@alastairdunning.bsky.social
Head of Research Services, Delft Uni Library π³π± | Open Science π | Technology πΎ | Digital Culture and Humanities π¨
Australian and New Zealand universities in battle of the century' with publisher Elsevier
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
"The policy expects officials to first take screenshots of the text messages on their work phones, send it to their work email, download it on their work computers and then run a program that would recognize the text to store it in searchable formats"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
US immigration officials are worried about the archiving of messages that might later be incriminating for them later on.
But they still need to comply with Federal archiving laws
And they're creating weird workarounds for this
"Crucially, students will need to develop sufficient expertise to identify when AI systems produce plausible but incorrect outputs β which poses a dilemma because this requires the very skills that AI is starting to replace."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Training in academic skills will need to be fundamentally reconsidered in an era of AI."
"Data analysis and literature synthesis, might need to take a back seat so that researchers can focus on critical evaluation of AI-generated code and analyses"
The chief executive of the British Library has resigned less than a year into her job
The current strike by some staff has, I guess, a lot to with it
www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...
"We need to be bolder: It is our duty to ensure library collections remain open to the public in a form that empowers 21st-century readers. If our intellectual heritage gets enclosed in proprietary tools, we will find ourselves making the same bad bargain we made with scientific publishers"
04.11.2025 21:19 β π 6 π 4 π¬ 3 π 0
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
www.euractiv.com/news/interna...
Ophelia has been a popular meme cultural history for a long time it seems
www.europeana.eu/en/search?pa...
#swifties
Job: Senior Software Engineer for Open Science - with a focus on our research data repository careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-Se...
10.10.2025 12:37 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Guidance, training and tools for writing research software in the sciences (specifically natural and engineering sciences)
Funding by @nwonieuws.bsky.social as part of its Thematic Digital Competence Centres
ss-nes.github.io
Online Event: Integrating Repositories into the broader Open Science Landscape
Thursday 30th October, 4pm
How much are you spending on collections and publishing?
Here's a breakdown of TU Delft's projected collections and publication costs for 2026. (Roughly 7.6m Euros in total)
(Thanks to Louise Otting for collating figures)
What is Ricgraph?
Ricgraph, also known as Research in context graph, enables the exploration of researchers, teams, their results, collaborations, skills, projects, and the relations between these items.
www.ricgraph.eu/what-is-ricg...
Developed by Rik Janssen from University of Utrecht
DH Benelux will take place in beautiful Maastricht in early June 2026
The call for papers is now open
2026.dhbenelux.org/call-for-pap...
Great to see Barcelona Declaration team tackling openness of publication metadata
Lack of clarity in this area has really hampered efficient sharing and discovery
Advocacy Kit for Open Science
And EU project (Skills4EOSC) has created an Advocacy Kit to empowers users to promote Open Science skills to policymakers and funders to help foster steady policy support.
@4turesearchdata.bsky.social are piloting Codecheck
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This helps verify that the code behind research outputs runs and successfully reproduces the key results from the related publication.
data.4tu.nl/info/about-y...
Congrats to three nominees for Leo Waaijers Open Science award!
- Barcelona Declaration (www.researchequals.com)
- ResearchEquals (www.researchequals.com)
- EnvisionBox (envisionbox.org)
ukb.nl/nieuws/de-sh...
Come and work with a great team!
02.10.2025 14:30 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Not quite sure what to make of Unesco's Museum of Stolen Heritage website
museum.unesco.org
It feels like some art wellness app by a developer who's revisiting his 2007 love of Adobe Flash
Why not just use web standards?
Our Diamond OA publisher, TU Delft Open, published 45 books in 2024
20 textbooks, 18 edited volumes, 4 conference books, 3 monographs
One significant growth area: interactive textbooks (25% of the textbooks)
openpublishing.tudl.tudelft.nl/tu-delft-ope...
πGreat to see @internetarchive.eu developing in Europe.
πͺWe're going need 'em!
Some early (slightly bland?) research on how ChatGPT is used.
βPractical Guidance,β βSeeking Information,β and βWritingβ are
the three most common topics and collectively account for nearly 80% of all conversations.
www.nber.org/system/files...
Interested in coordinating a two year project to improve digital skills for researchers in the sciences?
Then apply for this position @4turesearchdata.bsky.social
careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-Pr...
This is a thoughtful article on standing firm on CC licences and reuse in the AI scraping era.
Also, was / is CC-BY a mistake?
Screenshot of News Minimalist homepage showing a distribution graph of news stories ranked by importance and a list of high ranking stories below it.
Loving the concept and content on News Minimalist: newsminimalist.com
Using ML to rank news stories by "importance" (scale, impact, novelty, credibility, legacy) and gives you a feed of only high scoring items.
At first glance, better quality than the front page of the BBC, Guardian, or NYT
Research Software Training NL has got a new lease of life!
A network bringing together and facilitating training organisations in the Netherlands in the areas of research software, programming skills, applied data science, computational skills and open source.
researchsoftwaretraining.nl/about/
Great to see Utrecht University Library decide to stop with Web of Science. And also good to see that their ageument centres on the importance of open.
11.09.2025 07:34 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
