ggsql: A grammar of graphics for SQL Introducing ggsql, a grammar of graphics for SQL that lets you describe visualizations directly inside SQL queries.

I am excited beyond description to lift the veil on what we have been working on in 2026:

Please meet ggsql! A new extension of the SQL language for creating visualisations using the grammar of graphics. Read all about it in the blog post or visit the website at ggsql.org

Funder databases and bibliographic sources each tell different stories about funded research. I compared funding records from South Korea's NTIS with WoS and OpenAlex to show how combining them gives a fuller picture of funded outputs and where the gaps remain. Read more: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak - and I'll show you how it's done You can transform your old Kindle - even a bricked device - into the ultimate open-source reader. Here's how.

Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak — and I'll show you how it's done
You can transform your old Kindle — even a bricked device — into the ultimate open-source reader. Here's how.
www.zdnet.com/article/your...

Funding metadata in OpenAlex: where are they now? | Sesame Open Science With a grant from Wellcome, OpenAlex is working to improve its coverage of funding metadata. The three-year project started in September 2025, and the effects are already visible. Building on an earli...

OpenAlex (openalex.org) is rapidly closing the gap in funding metadata coverage. Re-using a dataset of NWO-funded papers we find they're now on par with Scopus and just slightly behind Dimensions.

Full analysis with @hldejonge.bsky.social : 🔗 bmkramer.github.io/SesameOpenSc...

This report on open access to longform publications was also published today, providing a holistic and deep analysis of how green open access/self-archiving is currently positioned and working to support open access to such works in the United Kingdom.

Happy to share our new piece (w/ @msphelps.bsky.social) on #metadata completeness in @crossref.bsky.social and submission systems was published by @plos.org. We'd be delighted to continue the conversation with publishers and submission system vendors:

👆🏾https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0345417

LLMs in R - Quick Wins A fun, practical approach to learning how to work with LLMs in R. This is a course for anyone looking to get a quick overview of the most important aspects of working with the ellmer package.

I took the contents of my workshop at RainbowR on the topic of LLMs in R & made it into a course! It's about {ellmer}, and I spent soo long agonising over how to sell it, I gave up & instead released it under a "Pay What You Want" model 😅😂 #rstats #llms #ai

www.aifordatapeople.com/courses/llms...

Strengthening support for data citations and saying goodbye to Event Data - Crossref We’re excited to announce a new data citation API endpoint and are seeking your feedback. The new service makes existing data citation relationships in our metadata available, thereby surfacing this p...

We’re excited to announce a new data citation #API endpoint and are seeking your feedback! The new @crossref.bsky.social service makes existing data citation relationships in our #metadata available, thereby surfacing this part of the research nexus. doi.org/10.64000/rzb...

Diamond Open Access: A Boutique Model for Scholarly Publishing? - pulse49.com Diamond Open Access: A Boutique Model for Scholarly Publishing? Can DOA transform scholarly publishing—or will it remain a niche model?

Diamond OA is normatively attractive — but structurally limited. Not an industrial-scale replacement for scholarly publishing, but a tailored solution for specific communities. That may be enough.
#OpenAccess #DiamondOA
pulse49.com/2026/03/23/d...

We’re hiring: Join the 4TU.ResearchData team! 4TU.ResearchData is expanding its team with three new positions to support exciting new initiatives in open science, FAIR data, and AI reproducibility. All three roles are part of projects funded b…

📢 UPDATE: @4turesearchdata.bsky.social has three project-related vacancies!

We're looking for a FAIR for AI Project Coordinator, FAIR for AI Project Officer and Software Engineer to work on projects related to FAIR & reproducible data, software & ML/AI models: community.data.4tu.nl/2026/03/20/w...

"Das kulturelle Gedächtnis der Nation kann nicht ausschließlich digital archiviert werden" Die Historische Kommission des Börsenvereins des Deutschen Buchhandels bezieht Stellung zu dem von Staatsminister Wolfram Weimer bekanntgegebenen Baustopp des geplanten Magazinerweiterungsbaus der Deu...

Weimers Kampf gegen die Bücher: Im Börsenblatt protestieren Thedel v. Wallmoden und Christine Haug für die Historische Kommission des Börsenvereins (der ich auch angehöre) gegen den vom Kulturstaatsminister verhängten Baustopp der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek: www.boersenblatt.net/home/das-kul...

Crosswalking ORION resources to measure open access to biomedical research literature – ORION-DBs This tutorial shows how to combine various ORION resources, with a focus on funder and open access. Using the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the European Commission (EC) as examples, it draws...

New ORION-DBs tutorial to estimate #openaccess to biomedical research. With NIH price caps under debate, comparing NIH- and EC-funded articles shows how differently open access is supported.

Step-by-step guide to combining open research information on BigQuery.

orion-dbs.community/blog/posts/n...

DataShare Spotlight: A photographic record of a divided Berlin in the 1980’s | Edinburgh Research Data Blog Some of the most widely used datasets in DataShare are the collections of photographs of tower blocks and mass housing, both in the UK and internationally, created by Miles Glendinning, Professor of…

New blog post!

Check the latest in the DataShare Spotlight series, which aim to showcase datasets of special interest. This post focuses on an archive of images from Berlin in the 1980's, deposited by Professor Miles Glendinning.

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New publication by Dorothea Strecker from our research group at @ibi-hu.bsky.social

Strecker, D. (2026). How permanent are metadata for research data? Understanding changes in DataCite metadata. Quantitative Science Studies, 7, 195–213. doi.org/10.1162/QSS....

#OpenScience

Veranstaltungsreihe im Rahmen unseres DFG-Projektes OA Datenpraxis zum #OpenAccess-Reporting

🗓️ 27.03.2026: „Open-Access-Reporting in der Praxis”

🗓️ 14.04.2026: „Open-Access-Reporting - Initiativen und Guidelines”

infomgnt.org/posts/2026-0...

@ibi-hu.bsky.social @helmholtzosoffice.bsky.social

Data Visualization A Practical Introduction

Here’s a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction”: socviz.co

BahnBet — Bet on German Train Delays Predict Deutsche Bahn delays and win. Real-time prediction markets on ICE, IC & EC train delays.

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Jonas Wilinski: The Science Data Lake: A Unified Open Infrastructure Integrating 293 Million Papers Across Eight Scholarly Sources with Embedding-Based Ontology Alignment https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03126 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.03126 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.03126

My paper is out in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social : “Emergency curation as anticipatory maintenance: Lessons from the 2016/2017 #DataRescue movement.” doi.org/10.1177/2053...

Newly updated OpenAIRE graph dataset (snapshot date 2026-01-29) now available on Google Big Query as part of ORION collective orion-dbs.community

Thanks @openaire.bsky.social @openairegraph.bsky.social for making the dataset available to share!

Promotional graphic for ER&L Fest 2026 featuring the session “Beyond the Black Box: Advancing Openness of Publication Metadata.” The event takes place on Tuesday 3 March, 9:00–9:50 (UTC-6) in Austin, Texas, USA. The design uses a purple background with yellow and white text. A small map of the United States highlights Texas with a location marker and the words “Join us.” The Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information is listed as the organizing initiative, along with a link to learn more about ER&L Fest.

📍 𝐄𝐑&𝐋 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔

𝐒𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐚 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐛𝐨𝐱?

Miranda Bennett and Colleen Campbell (OA2020 / Barcelona Declaration Joint Task Force) discuss how libraries can push for open publication metadata through negotiation and coordinated action.

3 March · 9:00–9:50 AM (UTC-6)
See you there 👋

Small publishers face threat from scale, not open access - Research Information Report finds structural inequities, rather than open access, itself challenge small European academic publishers

Small publishers face threat from scale, not open access - Research Information www.researchinformation.info/news/small-publishers-fa...

🌌 Today, ORION was launched, an initiative to bring together Open Research Information (ORI) resources in a cloud-based solution. CWTS is involved with multiple colleagues, including our data science team.

💻 Check out the initiative's website and blog post! 👇

Sharing the load: Building a collective to support open research information online Can we share resources and burdens to make available key open research information resources in actionable and connectable form in the cloud? Through sharing processes and systems, is it possible, ove...

What's better than an open research information resource? Multiple open research information resources that can be combined together!

Happy to participate in ORION, an effort to coordinate making ORI resources available in the cloud, with initial (!) focus on BigQuery

doi.org/10.54900/2pn...

Sharing the load: Building a collective to support open research information online Can we share resources and burdens to make available key open research information resources in actionable and connectable form in the cloud? Through sharing processes and systems, is it possible, ove...

Today we're starting ORION, an effort to coordinate making #openresearchinformation resources available, with an initial focus on Google BigQuery. We are keen to coordinate with all who are interested in supporting a community effort towards availability and reusability!
doi.org/10.54900/2pn...

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

AI agent goes nuts on open source maintainer after having its pull request denied. This is a pretty insane story. Open source development as we've been used to for the last few decades is likely over. 1/
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We need to talk about better metadata in Crossref and DataCite. ROR id, ORCIDs, the lot.

In an age of AI bots that attack our open infrastructure, we also need to discuss whether papering over the gaps with industrial grade website scraping is appropriate or sustainable.

✨ NEW blog post: Being open isn't enough - true "research information citizenship" requires building & maintaining a robust, genuinely #OpenResearch infrastructure, writes our VP of Research Futures, Simon Porter.

💡 Here's what it will take to achieve: https://ow.ly/6U3Y50YcJ3J

Leon Draisaitl with Bowie

First shot, first goal!

"We believed contributions such as interactive articles and visualizations were held back by not being seen as real publications...we no longer believe this...the bottleneck is the amount of effort and the unusual combination of scientific and design expertise required" distill.pub/2021/distill...