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CEU Press @ceu-press.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲, 𝗰𝗮. 𝟭𝟴𝟳𝟬–𝟭𝟵𝟳𝟬 (ed. Sibylle Marti and Christof Dejung) demonstrates that informal labor was a key part of labor politics in Europe. Read in open access or preorder your hardcover copy here: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048573707/in…

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ditto 30,000 roles in universities in the past three years.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action

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Rob Johnson @rschrobuk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

@uksg.bsky.social turns 50 in 2027 and we're taking it on the road with half-day regional events, hosted by members. We still need hosts in Wales, the South West, the North of England and Northern Ireland- express interest here: www.uksg.org/uksg-at-50/u...

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thousands of university jobs lost too, and barely a peep either.

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Attending #OASPA2026? Join Copim folks for an informal drink & chat at COPIM CORNER on Tues at 5:30pm, Tolkien's House (a short walk from the conference venue) Dig into conference themes, talk community-led #OpenAccess or just relax with a drink & chat pets/Tolkien/Croatian beers! #CopimCorner

An image of the inside of Tolkien's House below text that says "Copim Corner: Just an informal get-together. Come buy yourself a drink, and join like-minded folks for a chat about all things open access... or simply about what your pets did over the weekend...'

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Today at Copim we're reflecting on 'community' & 'collectivity' in #OpenAccess - & #OA marketing - & revisiting this post from 2024 when the #OAWeek theme was 'Community over commercialisation' How can we tell when these terms are buzzwords or meaningful principles? buff.ly/eAmRGen #OASPA2026

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you're attending #OASPA2026 this week, you can catch team Copim's/the LSE library's Kira Hopkins tomorrow at 9.05am! They will be speaking on the panel 'The Many Faces of Sustainability in #OpenAccess'. Then come to Copim Corner on Tuesday evening to discuss!

Promotional poster inviting attendees to Copim Corner on Tue, Sept 22 from 5:30pm at Tolkien's House (Opatovina 49, Zagreb, a 7-min walk from the conference venue), with an arrow pointing to the venue's outdoor café seating labeled "This could be your space."

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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🚨 Have you registered for next week's #CoP? 🔹11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) 🔹16:00 UK time 🔹12:00 midday European time) All details 👉 copim.pub/join-the-ope... @wearelyrasis.bsky.social @scholtom.bsky.social #OABooks #OpenAccess

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Join the Opening the Future Community of Practice for their second meeting - Copim

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Gates cash ‘vote of confidence’ for diamond open access initiative. Open Journals Collective receives over £500,000 to accelerate shift towards alternative scholarly publishing. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...

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Gates cash ‘vote of confidence’ for diamond open access initiative - Research Professional News

Open Journals Collective receives over £500,000 to accelerate shift towards alternative scholarly publishing

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You was robbed. I imagine some AI tool won instead? Sigh. Because AI in scholarly publishing is going so well as we all know (Exhibit Z of a thousand other examples: www.404media.co/the-ai-ghost...)

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I don't want to know but is this to do with the white supremacist who finally got fired (but shouldn't have been hired in the first place)?

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Great practical principles 👏 There's no #Open without #OpenInfrastructure

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

That's absolutely the point: "with humans in them". These articles and discussions often sort of erase the fact that every ghastly number means a real person soon to be unable to pay their bills, or having to move, or having sleepless nights worrying etc etc etc it's so grim :(

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

bahah this made me spit out my drink 😆

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Katherine Stephan @msiowaintheuk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My quarterly message to the void after witnessing a paywalled article about open research: if you're writing about open research, please make it open. Always. You have choices. Choose better. Don't know your options? Start with @doaj.bsky.social (and filter by No APC) if you're short on cash.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Nigel Farage suggests the police advised him against attending the result of the Clacton by-election. Essex Police completely deny this, telling the BBC "we have a proportionate and robust policing operation to ensure the safety and security of all participants in the count"

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LifuX @lifux.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

100% catch rate, every time #LifuX #Cat #Cats #Catsofbluesky #Caturday

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is a huge “for context” BBC bias in hard figures;

For context, Reform UK's unelected spokesperson Zia Yusuf has appeared on BBC Question Time a whole 38 times. That's more than the Green Party's people have appeared collectively on the show.

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Anna Hughes @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Join us tomorrow (12 August @ 11am) for an in depth discussion about #DRIs & who makes them work ⚙️ No need to register! More info + joining link 👇 research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/events/ #DRTPs #Research #RIs @digitalcuration.bsky.social Photo: Randy Fath via Unsplash

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This is fantastic! Thoth is an incredible and much-needed service. If you've ever been frustrated that your OA books are less findable than gated books then you need Thoth in your life. GOOD LUCK FOLKS!

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I was recently asked by Science to write a book review. I was really excited, but on reading it I discovered this book was definitely not written with me in mind! I disagreed with so much, but I tried to be fair & diplomatic. It's essentially long form SKitchen. www.science.org/eprint/9KGWH...

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Change comes for science publishing paradigms

A pair of insiders cast recent efforts to increase access to research as problems, not progress

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Yeah I am going to do a version78_finalFINALFINAL_thisoneversion12 where I'll ask everyone to submit the headshot they want me to use. Am aiming to have that finished by the year 2051.

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I think your first point is the pertinent bit: paywalled content is being scraped with or without your consent anyway, and will only get worse. The big corps are prepping and making deals on this right now, so handing over copyright to them instead of going OA is the worst of both worlds perhaps?

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

"Alperin alleges he learned insider details about APC pricing as a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association, including “outright unlawful conduct” and “conspiratorial discussions” among the publishers, the complaint states." Go get 'em @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca !

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Federal lawsuit accuses four major publishers of extorting article processing charges

iStock A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses four major publishers of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant article processing charges…

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 30/07/2026

Look, MIT Press are progressive in OA publishing. Heck, I have published with them and have another book under contract with them. But they always think they are the source of influence, never the influenced. They rarely acknowledge the work of others. www.researchinformation.info/analysis-opi...

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Amy Brand: Publishing for a new era - Research Information

EXCLUSIVE: The director and publisher of MIT Press reflects on risk-taking, leadership, innovation and human judgement

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

ach I am sorry though! I will do another version though because I suspect there will be more oversights - I just ran out of imagination! Yeah, thought it'd be funny for Elaine to be Ringo - she'd have laughed at that 😁

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Please submit 1000 words by Friday on why you should be included - this was what everyone else did

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

[sigh] OK soz I'll version 28 later and repost 😔

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Ha, you made one of the top rows Megan!

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Please note that if you are unlucky enough to feature in this, your size or position does not imply importance or lack thereof 😆 It actually just highlights that I didn't think through very carefully how to manage 132 layers in Photoshop before starting out 😭

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I should have emphasised to everyone that their size or position does not imply importance or lack thereof 😆 It actually just highlights that I didn't think through very carefully how to manage 132 layers in Photoshop before starting out 😭

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I have got absolutely no work done this afternoon, I'm screaming at every click through I make

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I think my favourite is the spine lettering printed on the page edges instead of the spine, it's absolute gold

Screen grab of an AI slop image on the new CILIP website, showing a stack of books with the spine lettering on the page edges instead of on the spines where it should be

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Also: universities are in many cases the biggest employer in town so I guess the government thinks fuck those towns and cities and let them be unemployed

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Well worth a read for anyone interested in the ramifications of the various ongoing publishing acquisitions... @openingthefuture.bsky.social

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

🤯 I've heard, anecdotally, the exact same from a former editor at a Very Big University Press - they were told to do this with their journal portfolio. It stinks.

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

So great to see this network growing. Power in numbers and collective action and advocacy ✊ Giving voice to lots of smaller players who might struggle to do this stuff alone, or at least who might have a smaller voice alone.

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