Kevin Sanders

I've been cognisant of how gnarly Berlin has been getting over the last few years. Bleak. Bleak. Bleak.

Was quite a relief at the start of the week - I found fascist graffiti in the building entrance and wondered if I was being dramatic, but one of the local antifa said no, that’s a new development in this area, and cleaned it up. Things are slowly but definitely intensifying in Berlin.

I could carry on with this for days, but mostly I would be filling in more detail on two of the root cause problems with economic statistics:
- capitalism
- and patriarchy

Problems not only because they’re morally bankrupt, but because they’re incomplete, arrogant and essentially stupid worldviews.

“The great art institutional swindle is the tacit consensus that conformity is a necessity. Marc Garrett’s Feral Class... is a defiant two-finger salute to the sanctity of such staid professional orthodoxy.” - Morgan Quaintance in Art Monthly

More on the book: www.minorcompositions.info?p=1561

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The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do OR: the long overdue forest fire

Many of the problems of open access have been caused by funding organisations providing APC money that goes straight to the publishing industry. It's very optimistic to expect that the same (neoliberal) funders will want to prevent researchers from publishing in for-profit journals.

This is just your average grindcore band

Definitely! We need more small nonfiction books, nonfic chapbooks, etc. I've got piles of @uminnpress.bsky.social's Forerunners series because they're short, provocative, & inexpensive. And @punctumbooks.bsky.social's Dead Letter Office imprint rocks. More of this, please!

like how fucking hard is it to give proper credit to the person who did the fucking work. apparently very difficult when you are a doctor of medicine at an ivy league university

Five years of the Feminist Futures Programme! Thank you so much to everybody @autonomy-institute.bsky.social for half a decade of hard work. Lots coming up in 2026, too.

Catch our selective retrospective here: autonomy.work/wp-content/u....

A provocation around whether there is 'an open access future for longform scholarship?' needs to acknowledge the histories and diversity of contemporary open access forms of longform scholarship.

The naming of parts trope of some styles of social sciences writing really drives me around the bend. The artifice of a "methodical" approach in presentation feels so forced that it obscures whatever is being said.

If you're going to be at #AWP26 in Baltimore, we're exhibiting, so drop by our booth in the Exhibits Hall, and grab some Book F*#got & Book Dyke tote bags, plus stickers, pins, bookmarks and more!

QUEER WORDS ARE POWER! Avant-garde #OpenAccess publishing RULZ! HUZZAH for small, independent presses.

"Take dead aim on the rich boys." Rushmore (1998) YouTube video by finnbo

~Financial sustainability~

youtu.be/m5RbdReBMLE?...

The primary business of commercial scholarly publishers was not really publishing, but rather the digital licensing of works. The post-Finch report shifted that orientation somewhat, but all built on the empire of prestige of the previous operation.

Writing for JEP is a real pleasure. Highly recommend submitting an abstract if you work on issues related to open access -->

Truly, ExHell.

Pahaha like people need to make even more of a mess with spreadsheets...

As e'er it was... what was it that Badiou said? Oh, yes, he said that anarchism "has never been anything else than the vain critique, or the double, or the shadow of the communist parties, just as the black flag is only the double or shadow of the red flag." Disavow anarchism at yr peril.

It never ceases to amaze that a desire for something to denote, quantify, identify, or indicate 'quality' persists in scholarly publishing.

The care in its preparation, publication, and dissemination are not valueless. These relational facets have impacts on/from the ecosystem.

That the House of Lords is one of the oldest ongoing institutions should be enough evidence for any mistrust or scepticism of institutions and institutionalisation.

Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors Initial results from scanning through Excel files belonging to 600 published scientific papers.

If you want to take your mind off awful politics and look at awful science stuff instead, this is a good read: www.sciencedetective.org/scientific-d...

Getting ready for our closing keynote session of Open Research Week "Doing open research is more than just knowing how. Changing research culture and sustaining open infrastructures are crucial too" with Dr Kathleen Gregory from University of Leiden #ORW2026

📢 PSA: there are only a few days left to apply to the Collection Development Fund!

📆 7 March 2026

All details of the 2026 Call are over on the @openbookcollective.bsky.social website (available in French, Portuguese & Spanish as well)

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#CDF #OABooks #OpenAccess #Funding

DOIs (or other PIDs) do not indicate any measurement of value, intellectual or otherwise, to the data/information/knowledge within. It is akin to claiming page numbers are a measure of quality in a print publication.

Open Research, Gender, and Ethics Discover how open research can shake up gender norms and ethics in this online event.

VERY excited for this event as part of the London Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2026 (online, April 20th).

We don’t talk enough about the patriarchal ideologies embedded in many dominant applications of “open science “

Just yesterday I expanded the User-Agents that the servers I look after are blocking because certain sites keep getting hammered by bots. Why should I let these big corporations take down our small open research infrastructure?

Thanks for doing this, Martin!

As e'er it was... what was it that Badiou said? Oh, yes, he said that anarchism "has never been anything else than the vain critique, or the double, or the shadow of the communist parties, just as the black flag is only the double or shadow of the red flag." Disavow anarchism at yr peril.

See you there!