Many congratulations Isabel!

Agree with this. Not a legal expert but 1. Was it the (c) holder said this? 2. it is copyrighted cos (c) automatically exists, but holder can waive their rights 3. The content rights may be waived, but (c) may exist in typesetting.

Would be good to see a graph of proportion of his working hours time he spends on each, particularly the % of his time spent on his MP work.

Spot on. CRUK following same path as commercial publishers - making OA a commercial decision followed by policy, rather than strategy/policy followed by budget decisions.

Excellent piece. "funders cannot claim to want open access while withdrawing funding from open access. Instead, the support needs to be better targeted to the kinds of publishing models they want." I hope @cancerresearchuk.org will review its policy with urgency, taking on board all points made here

Update. "Almost Two-Thirds of Europeans Back Replacing US Tech, Poll Finds."
www.techpolicy.press/almost-two-thirds-of-eur...

PS: When will US tech CEOs realize that this is all because of Donald #Trump?

#USPol #USPolitics

Totally understand. I had this numerous times. Don't despair! One lesson I learned was to take the long view. Don't know if it's int or ext policy that's the problem, but if there's some fundamental strategy underpinning your direction you can focus on, it may help. Keep flying the flag!

The #Trump defunding of #USAID could lead to the shutdown EM-DAT, the world's largest database of natural and technological disasters, maintained by the #ULouvain.
statsandr.com/blog/em-dat-the-world-s-...

#Belgium #Data #DefendResearch #EMDAT #Funding #OpenData […]

Three women stand on the left with lots of men in the right. The text below says, “SO LADIES, THANKS FOR BEING THE FIRST TO WITNESS AND REPORT THE RESURRECTION AND WE'LL TAKE IT FROM HERE?”

It’s time for my favorite cartoon of the year.

New White Paper: Institutional Copyright Policies and Article Versions in Open Access Publishing Authors Alliance releases a new white paper analyzing institutional copyright policies and article versions, with implications for open access, repository deposit, and scholarly publishing.

We and @sparcopen.bsky.social are pleased to announce the publication of a new white paper addressing the legal uncertainties surrounding article versions and institutional copyright policies.

This view takes OA as THE goal, whereas IMO OA is better seen as an outcome of researcher/instl/funder policies around rights retn, equity, max visibility, res integrity, etc. Aiming at OA as a single goal is the wrong way round. Eg Rights ret does not come about cos of OA: OA as a result of RR.

Totally agree. A very backwards looking move.

Mmmm. So who is overzealous and extreme here?

kudos to my coauthors @hansonmark.bsky.social @pagomba.bsky.social @danbrockington.bsky.social @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca @lariviev.bsky.social @gemmaderrick.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @stephenpinfield.bsky.social @jameswilsdon.bsky.social Christine Noe and Fernanda Beigel

Finch report & effects of its recommendations had a major impact on direction taken by UKHE. Also RCUK 2012 decision tree directed towards paid gold over green & no policy for immediate green access. Thankfully direction is changing. I can't access report online (on RIN website), nor govt response

@saggiotipo.bsky.social have you seen this: MIT Grad Student Council resolution #OpenAccess drive.google.com/file/d/1KLbj...

" In effect, India is choosing to spend as much on accessing journals as it does on funding an entire national research agency!"

The 14th PCI webinar is in 10 days ❗❗Details and registration at peercommunityin.org/pci-webinar-...

The Cost of Confusion: Dispelling Myths about the NIH Public Access Policy and Article Processing Charges Last July, the NIH issued an RFI on limiting direct spending on article processing charges (APCs). Over 900 public responses offered valuable perspectives but also exposed widespread misconceptions ab...

V useful piece dispelling myths about NIH policy on open access
upstream.force11.org/cost-of-conf...

The new NHMRC and MRFF Open Science Policy is a big expansion on previous open access publishing mandates. Emphasis on FAIR data across the lifecycle

Open Journals Collective launches to give libraries 'exit ramp' from big deals - Research Information Libraries invited to back a "sustainable, community-led alternative to commercial scholarly publishing models"

Getting some nice press coverage for the launch of #OpenJournalsCollective last week @researchinfo.bsky.social #TheFutureIsDiamond

www.researchinformation.info/news/open-jo...

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1/ I'm seeking expressions of interest from nonprofit orgs to take over the Open Access Tracking Project ( #OATP, @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy ) and the open-source software on which it runs.

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4th July US themed concert I'm in is changing the theme. We could still have a US themed concert around current administration
-The Star mangled banner
-Battle wimp of the Republicans
-Especially for Greenland 'This land is our land, now buzz off'
Closing with
- Jail for the Chief

More than vaguely! Try the air brush thingy if they've got one. Like a sandblaster for teeth. It's totally changed the harrowing hygienist experience for me. A bit more expensive though.

An edit of a 'Traitors' confessional shot with Robert Jenrick sat in the chair. The caption identifies him as 'Robert' 44, Wannabe PM and a traitor'.

Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward

Section from retraction notice dated 23 December 2025. "On 24 January 2025, we were notified by the research integrity officer of the University of Minnesota that an investigation into concerns about image manipulation in Fig. 1G had been completed. The investigation found that the concerns raised were valid and that the figure as published did not accurately reflect the research record. To correct the literature, the University of Minnesota recommended that the publication be retracted. In light of this recommendation and given our loss of confidence in the paper, Science Signaling is retracting the paper in full."

Can the editor of Science Signaling explain why it took 11 months to retract a paper by the Lesné group after being requested to do so by the authors' institutional research integrity officer, who confirmed published figure did not represent research record. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This important meta-science article should not be hidden behind a paywall.

Spot on! I also wonder whose job it is to come up with those painful 3 word descriptions of fruit & veg - crisp and nutty; sweet and tangy; firm and fruity; whatever