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all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

"the solution is still the one that can succeed: to build a new cultural order, a new civilization. To do so, academics must embrace an unusual new role: as knowledge workers, they must seize the means of knowledge production."

www.publicbooks.org/academics-mu...

A march with a LGBT silver hammer & sickle truck

This is why you should always travel with your own union swag. :/

How rare and unique that the US Gov't is shutting down in solidarity with the General Strike in France today. Unexpected global solidarity!

PKP is hiring a Managing Director - Public Knowledge Project The Public Knowledge Project, a Core Research Facility of SFU, invites applications for the position of Managing Director

JOB OPPORTUNITY: @pkp.sfu.ca is looking for a Managing Director! This is a rare opportunity to lead a highly impactful #scholcomm organization. Role works closely with me (Scientific Director) to provide strategic and operational leadership. Help us spread the word!

pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...

I dunno, sounds like something Antigoon would say. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I'm in Antwerp, which means "throwing hands", and celebrates the downfall of the giant Antigoon, so safe to say it is the patron city of BlueSky.

I think it goes beyond just *negotiating* in bad faith. We are talking past each other because fundamentally our interests are in such direct contradiction, and there isn't much point in pretending otherwise.

Same for folks in the third sector - a sense of "here this year, because we may lose all of our funding next year".
The exciting stuff is coming from orgs asking for like $3k a year for their whole infrastructure project, not more than that for a single article.

Just about everyone talking to a Librarian expressed surprise they could still get travel funding. (I suspect my own will be scarce in the future). That's where Libraries and Universities are at - like everything else, formerly core functions whittled to the bone.

Reflecting on my takeaways, bolstered by my eavesdropping on folks after sessions, I think the contradictions between the various groups in the tenuous community of "OA publishers" are more obvious than ever.

I didn't get to say goodbye and thank you to @viroviacum.bsky.social , but I think we can all agree Leuven itself was the highlight of #OASPA2025!

Seriously, how many academic libraries have remodeled themselves to be hostile to print? How many staffing shortages have made print processing slower and more difficult?

I remain unconvinced print is actually in low demand across academic libraries.

What I think is that admin doesn't value it.

Re: print usage - I think it really depends how easy we make getting print. Universities in Ontario created a shared catalogue and a very easy method to request print from anywhere else in the province since then we've seen our print usage go up... and we are not the only ones seeing this trend.

Confronting residential schools denialism is an ethical and shared Canadian responsibility Residential schools denialism is harmful on many levels, and jeopardizes Canada’s ability to work with Indigenous Peoples to create a stronger future.

An excellent article on the harms of residential school denialism. theconversation.com/confronting-...

Anne: budget uncertainty is possibly even worse than budget cuts. Makes it harder to commit to some of the smaller committments, particularly as they are easier to get out of than the parts of our locked in budgets. Need to stop multi year deals so we have budget flexibility. #OASPA2025

Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social telling a room full of publishers that the lack of good faith in R&P agreements has to stop. What planet are commercial publishers living on? Constant grind for library staff to deal with what she describes as this “garbage”. #OASPA2025

Anne Houston reminds us at #OASPA2025 how hard it is for librarians to get usage data out of commercial academic publishers. We need data & stories about where & how open research is being read & engaged with.

Anne Houston: checking out physical books at Swarthmore College Library has dropped to just a quarter of what it used to be 15 years ago. We’re close to seeing the disappearance of physical print books in academic publishing altogether #OASPA2025

Tracking the Use of Open Educational Resources Sounds Simple. It Isn’t. We set out to determine whether open monographs were being used in teaching and learning and fell down a very deep hole. Here is what we learned.

Danny - OAPEN books are by definition not textbooks, but we know they are being used for teaching & learning. Conclusion (in Katina article): need a system like COUNTER for eBooks. katinamagazine.org/content/arti... #OASPA2025

Q: let's talk OA monographs. Anne - we are seeing a huge decline in the usage of print books, but OA eBooks are *used*, we know they have impact. OA books are able to be more experimental ie, Fulcrum developed tech for Lever to have French book with English translation & commentary. #OASPA2025

Madhan - none of the publisher solutions have focused on the journal communications/ time to get decisions/ peer review (but have spent a lot of time on payment solutions).

Anne- what we need from publishers is transparency, and evidence of impact. Explain to us why you need the money you do. Seems overly difficult to get/ understand usage - need both data and user stories about impact. Helps make case to administration. #OASPA2025

@dannykay68.bsky.social the "negotiations" with publishers are ridiculous and they are coming to us in bad faith - constant grind of dishonest conversation with increases beyond our budget increases, new terms and restrictions, embargoes with no evidence, etc. #OASPA2025

Anne Houston (Swarthmore College Libraries & Lever Press) - Liberal Arts college with focus on undergrad, mostly funded by endowment (60%!). Research (not R1 or R2) - in US, of ~4000 Unis classified by Carnegie, ~3400 of them are not classified as research. #OASPA2025

Arjan - Green & TAs are not the only route, since 2023 investing diamond. Move to CC-BY. Data Hub from various sources. Do OA as a service - "Library, please fix this" - needs to be more collaboration to really be fully part of process. #OASPA2025

Arjan Schalken (UKB) - NLs at about 95% OA, some institutions close to 97%. The Taverne Amendment (SPR) wasn't being used - got legal counsel so it could be used - all Unis collaborated. Started as opt in, now is opt out. Library helps. #OASPA2025

Madhan: what's in the way of getting to 100% OA? Screenshot of IEEE Repository License fee. 🎯☠️

#OASPA2025

Madhan cont'd: Without having to worry about journal subscription, library work is more interesting now - dealing with repositories, publishing, skills, etc. India is underrepresented in publishing because of costs.