Peter Suber

In which, on the occasion of my 3-year migration anniversary and the release of Mastodon 4.5, I assemble all my arguments as to why Mastodon is great and why anyone else on a service that’s becoming less fun/safe/useful should migrate to Mastodon and do it now, in late 2025 […]

Important reading from OIPA member @theblochian.bsky.social at @openlibhums.org!

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Read here: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

Open Science Network Reclaim scientific discourse with federated digital spaces where researchers shape their own conversations, data, and collaborations

"Reclaiming scientific discourse, one conversation at a time."

The Open Science Network aims to rebuild “Science Twitter” — but this time as a federated, community-governed platform built and owned by researchers and scientists.

👉 openscience.network

#OpenScience #ScholComm #Infrastructure

This is great. Could you add the posts from my old blog, _Open Access News_ (2002-2010)? Here's a full copy preserved at Rogue Scholar. If that copy is hard to index/harvest/mine, just let me know and I can point to other copies.
rogue-scholar.org/communities/...

Libraries: Advocating for #RightsRetention is key for #OpenAccess. It provides immediate OA/reuse, accelerates OA, and clarifies copyright. Make every article accessible!
💪📚 Use the flashcards: tinyurl.com/3385jfhz

For those unfamiliar with the heady world of fanfiction, AO3 is community-owned, open source, run entirely by volunteers. So APCs, no paywalls, no $$$$ profits (imagine that!) - just shared infrastructure built by people who actually use it.

Just imagine if academic publishing worked like that...

Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'"

I've saved her some time.

The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/

Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology “Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...

Pour one out for @wikipedia.org in my latest for @mcsweeneys.net

I have been analyzing the impact of Zero Textbook Cost courses at BCIT since we launched the initiative.

Students can check the course outline system to identify ZTC courses before registration.

In the 2025 Summer and 2025 Fall terms, 543 BCIT instructors marked 1,205 courses Zero Textbook Cost!

What an amazing little experiment! Highly recommend reading this post #OAWeek #AcademicSky

There’s a new #philosophy feed in town! 📣 #PhilosophySky combines the best philosophical discussion via the #PhilSky and area-specific hashtags with announcements from 250+ philosophy-related accounts making it the most comprehensive feed for academic philosophy on Bluesky! bsky.app/profile/did:...

I'm proud to be a co-PI on this project and member of the planning committee thinking about new and complementary ways to support the teaching and study of philosophy.
www.futureofphilosophy.org/macarthur-an...

#Acadsky #Academicsky #Edusky #MacArthur #Philosophy #Philsky

The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (v2.0, 2025) POSI version 2.0 released October 2025 The POSI Adopters reviewed the version 1.1 principles and consulted with the community to create version 2.0, released in October 2025. The new/always-current ve...

The good people behind the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure just released version 2.0.
openscholarlyinfrastructure.org

#Infrastructure #OpenInfrastructure #POSI #ScholComm

I just read a review of the best apps to do a certain job. I didn't know any of the apps but the review seemed competent. Then I saw that the author's byline included #Twitter and #LinkedIn handles, and no others. Now I wonder how much I can trust the review.

Statement on Compact — Stand Together Read our statement concerning the White House Compact.

The White House’s new Compact asks universities to trade independence for funding. We believe that’s a dangerous precedent. Read our national statement: buff.ly/iZheO2v
#AcademicSky #Academia #HigherEd

Exclusive: Iraqi university forcing students to cite its journals to graduate To earn their degrees, graduate students at the University of Technology in Baghdad not only must publish research in indexed journals. They also are required to cite articles in their school’s own…

Experts who reviewed the document called the citation requirement “deceptive and despicable” and said it could carry a steep price for the journals involved, one of which is indexed in Scopus.

Be part of the conversation about how to #DefendResearch, support #OpenAccess, and protect #Education! Register for next week's SJSU OA Virtual Conference, where I'm very excited to share the keynoting privilege with @camitchell.bsky.social scholarworks.sjsu.edu/oa-un-confer...

It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring.

Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.

“Free speech” only counts if you’re a white bigot.

Poster with a gradient blue background. Large text reads “the web we’ve built.” Smaller text says “Celebrating 1 trillion web pages archived.” Pixelated 3D icons of a floppy disk, magnifying glass, cursor arrow, computer window, and others radiate outward from a bright starburst in the center. On the right, text lists event details: “Wednesday, October 22, 5–10PM PT. Live stream: 7–8PM PT. 300 Funston Avenue, San Francisco.” The Internet Archive logo appears in the bottom right corner.

The web has a memory — & we’ve saved 1 trillion pages of it! 🌐
Join us in celebrating the people, stories & technology that preserve our digital world.

📅 Oct 22
🎟️ In Person ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1626438133...
🖥️ Virtual ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1626431011...

#Wayback1T

Obituary: Farewell to robots.txt (1994-2025) The voluntary compliance protocol that civilized the internet has departed, bids Henning Fries farewell.

"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit."

On robots.txt.

www.heise.de/en/backgroun...

Missouri Republicans Sue to Block ‘People’s Veto’ of GOP Gerrymander Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: Missouri state officials filed a lawsuit Wednesday aimed at blocking voters’ efforts to invoke their constitutional right to veto the state legislature’s new gerrymandered congressional map. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Share your thoughts on the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Scientific Integrity The current version of the "Netherlands Code of Conduct for Scientific Integrity" dates from 2018. Every few years, a committee reviews whether the code still meets current requirements, such as…

Yesterday with the META/e group at Eindhoven we discussed the draft of the new Dutch Code for Research Integrity: www.nwo-i.nl/en/news/2025...

It is great to see how much transparency and FAIR data and code will become the default expectation to adhere to research integrity.

Robert Quinn

“Truth-seeking is at the heart of higher education. As public support erodes and scholars face growing threats, there has never been a more urgent time to rally and defend academic freedom.” ✊

Robert Quinn, Scholars at risk at our joint academic freedom conference with @eduinternational.bsky.social

Forgot about this moment in George Schuyler's 1931 novel *Black No More*, but whoa! 🤯

"You can't deport citizens, silly," Buddy remonstrated.

"That don't stop you from advocating it. This is politics, Big Boy."

Airports Are Pushing Back Against Kristi Noem’s Shutdown Propaganda Across the country, airports are refusing to air a video from the Homeland Security chief blaming Democrats for the shutdown.

Across the country, airports are refusing to air a video from the Homeland Security chief blaming Democrats for the shutdown. trib.al/tw3Hd3X

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

From the Maine community on Reddit: Protest. Explore this post and more from the Maine community

Your list doesn't include #BlueHill. But there will be an event in Blue Hill too. Please help publicize it.
www.reddit.com/r/Maine/comm...