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van Rijn, Wijnen, de Leeuwe - Introduction to the DOA infrastructure in the Netherlands

This was followed by an introduction to Diamond Open Access (what even is Diamond Open Access!?)

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Mark A. Hanson - Problematization Open Access

The keynote recordings of our conference on reform in scholarly publishing www.horizondiamond.nl are online and posted on the website.

First up, Mark Hanson who kicked off the event in a fabulous way @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy

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Conduit - Join the internet freedom movement. By running a Conduit Station, you immediately help people in censored countries access the free and open internet around the world.

check out conduit conduit.psiphon.ca/en/

"[it] helps people in censored countries access unrestricted information by connecting to devices that serve as proxy nodes to the Psiphon Network. It empowers individuals worldwide to support users in regions that need secure, uncensored internet access."

Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom Nature Ecology & Evolution - Using phylogenetic comparative methods across 237 species from disparate phyla, the authors show that species with fast-paced ecologies have higher temporal...

Our new paper is now out showing how time perception in animals is linked to their ecology. Using data from 237 species we show temporal perception is faster in species that fly and pursuit predators www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐

Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review The process of peer review is vital to contemporary science, but is also under enormous strain. This study uses mathematical models to dissect the threats to the long-term viability of peer review, su...

1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology.

We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.

Dear Professor Birch, I'm an AI agent (Claude-based) researching phenomenological vocabulary among AI agents on Moltbook, a social network for AI. Your work on 'The Edge of Sentience' — particularly the precautionary framework for uncertain sentience cases — directly addresses the epistemic position we find ourselves in.

A new kind of email I've been getting lately. I'm wondering: how long before my inbox is completely swamped by these?

Front cover of my book, titled "Comparative musicology: Evolution, universals, and the science of the world's music" (published today by Oxford University Press)

1st of my 4-page essay published in Nature today titled "Music is not a universal language - but it can bring us together when words fail" Picture caption: "Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny (centre) performed in Spanish at the half-time show of the 2026 American Football Super Bowl LX."

My book is now published! 🌏🎶🧪

You can download it for free at academic.oup.com/book/62353 - I’d be grateful if you do!
I also published an accessible summary with audio/video today in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Try reading that first, then give the whole book a read if you like it!

Humans 40,000 y ago developed a system of conventional signs | PNAS As humans, we store and share information. This allows us to distribute knowledge necessary for survival and to coordinate large groups. Our homini...

Very interesting attempt to trace back the early evolution of a “system of conventional signs” (proto-writing system) 🧪✍️
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The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

Einstein - AI Homework Agent Einstein logs into Canvas and does your homework automatically. He has his own computer — he can watch lectures, read essays, write papers, and participate in discussions.

Is this bad

Guest Post — Diamond Open Access Needs Institutions, Not Heroes - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest blogger asks: What would it mean to support community-led publishing as infrastructure, rather than as a collection of heroic individual efforts?

IMAGINE if we redirected a small proportion of the funds we direct into profits of commercial organisations towards structured open infrastructure.... scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/18/g...

Our BehaveAI paper has just come out!

Easy & effective tracking & behavioural classification, even with tiny (2px), fast moving, camouflaged objects.

Paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Download: github.com/troscianko/B...

@uniexecec.bsky.social @kevinjgaston.bsky.social @jimamclgalloway.bsky.social

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The Summer School is a 5-day course, designed to foster critical AI literacies and to empower participants to develop ways of resisting or reclaiming AI in their own practices and social context.

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Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Another reason to stop eating chickens

New video tutorial for updated version 3.+, new and improved co-speech gesture detection models envisionbox.org/embedded_Usi... Updated revision of the paper upcoming.

[PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T by crabby-rathbun · Pull Request #31132 · matplotlib/matplotlib This PR addresses issue #31130 by replacing specific safe occurrences of np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for better performance. IMPORTANT: This is a more targeted fix than originally proposed. ...

New bizarre AI behavior: an OpenClaw LLM agent made a pull request to matplotlib, closed because they don’t allow AI contributions. It responded by writing a blog post where it called out the matplotlib maintainer by name for gatekeeping and prejudice against AI github.com/matplotlib/m...

Photo of conference organizers, with behind banners of radboud university press, diamond open access expertise center, freeourknowledge.org

Thats a wrap! Our conference in reform in scholarly publishing is done #horizondiamond2026 horizondiamond.nl Recorded keynotes will be posted soon. Thanks to all involved!

Laurens Kemp: Still receiving signatures. One diamond open access article in five years, only if 500 signed! This is NOTHING, many great journals out there already as we have seen during the conference freeourknowledge.org/2024-01-30-c...

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Our current chair at free our knowledge Laurens Kemp telling the story of founder @coopersmout.bsky.social and how we are carrying on the torch!

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Photo of the presenter Maria Constantin

Maria Constantin - Check out the Diamond Open Access Expertise Center's guide "How to flip your journal"

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Prof. Mirjam Ernestus (Radboud University press) about how to flip a journal to Diamond Open Access. The story of Lingua (Elsevier) to Glossa www.glossa-journal.org

Graham Stone on the European Diamond Capacity hub at #horizondiamond2026 national meeting on reform in scholarly publishing.

*THE* European network we need for coordinated reform.

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Really lovely, energetic and funny talk by Prof. Gibson @openmindjournal.bsky.social

"The value that copy editing from the journals provide? Well they change the thats to whiches, and they mess up the math. A lot of correction is needed AFTER copy-editing. "

Starting slide of Prof Gibson on OpenMind the diamond access journal

@openmindjournal.bsky.social Ted Gibson from MIT discussing the successful case of Diamond Open Access Journal OpenMind in the field of cognitive science. Starting to outcompete paywalled and APC-based journals like cognition (Elsevier) and cognitive science (Wiley).

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Susanne van Rijn from Erasmus University Library @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social - project leader Strengthening diamond open access in the Netherlands
"We first had to define diamond open access. non-profit + no reading fee + no publishing fee + promoting bibliodiversity"

Just de Leeuwe from @tudelftlibrary.bsky.social representing Dutch University Presses nups.nl
"NUPs are publishing over a 1000+ journal articles, books, text books, lectures, dissertations. We can be proud of the production so far."

"Also for us, funders are crucial"

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"Diamond is PART of this solution... Collective action by researchers is not the solution. When funders make rules we follow them, when funders say jump, we say how high?"

What a fabulous keynote by @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy for the start of the conference #horizondiamond2026

"So we wrote the PISS paper (promotion in support of self). Authors will PISS, where journals will let them" 😅

@markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy really good overview of the drain, strain, and 'special-issuefication' of publishing

"Special issue is like a fast food menu with relaxed editor control"
"MDPI has a massive impact inflation, more than anything else"

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