Margoline

My heart sinks but yet I can see blue sky through tears. It was always joy and honour to spend time with Paul. He managed to dedicate a fraction of a coffee break or the monent in a cue and be fully there 4U. Listening. Inspiring. Informing. Laughing.
Farewell, hope they have good wine over there.

We're hiring! We have 2 jobs advertised: Library Engagement Lead and Operations Manager, deadline Tues 6 January 2026. Links:

openjournalscollective.org/static/engag...
openjournalscollective.org/static/opera...

Come work for a major new international organisation funding #openaccess publishing!

Cat takes indoor sun bath and yawns

For those of you in the need of some authentic cat content and a good reason to yawn

.. unopened it would have signifant difficulties to justify its existence. Fair move to give it a chance.

Bicycle during ride

Winter landscape, cloudless sind sky, white fields

Winter forest

frozen lake

Winter can be pleasant

Bicycle in front of a sunny beach

Beach at low tide, the full moon glittering on ripples of sand

Friends, Flandern in sun and in the moon

Anfangen, Freunden dunkle Schokolade mit Herkunftsnachweis und komischen Zutaten zu schenken. Viele Worthülsen über Gins und teures Tonicwasser absondern. Gravelbike von einer Marke kaufen, die keiner kennt und dazu Sattel mit vielen Löchern. Fado und Jazz auf Vinyl. Einen Weinkühlschrank besorgen.

"Die größte wissenschaftliche Krise aller Zeiten"
Internationale Forscher warnen in der "Stockholm Declaration" vor dem Zusammenbruch des Wissenfundaments moderner Gesellschaften – und fordern Reform des wissenschaftlichen Publizierens. Interview im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/11...

📸 Explore highlights from the #CRAFT-OA_25 conference — photos, recordings, and presentation slides are now available!
A rich collection of #DiamondOA resources showcasing the strength of community-led, no-fee #AcademicPublishing initiatives.
www.craft-oa.eu/craft-oa-fin...

@eudch.bsky.social

#AcademicJournal metadata... an important topic when you're trying to collect all the #DiamondOA journals in Europe (ddh.diamas.org) because only certain journals qualify. But how to access the specific metadata we need? This need led to JMEF. And this paper explains: zenodo.org/records/1740...

We allow an expection to this rule if all authors are affiliated to known institions from english speaking countries in the global north.

Today I loved our new students at @uni-goettingen.de
They had GOOD music and they obviously really enjoyed a windy and mild October day on canpus.

There’s a handful of angloamerican UPs not known as advocates for a fair equitable inclusive publishing system. Can we exclude them by definition for services like DDH? We realised we can’t without creating more harm than benefit. Better focus on much larger numbers of UPs covered by the definition

Mark is strategic business development advisor and Urooj is community engagement and outreach associate director

👋 Let's connect at the @craft-oa.bsky.social Conference - Crafting the Future of #DiamondOpenAccess: Technical, Social & Political Perspectives of #ScholarlyPublishing

Urooj Nizami & @markhusk.bsky.social are there with many friends! @eudch.bsky.social

Check the thread for details 🧵

#CRAFT_OA2025

Cat sits on a hoodie

Just a few more days until the @craft-oa.bsky.social conference www.craft-oa.eu/conference/ starts. While some people are very busy in preparing, others seem to believe that looking cute is already sufficient.

VALUE QUESTION:
* Don’t think that commercial publishers needing to demonstrate value is the same as smaller publishers demonstrating value.
* Existing in the community is of value
* We are all having this crisis of identity, we have to coalesce around the needs. #OASPA2025

4 People in a meeting room preparing conference bags

Counting down.
Another 13 days to go until our attendees to the CRAFT-OA final event @craft-oa.bsky.social start to arrive at @uni-goettingen.de
Inside the bags interesting information and of course cool little merch stuff. Support #DiamondOpenAccess!

@eduroam.bsky.social is proof of concept what science can achieve if stakeholders sit down and solve a lot of little obstacles together to achieve a common goal.
Could we please sit down and tackle our problematic system of research assessment and incentives in science? @coarassessment.bsky.social

#OAT25 One of the rare keynotes @excinequality.bsky.social I ever had the honour to hear that sparked an inspiring and thoughtful discussion. For example: if Diamond OA brings us just more outlets, more pressure on editors and reviewers, we don‘t solve problems.

@excinequality.bsky.social more information on Gabriele Spilker‘s background

Keynote talk at Open Access Days 2025, a picture about inequality cycles

#OAT25
My take fr Gabriele Spilker‘s talk of two conflicting dynamics in inequalities, self-enforcing and self-correcting feedback circles. It reminds me of transformative agreements that bring new inequalities (and problems) and #DiamondOpenAccess as an attempt to enforce self-correcting systems.

die #oat25 are about to start! und wir gehen gleich "all in": mit der gründungsversammlung vom open-access.network.
https://open-access.network/services/news/artikel/gruendungsversammlung-von-open-accessnetwork-e-v-am-17-september-in-konstanz
#openaccess #vernetzung #austausch #organisation

@dbeucke.bsky.social lässt korrigieren, korrektes Hashtag für @openaccessnetwork.bsky.social die Open-Access-Tage 2025 an der Universität Konstanz lautet

#OAT25

Bodensee, seen from Cafeteria University Konstanz, sunny and lovely day

#OAT2025
Keynote about inequalities in research and scientific information systems, Gabriele Spilker from excellence cluster „The politics of inequality“

#OAT2025

Local bookshop‘s display showing stacks of books that are banned in several red states in the US. Mainly books around LBTQ+ topics.

Our local bookshop‘s display. No idea if they ship to the US.

Would be interesting to know how much time the copy editors from large profit maximising publishers are allowed to spend on a given paper and how many articles they are supposed to process per workday. Every time I communicated with their 1st level support folks I sensed stress & anxiety. No fun job

Fully agree with Rebecca Lawrence that "the research assessment ecosystem hinders innovative publication models that address our biggest problems in research".

The other way around, I would argue that a failure to innovate scientific publishing also hinders reform of research assessment.

📢Registration is open for CRAFT‑OA’s final conference!
🗓️ Join us 6–8 Oct 2025 |Göttingen, Germany
Registration is mandatory, secure your spot: www.craft-oa.eu/conference/
💎Explore inspiring presentations, lightning talks, and discussions— all focused on Diamond OA.

#CRAFTOA #DiamondOA #OpenAccess