Julien again hitting the bullseye; it's OK if a press comes together to publish three books, it's OK to have a lifecycle of 48 months. The temporary and ephemeral can be highly valuable and sometimes the rhetoric of sustainability and scaling is a red herring. #CopimConference
Julien McHardy emphasising the importance of generosity and care in the scholar-led open access space. Julien wrote a wonderful piece on the value of love in publishing that I often return to. doi.org/10.17351/est... #CopimConference
"I just decided it would exist and now it does." - Zoe Wake Hyde on establishing the independent press, @radishpress.bsky.social #CopimConference
Loving @radishpress.bsky.social's enthusiasm for collaboration in/as publishing. New ways of doing things should be exciting rather than intimidating!
Love to hear @radishpress.bsky.social talk about scholarled publishing & enthusiasm for radical wealth distrubution and taking money off billionaires to fund small presses
Technological determinism is a total drag.
Finished writing a new "letterpress for all" 40-page #zine, "Just my type: finding, buying, or making your 1st letterpress type" as part of a forthcoming peer-reviewed article. Will be available for free online once issue is published (will share link here at that time!).
The @openbookcollective.bsky.social is just the best damn org in the world. Their importance to the open book ecosystem cannot be overstated & I am grateful for every single bit of it. Check out their testimonials vid and get ye to your institution to support them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev-O...
A frenzy of AI hype fuels trillions in spending on costly compute infrastructure. This piece details how real profits and transformative applications lag, revealing a bubble driven less by innovation than by capital reallocation and speculative excess.
By @edwardongwesojr.com
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🤝 “... The more important something is to our functioning as citizens and communities, the more important it is to be free (as in freedom!)....” –Zoe Wake Hyde @radishpress.bsky.social, #OpenMonographPress (OMP) Coordinator, PKP
Continue on for more:
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/16/c...
#SFD2025 #FOSS
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I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
🤝 « Plus quelque chose est important pour le fonctionnement de nos sociétés civiles et de nos communautés, plus il est important qu'il soit gratuit et libre ! […] »
- Zoe Wake Hyde, coordonnatrice d'Open Monograph Press #OMP, #PKP
@radishpress.bsky.social #SFD2025 #SoftwareFreedomDay2025
ICYMI: We are hiring an Associate/Full Professor in Digital Humanities at @camdighum.bsky.social. App deadline Sep 21. The position is for Deputy Director of CDH, and eventually Director on rotational basis. Please circulate/apply and let me know if you have any Qs! www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/n...
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Just checking my itinerary for tomorrow.
Great to read the second update from the project 🎉
You can read their first update from earlier in the year too
🔗 openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/update-o...
Instead of using AI to be feminist, maybe read my feminist book about cyborgs mitpress.mit.edu/978026254755...
Great stuff from @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca #ScholCommLab on the #NIH caps proposal and its impact: www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/09/03/n...
#AcademicSky #SciSky #PoliSky #ScienceSky #science #research #Scholcom
All the cool kids have newsletters, so we do too! 😎 The first few will be posted to tease you, then you'll need to subscribe (for free or not-free) for the rest. The format might vary but you can expect some cool links, news and a meme or two. Issue #1 is out now: outsidethelines.pub/newsletter-1/
“Every single company that offers AI-generated material should have some sort of transparency standards put in place so that people know what they’re getting."
Our ED @littlewow.online on AI slop in libraries and our efforts to fight it. /1
americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/09/02/b...
screenshot of http://hdl.handle.net/2429/92159: Open Collections UBC Theses and Dissertations UBC Theses Logo Featured Collection Expanding the margins in the history of sexuality & galleries, libraries, archives, museums & special collections (GLAMS) Watson, B. M. Abstract This dissertation centers on understanding and fixing the persistent and wicked problem of marginalization in systems. I do this by examining the “power to name” utilized by cultural heritage institutions (like Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums & Special Collections; GLAMS) and informational infrastructures (like databases, psychological schema, or social media platforms). As systems are defined by boundaries, the act of naming or labelling people, places, and things in these Knowledge Organization Systems (KOSes) produces marginalizations and exclusions. I undertake a comprehensive analysis to understand how a.....
it's aliiiiiveeeeeee!
all 700 pages of my dissertation can be found here: hdl.handle.net/2429/92159
Proud to have played even a small role on this project! Great summary post and an excellent job by the entire IOI team.
After two years of intensive research, IOI's project “Investigating "reasonable costs" to achieve public access to federally funded research and scientific data” has concluded.
That figure is wild, and I get the sense there are people very involved in open publishing who don't even know it. Would you be open to talking a bit more about it in a DM?
Delighted to see my team’s article published about our work on ‘Living with Machines’ in the @learnedpublishing.bsky.social journal 🎉 Particular thanks to our @uolpress.bsky.social Publisher @emmagallon.bsky.social for her work on this 👏
Read the article below 👇
#OABooks @oipassoc.bsky.social
Just started @samuelmoore.org 's Publishing Beyond the Market and so far my notes are all within the YES THIS EXACTLY spectrum.
Yeah well whose fault is that??
Q. How does a Community Publishing Garden grow? 🌱
A. Together! 🤝
Find out how @radishpress.bsky.social @radical-reach.bsky.social Community Publishing Garden project is blooming with support from @openbookcollective.bsky.social Collective Development Fund!
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I like that this piece argues for a democratising understanding of open science over the more neoliberal one they view as common. I've always felt that a more robust understanding of democratisation is needed for open movements, rather than just assuming that democracy is implied in free culture.
