Maja Lorbek

But also quite telling.

and the FWF. IMO, CoalitionS is a completely failed policy, and the stubbornly continue on that path. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/11/16/a...

I’ve been reading about Rosalind Franklin and came across a fascinating piece on her visits to Slovenia and Yugoslavia. Impressive historiography from a chemist — precise and well-grounded. It’s in Slovenian, but DeepL handles it quite OK, native speaker here. acsi-journal.eu/index.php/AC...

Prater

I refuse to write Open Access with Capitals. Nothing to celebrate during this week for actual researchers. Different story for bureaucrats and publishers, particularly the big five.

Christmas starting early @Leuven

Ich weiss nicht, wieso ich euch so hasse, Fahrradfahrer dieser Stadt (Tocotronic), aber Leuven und nicht Freiburg

Day 6. Tried Venturo spritz, a "novita", but not for me, a bit too sweet...

Storm, not out of nowhere, day three

Meaning of nowhere, day three

Some more meaning of nowhere

And the feeling of nowhere...

YouTube video by NEVER TOO SMALL Inside Gustaf Westman’s Playful Small Stockholm Apartment, 30sqm/323sqft

> 0:52: "I was too lazy to be an architect. It's so intense, you need to know so much..." 👍 youtu.be/cBIYH5QSUbM?...

The precarity of jobs for ECRs also quite telling!

Researchers in Austria: Majority Satisfied, Lack of Prospects for Early-Stage Researchers Wie geht es Forschenden in Österreich? Eine aktuelle Umfrage des Wissenschaftsfonds FWF gibt Einblick in die Situation von Forschenden in Österreich.

www.fwf.ac.at/en/news/deta...

Austrian academic culture in a nutshell >Over half of all respondents reported observing violations of academic integrity, especially problems related to authorship.< Source link below

so yes, green OA is allowed, but only without an embargo period under CC_BY licence. In in humanities, publishing on the platforms you mentioned is not going to get you jobs or grants...

This is clearly hurts researchers who move to other EU countries, or are in-between jobs or work in small unis. You are requiered to publish OA even after the funding has ended. www.fwf.ac.at/en/about-us/...

Unis have repositories, also allowed to publish on non-commercial repositories. Unis get funding from the funder for OA fees (dep.on how much grants they won), but if your small uni does not have transformative agreements, you cannot use that money. Same if you move to a uni in a different country

So the big five again extract funding.

Researchers at unis which have transformative agreements can publish - unis are paying those fees, but the problem arises when no longer at such big Austrian uni. Otherwise not possible.

No longer for contracts from 2021. (My contract allows green OA, but this too is tricky and burdensome!)

My Austrian funder has an OA mandate, and this either results in publishing in obscure journals or not publishing at all. CoalitionS has so many unintended consequences, manly to the detriment of precarious scholars & ECRs.

update: cancelled. www.euractiv.com/section/defe...

The local bus from Omiš to Split in Croatia, too. My proof: advertisment for Croatian army behind the driver.

Wie übersteht ihr aktionistisches Institut die Evaluierung der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft? Dem DIW sollten alle Zuwendungen gestrichen werden.

Slovenia’s risky referendum on NATO Prime Minister Robert Golob’s bombshell referendum plan rocks coalition allies and experts in Ljubljana.

There will be a referendum on NATO membership in Slovenia, but the majority of mainstream news outlets are not covering this topic. www.politico.eu/article/slov...

Opinion | Europe Is Making a Big Mistake

Ja, und selbst die, deren Meinung man schätzt, (für mich Anton Jäger), enttäuschen, wenn sie über Europa schreiben. Sein Kommentar in NYT: sehr banal (paywall): www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/o...

Wissenschafter appellieren an Faßmann: "Wir sind an der Grenze" Eine Petition macht auf die Probleme von Forscherinnen und Forschern in der Pandemie aufmerksam. Zudem wendet sich ein offener Brief gegen die Uni-Novelle

Und natürlich ist die Person mit dabei, die auch die Novelle UG 2002 mittrug, Heinz Faßmann. www.derstandard.at/story/200012...

Daily reminder: Die hierarchische Verfasstheit der österreichischen Universitäten ist demokratiepolitisch eine Sauerei.
#UGNovelle #UG2002 #HochschulenDemokratisieren #IchBinHanna #ExitExzellenz #IchBinReyhan @eviholz.bsky.social