Upstream Blog - FORCE11

From Promise to Precarity: The Plight of International Postdocs — When Will Academia Act? Postdocs often relocate globally, facing cultural barriers, visa issues, and discrimination alone. Without strong support networks, they're treated as disposable despite being vital to research. We mu...

New on Upstream: From Promise to Precarity: The Plight of International Postdocs - When Will Academia Act? International postdocs are essential to research, yet too often face insecurity & systemic inequities. It’s time for collective action: doi.org/10.54900/w8z... #academia #postdocs #force11

Implications, there are a few. Trying to make sense of all of this How do we make sense of the implications of current geopolitical, financial and technological volatility? What impact will all of this have on the relationship between libraries and publishers, and li...

“Implications, there are a few. Trying to make sense of all of this" New @upstreamblog.bsky.social post from @dannykay68.bsky.social - Recent shifts across the scholarly information ecosystem & what means for libraries, infrastructure providers, and open science advocates: doi.org/10.54900/6hp...

The resilience of open science in times of crisis The increasingly hostile attitude of the new U.S. government towards science and academia leaves many of us deeply concerned— if not outright alarmed. In an effort to better understand the unfolding s...

How does open science hold up in times of crisis?
@jeroenbosman.bsky.social & @jeroenson.bsky.social explore this in a sharp post on Upstream: doi.org/10.54900/pqr...
They outline threats, map types of resilience, and remind us: open science isn’t just at risk…it’s also part of the solution.