talk at the @aaas.org meeting in Phoenix, AZ, in the session 'Curators on the Front Lines of the Information Wars', organized by @senseaboutsci.bsky.social With Michael Meth and @rpocisv.bsky.social aaas.confex.com/aaas/2026/me... I hope to see you in Phoenix!
Two screenshots from https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2026/meetingapp.cgi/Session/36582

showing the organizers (left screenshot) and the three panelists (right).

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Curators on the Front Lines of the Information Wars

Friday, February 13, 2026

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM MST

West 106 - A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Registration Type
Deluxe Registrant - Live event only
Newsroom Registrant - Live event only
Organizer
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Alfie Hoar
Sense about Science, London, United Kingdom
Co-Organizer
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Nita Pillai
Sense about Science, London, United Kingdom
Moderator
Leonor Sierra
Sense about Science, London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

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Panelists
Librarians As Guides to Good Information
Michael Meth, College of Information, Data and Society, San Jose State University, San José, CA
 West 106 - A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Cleaning up Peer Reviewed Information
Elisabeth Bik, Harbers Bik LLC, San Francisco, CA
 West 106 - A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Specialist Journalists in the Age of Misinformation
Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Knight Science Journalism Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
 West 106 - A (Phoenix Convention Center)
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Ginny Hendricks @ginsta.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Amazing points from @operaseu.bsky.social here operas.hypotheses.org/9636
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Shaping Europe’s Research Future: OPERAS Calls for a Sovereign and Equitable ERA Act
A Critical Juncture for Open Science, SSH, and Community-Led Infrastructure The European research landscape stands at a pivotal moment. The European Commission’s consultation for the European Research...
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Ginny Hendricks @ginsta.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Nooooooo! No thanks. Nope. techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/o...
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OpenAI launches Prism, a new AI workspace for scientists | TechCrunch
OpenAI has launched a new scientific workspace program called Prism, which integrates AI into existing standards for composing research papers.
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Crossref @crossref.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Join us tomorrow to learn about Crossref's Grant Linking System/Grant DOIs and hear how the open grant metadata created by our funder members is being put to good use in Dimensions and Altmetric.
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Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information @barcelonadori.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
🌍 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐚 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐜, 𝐉𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧 Hello | مرحبًا | こんにちは | Salut With these new translations, the Declaration is now available in 𝟏𝟖 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬, supporting engagement with open research information across regions and contexts. ⬇️
Graphic announcing new language versions of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information. The image reads “Now available in Arabic · Japanese · Romanian” and “18 languages and growing”. Speech bubbles display greetings in different languages, including “Salut”, “こんにちは” (Japanese), and “مرحبا” (Arabic), on a light background with abstract line patterns in purple and yellow.
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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Sure, but in the UK the PACE Act and GDPR means the Police have to go through legal channels to request footage. What I'm saying is that can easily change, especially if your Goverment/Agencies do not respect laws. Probably best to just not have the tech at all.
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Ginny Hendricks @ginsta.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Yep, it’s happening. As predicted.
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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
All done with the tacit approval of the @royalsociety.org, an organisation that has sadly lost its way and yet still claims to speak for the scientific community. It doesn't speak for me.
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 19/01/2026
Corrections, biases, and humility in science: Tuan V. Nguyen escaped Vietnam in 1981 as part of the mass “boat people” exodus of refugees, taking to dangerous waters just a few months after his older brother tried the same and disappeared. Today, he's a professor and bone researcher in Australia.
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Corrections, biases, and humility in science: Q&A with Tuan V. Nguyen
In a new memoir, Kangaroo Dreams, Tuan V. Nguyen, D.Sc., Ph.D., provides a unique perspective on medical research. Nguyen escaped Vietnam in 1981 as part of the mass “boat people” exodus of refugee…
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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026
Investing €35M in Open Science Infrastructure: Insights from Open Science Netherlands www-openaire-eu.translate.goog/inve…
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Investing €35M in Open Science Infrastructure: Insights from Open Science Netherlands
Open Science NL has announced €35 million in funding for 45 projects aimed at strengthening Open Science infrastructure, supporting the tools, services, and platforms that researchers rely on to share and reuse knowledge. To learn more, we spoke with Hans de Jonge, Director of Open Science NL.
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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Cheating cases persist at prestige schools, but fears of reputational damage go unaddressed: Cheating cases persist at prestige schools, but fears of reputational damage go unaddressed www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/s...
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AI-assisted cheating could impact universities' global standings: QS - The Korea Times
A series of artificial intelligence (AI)-related cheating scandals at Korean universities could carry long term risks for their global rankings, po...
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 19/01/2026
1983. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJBA...
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New Order - Blue Monday on BBC's Top of the Pops - 31.3.1983
YouTube video by New Order
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Ginny Hendricks @ginsta.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
A fantastic example for other countries and regions
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Sarah Stout @shsstl.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
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Dominique Walker @dominiquewalker.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
So happy to see that 'Democratising spy watching' is now out there for all to read! #OpenAccess It looks at cases where the public fought back against digital surveillance ✊ This was the last book I worked on with SUP so I feel quite emotionally attached to it! 👉 books.sup.ac.uk/sup/catalog/...
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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
‘Science journals retract 500 papers a month. This is why it matters. A small team of volunteers is tracking thousands of falsified studies, including cases of bribery, fraud and plagiarism’ Ivan Oransky @retractionwatch.com, @alicedreger.bsky.social @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
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Science journals retract 500 papers a month. This is why it matters
A small team of volunteers is tracking thousands of falsified studies, including cases of bribery, fraud and plagiarism
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Wikimedia Foundation @wikimediafoundation.org · 19/01/2026
Have you met the Wikipede? In another universe, maybe it has been Wikipedia's logo for over two decades. Community members submitted many designs, proposed changes, and debated them openly 🧵⬇️ (1/5)
The pixelated picture of a caterpillar. Text reads: What if this were Wikipedia’s logo? Before the puzzle globe, Wikipedia’s community explored other possibilities. And the early 2000s delivered.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Here's how the Earth article looked in 2001 when Wikipedia was a month old, long before Wikipedians realized their fledgling online encyclopedia would be read and edited by astronauts in space someday
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Julie 🏳️‍⚧️ @kurenaiju.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
If Nintendo was consistent with naming
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Jeffrey Brainard @jeffreybrainard.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
#SpecialIssues have fueled the growth of some of the largest #OpenAccess publishers. Does a journal that allows a #GuestEditor to both plan a special issue and write many articles in it have a conflict of interest? #scicomm #peerreview @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
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Some guest editors pack special issues with their own articles
Thousands have penned more than one-third of a journal issue, raising conflict-of-interest concerns
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ore-consulting.bsky.social @ore-consulting.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Hello! We're a new consultancy specialising in #OpenResearch and #ScholComms -- a collaboration between Josh Brown & @alicemeadows.bsky.social (both formerly of @morebrains.coop). Learn more at ore.consulting or contact us here if you'd like to chat!
Photo of a butterfly on leaves from ORE Consulting website
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Crossref @crossref.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Crossref Grant IDs can now be included across all record types, helping create clearer, more reliable links between funding and research outputs. doi.org/10.64000/x7d4h-x3r11
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Laura J. Wilkinson @laurajwilkinson.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
A Path Forward for PubPub by Knowledge Futures www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2026...
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A Path Forward for PubPub
Knowledge Futures mission is to make information useful.
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Crossref @crossref.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Come and hear how our Grant Linking System supports tools like Dimensions and Altmetric to help funders assess the reach and return on their investments. Register to join Manisha Bolina of Digital Science and Ginny Hendricks of Crossref on 22nd January www.digital-science.com/using-crossr...
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Webinar - If you don’t track it, why fund it? - Digital Science
Join Crossref + Digital Science for a focused session on how open metadata + attention data create a complete, trustworthy picture of research impact.
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Ginny Hendricks @ginsta.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Great work, team!! It's always both productive and fun to work on Barcelona Declaration activities 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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