Very much looking forward to speaking on a panel with @aileenfyfe.bsky.social and @eve.gd on 'Open Access Books: Rights, Ownership and Control' on Monday 20 April at the London Open Science & Scholarship festival!
Find out more: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/...
Looking afresh at these reviewers' comments on our paper on trans disabled people, it's even more obvious that the paper was rejected because of transphobia
It is a shame when old ladies on the tram inform me that 3yo is licking the windows because then I have to make a big show of stopping her licking the windows and once she knows I don't want her to she only wants to lick the windows MORE
Think the abstract would be fine
It is very loooong
Only a few days after @scholtom.bsky.social informed me he had screenshotted one of my bluesky posts about wiley to use at appropriate moments, my heady days of fame have arrived
ha yes it was that - a friend emailed to tell me I was famous. I have no other readers lol
A librarian cited my thesis in their presentation and I am very happy as I assumed no one had ever read it ππ
Someone recommended this lovely experimental open access book at the #CopimConference and I added it to my training session on OA books today developmentserver.ravenspacepublishing.org/as-i-remembe...
The Artistic Journey:
2021: celebrated as I published one of the best books of my career.
2025: watched Anthropic steal it, with millions of others, to train its model, without compensation.
2026: watched Anthropic sell that model, an AI killing machine, to the US government.
Human progress!
Particularly loud pro life guy with a Bible outside Sheffield Cathedral this morning providing vivid descriptions of what the punishment in hell would be like for women who had had abortions π¬π¬
Accessibility is a shared responsibility across scholarly communications; everyone needs to ensure that it is embedded in their workflows and that resources meet the needs of disabled users #CopimConference
Still a huge queue of Harry Potter fans at Kings Cross posing with wands by the platform 9 3/4 sign!
This is what I think about when people say we need to give people "AI literacy". How do you AI literacy out of this exactly? This shows how absurd the concept is, this is what the goal of AI is for every worker.
I very much appreciate their overtly political stance, their engagement with theory and ethics and their focus on building stuff that makes a difference. Very pleased to be able to attend your conference in person & looking forward to what comes next - thanks all! @copim.bsky.social
As a PhD student studying open access and then an OA librarian I have been v disillusioned with the whole project but the work produced by Copim over the last few years has really provided something to enage with again #CopimConference
I liked the throwing away harmful books quote
I liked how Soni framed open research as a political movement and was clear that he cared more about the openness of some research more than others
Excellent keynote by Siddharth Soni linking the colonialism of genAI to the colonialism of knowledge production now and throughout history #CopimConference
Mattermost and Nextcloud FTW. Open source infrastructure is the best infrastructure. #CopimConference
Rupert Gatti @rupertgatti.bsky.social giving the closing remarks on the trials of trying to persuade IT departments that Copim didn't want to use MS Teams
Speaker Siddarth Soni stands in front of a projected image of a scene from Brian Frielβs play βTranslationsβ.
So pleased to see Siddarth Soni referencing Brian Friel in his discussion of the commons and data colonialism. Absolutely fascinating keynote at #CopimConference
Love to hear @radishpress.bsky.social talk about scholarled publishing & enthusiasm for radical wealth distrubution and taking money off billionaires to fund small presses
A hill covered in daffodils
Second day of the #copimconference and it was nice to see the daffodils and all the kids cycling to school through the Olympic Park
Sticker reading "the only diamonds I care about" open book collective
Don't usually go for open access stickers but there are some good ones
Interesting first day at the @copim.bsky.social conference, hearing about all things diamond OA books - thanks team!
If youβre at #CopimConference, donβt forget to pick up one of our new stickers! πππ
Bonnie is into the new CBeebies show, Rafi the Wishing Wizard, which has great queer parent rep in that Rafi's gay dad lives in Manchester and wants to finish his fancy coffee and book in peace
Dedicated watchers of 'How to get to Heaven from Belfast' over the last few days. So good!
Why oh why am I trying to explaim the plot of Les Miserables to 7yo at bedtime?
