Mark Huskisson

Is Zoom just terrible for everyone this past month or two, or just me? I'm on a fully paid-up plan and running 128mbps/23mbps minimums on fully up-to-date versions of Mac OS and Zoom. But the image is laggy and about 4fps. Incoming sound is good but it is broken when I'm speaking. Just shocking.

I think that car must be the most photo'd car in the UK. Every time I get off the train I can see people taking a shot or a selfie with my car.

"Geoffrey Bilder has made immense contributions to scholarly communications infrastructure over many decades, and his career shows no signs of slowing down. This volume is a collection of writings by a wide range of contributors to showcase the range and diversity of his enduring legacy."

Very excited for @craft-oa.bsky.social #CRAFT_OA2025 Tuesday Plenary highlights on #OpenJournalSystems Diamond Plugins & OJS Core Feature Development: #GDPR, #Multilingualism and Better #Metadata - & so much more!

Program: www.craft-oa.eu/craft-oa-con...

Streaming: www.craft-oa.eu/craft-oa-con...

PKP is hiring a Managing Director - Public Knowledge Project The Public Knowledge Project, a Core Research Facility of SFU, invites applications for the position of Managing Director

JOB OPPORTUNITY: @pkp.sfu.ca is looking for a Managing Director! This is a rare opportunity to lead a highly impactful #scholcomm organization. Role works closely with me (Scientific Director) to provide strategic and operational leadership. Help us spread the word!

pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...

A panel of four on a stage, framed by stained glass windows and an OASPA slide

Very much appreciate @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca's reminder to us, at the start of what promises to be a dynamic post-lunch panel at #OASPA2025 that @pkp.sfu.ca is, at root, a scholar and research led initiative

I couldn't agree more. This is the top leadership role at **humble brag** one of the most impactful organizations in #scholcomm. Reach out if you have questions! (cc #OASPA2025)

Probably the best role in open scholarly publishing.
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...

PKP is hiring a Managing Director - Public Knowledge Project The Public Knowledge Project, a Core Research Facility of SFU, invites applications for the position of Managing Director

📢Employment opportunity at PKP!

PKP is hiring a Managing Director, who will be responsible for ensuring PKP’s long-term sustainability and continued global impact.

If you are interested, learn more at:
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...

Just wait until you're this old

Retirement Announcement from Kevin Stranack, PKP Director of Operations Kevin Stranack, Director of Operations, announces his retirement by the end of 2025, expressing his gratitude to the PKP Community and team.

Kevin Stranack announces his retirement -- As Director of Operations and open access champion, Kevin’s impact has been profound!

“This marks the end of a deeply fulfilling chapter... one filled with purpose, collaboration, and a shared commitment…"

Read more from Kevin: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/08/07/r...

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🗓️ 29 August 2025 @craft-oa.bsky.social, 2pm CET: Meet the Experts Webinar – #OJS 3.x to 3.5 release upgrade tutorial

Designed for systems administrators and journal managers #OpenJournalSystems - get a walk-through, requirements checklist, and answers!

Register: www.craft-oa.eu/29-august-20...

A cartoon image of Superman silhouetted against a vibrant block red background.

This piece by Ian Dunt is well worth your time. A fascinating look at comics as an outsider's medium, designed by and produced by outsiders. Superman is such an outsider, but a different kind of outsider with the hidden heroism of the socially anxious.
iandunt.substack.com/p/immigrant-...

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🚀 OJS, OMP, and OPS 3.3.0-21 and 3.4.0-9 released -- it's time to update!

Head over to the PKP Community Forum to learn more and join to get announcements like this one as soon as they are posted:

forum.pkp.sfu.ca/t/ojs-omp-an...

#OpenJournalSystems #OJS #OpenMonographPress #OpenPreprintSystems

It's such a good collection of items to go on a spending spree with other people's credit cards in South Miami. I mean, what is airport security like with first-class passengers carrying cheesecake in Louis Vuitton luggage? It's an image I play with from time to time.

TBH, I'm not sure how you even do that. What can you buy for that amount, and what are you going to do with it all? The Amex person ended up being quite chatty and told me they believe it was linked to the purchase of Louis Vuitton luggage and a number of 1st class tickets to the Dominican Republic.

With today's sad news about PubPub, is it time to roll out the much-overused infrastructure image? A reminder that funders, agencies, ministries, and institutions continue to fund outputs and new projects that sit precariously atop software, projects, and community initiatives that go un(der)funded.

Someone once spent nearly $3,000 in the Cheesecake Shop in South Miami. It was the strangest conversation I ever had with Amex. They kept asking me if I was sure I wasn't in Miami and finished with, "do you have any idea who this may be?" I paused and muttered, "someone who likes cheesecake? A lot."

A diagram displaying the crawl-to-refer ratio of leading search platforms. This displays the ratio of HTML page crawl requests to HTML page referrals by platform. Showing Anthroic, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and DuckDuckGoGo amongst others.

Extractive and not reciprocal. Findings from Cloudflare's latest Radar data, "The crawl before the fall… of referrals: understanding AI’s impact on content providers", show that AI bots crawl sites as many as 70,000 times for every single referral click. blog.cloudflare.com/ai-search-cr...

Updates are coming to PKP software. This post outlines changes in OJS 3.5 & 3.6 that lower costs, increase accessibility, and support new publishing models. Updates also apply to OMP & OPS 👉 https://pkp.sfu.ca/2025/06/30/production-changes-plans/

Unfollowed. Receiving this same message over 20 times in my feed within a minute is just ugly and unnecessary. You should know better, do better, and be better in this space

In this session, Ian, you seemed to say that pursuing 'Open' was a problem for Britain and that we need to reassess our approach. I'm sure it isn't a binary position, but I thought you were saying Open equates to increased risk. And that we need to dial back on open. Does that mean more enclosure?

A header from the PLOS ONE journal displaying the title of the article: Scholarly publishing’s hidden diversity: How exclusive databases sustain the oligopoly of academic publishers by the authors Simon van Bellen, Juan Pablo Alperin, and Vincent Larivière.

This new study, Scholarly Publishing’s Hidden Diversity (published at @plosone.org), reveals that the academic publishing oligopoly is under pressure from the rise of independent, OA publishers, signalling a shift toward greater global plurality in the scholarly record. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

For once, those of us who missed out on tickets may just have dodged a bullet. By Wednesday and the @crossref.bsky.social Watch Party, things should have calmed down 🤞

A header from the PLOS ONE journal displaying the title of the article: Scholarly publishing’s hidden diversity: How exclusive databases sustain the oligopoly of academic publishers by the authors Simon van Bellen, Juan Pablo Alperin, and Vincent Larivière.

This new study, Scholarly Publishing’s Hidden Diversity (published at @plosone.org), reveals that the academic publishing oligopoly is under pressure from the rise of independent, OA publishers, signalling a shift toward greater global plurality in the scholarly record. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

With today's sad news about PubPub, is it time to roll out the much-overused infrastructure image? A reminder that funders, agencies, ministries, and institutions continue to fund outputs and new projects that sit precariously atop software, projects, and community initiatives that go un(der)funded.

News header from the Knowledge Futures website reading "Not Enough: Open Infrastructure Funding and the Future of Knowledge Futures: Dated June 23, 2025

This is deeply sad news, especially for all the staff who have been immediately laid off. Please get in contact, and we'll all do our best to share your stories and try to help get you placed in a new role. PubPub had many exciting ideas and still... funding.
www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2025...

Some thoughts on Nature's new open review process

www.samuelmoore.org/2025/06/19/t...

This interesting new preprint on SocArXiv shows that "The landscape of academic journals is beyond the oligopoly: it is diverse and often grounded in public, academic-driven initiatives rather than market imperatives." osf.io/preprints/so...

As MAL herself said to her team, "You have incredible new colleagues and partners at Sage, who are welcoming and recognize what we have built. I could not be more excited for the future and what it holds for each and every one of us!” The 'in plain sight' hidden consequences of market consolidation.