Tasha Mellins-Cohen

I'm slightly worried that there may be no non-selfies of me that don't feature either a glass of wine, or a lectern-and-slides arrangement.

Quizbit!

No credit required, I just didn't expect anyone to want to use one of my scribbles (though I do kind of want to tell my GCSE Art teacher, just to show that artistic merit has no bearing on visibility 😂)

I just had a moment of utter confusion about what @countermetrics.bsky.social was asking for feedback about😅

That scribble is in one of my @ieeexplore.bsky.social notebooks (because spiral bound is the best!) and I think it was used for our community survey a couple of years ago

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We've also had two emergency vet visits (for different cats, both now fine), and the car suspension needed to be replaced, all in the last six weeks. I could really do with this run of minor disasters being over!

I feel the panic! Our washing machine broke two weeks ago and flooded through into the kitchen below. Had to replace the machine (11 years old) and redecorate the kitchen (originally planned for 2026)

One of the reasons I like the POSI principles is that they include a requirement to push for financial sustainability that isn't reliance on grant funding!

@countermetrics.bsky.social tried ai translation last year for our friendly guides and the outputs were unusable. I want to try again this year with languages we've not manually done, but need humans to check the translation quality!

Attending #FutureSciPub @royalsociety.org and I've yet to hear anyone talk about ensuring that the new models are technically viable. Research integrity and discovery are essential but we need accessibility and preservation, too!

Yes, I thought that was peculiar too!

Normalizing | Clarke & Esposito Impact Factors return to “normal”, NIH’s public access policy begins, AI court rulings, Wiley's mojo

I always enjoy reading The Brief from Clarke & Esposito and this month is no exception!
www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/no...

Welcome to consulting life!

Marching band?

I know what I'll be reading this evening. Thanks @openbookpublish.bsky.social!

Can highly recommend it. Want me to dig out my copy and send it over?

Fingers crossed for your functional day!

Love octopuddles! Have you read Other Minds by P. Godfrey-Smith?

Oddly, that makes me feel less frustrated - thanks!

ATG: great content, awful user experience (in my opinion, for my specific set of accessibility issues). The PDF download is slightly better than issuu but I so wish a properly accessible version was available!

The project to reassess and update @countermetrics.bsky.social membership benefits and structure has taken a long time (more than 18 months to date!), but it will make a big difference to our long-term sustainability as an organisation.

Screen-free coding for kids? Try weaving! Jacquard punch-cards were the inspiration behind Babbage & Lovelace. Plus they'll have a greater appreciation for just how much work it takes to make cloth and might have second thoughts about buying fast fashion...

Interesting thread from @pressfuturist.bsky.social - scholarly publishing worth £1bn more to the UK than trade publishing last year

UKSG Conference and Exhibition 2026 30 March-1 April Scottish Events Centre

Don't forget to submit your presentation idea for #UKSG2026 in Glasgow! dub.sh/lGMfvyz

There's a lot of overlap between your list and mine. We'll have to talk fiction some time!

Time for my annual sight test, and this time I've been asked in advance if the students can have a go as part of their training in 'unusual presentations'. Good luck to them...

I don't play, but my other half does, so I appreciate the drum content! His kit's electronic, because a full acoustic kit in a 1920's terraced house is antisocial...

Hope you're feeling better!
I agree that usage – like any other metric – should be handled with care, not taken at face value. My argument is purely that IF we're going to measure usage of OA content, it needs to be on the same basis as all other content. Apples:OA-Apples, not Apples:OA-Beachballs!

5. I'd love to chat with @rupertgatti.bsky.social and the team. We've got our annual @countermetrics.bsky.social Conference next week, so I'll be in touch after that.
p.s. splitting a thread is a definite drawback of character limits!

4. No standard can cover all use cases, but surely it would be more efficient and effective to build on a well-defined, internationally valued standard used by hundreds of publishers and thousands of libraries than to start from scratch?